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Your GA nomination of Joseph Biroli
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Your GA nomination of Lowry War
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Your GA nomination of Joseph Biroli
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Your GA nomination of Lowry War
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Your GA nomination of Joseph Biroli
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Your GA nomination of Coup of Gitarama
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Your GA nomination of Coup of Gitarama
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Your GA nomination of Coup of Gitarama
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Your GA nomination of Lowry War
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TFA
Thank you today for Battle of Hayes Pond, introduced: "about a January 1958 clash that erupted in Robeson County, North Carolina U.S. between Lumbee Native Americans and a band of Ku Klux Klan members. Long story short, a white supremacist KKK organization, led by a certain James W. "Catfish" Cole of South Carolina, decided that it would be a good idea to burn crosses to intimidate the 30,000-strong Native American community in triracial Robeson and then follow up with a highly-publicized nighttime rally in a cornfield to denounce race mixing. About 50 Klansmen attended the rally, as did a few hundred well-armed and rather annoyed Lumbees. After a 30-minute shouting match the Lumbees opened fire, striking a few Klansmen and sending Cole fleeing for his life into a swamp, leaving behind his wife and children. They then stole all the Klan regalia, including the cross which was to be burnt, and went into town to celebrate. The national news had a good laugh about it—a photo of two Lumbee wrapped in the KKK banner made a full page in Life magazine—while the local authorities, quite annoyed by all the trouble, indicted Cole for inciting a riot and sent him to prison. A recent campaign video by a Congressional candidate that recounts these events went viral at the beginning of this month. It's one of the more celebrated incidents in the Lumbee timeline and overall a great historical curiosity."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:46, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Kirk–Holden war
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Promotion of Louis Rwagasore
Thank you today for the article about "the second Prime Minister of Burundi and a national hero, usually viewed as its most preeminent independence activist, though he was assassinated before the country became sovereign from Belgian colonial rule. A son of the Burundian king, he served as prime minister for only a few weeks in 1961 until he was shot dead by political rivals with the probable backing of the Belgian colonial administration."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:00, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Kirk–Holden war
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I know CAR isn't in your typical range of work
but Saint-Sylvestre coup d'état and Alexandre Banza are older Africa FAs from the same nominator as the Boganda article. From a quick look, are those in better shape than Boganda, or do they have the same issues? Hog Farm Talk 19:01, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I actually went ahead and improved the Saint-Sylvestre coup d'état article while I had the books for Boganda; you can see my edits here. Aside from a page missing from a citation, there aren't too many blatant problems. The main thing, which you can see as a footnote in the article, is that Thomas O'Toole is rather critical of Titley's account of the coup, and unfortunately Titley's work undergirds most of the article. I've tried to improve things by using Kalck (who O'Toole praises) and newer journalism concerning now publicly available information on French attitudes towards the coup, but there might be other stuff we're missing. I've improved it best I can and I'm honestly not sure on whether it's FA status should change. For some reason I had forgotten about Banza. I've just done some minor cleanup but with only 24 unique refs and very little Kalck, I'm quite doubtful that it should be kept at FA. There also seems to be the same problem with editorialism and at times vague prose. I tried to checkout the Kalck book at the library today after seeing your message but it was missing from the shelf. -Indy beetle (talk) 00:26, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIII, January 2022
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Louis Rwagasore
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Grant; history.com
Your comment about history.com not being respected very much as an RS is interesting to me. I don't see history.com in WP:RSP, so I wonder if there is some other place I can look for a summary of what's wrong (or right) with it. Thanks! Bruce leverett (talk) 01:17, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
 * See Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 294. -Indy beetle (talk) 03:34, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

