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Harrison Ford - protection level - correction of errors
Hello, Courcelles, the entry on Harrison Ford has a major error and needs an addition. He does **not** have a grandchild named Giuliana, and he **does** have another grandchild not listed, Waylon (born 2010) So... "Ford has three grandchildren: Eliel (born 1993), Giuliana (born 1997), and Ethan (born 2000)." ought to read "Ford has three grandchildren: Eliel (born 1993), Ethan (born 2000) and Waylon (born 2010)." I am an aviation history editor, but I noticed that glaring error and lapse and also that HF's page has been "protected" due to vandals. I am **not** a vandal and the information above is correct. Carroll F. Gray (talk) 03:48, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it's semi-protected to stop vandalism, but semi only stops IPs, or accounts with fewer than 10 edits and four days old. You easily meet the requirements to edit through that protection and make whatever (sourced) edits are necessary. Courcelles (talk) 03:58, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

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 * Discussions
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 * Removing use of Mediawiki’s API ‘rawmode’ in Wikibase
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New page: Wikidata:OpenStreetMap to facilitate cooperation with our colleagues at OpenStreetMap
 * Inventaire now shows links to ProjectGutenberg ebooks based on Wikidata data (example)
 * First version of units is ready for testing
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 * Newest properties: ResearchGate ID, GitHub username, African Plant Database, LinkedIn personal profile, Project Gutenberg ebook ID, Category for pictures taken with camera, work period end, work period start, NASA biographical ID, Dictionary of Ulster Biography ID, United States Armed Forces service number, Colour Index International constitution ID, Avibase ID
 * Newest WikiProjects: Reasoning
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 * Newest External tools: Commons:Database reports/Cameras
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 * Lucie posted a sneak-peek of her work on the article placeholder extension
 * Optimized Wikidata for viewing on mobile devices. You will be redirected to m.wikidata.org automatically when using a mobile device soon the same way it already happens on Wikipedia. (Editing will only be possible via the special pages!)
 * Started working on a page to track how much Wikidata's data is used on each Wikimedia project
 * API breaking change coming soon
 * API custom summary will no longer override the autocomment (T97247)
 * Paging and sorting has been added to Special:ListProperties and it now also shows the IDs of the properties
 * Worked more on making the edit summaries on the client more meaningful and readable
 * Introduced a limit of 250 different entities that can be used on a page in the client via arbitrary access. The limit does not apply to convenience functions in lua, such as  which use a TermLookup instead of loading a full entity to get labels. (T93885)
 * Properties are now linked in the diff view (T105411)
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WikiCup 2015 September newsletter
The finals for the 2015 Wikicup has now begun! Congrats to the 8 contestants who have survived to the finals, and well done and thanks to everyone who took part in rounds 3 and 4.

In round 3, we had a three-way tie for qualification among the wildcard contestants, so we had 34 competitors. The leader was by far in Group B, who earned 1496 points. Although 913 of these points were bonus points, he submitted 15 articles in the DYK category. Second place overall was at 864 points, who although submitted just 2 FAs for 400 points, earned double that amount for those articles in bonus points. Everyone who moved forward to Round 4 earned at least 100 points.

The scores required to move onto the semifinals were impressive; the lowest scorer to move onto the finals was 407, making this year's Wikicup as competitive as it's always been. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:


 * , who is competing in his sixth consecutive Wikicup final, again finished the round in first place, with an impressive 1666 points in Pool B. Casliber writes about the natural sciences, including ornithology, botany and astronomy.  A large bulk of his points this round were bonus points.
 * , second place both in Pool B and overall, earned the bulk of his points with FPs, mostly depicting currency.
 * , first in Pool A, came in third. His specialty is natural science articles; in Round 4, he mostly submitted articles about insects and botany.  Five out of the six of the GAs he submitted were level-4 vital articles.
 * , second in Pool A, took fourth overall. He tends to focus on articles about cricket and military history, specifically the 1640s First English Civil War.
 * , from Pool A, was our highest-scoring wildcard. West Virginia tends to focus on articles about the history of (what for it!) the U.S. state of West Virginia.
 * , from Pool A, likes to work on articles about British geography and places. Most of his points this round were earned from two impressive accomplishments: a GT about Scheduled monuments in Somerset and a FT about English Heritage properties in Somerset.
 * , from Pool B, came in seventh overall. RO earned the majority of her points from GARs and PRs, many of which were earned in the final hours of the round.
 * , also from Pool B, who was competing with RO for the final two spots in the final hours, takes the race for most GARs and PRs—48.

The intense competition between RO and Calvin999 will continue into the finals. They're both eligible for the Newcomers Trophy, given for the first time in the Wikicup; whoever makes the most points will win it.

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Fraternity and sorority categories
Courcelles, is this appropriate: Category:Sisters of Kappa Alpha Theta? There are apparently several that have been created in the past several weeks. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 02:59, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
 * The idea is new to me, so I have no idea. I don't think it is really all that defining for members, so it may be worth testing at CFD before the idea expands greatly. Courcelles (talk) 11:59, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
 * For whatever reason, I thought the concept of fraternity/sorority membership had already been rejected for categories in the past as "not defining". Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 12:41, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I found Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_March_16 and Categories_for_discussion/Log/2009_December_7, but they're quite old at this point. Courcelles (talk) 12:46, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, sir. The related CfDs from November and December 2009 must be what I'm remembering; the 2007 discussions were before my time.  I think these newly created categories should be nominated before anyone invests a great deal of time and effort creating more of these and tagging articles.  Do you want to do the honors, or should I?  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 13:04, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Please take it to CFD. I'm quite busy at the moment. Courcelles (talk) 00:40, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Done: Tagged and bagged seven of them for 1 September CFD. Dirtlawyer1 (talk)

