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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:57, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

TFA
Thank you for Nigel (bishop of Ely), interesting but unknown, good company for Nicole Grobert in DYK. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:40, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Happy Saturnalia
Thanks! Felicem Saturnaliam to you as well! I haven't been too active on Wikipedia lately, but out in the real world I've been working on a biography of a medieval bishop - I thought you would be proud, haha. Adam Bishop (talk) 15:58, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Must be a Crusading State bishop... Ealdgyth - Talk 15:59, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

Happy Holidays to you
.. and thanks for the good cheer. Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 02:41, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

Merry Christmas
  "And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." Luke 2:10-11 (King James Version) Ozzie10aaaa (talk) is wishing you a Merry Christmas. This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove.

Spread the cheer by adding to their talk page with a friendly message. --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:54, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

Right up your alley?
I saw this question on a reference desk board, and thought you may be able to help. Best wishes, Kablammo (talk) 16:06, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Yo Ho Ho


 Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  is wishing you Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding ~ to your friends' talk pages.

 Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  20:38, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you! And you included Saturnalia...yay! Ealdgyth - Talk 20:45, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Season's Greetings
Sorry if the image is cryptic, but so far as cricket is concerned we are feeling the pain!
 * Cricket itself is cryptic to this Yank... thank you! Same to you and yours. Ealdgyth - Talk 20:46, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Happy Holidays

 * Thank you! Ealdgyth - Talk 20:46, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Season's Greetings
Happy Holidays text.png Hello Ealdgyth: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, -- ψλ  ● ✉ ✓ 16:45, 21 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings1}} to send this message
 * Thank you! Ealdgyth - Talk 20:46, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Where has the time gone?

 * Thanks! Same to you and yours. Ealdgyth - Talk 20:47, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Season's greetings
Hi Ealdgyth, many thanks for the card, and I hope you and yours have a lovely Christmas and New Year. All the best, SarahSV (talk) 22:05, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

Merry Christmas to all!

 * Thank you! Ealdgyth - Talk 19:44, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Best wishes for the holidays...

 * Thank you! Ealdgyth - Talk 19:44, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Seasons' Greetings
...to you and yours, from the Great White North! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 17:28, 23 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you! Ealdgyth - Talk 19:44, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

 * Thank you! Ealdgyth - Talk 19:44, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Yet another
--RexxS (talk) 01:31, 24 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you! Ealdgyth - Talk 19:44, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Happy Holidays

 * Thank you! Ealdgyth - Talk 19:44, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
 Merry Christmas !!

Hi, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year,

Thanks for all your help and contributions on the 'pedia! ,

– Davey 2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 12:28, 24 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you! Ealdgyth - Talk 19:44, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!
I appreciated your message Ealgyth, R/L has kept me off for a few weeks..hope your holiday is continuing, and that you and yours are cheerful and stress-free! Your colleague, Simon. Irondome (talk) 15:17, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Ealdgyth - Talk 19:45, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
 Merry Christmas! Joyeux Noël! ~ Buon Natale! ~ Vrolijk Kerstfeest! ~ Frohe Weihnachten! ¡Feliz Navidad! ~ Feliz Natal! ~ Καλά Χριστούγεννα! ~ Hyvää Joulua! God Jul! ~ Glædelig Jul! ~ Linksmų Kalėdų! ~ Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus! Häid Jõule! ~ Wesołych Świąt! ~ Boldog Karácsonyt! ~ Veselé Vánoce! Veselé Vianoce! ~ Crăciun Fericit! ~ Sretan Božić! ~ С Рождеством! 圣诞节快乐！~ メリークリスマス！~ 메리 크리스마스! สุขสันต์วันคริสต์มาส! ~ Selamat Hari Natal! ~ Giáng sinh an lành! Hello, Ealdgyth! Thank you for your work to maintain and improve Wikipedia! Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 21:56, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Spread the WikiLove and leave other users this message by adding {{subst:Multi-language Season's Greetings}}

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Saturnalia
Thanks so much for the Saturnalia wishes and apologies for the belated reply. Best wishes for a good 2018 and keep up the good work here. It's always inspiring to see your work and your commonsense voice is needed. Victoriaearle (tk) 18:25, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Ealdgyth!


Happy New Year! Ealdgyth, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

-- ψλ  ● ✉ ✓ 23:19, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

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Teh kittehs
I BLAMEZ THEM TOO. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ &gt;ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ&lt;  10:17, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
 * 4am here, insomnia, and the cat decides to help me check my watchlist on the tablet. Sorry! Ealdgyth - Talk 10:18, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Sea-bee (creature)
Greetings,

I figured that for a heraldry question this talk page would be a fine place to ask (or at least to receive a pointed to the correct place). I've just accepted a PROD on Sea-bee (creature) which is in part motivated on concerns that this is a hoax, see Refdesk and talk page. Does anyone have access to the source, The Coat of Arms (ISSN 0010-003X), XIII (new series) no.187, 96.? Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 15:25, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

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TFA/R help
Hello Ealdgyth. I am having some trouble requesting a TFA. I did this, but cannot figure out how to format it properly so it appears on the request page. Thank you. Kablammo (talk) 18:13, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I think I finally got figured it out. Best wishes for the new year.  Kablammo (talk) 19:30, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

The Holocaust
Hey! I've just started discussion on the talk page of the The Holocaust article about whether we should include the number of other victims to the page's infobox. Do you mind if I ask you to join? You seem to have an opposite opinion on the matter. Karl.i.biased (talk) 01:12, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I have the article watchlisted - I saw the edit, I reverted it, and yes, I saw the post on the talk page. Ealdgyth - Talk 01:21, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