WP:AFC Helper News
Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest. Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
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Your GA nomination of R. W. Goodman
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Stefano Kaoze
Hi Indy, I hope you are well. I have finally got round to creating the above article and wondered if you might be interested in adding to it. There is, unfortunately, rather little on Kaoze's career after the early 1920s! —Brigade Piron (talk) 09:01, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Fall of Enugu
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIV, February 2022
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Your GA nomination of Fall of Enugu
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Your GA nomination of Fall of Enugu
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Hamlet, March paper
Indy beetle, I got the March paper and am reading it now, so you don't need to email it to me. But it does contain some detail you might want to add, if you can get hold of a copy. I'll comment once I catch up. Sandy Georgia (Talk)  19:05, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Uncle Tom's Cabin
Indy beetle, I put in 10 excruciating hours yesterday cleaning up citations (not done yet) at Featured article review/Uncle Tom's Cabin/archive1, a 2007 FA. It would be a shame for such an important topic to be delisted, but I'm not yet sure it is salvageable. There are patches of poor sourcing and writing, interspersed with content that is at standard. I do know that if it is to be saved, it will require more editors than are currently working on it, and journal access is needed to check for original research. Have you any interest? Bst, Sandy Georgia (Talk)  15:27, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
 * You'll see I added some info, but honestly literary work is rather beyond me. There's so much literature about that book out there I wouldn't even know where to begin. I'm much more suited for historical stuff. -Indy beetle (talk) 19:57, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for looking; there are some other literary editors I can ask for help, as I too feel out-of-my-depth on this one, but I thought I'd ask anyway ! I have probably already put too much work into it, as it's hard to tell if it's saveable.  Bst, Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  21:46, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Unokat
Hey mate, I've nominated Operation Unokat for good article and I can't see it not getting it. In your opinion could it make featured? I'm unfamiliar with the process. Just going through it and seeing the work you've done on it is superb!

Also do you have a good DYK for the article? Lankyant (talk) 13:29, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I think the article should be able to pass GA with relative ease, though the lede might need some expansion. I've added about everything I can from the sources available to me. For featured status, the lede would certainly need to be expanded, and the reviewers might want more information incorporated from the Attack on Camp Massart, but I'm not familiar with the Swedish literature on which that article was built. It may not be necessary, but we'll see. I'll try and help during the GA process. I'll leave DYK up to you, since that's sort of out of my field. -Indy beetle (talk) 21:29, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

NFOOTBALL and sourcing
I think your argument that the claims of bias are used to essentially avoid doing the work to actually find sources is well put. At the end of the day Wikipedia needs to build articles on reliable sources, not just on the claim that such sources exist. Do not get me started on how many articles we have on people born in and lived in the US or Europe some time after 1900 that lack any sources at all, or are based only on non-reliable sources. This is technically more of a problem outside sports, since most such sports people are based on a sports table somewhere, that is somewhat reliable, but in my experience going through articles on people born from 1910-1930 it is not that we have lots of unsourced or one source articles on people from Africa, Latin American or Asia, although we do have a few. Most of the articles with virtually no sources or actually no sources in that time frame are on people from Europe, North America or Australia. Some of this reflects English-language speaking users creating articles on family and friends or even themself (although the later is not that common for pre-1930 articles), but some of it reflects SNGs covering true laziness. Which when they tighten, like we saw with the Olympics SNG, leaves us with over 100,000 articles that no longer meet an SNG but also provide no context to show any notability beyond that. This has lead to a true mess with the Olympics issue in part because a certain number of those articles were created with less than a minute of time by the editor who created them. We know that because he created a different article about a minute before that one. Some of these people actually have more tothem then their one appearance in the Olympics but the text of the article does not hint at that. For example Fernando Huergo used to until today say "Fernando Huergo (born 31 July 1908, date of death unknown) was an Argentine fencer. He competed in the individual and team sabre events at the 1948 Summer Olympics.[1]" as the whole main text. The article was just a few minutes ago edited to show among other things that he was preisdent of the Argentine Olympic Committee from 1955-1957. I am less than sure the new article actually passes GNG or any SNG, and it is still a very small articles, but it is better. I also have to admit I have a quibble that he did not win a silver medal in 1951, he was part of a team that won a medal in those games.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:42, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 January 2022:::North Carolina photos
I saw your cmts regarding your collection of photos of North Carolina. This is my birth state/home state. I suspect that Durham County, with Duke University, etc is well-represented in Commons. But if you need photos of the Person County/Caldwell County area, I may be able to help. Best wishes for your project, hope to see an article in the Signpost! (if you reply, please ping, as I'm not as active as usual). Sincerely,  Tribe of Tiger Let's Purrfect!  22:05, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your kind comments. Northern Durham County is actually in probable need of some photos, though I covered Bahama. My parents actually own a property in southern Person County so I've been up that ways plenty, but haven't taken much of any photos aside from Roxboro and Yanveyville. My old photo of Rougemont could probably be replaced, plus the stores in Timberlake or Mangum's in Moriah are probably due some pictures. -Indy beetle (talk) 06:55, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I live in Rougemont, and can take photos of (ahem) "greater downtown Rougemont". During the Christmas season, the electrical poles are adorned with white light outlined angels, very pretty, but too far in the future for a May article. Other holidays feature American flags. Decades ago, the post office was housed in a picturesque wooden building, hope it's still there. (new post office is in a brick building.) Absolutely familiar with Mangum's in Moriah, I think. If I remember correctly, this was/is a country store /cum post office. Castle Mont Rouge is up the road & around the corner from my house. Met Robert Mihaly many times, over the years. Our vet has a lovely facility in Bahama, might make a good photo. Searching through my mind for other photo ops. Such fun to connect with you! Will try to help. Tribe of Tiger  Let's Purrfect!  22:34, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Pleasure to connect with you as well. My parent's property is technically a Rougemont postal address, but its north of Moriah and I've only been through "greater downtown Rougemont" once or twice, since I normally cut through Stem. The current photo of Rougemont is off of Peed Road I think, and not very representative. Mangum's is indeed a little gas station and store, I went there for chips and soda a few times. I've never actually been to that castle, the photos of its interior in ruins were given to me by a friend to upload to Wikipedia. I never went on Mr. Mihaly's property! -Indy beetle (talk) 03:27, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

