User talk:Deryck Chan/Archive 21

2018 MTV Europe Music Awards
Hello. Could you please protect 2018 MTV Europe Music Awards because the vandalism is way out of control. CLCStudent (talk) 22:13, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Gave it 3 days of semi-protect. Let me know how it goes. Deryck C. 22:33, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

White Helmets
You closed an RfC on this page 3 months ago, and controversy has flared up now on the same topic, with a dispute on how the closure should be interpreted. I wonder if you could have a look? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:White_Helmets_(Syrian_Civil_War)#Severe_Bias_in_the_Article Thank you! BobFromBrockley (talk) 21:46, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Responded on Talk:White_Helmets_(Syrian_Civil_War). Deryck C. 17:43, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

Urgent
Hi, I'm an admin in the Indonesian Wikipedia. has committed long term abuse in Indonesian, Malay and Sundanese wikipedia (one of the examples, when he impersonated me and vandalized several pages). Right now he is engaging in disruptive activities in the English wiki by reverting many edits and also by creating pages with false information and sending nonsensical messages to other users. Please block him, revert all of his edits, and delete pages created by him. I've complained here before, but somehow my request is gone and he is still running rampant in this Wiki. Thank you. Mimihitam (talk) 09:09, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Another admin has dealt with this user. Because of real-life limitations, I generally don't take part in fast-response anti-vandalism. If you need urgent admin assistance next time, you should go to WP:AIV. Deryck C. 17:42, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

Arbitration/Requests/Case/Fred Bauder
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IETF/ISOC
As discussed: IETF Newcomers Presentation (2016) Zazpot (talk) 18:11, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

Spicy meatball
7 seconds before I pressed save on my close of Redirects for discussion/Log/2018 December 18 as retarget, you relisted it. I didn't spot this however until after I'd retargetted it and added the template to the talk page. Do you want to undo your relisting, should I close the relisted discussion or would it be best to undo my retargetting and talk page post? Thryduulf (talk) 19:01, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
 * , I think you should close the relisted discussion. I think retargeting is a valid outcome too. Someone else has made a comment since the relist, so I can't undo the relist anymore. Deryck C. 21:27, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Deryck!


Happy New Year! Some celestial fireworks to herald another year of progress for mankind and Wikipedia. All the very best, Deryck,

Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 02:18, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Happy new year
Happy New Year! Hello Deryck Chan: Thanks for all of your contributions to Wikipedia, and have a great New Year! Cheers, Hhkohh (talk) 02:58, 1 January 2019 (UTC) Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year snowman}} to people's talk pages with a friendly message.

Happy Adminship Anniversary!
 Happy Adminship Anniversary! Have a very happy adminship anniversary on your special day! Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 22:47, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

You've got mail
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Wraper11 (talk • contribs) 2019-03-07T18:56:33 (UTC)


 * Note to self: --Deryckchan (talk) 12:23, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

Rama Arbitration Case
You were recently listed as a party to a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Arbitration/Requests/Case/Rama. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Arbitration/Requests/Case/Rama/Evidence. Please add your evidence by May 10, 2019, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Arbitration/Requests/Case/Rama/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, --  Amanda  (aka DQ) 19:41, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

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Previous listing as a party
My apologies for the above section stating that you are a party. You are not, I made a mistake with the template. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 19:51, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

ArbCom 2019 special circular
   

This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:58, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)
ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Query
Hi, regarding this, are you aware that the DRV for the Phelps article is going to close with "endorse delete" and that the new draft, created when Fram moved Rama's article out of mainspace, is also being deemed not notable. Add to that Rama's own statement about digging their heels in means there is no way an amicable solution would have developed: Rama wasn't going to back down and the community wasn't going to accept the article being restored.

