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 * Thank you, Davey2010. Have a great New Year too! MBlaze Lightning (talk) 16:16, 25 December 2022 (UTC)



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 * Thank you, CAPTAIN RAJU. Wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a happy New Year too! MBlaze Lightning (talk) 16:16, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

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Happy New Year
Thanks for the Christmas greeting MBlaze. Hope the holidays are going well for you and best wishes for 2023! --RegentsPark (comment) 17:14, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Indeed, thank you, RegentsPark. Glad to hear back from you. I wish you a Happy New Year too! MBlaze Lightning (talk) 07:16, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

December music
We sang Charpentier's delightful Messe de minuit pour Noël today, which was on DYK yesterday, - a first for me, pictured, - thank you for the good wishes, and enjoy the season! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:27, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

Today, pictured, the soprano of our choral concert of the year. More in the context: User talk:Gerda Arendt, in case of interest. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:07, 26 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Happy New Year, Gerda! You have a great taste for classical music, and a flair for writing that not many can boasts of. Thanks for cheering us all up with you good wishes and "precious" awards. I wish you all the happiness in the world! Cheers, MBlaze Lightning (talk) 19:37, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy New Year, MBlaze Lightning!


Happy New Year! MBlaze Lightning, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

Abishe (talk) 17:40, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

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Abishe (talk) 17:40, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Abishe, thank you for the lovely greeting card, and your thoughtful New Year's wish! Sending you my best wishes for the New Year too (that is just about to begin in my country). Best regards, MBlaze Lightning (talk) 18:23, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy New Year, MBlaze Lightning!


Happy New Year! MBlaze Lightning, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

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Please get your simple facts straight
You sent me the generic message on "editing" contentious topics. Check your basic facts, I didn't make a single edit. I simply gave feedback in the talk section.

It continues to concern me that folks who get basic facts like whether I even edited anything wrong, want to proliferate a label of "India, Pakistan, Afghanistan" as contentious and insist they are the authority of fact vs fiction 172.0.233.143 (talk) 05:41, 18 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Now listen up. Why are you alternating between your account and the IP address? Please stick to using the former for making edits, even if those are to the talk pages. This is needed so others can know for sure that it is a single person posting comments, and not two. Edits from your account have not been confined to just article talk pages, as you erroneously claim, but even if they were, I want you to appreciate that Wikipedia's policies and guidelines (which you don't seem very acquainted with, so pray read the links embedded in the welcome message on your account's talk page) also extend to talk namespaces (vide WP:TPNO for starters), and you are required to adhere to them in your interactions with others. Apropos the contentious topic notice, it is a standard notice, and self-explanatory in what it conveys. It does not on its own imply any issues with your editing, as you seem to apprehend, but lets you know with a perspicuous turn of phrase that your edits have been to a contentious topic area (designated so on account of past disruption and discretionary latitude available to administrators to proactively stymie disruption), and you would do yourself a favour by treading carefully. MBlaze Lightning (talk) 06:37, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

DYK for 2022 Yangtse clash
BorgQueen (talk) 12:03, 18 January 2023 (UTC) GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:27, 19 January 2023 (UTC)


 * People apparently love brawling! It did very well for a hook with no image. BorgQueen (talk) 03:38, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'm glad it garnered so many views in a day. Probably a first for me. I look forward to writing more articles for the DYK in the future as time permits. Cheers :) MBlaze Lightning (talk) 16:31, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 54
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Issue 54, November – December 2022 
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WikiCup 2023 March newsletter
So ends the first round of the 2023 WikiCup. Everyone with a positive score moved on to Round 2, with 54 contestants qualifying. The top scorers in Round 1 were:


 * Unlimitedlead with 1205 points, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with two featured articles on historical figures and several featured article candidate reviews.
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 * Iazyges was in fifth place with 532 points, from two featured articles on classical history.

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Trying
Just wanted to say that I am truly sorry for my outbursts. I'm trying to be less truculent. I hope we can put this flap behind us. In the bigger scheme of things the article is more important than us. Apologies again and best regards, Fowler&amp;fowler  «Talk»  01:09, 15 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi there, I saw your edit summary about "hitherto." A noun phrase is structurally the same as a noun.  So, "hitherto" which is an adverb can't be applied to a noun phrase.  E.g. Not only can you not say, Hitherto, 2017, but you also also cannot say  "Hitherto, the year of the raw-knuckle fighting in the square," where the noun phrase "the year ... square" is by itself, nor for that matter, "Hitherto, 2017, the year of the raw-knuckle fighting in the public square," (where the noun phrase appears as an appositive).
 * But you can say:
 * They were struck by a hitherto unknown disease. (where the adverb hitherto modifies the adjective unknown), or
 * The disease was more virulent than he had hitherto discovered. (The adverb hitherto modifies the verb phrase "had discovered" (in past perfect)).
 * Hitherto's literal meaning is "up to this point" or "up to that point"  or "until now"  or "until then"
 * As the word is not used much these days, even in formal writing, usage guides typically don't have entries for it.
 * As you seem interested I thought I'd post something here.  (The OED link is https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/87355?redirectedFrom=hitherto#eid  but it requires a subscription)  Fowler&amp;fowler  «Talk»  14:28, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
 * No worries, Fowler. You don't have to apologize, because, looking back, my responses were no better and savoured of unnecessary resentment. Trusting you will excuse me for my impudence too. I look forward to contributing to the article. Cheers. MBlaze Lightning (talk) 12:36, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

Nithyananda
Hi @MBlaze Lightning; regarding https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nithyananda&oldid=1145159641

I have attempted to converse with the user who removed the recent content with no avail - rather I was brushed off. I saw this as vandalism of that page. The user has tagged articles I contributed to with Conflict-of-Interest tags, when there is not. And I feel there is something the user has against me for commenting on Nithyananda.

My reasoning is that as Kailasa is not a country and no-one knows where it is, and was "set up" by the subject, it is likely to not warrant it's own page. Rather it would continue to be described in the subjects page, and thus is not "tangential".

It is of note that Indo-Asian News Service has described the courting of states and politicians as a "disinformation campaign claiming legitimacy"

Since the label of Cult Leader is applied the discussion of cultic activities would appear to be in need of documention.

I can see a case for splitting out a page for the mythical fictional country of Kailasa but I don't know of a precedent for this on Wikipedia. I am open to discussion

Nofoolie (talk) 16:10, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

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Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:28, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

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