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January 2017
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Ninjago Characters Reversion Explanation
Thank you, 86.4.212.166 and Xigua7, for your edits to this page:

List of Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu characters

I have reverted these edits, as most of them do not comply with the guidelines for the page, for one of three reasons:


 * 1) They describe events in the story (and should be removed, as discussed on the talk page for the aforementioned article).
 * 2) They describe character appearances, which likely is a problem.
 * 3) They have formatting or grammatical errors.

I have re-added to the article the parts which do not have any of these problems.

Thank you again for your edits!

Noah Kastin (talk) 09:35, 29 January 2017 (UTC)


 * If there are no objections, I would like to move this discussion to the List of Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu characters talk page. I think this would be more appropriate, according to Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines. Noah Kastin (talk) 05:19, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
 * This discussion has now been moved to the Talk:List of Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu characters page, under the name of Content Reversion: 1/29/17 UTC.

A pie for you!

 * I'm so glad you like my user page! I like your user page too. :) Noah Kastin (talk) 02:13, 26 February 2017 (UTC)


 * , I forgot to mention: this virtual pie is delicious! Thanks! Noah Kastin (talk) 05:21, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Should Tips be a sub-page?
Hi! I have considered making the “Tips” section of my page into a sub-page of my user page, with a link to it on my user page. This would be done to make my user page as a whole more compact, while preserving the content of the Tips section. Does anyone have any opinions on whether this happens or not? Thanks! Noah Kastin (talk) 02:15, 26 February 2017 (UTC)


 * I have now added a fifth tip to my user page. I thought I should mention that, in case it affects anyone's opinions on the above matter. Noah Kastin (talk) 09:24, 26 February 2017 (UTC)


 * I'm going to go ahead and make Tips into its own sub-page. If there are any objections, please let me know here. Thanks! Noah Kastin (talk) 07:51, 28 February 2017 (UTC)


 * The article has now been created. It is at User:Noah Kastin/Tips. Although any further discussion as to whether or not the page should exist should continue to be discussed here, if any discussion about the contents of the page is necessary, it should be discussed done at User talk:Noah Kastin/Tips, the dedicated talk page for the new page. Noah Kastin (talk) 08:07, 28 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi Noah! To answer your question, yes, you can make subpages off of your own user page, although it looks like you figured that out. Have you discovered The Teahouse yet? It is a good place to get answers to questions like that! Cheers, Tdslk (talk) 00:52, 1 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks for helping, ! Also sorry about the ambiguity: that was not actually the question I was asking. I actually did know about subpage creation and The Teahouse (but thanks for telling me about them, just in case I didn't!). The actual question I was asking was whether anyone would mind if I moved Tips into a sub-page, as that would drastically alter the design of my page. As no one responded, I decided to go ahead with the change. Thanks again for helping! Noah Kastin (talk) 01:53, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I got it now! Sorry for the confusion. Tdslk (talk) 02:46, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Joining the Copyediting Guild
Hey Noah, I noticed there was a copyediting guild and that you are a part of it. I was wondering if you can tell me more about it? Also, with the next few days the March Blitz begins. Should I sign up for a few articles? Is there a maximum or minimum amount of articles we can copyedit. Where do I find articles? Thanks for helping, Txmormon97 (talk) 23:57, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi ! I left some answers to your questions over on your talk page. Cheers, Tdslk (talk) 00:37, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

IPs and talk pages and pings, oh my!
Hi Noah, an FYI re: this: IP editors don't have watchlists, so they are not likely to be aware of a discussion, nor are they likely to check the talk page unless you drop a talkback template on their talk page. I also don't think they get ping notifications. Anyhow, thanks for being conscientious and communicative, even if you are editing in areas where you're not getting tons of feedback. You're doing collaboration correctly! Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 13:36, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks, ! By the way, I actually did drop a talkback notice on the talk page for the user in question (I picked up how to do it from you in this discussion). Thanks again! Noah Kastin (talk) 03:52, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Whoops! Sorry. My bad. :) Cyphoidbomb (talk) 04:15, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
 * No problem, . I didn't provide a link to the discussion, so there was virtually no way of finding that out (and IP addresses all look so similar that I wasn't even sure which IP's talk page I had posted the talkback on). At any rate, thanks for letting me know about talkbacks in the first place (if you hadn't, I would still be pinging IPs - and if it hadn't been for your user page, I wouldn't even know how to do that!). Noah Kastin (talk) 04:58, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

March drive bling
Hey Noah! Congrats on the (old school) Barnstar! (That was the first one I got from the GOCE.) Too bad you didn't get a leaderboard award for your 5K article, but there's always next time.