Opera
or informal clarification request. Yesterday, the anniversary of my strangest day on Wikipedia, I had a few discussions, which boiled down to the case of Peter Planyavsky where I added an infobox to an article for which I was a main contributor. Why was that not the end of the story? Instead, it was reverted, discussed, collapsed, - why? In the end, a helper came to my rescue, uncollapsed it and put it back in the normal position. Much ado about nothing, one could say, and think at least that was the end of the story. No, arbitration took that very edit of help as a diff to ban the helper. I called it kafkaesque. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:11, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Things have changed. Now yesterday you added an infobox to an article for which you were a main contributor, in violation of your restriction, and it was not reverted, discussed, or collapsed. But you also decline to allow others to make decisions on articles for which they were main contributors, for example by seeking "helpers". Why should this be the end of the story? Note: I am not seeking any kind of sanction against you for this violation; I simply would like to finally understand why. Nikkimaria (talk) 01:19, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Yesterday I did what? I added images, yes. I have some shining knights who follow up on a . - Can we call the infoboxes war over? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:38, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
 * As I said: BWV 228.
 * I'm trying, Gerda, really. I apologize to you for getting involved at Planyavsky and elsewhere - you should have been able to make the decision, and I should not have interfered with that. But I don't understand how that view reconciles with your actions elsewhere, where major contributors have opinions different than yours. I don't understand how when you and someone who doesn't want an infobox are both major contributors, an infobox is added almost by default. I don't understand how going through your "hitlist" of prior disputes, where you know at least one person has previously objected to an infobox, reconciles with your promise not to add one where you believe it is not wanted. I really don't understand how we can say the infobox war is over when infoboxes are being added or expanded not by real consensus but because you've explicitly asked others to come support them (Beethoven's Mass in C minor), or simply mocked other viewpoints on sympathetic talkpages (BWV 35). We could say the war is over when we understand and respect each other; we cannot say it now, as I don't feel I understand you and I don't feel you respect me. Nikkimaria (talk) 12:26, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry about the motet, I wrote it as self-medication and forgot that there had been a few lines before I expanded. I will be back, hopefully in better health. Apology taken. I respect you, and am sorry if that doesn't come across enough. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:40, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Looks like y'all came to an understanding here. Pleased to see it. Courcelles (talk) 00:44, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

YGM - Revdel request
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 * Read, handled, and replied. Courcelles (talk) 05:10, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you kindly!  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) Please &#123;&#123;re&#125;&#125; 05:10, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

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Re: User:NickAangWiki block
Don't know if you were aware of Sockpuppet investigations/Nickaang/Archive when you blocked this account. I have added it to the SPI page. FYI. 220  of  Borg 13:32, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I knew, just didn't really see the need to record it. Thanks. Courcelles (talk) 00:00, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Okay. 220  of  Borg 04:04, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

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American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children
Hi there,

I just noticed the AfD of American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, which you just closed as delete. It's been a while since I've looked at the article; would you mind userfying it for me to see if I can find additional sources and improve it?

Thanks &mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 01:13, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Not much there, but have fun; User:Rhododendrites/American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children. Courcelles (talk) 03:19, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Great. Thanks very much. &mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 12:59, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

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Requesting Rollback Rights
Hi Courcelles,

I would like to have rollback rights. I have been reverting vandalism for a long time especially on Jimbo Wales user page. I normally use a watchlist and it sends me emails and if I find vandalism I revert it immediately. I will use the rights in good faith and only use it when there is blatant vandalism. I use twinkle to revert vandalism. Please can I have the right -- Eurovision Nim (talk to me)(see my edits) 03:22, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
 * A few thousand edits, a block log clean of substantive blocks, why not? Done. Courcelles (talk) 05:31, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks mate -- Eurovision Nim (talk to me)(see my edits) 12:42, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

Sarah Fasha Discussion
Hi Courcelles, could you please close Sarah Fasha discussion as last edit was from 7 days --Mohamed Ouda (talk) 09:41, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
 * RandyKitty relisted it again, so let's see where it goes. Courcelles (talk) 05:32, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #176
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 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The grant proposal "StrepHit: Wikidata Statements Validation via References" is looking for endorsements
 * Wikidata and it's dumps are now described according to the DCAT-AP standard. You can add your language by translating the general and the Wikidata specific messages.
 * A follow-up to the Wikidata for research proposal has begun to be drafted by the University of Haifa and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
 * Community page for the new SPARQL query service, including a subpage for interesting or illustrative queries, and a board for suggestions and discussions.
 * Wikibooks now has access to the data on Wikidata
 * English Wikipedia and a few more got arbitrary access
 * Mix'n'match got new catalogs including Open Library authors and AcademiaNet's excellent female authors
 * The LinkedWiki extension now supports Wikidata (demo)
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 * Newest properties: FISA ID, Power of 10 athlete ID, Library of Congress JukeBox ID, CrunchBase organisation ID, CrunchBase person ID, CDD Public ID, Nikkaji, ZINC ID, Leadscope ID, M.49 code, BLDAM object ID, AcademiaNet, fabrication method, user manual link, pressure, temperature, speed of sound, internetmedicin.se ID, range, CDB Chemical ID, Mémoire des hommes, Fellow of the Royal Society, magnetic moment, thermal conductivity
 * Development
 * Started writing default Lua modules for the Article Placeholder
 * Excluded the Topic namespace from Special:UnconnectedPages
 * Fixed a bug where an item link on normal wiki pages was sometimes prepended by a label (in a random language)
 * Worked on the remaining blockers for redirecting users on mobile devices to the mobile version of the site
 * Fixed an issue where people had login issues when trying to connect an article to an item on the client
 * Worked on removing some more places that don't have language fallback yet
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Plebeia remota
I noticed you declined my speedy deletion nomination of that article. However, if you noticed the edit history, I nominated the article back before it contained an infobox, when all it consisted of was. Gparyani (talk) 23:30, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I know. The script that does this all for us leaves those notices. Courcelles (talk) 02:01, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Paula Rothermel
I would like to have a look at Paula Rothermel and see if something can be done about the concerns raised at the recent AfD discussion. Would you userfy it for me incl. editing history to User:Sam Sailor/Drafts/Paula Rothermel. Thanks, -- Sam Sailor Talk! 08:41, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
 * As a BLP, I'd really rather not. Be happy to send you the contents via email. Courcelles (talk) 19:02, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you, if you would do so. Off-topic if you don't mind: you closed Articles for deletion/Chris Jones (filmmaker) as No consensus last night with no closing comment. I had expanded the article and added ~25 sources, most of them cite books dealing with subject and his films. I've since added another 14 cite webs/news, but that's irrelevant in regards to the AfD closing obviously. My assumption was that my edits would substantiate my argument at the AfD discussion that no proper mandatory due diligence had been performed, and that the article was a Keep. Did I fail to advance my position properly? If you will explain your closing I will take it as a fine opportunity to learn something in this department of Wikipedia. -- Sam Sailor Talk! 08:51, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
 * In this particular case it was more of "another week of discussion will lead to a clear keep consensus, but why waste everyone's time since 'no consensus' results in the same thing." Also, Paula emailed to you. Courcelles (talk) 18:37, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Another CSD denied...
...see User_talk:Skamecrazy123#Speedy_deletion_declined:_User:Airl67. Drmies (talk) 18:10, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Noted. Hopefully that'll be the end of the tagging. Courcelles (talk) 20:29, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