TRN
With respect to your comment at AN: the most obviously problematic of TRN's edits concern the issue you identified (POV-pushing via a tedious semantic game around the word "progressive"). I wonder if you have the expertise and willingness to look at some of their edits to biographical articles -- they fall way outside of my expertise, but I find it unlikely that they aren't doing the same kind of POV-editing, just in a subtler context. E.g., since they've come off a block, there's this. Thanks (and if this is not your cup of tea then sorry for the bother). --JBL (talk) 23:59, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 49
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVII, March 2022
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FAR for Shangani Patrol
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIII, April 2022
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Your GA nomination of Ralph Campbell Jr.
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Your GA nomination of Ralph Campbell Jr.
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Your GA nomination of Sylvie Kinigi
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Your GA nomination of Terry Sanford
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Your GA nomination of Terry Sanford
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Your GA nomination of William F. Winter
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The Bugle: Issue CXCIII, May 2022
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Reverted edit on Terry Sanford
Dear Indy beetle,

Today, I edited Terry Sanford to say Senator instead of senator and fixed "from 1961 1965" to "from 1961 to 1965". Instead of editing Senator back to senator, you reverted my entire edit; and then changed the above mistake again yourself. Of course editing Wikipedia is not about scoring points, but I must say I do not appreciate this course of action.

Yours, Leontrooper (talk) 18:18, 30 May 2022 (UTC)


 * I did not notice you had corrected the missing word. I reverted your edit because you improperly capitalized "U.S. senator". I suppose I can be chided for my lack of attention to the detail, but it wouldn't hurt for you to WP:AGF. -Indy beetle (talk) 18:33, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
 * No worries, I had not assumed bad faith, I just wished you had inspected my edit better before reverting it. No harm done. Leontrooper (talk) 18:36, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Gil Carmichael
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Your GA nomination of Evelyn Gandy
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Archive link on Dick Molpus
I am using IABot to automatically archive sources rather than spend time doing it so it will just keep on adding that archive back in. I will remove it once I do my final edits to the page. Jon698 (talk) 22:34, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Terry Sanford
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The Bugle: Issue CXCIV, June 2022
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Tanzania Peoples' Defence Force
Dear IndyBeetle, you're our expert on the Uganda-Tanzania war of 1979; would you mind adding some referenced details, as you see fit, to the TPDF article? Buckshot06 (talk) 05:27, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm moving over the next couple days but I'll try and and get a look at it. -Indy beetle (talk) 06:12, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Many thanks!! When you've finished your IRL other activities, it might be advisable to have a summary of the combat actions during the war. History of the TPDF not just administrative. Happy to help as required. No urgency whatsoever. Buckshot06 (talk) 23:17, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I've sent my books ahead of me so I'm limited in what I can do really until Monday night. That text was just the easiest cut and paste from the war article. -Indy beetle (talk) 02:10, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Sorry for jumping in little off topic, but was wondering if I could convince you, Buckshot06 or User:Applodion to make a BLP for the new TPDF CDF, General Jacob John Mkunda? I am deathly afraid of making BLP articles, especially for tz as sources are hard to find. I could not even find his birthdate.
 * If not it is ok! Just the link of his name was bothering me. Thank you! BevoLJ (talk) 05:52, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Done, but indeed sources are difficult to find, particularly since search results are oversaturated with the same news of his recent appointment. It also doesn't help that the Daily News website and my computer don't like to cooperate with each other. -Indy beetle (talk) 07:26, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Oh wow! You are amazing. Asante sana!
 * Pls do not worry, Daily News hates every computer. haha. BevoLJ (talk) 07:39, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Seeing that I was too late for Jacob John Mkunda, I decided to help out by de-stubbing his predecessor Venance Salvatory Mabeyo's article. Applodion (talk) 11:41, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I saw that, thank you very much! You all are amazing. I could not believe how fast Mr Beetle was for a watz BLP!
 * Also, I noticed it was still a stub after your first edit and was kicking myself for not removing the Tanzania-bio-stub tag when I was correcting my mistake in the reference section earlier. But then I thought maybe BLPs have different rules to be start, so was unsure if I should go back. Thank you for sorting it out so I no longer having to decide/figure out that, and for expanding and cleaning the page. BevoLJ (talk) 12:05, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue CXCVI, July 2022
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Arbcom
Hi Indy Beetle - hope you are well. I've just seen 6.1 added to my case and wanted to thank you for mentioning a "middle-ground" between warning and banning.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 11:33, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

