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Wikidata weekly summary #183
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:25, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
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 * Wikidata/Wikibase Json Dump Reader
 * Wikidata project to tackle language barriers in scientific reserach
 * Semantic Cities
 * Q167545: Wikidata celebrated its third birthday
 * Slides from talk at UCSD on "Open biomedical knowledge using crowdsourcing and citizenscience"
 * Past: semwebpro (slides)
 * Past: ODI Summit
 * Past: MozFest (etherpad)
 * Upcoming: WikiConference Seoul
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * List of Wikipedia articles without an image where Wikidata has one
 * Want to use data from Wikidata to enrich data in your own application? S wrote a good start.
 * Commons misconceptions and how to avoid them by School of Data
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: charted in, Danish parish code, venous drainage, lymphatic drainage, CRIStin ID, arterial supply, periapsis date, price, uses, Groeningemuseum work PID, iTunes album ID, Austrian Parliament ID, ambitus, Member of the Hellenic Parliament ID, Magdeburger Biographisches Lexikon, UEFA player code, World Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name, Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities member ID, Hederich article
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 * Development
 * Worked on the tests for the ArticlePlaceholder
 * Finished the create article button for the ArticlePlaceholder page
 * From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the beta Wikidata TTL dumps will be published along the gzip one
 * Getting close to make it possible to add the main value of a statement and its reference at the same time
 * Worked on adding a new section to item and property pages for identifiers
 * Did backend work for making identifiers useful in our machine-readable outputs (by actually linking them instead of just giving the identifier string) - more work needed
 * Fixed a bug where dates would have English months on non-English wikis (T116503)
 * Fixed a bug when editing labels on mobile (T117184)
 * Worked more on making search work on mobile
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Some thoughts re GamerGate
I'm going to leave an identical comment for both HJ and Gamaliel on their respective talk pages.

You've both been doing yeoman's work in the GamerGate topic area, and I thank you for that. I have regularly looked in on the activities there (but not participated), and I think that you've each made many good decisions on many occasions; however on the whole, it's been the two of you most of the time dealing with much of this, at least for quite a while, and it's clear this particular case has become quite a burden for both of you. An occasional other admin will pop in here and there when something's blatant, but that's not quite the same thing, I know. So...thank you for your work in this very contentious area. On the other hand...emails? It's probably not the best way to handle arbitration enforcement, since other admins can't back you up or point out that there's something you may have overlooked. I know there aren't a lot of admins willing to work on AE - it can be corrosive - and I know this is a pretty esoteric topic area anymore. In fact, it's at risk of becoming something of a walled garden, with the same editors working on the same articles and carrying the same arguments back and forth, and unfortunately only a few admin eyes keeping watch. There have been times when I thought the solution that would be best for the project would be to kick everyone off the topic area with the hope of drawing in fresh perspectives, but my years on Arbcom have taught me that there's a very low success rate for those types of interventions. I've encouraged DHeyward to step away from the topic area, and I'd probably encourage a few other editors to do the same. To be honest, I wouldn't blame either of you if you said "okay, out of here for good this time" and remove the primary combatants (and I use the word advisedly). I don't think either of you made particularly outrageous administrator decisions in this specific episode - although if you're going to delete something to enforce AE sanctions, you do need to be explicit about that - and I hope that both of you will continue with your work on arbitration enforcement, although it may do you both good to take a break from this particular topic area. It's not like there is a dearth of disputes to work on. Once again, thanks for your work in a difficult and challenging area. Risker (talk) 04:49, 9 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your message. I think we need to hear more of this on Wikipedia; we are quick to be vocal when we have complaints, but when things go well, there are a lot of silent unseen nods of agreement.  I'm trying to spread myself around a little more on AE and not focus solely on GG, but people keep bringing their complaints directly to me for a variety of reasons.  Email has been effective in trying to squelch loud public conflicts, but it does create a host of side issues I didn't appreciate until know: the lack of transparent, the fact that it looks suspicious to third parties, and the fact that neither DHeyward or MarkBernstein can see how much effort I've made to keep both of them from each other's throats and from being blocked.  I fear this unblock has undercut efforts to make DHeyward play nice with other editors.  If he keeps down this path, a topic ban is inevitable.  His friends would do well to encourage him to moderate his behavior, as I've been encouraging both of them to do behind the scenes.  But I think it's time for someone else to try to find a resolution to this feud.   Gamaliel  ( talk ) 22:12, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from October 2015
Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in October 2015. About &middot; Subscribe/unsubscribe, 20:03, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia’s global impact recognized with Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award ceremony
 * Creating change one step at a time: Miguel Zuñiga Gonzalez
 * Your October milestones include Wikidata’s 15 millionth item
 * District court grants government’s motion to dismiss Wikimedia v. NSA, appeal expected
 * Making Chinese Wikipedia more ethnologically diverse

