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Futility
In that RFARB, when you wrote "bury a good point in some feudal attempt at being witty", I pondered on this for some time, imagining court jesters and other medieval scenarios. A day later when I saw it again, it hit me finally that it was probably supposed to say "futile" not "feudal". :-)  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  22:10, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh woops. Well, it fits here because it might turn out that Wander may go the way of many court jesters (lol). &#8211; MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 22:15, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Heh.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  22:37, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Just out of curiosity, why do you refer to her as "Wander" instead of "Wanda"? Primefac (talk) 22:42, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Besides being more gender neutral, WanderingWanda's name comes from a game called Shadow of the Colossus where the main character is named Wander. &#8211; MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 22:49, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

Back at ya!
This really means a lot to me, Swarm. I honestly don't know what to say. This seriously means a lot. &#8211; MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 22:16, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
 * To be honest, neither of us seemed really interested in formalizing the process until recently haha.

AOC RfC
Wow! That was fast! I'm quite certain I've seen RfC's with clear and obvious consensus go on much longer than 26 hours, but perhaps I'm wrong. In any case, I guess it doesn't matter anymore as that was looking like it might fail. Anyway, thanks for helping out! GrammarDamner  how are things?  22:17, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I mean, yeah it seemed pretty unlikely to pass; and when people know that, it is not the type of thing to generate goodwill amongst other contributors. &#8211; MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 03:53, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

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Hey - language parameters?
Heya - I saw your revert over on Parler; are |language=en really used for sister projects? I'm genuinely curious, I've never come across that as a policy on English Wikipedia, and I've been removing them the whole time, thinking they were errors included through the use of visual editing or Twinkle, or whatever it is. Is there a policy for their inclusion? Not wanting to demand a policy for their inclusion, here - I've literally just never heard it. Thanks! --Ineffablebookkeeper (talk) 16:55, 17 January 2021 (UTC) I forget where it's been written down (if at all), but I know from experience it is rather helpful to keep en in references because it has saved me personally a lot of time. &#8211; MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 17:01, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I kinda figured you hadn't heard of it based on your edit summary lol. en displays (in English) on the other language projects and sorts them in a similar way to how fr-FR might output. en is probably the only parameter in the CS1 cite templates which is kept despite not changing its display.
 * Huh! The more you know. Maybe it should be written down somewhere? Thanks for explaining! --Ineffablebookkeeper (talk) 17:07, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Your comment at AE
Hello MJL. I am not fond of limited bans because people don't always understand their bans, and they often get into disputes on what is covered and what is not covered. A broad concept like the Balkans is easier to grasp. EdJohnston (talk) 22:11, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
 * That makes sense. It's easy to forget newbies may not be as wired in to this stuff as the regulars are, so I'll have to consider that for the future. { &#8211; MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 18:25, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Kurds and Kurdistan case opened
You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Arbitration/Requests/Case/Kurds and Kurdistan. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Arbitration/Requests/Case/Kurds and Kurdistan/Evidence. Please add your evidence by February 5, 2021, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Arbitration/Requests/Case/Kurds and Kurdistan/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 16:17, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

ok
understood.

Smallbones( smalltalk ) 13:02, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

closure of ban discussion
Dear MJL, you abruptly closed this discussion for ban https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Proposing_a_ban:_topic_or_site? I am not sure what you meant by that and by referring to snowballing. That section contained information about the user's Wikipedia activities as well, along with off-wiki activities. If you could elaborate on the reasons for closure on the same page in detail, to make it clear for everybody, I would be very grateful, leaving important questions unanswered may trigger to similar discussions in the future. Regards, --Armatura (talk) 21:04, 23 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Unless a user is actively taking part in violence or canvassing, their offwiki conduct should be of no concern to you. Even then, the solution is absolutely not to publish their information onwiki. That has never been how we do things here. You violeted another user's privacy; don't do it again. &#8211; MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 00:13, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