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 * Some visitors had problems reaching the Wikimedia sites for an hour on September 24.

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 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 30. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 1 (calendar).
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Wikidata weekly summary #177
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 * nlwiki has made great progress in getting down the number of articles not connected to Wikidata
 * The Museum of Modern Art website now includes Wikidata IDs (example)
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 * You can now find the Wikibase ontology at http://wikiba.se/ontology
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 * Worked on a small birthday present (One month left!) and party organizing (more info coming in the next days)
 * Language fallbacks will be shown also when adding a new statement, in qualifiers and references as well as for badges
 * Fixed a long-standing login issue when adding a new language link from Wikipedia and co (T50389)
 * Worked on RfC for multi-content revisions. This is groundwork for Commons support. (T107595)
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 * Wikidata requests your input on how to improve the editing of Wikidata's data in other locations, such as Wikipedias.

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Wikidata weekly summary #178
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 * WikiProject Economics needs more participants to organize all the new properties.
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 * More work on making the mobile view fit for being enabled per default for mobile users
 * Changed our JavaScript coding style to be more in line with MediaWiki core’s
 * In edit mode, the label is now displayed for units instead of a URL
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Shielding lotion
Would it break any rule for you to tell me what editor created the version of that article that was deleted, and when? I can't think of any way of finding out except to ask an admin. Looie496 (talk) 17:56, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
 * , much easier for me to just restore the history underneath the present article so you can see anything you like. Courcelles (talk) 17:59, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that's all I need. Looie496 (talk) 18:07, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Unblock request on hold
An unblock request for a block you placed has been on hold at User talk:Herbie rookie for a week. Could you have a look at it and comment? The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 16:09, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Done. Courcelles (talk) 18:01, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 15:48, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

 * Who's coffee is it? It's always my coffee.  ;) Courcelles (talk) 18:01, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Your comment on Arbcom debate
It was to draw your attention to the article based on the thing sent to oversight. Nothing less or more, call it pre-emptive housekeeping. Olowe2011 Talk 16:33, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