It's fine if you want to leave the evidence in there but it will be torn to shreds during the workshop phase. - Sitush (talk) 16:22, 8 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your comment. I'm unsure which aspect of the Rama arbitration case you're referring to with your "this", since the diff links to my second and third points of evidence but your comment seems to relate to my first point of evidence.
 * Thank you for letting me know the outcome of the latest DRV. I'm afraid you've mistaken the purpose of my first point of evidence. I do not seek to justify the inclusion of the article, which falls beyond ArbCom's remit. Rather, my point is that, given the state of affairs as of the start of 29th April, Rama's initial restoration of the article was not a gross transgression of administrator conduct. The latest DRV began on 1st May, after the arbitration request was filed. It would be wrong to assess an admin action against information that the admin would not have had when they took the action.
 * Regarding your point about an amicable resolution, I'm afraid you've misinterpreted "resolution" as "agreement". Rama did not attempt to restore the article again, but simply continued to argue his case on ANI. If the ANI case was allowed to play out, it would be plausible for it to end, perhaps with a warning for Rama, and then defer the deleted article's fate to DRV. I have argued against the prevalent consensus and "lost" many times over the past decade, but I can count very few where I would not call the outcome an amicable resolution.
 * I'm unsure what you mean when you wrote that the evidence would be "torn to shreds during the workshop phase". I am well aware that I am in the minority for arguing that Rama's initial page restoration was within the allowable range of admin discretion, and that the timing of this arbitration case was counter-productive. The duty of editors participating in the evidence phase is to present their point where it is backed up by logs and comments by other editors. Arbitrators are welcome to ignore my point if they examine it and decide to disagree with it.
 * Let me know if these words address your comment. You're welcome to disagree as always, and thanks again for stopping by. Deryck C. 17:02, 8 May 2019 (UTC)


 * That's fine, thanks Deryck. - Sitush (talk) 17:04, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. Deryck C. 17:08, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science - Missouri
Hello, I am curious if you could review the following page for me and see if you can help me to figure out the appropriate next steps to get this page to be ready for another review and hopefully approval. I have been working on it and believe that it has some good content and has several sources. However, it appears that the reviewers do not agree. I feel like I am stuck and would appreciate any help that you can provide. Thanks in advance. Asclsmo (talk) 06:37, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for asking me. It appears that the primary concern is that there has not yet been enough external coverage of the Missouri organization to justify a standalone Wikipedia article. I also note that your username is the same as the abbreviation of the association you want to write about, which suggests that you may be acting on behalf of the association. This is not allowed on the English Wikipedia and I advise you to request a username change in order to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Deryck C. 09:08, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

Proper use of linktext
Hello. I add in-text links to Wiktionary a lot. For instance, I just added one to the 1999 Jiji earthquake page. I was told that you might have knowledge of the current state of the debate on the proper usage of linktext on Wikipedia. Do you think this usage is justified? Thanks for your time. Geographyinitiative (talk) 11:26, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I can't make up my mind. I think what you did with "Jiji // big earthquake" is reasonable and won't challenge it, but I'm not prepared to defend it either if someone else disagrees! Deryck C. 11:14, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Anonymous user
Hi, Deryk! Please take a look at User talk:188.129.183.57. I'm having an issue with an anonymous user who didn't use edit summaries when reverting. Thanks! WhisperToMe (talk) 14:48, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
 * This is basically slow edit-warring. I think a templated warning is in order, which I have sent. Deryck C. 15:02, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

urgent help needed with my Wiki page - query
Dear Deryck:

I need help with my Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Michael_Cummings

I myself did not create the article. In 2010 or so, a librarian in a West Virginia public school did. She is deceased. Since, editors of journals having published my short stories and a former literary agent added to the page.

Recently, I made changes to the page, specifically uploading two photos of my book covers. But I did not follow protocol. Tags at the top of the page appeared, one after another, each worse.

I myself have not touched the actual article since this incident started six weeks ago, but have instead remained markedly earnest and cooperative and forthcoming on the User Talk page.

On my USER TALK, page you will see extensive dialogue between me and who seems to be only Wiki editor involved "Bonadea." She's well-informed and reasonable.

A few weeks back, she redrafted the page to sound encyclopedic, but she removed too much, I think. I had thought at the time, she was ready to remove the tags. Not so. She still feels the page is "autobiographical," even though I have dug up many links to reliable sources for her. Today, she's less and less available to help, as she is a teacher with a heavy class load.

I so much want the page to exist at its best. It would make me very proud, and I honestly feel who I am as a writer and what accomplishments I have made are of note.

But the paragraphs about my article become scant as the descend, and the entire page is lacking my most important accomplishments.

Again, I have available all links to the entirety of my USER TALK page.

My first novel won The Paterson Prize for Books for Young People 2009 (Grade 7-12), with a link to a reliable source. This a great award. But it is not listed.