MJL, he published his private details himself on  Wikipedia making them available for everyone to see, yet I'm violating his privacy? What are you going to do about the Azerbaijani anti Armenian wiki-propaganda club, of which the mentioned user is an active part and an award-winning "expert" of? Is it according to WP guidelines to fight Armenians in English Wikipedia, especially in that organised and government-encouraged manner? --Armatura (talk) 00:21, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
 * , just saw this after my reply to you on my talk page. The terms of your IBAN mean you can’t keep having this discussion about the user you’re IBAN’d with anywhere on Wikipedia, including MJL’s talk page. The terms can be seen at WP:IBAN. The only place you can discuss this is when appealing. As I’ve declined to lift the IBAN, that’d most likely be at AE. TonyBallioni (talk) 00:25, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

If what you are saying is true, then contact arbcom privately. You don't get to just open up a user's IRL life to scrutiny just because you think something nefarious is going on. &#8211; MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 00:26, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Along time ago, I revealed potentially personally-identifiable information onwiki. If you started sharing that today, I would still call that violating my privacy.


 * Sorry, I wasn't aware that this user had an IBAN. Otherwise I wouldn't have engaged with them on this topic. You might want to say something at AN/I about it. &#8211; MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 00:30, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I too was wondering about the abrupt closure. Can you tell me please, what was the closing rationale for the "do nothing" decision? Laurel Lodged (talk) 15:25, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
 * The topic ban proposal was based significantly on speculation of another user's personal life outside of Wikipedia. You're welcome to make a similar proposal or filing a report at WP:AE. However, it should contain exclusively onwiki evidence. &#8211; MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 19:46, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

So if there is uncontested evidence that a complainant's wiki declarations are untrue, then that evidence ought to be ignored if the evidence was obtained outside of Wiki. That seems to violate principles of natural justice. Laurel Lodged (talk) 21:40, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
 * This isn't about justice; that is irrelevant here. &#8211; MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 21:44, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

You acted as judge in a Wiki tribunal: of course principles of natural justice are relevant. Otherwise any decision you arrive at is not open to to scrutiny, no matter how arbitrary it might have been. Please don't bring Wikipedia into further disrepute by denying that its workings do not operate acco Laurel Lodged (talk) 21:52, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

According to natural justice. All is chaos otherwise. Laurel Lodged (talk) 21:53, 25 January 2021 (UTC) I am not a judge; I did not make a ruling. There is no wiki tribunal. If you have an actual complaint about this user's onwiki activities, then you may comment freely on those matters. However, accountability on this website does not extend beyond it. has a reasonable expectation of privacy, and I will not tolerate any attempts by anyone to breach it. &#8211; MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 22:15, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is not a quasi-judicial body.
 * I contend that the policy document Wikilawyering tends to disagree with your opinion that Wiki if not a quasi-judicial tribunal. It states: "Remember that Wikipedia has an Arbitration Committee closely modelled on a court of law, a system of elections of administrators and bureaucrats, Featured Article and Good Article review procedures, and various other formal processes.". In which case, natural justice rules about what evidence may be adduced and the proper weight to give to evidence adduced would be relevant. Laurel Lodged (talk) 14:16, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I have left the possibility of a new discussion open if it exists soley grounded in onwiki evidence against the user. &#8211; MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 16:40, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

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 * @50.201.195.170: Certainly will do! &#8211;<span style="font-family:CG Times, times"> MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 11:41, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Closure challenge
Hi,. I see that you closed the RfC Talk:Bitcoin Cash based on your decision that Talk:Bitcoin Cash is essentially the same subject. I disagree, based on the fact that these two discuss different sources. I cannot use just one and claim that some other source not mentioned in the question is also inappropriate. For that, I would have to use a different question. Thank you for considering this. Ladislav Mecir (talk) 22:47, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Okay, but the real question underlying both of these RfCs is whether reliable sources support the claim that Bitcoin Cash is referred to as Bcash in general. Having two different RfCs trying to answer that one simple question is pretty redundant. If you need to re-word the first RFC a bit, you are free to do that so long as you note it in the discussion. &#8211;<span style="font-family:CG Times, times"> MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 00:16, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Long time no chat!
I hope you're doing well and that you're staying safe! I just wanted to message you to say hello and to let you know that I was thinking about you... :-) Cheers -  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   02:41, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
 * That's very kind of you. To be honest, I am rather distressed right now since my adoptee was just blocked. :( &#8211;<span style="font-family:CG Times, times"> MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 02:45, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Shoot... I'm sorry to hear that, MJL. Don't be too stressed over it, though. I've had many disappointments like that on Wikipedia when I tried to help and mentor other users, too. It's a lot of time, energy, and work to give away to someone else that could've been spent on yourself (or other Wikipedia activities) instead. It can be quite a let-down (even infuriating) to see it all be spent just for the account to end up being blocked. My biggest let-downs were when I'd spend time helping another account just for them to be blocked for sock puppetry by a checkuser or as a confirmed LTA. It really makes you feel that your time has been wasted, and I was often left feeling taken advantage of and made a fool.