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Lugnuts
The reason that some editors express a desire for Lugnuts to repent and return is, in my opinion, a fondness for editors who are characterized as "excellent content creators", who sometimes have entourages of admirers. Lugnuts is a somewhat different type of content creator, in that he has created tens of thousands of stubs. (It appears that you do a different sort of content creation, which is bringing articles up to GA status.) Some editors think that Wikipedia needs all the content creators that it can get, even if they are uncivil or otherwise problematic. That is why some editors would like to see Lugnuts return. I think it is off-topic for the Arbitration noticeboard. Robert McClenon (talk) 19:14, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I suppose I weigh "excellent content" part of that equation more than "excellent creator". I guess I'll have to live with that. It's just hard to AGF after that petty outburst Lugnuts posted everywhere. Anyways, life goes on. Thank you for clarifying for me. -Indy beetle (talk) 04:07, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

Scotland County, North Carolina
I did not realize you had added the list to the Prose, I thought someone had removed it by accident. Sorry about that, have a great day! DiscoA340 (talk) 03:37, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
 * No worries. I have a copy of the 1976 NC Gazetteer which explicitly states all the bordering counties of a given county (in North Carolina, if it borders another state it just says that without specifying the smaller jurisdiction) and all the townships, and thus can be used to source such instances. Since the counties and townships haven't really changed in 100 years, it should still be good as a source, if there's some specific county articles you're working on. -Indy beetle (talk) 03:41, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

Wikileaks
Why is Wikileaks unreliable? Catlemur (talk) 03:44, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Not sure what prompted this but that's the standing consensus of the community: Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 348. -Indy beetle (talk) 04:15, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Understandable, have a nice day. (I belatedly noticed this edit of yours.)--Catlemur (talk) 00:41, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

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County maps
I hope everything is alright, I was wondering if you knew of any websites or books that have NC and or SC county maps that could be used on WP like this one? Sadly the author for that map did not approve the use of it on WP but I've not given up hope on finding other county maps. Thanks and have a good day! DiscoA340 (talk) 00:27, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Modern county maps? No, I'm afraid not. This public domain map collection features some regions of North Carolina, but they don't extend beyond the mid-20th century. -Indy beetle (talk) 03:31, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I understand, I was also thinking of contacting the NCDOT as they might have some county maps. Thank you anyways! DiscoA340 (talk) 12:45, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

Jason Sendwe
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Thank you today for the article, "about Jason Sendwe, a politician of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's early years. For a time he was the preeminent leader of the Luba people of Katanga Province and was the central government's "in-man" inside the territory, fraught with secessionist bitterness. He rose to national political prominence and fell in a series of disputes before being murdered under dubious circumstances; in the words of British journalist Ian Goodhope Colvin, "Jason had battled so long for his Baluba idea...had seen victory, worn the leopard skin, been carried on the shoulders of his people...become a minister, touched power and money, lost his aura and perished.""! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:50, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