Removing the block notice from my talk page
Hello, I was wondering if it is okay to remove the block notice (seen here) from my talk page)? Charlesaaronthompson (talk) 22:16, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
 * As you are now unblocked, absolutely fine. Courcelles (talk) 22:51, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Homer G. Lindsay, Jr.
This may seem nit-picky, but I was wondering if you could reconsider your closure of Articles for deletion/Homer G. Lindsay, Jr.. I know it doesn't make any difference to whether the article is kept or not, but I really do think it should be "keep" rather than "no consensus". References were provided and added to the article as the discussion progressed, and there were not further delete !votes after this occurred. StAnselm (talk) 01:34, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
 * As you say, it doesn't really make any difference. I'm jsut not seeing a clear enough consensus for a keep close.  It's borderline, though.  Could have been closed that way without argument. Courcelles (talk) 02:36, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
 * In regards to past discussion, the key distinction I have noticed is that the "no consensus" closure opens the door for the article to be tagged for notability, whereas the "keep" closure does not. StAnselm (talk) 03:06, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
 * That sounds like a remarkably silly reason for sticking on, or retaining such a tag.   Courcelles (talk) 20:41, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Deletion of Tsubomi (actress)
I notice that you recently deleted Tsubomi (actress). In the discussion, I mentioned that she is one of the most famous AV idols, and I wasn't lying: a google news search for "つぼみ AV" will turn up dozens of articles about her in Japanese media. I am concerned that Spartaz has been nominating numerous articles on Japanese pornstars for deletion, and a couple anti-porn users, including Hullaballoo Wolfowitz, have been voting delete without even doing a Japanese search. Another user, GuzzyG, has expressed similar concerns. I believe the recent deletion campaign has created quite a big mess, in that many articles may have been wrongly deleted, and I'm not sure how to proceed. --Sammy1339 (talk) 00:54, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
 * You really didn't raise the argument of sources in Japanese, or provide links to such significant coverage. You should have raised that argument there, and at AFD, you need to provide evidence that backs up your points -- by providing solid evidence that such sources exist.  If you can show that, I can re-open the AFD and send it for another week; but your original keep argument did not provide a solid rationale. Courcelles (talk) 02:05, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I provided a link to a 16 minute video biography of her by a mainstream news source. I could have gone and added a few Japanese news articles about her, but I think at that point it's just a technicality - there was, at a minimum, the other source mentioned which ranked her as the top AV idol, therefore "multiple" sources, and it's obvious she satisfies SIGCOV. More to the point, I don't have time to make a thorough list for every AV idol that goes to AfD, and it's a problem that all these articles are being deleted without anybody checking. --Sammy1339 (talk) 02:29, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for notifying me of this discussion. I would just point out that its over a year since the changes to PORNBIO went through and yet the creators and proponents of these articles have done absolutely nothing to clean them up and less burdensome ways of going about this are impossible because the keep everything brigade makes it impossible to use PROD to easily remove the low hanging fruit. Having to go through AFD for essentially the same discussion everytime is simply ridiculous but not my choice. I'd be happy to leave this alone but no-one else seems interested in doing this and policy/guidelines need to be enforced because these are inadequately sourced BLPs. So what's the answer? Apparently people don't like the way I'm dealing with the problem but no-one else is stepping up to the plate and I'm enforcing what the rules actually say not what the proporn lobby want it to say. If you have a better idea of how to do this I'd be glad to hear it. Spartaz Humbug! 06:02, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Spartaz, while a small number of editors may be complaining, they're hardly representative. Looking over the 125 or so deletion proposals related to porn performers over the last six months of so, more than 90% have closed as delete, while only five AFD discussions have closed as keep. There's enduring consensus support for these deletions. Periodically a few porn enthusiasts react disruptively, and poison the environment for discussions so that most editors avoid them, but these characters regularly flame out and normal outcomes resume. I think only one porn performer deletion has been overturned at DRV in the recent past, and that was for applying the rejected no-consensus-defaults-to-delete principle. The community supports you and supports what's been done, even if many editors don't want to subject themselves to the recurrent bickering and mudslinging. The kind of disruption that doesn't go away, though, are the consistent efforts to cast aspersions on editor like you, me, Tarc, and (lately) Gene93k, all active on BLP matters, for applying basic BLP standards to porn performer bios. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 21:17, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I think the deletion of Tsubomi makes it clear that it is necessary to check Japanese media before deleting articles on Japanese pornography. Perhaps you could ask at WikiProject Japan if someone is willing to do this for the recently deleted AV idols - I am not the person for this, because I do not speak Japanese. Barring that I would advise not AfDing any more AV idols until we know that we don't have people voting delete without even looking. And of course the Tsubomi article should be restored. --Sammy1339 (talk) 20:25, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm not against your doing that but the onus is on those that want to keep comtent to source it. That puts the ball in your court I think. Spartaz Humbug! 21:18, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
 * No valid reason to restore the article has yet been given, so I decline to do so. Sammy, the burden of proof is on you at this point. Courcelles (talk) 21:19, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
 * There was already a 16 minute biography of her and a magazine rating her as #1 in her field. Obviously she is notable, use some common sense. To fulfill the ritual, here are a handful of numerous possible articles:, , , , . And no, the default option is not delete - actually it is keep! When people nominate an article, or vote for it to be deleted, there is an expectation that they have made a reasonable effort to check for sources. --Sammy1339 (talk) 21:40, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
 * "The Big Bad" noone here is a porn enthusiast, i am certainly not a keep everything "brigade" (Although if you're nominated for the top award in your field (AVN) then it should be a clear in. If you're a member of the top band in the world for the last 5 years Liam Payne, then you should qualify.) But you and the trio have consistently badgered the WP:PORNBIO standards down over the last four years down to only being in the hall of fame and the equivalent of winning the best Oscar award. I have no interest in pornography as it does not interest me in the slightest - but considering you have been hovering around it for 4 years and trying to get the standards higher and then only in this one field nominating over 125 (you keep track) articles for deletion.. (Also calling respectable foreign newspapers which do cover them "tabloids" is insulting to that countries media) leads one to believe one has had ulterior motives. It's awaken me to the potential for abuse in this "Anyone can edit" philosophy of Wikipedia that has given me seconds thoughts. Don't worry though you've got that icky porn off! Four years of hard work, i do applaud your efforts. GuzzyG (talk) 01:20, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

