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Nomination of Workers International to Rebuild the Fourth International for deletion
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Unrecognized countries userbox
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I used your photo
At Dumfries, Lochmaben and Lockerbie Railway. Thanks for taking it. --John (talk) 17:34, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

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Your UAA comments
Unfortunately, it is irrelevant under the way the username policy has been enforced that they made useful edits. A username similar or identical to that of the subject of the article being edited, when not a real personal name, creates enough of a perception of a conflict of interest regardless of the editor's intent or actual connection to the subject that harmonious collaboration isn't possible. So I had to block them both. Daniel Case (talk) 17:08, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

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My Name Change
Thank you so much for your help in this matter, I'm sorry I broke guidelines! PoopSockSurprise (talk) 22:35, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Michael Cobb (cutie husband)
I normally respond to contested deletion requests on article talk pages. But I lost the will to live after I read the article. Thank you for replying! --  role player 22:55, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview
Dear Secretlondon,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication

Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia

Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU,

a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known

about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!)

want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea

(the class) to the community [[Wikipedia:Village_pump_

(proposals)/Archive_82#Learn_to_be_a_Wikipedia_Administrator_-_New_class_at_MSU|HERE]],

where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a

few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes,

dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our

students.

So a few things about the interviews:
 * Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
 * Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of

communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
 * All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym)

will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission

to do so.
 * All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an

interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
 * The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics

review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students

have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to

speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain

anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable

doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will

be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 07:26, 12 February 2012

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Young June Sah --Yjune.sah (talk) 20:29, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Initiative for Catalonia Greens


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Blocked username adds user to category of "Wikipedians who are indefinitely blocked for a violation of the username policy"
I just noticed that User talk:Ihopeyoudieofaids was added to Category:Wikipedians who are indefinitely blocked for a violation of the username policy. However, the template says "Your username is the only reason for this block. You are welcome to choose a new username (see below)." Is it the template or the category name that is incorrect? Joja lozzo  00:08, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
 * They are indefinitely blocked, until they request to change their name. Then they get unblocked. If they don't request to change their name they stay indefinitely blocked. The "only" element of the template is that they are not also being blocked for spamming or vandalism, or whatever. Secretlondon (talk) 01:54, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Can they create a new account or is their IP locked out? (I have no experience with being blocked.) Joja  lozzo  02:44, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
 * It depends how the block has been set. We can autoblock IP addresses if needed. Secretlondon (talk) 00:30, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * If we have not blocked the IP then we have only blocked the account, not the user. In that case why do we put them in this category? Joja  lozzo  02:56, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

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Space Forces
Hi Secretlondon, greetings. Just a heads-up, I have reverted your removal of information in RSF. All this needs is a date added (2002) and then it is a properly referenced list of units for 2002, sourced to the famous Kommersant-Vlast article. It also comes under 'Before someone deletes all my local election results 1990s Russian military work as cruft please at least transwiki it somewhere. Hours of work...' Hope this clarifies. Cheers Buckshot06 (talk) 04:14, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Still needs a reference though. I've wiklinked to the articles on Okno, Krona and Pechora. Secretlondon (talk) 06:33, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
 * You do realise that each major unit has the reference immediately beside it? Buckshot06 (talk) 21:51, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks.
Just a quick note of thanks for your help moving our current Psyc3330 page and those of prior years to their proper spot in 'School and university projects'. We're learning and improving as we go, albeit slowly, and appreciate such patient guidance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Psyc3330 w12 (talk • contribs) 20:43, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