Hello again
Hi there, I believe we met in person at Wikiconference USA after my talk on Afrocrowd and that you gave me your card. I am happy to discuss collaboration with the Signpost. Let me know what you had in mind.

Best, ---Aliceba (talk) 23:07, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

FLRC
I have nominated List of cetaceans for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. sst✈discuss 18:26, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

VimpelCom pays millions for text from Wikipedia
(Potentially material for In the Media)

A corruption investigation is ongoing regarding VimpelCom Ltd., which allegedly paid some 30 million dollar to Talikant Ltd., a firm owned by Gulnara Karimova, a controversial daughter of Uzbekistan's president Islom Karimov, for two reports largely consisting of text ripped from Wikipedia. The former CEO of VimpelCom was arrested last week in Norway. The case is mentioned in our VimpelCom article, but not the use of text from Wikipedia. Unfortunately, the only news sources I found are not in English. Here is a news article in Norwegian: http://www.dn.no/nyheter/naringsliv/2015/07/02/2147/Vimpelcom/betalte-30-mill-dollar-for-ren-avskrift; Google translate gives a good impression. --Lambiam 22:40, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

note
I didn't remove email or talk page access. — Ched : ?  20:40, 15 November 2015 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry, I thought this had happened based on Kevin Gorman's comment in the discussion. I have corrected my error.  Gamaliel  ( talk ) 20:42, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

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Hope you're doing ok.
Hi. Saw your note about stepping away for a bit form your Editor-in-Chief gig, and wanted to say hope all is ok in your world. --Rosiestep (talk) 04:48, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #184
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:04, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
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 * Upcoming: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
 * Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Callisto - a tool that shows places depicted in artworks
 * Qwery.me - an experiment for a simplified query service with SPARQL
 * Whitepaper exploring Wikidata for cultural institutions
 * Example query: real numbers with their approximate value
 * Pre-print: Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes
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 * Newest properties: constraint, minimal lethal dose, PPP GDP per capita, NSDAP membership number (1925–1945), employment by economic sector, money supply, net profit, current account balance, genetic association, consumption rate
 * Newest WikiProjects: Education
 * Newest Database reports: Items without claims by site
 * Find Wikidata-only infoboxes in the Czech Wikipedia
 * Development
 * Added language fallback to Special:ConstraintReport
 * Fixed a bug that prevented undoing edits via the api (T101694)
 * Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section and linking them in the machine-readable export formats
 * Worked on making search suggestions work on mobile
 * Experimented with using icons instead of text for some of the actions in an item
 * Made a lot of progress on a good default layout for the ArticlePlaceholder
 * Nearly finished simultaneous editing of value and reference
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Signpost inquiry
Hi, I've emailed you on a matter related to your election candidature. Tony  (talk)  06:23, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Your arb thoughts
You offered many good ideas in response to my questions, not always answering the questions but leading further. Your comment "If you are topic banned from something, you generally had to do a lot of work to get there." makes me ask if you perhaps happen to know what the "lot of work" was that made me topic banned. I only know that a case was requested because too many reverts of infoboxes happened (for example, ), it was accepted and I kept arguing that way, but in the end those who had added infoboxes were restricted, not those (very few) who reverted. At that point, I lost all trust in arbcom, so much so that I didn't appeal. By now, major operas (all by Verdi and Wagner) have an infobox. The arbitrators had the idea to go article by article, another waste of time. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:49, 17 November 2015 (UTC)


 * That comment "a lot of work" was not directed at you, but at the other topic ban case you were referring to.  Gamaliel  ( talk ) 17:51, 17 November 2015 (UTC)


