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

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

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

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

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

Thank you!

--User:Martin Urbanec (talk) 21:58, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

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February 2020
Hello, I'm Rosbif73. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Juxtaposed controls, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Specifically, the cited reference doesn't mention Rotterdam, and mentions "end of 2019". Rosbif73 (talk) 14:49, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Really Rosbif, a templated warning? L.tak (talk) 17:03, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

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Violations of the NPT?
Would you mind reviewing the section on "Violations of the NPT" that I added to the article on "Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons" on 2020-04-04T14:27:49‎ and revised 2020-04-05T03:29:19‎, which was then deleted in one stroke by User:NPguy, claiming "poorly sourced, dubious, and POV"?

As I noted in my comments on Talk:Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons to which you responded, I carefully cited articles in The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Newsweek, The Guardian, Hindustani Times, and Expatica. Note that I only cited the Hindustani Times in a "Note", while also saying that it comes from a source known to be very biased against Pakistan. If you think that doesn't belong, delete it. However, everything else seems to me to be solidly supported by carefully chose words accurately reflecting serious news articles in publications that could generally be relied upon to be roughly as credible as any general news publication any place in the world, especially about events in Pakistan.

I think it's absolutely POV to suggest that the primary parties to the NPT have not violated it. Because Richard Barlow (Intelligence analyst), there is substantive documentation of very credible allegations of NPT violations by high raking officials in the US government during the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations.

Thanks, DavidMCEddy (talk) 01:50, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I would strongly advice against combining technical treaty positions (acceptance, being a party etc) and fullfilling treaty obligations. those are two really different things, and that's now clarified. As to the non-compliance texts, I can imagine they are added, but in a very neutral tone. The heading should probably be: "allegations of non-compliance" and take into account all parties and clearly cite closely. Furhermore now it seems to be unduely focussed in the United States and the relation with Pakistan. Furhtermore, the sources could be stronger (they are often "newspaper commentaries"; there must be also other things. Finally you use wikidata, which means i) the source is two more clicks away and ii) the source is out of our control as en-wikipedia editors (and noone ever comes at wikidata to keep it up to date); I would advice always to cite including a link of the article involved. In view of the contention it may be best to start a section somewhere on talk to discuss and collectively improve and put it on mainspace when all parties agree about it; otherwise this is going to lead to revert wars.... I hope that helps... L.tak (talk) 12:53, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

File:MembersandnNonMembersOfTheApostilleOfTheHague.svg
Hello! Could you add Guyana (non-member), Palau (non-member) and The Philippines (member) to this map (File:MembersandnNonMembersOfTheApostilleOfTheHague.svg)? Thank you. Dantadd (talk) 12:23, 18 June 2020 (UTC)(UTC)

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Merger proposal for Dutch Caribbean election articles
Hello L.tak. You may be interested in this proposal to merge numerous articles on elections in Dutch Caribbean islands. Cheers, Number   5  7  20:28, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

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Northern Ireland protocol
When you change a section name, you need to hunt down all links to it. Starting with Northern Ireland protocol, a redirect that I can't change via mobile. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 10:53, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I believe you can also make anquors or something to keep it going there. I may look into it, but assumed there was a bot doing that for me (like with double redirects...) L.tak (talk) 11:24, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I guess you saw I added the anchor a few minutes after I wrote that. No, I don't believe that there is a bot. "What links here" only works for articles. If the wp:SPLIT is agreed, a hunt will definitely be needed, which means looking at everything that links to Brexit and the Irish Border, to see what they are aiming at. And ditto the WA article. Hopefully I will be able to help. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 16:31, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

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Our mutual friend ...
... is back again at Schengen area and Gibraltar. I have reverted but I have no doubt that they will counter-revert. Time for WP:ANI if they do? but when they won't engage in a wp:BRD discussion, what choice do we have? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 12:01, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
 * probably, as I am not a fan of solving it that way; I have created an entry. However I have exhausted my options... L.tak (talk) 19:58, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

European Union free trade agreements
Hello, I saw our edith in the European Union free trade agreements article and as you might have noticed the new information is currently updated and I have started the new discussion the Talk:European Union free trade agreements page so be free to give our view of the new update in the talk page. --84.248.82.78 (talk) 15:50, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Mute/moot
In your comment about the I/NI protocol, you wrote "this seems a bit mute". Did you mean that discussion has all gone quiet? (which is true). Or did you intend to write moot (in the en.us sense rather than the en.uk sense), meaning that it is settled and not worth further discussion? (if you were referring to the backstop I agree, that is also true). I agree that the new article (that you volunteered to write 😁) should be primarily about the protocol with just a paragraph about the backstop (exerpt its lead). --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 16:19, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
 * "the discussion on the topic had gone silent", was indeed what I meant, although as a non-native speaker, with me you can never be sure ;-)... I will start writing this evening and hope to get some help along the way ;-)... L.tak (talk) 16:34, 31 January 2021 (UTC)


 * In US English, moot and mute are pronounced the same way, so it is a very common error. You would be far from unusual had you done so. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 18:05, 1 February 2021 (UTC)