User talk:NoonIcarus/Archive 5

saludos
hola, jamez, y si estas en Venezuela, tenias cuidado. buena suerte Kingsif (talk) 00:33, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Muchas gracias. Hace meses salí del país, estaré pendiente de quienes están allá. Seguiré de cerca las noticias. ¡Saludos! --Jamez42 (talk) 09:35, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Muy bien! pues, ya siento pa tu pais y espera pa todas.
 * Ah, esta como sacar la foto de Ledezma? Kingsif (talk) 09:39, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Correcto, actualmente Ledezma se encuentra fuera del país. --Jamez42 (talk) 09:40, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * pues - mas seguro! ay, como las otras, es triste mostrar unas de las mentes mejores salir a sus pais. espero que puedes volver alli, si tu quieres, pronto :) Kingsif (talk) 09:51, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Muchas gracias nuevamente :( Ya han sido muchos los amigos que he visto irse del país y ahora me ha tocado a mí. Lo mejor que puedo hacer por los momentos es tener paciencia, pero también ser optimista. Realmente sí espero que la situación mejore. --Jamez42 (talk) 10:05, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * siento pa esta situacion, estas con tu amigos ahora? y... ser optimista es fantastico, superarás mucho con la positividad de tu lado! Kingsif (talk) 10:10, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Tengo a varios amigos en la ciudad donde estoy y a algunos familiares; de hecho planeamos participar en la protesta de hoy, que también está siendo planeada a nivel internacional. --Jamez42 (talk) 10:12, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * ojala tengas mucho exito! no creo hay protestas aqui, pero estoy contigo en mi alma Kingsif (talk) 10:16, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

Nice
... work at SPI! Sandy Georgia (Talk)  22:25, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Apollo has been editing in Venezuelan articles for quite some time now, as well as evading blocks. It's helpful to be familiar with their edit behavior and to see things with a grain of salt. I'll let you know about any other news. Cheers! --Jamez42 (talk) 01:08, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I have been away from Venezuelan articles for at least five years, so I don't know the current socks or POV pushers. And after this, I will go away again :)  Even before we knew he had cancer, I said Chavez would be dead before Wikipedia had a neutral article on him.  I was right! The willfully blind continue to push their POV into those articles something awful.  Best, Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  01:20, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I have only been helping out in the English Wikipedia for some months now; it's sad to know you'll be leaving soon, but I believe that everyone here should edit when they like. As of the current sockmasters, I think Apollo is the main one, if not the only one worthy of mention. --Jamez42 (talk) 01:26, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis
how the hell is it not neutral point of view. it is, it is also giving balance to the page, plus its giving new information.KingTintin (talk) 02:53, 3 February 2019 (UTC)  WP:SOCKSTRIKE--Jamez42 (talk) 13:24, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Three users now have disputed the edit, including outdated information and unreliable sources. This has been explained in edit summaries and in the talk page of the article. I suggest you to explain your arguments there, as other users have. Thanks in advance. --Jamez42 (talk) 02:56, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

Crisis in Venezuela
Hi Jamez42 - I chose to delete the word "autocratic" with regard to the Venezuelan government because its inclusion is, itself, a non-neutral value-laden word. I find it surprising that you feel that to include the word is "neutral"; the inclusion of the word implies that it is a proven fact that the government is autocratic despite reliable sources arguing differently. For instance the report of the UN International Accompaniment Mission states that the 2018 elections were free and fair, and the UN Human Rights Council report states that, whilst there have been some failures made by the Venezuelan government, the true cause of the current crisis lies with the international community's sanctions. Other observers have also backed up these arguments including human rights lawyer Daniel Kovalik of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and UK Labour MP Chris Williamson. It is, of course, a contested argument - but the very fact that there is a reliable body of sources who don't believe the Venezuelan government is autocratic makes its inclusion without qualification a non-neutral point of view. The truly neutral approach here is to remove the word entirely or to say that "X describes the government of Venezuela as autocratic". US President Donald Trump has stated that he will confront the Maduro government - the inclusion of the word "autocratic" is not necessary to make the point. ColeHine (talk) 11:04, 13 February 2019 (UTC)


 * The word is neutral because it is proven that Maduro's governemnt is autocratic. I wasn't thinking about the elections at first, but I would gladly reply: the United Nations didn't participate in the process, as stated in a letter sent to government officials; I don't know which document you provided, but it clearly doesn't belong to the UN and it seems to have been published by Venezuelanalysis. The government illegalized the most voted coalition in the democratic history of Venezuela, barred nearly all opposition candidates from participating and there were plenty of irregularities before the election, such as irregularities of the electoral schedule, the lack of the Constituent Assembly's competencies to summon the elections and the lack of time for standard electoral functions. There were also irregularities during the election, such as vote buying and voter intimidation, and the government refused to update the Electoral Registry. This meant that if now you were old enough to vote or you moved to, let’s say, Los Angeles from New York, you wouldn’t have been able to vote or you would have had to move to your hometown to cast your vote. Of course, because all of this the elections resulted in the lowest turnout rate of Venezuela's democratic history. These aren’t free elections.


 * There is also no division of powers, since all of the government branches are controlled by the ruling party except of the National Assembly, which has been effectively neutralized by the Supreme Tribunal, which in turn was named by a lame duck Assembly and is composed of justices that do not even meet the requirements to hold office. On top of that, the opposition legislative body was countered by a parallel Assembly. :There is no judicial independence; over 90% of the judges are provisional, which means they can be dismissed at any time by the executive branch at any moment.


