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Your recent edits on the Namibia
Hello @Pgallert. I saw some of your recent edits on the Namibia page. I wanted to ask about the demotion of the section on Demographics. Most other country pages, if not nearly all, have dedicated sections for Demographics. I was wondering what your reason was for demoting it, especially given the lack of discussion on it at its Talk page. I personally find searching for Demographics information on the new version rather difficult, given that it is split between the sections on Geography and Culture, and I think that it makes said sections excessively long. Thanks, --Amtoastintolerant (talk) 07:29, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi Amtoastintolerant, thanks for bringing this up. The section on demographics is rather small, and in my understanding the topic is part of geography. But checking now, most other country pages indeed have it as a main section after "economy", with health, religion, languages, subordinate to it. I can undo my sorting; You're right that I should have sought consensus first. Cheers, Pgallert (talk) 19:53, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

A bowl of strawberries for you!

 * Thank you, Secretlondon! I also enjoyed this exercise, and was surprised by its outcome. --Pgallert (talk) 14:03, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

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


 * Proposal 2, initiated by, provides for the addition of a text box at Requests for adminship reminding all editors of our policies and enforcement mechanisms around decorum.
 * Proposals 3 and 3b, initiated by and, respectively, provide for trials of discussion-only periods at RfA. The first would add three extra discussion-only days to the beginning, while the second would convert the first two days to discussion-only.
 * Proposal 5, initiated by, provides for a trial of RfAs without threaded discussion in the voting sections.
 * Proposals 6c and 6d, initiated by, provide for allowing users to be selected as provisional admins for a limited time through various concrete selection criteria and smaller-scale vetting.
 * Proposal 7, initiated by, provides for the "General discussion" section being broken up with section headings.
 * Proposal 9b, initiated by, provides for the requirement that allegations of policy violation be substantiated with appropriate links to where the alleged misconduct occured.
 * Proposals 12c, 21, and 21b, initiated by, , and , respectively, provide for reducing the discretionary zone, which currently extends from 65% to 75%. The first would reduce it 65%–70%, the second would reduce it to 50%–66%, and the third would reduce it to 60%–70%.
 * Proposal 13, initiated by, provides for periodic, privately balloted admin elections.
 * Proposal 14, initiated by, provides for the creation of some minimum suffrage requirements to cast a vote.
 * Proposals 16 and 16c, initiated by and, respectively, provide for community-based admin desysop procedures. 16 would desysop where consensus is established in favor at the administrators' noticeboard; 16c would allow a petition to force reconfirmation.
 * Proposal 16e, initiated by, would extend the recall procedures of 16 to bureaucrats.
 * Proposal 17, initiated by, provides for "on-call" admins and 'crats to monitor RfAs for decorum.
 * Proposal 18, initiated by, provides for lowering the RfB target from 85% to 75%.
 * Proposal 24, initiated by, provides for a more robust alternate version of the optional candidate poll.
 * Proposal 25, initiated by, provides for the requirement that nominees be extended-confirmed in addition to their nominators.
 * Proposal 27, initiated by, provides for the creation of a training course for admin hopefuls, as well as periodic retraining to keep admins from drifting out of sync with community norms.
 * Proposal 28, initiated by, tightens restrictions on multi-part questions.

To read proposals that were closed as unsuccessful, please see Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I/Closed proposals. You are cordially invited once again to participate in the open discussions; when phase I ends, phase II will review the outcomes of trial proposals and refine the implementation details of other proposals. Another notification will be sent out when this phase begins, likely with the first successful close of a major proposal. Happy editing! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her), via:

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Oshiwambo words and phrases


A tag has been placed on Category:Oshiwambo words and phrases indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 22:35, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Herero Wars
Stop removing information from the Herero Wars article. The other articles sited also include other events in their "See also" sections without including sources. See American Indian Wars and Australian frontier wars. DaRealPrinceZuko (talk) 22:12, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
 * That wasn't information but links to random pages that somehow also contain atrocities against the indigenous population of some territory. If they are somehow connected, state a source that says so. If they are not, do not re-add. That other pages contain similar content is not a good reason to include them. In general, unreferenced content here is often allowed to stay unless someone complains about it. If that happens, either a source will be provided or the content will be removed. Hope that helps, Pgallert (talk) 15:08, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Several German colonials, including Lothar von Trotha and Alexander Kuhn, compared their conflict with the Herero to the American Indian Wars. The former's comparisons are evidenced in his diary: "The natives must give way [weichen]--look at America."
 * Hull, Isabel V. (2005). Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany. Cornell University. p. 30
 * Lahti, Janne (2019). The American West and the World: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives. Routledge. p. 162 DaRealPrinceZuko (talk) 16:46, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Perfect! I have no objection if you make an entry in Herero Wars with this explanation and source. --Pgallert (talk) 06:41, 8 April 2024 (UTC)