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Administrators' newsletter – February 2023
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 * The arbitration case Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.
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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:37, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

ANI
Hello General Ization, I mentioned a post left by an IP editor on your talk page in an ANI that I just filed. Thank you, Aoi (青い) (talk) 19:51, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors 2022 Annual Report
Sent by Baffle gab1978 using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:30, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Vandalism
I'd like to apologize for any misconstrued spelling of I may, but regarding this, I'd like to inform you and the community that my personal info on both my phone and laptop have been and are hacked unto and are still utilizing my docs to impersonate me when infact, it is not me. Str13tlife (talk) 00:50, 6 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Are you saying your account has been compromised, ? — Trey Maturin™ 01:15, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Yes Str13tlife (talk) 01:39, 6 February 2023 (UTC)


 * A new section is not needed to reply to a comment. I have removed it. Tropicalkitty (talk) 01:55, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Forrest Mars Sr
The correction to this information is not here say, or unsubstantiated. It is clear history that he had routinely taken credit for this product, when it was Frank Mars who created it in the 20s. It is documented that he even admitted it was his father all along. Mollym80 (talk) 21:51, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
 * The change you are persistently making is not verifiable because you are not providing a reliable source for the change. Unless you can provide a source that clearly states that Mars merely "took credit" for the products and launch mentioned, rather than that he introduced those products and initiated that launch, as currently stated in the lead section, stop changing the article. "It is documented" is not sufficient unless you cite a reliable source that provides that documentation.  General Ization  Talk  21:59, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Also, do not provide false edit summaries for your edits.  clearly did not fix a "typo" as you claimed.  General Ization  Talk  22:16, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

My apologies. I should have put erroneous information, I couldn't find something that fit. The information is erroneous and should not be attributed to him, but to his father. Please help me in providing accurate corrections, moving forward. Mollym80 (talk) 23:51, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Please see, which describes Forrest Mars' role in creating the Milky Way bar which was subsequently manufactured by his father. I see no reason to contradict this writer's research. The Mars company's own Web site describes this as "1923: Father and Son Collaborate and Launch New Candy Bar". As to the other products mentioned in the lead, I don't see any reason to challenge the claim that Forrest, not his father, introduced them, especially since the Mars bar was introduced in England by Forrest's company, not in the US by Frank's company, and Frank Mars died c.  1935, before the other products mentioned were even brought to market.  General Ization  Talk  00:45, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

A Fortune article from March 31, 2013, contradicts it. It's cool though. Mollym80 (talk) 02:16, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).

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 * Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been rescinded.
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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:19, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Request made at ANI for help to stop unregistered editor's harassment
Thanks for trying to help with 73.24.189.66's messages on my User Talk page. They don't seem to have gotten the message so I've opened a discussion at ANI to ask for an administrator to step in. ElKevbo (talk) 21:32, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I had submitted a request at AIV for the IP to be blocked since they again posted on your Talk page after your request and my warning, but since the matter is now at ANI I have removed the AIV request.  General Ization Talk  21:37, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks again for your help! ElKevbo (talk) 21:39, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

Emigrated to
Hi, regarding this, see the literature:


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! Google !! Scholar !! Books Clearly, according to the literature, the original was correct. - DVdm (talk) 22:44, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
 * "emigrated to"
 * 105.000
 * 1.950.000
 * "immigrated to"
 * 107.000
 * 693.000
 * }
 * 693.000
 * }
 * }
 * Please see the definitions of emigrate and immigrate. The fact that the terms are commonly misused/interchanged doesn't mean we should perpetuate the error.  General Ization  Talk  22:49, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, see a dictionary: : "to emigrate from Ireland to Australia." - DVdm (talk) 22:52, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Right. If you want to keep the long-standing term, then the sentence should be revised to say that Bohm . <span style="font-family: Gill Sans MT, Arial, Helvetica; font-weight:140;"> General Ization <i style="color: #000666;">Talk </i> 22:54, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
 * And many more at . Start with : "The family left Czechoslovakia in 1968 and emigrated to America.".
 * I don't think the from-part should be explitly included, as it is clear from where he emigrated. - DVdm (talk) 22:59, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong. And no, Bohm's country of origin is not otherwise identified in the Feynman article. However, I'm not so invested as to want to argue about it further. <span style="font-family: Gill Sans MT, Arial, Helvetica; font-weight:140;"> General Ization  <i style="color: #000666;">Talk </i> 23:02, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
 * The reason why I'm a bit invested in it, is because once there was anon with the single purpose to change every occurrence of "emigrated to" to "immigrated to" — on the entire project. IIRC the user got blocked. I had saved the above stats table on my sandbox. I just had to copy and update the numbers here . Cheers. - DVdm (talk) 23:10, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Well, that's unfortunate, as the IP was technically correct, the common misuse of the terms notwithstanding. I still think the wording I proposed is a reasonable compromise that is consistent with the meaning of the term emigrate. <span style="font-family: Gill Sans MT, Arial, Helvetica; font-weight:140;"> General Ization <i style="color: #000666;">Talk </i> 23:14, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Actually, it all depends on direction, on where the person who is writing or reading the sentence, finds themselves. To emigrate is to go away (direction outward, Latin: migrare ex ...). To immigrate is to come in (direction inward, Latin: migrare in ...). In an article in a primarily American encyclopedia about an American (-Feynman-) one can assume that the reader feels being in the US, so when there is talk about someone migrating away from the US to somewhere else, the natural expression would be to emigrate. That's probably why we have a Category:American emigrants to Brazil as opposed to a Category:American immigrants to Brazil, Category:American emigrants in Brazil or  Category:American immigrants in Brazil. Follow the links, and look at what happened in the first one. See this discussion  - DVdm (talk) 10:03, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