As you've noticed, I've been reviewing some of the articles from the drive that interested me. I'm also a relative newcomer to the Guild, and I find this useful to examine the approaches that others have taken. The ability to compare versions from the page history makes this easy. I believe you did some editing on Car controls, for example, so you could review the changes by Twofingered Typist and myself.

There are other exercises at WikiProject_Guild_of_Copy_Editors/How_to, and I highly recommend Tony1's copyediting exercises. It's not bad to read through the Manual of Style once in a while, either.

You didn't do anything wrong with Tere Mere Beech, BTW. It's just that the page wasn't that active and I didn't think your inline notes would be addressed anytime soon. Also, you may have noticed some of the GOCE barnstars (like the one above) have a quill and a mop or broom? I feel that's a reflection that there's a certain amount of cleanup involved, so while I'm copyediting I may also work on templates or linking. I managed to find, link and translate a few terms. Then with most of the other plot material that wasn't understandable, I either generalized it or removed it as trivial. (Plot summaries shouldn't cover every little detail.) Many of the articles tagged for copyedit will have translation issues or overly long plot summaries, so you'll get used to this. If there were active editors on the article, though, I feel your approach would have been right (to ask for clarification, inline or on the talk page). But if somebody objects to what I removed, everything is still there in the page history so I don't feel it's bad to be bold in copyediting a neglected article.

On the other hand, Technology in Star Wars is relatively active. Before I start copyediting, I'll always check the page history and talk page for activity and potential issues. On the talk page, you'll also see if the article is associated with any WikiProjects, and these can be a resource to aid in copyediting. WikiProject Star Wars even has its own Manual of Style. It appear to be a work-in-progress, but does offer guidelines for clarity and consistency in Star Wars articles. I'll add a few comments on the talk page of Technology in Star Wars.

Hope my blathering has been of some use. Keep up the good work! – Reidgreg (talk) 11:27, 6 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi, ! Thanks for dropping by! I have several comments and questions relating to your post here. (Note: I will list them in the same order as the things that you wrote that they are replies to, to make them easier to follow.)


 * First of all, thanks for congratulating me on the Barnstar!


 * As for the leaderboard awards, I was impressed by how industrious everyone else was; up until near the end, I was on the leaderboard in a few slots &mdash; and then I got knocked out by a sudden surge of activity! (I wondered why I would have been on the leaderboard for, say, one 5k article &mdash; and in fourth place, too.)


 * I didn't notice that you were reviewing articles (except when you reviewed one of the ones that I had copy edited). I also forgot that reviweing exists, despite the fact that the March Backlog Reduction Drive clearly stated it here. However, it's nice to know that you're reviewing articles. (Then more will get reviewed!)


 * Since you mentioned I could, I tried to review your and Twofingered Typist's edits to Car controls; see Talk:Car controls for more details.


 * I looked at some of your suggestions for exercises at WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/How to. I haven't had much time to check them out, but they look useful!


 * About Tere Mere Beech: I'm confused about what you were trying to address with the paragraph about it on this talk page. I am similarly confused about the paragraph here on Technology in Star Wars. If you can clarify exactly what you were trying to say with these passages, that would help a lot!


 * Your comment has been useful, and I will try to keep up the good work.


 * And finally, somewhat out of place, but definitely useful: Thanks for the plot trimming and more on Tere Mere Beech! I deemed it worth a cookie, at least.


 * Thanks again for stopping by! If you have any questions, suggestions, etc., please let me know.