 * Over time, you'll learn to take those knocks and be okay with it. As someone once told me long ago, you have to "take the meat, and leave the bones" in these kinds of situations. Don't look at the negative things that happened, but look at the positive things. In the end, you gained experience on Wikipedia with helping others, answering questions, and being a good mentor - even if the result isn't what you hoped it would be. That's the meat that you take with you. The rest? Bones. Leave them on the plate and do nothing more with them. You don't want to carry bones with you; all it does is burden you and leave you with feelings of resentment and discouragement. Bones do nothing good for you. The meat, though? The good things that came out of this? Don't leave that behind. Else, you're just throwing it away, and that does nothing for you. :-)


 * Don't give up, don't stop being you, keep doing what you're doing, and definitely don't stop trying to help, educate, and mentor others. Experiencing frustration, anger, and other set-backs like this is a part of becoming a highly experienced, wise, patient, kind, and respected editor. You have to take the bad things, and work with yourself to set them aside and move on. It can be very hard to do at times, but with time, experience, and some growth and self-reflection, it becomes easier to do.


 * Please don't hesitate to reach out to me if you have questions, or if you need anything. I'm here for you! Keep up the excellent work! You're a valued member of this community, and we need you! :-)  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   03:32, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Just seen this unfortunate situation and agree with Oshwah, very well put. Sometimes when we employ AGF we get punished for it. Doesn't mean that we shouldn't AGF or that it's our fault things went wrong. Better to naively try to help ten socks than to scare away one person with potential to become one of our strongest editors. — Bilorv ( talk ) 09:56, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

Deliberate misgendering on IHA's talk page
I don't mean to add to your stress, as I imagine this is a difficult situation for you, but I wanted to ask your advice regarding these comments made by a user on IHA's talk. I don't want to stir up trouble, but it also seems wildly improper for a comment deliberately misgendering IHA to stay on the page, particularly after they complained just above it about transphobia on WP. Sr ey Sr os talk 07:21, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
 * It's fine, and you handled it well. { &#8211;<span style="font-family:CG Times, times"> MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 13:35, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

Really worried about IHA
&#8211;<span style="font-family:CG Times, times"> MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 20:28, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

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A complement
I just wanted to let you know I think this was a well considered close []. It's nice to see a close that includes a clear weighing of the arguments and a clean conclusion as well as suggestions for future actions. Closing an obvious RfC is easy. I really appreciate that you spent the the time/effort to weigh the arguments when closing. That was a RfC I watched but decided not to participate in because I couldn't decide how I would vote. I think I would come down on the side of D for reasons similar to your closing but I didn't feel strongly enough or well versed enough to want to contribute. My interest made the sound reasoning of your closing stand out that much more. Anyway, hats off to you for the fine work. Springee (talk) 02:16, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

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I'm sorry for the recent stresses over IHA. You're great. —valereee (talk) 00:51, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

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Proposed decision posted at the open Kurds and Kurdistan case
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No consensus / retarget closes
Thanks for the Anarchism in Somalia close. I recently created WP:NCRET, and the corresponding section of WP:RFDO, which may be helpful to link in such closures. --BDD (talk) 15:08, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Ah, that's incredibly useful! I've added a hatnote to What "no consensus" means and a clarifying point to Consensus. That will make this easier to find. &#8211;<span style="font-family:CG Times, times"> MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 18:18, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