You're quoted in media
In case you didn't know: Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:40, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Haha yes I just discovered about half an hour ago via my Facebook news feed. I had no idea that article was being written, but it's funny that of all the things I'd get mentioned in the media for it would be involvement in the Cary dispute! -Indy beetle (talk) 16:44, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

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Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina
Hiya, if you want to use it, I created an article draft at User:Yuchitown/sandbox for the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. I'm behind in RL work, so need to get off Wiki but can contribute more in the future! Yuchitown (talk) 16:41, 24 August 2022 (UTC)Yuchitown

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VP discussion
Hey, thanks for starting that discussion about WMF funding for the WPWP project and the like going to site-banned users. One thing: When you thanked I Jethro (WMF) for their response just now, you may have been misled by my formatting (unless you were thanking them in advance) ... the green text is a quote of what I Jethro (WMF) said back in the ArbCom case; he hasn't commented on the present discussion as yet. Best, Andreas JN 466 08:55, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXCVII, August 2022
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MilHist coordinator
Hi Indy beetle, I hope that you will be standing for this role again. If so, could you nominate yourself here? Thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:43, 10 September 2022 (UTC)

Latest edit, Hamlet chicken plant
Without commenting, you restored information that I had removed specifically because I saw no way it could be relevant or helpful - it seems very clear that in the context of this article it's random useless trivia with no connection to the story. It's conceivable that it may have mattered during some court case, but that court case is not being discussed here - this is about the actual fire.

The nominal pressure rating of a wrongly installed hydraulic line is irrelevant to anything whatsoever, is obvious trash, and certainly needs to be cut out. The moment they installed it wrong, that rating became completely meaningless.

The exact thermostat setting of the fryer seems irrelevant to me, but if you have a convincing rationale for including it in the article, please state it, instead of blindly reinstating what appears to be trash. TooManyFingers (talk) 06:45, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Well, from an engineering perspective, the specs of the equipment which failed seems relevant to an industrial disaster, not to mention both the Fire Administration Report and Simon discuss these elements. After all, the pressure the line separated at is discussed a few paragraphs later (and this indeed suggests the repair was faulty, as the line separated at a temperature the tubing was supposedly rated for). Also, Simon doesn't specify on page 4 that the cooker used "soybean oil" as you so added, so maybe next time consider what the sources say beforehand to make sure your edits conform to them before attempting to fix "trash". -Indy beetle (talk) 07:56, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue CXCVIII, October 2022
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TFA stuff
I'm considering nominating either CSS Baltic for TFA on December 13 or Battle of Van Buren for December 28. There's a third-party request at WP:TFARP for your Operation Grandslam for December 28. Do you want Grandslam to run on Dec. 28? If so, I'll nominate Baltic, but if you don't want Grandslam on the 28th, I'll nominate Van Buren. It doesn't matter to me either way; just want to not have a potential conflict on the 28th. Hog Farm Talk 20:04, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I have zero preference, I've only only nominated TFAs two or three times myself. If you'd like to put the Van Buren article up, go ahead. -Indy beetle (talk) 04:55, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

DYK for North Carolina State Auditor
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Do we use flag-maps on Wikipedia articles?
Regarding to this edit. ColorfulSmoke (talk) 09:32, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
 * In my 6 years here, I’ve never seen one used. -Indy beetle (talk) 13:45, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

November 2022
I've noticed that you have a GAN for Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina nominated and I've recently nominated the James Madison article at FAC. It might be useful if I could ask if you could do some review comments and support/oppose comments on the James Madison article, then I could offer to do your Lieutenant Governor article in order to get both articles to move forward in the peer review process. Any thoughts? ErnestKrause (talk) 23:53, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Your comment to the other editor at the Madison FAC has been addressed now. Can you add your further support/oppose comments to the Madison FAC when time allows for you? ErnestKrause (talk) 15:11, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
 * The FAC review seems to be back under way at Madison, and two editors from sysops have seemed to put the article back on track. I've gone ahead and completed your GAN review as I had promised, and hope you can complete your FAC review at Madison now that matters are back on track. ErnestKrause (talk) 17:27, 22 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Good to know, I'll get to it this week as time allows me. I was waiting for the fireworks to calm down. -Indy beetle (talk) 17:29, 22 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Those were nice follow-up comments from last week. Are there any more edits I could offer to do in order to try to gain your support at the FAC page for Madison? ErnestKrause (talk) 17:54, 4 December 2022 (UTC)
 * A FAC coordinator has left a comment for you at the Madison FAC; I've also updated the article to include a new footnote for the last edits comments which you have left there for me. ErnestKrause (talk) 16:48, 11 December 2022 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue CXCIX, November 2022
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Operation Grandslam
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Scotland County, North Carolina
(I would've posted this on the GA nomination page for Caswell County but it got archived before I could)