 * Noah Kastin (talk) 01:21, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I seem to write much more conversationally on talk pages (especially considering how many edits I do for conciseness on articles) and apologize for using an ambiguous word like "review" (search for that in the Wikipedia namespace and you'll get all kinds of results). I meant "look at for my/your own interest" (specifics at Car controls).  In the context of a GOCE drive (which of course is the context of the conversation), no, I was not formally reviewing the articles you edited.  During a drive/blitz, if I happen to check someone's work (usually due to a post on the drive talk page, an edit conflict, or a particular interest in the article), I'll formally check it on the list, just to give some feedback to someone new that they're doing a good job.  But after the drive is over I don't tend to formally check articles.  If you examine the page histories (or user contributions), you will notice that the GOCE coordinators and other copyeditors do visit and make small changes to a lot of "completed articles".  They just do it behind the scenes (which saves time) instead of leaving checkmarks on the drive lists.  (My three most-edited pages on the Wiki are GOCE drive pages and for myself, I feel like I'd be inflating my editcount if I checked-off every article I looked at.)


 * I believe the surge of activity at the end of the drive was an effort to try to finish the last month of old articles. You'll see a lot of the "big guns" come out for that last fight of the battle.  I think it's an extra challenge, because those last articles are often very difficult ones (Tere Mere Beech being an example).


 * I can't recommend those exercises enough. They're the best, most specific how-to guides I've seen for anything on Wikipedia, and they teach you how to write specifically for Wikipedia (encyclopedic tone, linking, MoS).  I would suggest going through the advanced exercises before doing "formal" reviewing of copyedited articles for GOCE drives/blitzes.


 * About Tere Mere Beech, what I primarily wanted to say was that you did a perfectly good copyedit. Although I made large changes to the article, I didn't want to discourage you or invalidate the work you did.  (I know it took time to do all that markup with the inline templates.)  I wanted to say that what I did may have been "going an extra mile" and included cleanup beyond what might be strictly considered copyediting; you can do cleanup work like that if you're confident about it but you shouldn't feel obligated to do that on every article you copyedit just because I did it in this one case.  (I replied about page history on Car controls, and "cleanup" is a broad term for various fixes articles may need.)


 * I was trying to draw a comparison with Technology in Star Wars, that if I used the same approach of unilaterally deleting trivial material, it would likely cause immediate controversy with editors of the article. The article probably could be improved with a certain amount of streamlining, but for this article those kind of changes would be best to discuss on the talk page – and a copyeditor might not want to make that kind of commitment.


 * Thanks for the cookie! Hope I haven't confused you further. – Reidgreg (talk) 11:17, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
 * About the cookie: You're welcome! About everything else: Thanks for clarifying everything! Noah Kastin (talk) 01:09, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
 * You're welcome! For next week's blitz, I believe it's all Requests, so the requesting editor should be available if you have any questions about subject matter, the intended meaning of terms or phrases, or anything else about the article. – Reidgreg (talk) 13:33, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the information about the April Blitz! Having help from a requesting editor should be very useful when cleaning up confusing articles. Noah Kastin (talk) 07:12, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

With pleasure I am offering you this nice cookie for making Wikipedia Award Project more active by polite and knowledgeble way.


Hello Noah, I have noticed, that you have been always attentive and polite to the Editors, who ask the questions on talk page of Wiki Project Awards. That is very important, as such positive attitude is making Wikipedia's space a pleasant place to be, and accordingly - is making the work of Wikipedians more productive.

As one of the participants of the Wikipedia Awards Project, I am welcoming you to become a participant of this Project as well, as I think, that you can bring great benefit to this Project by your knowledge and good communication skill. Regards, Chris.Chris Oxford (talk) 11:13, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the cookie, ! I would be happy to join WikiProject Wikipedia Awards, but I'm not sure if it would be a good idea, as WikiProject Wikipedia Awards says:
 * "Do NOT add your name [to the list of participants] if you have the intention of only contributing once or twice!"
 * As it is, I'm not sure how many times I will contribute to the WikiProject, and so I'm not sure if I should add my name to the list.
 * Thanks again for the cookie!
 * Noah Kastin (talk) 23:40, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I can't stop trying to help people at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Wikipedia Awards, so I think I am going to join WikiProject Wikipedia Awards after all. Noah Kastin (talk) (🖋) 23:38, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I have now officially joined WikiProject Wikipedia Awards (in this edit) and added the WikiProject Wikipedia Awards userbox to my userbox list (in this edit). Noah Kastin (talk) (🖋) 23:50, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Hello, Noah Kastin,