Closure of the R from shortcut TfD
Hey, I noticed you closed the TfD about the R from shortcut and R from template shortcut templates with a consensus to merge. While I don't dispute this, I'm wondering if you'd like some help implementing this change? Since I was the original author of the module you linked, and I am working on standardizing rcats in general. Secondly, I'm wondering why you didn't remove the TfD notice from the templates in question. Thanks Elliot321 (talk &#124; contribs) 21:58, 20 February 2021 (UTC) When you asked me why I didn't remove the TfD notices, I was about to say "Well, I'm waiting for a template editor to respond to my edit request." Things clicked right after that, haha. &#8211;<span style="font-family:CG Times, times"> MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 22:14, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Well, funny story.. I kind of forgot about the provision of WP:NACD that says don't close discussions when you can't implement the result. I will go and revert myself now. &#8211;<span style="font-family:CG Times, times"> MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 22:07, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I shouldn't have closed that discussion to begin with. It's reopened now.
 * no worries! I took a quick look through your contributions and you might qualify for TE, if you were to apply (seems like you've made a decent number of implemented edit requests, though it's ultimately up to the clerking admin's judgement). Elliot321 (talk &#124; contribs) 22:29, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I probably would qualify, but I worry about the perception of hat collecting. I already have four user rights, and I think when someone gets more than that people start asking questions. &#8211;<span style="font-family:CG Times, times"> MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 23:37, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
 * and that's when you do an RfA ;) (more seriously, I wouldn't worry about it - I have a decent number of user rights too, but since I use all of them semi-regularly, it's never been a concern for me) Elliot321 (talk &#124; contribs) 23:46, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I've reclosed the discussion now with the same outcome. I would definitely support you having TE: You have experience evaluating consensus and enough technical knowledge to make sure you don't break anything and would probably use it quite regularly. It isn't hatcollecting if you use them =). --Trialpears (talk) 09:08, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

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Thanks!
Hey there! Just wanted to say thanks for defusing the situation. You're absolutely right, I should have had a gentler hand when discussing it with them but I appreciate your intervention and you explaining it to them. Jns4eva (talk) 06:55, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Arbitration/Requests/Case/Kurds and Kurdistan closed
An arbitration case regarding Kurds and Kurdistan has now closed and the final decision is viewable at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted:


 * Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.
 * is indefinitely banned from the English Wikipedia. This ban may be appealed twelve months after the enactment of this remedy, and every twelve months thereafter.
 * is topic-banned from articles related to Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed. This ban may be appealed twelve months after the enactment of this remedy, and every twelve months thereafter.
 * is topic-banned from articles related to Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed. This ban may be appealed twelve months after the enactment of this remedy, and every twelve months thereafter.
 * is topic-banned from articles related to Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed. This ban may be appealed twelve months after the enactment of this remedy, and every twelve months thereafter.
 * is topic-banned from articles related to Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed. This ban may be appealed twelve months after the enactment of this remedy, and every twelve months thereafter.
 * Paradise Chronicle is warned to avoid casting aspersions and repeating similar uncollegial conduct in the future.

For the Arbitration Committee, Dreamy <i style="color:#d00">Jazz</i> talk to me &#124; my contributions 14:32, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Discuss this at: 

Gillette
Hello, MJL! You were kind enough to assist with this request to update the Products section at Gillette. I've tried hard to find other editors to assist with subsequent requests, with no responses, unfortunately. Would you have a moment to take a look at this very similar request? Thanks for your consideration! EA.Ketchum (talk) 16:16, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I'll be happy to take a look at it when I get home from work. { &#8211;<span style="font-family:CG Times, times"> MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 21:32, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