 * We can also talk about civil liberties. Freedom of the press has been growingly curtailed, just like the freedom of expression and of protest. Venezuela currently has more than 2.500 websites blockes. There have been more than 12000 arbitrary detentions, even when the government controlled justice decides the release of the detainees, as well as tortures. The CASLA Institute documented more than 300 cases of torture only during the 2017 protests, including sexual torture. Wuilly Arteaga, one of the detainees tortured, even mentioned that another girl imprisoned along him was raped on top of him. These tortures are so shameless that they even are reported in whatever national media is remaining. This was further confirmed by Human Rights Watch and the Venezuela NGO Foro Penal, which published a report about the following year, explaining tortures to military members. The Independent Expert Board of the OAS determined that crimes against humanity have been commited during Maduro's presidency.


 * International sanctions doesn't have anything to do if Venezuela is an autocracy or not, but if you mean the current crisis was caused by some, Venezuela has experienced five years of economic recession before any sanctions were imposed, and most are individual sanctions about corrupt officials and those that have violated human rights. You could try reading about Bladimir Lugo. It's interesting that you quote Alfred de Zayas, who is now only a UN official formerly, and he was criticized in one of the last audiences of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights for refusing to recognize the humanitarian crisis because when he visited the country he only took pictures of the charcuterie in front of his hotel. His declarations also directly contradict the last report of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. "On 20 March and 23 April 2018, OHCHR sent letters to the Permanent Mission of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Geneva transmitting requests for specific information to the Venezuelan authorities, including on the consequences of the sanctions imposed on the country. On 2 May, in a reply to the letters dated 8 and 20 March, the Permanent Mission of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela questioned whether the High Commissioner held the mandate to issue a public report."; "While it is necessary to assess the impact of economic sanctions on the capacity of the Government to fulfil its human rights obligations in more detail, information gathered indicates that the socioeconomic crisis had been unfolding for several years prior to the imposition of these sanctions."


 * Best regards, --Jamez42 (talk) 13:21, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Your e-mail
I don't reply to user e-mail. I don't think it's necessary in the case of ATL to present evidence by e-mail. I see no harm in doing it "publicly". It's the very rare case where private evidence is needed.

LTA pages are tricky. They are hard to prepare and often don't reveal anything that isn't already known. They also often contain inaccuracies that are misleading to other users. OTOH, I personally have found a few LTA pages to be useful, so I suppose I have no strong recommendation one way or the other. If you really want to create one, you could try it in draft space first and then ask knowledgeable editors to review it and give you feedback.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:39, 18 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Thank you! --Jamez42 (talk) 14:56, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
 * and James, I recommend against LTA pages, as they tend to "glorify" the sock, along with giving them a roadmap to everything you know about them, so that they can adjust to avoid detection. I follow a prolific sockmaster who in turn closely follows me, and who has demonstrated the ability to adjust her editing patterns based on information on her LTA page, so it was recommended to me that I no longer catalogue her editing behaviors.  (I am happy to report this change in approach has resulted in a good outcome, in terms of her current editing, which continues but has not been disruptive for several years now.)  So my vote is for no LTA page in most cases.  Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  15:19, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

What's the name of the sock again ? Sandy Georgia (Talk)  13:23, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Apollo The Logician --Jamez42 (talk) 13:27, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

I have given Diplomat their first warning. Sandy Georgia (Talk)  13:55, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Sockpuppet investigations/Diplomat592 Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  20:54, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

El Junquito raid
Hello, I have responded to your revert notification on the talk page about El Junquito raid, since I would prefer more people to see the exchange. My position is, of course, that your revert is "less than neutral", to put it extremely mildly, and not my edits.--82.137.111.223 (talk) 18:00, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi. Thank you for giving explanation in the talk page. I will read them briefly. --Jamez42 (talk) 23:06, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Concierto
Estoy agotada! Puedes hacerme el favor de dar un repaso por el articulo del concierto, para ver que barbaridades he cometido? Esta semi-protegido por ahora, que se puede trabajar sin vandalizaciones. Sandy Georgia (Talk)  01:37, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Recién terminando de revisarlo, tengo que felicitarte junto a quienes te han ayudado a ofrecer tantos detalles para el artículo, está excelente; tan solo hice unos pocos cambios y continuaré vigilándolo, pero estoy muy satisfecho. Creo que no hay problemas importantes por el momento, y la cuestión sobre el orden alfabético puede decidirse el día del evento. ¡Un fuerte abrazo! --Jamez42 (talk) 01:47, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Si logramas unas 200 palabras mas, lo puede meter como DYK ... falta un dia mas para poderlo entrar.  A-Go-Tada!  Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  01:59, 21 February 2019 (UTC)4
 * Ohh, el pequeño gran detalle. Manos a la obra, así será :) --Jamez42 (talk) 02:03, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
 * hmmm ... cosa rara ... acabo de ver que tiene cuatro dias sin editar :(  Yo no soy aficionado de DYK ... tu lo has hecho antes?  Quizas  lo mete?  Yo no!  Disculpa la falta de diacriticos en mi teclado, que estoy cansada ... Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  02:12, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Sin pena jajaja. Yo creo haberlo hecho una sola vez; tampoco soy fanático y tengo el temor de que la nominación no pase, pero es mejor que no intertarlo. Podríamos discutir el fact más adelante. --Jamez42 (talk) 02:14, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
 * James, I was totally wrong-- it is not 1,500 words, it is 1,500 characters, and we are way beyond that. It can go to DYK now.  But I don't do DYK.  They hate me and I don't like them.  So, either you, or Zia or Kingsif can do it.  Since we missed the key date (22 Feb), no hurry, but it has to be submitted by tomorrow I think. It has to be submitted within 7 days of creation, so we are getting close.  Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  02:19, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I understood it would be 200 words, so it should be alright. I'll see if I can look through new material. --Jamez42 (talk) 02:21, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Con la adición de la sección de Background, creo que todo debería estar bien. --Jamez42 (talk) 02:48, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes! But I trimmed that, and then rearranged everything for better flow from that.  I like it!  Thanks, James, Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  03:17, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Well, darn it, if Kingsif doesn't show up by tomorrow, one of us has to submit it to DYK (seven days is up on 22 Feb). I think the hook should be ... more than thirty performers from seven countries joined in a benefit concert, Venezuela Aid Live, to support humanitarian aid for Venezuela. Sandy Georgia (Talk)  03:40, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Sounds good enough. --Jamez42 (talk) 04:09, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi, sorry guys, I’ve been busy - I’ll submit it to DYK if you haven’t already? Kingsif (talk) 13:42, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
 * It may be too late? And I am no longer convinced it is a good idea ... I am working round the clock today just to keep articles up to date, not sure dealing with DYK is a good use of time?  Up to you if you want to do it ... Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  13:49, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
 * PS, if you want to do it, there are some REALLY intriguing hooks that can be generated from the Maduro response section ... state-run TV says 150 musicians, but sources say only one confirmed musician. And so on ... Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  13:50, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