Congratulations! You did a really right thing. It must be said that Wikipedia Awards Project is a very special one: that is arguably the only project, which is familiar to every Wikipedian, as its awards are helping express appreciation, gratitude, etc., what is highly regarded by most Editors. This Project is not very active at the moment;  that is happening from time to time to the majority of WikiProjects. Such temporary decrease in activity on the pages of projects is pretty common situation: this is a wavy process and it’s determined by many different factors, including both the quality of the materials & ideas offered and a degree of the participants’ communication skill: friendly tone, politeness, respect for the opinions of other editors are not just qualities that we all appreciate, but also a prerequisite for creating a psychologically comfortable atmosphere for the participants. You've done a fine job already and certainly your involvement in this Project is highly valued and welcomed. All the very best.

Regards, Chris Oxford.Chris Oxford (talk) 08:31, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for your guidance
Thank you for your kind words. I'm still learning the ropes and once again thank you very much.Sahilyoyo (talk) 15:42, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
 * You're welcome, ! If you need any help "learning the ropes", please let me know. Thanks! Noah Kastin (talk) 20:20, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Personal signature change: 5/20/17 UTC
Hi! I just changed my signature. Before, it looked like this:


 * Noah Kastin (talk)

Now, it looks like this:


 * Noah Kastin (talk) (contributions)

Please let me know what you think of this change.

Thanks!

Noah Kastin (talk) (contributions) 06:41, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

I just changed my signature again for brevity, replacing the word "contributions" with a pen emoji "🖋". Here's how my signature looks now:


 * Noah Kastin (talk) (🖋)

Please let me know what you think of this change.

Thanks!

Noah Kastin (talk) (🖋) 06:57, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

Copyediting
Hi Noah, thanks for your work at Naagin (TV series). Another editor came in after you and I just wanted to be sure that none of your clarification template or other changes had inexplicably gone missing. That article has been a real pain in the ass to maintain. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 14:33, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know, ! Some of my changes did inexplicably go missing, so I'm going to re-add them, making use of as much of the useful information added by as I can. Thanks again for letting me know! Noah Kastin (talk) (🖋) 02:21, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I have now made the proposed changes (in this edit). I thought that I should direct you to this information as well. Noah Kastin (talk) (🖋) 03:00, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Starfish
I have a transparent 1024x1024 pixels PNG image made from the vertically-flipped starfish animal from commons, with some transformations (including making the borders more obvious but blending, and changing the color so that it shows on pale background), in case you'd like to also see or try it. On the other hand I don't really feel like dealing with the intricacies of creating a Commons account and uploading the image now; if you'd like to send me an email using the "Send email" feature, this should normally also send me your email address, to which I could send an email with the attached image. If that is a problem, I could try to see how to upload to commons in the next few days, if you're still interested to try it. Thanks, — Paleo Neonate  - 12:37, 24 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know, ! I would be interested in seeing the picture. However, I would rather not use the email feature.
 * About creating a Commons account: As far as I know, users do not need to register a separate account for Commons; one Wikimedia account works across all Wikimedia projects, including Commons. Also, Special:Upload allows uploading of images without going through Commons.
 * If you have any questions, please let me know.
 * Thanks!
 * Noah Kastin (talk) (🖋) 20:57, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
 * When I go on Commons it said that I was logged out and although Special:CentralAuth/PaleoNeonate or Special:MergeAccount, listed various Wikis Commons was not listed, but you were right, I only had to login. Here's the image:
 * File:Reef0297_award.png. Here's a test custom award using it:
 * {| style="border: 1px solid gray; background-color: #fdffe7;"


 * style="vertical-align: middle; horizontal-align: left; padding: 5px;" | Reef0297_award.png
 * style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; height: 1.1em; width: 100%;" | Test starfish award  This is a test. — Paleo  Neonate  - 01:07, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * }
 * — Paleo Neonate  - 01:07, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * And here is a test custom award using your new image:
 * {| style="border: 1px solid gray; background-color: #fdffe7;"