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Question?
Hi my friend, I had a question, do you think this article I wrote is suitable for publication or not, and if you can publish it for me, I could not, I do not know why.--MNL (talk) 03:22, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
 * @: Why did you tag it with ? &#8211;<span style="font-family:CG Times, times"> MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 04:21, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I saw this label in an article, I thought it was good, I used it, was there something wrong?--MNL (talk) 08:40, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Can you publish this article for me? I could not publish it myself. I think I have not been given this opportunity yet.--MNL (talk) 10:41, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
 * @: Do you have a WP:COI with the subject? &#8211;<span style="font-family:CG Times, times"> MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 19:13, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I was not familiar with this topic, I just saw that it was used in a few articles related to dubbers, and I said I would use.--MNL (talk) 19:31, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
 * @: I guess then my only question is how did you take this picture: File:Hamoon-Hemmat.jpg? If you didn't take it, then that is going to be a problem. &#8211;<span style="font-family:CG Times, times"> MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 19:43, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I downloaded the photo from imdb because it has better quality than other personal photos on the internet.--MNL (talk) 20:00, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
 * @: That's a major problem. We need to get that picture deleted. It's a violation of copyright; please read Commons:Licensing. &#8211;<span style="font-family:CG Times, times"> MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 05:21, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
 * yes the right with you, please clear it.--MNL (talk) 16:05, 26 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi, I had a question, when will my account be approved to create an article?Can you not verify my account as administrator?--MNL (talk) 17:31, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
 * @: I am actually not an administrator. &#8211;<span style="font-family:CG Times, times"> MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 18:20, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, I thought you were the manager. Can you refer me to a manager to verify my account?--MNL (talk) 19:01, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
 * @: It's fine! However, I don't think any administrator is going to verify your account at this moment. Just be patient for now, okay? { &#8211;<span style="font-family:CG Times, times"> MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 19:11, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh, that means my account may not be approved.:(--MNL (talk) 19:27, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

Help updating the Fund for the Public Interest page?
Hello User:MJL, this is Elizabeth, or User:CleanWater17. You helped improve the Fund for the Public Interest article in late 2019. It needs more updating. Nothing major, but needed, I think, to move it closer to ‘good article’ status. Would you be willing to review my proposed revisions? I will post them on the article talk page, or here, wherever you prefer. Thanks in advance. CleanWater17 (talk) 01:00, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Sadly, I can't right at this moment of time. I have an article up for a good article status right now. I don't want to over-commit! &#8211;<span style="font-family:CG Times, times"> MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 01:24, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi I completely understand the problem of overcommitting. I'm going to go ahead and post proposed edits on the Fund page, and perhaps someone else who has been active editing there will have time to respond, or else the edits will still be waiting if/when your schedule frees up. Thanks for your help. CleanWater17 (talk) 22:16, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

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Round 1 of the competition has finished; it was a high-scoring round with 21 contestants scoring more than 100 points. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 55 contestants qualifying. You will need to finish among the top thirty-two contestants in Round 2 if you are to qualify for Round 3. Our top scorers in Round 1 were:


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womp womp. &#8211;<span style="font-family:CG Times, times"> MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 23:57, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Homestuck
The article Homestuck you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Homestuck for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Premeditated Chaos -- Premeditated Chaos (talk) 03:42, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

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Thank you for your recent VPP RFC closure
I try to make a point of thanking brave editors who take on thankless tasks. Your closure of the RFC on unhyphenated parameters is one such task, and I am grateful that you took it on. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:51, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Upon re-reading it, I did have one question. You wrote: "As such, these parameters should not be advertised in documentation, hidden maintenance categories added (and etc.) while still remaining available for use by long time editors." That sentence appears to be missing at least one word, and it is unclear what "and etc." means. Did you mean "As such, these parameters should not be advertised in documentation, hidden maintenance categories added (and etc.) while  still remain ing available for use by long time editors." Usually, within the CS1 templates, deprecated parameters display a red error message and a hidden error-tracking category. For these six remaining "developer-discouraged" parameters, you suggested "maintenance categories", which is a separate type of hidden CS1 category that renders a normally hidden green message (editors can display the messages via personal CSS). An example of a CS1 maintenance category is .  Can you please clarify whether it was your intention to authorize the tracking of the six remaining "developer-discouraged" parameters via a CS1 maintenance category and a normally hidden green message? Thanks in advance. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:21, 6 April 2021 (UTC)


 * The green message like the way it is for harv.  &#8211;<span style="font-family:CG Times, times"> MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 21:25, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Village pump (proposals) closure
You say in your closure "the RFC establishing deprecation happened more than five years ago". What RFC would that be? The one at Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 5 very clearly says "establishing this uniform parameter name convention does not preclude the existence of any other alias for a parameter, merely that a lowercase, hyphenated version will exist for each parameter", which is nothing like deprecation. Phil Bridger (talk) 17:54, 6 April 2021 (UTC)