I want acknowledgement of my receiving an Honorable Mention in The Best American Short Stories 2007, again a great accomplishment, with a link available.

I want acknowledgement being nominated for The Pushcart Prize - a fabulous achievement not listed.

I want all my 75 plus published short stories listed, not just a handful as shown on my page. All stories are reputably published is good university journals and commercial magazines. I want them presented in columns and set off my the lines of a box around them, as I seen on many sites.

I'v spent thirty years of my life - every day devoted - to becoming a writer of accomplishment. I sacrificed income and the great life experience of having a family I could support.

A few questions:

How quickly can you get to work on the Wiki page?

Do other editors get involved with you?

Will you willingly communicate with me here on your email page, rather on the USER TALK for all the world to see. I think "Bonadea" would prefer not seeing my comments, as I am the subject of the article, and would prefer working only with a professional Wiki editor.

I look forward to a prompt reply.

Thank you very much.

John Michael Cummings

P.S. Can we possibly talk by phone? (304) 620-5115.

LankyKeller (talk) 12:37, 8 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks . I see that several other editors have discussed this matter with you, and a related discussion is also ongoing at Articles for deletion/John Michael Cummings. I don't think I have anything to add beyond what other editors have already advised you so far. Deryck C. 11:15, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Off-topic content
I think there are violations of the RfC you closed. See Talk:Marketing_of_electronic_cigarettes/Archive_1. I discussed it on the talk page. See diff. This was obviously off-topic.This is relevant. It is impossible to clean up the page. See Talk:Marketing_of_electronic_cigarettes. I tried and got partially reverted. QuackGuru ( talk ) 18:49, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for notifying me. Unfortunately I won't be able to attend to this discussion due to RL involvements with the 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests. Please go to WT:ANRFC to ask an uninvolved admin for advice. Deryck C. 10:43, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

Growing elephant ear plants
Hoping you'll revisit this close. As pointed out in the discussion, the redirect clearly aided searches and directed readers to information they were looking for, and there has never been consensus that titles implying user instruction must be deleted (generally only if the target actually is an instruction manual), nor that this specific redirect was such a title. Three editors suggested valid use cases for the title, versus four who only cited WP:NOTHOWTO, but did not indicate in what way that guideline applies to the redirect deletion guidelines. Thanks. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:19, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for raising this. I get your point that WP:NOTHOWTO is strictly speaking an article content policy and its application to redirects isn't clear. But with a majority offering this as a reason for deletion and only Andrew D. supporting the pre-existing target, the closer would need an overriding concern to reject a majority opinion, and I don't think wider policy necessarily precludes NOTHOWTO from being used to argue for deletion here. That said, we're all aware that the quorum of RfDs is low, so if you can convince any two participants of this RfD to change their minds (or more regulars at RfD to support your suggestion), I'd be happy to reopen the discussion. Deryck C. 10:21, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

Geonotice request
Hey, there's a Geonotice request that could use your attention. It's an event scheduled for tomorrow and the request has been sitting for a few days. (It's a monthly event, except next month's is apparently cancelled, so if you can set it up for recurrence, I imagine the requester would be appreciative.) Thanks! &mdash;Gordon P. Hemsley→ &#x2709; 22:05, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
 * , I've loaded the geonotice. Each geonotice must have its own start and end times, though if you know next few months' event time and venue already, we welcome early requests of future notices. It is common for geonotices to go up a month before the event and sometimes even earlier for less frequent events! Deryck C. 22:45, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
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Protect page
Please protect 2019 Hong Kong protests, it has been attacked relentlessly by pro-Chinese bots. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.193.240.143 (talk) 09:25, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Berean Hunter did that. Thanks for letting me know and sorry for the slow response. Deryck C. 16:31, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