Brian Boxer Wachler AFD
I have just been looking over this AFD and I have decided that I think that, with all due respect, your close thereof was improper. Although I was the only experienced editor who voted keep, I actually provided sources that covered Wachler in depth, which contradicted the assertions of many of the delete !voters that "No third-party evidence indicating how this person meets WP:BIO notability criteria." and "need independent sources." I linked to some of them in the discussion and added others to the (now deleted, of course) article about Wachler. I am asking you to reconsider your close, and if you still think you were right to close it the way you did, I will take this to WP:DRV. If you think a no consensus or keep close would have been more appropriate, as I do, then of course you are welcome to re-close it and restore the article. Best, Everymorning (talk) 22:47, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Your first and third links are the exact same article, which means you have two stories, both of which are fluff. I don't see any other possible close to this AFD, but I also don't see any objections to a {{WP:TNT]] resolution. If you do want to just start a new article, let me know, as it needs to be semi'ed to keep those socks away. Courcelles (talk) 03:24, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I have put something together at Draft:Brian Boxer Wachler. Also, the links I linked to in the AFD, although they were both to Foxnews.com, were to separate articles on that site. First, third. Everymorning (talk) 15:20, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
 * But they are effectively the same, one is simply a six item series of summaries of articles, one of which is the actual story. Courcelles (talk) 05:33, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #179
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 * Discussion has started on English WikiProject Football about using Wikidata for player squad templates (example) and player club history (example). Needs more input on best practices and commitment to update data.
 * A command line client to the SPARQL query service has been released
 * Query example: [http://demo.seco.tkk.fi/visu/#/?sparqlEndpoint=https:%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fbigdata%2Fnamespace%2Fwdq%2Fsparql&query=PREFIX%20wikibase:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%20%0APREFIX%20wdt:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fyear%20(COUNT%20(DISTINCT%20%3Fa)%20AS%20%3Fcount)%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt:P735%20wd:Q18145837%20.%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt:P569%20%3Fdate%20.%20%0A%20%20%20BIND(year(%3Fdate)%20AS%20%3Fyear)%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fyear%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Fyear&outputType=gchart&chartConfig=%7B%22containerId%22:%22chart%22,%22options%22:%7B%22hAxis%22:%7B%22useFormatFromData%22:false,%22viewWindow%22:%7B%22max%22:2000,%22min%22:1775%7D,%22minValue%22:1775,%22maxValue%22:2000,%22viewWindowMode%22:%22explicit%22,%22logScale%22:false,%22formatOptions%22:%7B%22source%22:%22inline%22,%22prefix%22:%22%22%7D,%22format%22:%220.%23%23%22,%22gridlines%22:%7B%22count%22:%228%22%7D,%22minorGridlines%22:%7B%22count%22:%224%22%7D%7D,%22title%22:%22%22,%22useFirstColumnAsDomain%22:true,%22vAxes%22:%5B%7B%22useFormatFromData%22:true,%22viewWindow%22:%7B%22max%22:null,%22min%22:null%7D,%22minValue%22:null,%22maxValue%22:null,%22logScale%22:false%7D,%7B%22useFormatFromData%22:true,%22viewWindow%22:%7B%22max%22:null,%22min%22:null%7D,%22minValue%22:null,%22maxValue%22:null,%22logScale%22:false%7D%5D,%22isStacked%22:false,%22animation%22:%7B%22duration%22:500%7D,%22booleanRole%22:%22certainty%22,%22legend%22:%22right%22,%22width%22:600,%22height%22:371,%22domainAxis%22:%7B%22direction%22:1%7D,%22series%22:%7B%220%22:%7B%22color%22:%22%23ff0000%22%7D%7D%7D,%22state%22:%7B%7D,%22view%22:%7B%7D,%22isDefaultVisualization%22:false,%22chartType%22:%22ColumnChart%22%7D popularity of the given name Adolf]
 * MoMa artists have been added to Mix'n'match
 * Books without authors on Wikidata are now down to 12.5K from 25K since drive began. You can help get it down even further.
 * Number of articles that are not connected to a Wikidata item on Catalan Wikipedia has been brought down significantly. How about yours?
 * This Month in GLAM has Wikidata coverage
 * Interested in British politics? WikiProject British Politicians has some stats to show where you can help out
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: median lethal dose, first aid measures, official symbol, units used for this property, external subproperty, external superproperty, volume for quantity, semi-major axis, cash, explosive velocity, torque, Max TDP, maximum thrust, metallicity, market capitalization, discharge, spectral line, decay width, gyromagnetic ratio, flux, household wealth, real gross domestic product growth rate, net worth, cruise speed, radial velocity, proper motion, parallax, longitude of ascending node, angular distance, position angle, relative to, SourceForge project, average shot length, Spotify track ID, Discogs release ID, Spotify album ID, minimum explosive concentration, upper flammable limit, lower flammable limit, dipole moment, electric charge, autoignition temperature, (average) gradient, production volume, students count, Soccerbase manager id, PSS-Archi architect id, Soccerbase player id, endangeredlanguages.com ID, NILF author id, C-SPAN identifier of a person, BiblioNet publisher identifier, BiblioNet author identifier, BiblioNet publication identifier, Wiki Loves Monuments ID, DLI, history of topic, ISO 9:1995, Finnish Ministers database ID, Finnish MP ID, Kansallisbiografia ID, ACM Classification Code (2012), solvent, solubility, drug used for treatment, medical condition treated
 * Development
 * You'll now get redirected to the mobile view automatically on mobile devices (example)
 * Made it possible to use more entities on a page via Lua without running into Lua's memory limit
 * Added the Article Placeholder extension’s results to the search result page (this is one of a few remaining blockers before we can put it on a testsystem for you to try out and give feedback)
 * Added option to create a new article from Article Placeholder
 * More work on the new datatype for properties
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 * More work on a birthday present :D
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Me again
I'm being a total PITA today, so apologies in advance. Would you consider restoring talk page access to solely to allow him to work through mentorship with Walter Görlitz? They've made the request at UTRS.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 20:48, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't see why you have to apologize. If you take the pita and spread some hummus or baba ghanoush on it, along with whatever else strikes your fancy, it's delicious.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:03, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Is there any single actual reason we want this user back? I can't see it. Courcelles (talk) 16:38, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Every so often I do something nice and unexpected in order to ensure the Wiki-devil can't claim my soul. This was that moment. Nakon has already declined the unblock, so I guess I'm to become permanently hard and jaded.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 22:17, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
 * You are far from either. Far. Courcelles (talk) 22:25, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Redirect
Do you think it may be better to redirect Kim Howe to this section as it's where she is specifically mentioned? As I voted in the AfD I don't want to edit through the protection to fix the target. If you don't think it matters much then that's fine as well! -- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 20:04, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Do section redirects actually work for anyone? They never do for me.  (And I'm not totally sure how to make one work.  Do what thou wilt.) Courcelles (talk) 16:36, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I changed it. Does it work for you? Or am I just lucky?-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 22:12, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Not for me, but I have every confidence you did it correctly and it works for everyone else! Courcelles (talk) 22:13, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Gamer Gate Silly 500 Edit Rule.
I just saw a change made to GamerGate that left the grammar of a sentance in SHAMBLES and tried to correct it. I was unable. I then went to the talk page figuring I might be able to ask someone to change it (a totally resonable request in my humble opinion), but that would be too easy. So as the admin who SET those restrictions, I don't really have any CLUE of where else to place this except here. So congrats, it's yours! This is what I would have posted on the talk page if it wasn't ALSO restricted....