The Farewell sermon
I have explained why its fake in talk page, can you please add the edit notice i mentioned here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#What_can_be_done_to_prevent_the_constant_addition_of_the_same_fake_information --Misconceptions2 (talk) 14:25, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
Whenaxis (contribs) DR goes to Wikimania! 21:32, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks! He's only gone for admins - and using nowiki is a bit of an odd thing for a newbie to do. Secretlondon (talk) 21:04, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh and I only gave him 12 hours - feel free to change. Secretlondon (talk) 21:04, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
 * For future reference, this person has been coming up repeatedly for quite a while now, always putting "nowiki" in admins' talk pages. Presumably they are admins who have taken action against him/her in the past. Any time a new account shows up with this behaviour pattern, an indef block is reasonable. JamesBWatson (talk) 20:57, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks - I gave him 12 hours to stop it. He got an indef from someone else later. Secretlondon (talk) 20:59, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

IP with unacceptable username?
Not important, but i thought I would just mention it. I assume that your block reason in this block log is a slip, since "vau" is "vandalism and username violation". JamesBWatson (talk) 20:53, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes it was - sorry. I normally 'staff' the username vio desk. Secretlondon (talk) 20:55, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

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DYK for Balkhash Radar Station
PanydThe muffin is not subtle 08:04, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Olenegorsk Radar Station
PanydThe muffin is not subtle 08:04, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Mishelevka Radar Station
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Problem-solving courts
You asked, "Does this need 'In the United States' somewhere?" Were you suggesting the title? The intro states that PSCs are a "current trend in the legal system of the United States". Obviously I did not attempt to include a worldwide view of the subject. That would be a good expansion of the article. Mgrē@sŏn 12:42, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

They do exist in dozens of countries. Mgrē@sŏn 03:07, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

User:Hans Triplecock
Done, there are already messages on the new talk page, I left a welcome there after I saw the name had been changed. - filelake shoe &#xF0F6;  22:44, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

UTRS Account Request
UTRS Account Request Secretlondon (talk) 00:22, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

DYK nomination of EKS (satellite)
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DYK for EKS (satellite)
Yngvadottir (talk) 17:35, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

SPI?
I know that in the past, sometimes sockpuppet investigations would take place behind the screens. The user certainly looks like a candidate. There's something vaguely familiar about the guy, and his refusal to disclose to anyone raises suspicions; but I generally don't keep records about troublesome users, and I can't place him. Anyway, that SPI option should be considered, if it isn't already being considered. Just an experienced but non-admin opinion here. Feel free to revert this without comment. :) ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 22:51, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh sure. I'm just digging as I'm holding the appeal (which I rejected as we work via email). Secretlondon (talk) 22:53, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Serpukhov-15
Hi,

I liked the article you wrote about Serpukhov-15, so I've decided to nominate it to appear in the "Did you know" section on the main page. You can find the discussion here. You're welcome to chip in. There are a few statements in the article that look like they're not covered by references. People may object to the nomination based on that. I might want add a few more footnote just to be safe on that account.--Carabinieri (talk) 01:55, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I had a related satellite DYK last week so it might be too soon. I'll work on the references anyway. Secretlondon (talk) 02:04, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Stub tagging
Not random The pages I tagged were already tagged by another project as a stub. I don't know anything about a WikiProject Russia tag on Talk:Hantsavichy Radar Station, but it was otherwise tagged as a stub. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:54, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
 * But these tags can be very out of date. Secretlondon (talk) 02:58, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Serpukhov-15
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DYK review of The Paying Guest
Hello! Thanks for your review. I responded to your comments here. Thanks, Moswento talky 07:06, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Gotta Be You DYK
Hi, am I permitted to re-write a new "did you know" for the article? If so, I posted one on the nomination page. Till I Go Home (talk) 08:58, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes you are allowed to write multiple hooks. Secretlondon (talk) 15:11, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

DYK for A-35 anti-ballistic missile system
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DYK for Serpukhov-15
Carabinieri (talk) 00:03, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you! Secretlondon (talk) 16:15, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
The Bushranger One ping only 15:31, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Musa Kesedžija
I really looked forward to see it together with the image. I wish I was more skillful with image adjustment software. Thank you for your effort anyway. If you need any help regarding Albania and former Yugoslavia, please feel free to contact me.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 12:15, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Yokohama Dreamland Monorail
Just a heads up: I hope I've addressed your concerns for Template:Did you know nominations/Yokohama Dreamland Monorail, please take another look. Jpatokal (talk) 05:41, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you! Secretlondon (talk) 17:53, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Yantar-2K
Thanks from Wikipedia and the DYK team Graeme Bartlett (talk) 16:05, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Main Centre for Missile Attack Warming
In view of your heroic efforts to safeguard World Socialism against the Capitalist Menace, I hereby award you a Red Army Guardsman's distinction. Buckshot06 (talk) 08:50, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