A simple infobox template for SS
Hi Deryck, can you help me create a simple infobox which I can copy and paste and use when creating Wikipedia entries in the language SiSwati (ss). Bobbyshabangu talk 09:01, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
 * , There are two approaches I'm aware of.
 * The low-hanging fruit is to specify a group of related topics (e.g. films) and then look out for what properties are relevant for those topics. Then build an infobox along the lines of yue:Template:Infobox person/Wikidata (biographies of people).
 * More complicated is to localize a universal infobox like c:Template:Wikidata infobox. User:RexxS has more relevant expertise on that if you want to build a universal infobox. Deryck C. 14:40, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
 * You already have made a good start with ss:Template:Umuntfu and ss:Template:Umuntfu/ss as used on Nelson Mandela.
 * The universal infobox at c:Template:Wikidata infobox could be useful for creating articles in ss-wiki, but it draws all of its information from Wikidata. There are hardly any labels in SiSwati for properties, etc. so someone would need to add them, otherwise you will only see the English labels – you'll find the gadget "labelLister" at your Wikidata preferences to be useful. I've made demos for and  at commons:User:RexxS/Demos so you can see what is possible by using SiSwati as your interface language on Commons. I added the ss label "Kutalwa" to  as you can see in the demos. Please correct that on Wikidata  if it's not right. HTH --RexxS (talk) 16:00, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks guys Bobby</b><b style="color: DarkOliveGreen">shabangu</b> <b style="color:DeepSkyBlue">talk</b> 12:28, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
 * You already have made a good start with ss:Template:Umuntfu and ss:Template:Umuntfu/ss as used on Nelson Mandela.
 * The universal infobox at c:Template:Wikidata infobox could be useful for creating articles in ss-wiki, but it draws all of its information from Wikidata. There are hardly any labels in SiSwati for properties, etc. so someone would need to add them, otherwise you will only see the English labels – you'll find the gadget "labelLister" at your Wikidata preferences to be useful. I've made demos for and  at commons:User:RexxS/Demos so you can see what is possible by using SiSwati as your interface language on Commons. I added the ss label "Kutalwa" to  as you can see in the demos. Please correct that on Wikidata  if it's not right. HTH --RexxS (talk) 16:00, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks guys <b style="color: DarkOrange">Bobby</b><b style="color: DarkOliveGreen">shabangu</b> <b style="color:DeepSkyBlue">talk</b> 12:28, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society
Dear ,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more. ​

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Geonotice request (Oct 2019)
I have confirmed a meet up just today - but it would be great if the geonotice would be able to go out from asap to try get attention. The fb page should go up tomorrow. If you could get to it, I'd be grateful if you could process that request as soon as possible. Hopefully for future events I will try to give a tad more warning, at least 2-3 weeks worth...<em style="font-family: Kristen ITC; color:red">  &#9749;  Antiqueight  chatter 22:31, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

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Happiness (1934 film)
Hi Deryck, hope you're doing well. I admit I worried a bit when I saw you inactive for a few days and Hong Kong protests were going on. Almost hate to bother you about this close since it feels so low stakes, but the outcome was surprising to me, since only the nominator suggested retargeting to the French film, along with "or delete". Thryduulf and I advocated retargeting to the disambiguation page rather than the French film, and the other editor who commented suggested the Soviet film was also released in 1934. Could you perhaps elaborate on the close? --BDD (talk) 19:52, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
 * It's because I misread your comment. I've undone my closure on the log page.
 * P.S. I haven't been to Hong Kong in the last 14 months but plan to go soon. Deryck C. 10:59, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you! And stay safe. :) --BDD (talk) 15:03, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you! And stay safe. :) --BDD (talk) 15:03, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
Hello,

Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.

I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!

From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.

If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.

Thank you!

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How were you able to recognize your username being tagged in short time?
Good day, Deryck. I saw your following-up dated 12:34, 26 May 2019 (UTC) with user:Ohconfucius who tagged you earlier on 10:31, 25 May 2019 (UTC). May I know how you recognize that mentioning of your user name? -- Ktsquare (talk) 00:38, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I think that's default Wikipedia behaviour if you have JavaScript enabled! If somebody links to your user page in a comment and signs it with 4~s, you get a notification the next time you log in. Try clearing your preferences? Deryckchan (talk) 03:36, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Relist for Toxic gases
Hi Deryck,

Regarding your relist for the toxic gases redirect, at Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 February 19, I'm not even sure a relist was necessary here for two reasons, chiefly:


 * 1) As closer, deciding on the target where consensus is clearly in favour of retargeting is, as I read but can't remember where off hand, within the legitimate terms of reference for a closer; but, equally importantly,
 * 2) Three of the participants favoured retargeting to the one target (including the nominator, who suggested retargeting there or deletion), and another participant differed on the target on only one of the subject redirects. This suggests to me only a soft preference for that one target.