 * I knew that, but I am still curious about my case, which I think is kafkaesque (and I worked on Kafka, the most successful TFA so far. Here you think you help Wikipedia, and wake up to find yourself restricted. "in ein ungeheures Ungeziefer verwandelt" - transformed to a monstrous bug - is the phrase in The Metamorphosis.) At times, laughing helps. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:04, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
 * If anyone wants another wall of text, see my reply to Gerda in June 2013. My comments at an ANI section pointed out that an editor has belligerently pushed infoboxes for years, and that has caused extreme distress to the group of excellent editors who have built and who maintain classical music articles. My point is that in a collaborative project it is not always possible to achieve perfection—it may be that infoboxes are wonderful, but as they are not compulsory the huge disruption caused by forcing them into articles is not worthwhile. @Gerda: Please stop pushing pushing pushing. Johnuniq (talk) 01:59, 18 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Did you know that you can opt out to see an infobox if you don't want to see one? I do what I think is good for our readers. You speak as if I was not part of this "group of excellent editors who have built and who maintain classical music articles". In 2015 I wrote two featured articles which appeared as TFA, and more good articles than I can count ;) - As I said, at times laughing helps. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:32, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Categorizing pages that can be transcluded
Hello. It was a good move to create the. But when assigning the Questions pages to that category, it is better to protect the categorization by a pair of noinclude.../noinclude, since some people prefer to transclude these pages into only one great page in their userspace. I have changed that. Pldx1 (talk) 00:31, 19 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks for fixing that. I didn't realize that people were transcluding those pages, thought it was just the statements.   Gamaliel  ( talk ) 00:34, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Not a prank?
-  Cwobeel   (talk)  23:18, 12 November 2015 (UTC)


 * It's harmless, hilarious, and most importantly, accurate.  Gamaliel  ( talk ) 23:22, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I think it is very amusing and doesn't detract from the article in any way. Liz  Read! Talk! 23:22, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
 * This is indeed hilarious, I am tempted to apply WP:IAR even though it doesn't quite apply. Kingsindian &#9821;&#9818; 04:55, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #185
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 * More mixin’, more matches
 * Impact of Wikimania Mexico 2015 on Wikidata
 * Myanmar coordinates on Wikidata by Lockal & Widar
 * Tasty translations for the Taste of Stockholm food festival
 * Bachelor thesis about generating quiz questions from Wikidata
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 * Mix'n'match: new catalogs were added
 * Whitepaper for GLAM institutions wanting to work with Wikdiata
 * MediaWiki, Meta, Wikispecies and Wikinews will get access to the data on Wikidata on Dec. 2nd. (So far they only have access to sitelinks.)
 * What kind of information does Wikidata have? Jura made an overview for the types of statements we have.
 * You can now use SPARQL instead of WDQ for all Listeria bot-generated lists, on all wikis. See en:Template:Wikidata list
 * Alpha release of Wikipedia Gender Inequality Index (using data from Wikidata)
 * Query examples: all xkcd comics, English demonyms for countries
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 * Newest properties: Cycling Archives ID (team), Cycling Archives ID (race), antagonist muscle, ProCyclingStats ID (team), ProCyclingStats ID (race), GNS Unique Feature Identifier, mean anomaly, quantity buried, Swedish Olympic Committee athlete ID, article ID, general classification, aftershocks, elector, debut participant, call sign, constraint status, comment, min quantity, max quantity, max date, min date, relation, class, namespace, property, item, group by, exception to constraint, property constraint, minimal lethal dose
 * Development
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 * Did a clean-up of the statements section (removing some lines etc) and added icons for the actions on statements
 * Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section in item pages and having them linked properly in the exports
 * Work on improving ranking of search results on Wikidata
 * Decreased size of html of item pages
 * Adapted our code to some minor changes in the watchlist code in core
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Jim Sterling
Thanks for stepping up and helping to explain the BLP philosophy and policies on Wikipedia. I've been editing from a tablet and it is very difficult to write those long explainations. My hands thank you greatly :) Prodego  talk  03:06, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Nota bene vox populi
Any chance you could swing by the errors page and add an explanatory comment for the N.b. you added, just so that other editors know what's up? No hurry, I'm sure, but when you have the time I would appreciate it. --Xover (talk) 18:47, 25 November 2015 (UTC)


