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Revert on "Human height" Page
Hello @Loriendrew

My edit to the page human height was reverted and changed back to:

The tallest living man is Sultan Kösen of Turkey at 251 cm (8 ft 3 in) and the tallest living woman is Siddiqa Parveen of India at 234 cm (7 ft 8 in).

This statement is not backed by any source, and the Wikipedia article on Siddiqa Parveen states that she was "formerly listed by Guinness World Records as the tallest living woman", which I believe makes it clear that for whatever reason, that title no longer holds. The current wikipeda article on Rumeysa Gelgi states that, as of the present, "she is the tallest living woman confirmed by Guinness World Records." The Guinness World Records official website also confirms the same (https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/tallest-woman-living-). I am restoring the edit, this time citing the Guinness World Records page as a source.

I hope this clears up any confusion, and I do admit that it is quite unclear, as any 'official' sources on this matter are scant, and the data seems to conflict with each other (Siddiqa Parveen is stated to be 234 cm, but Rumeysa Gelgi is apparently only 215.16 cm; I am not aware why Siddiqa Parveen does not hold the record as of now, but Guinness clearly states as such).

Apologies for any confusion or lack of clarity in my writing.

Regards,

EmperorBonaparte

EmperorBonaparte (talk) 06:12, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

If/Then
The copyvio goes back further than the two revisions you've tagged for revdel. You need to identify when the material was first added as it's all those revisions that will require deletion. Nthep (talk) 19:56, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Think I found the correct range and updated the notice. My apologies.. have not had much revdel experience.-- ☾Loriendrew☽  ☏(ring-ring)  00:26, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
 * No apology needed. Getting your head round the scale of some copyvios and how far back they go can be quite staggering. I know it shocked me when I first started looking at them. Nthep (talk) 07:17, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
 * It went a lot further back, to November 2013! Nthep (talk) 17:03, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I am so sorry, was looking for some specific phrases which popped up within my range. If we do this again, just send me the "More!" meem and I will dive further.-- ☾Loriendrew☽  ☏(ring-ring)  17:11, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I'd suggest Who Wrote That? as a tool for finding out who added the text. Nthep (talk) 18:52, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

"Battle of Sialkot(1761)" listed at Redirects for discussion
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Steve Earle
Hello I saw you added to Steve Earle's page that he has a daughter with a groupie. I am not a regular editor here, but think this should at least be framed as speculation. The source you used is an unsourced aggregation site, and as I noted on the talk page there, the claim is unsubstantiated. There are two well researched biographies of Earle, which I think should take precedence. St. John does mention the claim by Baker, and it may well be true, but Earle denied it and there was never an attempt to prove paternity at the time. It is not impossible that she has since used Ancestry or something similar, but there would need to be a source. 131.238.215.0 (talk) 14:57, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
 * This information was not added by me, just moved it into chronological order and formatted the entry and citation.-- ☾Loriendrew☽  ☏(ring-ring)  21:48, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Department Q
Hi, thanks for your message, which was the first I saw of the merge. Yes, I felt there were enough references for a stand alone page, especially with the change in location and size of the production (Netflix) Hildreth gazzard (talk) 16:01, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Why rvs an "Eric" removed because
so i add "Eric Filatov (born 2018)" and later was removed 2001:44C8:4707:AFC8:E8C5:BBF1:59C6:C37A (talk) 10:26, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Entries to lists should have an existing article. If Filatov has an article made, then they can be added to the list.-- ☾Loriendrew☽  ☏(ring-ring)  20:38, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

RFA2024 update: no longer accepting new proposals in phase I
Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is now no longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:


 * Proposal 2, initiated by, provides for the addition of a text box at Requests for adminship reminding all editors of our policies and enforcement mechanisms around decorum.
 * Proposals 3 and 3b, initiated by and, respectively, provide for trials of discussion-only periods at RfA. The first would add three extra discussion-only days to the beginning, while the second would convert the first two days to discussion-only.
 * Proposal 5, initiated by, provides for a trial of RfAs without threaded discussion in the voting sections.
 * Proposals 6c and 6d, initiated by, provide for allowing users to be selected as provisional admins for a limited time through various concrete selection criteria and smaller-scale vetting.
 * Proposal 7, initiated by, provides for the "General discussion" section being broken up with section headings.
 * Proposal 9b, initiated by, provides for the requirement that allegations of policy violation be substantiated with appropriate links to where the alleged misconduct occured.
 * Proposals 12c, 21, and 21b, initiated by, , and , respectively, provide for reducing the discretionary zone, which currently extends from 65% to 75%. The first would reduce it 65%–70%, the second would reduce it to 50%–66%, and the third would reduce it to 60%–70%.
 * Proposal 13, initiated by, provides for periodic, privately balloted admin elections.
 * Proposal 14, initiated by, provides for the creation of some minimum suffrage requirements to cast a vote.
 * Proposals 16 and 16c, initiated by and, respectively, provide for community-based admin desysop procedures. 16 would desysop where consensus is established in favor at the administrators' noticeboard; 16c would allow a petition to force reconfirmation.
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 * Proposal 17, initiated by, provides for "on-call" admins and 'crats to monitor RfAs for decorum.
 * Proposal 18, initiated by, provides for lowering the RfB target from 85% to 75%.
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 * Proposal 28, initiated by, tightens restrictions on multi-part questions.

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