 * You're right. I'll fix what I meant to say later. &#8211;<span style="font-family:CG Times, times"> MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 21:26, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

I know that RfCs aren't a votecount, but still: by my count, there are 30 votes for A and B together, and 43 for C. Taking into account that a strong impression was given that A and B simply executed a decision already taken 5 years ago, and that C went against that decision (which turned out to be false during the RfC, and which undermined one of the two arguments for A/B rather strongly), I fail to see how this RfC is closed the way you did. As far as I see, there is no consensus at all to deprecate, remove, change, ... accessdate to access-date at all, never mind by bot (which is what is being discussed at the Bot noticeboard right now; the only change they see, because of the RfC close, is that the bot can't do the change just on its own, but it can continue making the change if coupled with other, more substantial changes).

Basically, the end result is that the opinion of the vast majority at that RfC is ignored and a superficial change is made, but the end result is still a continuation of the same pointless task because it is wanted by a minority. The RfC should be reclosed making it clear that there is a weak consensus against this change, that both versions should be accepted, and that no mass changes from one to the other (both directions) should be made, separately or as part of another bottask or through AWB or something similar.

Please reconsider your close of this RfC. Fram (talk) 16:09, 7 April 2021 (UTC) I put a lot of weight behind comments like 'this from as  pretty heavily cited in the RFC. You also had several contributors who explicitly put Option B as their second option while C was their first, and the fact that (outside watchlist objections) the main reason behind C was that users wanted to be able to continue to use accessdate without any disruption in functionality. Does this clarify anything for you? &#8211;<span style="font-family:CG Times, times"> MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 17:41, 7 April 2021 (UTC) To go point-by-point, I fail to see consensus that the five or so parameters are "discouraged". As many commentators pointed out, there was a discrepancy between the CS1 template maintainers and the average editors; both wanted different things when it came to the outcome of the discussion. What I am saying there is that most people recognize that the template maintainers discourage non-hyphenated parameters (this is just a fact). I fail even more to see consensus for a future removal as described in... That isn't describing a future removal. I'm saying the developers can have their attempts to try to limit and track the nonhyphenated parameters all they want, but they are explicitly never allowed to turn them off. Your close, however, seems to put a lot of emphasis on Monkbot, watchlists, and previous discussions, while, as pointed out, that was not the sole argument of either the deprecate or the do not deprecate side. Flatly untrue. Read the discussion and you can see comments like: Option C, stop the craziness hitting watchlists (although most of that damage is already done). or Option C per Aquillion. Monkbot should never have been approved. That was like a good amount of the discussion outside of arguing which is easier to type/read hyphenated or nonhyphenated. &#8211;<span style="font-family:CG Times, times"> MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 04:42, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
 * The five or so discouraged parameters are not deprecated and will not be turned off. My reading of the consensus was that their functionality will continue to have to be begrudgingly supported by the CS1 maintainers.
 * I am very flattered to be mentioned in dispatches, but have to point out that my comment was not limited to the "accessdate" parameter, but was addressed to the 1960s' argument (or even 1950s') that allowing any commonly-used synonym for a parameter in any way inhibits the ability our very useful template writers to write good stuff. Phil Bridger (talk) 17:56, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Just using access-date as an example. The same thing applies to all the grandfathered/discouraged nonhyphenated parameters. { &#8211;<span style="font-family:CG Times, times"> MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 18:00, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
 * I must also point out that I don't see how the discussion could be closed as consensus for "option B lite". I fail to see consensus that the five or so parameters are "discouraged". I fail even more to see consensus for a future removal as described in "As such, these parameters should not be advertised in documentation, hidden maintenance categories added (and etc.) while still remaining available for use by long time editors. The five or so grandfathered parameters should only ever turned off following a later discussion which receives wide attention and clear consensus.". I similarly, again, fail to see consensus for the specific wording of "Therefore, the Monkbot 18 should not be run solely to replace the discouraged non-hyphenated parameters." (if anything, it should be "should not be run at all to replace..."). FWIW, the status quo ante bellum was "editors are free to use whichever variant of the parameter they want to and bot operators should not be encouraged to create a bot to enforce a particular one". The RfC could have possibly been closed as "no consenus", in which case status quo ante prevails. Your close, however, seems to put a lot of emphasis on Monkbot, watchlists, and previous discussions, while, as pointed out, that was not the sole argument of either the deprecate or the do not deprecate side. I ask, as Fram, that you kindly correct or retract your close. Thanks, RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 00:42, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm going to stick to my guns on this one. People were driven to comment in that discussion for only a few reasons, and I think my reading of their ideal outcomes was rather solid. Of course, this isn't an exact process where I can get everything right in one go, but I still think that my close is pretty well-founded.
 * Also, another good part of the discussion was debates about what should actually be considered the status quo, so I doubt a no consensus close would clear that up any time soon. &#8211;<span style="font-family:CG Times, times"> MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 04:44, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll raise this at WP:AN (to review the RfC close, not for any actions against you as that is hardly warranted for a potentially wrong close which was then explained civilly and at length). I'll drop a link here when I have done so. Fram (talk) 08:58, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Now at WP:AN. Fram (talk) 09:18, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Help with editing
If you know the way to make a character table send me an message.--General electric p30ch (talk) 07:00, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes? You'll have to be a bit more specific than that, though. &#8211;<span style="font-family:CG Times, times"> MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 04:20, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