In many respects, it is similar to the close I did for How a bill becomes a law, which you 'thanked' me for, where one or two of the participants differed mostly on the target. In that case, though, it was much closer. Here, I think, we don't have such a "close call."

So, just thought I'd reach out to you, to re-read the discussion, and see if it might be able to be closed sooner.

Cheers,

Doug Mehus T · C  15:20, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
 * , That's me playing safe there. At the end of the 1st week of an RfD, I tend to relist everything where there is limited participation and no overwhelming consensus. In the case of this RfD, I see that there is no disagreement against sending toxic gas and toxic gases to list of highly toxic gases, but there is a 3-way split about what to do with poison gas and poison gases. So I want to play it safe by waiting an extra week for now, though if nobody joins the discussion in the second week I will most likely close and enact the plan you and CWM proposed as the most-supported option. Deryck C. 12:38, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
 * , Okay, sounds good. Thanks for clarifying! Doug Mehus T · C  14:11, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!
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 * You two need to fix your congratulatory script - they seem to struggle with usernames with spacebars in them, so the "Chan" in my name appeared as part of the link text rather than the link destination. Deryck C. 17:21, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Geonotice
Hi Deryck, I removed the recent US government geonotice because political geonotices have historically been controversial and I thought it best to remove it until there was a clear consensus. TonyBallioni (talk) 14:20, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I have responded to the discussion at WP:VPP. In terms of the replag that you observed, there is a 5-minute replag between editing the JSON page and MusikBot syncing them to the watchlist JS code, and then your own ISP and browser's replag between the JS page being updated and your own watchlist view being updated. Deryck C. 15:03, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 June 7
Projekt Gutenberg-DE didn't actually depend on the deleted version of "Projekt Gutenberg-DE". It only looks that way because both are (separate) translations of de:Projekt Gutenberg-DE. Therefore the histmerge wasn't technically necessary. But the old revisions of Projekt Gutenberg-DE can certainly go in the revision history at Projekt Gutenberg-DE. I'll get to work on the incoming links. Wikiacc (¶) 00:16, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for looking into it. Would you recommend splitting the page history back into two then (and keeping the pre-2015 stuff hidden under the deleted mainspace title)? Deryckchan (talk) 00:43, 16 June 2020 (UTC)


 * I don't see a need to do a history split. If someone wanted to recreate the article they could request a histmerge. Right now the old revisions aren't bothering anyone. Wikiacc (¶) 02:16, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Projekt Gutenberg-DE
Looks fine to me, and I didn't even need to use viewdelete. Thanks! Nyttend (talk) 02:13, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you and you are welcome. Deryck C. 04:09, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 July 3
Why did you relist the discussion? There's a clear consensus to delete. pandakekok9 (talk) Junk the Philippine anti-terror law! 10:14, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I think you were right. I erred too much on the side of waiting in relation to Thryduulf's open question and Rosguill and 3E1's initial hesitation. But actually as of my bad relist there were 3 people for delete and 0 against. Anyway, sorry for letting this sink to the bottom of the pile; I see that BDD has correctly deleted the redirect now. Deryck C. 18:18, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

Spelling issue
I have noticed that your comment here, section "HKPF recruitment outside HKSAR", has the word "blazé", I take it that you mean "blasé"? I feel that fixing this would be helpful for clarity but I am reluctant to do it myself, out of concern that I may have missed your meaning regarding this important adjective. Thanking you, --CRau080 (talk) 10:17, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Yep. I'll change to a different word altogether. I'm quite bad at unassimilated French words in English. Deryck C. 11:20, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!
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From the Birthday Committee,  Heart  (talk) 02:35, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!
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From the Birthday Committee, Megan☺️   Talk to the monster  09:17, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

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From the Birthday Committee, CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 20:33, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

The truth about LIHKG
Why are you afraid of the truth? My edits cited NYTimes article and the LIHKG site itself? What better sources do you need? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:645:4102:7A20:41C6:1098:2344:31FD (talk) 19:35, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your message on my talk page. Your comment appears to refer to earlier edits by another IP address, presumably yourself on a different device. Please register an account so we may have a coherent discussion. Deryck C. 19:54, 13 October 2020 (UTC)