Current issues

 * Can anyone figure out if Franco de Vita is in? Conflicting information ... Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  13:52, 22 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Should it become necessary, I have parked the RFPP text at User:SandyGeorgia/sandbox. So far it is manageable. Sandy Georgia (Talk)  14:02, 22 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi! I will be busy in the following hours, about four or five :( However, I did a quick search for references and all the sources that I found state that de Vita won't participate. It seems that he was supposed to take care of the closure of the concert and that he announced that he wouldn't participate on Instagram. --Jamez42 (talk) 16:13, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I also visited the official website and de Vita isn't among the artists. --Jamez42 (talk) 16:22, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

Tense
Fiddlestick,, the concert is almost over, and most of this is already past tense even though there is a bit of concert left. Could we revert this and live with the rest for an hour? A whole lot of that text is more correctly past tense now that the concert is underway. I don't want to keep improving the article if I will later have to go back and catch every one of those ;( I think we're covered by the very first instance of "is" ... Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  20:58, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
 * For example, it's OK already to say "was organized" and "was funded" and many things like that -- those parts are done so I didn't want to leave it half-and-half and wanted to move forward on other things. Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  21:03, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Reading through it, it's true what you say. What matters most to me is the template of current event, but I saw that there are other sentences that are fine saying "was". Best wishes :) --Jamez42 (talk) 21:32, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

Aid situation
James, I see you are updating the aid situation ... could you also review the Background section at VAL? Venezuela Aid Live Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  16:31, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi! I was browsing through my watchlist and new editions, although I just made some edits to the section. Cheers! --Jamez42 (talk) 16:46, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  18:34, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

edit conflict
James i'm trying to expand article and jsut got a huge edit conflict with you ... give me some time to finish? Sandy Georgia (Talk)  21:31, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm terribly sorry :( I was afraid that would happen, but sensing there wasn't much activity I decided to make the edit. So far I'm writing in the talk page. Best wishes! --Jamez42 (talk) 21:34, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Yo soy tan llorana cuando me da un edit conflict :) Me discuplas !  I am done now, and tired-- have at it!  Saludos, Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  22:10, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Jajajaja no worries, take care! --Jamez42 (talk) 22:27, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

Re-phrasing
Thanks! I am not good at paraphrasing, so I tend to overquote. Sandy Georgia (Talk)  20:52, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

IN USE again
James ! Please avoid editing while Power enwiki has article in use-- doing so creates miserable edit conflict! Sandy Georgia (Talk)  17:42, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Ohhhhh I am soo sorry!! I just noticed the template! :( In the future I'll take care that there's any in place first. --Jamez42 (talk) 17:43, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for this, James; I am going to wait a few hours to see if Migracion Colombia puts out a new number. Otherwise, I would have to reword the whole template to attribute the info to intelligence sources via Infobae, and it could be too wordy. Best, Sandy Georgia (Talk)
 * Always welcome :) I added the reference as a comment for the same reason, and sometimes is better to be accurate rather than quick. --Jamez42 (talk) 15:31, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

You really should examine your biases
I strongly suggest you stop editing Venezuela articles for a while and look at other parts of how the encyclopedia function. Your edits do introduce a systemic anti-Maduro bias into literally every article you touch. The IPs edits were violations of WP:NPOV I'm not disputing that. But they were replacing equally egregious WP:WEASEL language which you restored. Rather than edit warring to keep articles anti-Maduro I suggest you take a look at WP:YESPOV, stop trying to get leftist sources declared "unreliable" and consider editing in areas of the encyclopedia that you don't have such an obvious and stark POV.

Now I'll note that I also have strong opinions on Venezuela. That's why I rarely edit except to remove explicit vandalism and otherwise maintain a light touch. I suggest you should do the same. Simonm223 (talk) 13:49, 7 March 2019 (UTC)


 * I have to admit I find this message a little aggressive and even threatening. I feel there was no need to bring this to my talk page, and I really hope there aren't any hard feelings regarding my previous edits.


 * That being said, there are many things to address: just like I have argued with the sources that I have provided, adding content about Venezuela's human rights abuses, abuse of power and economic crisis does not mean being "anti-Maduro". I, too, admit that I have strong opinions about Venezuela, but I do my best to follow the guidelines of the encyclopedia. I encourage you to take a deeper look into my edits if you want to and look into the contributions I've made (for instance, these are the links of the main last ones: ). I also invite you to provide your insight in the open discussion in the talk pages. When it's fit, I also try to correct inaccuracies, if there are any.