GOCE July 2012 Copy Edit Drive
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Starhub IP blocking
I've replied to you on WP:AN. -- The Anome (talk) 12:48, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Lunigiana revolt
Yngvadottir (talk) 16:30, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

Unblock appeal from 58.163.175.178
I've replied to your message on my talk page. JamesBWatson (talk) 07:39, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Freiberg DYK
I've put up an alt about their botanical garden. Pumpkin Sky  talk  02:25, 30 June 2012 (UTC) See "original botanical garden was founded in 1620 as hortus medicus." Pumpkin Sky  talk  12:45, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
 * "original botanical garden was founded in 1620 as hortus medicus." Pumpkin Sky   talk  12:45, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

UTRS
Hey. Per your request and with the consent of most of the other tool admins, I've gone ahead and flagged your account for administrator privileges. Thanks for all your help!--v/r - TP 02:54, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Secretlondon (talk) 03:45, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Swakopmund tracking station
Yngvadottir (talk) 08:02, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Main Centre for Missile Attack Warning
Thank you from the DYK team at English Wikipedia. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:14, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Maison Alcan
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DYK nomination of Sevastopol Radar Station
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DYK
Can't this morning. :( at a press conference. --LauraHale (talk) 23:41, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I'd be inclined to let Winter Olympians go just because ZOMG! SO MANY OLYMPIANS! (Now off to try to sort that prep area again.) --LauraHale (talk) 05:35, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Patrick Awuah Jr
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Please comment on DYK prep area issue
Hi. As an active participant in DYK discussion, if you have a minute, can you drop by Wikipedia talk:Did you know and offer an opinion on how to address this? I'd rather get it dealt with sooner rather than later as I feel like the sheer volume will require a discussion as all people involved in building prep areas will need to be aware of whatever decision is reached. Thanks. --LauraHale (talk) 21:29, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Huh?
I don't get it. I get desysopped because I restored an admin decision that was reverted without discussion? The idea was so ludicrous that I'd forgotten the motion was even being discussed. — kwami (talk) 15:49, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Sevastopol Radar Station
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Global Space Situational Sensors Database
Hi. My name is Brian Weeden and I was wondering if I could talk to you about contributing your knowledge of Russian radars to another project I'm working it. It's a website with a database of space surveillance sensors from around the world (http://globalssasensors.org). We launched earlier this year and looking for contributors.

Please drop me a note at bweeden@swfound.org if you are interested. Weedenbc (talk) 00:11, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXXVI, July 2012
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DYK review
Hi Secretlondon, sorry for butting in on Template:Did you know nominations/2012 Yahoo! Voice hack but I've found systematic problems with the way sources have been used in the article. Please take a look at my comments on the nomination page. Prioryman (talk) 19:10, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
 * It's not butting in. I don't understand why people think only one person can comment on DYKs. This means that you can't comment on things you know about or are concerned about, but don't have the time or inclination to take ownership of. Secretlondon (talk) 19:12, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I think it's kind of a tradition, but you're right about it not being a useful one! Prioryman (talk) 19:21, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Dnestr radar
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 08:02, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Award for you

 * Thank you! Secretlondon (talk) 20:18, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Moment space surveillance complex
Allen3 talk 16:07, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/International Sociological Association
Replied there. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 17:00, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you! I'm honoured. Secretlondon (talk) 18:46, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Forced evictions in Baku
Does the article look any better now?  Master&amp;  Expert ( Talk ) 07:56, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks! Secretlondon (talk) 19:18, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