Feel free to edit Caswell County, North Carolina if you notice anything but Peabodyb is the main editor for the page (I was just talking to them and they didn't seem upset about the failed nomination). At the time of nomination for Caswell County, it was the only page that had a lot of information, so I thought it was worth a shot nominating it. I would say that you should nominate Scotland County if you think it's ready to be nominated. The worst that can happen is it gets declined. If it passes though, it could become a template for future GA county pages (Cary, NC might be helpful to look at as it's a GA Article). Thank you and have a good day! DiscoA340 (talk) 22:10, 13 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Having lots of info is one thing, but organizing it into cohesive prose and tying it directly to the county in a WP:DUE manner with secondary sources is a whole other beast. I doubt Scotland County will be ready for GA for quite some time (I'd fail right now it if I were a reviewer, so no point wasting my and someone else's time). I think the History section and the Economy sections have good starts, but that's about it. The Border Belt Independent, a new newspaper dedicated to buttressing the local media environment in the Carolina Border Belt, has been invaluable, since it explicitly tries to explain regional counties' social, political, and economic characteristics. Caswell is not as fortunate in that regard, and sadly I don't think the wisdom of a GA town or city can be fully transferred to a county, since there are some different beats to be covered (the size difference alone means information about a county is more dispersed, though sometimes the politics of a county are more readily explained in sources than those of a city, for example). I also think we have to find better ways of presenting geographic and demographic data than just random tables and lists of info scraped from the most recent census. What he have currently across a lot of county articles is better than nothing, but better than nothing is not the same as good. -Indy beetle (talk) 23:30, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Fair point. I definitely think county pages are neglected by most editors (at least the smaller ones). The best case for these articles is Wake County, the worst is Hoke County, the rest are somewhere in the middle of both. I wish you luck trying getting Scotland County to become a GA article, I'd be happy to help out if you do nominate it in future. DiscoA340 (talk) 00:00, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Here's a cool source that might be of some use: county annual audit reports. Caswell is behind on the current audit and its 2020 one is a largely technical document strictly limited to financial concerns. But Robeson County's audit includes lots of great background information on the county, and the same might be true for other counties. -Indy beetle (talk) 02:48, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the source! I don't when I could utilize these reports but when I do, I'll make sure to use them. It also seems that the more populous the county is, the more information they include. Have a great day! DiscoA340 (talk) 21:58, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I completely forgot to check this but WikiProject U.S. counties has a list of all the US county pages. I was able to find a list of GA County articles. There are 6 county pages that have GA Status, two notables ones about the same size as Scotland are Blackford County, Indiana, and Cape May County, New Jersey. I hope these can help with your work, have a great day! DiscoA340 (talk) 02:05, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that, don't know why I couldn't find them before. The Cape May article looks particularly instructive. -Indy beetle (talk) 04:31, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Glad to help, I wish I remembered these articles earlier. DiscoA340 (talk) 04:44, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't know if this could be useful but WikiProject U.S. Counties also made a page layout template for counties. A couple other sources which might be useful are NCpedia, Carolana, and U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts. I hope these can help, have a great day! DiscoA340 (talk) 22:14, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

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Hey again,

A user has added to Statesville, NC claiming it's the real flag. It's only gotten more suspicious by the fact that they has added four more flags (that look almost the same) to other pages claiming the town is a protectorate of Statesville (which is completely false) (Taylorsville, NC for example). The only place I found this flag outside WP is on r/Vexillology. Since it's not on the Flags of the World website, I was wondering if you ever saw or a have a source from Statesville which uses the flag in question? Thanks and have a good day! DiscoA340 (talk) 02:41, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