 * I removed it. I just added it as a reminded that I'd skipped over it back when it was part of the numerical group I was working on.  Gamaliel  ( talk ) 18:49, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Rebel Heart Tour
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Rebel Heart Tour. Legobot (talk) 00:04, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #186
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 * Is Wikidata the new Rosetta Stone?
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 * Your help is needed with the most important constraint violations.
 * New daily report on Mix'n'match
 * Daily updated list of people who's birthday is today
 * French Wikisource is using images from Wikidata for their author page headers and more now (example)
 * New catalogs have been added to Mix'n'match
 * A new author language game has been added to the Wikidata distributed game.
 * Mix’n’match now creates a new, pre-filled Wikidata item when no matching one can be found (by humans!), where possible
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 * Development
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 * Made improvements to page size by removing a lot of unneeded comments in the HTML
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The New York Times
Hi, Gamaliel. Hope you are doing well! I am wondering if you have access to old issues (i.e. April 1968) of The New York Times. I can take this to WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request if you prefer. Thanks! - Location (talk) 23:22, 29 November 2015 (UTC)


 * I have access to the complete run of the New York Times. Let me know what you need.   Gamaliel  ( talk ) 02:00, 30 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Cool! I am following up on this material. I've seen the article sourced in a book by Alfred McCoy as "S. M. Mustard, letter to Senator Ernest Greuning (March 9, 1968); The New York Times, April 19, 1968, p. 11." I don't know if McCoy, the NYT, or both spelled "Gruening" incorrectly. If McCoy is correct, the following quote also appears in the article: "Col. Ky took advantage of this situation to fly opium from Laos to Saigon." (The relevant names here are Ernest Gruening and Nguyễn Cao Kỳ/Nguyen Cao Ky.) Hope this helps. - Location (talk) 02:26, 30 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Shoot me an email and I'll send you a PDF of page 11. There's an article about the allegations and a small article below it about denials of the allegations.   Gamaliel  ( talk ) 03:40, 30 November 2015 (UTC)


 * You've got mail! - Location (talk) 04:12, 30 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Weird. Nothing yet.  Gamaliel  ( talk ) 05:28, 30 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Hmmmm. I tried again. (I tried a third time, too, bypassing the Wikipedia e-mail function.) - Location (talk) 06:25, 30 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Got it! Interesting that someone would cite this as a letter. Very helpful! Thanks again! - Location (talk) 17:15, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

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Your opinion
Sorry to bother you, but could you tell me if Nancy Rubin Stuart should be considered a reliable source for the Castilian language and/or Isabella I of Castile? Shouldn't we be using historians for articles like Isabella I of Castile? --Kansas Bear (talk) 01:32, 1 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Linguistics are not my area of expertise. WP:RSN would be the best place to ask.   Gamaliel  ( talk ) 01:35, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

How come something like this isn't revdeled?
This, on the talk page of a BLP with very high traffic. sst✈(discuss) 08:39, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia Signpost/2015-02-04/Gallery
С чиатю что Площадь Регистан не относится к этой статье прошу удалить, фото. И еще Регистан поменялся надо это учитывать. Сравните два фото File:Registan square.jpg --Bobyr (talk) 10:34, 1 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Использование Google Переводчик : Почему вы думаете, что фотография Регистан не применяются к данной статье? В статье упоминается визит в Самарканд в середине 20-го века, так что старше фотография является актуальным и целесообразным. Gamaliel  ( talk ) 19:26, 1 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Хорошо допустим путем перевода я смогу понять смысл статьи, но вопрос идет о том, что здесь должно стоять новый вид Регистана, а не старый или какое либо другое фото. Раз вы отвергли мое фото - File:Registan square 2014.JPG то вот вам на выбор несколько новых видов File:Registan 2015.jpg, File:Mosque Bibi Khanum (5).JPG или File:Samarqand city sign.JPG. Жду ответа --Bobyr (talk) 14:15, 3 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Я понимаю, что Регистан выглядит иначе сегодня. Но статья цитирует поэму о Регистан в 1932 году, так что старше фото уместно, потому что это ближе к, как он выглядел в 1932 году. Gamaliel  ( talk ) 15:33, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