Um, no. A verb does not change its meaning, and the choice of a verb does not become more or less accurate or appropriate, depending on the position of the reader or writer, unless the reader/writer is the subject or object of the verb (neither is the case here). In the sentence at issue, Bohm emigrated from the US. It doesn't matter where you or I are located as to whether he "emigrated" or "immigrated"; the word choice is determined by its meaning (to leave versus to enter). The FOOian discussion was a very specialized case dealing with the construction (of categories) of the form  <emigrants or immigrants> to ; in that case, Bohm would have been correctly described as an "American emigrant to Brazil," because he emigrated from the U.S. to Brazil (the word from being omitted because it is implied by Bohm's stated nationality). That particular construction has nothing to do with the present case. <span style="font-family: Gill Sans MT, Arial, Helvetica; font-weight:140;"> General Ization <i style="color: #000666;">Talk </i> 13:53, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

Also please note that at Wikipedia, we cannot assume that we know "where the person who is writing or reading the sentence finds themselves" in our word choices or their evaluation. Both the writer and the reader could be anywhere at all, in the same or in a different country with respect to the actor in the sentence; the words should not need to, and will not, change for readers or writers located in one place versus another. <span style="font-family: Gill Sans MT, Arial, Helvetica; font-weight:140;"> General Ization <i style="color: #000666;">Talk </i> 14:29, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

Haplogroup L2 page being vandalized again
2603:8080:9c40:27da:7d65:c20:e922:3aa3 is adding the same false statements (such as "L2a1a has been known to have USA origins.") and link spamming to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_L2_(mtDNA) as they did prior to the 3-day page protection when they were using the IP 72.183.247.116. 2600:1000:B111:BB9D:D90A:21A5:6E09:90C7 (talk) 21:17, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Report at WP:AIV. <span style="font-family: Gill Sans MT, Arial, Helvetica; font-weight:140;"> General Ization <i style="color: #000666;">Talk </i> 04:08, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

User:Maram ahmari
I would just stop reverting them after the third revert, and when someone else jumps in and reverts their edit again, make a report on WP:ANEW. — <span style="background:#1F6295;color:white;padding:1q 5q;border-radius:10q;font-family:Franklin Gothic, Verdana">AP 499D25  (talk)  04:34, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm familiar with how to handle this kind of disruption. <span style="font-family: Gill Sans MT, Arial, Helvetica; font-weight:140;"> General Ization <i style="color: #000666;">Talk </i> 04:35, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
 * My main concern here is just avoiding clogging up the article history with excessive back-and-forth edits. — <span style="background:#1F6295;color:white;padding:1q 5q;border-radius:10q;font-family:Franklin Gothic, Verdana">AP 499D25  (talk)  04:38, 29 April 2023 (UTC)

How did you start editing
Hello!

just curious about yourself as I see you’ve edited a lot of things. What inspires you to do this? Just a 20 year old kid looking for some knowledge in life.

Enjoy your day man, just curious to know what your passionate about and why you do this 24.51.239.147 (talk) 23:02, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Beavis and Butthead episodes
Yeah if you remove 2 the pilot episodes then the added total is 237. Because that what it keeps adding up to with new season on Paramount+ listing 12 full episodes currently and not multiple segmented episodes. P.greenlink (talk) 05:01, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Discuss it with other editors on the article's Talk page. If you revert again without consensus, I will request that you be blocked. <span style="font-family: Gill Sans MT, Arial, Helvetica; font-weight:140;"> General Ization  <i style="color: #000666;">Talk </i> 05:03, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