DYK for cognitive vulnerability
Hey! This nomination template has been looked over and since the reviewer suggested a hook, ONLY THE HOOK needs to be looked over by another new reviewer. The rest of the article has been surely taken care of. If you have the time to just check it out, please do so. Thanks. Khyati Gupta (talk) 19:13, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
One question. Aaron  • You Da  One 13:20, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Okno-S
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 16:03, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Kosmos 2481
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:02, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Relevant discussion
Hi. As you are a regular of WP:UAA, you are invited to participate in this RfC, which may influence the noticeboard. Have a good one. NTox · talk 09:04, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Krona-N
Orlady (talk) 00:04, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks.
Thanks for you trying to help me unblocked. Actually it was expired, so I can edit now, although this experience has made me question the value of this encyclopedia. Anyway, thanks.Wfumie (talk) 03:05, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

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I thought it'd be better to work extensively on the article myself, and then I can have you guys review the article for any problems and we can fix those. I thought it would be more organized that way.

With that said, I'll restore the message. I guess it'll be better to have as many editors as possible in the beginning rather then later.

Would you like to help out? :) 3er40 (talk) 19:14, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

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DYK for Azov radar
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Implosion of Radio Network House
You commented on the DYK nomination of Implosion of Radio Network House. Your comments were added to the article's talk page (where I had transcluded the nomination). The comments need to go onto the DYK nomination template, though. I had overlooked this on my watchlist, but somebody else spotted it and has moved it across, so all is good now. I thought I'd let you know for future reference.  Schwede 66  21:02, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I commented on the talk page as I was commenting on the article, not the DYK nomination. I've been here since 2003, you don't need to patronise me, thanks. Secretlondon (talk) 09:38, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I didn't want to come across as patronising. I did check and see that you've been around forever. I've given your comment its own heading, as so far, everybody thought that you had been commenting on the DYK nomination.  Schwede 66  18:43, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXXVII, August 2012
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DYK for Dream Team (1999 pornographic film)
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Spanish Fort Site
Thanks for the review. Did you see my last comment? TLDR was a comment on my own writing, not a complaint about yours. Nyttend (talk) 17:02, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

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BL event
Yes, there's no fixed computers. WMUK have some spare laptops, but unfortunately they're at their office and not at the BL. You could try dropping an email to Richard, who I think might be coming - he might be able to bring one from the office.

Alternatively, I have an spare netbook, if you're happy with a tiny screen! Andrew Gray (talk) 11:08, 9 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Aha, yes - we're in a separate "public" conference room, rather than anything in the reading-room areas, so it's basically open tables. There is one fixed computer in the room, but it's for presentations etc rather than as a publicly accessible terminal. Andrew Gray (talk) 12:45, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Just to quickly clarify - I've noticed I forgot to make it clear on the signup page - to consult print BL material, you'd have to go into the reading rooms. Unfortunately we're not easily able to bring those items out into the conference centre. Apologies for any inconvenience - the BL is very strict about this! Andrew Gray (talk) 13:02, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

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Roth
I'm glad you clarified some elements of the Roth saga. I guess what is important to do now is figure out how to avoid similar situations in the future. Are you satisfied that such a correction mechanism exists, even with the privacy of UTRS? Also, why was UTRS utilized? -- Jprg1966  (talk)  02:54, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

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Template:Did you know nominations/Kangiten
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DYK for Kavoshgar-5
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DYK nomination of Main Space Intelligence Centre
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Main Space Intelligence Centre
Sorry about that. I certainly did not intend to do any harm, let alone break a link. Technically, it would have probably been better if you had use "undo" rather than "revert" as this was a WP:AGF edit. But its not real important, and the result is the same. No worries. Keep up the good work. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 21:12, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Main Space Intelligence Centre
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DYK for Russian Space Command
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DYK for Sazhen-S
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Change my User Name
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Template:Did you know nominations/Grootegeluk Coal Mine, Waterberg Coalfield
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 * Maybe it was a bit awkward. I have suggested an alternative.  Your feedback would be welcome. Aymatth2 (talk) 18:53, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Maps (application)
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I'm grateful you noticed my small effort towards creating an article for the satellite. Nevertheless I think it would had been better to update the previously existing article Venezuela Remote Sensing Satellite rather than starting one. So I propose to merge both. Tom Paine (talk) 02:05, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