Large revert without talk page?
Gamaliel, I would like to ask why you reverted my changes to the Southern Strategy article without a talk page discussion. WP:DONTREVERT suggests that we really should work to keep what is there. The material I added was widely sourced and largely from scholarship. I also addressed some of the issues with the article such as expressing material that has not been settled by scholarship in WP voice. I find this large scale reversal frustrating given the effort I went through to find scholarly sources (actual time in a research library). Anyway, I do trust that you are editing in good faith. You are polite and respectful even in disagreement. Could you help offer suggestions as to how to integrate the new material? Thanks Springee (talk) 15:53, 2 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Your edits were disputed by two other editors and they were under discussion, but you simply inserted them again. I realize you have made some small changes but I don't feel you've addressed the fundamental problems discussed on the talk page. I appreciate the work you are putting into this and your congenial discussion of these issues, but there's no hurry to get this material in the article.   Gamaliel  ( talk ) 18:22, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I would ask that some time in the short term you put your objections on the talk page. Also, I think it is important to separate what you think are undue weight issues from some of the other edits.  I agree that we were in discussions.  I think it would have been better if Scoobydunk observed the same.  Anyway, please let me know which parts you think are undue.  Springee (talk) 19:00, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Gamaliel, given the harassment I'm getting from Scoobydunk I'm going to take some time off from the article. I'm not doing a good job of dealing with an editor who bludgeons every conversation (I'm not the only one who has experienced this) and the accusation of canvasing makes it really hard to AGF.  Anyway, I would greatly appreciate it if you would give your feedback on the reverted edits at some point.  I'm tired of the BS.  Springee (talk) 07:55, 3 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Please assume good faith and stop levying personal attacks.Scoobydunk (talk) 18:43, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #187
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WLM winners now in articles
Hi Gamaleil,

I've just spent the afternoon making sure that all the top-10 photos in WLM this year are used in at least one article on en.wp - in some cases I've been able to put them in several articles. I noticed on their "global file usage" section on their individual Commons pages that the Wikipedia Signpost/2015-12-09/Gallery was the only en.wp page that linked to most of the (only the 1st and 10th had any pre-existing mainspace usage at all), so I thought I'd tell you about it - as the author of that signpost page.


 * 1) -  now used in  Aerial photography, Westerhever (pre existing usage), Westerheversand Lighthouse (pre existing usage)
 * 2) - now used in The Name of the Rose, Sacra di San Michele
 * 3) - now used in New Town Hall (Hanover)
 * 4) - now used in Olympic flame
 * 5) - now used in List of Buddhist temples in Thailand, Ficus in the subsection "Cultural and spiritual significance [of fig trees]" this is my favourite usage. Beautiful pic, but hard to use to illustrate something.
 * 6) - now used in Château de Chambord
 * 7) - now used in Opernpassage - I had to create this [very short] stub in order to use this image.
 * 8) - now used in Solovetsky Monastery
 * 9) - now used in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province
 * 10) - now used in Vakil Mosque, Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganji (pre existing usage)

Cheers, Wittylama 21:15, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Wikipediocracy
Isn't this a bit much, not to mention tiresome? Nobody is claiming that forum members have a COI. Figureofnine (talk • contribs) 13:38, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Also I just noticed two other WP:POINTy adds to the connected contributor template since you closed out the discussion, during which I specifically indicated that I knew of only one COI user, the site co-founder. So they know perfectly well that there is no great push to list anyone other than that one user, User:Alison, who is co-founder and has a clear and declared COI. If these people feel that the co-founder of a site who participates in RfCs and AfDs, and edits the mainspace, as well as the talk page in quite this drama-ish manner, is not subject to WP:COI, they should take it through channels. Figureofnine (talk • contribs) 13:57, 1 December 2015 (UTC)


 * If they feel they have a COI, then there's no harm in them adding their names.  Gamaliel  ( talk ) 14:44, 1 December 2015 (UTC)