 * Despite everything, I thank you for the suggestion based on policy. However, I think you have a wrong impression of me and in case we encounter one another again in another article, I will clarify that I will not stop editing in current Venezuelan politics, specially at this moment where bilingual editors are needed, mostly because you haven't provided any hard arguments or evidence on how I am violating Wikipedia's policies. I'm not convinced that removing unreferenced content or contesting sources whose last discussions in the reliable sources noticeboard have a consensus of being unreliable are. If you want to address a specific pattern, issue or can/want to provide diffs regarding this, be my guest, since I'll be willing to change any behaviour that goes against policy. For the time being, though, this does not seem to be the case.


 * Just like you have invited me to read WP:YESPOV, I invited you likewise to read WP:AGF and WP:CIV. If there are any questions or matters left you would like to discuss, preferably in an article's talk page and in a more amicable tone, I'd be pleased to answer.


 * Best regards. --Jamez42 (talk) 22:02, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

March 2019
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war&#32; according to the reverts you have made on Hugo Chávez; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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 * 1) Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made;
 * 2) Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.
 * Hi. I understand the reason of the message, but I only wanted to mention that I think it was a little too much severity. After my second revert, I pinged the IP in the talk page to start a discussion regarding the recent changes and explained in another section the policies I based my reverts on. I notified them on their talk page as well, but I received no response, which is why I reverted again. The IP blanked their talk page, in which they already had nine warnings for different reasons, and reverted again without providing an explaination or an edit summary, which is why I filed a report on the ANI. In any case I still thank you for the warning and in the future I will take care with my edits in the article. Best wishes. --Jamez42 (talk) 22:45, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
 * It's frustrating to deal with IP editors who restore challenged edits, but you still have to watch out for edit warring. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 23:26, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Disruptive behaviour
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 * , do you have a diff for this "disruptive behavior"? Also, have you read WP:DTTR? It would be more expedient to point out where this alleged behavior is occurring in plain English.  Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  22:25, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Article
Just became aware of Electricity sector in Venezuela; looking at its editing history, probably needs close checking. Sandy Georgia (Talk)  21:32, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
 * It seems like the electricity issue in Venezuela is a mess, a discussion probably needs to be opened about it. --Jamez42 (talk) 22:59, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

ITN recognition for 2019 Venezuelan blackout

 * Wow, I wasn't expecting this to get posted. Thank you! --Jamez42 (talk) 07:42, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

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April 2019
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Buenas Dias

 * Cheers, mate. --Jamez42 (talk) 14:09, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

Great Patriotic Poll
I think restoring this title in various articles is kinda weird unless you also revert the name-change of the linked article, a motion i would support! Vif12vf/Tiberius (talk) 12:04, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I think that I proposal should be started regarding the move. There's currently an ongoing discussion in the main article's main page. --Jamez42 (talk) 13:55, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I put in a request at technical moves. Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  15:55, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

es.wiki sanctions chart
Jamez, something is still wrong over at the Spanish Wiki on the sanctions chart. The Swiss did not sanction Jaua ... they sanctioned seven people, and the chart has nine. If you could make that chart sortable, it would be easier to check (I don't know how to make sortable in Spanish wiki). Sandy Georgia (Talk)  15:56, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

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Discussion about coup attempt in Venezuela
Hi Jamez42, I created an account so that we can talk about the coup attempt in Venezuela section in the List of coups d'état and coup attempts that I created and have tried to maintain. I'm replying specifically to your latest revert:

11:38, 1 May 2019‎ Jamez42 talk contribs‎ 90,840 bytes -1,096‎ Undid revision 895002968 by 77.59.147.2 (talk) Stop edit warring and discuss the changes (WP:BRD). No arguments have been provided on how the 23 January is a coup attempt. Next revert will be a violation of WP:3RR

The arguments were provided both on the article segment and on the talk page, before you made the reversion. Could you please outline your objections to the arguments I have presented?

Best regards, DrTreePirate (talk) 12:46, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi. I will respond to the arguments in brief in the respective talk page. Best regards. --Jamez42 (talk) 12:55, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

Please excuse my question
Dear Jamez, sorry for bothering you, but on Live TV in my country is saying that my nation Argentina is breaking apart relationships with Venezuela but there are still no newspaper article. Should I wait? Thank you again.--LLcentury (talk) 15:00, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
 * ¡Buenas! Hasta ahora no he visto la noticia, lo más importante para que sea incluido en el artículo es que haya cobertura o reseñas sobre el hecho. En cualquier caso, también se puede actualizar el artículo de las relaciones entre Argentina y Venezuela. ¡Saludos! --Jamez42 (talk) 15:19, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

Pefecto, entendido, ni bien salga lo incluyo muchìsimas gracias y Dios (si crees o no tòmalo como un buen deseo) bendiga a tu Hermoso Paìs. --LLcentury (talk) 15:23, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Así lo tomaré, un millón de gracias :) Si llego a saber algo te mantendré al tanto. Un fuerte abrazo. --Jamez42 (talk) 15:27, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

Querido amigo venezolano, fue mi error de interpretaciòn de la noticia ayer, aùn mantenemos relacones bilaterales, lo que sì escuchè e que Macri (Presidente argentino) dijo que una intervenciòn extranjera deberìa considerarse si la situaciòn empeora. Te mantendrè al tanto. Abrazo fuerte a vos y todo tu pueblo. --LLcentury (talk) 17:09, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Oh, creo estar al tanto de la noticia. La OEA también ha convocó a una sesión extraordinaria a raíz de la situación. Una vez más, muchísimas gracias y un fuerte abrazo :) --Jamez42 (talk) 17:12, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