Ya'fur DYK
Thanks for looking at the Ya'fur DYK, but I hope you'll find my response persuasive. Wnt (talk) 04:07, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

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Talkback
Addressed your concerns. Please check. Redtigerxyz Talk 07:27, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
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DYK for VRSS-1
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Armavir Radar Station

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Renaming my username
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Smithsonian Gardens
Dear Secretlondon, Thank you for the pointer. I appreciate it.

But, would you remove the delete tag from Smithsonian Gardens and give me and other editors more time. I am working on the article but I wanted feedback. That is why I posted on the article's talk page to invited people to add more cites and text.

I am not asking for carte blanche; just more time. If you do not agree with my changes after a time set by you, after removal of the delete tag, then I, Geraldshields11, will not contest any delete tag placed by anyone on this article for six months.

The Smithsonian Gardens are see by anyone who wanders on the National Mall and controls the numerous gardens in DC, which have Wikipedia pages. It would be a travasty to delete this article and let the pickachu articles stand. I understand Pokémon test but the cultural importance of the Smithsonian Gardens should out weigh my limited scriblings about the Institution and the article should stand until a better writer than me has a crack at it. Geraldshields11 (talk) 01:46, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

It seems the article Smithsonian Gardens was tagged, for deletion by User:Secretlondon at 22:58 on 17 October 2012 and then deleted at 8:45 on 18 October 2012 by User:Yunshui for 'unambiguous copyright violation of the Smithsonian Institution'. For a grand total of 10 hours and 27 minutes to make corrections. Please see the Smithsonian barnstar on my user page. Geraldshields11 (talk) 21:08, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

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Pamela Lipkin
Could you explain why this isn't notable? She's been consulted by the American media with regard to Michael Jackson's surgeries. Should this be more clear or is this not enough?--Aichikawa (talk) 16:56, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Your accusation
Seriously, I would like a reply from you on this question, so I'll post it here for you to address:


 * I used a fair amount of shoe leather and library time to research, write and photograph for the article Moorish Gibraltar, which is in the DYK nominations queue and is a spin-off of the History of Gibraltar article I wrote several years ago. Please explain why it was "abusive" of me to write this article and why I should be deprived of the chance to show the quality of my work to Main Page readers.

I am, not to put too fine a point on it, quite angry that you should be attacking my work in this way for no good reason. I'd like an explanation. Prioryman (talk) 00:30, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Your message on my talk page
I have no idea what you're talking about. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 05:16, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

...thanks for the clarification...to err is human, to really foul things up requires a computer. ;-) Carlossuarez46 (talk) 16:06, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Intelsat 23, Launch of Telkom-3 and Ekspress-MD2
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BLPPROD
Careful with the BLPPRODs, Leandro Benegas, Marco Hidalgo and Ricardo Viveros all have references. Bgwhite (talk) 00:46, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