 * style="vertical-align: middle; horizontal-align: left; padding: 5px;" | Barnstar Leather Star.png
 * style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; height: 1.1em; width: 100%;" | Test award  This is a test. — Paleo  Neonate  - 01:33, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * }
 * This one looks more like a barnstar Face-smile.svg — Paleo Neonate  - 01:33, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * As suggested at WT:WikiProject Wikipedia Awards, I will respond to you there. Noah Kastin (talk) (🖋) 01:43, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm glad that logging in fixed your problems with Commons! Noah Kastin (talk) (🖋) 01:46, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * BTW, the "leather star" with the red dots makes me think of caviar Face-smile.svg — Paleo Neonate  - 14:27, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I see the comparison. Maybe there should be a palette-swapped version of this star as a "caviar star" for some food project? Noah Kastin (talk) (🖋) 21:33, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Naagin (TV series) (4)
Thanq Noah Kastin. But Rudra is the main supporting character for Shivangi. With the help of him only, she killed her enemies and he rescued her many times from the enemies. So, he should also be mentioned in the plot. So, don't take away the sentence (Rudra allies with Shivangi because he wife died due to hit and run committed by Amar Nikhanj).

I have not exceeded 500 words now. I have removed irrelevant words too. See page history, I have removed 37 words from your edit. Thanking u again Noah Kastin.

By Pranay Star Pranay Star (talk) 05:36, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know and for trying to decrease the word count!
 * Unfortunately, your most recent edit has made the plot somewhat more ambiguous. For example, changing "Rocky falls for Shivangi" to "Rocky loves Shivangi" does remove a word, but it leaves open the question: Is Rocky already in love with Shivangi, or has he just fallen in love with her? With "falls for", it is immediately clear (to me, at least). Because of the problems created by reducing the word count, I will revert the word-diminishing changes made (leaving aside the event removal and the Rudra addition) if no response is given.
 * Concerning Rudra: I understand that Rudra is important to the series; however, I can't see any specific events which 1) warrant inclusion in the plot and 2) which he is partly responsible for. If both of those criteria are met, he should be added into the events; otherwise, he probably should not be mentioned in the article, despite his importance.
 * By the way, is this a response to a post I made on Talk:Naagin (TV series)? (I can't figure that out myself.) If it is, then I would like to move it over to Talk:Naagin (TV series). (Generally, I prefer to keep all discussions in one place, not across multiple pages.)
 * Thanks again for letting me know about your edit!
 * Noah Kastin (talk) (🖋) 06:07, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I just made an edit to Naagin (TV series). This edit made five changes, listed below:
 * "loves" -> "falls in love with": "loves" was too ambiguous, so I changed it to something less ambiguous.
 * "Shivanya changes herself as Shivangi and dies at Shesha's hands." -> "": I removed this sentence, as I deemed it to be unimportant (since we already know that Shivanya was fatally stabbed by Yamini's gang, I figure no more information about her death is necessary).
 * "After few days" -> "After a few days": As far as I know, "After few days" is grammatically incorrect. However, I am unfamiliar with Indian English, so it may be grammatical there.
 * "Rudra, an Ichchhadhari nag allies with her as he wants to avenge the Nikhanj family for covering up a hit & run committed by Amar which killed Rudra's wife." -> "": I removed this sentence because, as I said above, I do not see any events which warrant his inclusion in the plot; as such, the fact that he allies with Shivangi seems unimportant to me.
 * "and they want the Naagmani." -> "additionally, they want the Naagmani.": To me, this seems better laid out, due to the sentence being in the following format:
 * "A finds out that B did X; (changed word) B wants Y."
 * Using the word "additionally" shows me that the two thoughts are only related because A found them out in quick succession, while "and" seems to me to make the two thoughts too closely connected. However, this is simply a matter of preference on my part.
 * Please let me know if you have any questions.
 * Thanks!
 * Noah Kastin (talk) (🖋) 03:45, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

June 2017 GOCE Blitz Barnstar

 * Not a test award this time Face-smile.svg . Cheers! — Paleo  Neonate  - 00:14, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks, ! To tell the truth, I never would have gotten this barnstar without the help of ; without him, the article I worked on wouldn't have gotten copyedited thoroughly enough in one week, and so I wouldn't have gotten this barnstar. Noah Kastin (talk) (🖋) 00:38, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