Treblinka
All best in the New Year, Ealdgyth! Please take a look at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Spam_blacklist#files.Word-Press.com — I took the liberty of mentioning your note for others there. Cheers,  Poeticbent  talk 17:11, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

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Wondered if you might be interested in
This review? It's been getting a bit lonely this last week, and there's not an awful lot I can input except grammar, layout etc. On a lighter note, I had a barnstar ready for you the other day, but accidentally gave it to someone else! Not my finest hour :) Hope all's well!   >SerialNumber  54129 ...speculates 11:51, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm going to be busy today scheduling TFA - and then I've got "real world" work to do. I'll try to look at it sometime - but Dudley knows that I'm not the best with that period when it comes to non-ecclesiastics. Ealdgyth - Talk 16:03, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, I saw you scheduling away :) no worries, I just saw the notice at MILHIST and immediately thought of you. I should've known that you would know about it already; but it's even more alien to me than to you I imagine. Incidentally, found that barnstar, will chuck it below. Cheers!   >SerialNumber  54129 ...speculates 16:14, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

scheduling
Thanks for scheduling, I'm good to go. Btw, I have no idea if Hawkeye7 got User:FACBot working (that's the one that fills in the recentlist) ... I guess we'll find out tonight when it either works or doesn't. - Dank (push to talk) 15:14, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Heh. I just started scheduling... great minds think alike or something? Ealdgyth - Talk 15:15, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Synchronicity, you started scheduling within minutes after I put the final touches on "Space Seed". - Dank (push to talk) 15:23, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * You probably want to add something like "see article history for attribution" when you schedule. We got a series of complaints a while back that we weren't crediting other people's work properly when we schedule. - Dank (push to talk) 17:02, 19 January 2018 (UTC) (No need to change what you did, just add that wording going forward). - Dank (push to talk) 17:03, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Looks good. I don't see why "copy from Lazarus Aaronson" wouldn't work. - Dank (push to talk) 17:10, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Could you hold off on scheduling the Donald Trump article (on the 28th)? I want to see if I can get a meeting of the minds with the FAC nominator first. If that doesn't work, I'll email all the coords to talk about it. - Dank (push to talk) 18:13, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * No problem Ealdgyth - Talk 18:16, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks much. I almost never ask, but there's a really tough NPOV issue lurking here. - Dank (push to talk) 18:23, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Heh. NO worries. If something doesn't allow it to run, we can run the one article at requests that didn't get noticed quickly enough. Ealdgyth - Talk 18:35, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Assuming you're talking about Feb 28, if you don't run Trump Martin Keamy might be a good choice—that date will be the 10th anniversary of the first appearance of the character so you have the much-vaunted "date relevance", and it's as uncontentious an article as could be imagined. &#8209; Iridescent 18:45, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank Iri, yes it's the 28th. The problem here is that NPOV is a moving target ... what people think is "balanced" one month can seem imbalanced after the political winds shift. If we can find words that are bland without coming across as dodging the issues, then I won't object, as long as Victoria and Epicgenius are okay with it. - Dank (push to talk) 19:31, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I confess that I don't see any "Donald Trump" article scheduled anywhere... Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:59, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * That's because it hasn't been scheduled yet - it's just the 28 February listing at Today's featured article/requests/pending. Dank's working on getting a neutral blurb with the nominators before I do the finalization/paperwork. Ealdgyth - Talk 20:01, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

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unwanted page moves
Hi Ealdgyth! I am writing because I asked montanabw for a big gun. She said you were, but I probably one had a 50/50 chance of you weighing because you so busy. And that's totally fine. No guilt trip or expectations...just ignore if too busy.

Some of us were talking through the new PBR tour name issue on the Built Ford Tough Series when an anonymous user kept making unsourced changes that changed the whole meaning of the article to be about the new tour name. So I requested page protection and got an admin involved for my trouble. They took over, putting full protection on the page (montanabw talked them down to semi-protection), decided the article needed its name changed and started a name change request-all before I could respond or put forth a case like you would in a resolution board. They also reverted my last edit on the Professional Bull Riders to that same probable troll's edit, so humiliating. montanabw reverted back to mine. She's a such a treasure. But anyway, can you look at the move request? Talk:Built Ford Tough Series If you don't agree, that's fine..really. I absolutely don't expect you to agree just because we know each other. I want what's best for the article. But it is telling that an IP was created who then posted in the discussion that I was deceiving editors. And yes, I was a bit brusque in the talk page sometimes. For over a week now, I've been dealing with an incredible amount of anonymous users for that area. Thanks!

One little thing. I thought montanabw convinced them full protection was only for serious issues when she posted to their talk page []. But I just checked and it's still locked for everybody except admins for a week. Isn't that way too harsh? There was no serious edit warring going on. I don't know any other admins to ask. dawnleelynn(talk) 21:12, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Forest law
The whole redirects were a mess they were linking to two separate articles, this one and this one: Forest law - Forestry law. I am just redirecting the targets to where they were originally going to. So if you're saying they're the wrong targets they always were that way. Inexpiable (talk) 02:08, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I can direct the ones you've reverted to this article Forest law, but that's not where the links were originally going. Whole thing is a mess. Inexpiable (talk) 02:10, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
 * They should go to the article that talks about the royal forest established in medieval England by William the Conqueror. That's where they went when the articles were written ... Ealdgyth - Talk 02:11, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Ok I've done that but that isn't where they were originally redirecting to. Inexpiable (talk) 02:14, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

Took forever but it's done. I've redirected all the articles to the correct pages. Inexpiable (talk) 02:55, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

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