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DYK nomination
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Regional Institute of Ophthalmology, Kolkata
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SigmaLive
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DYK for Intelsat 23
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DYK for Ekspress MD2
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Dnestr radar GAN
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1-21 Cornwall Terrace: Revision history
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 * It's still a bit peacocky but I don't have a lot of time to spend on it. Feel free to remove the tag if you want. Secretlondon (talk) 21:14, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Valery Gerasimov
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DYK for Carol Lee Flinders
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DYK for Luch 5B
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DYK for Sokol Eshelon
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Re: DYK
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DYK for Meridian 6
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DYK for Eutelsat 70B
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Crat statement draft
Hi Following the drama at BN, I'm trying to come up with a statement all Crats could agree to. Please take a look, below. I am quite content to do this onwiki -we have always worked transparently, except where secrecy is essential (ie RTV). I think we should be able to wordsmith a statement acceptable to all, and I think it's an important thing to do. Signed [crat sig] Lmk what you think. Many thanks, --Dweller (talk) 14:15, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
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Article Feedback deployment
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A-135 radar images are incorrect
You told me that the images I added to the A-135 article were incorrect. I thought that if no English equivalent was available, thay could still be used, since I think they're useful/interesting. But so be it. More importantly; if you know that they are factually incorrect and they therefore shouldn't be used, I urge you to do something about it at Commons, seing that the images are being used in 8 other wikis. . Katana (talk) 16:07, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I've asked for them both to be deleted. The hen house one may have been accurate (ish) in about 1997 ish (but the fans don't have sources) but the Daryal one is utterly incorrect. Some of those radars were NEVER operational! Secretlondon (talk) 11:54, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

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Forced user renames coming soon for SUL
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 * As I'm not a 'crat on Meta I presume renames are nothing to do with me anymore. Secretlondon (talk) 17:31, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue LXXXVI, May 2013
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The Bugle: Issue LXXXVII, June 2013
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The Bugle: Issue LXXXVIII, July 2013
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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Sockpuppet, permitted by WP:SOCK


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The Bugle: Issue LXXXIX, August 2013
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WikiProject Military history coordinator election
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The Bugle: Issue LXXXXX, September 2013
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The Bugle: Issue XCI, October 2013
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Books and Bytes: The Wikipedia Library Newsletter
Books and Bytes Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2013 by , Greetings Wikipedia Library members! Welcome to the inaugural edition of Books and Bytes, TWL’s monthly newsletter. We're sending you the first edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or applied for a free research account: HighBeam, Credo, Questia, JSTOR, or Cochrane. To receive future updates of Books and Bytes, please add your name to the subscriber's list. There's lots of news this month for the Wikipedia Library, including new accounts, upcoming events, and new ways to get involved... New positions: Sign up to be a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar, or a Volunteer Wikipedia Librarian Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Off to a roaring start this fall in the United States: 29 events are planned or have been hosted. New subscription donations: Cochrane round 2; HighBeam round 8; Questia round 4... Can we partner with NY Times and Lexis-Nexis?? New ideas: OCLC innovations in the works; VisualEditor Reference Dialog Workshop; a photo contest idea emerges News from the library world: Wikipedian joins the National Archives full time; the Getty Museum releases 4,500 images; CERN goes CC-BY Announcing WikiProject Open: WikiProject Open kicked off in October, with several brainstorming and co-working sessions New ways to get involved: Visiting scholar requirements; subject guides; room for library expansion and exploration Read the full newsletter ''Thanks for reading! All future newsletters will be opt-in only. Have an item for the next issue? Leave a note for the editor on the Suggestions page. --The Interior 22:09, 27 October 2013 (UTC)''

Nomination for deletion of Template:Images
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The Bugle: Issue XCII, November 2013
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The Wikipedia Library Survey
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The Bugle: Issue XCIII, December 2013
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The Bugle: Issue XCIV, January 2014
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Nomination of International Workers League – Fourth International for deletion
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The Bugle: Issue XCV, February 2014
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The Bugle: Issue XCVI, March 2014
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The Bugle: Issue XCVII, April 2014
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The Bugle: Issue XCVIII, May 2014
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The Bugle: Issue XCIX, June 2014
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The Bugle: Issue C, July 2014
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The Bugle: Issue CI, August 2014
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WikiProject Elections and Referendums article tagging
Hi Secretlondon. Sorry to have to post directly on your talk page, but you may have noticed (on the WP:Elections and referendums talk page) that I am trying to get all the election and referendum articles tagged for the project. Unfortunately this is not making any progress, as people are claiming there is no consensus to do this, as no-one has responded on the Project talk page. Could you possibly comment on the proposal at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elections and Referendums, as I'm getting rather frustrated by the attitude of the people at WP:BTR. Cheers, Number   5  7  12:37, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

An important message about renaming users
Dear Secretlondon,

I am cross-posting this message to many places to make sure everyone who is a Wikimedia Foundation project bureaucrat receives a copy. If you are a bureaucrat on more than one wiki, you will receive this message on each wiki where you are a bureaucrat.