Looks totally fake. Even the flag fandom has it nominated for deletion. The redditor who seems to design these flags has a whole series on essentially alternate history flags, including the "Statesville protectorate" thing. What ever this nonsense, it doesn't belong on Wikipedia. -Indy beetle (talk) 04:04, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I've basically confirmed this user is a troll, see my ANI post. They've now been blocked. Any of their handiwork should be reverted. -Indy beetle (talk) 04:51, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
 * This escalated to them calling the blocking admin the n word in like 15 minutes so yeah, good catch on the suspicious editing. -Indy beetle (talk) 04:58, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I just saw the post the user made, I'm sorry that you and DanCherek had to deal with that, but thank you both for solving the situation. I was somewhat suspicious at the start due to discrepancies made by the user. It was when the user started adding more flags I decided to get involved. I have been looking at the original Reddit post and I think that it may be in fact the same user. Looking at their posts, the user only posts about Statesville and posted the "Flag of Fletcher" about the same time as possibly the same user uploaded the flag on WP (another suspicious post with the user wanting to get others to add it back). I may be wrong, but if they are both the same people, they used their WP account to gain more credibility on Reddit to show "proof" that the flags exists. I don't know Reddit's rules about this but verbal assault shouldn't be allowed on both platforms. If you or @DanCherek would like to continue this further, this might be a way. Thanks again and have a good day! DiscoA340 (talk) 01:58, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I figured it was the same person leveraging Wikipedia to promote their own work. I'm not on Reddit, so I really don't what happens there, and it seems like their posts are getting removed from certain threads for violating policies on posting bogus flags, so I guess their scheme failed and their internet cred is imploding all on its own. I did go report this user on commons, and they received a mere "warning" in return from an admin, because apparently uploading spam falsified flags, vandalizing attempts to discuss and remove said flags, and calling an enWiki admin all sorts of grotesque things in trolling rage quit means you still have potential as a commons user... -Indy beetle (talk) 04:36, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I don't know how these factors didn't automatically result in a full Wiki-project ban. Looking at their Reddit contributions, it looks like they might try this again, so I'll be keeping an eye out. DiscoA340 (talk) 05:05, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Be advised, it looks like our friend is back on his commons account, and a new IP account on Wikipedia (followed up with a post on Reddit). If this isn't enough evidence for a permanent ban, nothing is. DiscoA340 (talk) 22:03, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I've reported them again on Commons for falsifying a source and removing discussion notices. Hope something gets done. -Indy beetle (talk) 01:40, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm still at awe that after all of this, this user still only gets two warnings and a slap on the wrist. This user has used Wikipedia to leverage his Reddit account, when that didn't work, he began a racist rant at the moderator in charge. They then had the guts to come back onto Wikimedia and try this crap again; even making a fake website to justify the flag. Even after all of that, they add the flag to Commons for a third time. I've seems trolls get banned for smaller offenses. But then again, judging by the grammar, openness to racist speech, and general disconnect between reality and lies, were dealing with at most a ten year old kid rather than a troll. This kid is lucky no one took his "official site" seriously or he could've gotten into serious trouble with the law (I did a brief check online and its a Class 1 misdemeanor in North Carolina). I'm going to submit my evidence to the commons report and hopefully that will result in something. DiscoA340 (talk) 19:58, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

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Latest edit on Congolese activist, Patrice Lumumba
Why have you reverted my edit? It is the latest happening. And matters to India. Please revert back. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Patrice_Lumumba&oldid=1125036884 Mamta Jagdish Dhody (talk) 22:10, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Apologies for the lack of an edit summary, my phone wasn't letting me complete my message there. I reverted your edit because the article already covers the repatriation of the tooth under a dedicated section. -Indy beetle (talk) 23:05, 1 December 2022 (UTC)

Please see that my edit is more exhaustive and rightly placed. It is not my way of functioning to remove a previous edit. Military evidentiary. Mamta Jagdish Dhody (talk) 07:56, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
 * That simply isn’t true. Your two sentences in no way are more exhaustive than the three paragraphs we already have (which is probably too much anyhow). I also don’t see why it’s worth repeating that his tooth has been turned over in the legacy section. -Indy beetle (talk) 08:31, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

Liked talking to you. Off the record. Please watch this movie with translation. It is so nicely made and global. Nice to share. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaan_(1980_film)

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