 * No, you can see from the edit history that the aim was to remove the template. They want to prevent the site founder from being identified in the standard manner. Simple WP:GAME.Figureofnine (talk • contribs) 04:32, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Congratulations (and you've got email)
Welcome to the 2016 Arbitration Committee. A few moments ago, you should have received an email from me asking you such simple questions as what email address you want to use for committee business. Welcome! Courcelles (talk) 19:49, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Congratulations and condolences
My best wishes on your election to the Arbitration Committee. Thanks for stepping up to try and make this place just a little bit better. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 19:28, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Congratulations, Gamaliel! Although I don't know how you'll do admining, arbitration work and also the Signpost. I'm so glad you won a seat and I hope you find the work a worthwhile challenge. Liz  <sup style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b style="color:#006400;">Read!</b> <b style="color:#006400;">Talk!</b> 20:40, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
 * :-)  Smallbones( smalltalk ) 21:04, 9 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Congratulations! Don't get too burned out. Mz7 (talk) 21:51, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

w00t!
Let me also offer my congratulations for your successful appointment to ArbCom. All the underhanded scheming, payments under the table to your legion of meatpuppets, nefarious stratagems and the influence of the mighty GamalielPAC donors obviously paid off! At long last, Wikipedia shall be exposed to the full force of your evil powers in a 12-month reign of terror  that'll send shockwaves through the ages. The rivers shall run red with the blood of your enemies! Hail Hydra! -- Scjessey (talk) 03:42, 10 December 2015 (UTC) (in jest)

Books and Bytes - Issue 14
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Recreation of deleted page

 * Hello Gamaliel, on 25 Dec 2004 you had deleted page Alok Kumar. I just wanted to let you know that I have recreated the page for an Indian politician. Trust this will be fine with you. Cheers, Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk)  12:32, 10 December 2015 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry, I do not remember the original article. Your new article looks fine to me.  Gamaliel  ( talk ) 20:35, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Congrats!
I'm not sure if I really should be congratulating you, but good luck in the coming year! I'm excited to see how this crop of candidates does.

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Congratulations, amigo! I'm happy for you! --Rosiestep (talk) 03:13, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Joining the chorus. Congrats! -  Cwobeel   (talk)  22:47, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

The reward for good work is more work.
My condolences Congratulations! ForbiddenRocky (talk) 17:17, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of Rachel Davis Harris
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Wikidata weekly summary #188
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Israel Meir Kagan
What's your opinion about the NYT obituary as source for the claim that Yisrael Meir Kagan wanted to become a high priest? I ask because the discussion may have put the question in a somewhat new light. --Jonund (talk) 13:54, 15 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I commented there.  Gamaliel  ( talk ) 13:59, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Selection in Arbitration Committee
Hello Gamaliel, congratulations on your appointment to the WP:AC. I am sure that you will serve the committee to the best of your abilities. Keep up the good work. Cheers, Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk)  18:08, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Ways to improve Elisha Noyes Sill
Hi, I'm Magnolia677. Gamaliel, thanks for creating Elisha Noyes Sill!

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The Signpost: 16 December 2015
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Ahmed Mohamed clock incident
Renew PC? --George Ho (talk) 21:35, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #189
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Season's greetings
Hi Gamaliel, wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, with thanks for your support of women on Wikipedia in 2015, particularly that wonderful editorial. All the best, SarahSV (talk) 23:40, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Arbitration enforcement 2 case closed
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Merry Christmas and happy new year
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Cruz cartoon controversy
My additions were not "unsourced." I corrected the article to accurately reflect the cited sources. For example, the vide only shows one daughter speaking, not both as your reversion inaccurately shows. As another example, the sourced quote from the cartoonist is inaccurately paraphrased. I am adding my corrections back.Jumping Jack Henry (talk) 05:54, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
 * The statement you added " The cartoon was roundly criticized as offensive, inappropriate and racist. " is not supported by any source cited in the article.  Gamaliel  ( talk ) 15:23, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

Signpost
Hey Gamaliel, I didn't know if you wanted to use anything from this in your Signpost article. It's something that us in the Chaneyverse research group put together about everything. It's not as detailed as Rhododendrite's main page, but I figured that an overall summary might be helpful. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  05:51, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #190
Wikidata weekly summary #186

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Signpost Arbitration interview request
Excuse me. I am lead writer for the Signpost's "Arbitration Report" and am wondering if you would be interested in answering some interviews questions as a newly elected Arbitrator. The questions will be asked through email, unless answering them here would be a more suitable choice. GamerPro64 22:35, 29 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Sure, email away. Gamaliel  ( talk ) 22:57, 29 December 2015 (UTC)


 * So I was told there was an emailing issue I had using Yahoo so I'm wondering if you got my email. If not I'm going to have to resend. GamerPro64  00:25, 31 December 2015 (UTC)