As you may have seen, work to perform the Wikimedia cluster-wide single-user login finalisation (SUL finalisation) is taking place. This may potentially effect your work as a local bureaucrat, so please read this message carefully.

Why is this happening? As currently stated at the global rename policy, a global account is a name linked to a single user across all Wikimedia wikis, with local accounts unified into a global collection. Previously, the only way to rename a unified user was to individually rename every local account. This was an extremely difficult and time-consuming task, both for stewards and for the users who had to initiate discussions with local bureaucrats (who perform local renames to date) on every wiki with available bureaucrats. The process took a very long time, since it's difficult to coordinate crosswiki renames among the projects and bureaucrats involved in individual projects.

The SUL finalisation will be taking place in stages, and one of the first stages will be to turn off Special:RenameUser locally. This needs to be done as soon as possible, on advice and input from Stewards and engineers for the project, so that no more accounts that are unified globally are broken by a local rename to usurp the global account name. Once this is done, the process of global name unification can begin. The date that has been chosen to turn off local renaming and shift over to entirely global renaming is 15 September 2014, or three weeks time from now. In place of local renames is a new tool, hosted on Meta, that allows for global renames on all wikis where the name is not registered will be deployed.

Your help is greatly needed during this process and going forward in the future if, as a bureaucrat, renaming users is something that you do or have an interest in participating in. The Wikimedia Stewards have set up, and are in charge of, a new community usergroup on Meta in order to share knowledge and work together on renaming accounts globally, called Global renamers. Stewards are in the process of creating documentation to help global renamers to get used to and learn more about global accounts and tools and Meta in general as well as the application format. As transparency is a valuable thing in our movement, the Stewards would like to have at least a brief public application period. If you are an experienced renamer as a local bureaucrat, the process of becoming a part of this group could take as little as 24 hours to complete. You, as a bureaucrat, should be able to apply for the global renamer right on Meta by the requests for global permissions page on 1 September, a week from now.

In the meantime please update your local page where users request renames to reflect this move to global renaming, and if there is a rename request and the user has edited more than one wiki with the name, please send them to the request page for a global rename.

Stewards greatly appreciate the trust local communities have in you and want to make this transition as easy as possible so that the two groups can start working together to ensure everyone has a unique login identity across Wikimedia projects. Completing this project will allow for long-desired universal tools like a global watchlist, global notifications and many, many more features to make work easier.

If you have any questions, comments or concerns about the SUL finalisation, read over the Help:Unified login page on Meta and leave a note on the talk page there, or on the talk page for global renamers. You can also contact me on my talk page on meta if you would like. I'm working as a bridge between Wikimedia Foundation Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Stewards, and you to assure that SUL finalisation goes as smoothly as possible; this is a community-driven process and I encourage you to work with the Stewards for our communities.

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Nomination of Either/Or (TV series) for deletion
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The Bugle: Issue CII, September 2014
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WikiProject Military history coordinator election
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The Bugle: Issue CIII, October 2014
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The Bugle: Issue CIII, October 2014, Redux
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The Bugle: Issue CIV, November 2014
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Nominations for the Military history Wikiproject's Historian and Newcomer of the Year Awards are now open!
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The Bugle: Issue CV, December 2014
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The Bugle: Issue CVI, January 2015
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The Bugle: Issue CVII, February 2015
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Population update project
Hi. The 18th edition of Ethnologue just came out, and if we divide up our language articles among us, it won't take long to update them. I would appreciate it if you could help out, even if it's just a few articles (5,000 articles is a lot for just me), but I won't be insulted if you delete this request.

