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= October 2015 =

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. Buster Seven   Talk  15:06, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Congrats, SMC. Montanabw (talk) 23:54, 4 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks, folks. The sick thing is, almost none of that 100K is WP:AWB; I haven't used it in years, and only for cleaning up small categories of articles like Category:Cue sports.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  01:41, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Update
You don't know me, but I just wanted to let you know I replied to your excellent comment from six months ago that you posted at the bottom of this talk page discussion. Have a good day. Czoal (talk) 19:37, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the note. I commented there and suggested at WP:ANRFC that it be closed per WP:SNOWBALL.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  01:38, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
 * My pleasure. Yes, there was quite a snowstorm in that RfC. By the way, that debate actually stemmed from this condescending lecture I got from an editor on my talk page after I moved the template from the bottom of an article, where he had placed it, to the top. In any case, thanks for requesting the close. Czoal (talk) 08:12, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Are you sitting down?
Believe it or not, I'm popping by because I think your perspective may be useful here: Talk:Feral_organism. Montanabw (talk) 20:11, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
 * LOL. I'll have a look at it.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  22:12, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I went with Sminthopsis's idea, which retains all the info, but puts the animal stuff in its own article.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  01:37, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Special administrative region
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Wikigroan listed at Redirects for discussion
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Please comment on Talk:African American
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MOS:IDENTITY is being revisited: How should Wikipedia refer to transgender individuals before and after their transition?
You are being contacted because you contributed to a recent discussion of MOS:IDENTITY that closed with the recommendation that Wikipedia's policy on transgender individuals be revisited.

Two threads have been opened at the Village Pump:Policy. The first addresses how the Manual of Style should instruct editors to refer to transgender people in articles about themselves (which name, which pronoun, etc.). The second addresses how to instruct editors to refer to transgender people when they are mentioned in passing in other articles. Your participation is welcome. Darkfrog24 (talk) 02:41, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
 * As I think you know, I'm temporarily unable to contribute to that discussion. Thanks for the notice, anyway; I doubt that the issues surrounding the specific page section in question will resolve themselves somehow in a single month, so I'll probably weigh in on it after the TB expires.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  03:12, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

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Flags redux
Flags to right of them, flags to left of them, flags in front of them, flutter'd and wave'd.

SMcC, FYI:. I trust you agree that tagging Russian ballet dancers with national flag icons is an inappropriate use. It's kind of funny, but whenever there's a MOS:ICON dust-up on the talk pages, it's always a sports-related article that is trotted out. Personally, I think national flag icons for ballerinas and dinosaur fossils are a lot more egregious, but I suppose there are those flag-waving apatosaurs and raptors that espouse nationalist tendencies too. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 09:20, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Can't do anything about it right now (see on-hold note).  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  18:55, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Understood; I was thinking your t-ban only extended to editing MOS provisions, but broadly construed this obviously touches on MOS. Sorry to bother you.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 18:57, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * No prob. I'm hoping the frequency with which people keep asking for my input on matters blockaded by the TBan will get the TBan lifted early, but so far the request has been sitting there for weeks. My guess is the TBan will expire before the request is acted upon. [shrug].  As for "broadly construed", the admin in question did in fact extend it directly to at least one article (even though that appears to violate the scope of WP:ARBATC), so I'm not taking any chances. The closest to a chance I'm taking is commenting on style matters in article talk from a strictly external-sources perspective, e.g. what Oxford&thinsp;/Hart's and Chicago say about comma usage.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  00:19, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Done, now that the TBan has been voided (and it would have expired by now anyway).  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  03:08, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Denali
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Tribscent08 and Universal Medicine
Tribscent08 is a WP:SPA with ties tot he cult. Frankly, we need to start topic banning the two or three SPAs on that article, because all they ever do is beef about how it's not promotional enough neutral. It's a cult, it makes batshit crazy claims, Benhayon's daughter claims to have given tens of thousands of pounds' worth of swimming coaching as a donation in kind, in the UK chaorty accounts, but without any trace of any meaningful number of people actually using the swimming facility. It really is a scam. Guy (Help!) 22:46, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't doubt you (on any of that). I was just doing due "in case it's an earnest noob not an SPI" diligence in explaining how proper sourcing works here. :-) If only it were as easy to deal with lo-o-ong term "civil PoV pushers". Obvious promotionalists are way easier to get the community to do something about than more subtle WP:GREATWRONGS activists on long-game campaigns to manipulate our coverage (see, e.g., top item on my user page re: Pakistan). There's a lot of that going on with regard to GMOs, e-cigs, even linguistic matters. [sigh]  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  23:34, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh yes, this is very much the case. I am increasingly convinced that there will eventually have to be a body on Wikipedia that can make binding decisions on content. Guy (Help!) 23:57, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Surely. And we have a countervailing problem that all of the dispute-resolution mechanisms under WP:DR cannot be used in a content dispute, other than running to ArbCom and spending a month pretending to be an attorney with a bunch of people pretending to be a court, or throwing the dice at ANI, where you will win or lose based on how popular you are with whoever shows up that day, and mostly as a factor of how good you are at being concise and sweet-sounding for the 15 seconds you have people's attention.  This dual problem is insanely gameable.  If you're a NOTHERE PoV-pusher, you can use one set of tactics and approaches to weasel and skew the content, dancing around the usual DR processes, but ultimately immune to ArbCom as long as you're good at the "civil-PoV" game; meanwhile using a different set of tactics to warp policy and processes (especially to make it easier to keep doing what you're doing to the content), knowing that there's almost no DR recourse available to stop you.  All it takes is patience and skill at verbal manipulation to get your opponents to look like the bad guys, and political acumen in persuading people you're not really doing anything wrong.  If this double-backdoor is not closed, it will eventually be the death of WP, because all the paid advocates, fringe loons, and propaganda agents will slowly become admins and take the place over, as they gain ground and force out actual encyclopedist editors who oppose them. This is an already ongoing, slow-motion coup d'état.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  06:05, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Blue Army (Poland)
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‎Requesting guidance
Greeetings

It seems you have been working on culture related some articles too. I am requesting your kind guidance for change of name of one article. When I started working on a new article recently, presently named  Poles in mythology actual article name was some thing different, actually due to some misunderstandings some one changed name of the article to Poles in mythology. Matter of the fact is I wanted to cover cultural aspects and festive celebrations as an umbrella article and wanted to have historical mythological, worships wherever concerned as a small part of the main article.

Poles in mythology is altogether a different subject when I am doing research and writing cultural aspects of festive celebrations are also coming up simultaneously and I am coming to a conclusion that for covering cultural aspects of festive celebrations of 'pole' we need to have a separate umbrella article altogether so we will not have more confusions and misunderstandings. Either we need to change present article name or split and create a new cultural aspect related article.

Please let me know your openion and if you are positive to my suggessions what should be the new articles name ? In fact you can join in discussion at Talk:Poles_in_mythology

Looking forward to your kind guidance

Thanks and warm regards Mahitgar (talk) 10:56, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

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Arbitration proposed decision posted
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