 * Following another editor's edits, the following sentance was the result.


 * "Former NFL player Chris Kluwe also posted criticisms of Gamergate, his comments noted for the use of creative insults."


 * That doesn't make any sense grammatically and is, at the very least, missing the word were (if not a total rewrite of the now difficult to read sentance). I'd change it back, but I apparently never reached 500 edits and am thus not to be trusted with grammar. Cheers y'all!  Immortal Horrors or Everlasting Splendors   12:46, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

I understand that this page is trolled often and I definitely don't want to downplay the difficulty in fighting those trolls, but when I can neither fix obvious grammar errors or even ask someone else to, it seems very cumbersome. Cheers. Immortal Horrors or Everlasting Splendors  12:46, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
 * (grammar nerd talk page stalker sticking my nose in) The sentence you're talking about is actually perfectly grammatical - it's using a passive (and past) participle phrase ("his comments noted...") to modify "Chris Kluwe" (see this page for some background on participles and their usage). It's a bit on the sophisticated side, grammatically, and I can see why it would lead down the garden path for a lot of readers (and it may well be better rephrased in the long run), but it's not actually an error. It may read more intuitively to you as "Former NFL player Chris Kluwe, his comments noted for the use of creative insults, also posted criticisms of Gamergate.", though that has the stylistic disadvantage of surfacing a description of the criticisms before mentioning that there are criticisms. This has been your Thursday English lesson, please make sure you've gathered up your pencils and notebooks before you go out to recess... A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 14:48, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Fair point. I am very clearly outclassed grammatically here. But maybe as an obvious representative of the grammar low-brow society (as now seen through my own ignorance in posting insistence that the grammar was wrong), someone could change it so that those of us not as well versed in grammar glean a clearer meaning from it. Cheers and thanks for the actually rather insightful and well constructed grammar lesson!  Immortal Horrors or Everlasting Splendors   15:36, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

List of oldest people by year of birth
This article that you recently deleted. Can I get it exported to the Gerontology Wiki? —  AMK152  (t • c) 06:55, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
 * You sure can, if you give me any clue how to do it. Courcelles (talk) 16:29, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
 * . Ping.  I have no clue how to import things to Wikia, so I need instructions. Courcelles (talk) 16:34, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
 * See here: Help:Export. —  AMK152  (t • c) 21:12, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
 * , the file is over 18MB. I've put it in my dropbox, see  to download it.  Courcelles (talk) 22:14, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks! —  AMK152  (t • c) 23:34, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Alice Eklund-Ward
Hello, I noticed you deleted a page I created. I am upset because not only was I not notified the page was up for deletion, but the discussion was not even open for more than 2 days, which does not offer enough time for editors to have a discussion. HesioneHushabye (talk) 21:29, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
 * are you refering to Articles for deletion/Alice Eklund-Ward? That was open for eight days, not two.  That said, the nominator should have informed the page creator. Courcelles (talk) 21:32, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, that is the page I am referring to. I have a feeling the nominator didn't give me a notification on purpose, I had no idea, or I would have made some comments HesioneHushabye (talk) 21:16, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
 * If you can produce some arguments for keeping the article, you can always take it to WP:DRV, but you're going to need policy-based reasoning to succeed there. Courcelles (talk) 22:06, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

John D. Haines
Courcelles Can you send me a copy of the deleted article. Also I did find references and changed the style of the article, so I was wondering whether you have some tips for me, if I decide to upload it again. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kalina3112 (talk • contribs) 10:03, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Sent. Do not repost this on wiki without substantial improvements in the sourcing. Courcelles (talk) 21:37, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Spinningspark ArbCom case
You do realise that DGG has already voted? <b style="background:#FAFAD2;color:#C08000">Spinning</b><b style="color:#4840A0">Spark</b> 17:21, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Oops. We were sitting on a bench, and both of us missed it. Courcelles (talk) 17:24, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

Abdali Mall
Hi, I was wondering on why 'no consensus' was reached, although the overwhelming majority agreed on keeping it? --Makeandtoss (talk) 20:42, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Some of those arguments were incredibly weak. Of the keep comments after the first relist, only the very last one was on-point. (In general, it was a well attended AFD, but not a well-argued AFD at all. And AFD is not an exercise in counting votes.)  Functionally, no consensus and keep are the same, it makes no difference at all.  Courcelles (talk) 21:42, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Old username
I notice your old username is no longer a redlink because a Meta page for it still exists and is now being transcluded across all projects. Thought you might want to know. Jenks24 (talk) 13:46, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