Help
I've been banned from editing page Codrus, why? PaUZz LYte (talk) 23:11, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Already explained on your Talk page. <span style="font-family: Gill Sans MT, Arial, Helvetica; font-weight:140;"> General Ization <i style="color: #000666;">Talk </i> 23:12, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Tim Bachman died in London, UK - really?
Hi. I've been following the Tim Bachman page after his recent death. You changed his place of death to London, UK (unexpected as I haven't heard he'd been living there). No mention of a place of death in any of the media reports I've found, and your change didn't note one. Can I ask where you came across this detail? Thanks. SheamusPatt (talk) 02:00, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Uh, no, that was not my edit.  was my edit, the last edit in that series.  Your diff includes 8 edits by 7 editors, and you'll need to look at the page history to see who added the place of death. <span style="font-family: Gill Sans MT, Arial, Helvetica; font-weight:140;"> General Ization  <i style="color: #000666;">Talk </i> 02:07, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I was misled by Wikipedia's diffs - the edit was actually by an anonymous edit just prior to yours. Sorry. SheamusPatt (talk) 02:12, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2023
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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:11, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

Concerning LTA Lampung
Excuse me, sir..... I just told about these LTA Lampung which is very, very silly and make us frustated.... He always adding any wrong, false and fake information about geography of Indonesia (since that disruptive and cross-wiki vandalist user domiciled in Indonesia) and across country around the world on this Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects since 2016..... Although these edits which make by LTA Lampung has reverted many times and also got blocked many times even for 2 years with different IP, like in IP @114.4.215.110, @120.188.94.222 and @114.10.26.192, his cronic behavior is still doing... Not just it, he also indulging the WP:HARASSMENT behavior with another users..... If he come back for vandalizing Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects again, please take any strict action, including report to steward on Meta-Wiki if necessary and don't forget to clean up any edits which make by LTA Lampung.... Thanks.... 2001:448A:1021:28B1:2097:6977:4074:BD5B (talk) 04:13, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).

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 * The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:22, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

"Non-White White Supremacist" is literally an oxymoron.
The fact that someone didn't think to themselves "Something about that doesn't parse" is worrying. 24.69.97.22 (talk) 22:47, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
 * You are welcome to think anything you like to yourself. However, unless it pertains to the improvement of the corresponding Wikipedia article, you are not welcome to add it to the article's Talk page.  Your comment did not suggest or represent discussion of an improvement to the article. <span style="font-family: Gill Sans MT, Arial, Helvetica; font-weight:140;"> General Ization  <i style="color: #000666;">Talk </i> 22:49, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for telling me what I was doing wrong
I will tread more carefully next time. Dan white 76 (talk) 16:37, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

CEO TCS
pls reach out to the other editor, before blindly reverting and wasting people's time https://www.tcs.com/who-we-are/leadership/k-krithivasan Fostera12 (talk) 16:26, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Please see WP:BURDEN. The TCS Web site is not an "independent, published source" and thus does not serve as a reliable source for this content. In any case, you did not cite that or any other source inline with the content you added, which is why the content was removed and a notice was left on your Talk page to explain the removal. <span style="font-family: Gill Sans MT, Arial, Helvetica; font-weight:140;"> General Ization  <i style="color: #000666;">Talk </i> 00:57, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I know independent sources must be added, and I have already added even before messaging you. Let us stop this time wasting discussion. Fostera12 (talk) 11:05, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Addition of references to the claim in the "Lagos, Nigeria" page. Thanks.
Hello! To reiterate, as said via private message, thank you for the alert and the tutorial pages linked. I've now added citations. "Probable" was referencing historical theories, of course. It couldn't have been anything else. There seem to be a few "citation needed" alerts for other sentences in the Lagos page, long before my edit, like: "The remainder of modern-day Nigeria was seized in 1887, and when the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria was established in 1914, Lagos became its capital, continuing as such after the country's independence from Britain in 1960 [citation needed]". Hence why I hadn't really bothered with the effort, but I understand that it's always best practice and now the information presented is of a higher confidence and quality. If there's any other correction needed, please let me know.

Best regards, DesCartavel (talk) 11:51, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:12, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).

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 * The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.

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 * Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to.

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Guild of Copy Editors June 2023 Newsletter
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2023
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).



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Administrators' newsletter – September 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).

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 * The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.

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Septermber GOCE newsletter
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Discussion invitation
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Jean-Marie Robine § Jean Marie Robine. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 01:25, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

You had it right the first time
Please just remove those duplicate and disruptive sections. Engaging is just going to waste time all around. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 21:47, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Feel free to remove it if you like. This last one seemed to me to approach a fairly constructive comment concerning the article, so I reconsidered removing it without comment. <span style="font-family: Gill Sans MT, Arial, Helvetica; font-weight:140;"> General Ization  <i style="color: #000666;">Talk </i> 21:49, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
 * I removed it, and ended up protecting the page again, since those messages have been pretty much non-stop since the last protection expired. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 21:54, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).



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 * Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
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 * Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
 * Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
 * Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
 * Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
 * An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

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Allah -etymology
There is no mention of El or AL meaning God and Lah the name of the God in the Allah article! 108.26.243.70 (talk) 04:01, 14 December 2023 (UTC)