Talk page merge
Hi! I just wanted to mention to anyone stopping by that I am about to redirect all of my user subpage talk pages to this page. This will be done due to the fact that no one has ever used any of my user subpage talk pages (and, likely, never will); this should make my user subpage talk pages a bit more useful by redirecting them to the talk page for me that everyone does use. Noah Kastin (talk) (🖋) 07:52, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ Noah Kastin (talk) (🖋) 07:59, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Sonic comics character section
Hey, noticed you were doing some edits to Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(comics). Fyi, just so you don't waste your time, lol, Evilgidgit has been working on a much better character section in their sandbox. See their sandbox's talk page and the Sonic comics talk page for more info. --FrostedPenguin87 (talk) 00:52, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

Campaign of Ignorance
Hi Noah, if you see yourself dabbling in Indian TV articles more frequently, you might benefit from poking through User:Cyphoidbomb/Campaign of Ignorance. It's a document I've put together to note some of the major irritating issues afflicting Indian TV articles. There was one guy in particular, Arnav19, who was creating scores of articles based on a template that was not at all in line with many MOS:TV guidelines, so each mistake he made early on proliferated to dozens of articles. But even beyond him, there are tons of random/ignorant/possible paid editors who keep insisting upon making changes that are inconsistent with community guidelines. I just blocked because despite numerous notices to stop mis-capitalising words that don't need capitalising, he kept doing it.. Anyway, you're not required to read that long thing, but if you start to feel like you're fighting a strange enemy, the document might validate your paranoia, or at least give you scope as to how prevalent the problems are. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 07:15, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

GOCE July 2017 drive bling
I know you've been busy with other projects, so thanks for finding time to copy edit in July! – Reidgreg (talk) 12:43, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you! (1)

 * Thanks for the barnstar!
 * If you want to copy parts of my user page, go ahead! Remember to change the information that probably only applies to me (such as who you know); aside from that, go ahead!
 * Thanks again for the barnstar!
 * Noah Kastin (talk) (🖋) 09:12, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

your opinion please...
I see you commented on some edits from an IP contributor fom the range 2605:8D80...

I am being wikistalked by a puppetmaster who uses that IP range, as described at     and at Sockpuppet investigations/Renamed user 49274c4c204245204241434b.

I am trying to figure out whether ALL the edits from the range 2605:8D80 were from the same vandal.

Did you get the impression that the edits you noticed from 2605 were from a particular named wiki-ID?

Thanks! Geo Swan (talk) 23:04, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for asking!
 * I don't recognize the edits of the IP editor who I reverted as being similar to those of anyone else who I have encountered.
 * (If this is not the question that you meant to be asking, could you let me know what you did mean to be asking?)
 * If I can assist in any other way, please let me know.
 * Thanks!
 * Noah Kastin (talk) (🖋) 23:50, 16 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I was hoping that the entire range 2605:8d80... could be blocked.  Feedback I got from administrators who ork in that area is that blocks of a range that large were rarely done.


 * I've tried out some non-WMF wikis, like the Citizendium, where no provision was ever made for anonymous contributions. The general level of civility was generally much higher at those wikis.  I regard the wikipedia provision for anonymous contribution as a failed experiment, one that should be abandoned.  I think the premise was that allowing anonymous contributions would allow oppressed people, from behind the Great Firewall of China, or reasonable equivalent, to make contribute.  In my 14 years here I have never seen a single contribution from anyone where I thought anonymous contribution had a allowed an oppressed person to make a difference.  It seems to be almost entirely used by those who are not making a positive contribution.


 * Anyhow, thanks again! Geo Swan (talk) 04:31, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors December 2017 News
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:04, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

HNY

 * Thanks! I hope that you will also have a great 2018. Noah Kastin (talk) (🖋) 11:16, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

GOCE February 2018 news
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 * Nice, interesting how the pandemic also alters how art is produced. Some of my customers are in the film industry and there were special requests to improve their systems to locate, select and submit whole families instead of individual actors (I'm a software developer).  We're likely to see more movies staring people with their own relatives and pets.Face-smile.svg  Happy editing, — Paleo  Neonate  – 00:58, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Yep, I'm definitely looking forward to great improvements in all media industries as far as independent development and the like are concerned. :)
 * On a related note, I get the impression that homeschooling, or "distance learning" as people like to call it post-COVID, should be a lot more prominent and useful in the future, potentially opening up way more opportunities for future generations (including making more use of this site!)
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