Mirá. millones de disculpas por ser de tanta carga primeramente, pero quiero contribuír lo más posible con lo que pasa en tu país. Creés apropiado adherir en la Wiki Española que Argentina tampoco descartó una acción militar?. Bueno, además, te recomiendo si por internet podés ver la HERMOSA entrevista que le hizo el conductor argentino Alejandro Fantino a un refugiado venezolano en Argentina de tan sólo 29 años. Fue emitido por América TV de Argentina. Saludos. --LLcentury (talk) 12:09, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Las disculpas debo darlas yo por olvidarme de responder, para mí no es ninguna molestia :) Te agradezco muchísimo el interés. Yo creo apropiado incluir que el Grupo de Lima en varias oportunidades la ha descartado, favoreciendo una solución pacífica, destacando declaraciones individulares, como Colombia, Brasil o Argentina. Pude ver parte de un programa en el que Alejandro habla sobre la inmigración con otras personas, es la primera vez que lo escucho y es muy interesante. ¡Muchas gracias por la recomendación! --Jamez42 (talk) 15:43, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

Electoral system
So as to not get too far off topic on the Juan Guaido article, I'm just writing back to tell you that the article "2015 Venezuelan parliamentary election" answered most of my questions:


 * "Starting from 2015, the 167 members of the National Assembly were elected by a mixed majoritarian system; 113 members were elected by First-past-the-post voting in 87 constituencies. A total of 51 seats were elected by closed list proportional representation based on the 23 states and the Capital District. Seats were allocated using the d'Hondt method. The remaining three seats were reserved for indigenous peoples, and were elected by the community."

I guess my only question is how many seats does each state hold for the closed list proportion representation seats? For instance, how many seats was Vargas allocated for both the FPTP constituencies and the close list constituencies? And, the more I look at it, it seems that Guaido was elected from one of these seats and not the first-past-the-post constituencies as I'd originally thought, since it appears that more than one person was elected in the district in which he was running (i.e. Milagros Eulate). This seems to show that two people were elected from Vargas' "1st District" but I just want to be sure this was from the list constituencies and not the FPTP constituencies. --Criticalthinker (talk) 11:04, 2 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi! I have to admit I'm still a little confused about the differences between the two systems, mostly because of the difference between term in both languages. The good thing is that the Electoral Council has the published results online, and in the case of Vargas, indeed, both Milagros Eulate and Guaidó were elected in the same district. José Manuel Olivares and Darío Vivas were elected is a deputy list, making that four deputies in total for the Vargas state. You can consult the results from each state in the website. The Spanish Wikipedia also has a list of the current legislature where the deputies are listed along with their states. Hope it helps! --Jamez42 (talk) 12:09, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. I'm not sure what's being lost in translation, though. As least as of 2015, you have 113 members from 87 different constituencies from each state and the capital district, and then you had 51 seats elected from a list from each state and the capital district. I guess what's confusing to me is that for the first kind of seat, it seems that some constituencies elect more than one member while other's only elected one member, and I'm curious as to how it's decided which constituency gets how many seats? And for the second kind of seat (list seats), I'm curious of something similar: how is it decided how many list seats each state gets? Am I reading this correctly, and each state and the federal district gets 2 list seats? And if that's the case, wouldn't that mean the two largest parties would essentially each of these seats for the list seats? --Criticalthinker (talk) 14:26, 2 May 2019 (UTC)


 * I'm not familiarized with the figures, but the numbers seem correct, the Assembly has 167 deputies. I have to admit that I don't know how the seats are assigned per se, but I can look into it further. I know that in the 2010 parliamentary elections there was quite some criticism because of gerrymandering; with less votes, the ruling party gained more seats. The constituencies are supposed to be created each year based on information given by the National Institute of Statistics, which in turn has to be approved by the National Assembly. Given that, as far as I know, there are few seats given for each constituency and that there have been plenty of voting irregularites in the last years, the distribution of said seats hasn't been much of a concern. I also can't tell for sure if the number of seats per constituency depends on population or another factor. --Jamez42 (talk) 14:48, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

Oops !
Sorry, did not realize I had deleted that; I am having terrible problems with my keyboard since two days ago ... sorry! Sandy Georgia (Talk)  14:25, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Don't sweat it! I figured :) Hope it gets better! --Jamez42 (talk) 14:50, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
 * You're starting to understand all of my editing idiosyncracies! The typos are hugely outta control, especially with a malfunctioning keyboard. Sandy Georgia (Talk)  14:52, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

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On the ITN
Even if I support your ITN proposal to get back into the on-going events, maybe it wouldn't be that bad if we let it go at some moment to avoid all this push-back that we have received recently. --MaoGo (talk) 12:09, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Should I withdraw the nomination? --Jamez42 (talk) 12:59, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I don't think so. Let's wait, it is not getting approval anyway. --MaoGo (talk) 13:10, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

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You've passed 3RR at Juan Guaidó
Hi, you've just made 4 reverts to the article on Juan Guaidó in less than one hour:


 * 1)
 * 2)
 * 3)
 * 4)

Please undo: otherwise you can be reported at 3RR for edit warring. -Darouet (talk) 20:43, 6 June 2019 (UTC)


 * You're right. I could argue that they aren't reverts, but they could be considered partial reverts. Thank you for letting me know, I'll write in the talk page in short. --Jamez42 (talk) 20:50, 6 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks. It's hard to keep track with so many people editing. I also reverted once more than I intended (though still under 3RR), because I didn't realize you'd made an edit in between two of mine. We should probably hold an RfC to resolve this. -Darouet (talk) 21:03, 6 June 2019 (UTC)


 * I just remembered that this edit does not constitue precisely as a revert since I didn't undo the removal of the content from the infobox. Still, three partial reverts near the 3RR. --Jamez42 (talk) 22:06, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