 * I didn't get it. Gamaliel  ( talk ) 02:15, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
 * All right. I'll have to resend it to everyone then. GamerPro64  02:26, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Got it this time.  Gamaliel  ( talk ) 02:54, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

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Writing for the Signpost update
In August 2015, I contacted you about joining The Signpost. While you were happy for me to join, I decided I'd wait until I was more experienced. Since then, I've been regularly editing the wiki. I've now noticed that the 'WikiProject Report' has not been posted regularly recently, and I'm therefore wondering if I could write the report (on occasion or regularly). Thanks. Leeds United FC fan (talk) 21:44, 2 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Sure! We'd be glad to have someone write the WikiProject Report.  Our personnel coordinator  can help you get started.   Gamaliel  ( talk ) 22:12, 2 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Is it okay that I've chosen a WikiProject I'm a semi-active member of? There's no other requests and I'm quite familiar with the sport. Leeds United FC fan (talk) 10:25, 3 January 2016 (UTC)


 * As long as you disclose your involvement in the piece, I don't see a problem.  Gamaliel  ( talk ) 15:00, 3 January 2016 (UTC)


 * hi there! I responded with lots of info on your takpage. --Rosiestep (talk) 18:58, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

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Re: biographies
Hi, just wanted to be considerate and let you know I've touched some of your biographies- John Turvill Adams and Elijah Frink Rockwell- because I thought it would be more in keeping with this wiki's house style if the content was rearranged into sections as I have done previously. Please do not interpret this as a grudge or warning or anything like that. Let me know if there is a rule preventing me from doing so. Discuss-Dubious (t/c) 19:09, 10 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your note. It's not my personal style to break up very short articles into smaller sections, but I don't have any sense of ownership that leads me to object to others doing so.  Feel free to improve them as you see fit.    Gamaliel  ( talk ) 19:19, 10 January 2016 (UTC)


 * When I thought about doing this back in August, I was worried there might be some kind of strange rule about modifying biographies that came from old or external minor encyclopedias. Good thing nothing's wrong with it. Discuss-Dubious (t/c) 01:03, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Claims of Defamation Bowe Bergdahl
Your statement can not be correct and it only suggests possible close personal connection to the subject matter. This is completely relevant and accurate data, regardless of how it makes the subject person of the article look or feel. It was not written with malice. It is a fact that the allegiance of this individual is in question - he may have stated he wished to renounce citizenship. There are all kinds of articles on Wikipedia containing unpleasant things about people. What is important is that they are truthful, not that they make the subject of the article feel good. Ghooper22 (talk) 10:34, 13 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Welcome to Wikipedia. As a new user, you should be aware of some fundamental rules that we have.  First is that all contributions be neutral, which yours were not.  Second, Wikipedia cannot be used to defame living individuals, which your edit did.  And third, you should not cast aspersions on the motives of other editors.  Please let me know if you have any questions about these policies once you have read them.   Gamaliel  ( talk ) 13:35, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

WP's 15th Birthday
I am curious to know how many of the editors who signed up in the early years are still contributing. Is this an idea for a future Signpost article? Or maybe the piece had already been published. I've been on the books 11+ years. Kind regards Apwoolrich (talk) 14:27, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

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Your removal of my edit to Draft:CouponDunia provided no summary and no information was left on the article talk page nor my talk page. Can you fill me in on why this was done?--RadioFan (talk) 05:56, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

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Wiki edit-a-thon in March
Hi! Would you be interested in helping facilitate another event for Art+Feminism at University of Florida on March 6th? Martaleahsandler (talk) 20:04, 19 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Sure! My calendar is clear that day but give me a bit to make sure there's nothing I've forgotten before I commit.   Gamaliel  ( talk ) 01:59, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

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New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany edit
In response to your deleteion here, this issue is currently under discussion at various forums and on the talk page. Don't delete it without addressing the issue on the talk page or the relevant forums. It's under review. -- Veggies (<font color="blue" face="Times New Roman">talk ) 18:38, 22 January 2016 (UTC)


