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=February 2022=

Feedback request: Wikipedia technical issues and templates request for comment
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Feedback request: Society, sports, and culture request for comment
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Kelly Zhang
Hi SMcCandlish, hope you've been well since we last spoke. I've created a userspace draft for Kelly Zhang, the CEO of ByteDance China, and was hoping you could take a look and move the draft to mainspace if it looks ready to you. I'm fairly certain she passes WP:GNG, and I avoided using promotional language, but just to be safe, I would rather an uninvolved editor like you be the one performing the move. Thank you! JatBD (talk) 21:51, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I did minor cleanup on it, but someone who reads Chinese should give it a once-over to make sure the sources agree with what's being said in the article. Maybe ask at WP:WikiProject China.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  00:18, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi again SMcCandlish. Since has vetted the Chinese sources, would you mind moving the draft to mainspace when you get a chance? Thanks, JatBD (talk) 20:57, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Needs appropriate categories added first. Can be done inside an HTML-comment block to prevent live categorization of a userspace draft.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  21:13, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I added some core categories but some additional would be good, if more information can be found (city, university, etc.). I moved the article to mainspace, as Kelly Zhang, and made her name a link in the ByteDance infobox.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  04:21, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you! I've added one more category, though I was unable to find any more information on Zhang's hometown or university. I'm also checking internally to see if there is a suitable image owned by ByteDance that can be published under a free license. Thanks for your help, JatBD (talk) 03:56, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 48
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Feedback request: Wikipedia policies and guidelines request for comment
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February thanks
Thank you for improving articles in February! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:53, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

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Issues on be-tarask
Hey there! Thought I'd message you about some concerns of mine regarding the lack of neutrality on the be-tarask Wikipedia. I noticed you'd been active on the Belarus WikiProject relatively recently so thought this may be of interest to you.

Currently, its article on Alexander Lukashenko says in part:
 * Alexander Lukashenko ... is the head of the Russian occupation administration, a puppet, pro-Russian, authoritarian leader of Belarus who holds power by rigging elections and terrorizing Belarusians with financial, military, and informational support from Russia. ... On April 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned Belarus in the context of an alleged FSB attempt to overthrow the Lukashenko regime as a Russian-controlled territory in which Russia would determine what was a coup and what was not.

(At least, according to Google Translate). A similar descriptor is given on the "Lukashenko regime" article (which also exists in Ukrainian, but seems to use more neutral language).

There also appears to be a "Russian occupation of Belarus" article (does not exist in any other language, including standard Belarusian), which says:
 * The Russian occupation of Belarus is the de facto Russian occupation of Belarus, an open demonstration of which took place on February 24, 2022, when the Russian invasion of Ukraine took place, including from the territory of Belarus. The Russian occupation administration is a puppet regime of Lukashenko, its head is the proclaimed "president" Alexander Lukashenko. One of the main measures taken by the Russian authorities (the Russian Empire, the USSR, the Russian Federation) and its occupation administrations at different times is the continuous violent Russification of Belarusians. The term "Russian occupation of Belarus" first appeared in the autumn of 1917.

This seems to be promoting false histories and original research (Lukashenko is pro-Russian and democracy doesn't really exist in the country, but it is not an "occupation" in the conventional sense, and the link to 1917 appears novel).

These are just two that caught my eye. I don't know whether this is limited to a few articles, or whether it is a more ingrained issue of ideological bias on the Taraškievica wiki in a similar vein to the Croatian Wikipedia situation. Notably, Taraškievica is spoken by the Belarusian diaspora, who I suspect are statistically more likely to be anti-regime. —AFreshStart (talk) 14:59, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't speak any of the relevant languages, and am not in position to help "police" the content over there.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  21:27, 28 February 2022 (UTC)