International sanctions during the Venezuelan crisis
Hi there, Argentina just introduced a list of entry bans here. This is currently in development. Please inform your other Wikipedians who are interested in Venezuela. The blacklist includes all members of the National Constituent Assembly. Thanks --cyrfaw (talk ) 19:58, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Woah. Will do, thanks! --Jamez42 (talk) 23:13, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

Your e-mail
Not sure whether I will be able to answer your question, but I certainly can't without more information. Vague hypotheticals aren't helpful.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:32, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Unless you have evidence of another named account, I don't see anything to do here. The IP hasn't edited since May 1.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:38, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

June 2019
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 * Thanks! I'm planning on including the links once I finish with the article. Best regards!--Jamez42 (talk) 10:58, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
 * , ideally you should do that, as you copy chunks in batches, you should give proper attribution, WP:CWW   QueerEcofeminist "cite! even if you fight"!!! [they/them/their] 11:57, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

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June 2019 — 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis
Hi, ; I see that you just reverted my revert of your bold edit on 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis, with the edit summary "No new points have been brought to the discussion. Will respond when I have the time". I think the consensus-building process would be more productive if all editors followed WP:BRD and discussed controversial changes rather than reverting to a preferred version. In my opinion, changes that have already been reverted once should not be re-reverted if you do not have time to explain why. There is no deadline. Please consider self-reverting to bring the process back in line with WP:BRD. Thanks. — cmonghost 👻 (talk) 14:36, 30 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I can't find the policy at the moment, but WP:BRD establishes that the D must also be applied after the revert. The last reply does not really addresses the concerns raised the talk page, and rather continues antagonizing the reply following the line of the first message, which would miss the point and prevent the discussion for going forward. A discussion should also look for a common ground and for solutions, and not only be for refuting. At the moment I can't respond in the talk page satisfactorily for the time being, but I'm confident that I will be able to in the next twelve hours, so I would like to apologize in advance if my response wasn't clear at first. I also thank you for discussing this matter in my talk page first. Best regards. --Jamez42 (talk) 15:44, 30 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply.
 * If you don't want to follow BRD, that's fine, you don't have to, but BRD clearly says the following: Discuss the contribution, and the reasons for the contribution, on the article's talk page with the person who reverted your contribution. Don't restore your changes or engage in back-and-forth reverting. You restored your own change after it was clear there was opposition to it, thereby engaging in back-and-forth reverting, and you did not explain your reasons for doing so on talk. In addition, your initial change was an imposition of your own preferred version while discussion was still going on. Again, if you want to follow BRD, I think you should self-revert.
 * I'm not sure what your point about discussion being applied after the revert is supposed to mean. I also can't find any such stipulation on the WP:BRD page. It took me some time to write my message on the talk page, so I waited to revert until after I already had the message ready (to avoid a situation where I had reverted but there was no rationale on talk). I posted my message, then immediately reverted; they were effectively simultaneous. The message on talk constitutes the rationale for my reversion; this is clearly a good-faith attempt to follow BRD.
 * I apologize if you felt my tone was antagonistic. However, the pattern in the sources (of which I brought many more to the discussion) is clear. It's not true that I am not looking for solutions: the solution that I feel is most aligned with WP:NPOV is given at the end of my comment on the talk page. — cmonghost 👻 (talk) 16:13, 30 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I know it's late once again, but I just wanted to leave a reply here and thank you for your approach. I hope I've managed to explain myself this time. I'm looking forward to anything else I can help with. --Jamez42 (talk) 22:00, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Antananarivo stampede
Stephen 07:02, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

RfC comment
This is re: your commenting-out of my contribution to the RfC. Is there some restriction on the originator of an RfC being the first to contribute, or some other reason for me to hold off from posting? I think feedback from third parties will be useful, but I don't think that requires either of us to not provide our own opinions. I also think it is useful to give a summary of my opinion there because the discussion in the section above is pretty lengthy. — cmonghost 👻 (talk) 16:48, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
 * No, sure it isn't, but like I mentioned I think it's more helpful to request the commentary only of uninvolved users. Feel free to make visible the summary again if you feel it's better, but let me know so I can provide a summary too. Best wishes. --Jamez42 (talk) 17:31, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks for the clarification. I'll restore my summary shortly. — cmonghost 👻 (talk) 18:08, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

ITN recognition for 2019 Tajoura migrant center airstrike
Stephen 23:12, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

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Ways to improve Russia involvement in regime change
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Venezuela
Please: — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 09:47, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
 * 1) modify Supreme Court of Venezuela to use the preferred name and provide a sound reference to support the change
 * 2) go to Supreme Court of Justice (Venezuela) and apply a proper db-move tag.
 * Just did the edit a few moments ago. If Db-g6 isn't the correct tag, which one is? --Jamez42 (talk) 09:53, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

I think in words not numbers. I have no idea what db-g6 means. But if you had actually read my message, you would have seen that I told you to use db-move which requires two parameters. Also, I am not sure of the conventions, but what is wrong with moving the article to Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela? — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 10:01, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm asking because you told me to use a db-move, not knowing if that was the specific ones. WP:G6 means technical deletions, such as pages blocking page moves. I'm ok with moving the article to the proposed title, but it seems the majority of Supreme Courts use parentheses as a rule of thumb and the title of the current Venezuela Supreme Tribunal of Justice uses parentheses as well. --Jamez42 (talk) 10:10, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Heh
It seems that article did affect the pageviews of your userpage. I had a similar experience recently. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 20:07, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I noticed too. This isn't the first time that users on this topics are exposed in this way, and I feel the consequences could have been worse. My only thoughts is advising on perhaps letting administrators know to prevent any possible harassment. However, I see this unlikely. Thank you for the notice! --Jamez42 (talk) 20:18, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