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Hello, how are you my friend, long time not hear from, hope you had a nice Easter, was wondering if you could help me again, hotter, first need to make the images smaller in art. AFI Lifetime Acheivement Awards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.43.73.80 (talk) 14:35, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2021 May newsletter
The second round of the 2021 WikiCup has now finished; it was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 61 points to advance to Round 3. There were some impressive efforts in the round, with the top eight contestants all scoring more than 400 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 110 good articles achieved in total by contestants, as well as the 216 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.

Our top scorers in Round 2 were:


 * 🇧🇼 The Rambling Man, with 2963 points from three featured articles, 20 featured article reviews, 37 good articles, 73 good article reviews, as well as 22 DYKs.
 * Epicgenius, with 1718 points from one featured article, 29 good articles, 16 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
 * Bloom6132, with 990 points from 13 DYKs and 64 "In the news" items, mostly recent deaths.
 * Bennington Flag.svg Hog Farm, with 834 points from two featured articles, five good articles, 14 featured article reviews and 15 good article reviews.
 * Standard of Oliver Cromwell (1653–1659).svg Gog the Mild, with 524 points from two featured articles and four featured article reviews.
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski, with 501 points from one featured article, three good articles, six featured article reviews and 25 good article reviews.
 * Transgender Pride flag.svg Sammi Brie, with 485 points from four good articles, eight good article reviews and 27 DYKs, on US radio and television stations.
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Vagabond Heart
Hello your friend, christened vagabond, and most suitability, lol. thank-you for your message and sorry oft he delay, i am good hope you are good as well. Writing in regarding to these article, AFL (American Film Institute) 100 Year series, do you think these have to much trivia based information, whilst interesting an article should stick to the basic's shouldn't it, they have so much added information now, they have become far beyond "Lists" , i give an example the 100 years...100 stars list the institutes top 50 stars of the 20th century, this includes 25 males legends and 25 females legends, these where chosen out of a bulk list of 500 entries, inclusive of 250 male legends and 250 female legends respectively, under section "nominees" , in other words the unfortunate stars that missed out making the list, do we need this section unless we are going to add all 225 that missed out, the list is about the top 25 only? what do you think? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.43.73.80 (talk • contribs) 13:53, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

Picture request
Could you please upload a picture for Carmen Duncan, regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.43.73.80 (talk • contribs) 14:45, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
 * IP, there is already an uploaded picture of Carmen Duncan Dr. Swag Lord (talk) 20:50, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
 * That isn't free to use.. &#8211;<span style="font-family:CG Times, times"> MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 00:27, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
 * It can't be used under WP:NFC? Dr. Swag Lord (talk) 00:40, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Duncan died in 2019, so I think a few people would still argue we can't use a nonfree photo yet since the death was too recent. &#8211;<span style="font-family:CG Times, times"> MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 00:44, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