 * I have posted on the talk page. Gamaliel  ( talk ) 18:54, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Ariel Fernandez
Dear Gamaliel, I am trying to avoid confronting some editors seemingly involved in a crusade against me. In the interest of neutrality and fair play, can you insert my sentence at the end of Career section in the BLP? As per your indications in Talk page, this sentence and its reference is allowed by Wikipedia policy. Thanks much. Ariel Fernandez.181.10.76.232 (talk) 14:24, 22 January 2016 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry, I don't feel it's appropriate to intervene in this content dispute at this time.  I merely noted that policy did not prohibit the inclusion of that sentence.  What does get included must be decided by the consensus of the editors on the talk page.   I'm sorry you feel that these editors are "in a crusade" against you, but I see no indication of that.  Please see one of our fundamental principles, assume good faith.   I know, based on comments on that page, that you are in touch with OTRS via email.  Those volunteers are best equipped to help you with this matter, and I suggest you seek their assistance and heed their advice.   Gamaliel  ( talk ) 14:29, 22 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your attention and advise. Editor Bueller007 has made 70 (seventy) arbitrary changes yesterday to my BLP without seeking any consensus, while he fiercely refuses to add the sentence I requested in the interest of fairness and NPV. I would like to request that the 70 changes by Bueller are reversed until consensus is reached on the matter. I have asked the OTRS that my sentence be incorporated as per the policy that you cite in Talk page. Thanks again. Ariel Fernandez.186.138.183.140 (talk) 18:45, 22 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Seventy changes cannot be reversed en masse without some evidence that those edits are against policy. The fact that he did not seek consensus does not make it a policy violation.  Any editor can reverse those changes if they want to if the article is unprotected, but I'm not going to reverse them myself without evidence of violation.  I would bring your concerns about those edits to the talk page of the article and focus on what is wrong with the content of those edits.   Gamaliel  ( talk ) 18:57, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

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"Ouster"
This word will be unfamiliar to readers outside North America. Why not 'removal' or 'expulsion'? Thanks Peter Damian (talk) 10:46, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Never mind. Peter Damian (talk) 15:45, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

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Removing inquiries from your talkpage and ADMINACCT
Re removal of the criticism of your admin action at AE on this page.

According to WP:ADMINACCT: "Administrators are expected to respond promptly and civilly to queries about their Wikipedia-related conduct and administrator actions and to justify them when needed." So did you think that criticism was just trolling or personal attacks? Odd interpretation. Don't you think it's a good idea to wait for atleast a couple of admin comments before single-handedly closing the request of a case which clearly is very close to the original topic ban? --Pudeo' 22:33, 25 January 2016 (UTC)


 * ADMINACCT does not require me to respond promptly and civilly to uncivil attacks on my integrity.  In regards to your question about waiting, I saw no point in allowing WP:AE to become another Gamergate battleground.  Nobody was going to block him as precedent clearly has established a BLP exception for topic bans in general and his topic ban in particular, this article is not closely related to GG, and he didn't edit the article.   His submission to AFD was not disruptive, having another GG war at AE would be.   Gamaliel  ( talk ) 22:38, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Affirmative. I still think there are cases where "being a BLP issue" can't be said for certain, there are borderline cases. For instance, someone being topic banned from a biographical topic could always claim to just uphold BLP and still continue to be involved in the topic. --Pudeo' 22:42, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Agreed. It's a judgement call.  If NSB was actively editing the article (as opposed to removing obvious violations with a single edit), participating on the talk page, etc. then I think that would be potentially grounds for a block.   Submitting articles to AFD or BLP, in my judgement, is a responsible exception to a topic ban.  It potentially resolves the issue, or at least brings it to the attention to others, and a minimizes both potential disruption and the topic ban violation.   Gamaliel  ( talk ) 22:47, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
 * What I've gathered from a year of lurking around this circus is that BLP exceptions are not actually a trump card; you also have to be right. I've seen at least one instance where the exception was found not to apply, because it was decided there was no BLP violation (or at least not one that was considered obvious).  In other words, BLP is only an exception when there actually is a clear and obvious BLP violation...as was the case here.Torven (talk) 00:46, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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Washington Times
Hi, Sorry for not leaving a description. The new owner of The Washington Times is The Washington Times, LLC, according to their website, not News World.

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.31.138.192 (talk) 22:22, 3 February 2016 (UTC)


 * I have no objection to you changing ownership information. I was referring to your unexplained removal of the OCLC number.  Gamaliel  ( talk ) 22:27, 3 February 2016 (UTC)