VZ in the IACHR
Hi James,

I temp reverted your edit, and also to the map on Commons, pending sources. This is a significant development, but isn't mentioned anywhere in the article other than in the table you edited. There are consequences elsewhere. E.g., if (unlike Jamaica), VZ accepts full jurisdiction, then the IACHR decision on SSM is binding, which would affect our SSM maps. — kwami (talk) 20:07, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

Okay, I found some sources. Nullification of the withdrawl, so that means blanket jurisdiction, but only by the de jure govt, so I striped VZ on the map. — kwami (talk) 20:49, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019
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Just wondering
Are you the same user as Ridland? 80.233.34.162 (talk) 14:49, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

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Telesur
Hello Jamez. When you remove Telesur as a reference, could you try and replace it with something else rather than just leaving a citation request? Thanks, Number   5  7  17:44, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

Sure thing :) I will look into my edits to look for other references. Best wishes! --Jamez42 (talk) 17:47, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

Francisco Rodríguez (economist)
Hello Jamez. Before editing Francisco Rodríguez (again), I double-checked my sources, making sure they complained with WP:RS I still don't understand the editing, especially when your undoing keeps leaving information that is no longer true (Rodríguez is not the current Head Economist at Torino, as he resigned in September). News organizations, such as cited in Oil-for-food (that you undid twice) and US Congress transcripts do qualify as reliable sources, and so is the main website of the Oil for Venezuela Foundation. Please, feel free to answer, as I don't understand the editing. --Naldox (talk) 13:39, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello, best wishes and thank for coming. The policy you're looking for is WP:PRIMARY. The sources you have included have a direct relationship with the subject, such as the oil-for-food official website and articles written by Francisco himself. Do you know about any newspaper or outlet that has documented this topic? If so, I'd recommend to include them, since these are more independent.


 * Please let me know if you have any other doubt. Regards! --Jamez42 (talk) 14:39, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter November 2019
Hello ,

This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon. There are now holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action. Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays. Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox. Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards. Admin has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers. Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources. Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13. The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights. There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion. To opt-out of future mailings, you can remove yourself here MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:33, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Getting the queue to 0
 * Coordinator
 * This month's refresher course
 * Tools
 * It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
 * It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.
 * Reviewer Feedback
 * Second set of eyes
 * Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
 * Do be sure to have our talk page  on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.
 * Arbitration Committee
 * Community Wish list

A barnstar for you!
And I have to thank you both for the barnstar and for your incredible work and translations :) Best wishes! --Jamez42 (talk) 17:09, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for your edits
Hey I'd just like to thank you for the edits you've done. I don't know how you do it on the recent event articles. The ones no one cares about are simple, because no one cares and the few who do are passionate about the subject and it's fun to work together on these. But I've been working a bit on a recent events article and found myself becoming incredibly frustrated, you however have been doing this for quite some time now and have done an excellent job of it with dedication and without becoming frustrated. So for this I thank you, and express my admiration. Alcibiades979 (talk) 16:33, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much! I'm interested usually in Latin American topics, and I have to admit the work can be kind of overwhelming sometimes. That said, it's good that there are other editors paying attention to the recent articles and their accuracy, and as such I have to kindly thank you too for your work :) Please let me know if I can be of help in related articles, I always like lending a hand. Best wishes!! --Jamez42 (talk) 16:43, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Ves esa vain en la sección de discusión me provoca. Son tontos, no leen las noticias que usan como referencias o simplemente quieren contar su version de eventos, no sé cual. Pero siempre es: <> lo he explicado tantas veces que usan referencias que no apoyan lo que escriben. La referencia de ayer con Costa Rica no decía nada, que quieren paz y no quieren que las fuerzas armadas hagan decisiones políticas en un país incluso Trump y Xi pueden estar de acuerdo sobre eso, y subito en wiki es algo como <>. O en la introducción de la pagina sobre la resignación de Morales, la referencia usada dice: "In the video above, we show how the so-called "coup d'etat" has generated a strong division among the world's political leaders. Political authorities from Venezuela, Cuba, Russia and Syria have shown their support to Morales and claimed that there has been an orchestrated coup in Bolivia... "We have seen world political leaders, not only South American talking about a coup d'état in Bolivia", Bolivian expert in Political Science, Marcelo Arequipa told Euronews. Some European examples are British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn or Spanish Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias." Así que pasa, todos son escritos menos Rusia y Siria y después dicen lideres mundiales como si hubiesen otros y claro no quieren decir que los otros son Iran, Rusia y Siria. Que chimbada, pienso que me toca dejar wiki por un rato es vaina me frustra demasiado. Alcibiades979 (talk) 19:58, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
 * En muchas otras ocasiones se ha incluido información que no está referenciada, que no está en las noticias, y es parte de las mejoras que he intentado hacer. Temo que esto sea consecuencia de cuando se quiere demostrar un punto apresuradamente.