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Dear MJL
Hello, how are you my friend, hope you are okay, congratulations on all your hard work, and election to PUBLIC OFFICE, well deserved, please i need an otter again, please monitor ALL my edits, that are numerous, most people are reasonably nice, although other write stupid things like "possible vandalism" rather silly or just plain rude and impolite, and not normally giving any such explanation. kindest regards

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 21
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Hello everyone and welcome to the 21st issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg New scripts


 * Alexander Davronov's HistoryHelper helps to copy diff links from the history display of a page
 * Aseleste's Purger makes it easier to purge or null edit a page
 * Awesome Aasim:
 * CatMan adds a category manager to simplify interactions for adding and removing the categories of a page
 * redirectcreator allows for easy creation of multiple redirects
 * Bop34's EasyDesc adds a link to the top navigation bar which allows you to add a short description without opening the edit menu
 * BrandonXLF's NullEdit adds a portlet link to perform a null edit on a page
 * Chlod:
 * FoldArchives collapses archived talk page threads in order to reduce screen space
 * GoToTitle converts the page title into an input field for navigating to other pages
 * UserHighlighter adds highlighting to links to the userpages, talk pages, and contributions of administrators and other user groups as well as tooltips to indicate which groups a user is in
 * GhostInTheMachine:
 * NoEditSummary adds a warning if an edit will be saved without an edit summary
 * SortWhatLinksHere sorts the links shows on Special:WhatLinksHere
 * WatchlistTidy moves the "new updates found" timestamp block from the bottom of the filter block to the top of the filter area on the watchlist
 * GorillaWarfare's curlies simplifies converting curly quotes to straight quotes while in the source editing mode
 * Nardog:
 * AutoSectionLink corrects the  every time you hit "Show changes"
 * AutoTestcases autofills "Preview page with this template/module" with the most relevant /testcases page that exists
 * SortCentralAuthByEditCount sorts the list of local accounts on CentralAuth by edit count
 * Novem Linguae:
 * CiteHighlighter highlights 1800 sources green, yellow, or red depending on reliability.
 * NPPLinks adds WP:BEFORE Google search links, copyvio check, duplicate article check, and other links to the left menu.
 * Ritenerek's goce_nav adds a link to WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors to the navigation menu
 * Suffusion of Yellow:
 * filterDiff: Adds a "Show changes" button to the filter editor.
 * filterNotes: Parses filter notes as wikitext (so links are clickable), and signs and dates new comments for you.
 * filterTest: Adds a "Test changes" button. Opens Special:AbuseFilter/test with what's currently in the edit form, not with what's saved in the database, so you don't have to copy-paste your changes.
 * Terasail's COI Request Tool allows users to reply to, close or remove conflict of interest edit requests


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Updated scripts


 * Twinkle has a number of improvements, including that most watchlist defaults now make use of the new temporary watchlist feature. Other changes include rollbacks treating consecutive IPv6 editors in the same /64 range as the same user, adding a preview for shared IP tagging, a preference for watching users after CSD notification, and for sysops, the ability to block the /64 and link to a WP:RfPP request, and new copyright blocks default to indefinite.
 * Shortdesc helper now v3.4.17, changes include minor fixes and preventing edits that don't change the description.
 * BrandonXLF's CitationStyleMarker now recognizes WP:CSLSA and WP:CSVAN styles, in addition to WP:CS1 and WP:CS2
 * Joeytje50's JWB now version 4.1.0, includes the ability to generate page lists from the search tool, major updates to the handling of regular expressions, the storing of user settings, the addition of upload protection, and an option to skip pages that belong to a specific category, among other changes. See User:Joeytje50/JWB/Changelog for a full list of recent changes.
 * User:SD0001/deleted-metadata-link.js – updated to include a link to snippet of deleted content, instead of just metadata.


 * Info Simple bw.svg Miscellaneous


 * User scripts/List has been revamped to make it easier to find scripts suited for your needs. If you know of a cool script that is missing on the list, or a script on the list that is no longer working, please edit the list or let us know on the talk page.


 * 1009Clock.jpg Pending requests


 * A request for a script to help admins posting "recent death" items to Template:In the news
 * A request for a script to warn users about syntax and template errors
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests



My apologies for this long-overdue issue, and if I missed any scripts. Hopefully going forward we can go back to monthly releases - any help would be appreciated. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 13:04, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

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