Need deletion of talk:ROBOTC as part of Articles for deletion/Robotc
Yesterday you deleted Robotc, talk:Robotc and ROBOTC as part of closing Articles for deletion/Robotc. Unless I'm missing something, you missed talk:ROBOTC. Thanks. Rwessel (talk) 15:37, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that's a G8, though as a talk page of a redirect, I don't think our closure script would ever catch it. (And no one in their rights minds would close AFD's manually.) Someone or some bot always cleans up the G8's like this eventually, but I've done this one now. Courcelles (talk) 17:54, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'm not really familiar with how AfDs are closed, although I certainly expected some degree of automation.  I just came across the page while cleaning up some redlinks to the deleted article, so I thought I'd bring it to your attention, not knowing that a bot would clean that up automatically.  Rwessel (talk) 04:48, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Skyhook article and Skyhook1 sock puppet
Hello. Last winter you banned User:Skyhook1 indefinitely for persistent introduction of original research at the Skyhook (structure) article, and for employing multiple sock puppets to revert all changes. A few weeks later, in January, he used the SpaceX redirect "Space exploration technologies‎" to publish his skyhook assay, and amazingly, it stayed there undetected until now. I need help containing his socks again and of hijacking this reditect to SpaceX to post his own assays. Thank you, BatteryIncluded (talk) 20:42, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Yep. I caught 22 socks and blocked them, see my block log for the names.  Let me know if more show up, the interest appears to be broadly over near-Earth space topics.  Courcelles (talk) 20:49, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks a bunch!! -Cheers, BatteryIncluded (talk) 20:57, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Moving file names
I was wondering if you would please move File:Denver Brancos radio affiliates.png to a spelling corrected name: File:Denver Broncos radio affiliates.png? If you cannot, please notify an appropriate admin and request they move the file to the name I am requesting. Thank you. Charlesaaronthompson (talk) 01:54, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Done. Courcelles (talk) 02:02, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I was now wondering if you would please move File:OKC Thunder 3rd Alternte Unifroms.jpg to a spelling corrected name: File:Oklahoma City Thunder 3rd alternate uniform.jpg? If you cannot, please notify an appropriate admin and request they move the file to the name I am requesting. Thank you. Charlesaaronthompson (talk) 02:11, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Done. Courcelles (talk) 02:58, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much! Charlesaaronthompson (talk) 04:08, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

Deletion review for List of devices supported by CyanogenMod
An editor has asked for a deletion review of List of devices supported by CyanogenMod. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Stifle (talk) 08:14, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Courcelles (talk) 17:00, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #180
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 * Wikidata Enpoint SPARQL and the paintings of Goya Wikidata's SPARQL endpoint and the paintings of Goya (French)
 * Upcoming: 3rd Birthday \o/ (Please don't forget to register if you're coming to the party.)
 * More wrapups of Wikiconference USA including slides: ,
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Magnus overhauled the Wikidata Game! Sweeeeeet! Now includes one where you can match an author and a publication. And it has stats.
 * Mix'n'match got skyscrapers to match up for you.
 * Sitelinks and P569 compares various Wikipedias by the proportion of items with date of birth (Property:P569)
 * Catalan Wikipedia match up all of their articles to items on Wikidata. Congrats!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: periapsis, apoapsis, Florentine musea catalogue ID, reason for deprecation
 * Development
 * Worked on adding auto-completion for item and property prefixes to the SPARQL query editor (so you can search by label when entering a query)
 * Wrote maintenance script for changing some properties from datatype string to upcoming datatype identifier
 * More work on birthday present
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 * Prepared patch for also publishing JSON dumps with bzip2 compression
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Wikidata weekly summary #181
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 * Wikidata, SPARQL and huskies (French)
 * Wikidata, SPARQL and elected dynasties (French)
 * The birth and death of German playwrights
 * Distributed stats
 * Past: Wikidata training at Wikimedia UK
 * Upcoming: Wikidata's 3rd birthday \o/ (on 29th)
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 * There's a new Wikidata taxonomy browser
 * Meta, MediaWiki and Wikispecies now have access to sitelinks on Wikidata. Welcome to Wikidata, sisters!
 * Harvest templates. New tool to copy data from templates to Wikidata.
 * Number of articles that are not connected to a Wikidata item on Italian Wikipedia has been brought down significantly. How about yours?
 * The Wikidata Game now has a primary sources game and one to match Wikispecies pages to Wikidata items
 * The National Gallery of Arts was added to Mix'n'match
 * Some more query examples: Dracula movies and their actors, movies with links to videos
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Debrett's People of Today ID, maximum operating altitude, DfE URN, NGA artist id, life expectancy, Refseq Genome ID, argument of periapsis, periapsis
 * Development
 * ctrl-space now enables autocomplete for labels on http://query.wikidata.org . Should make it easier for you to find the right items and properties.
 * Worked on birthday present :)
 * From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the Wikidata json dumps will be published, along with the gzip compressed version.
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Commons Question
'alo - I need some Commons expertise (as opposed to common expertise). A user there has uploaded a whack of images, claiming them as "own work", that are blatant copyvios. I tagged a couple of them for speedy deletion before I realized the extent of the damage. Is there a way to just delete them in bulk?-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 16:43, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
 * There are a couple that appear legit (i.e Flicker uploads), perhaps I do have to go through each and every one? What a pain.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 16:54, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Lot of obvious copy its, mixed in with legit Flicker uploads. Odd, very odd. Courcelles (talk) 16:58, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
 * And some images have sprung from the head of Zeus, with no EXIF data but also no clear provenance. It's all pretty dodgy. Thanks for your help (as always)!-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 17:02, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

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Vandalism on ESPN
I wanted to know if you could semi-protect the ESPN article, as there's too much vandalism on the article.
 * Good lord, that was a mess. I finally found a "clean" version to revert to. Protected for a year. Courcelles (talk) 05:45, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks Courcelles for solving the problem.