 * ¿Sabes si estos errores permanecen? Precisamente acabo de dar una extensa respuesta sobre el problema de usar estas palabras. Creéme que comparto con que a veces las situaciones pueden resultar exasperantes, creo que en particular este año, pero lo importante es no desmotivar y editar acompañado. En la enwiki hacen falta más editores hispanos nativos. Un fuerte abrazo. --Jamez42 (talk) 22:54, 14 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Gracias y lo siento por usar palabras fuertes, estaba en un mal estado de humor. Trabajé también en la sección de la crisis venezolana y me enojaba tanto, jaja. Recuerdo que había gente de Europa y de EEUU que decían que la situación fue una conspiración de EEUU y que la situación allá era buena en realidad, que la gente era feliz y era un paraíso del socialismo. Y parce vivo en Medellín y quise gritar que veía los efectos del gobierno de Maduro cada día. Nadie sale de un paraíso para ir a Cúcuta, jaja. Y sí, pues supongo todos tengamos nuestras opiniones y esas opiniones forman como vemos el mundo, incluso supongo como leamos las noticias. Dicho eso poner varios lideres mundiales en lugar de Iran, Syria, Rusia y Jeremy Corbyn? Eso es otro nivel. Alcibiades979 (talk) 18:11, 16 November 2019 (UTC)


 * No te preocupes hermano, como comento, es entendible. La polarización y la desinformación que existe hoy en día es impresionante, por suerte hay algunas referencias que han sido vetadas por las mismas razones, como Telesur. Muchos de los editores no son latinoamericanos y reciben las noticias de fuentes alternativas, o recibe noticias por otros medios. Incluso así hay latinoamericanos cuya posicione e ideas contrastan notablemente. Lo mejor que se puede hacer es adherirse a las política de la enciclopedia, contrastando las fuentes y argumentando. --Jamez42 (talk) 22:40, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Santa Teresa (rum) has been accepted
 Santa Teresa (rum), which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. If your account is more than four days old and you have made at least 10 edits you can create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer. Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! Missvain (talk) 17:26, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
 * If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the  [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Help_desk&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:AfC_talk/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Santa_Teresa_(rum) help desk] .
 * If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider.

2019 Bolivian political crisis
Hi

10 November events are not a political crisis but a part of the political crisis who began in October 2019. --Panam2014 (talk) 17:48, 19 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi! I agree with you, but I don't know if there is an specific reason why you're telling me this. --Jamez42 (talk) 18:02, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
 * The current title is bad. So it should be a redirection to the article about protests. And we should find another title. --Panam2014 (talk) 18:04, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I see. To move the article, the change must be agree upon the editors of the page. I invite you to participate in either one of the two move proposals open. --Jamez42 (talk) 18:12, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Just thought you may be interested to know that Amaruapu who you reverted on 2019 Bolivian protests is making similar claims over on Bolivia, despite being reverted primarily by me. Chaheel Riens (talk) 19:54, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

December events with WIR
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:43, 25 November 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Definition of an SPA
I see that the edit you tagged was not from the IP in question anyway, but I want to point out anyway that new editors should not be tagged as SPAs simply because they have few edits. See the recommendations at WP:SPATG:

A user should not be tagged as an SPA just because they only have a handful of edits. While all users with one edit are by definition an SPA, users with as few as 3 or 4 edits are not necessarily SPAs if those edits are in a diverse set of topics and do not appear to be promoting a "single purpose."

Three edits, all of which are about completely different topics, is not grounds to label a user an SPA. It doesn't really matter what order they were in.

— cmonghost 👻 (talk) 03:05, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I understand your point, but the tag is particularly important in vote and consensus building processes. The tag specifically says This user has made few or no other edits outside this topic"., and even if three edits were made overall, this would still mean a 33% of all edits were made in this area. --Jamez42 (talk) 12:21, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
 * An editor with 9999 edits, where 3333 are about Bolivia, 3333 are about action movies, and 3333 are about crime and immigration, would clearly not be considered an SPA even though 33% of their edits are about one topic. 66% of the edits are about other topics, so they cannot be considered a single-purpose account. If you tag all users with "few edits" as an SPA, then all new editors could be tagged, which is not the intent of the template, as outlined at WP:SPATG. — cmonghost 👻 (talk) 19:22, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
 * 3333 edits about Bolivia would be considered as single broad topic. On the other hand, 3333 edits limited only in the talk page of the 2019 Bolivian political crisis article talk page is quite different. --Jamez42 (talk) 19:57, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Even if 3333 edits were specifically about the coup d'état and related articles, the editor would not be considered an SPA — only 1/3 of their edits are about the so-called "single purpose".
 * In any case, WP:SPATG is quite clear that You should under no circumstance consider anything that falls into the below categories as evidence for warranting an SPA tag, one of which is that A user should not be tagged as an SPA just because they only have a handful of edits. If you distrust new users, that's up to you, but tagging new users as SPAs when each of their edits is on a different topic is misleading, and it is contrary to the purpose of the template. — cmonghost 👻 (talk) 20:15, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Re: Sources
Could you be more specific please? BeŻet (talk) 23:12, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

Your e-mail
I'll look at it, but I can't promise anything more.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:43, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter December 2019


This year's Reviewer of the Year is. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.
 * Reviewer of the Year

Special commendation again goes to who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to and  who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.

Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.

Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.

(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)

A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by.
 * Redirect autopatrol

Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.
 * Source Guide Discussion

While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag. Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 16:10, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
 * This month's refresher course

Merry Christmas

 * , thank you so much, this WikiLove comes in a great moment for me. Once again, best wishes! :) --Jamez42 (talk) 20:09, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Happy holidays, man, best wishes :) Kingsif (talk) 20:42, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

Season's Greetings
FWiW Bzuk (talk) 01:08, 23 December 2019 (UTC) Many thanks!! You too! --Jamez42 (talk) 20:10, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

Felicidades!

 * Thank you very much! Please take care, my best wishes! --Jamez42 (talk) 20:09, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Simón (2018 film) (December 24)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Theroadislong was:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.


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Theroadislong (talk) 18:05, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Vector images
Is there an easy way to manipulate the vector images as you did with the map in Lima Group? Also happy holidays! --MaoGo (talk) 11:50, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Happy holidays! :) I use Inkscape, although I think Commons also has a vector editor. --Jamez42 (talk) 11:52, 30 December 2019 (UTC)