Black Death Protection
I'm considering unprotecting for a bit and seeing what happens. I'm not that optimistic (I'm afraid we'll get more vandalism) but I think it's worth a shot. I might end up having to just re-protect indef as you did in 2010. Just checking in with you to make sure that's reasonable before doing so. NativeForeigner Talk 03:32, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Do you really think this is anything other than wasting other people's time to clean up after? Look at the length of that protection log. Courcelles (talk) 04:10, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Patterns shift. It would be grossly irresponsible to not place it on my watchlist and keep an eye on things but we're 5 years later wrt cluebot, edit filters, and patterns can shift. Perhaps optimistic but I don't think unreasonable. NativeForeigner Talk 05:24, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I think it is unreasonable, these are the sort of topics that unprotecting will never, ever do anything but waste time, especially during the school year when this becomes a major part of history classes. Courcelles (talk) 17:51, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I agree with that in broad strokes, but 5 years is eons in wiki time, and this is black death, not George W Bush. I won't argue further but I definitely disagree. NativeForeigner Talk 01:58, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Red acting
What are you doing? ... reverting a section on an essentially quiescent page with a "Do not restore" summary (-- why not? Is that a arbcom action? Administrator? any particular policy support that? --) acts like a bright neon sign that says Click here for drama. If it needs to go, you should revdel / or oversight it; otherwise its best to "hide in plain sight" as Edgar Allan Poe famously explained in The Purloined Letter. NE Ent 18:15, 10 October 2015 (UTC):
 * I was in the process of oversighting it when roped into a long discussion in real life, that I THOUGHT would be a short one. Courcelles (talk)
 * Instead you may have relit a beacon fire. Juan Riley (talk) 20:42, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I concur; it smells funny, even if done for all the right reasons. BusterD (talk) 23:17, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
 * All things considered, I can understand it. Not only was it a particularly nasty thread (as was the RfA in general), but it also had some personally identifying information in it.  I suspect that several folks who were involved in that thread may not object to the removal. — Ched :  ?  00:18, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
 * The latter was the problem. It should have been oversighted operationally, but for some reason was not. Courcelles (talk) 17:03, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Boilerplate principles
When I was writing some of the decisions, I was asked more than once why we included boilerplate principles case after case. The question is that the boilerplate may be obvious to the arbitrators and to other editors who spend much of their wikilives on the arbitration pages. But for editors involved in the dispute that led to the arbitration case, or other people who read the decision without prior knowledge of what Wikipedia arbitration is, these points may not be so obvious to them. That was always my thinking, anyway. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 20:58, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Parole or repeal
Thank you for your trust, here.

I would, after four (4) years, of course love to be placed on parole (or repeal, per your prior wording, either one).

It would allow me to maintain and improve in quality pages I'd previously brought to Featured Article, for example.

Do you think that has a chance of passing?

Is it worth being proposed as a motion?

Thank you again, very much, for your kind thoughts,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 07:50, 21 October 2015 (UTC) The motion closed, it seems, a tad early. Any updates for me on the wider suggestion you were working on ? Thank you, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 02:40, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm going to try to find out. Courcelles (talk) 10:01, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much, I sincerely appreciate any effort you would take on my behalf in this regard. Thank you for your trust, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 10:04, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
 * One thing which might be worth noting, maybe, is that at least right now, regarding Scientology, it has according to published works only around 17,000 active "members" worldwide, and, taking into account movies, critical books, exposes, South Park and other satires, and what-all else, the public perception of it is, pretty much, as a joke. We are now even at the point of having Christian groups arguing against Scientology being discriminated against in places like Germany. Academia has, at least in the last few years, grown up a little along with the boomers, and on that basis the "pro-Scientology" spin isn't as discernible, making any attempts at counteracting negative spin pretty much unnecessary. Just a few ideas, anyway. John Carter (talk) 23:49, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
 * My focus is on other topic interests these past four (4) years, such improving articles on Wikipedia about freedom of speech and censorship to WP:GA and WP:FA quality &mdash; for example as I've successfully done at Freedom for the Thought That We Hate. I'm more thinking it would simply be a relief to me not to have to worry about the restrictions hanging over my head after four (4) years, and I would still want to focus on other topics, instead. Thank you, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 00:00, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Understood, but as I indicated, freedom of speech and freedom of religion at least in Germany directly intersects with Scientology and probably at least a few other NRMs, so there is apparently more than a bit of an overlap there. John Carter (talk) 00:03, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
 * You may indeed be correct. But my desire these days over the past four (4) years is instead to focus my Quality improvement efforts more generally within the wider issues of freedom of speech and censorship &mdash; for example I wrote, created, and took successfully to WP:GA the article on the book Free Speech, "The People's Darling Privilege". &mdash; Cirt (talk) 00:09, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
 * And it would no doubt be a lot easier for you to be able to work on a few other books relating to those topics with a bit more confidence if you didn't have to worry that someone might criticize you and seek sanctions against you for maybe working in good faith on developing content on books which some might argue relates to some NRM or other. John Carter (talk) 00:14, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Agreed. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 00:25, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I wasn't able to get anywhere with that idea. Courcelles (talk) 03:08, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
 * , I thank you for your attempts on my behalf, and your trust. It is most appreciated. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 03:11, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

FLC for List of Connecticut Huskies in the NFL Draft
Hello, I hope you have been doing well. Back in the day (more like a few years ago now) you reviewed a couple of my UConn FxCs. I was wondering if you would be willing to do so again, at the FLC for List of Connecticut Huskies in the NFL Draft. It's been languishing for almost a month now with minimal review. If nothing else, this might serve as a good diversion from arbitration / administrative headaches. Thanks, –Grondemar 23:11, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Sure, I'll look at it tomorrow. Courcelles (talk) 17:28, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
 * As you might guess, various dramas have eaten all my wiki time this week (and just reading everything, at that!) Courcelles (talk) 20:58, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I completely understand. I do not envy your position in the slightest. –Grondemar 22:55, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

Henry Heimlich
In a passing piece of gnomery I've removed the edit semi-protection at Henry Heimlich which you placed in 2012 after the page was repeatedly targeted by sockpuppets. In hindsight I should have asked you first, as the admin who imposed the protection. However this is hopefully a harmless change given its been three years since the sockpuppetry occurred. If you disagree (or if I've missed some other issue warranting page protection) then please feel free to restore the semi-protect. -- Euryalus (talk) 02:38, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I actually have no memory of what sockmaster I protected that page against, and little desire to dig through it. Doubt they are still here, though. 22:26, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

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