A largely complete list of articles to be updated is at Category:Language articles citing Ethnologue 17. The priority articles are in Category:Language articles with old Ethnologue 17 speaker data. These are the 10% that have population figures at least 25 years old.

Probably 90% of the time, Ethnologue has not changed their figures between the 17th and 18th editions, so all we need to do is change "e17" to "e18" in the reference (ref) field of the language info box. That will change the citation for the artcle to the current edition. Please put the data in the proper fields, or the info box will flag it as needing editorial review. The other relevant fields are "speakers" (the number of native speakers in all countries), "date" (the date of the reference or census that Ethnologue uses, not the date of Ethnologue!), and sometimes "speakers2". Our convention has been to enter e.g. "1990 census" when a census is used, as other data can be much older than the publication date. Sometimes a citation elsewhere in the article depends on the e17 entry, in which case you will need to change "name=e17" to "name=e18" in the reference tag (assuming the 18th edition still supports the cited claim).

Remember, we want the *total* number of native speakers, which is often not the first figure given by Ethnologue. Sometimes the data is too incompatible to add together (e.g. a figure from the 1950s for one country, and a figure from 2006 for another), in which case it should be presented that way. That's one use for the "speakers2" field. If you're not sure, just ask, or skip that article.

Data should not be displayed with more than two, or at most three, significant figures. Sometimes it should be rounded off to just one significant figure, e.g. when some of the component data used by Ethnologue has been approximated with one figure (200,000, 3 million, etc.) and the other data has greater precision. For example, a figure of 200,000 for one country and 4,230 for another is really just 200,000 in total, as the 4,230 is within the margin of rounding off in the 200,000. If you want to retain the spurious precision of the number in Ethnologue, you might want to use the sigfig template. (First parameter in this template is for the data, second is for the number of figures to round it off to.)

Dates will often need to be a range of all the country data in the Ethnologue article. When entering the date range, I often ignore dates from countries that have only a few percent of the population, as often 10% or so of the population isn't even separately listed by Ethnologue and so is undated anyway.

If Ethnologue does not provide a date for the bulk of the population, just enter "no date" in the date field. But if the population figure is undated, and hasn't changed between the 17th & 18th editions of Ethnologue, please leave the ref field set to "e17", and maybe add a comment to keep it so that other editors don't change it. In cases like this, the edition of Ethnologue that the data first appeared in may be our only indication of how old it is. We still cite the 14th edition in a couple dozen articles, so our readers can see that the data is getting old.

The articles in the categories linked above are over 90% of the job. There are probably also articles that do not currently cite Ethnologue, but which we might want to update with the 18th edition. I'll need to generate another category to capture those, probably after most of the Ethnologue 17 citations are taken care of.

Jump in at the WP:LANG talk page if you have any comments or concerns. Thanks for any help you can give!

— kwami (talk) 02:14, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CVIII, March 2015
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The Bugle: Issue CIX, April 2015
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The Bugle: Issue CX, May 2015
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The Bugle: Issue CXI, June 2015
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Workshopping bureaucrat activity requirements

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There is an ongoing discussion about implementing some kind of standards for administrative and bureaucrat activity levels; and activity requirements for bureaucrats have been explored several times in the past. I've prepared a draft addition to Bureaucrats that would require at least one bureaucratic action every five years to retain the bureaucrat permission.

In the past, I've been hesitant of such proposals but I believe that if the bureaucrat group as a whole is seen to be actively engaged, the community may be more willing to grant additional tasks to the position.

Please let me know your thoughts. I'm not sure if this actually applies to any of us, but if you have not acted as a bureaucrat in over five years, you might consider requesting removal of the permission or otherwise signalling that you intend to return to bureaucrat activity. –xenotalk 14:22, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

FYI: bureaucrat discussion opened

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A bureaucrat chat has been opened by Maxim at Requests for adminship/Rich Farmbrough 2/Bureaucrat discussion.

Bureaucrat discussion suggests notifying bureaucrats on their talk page as well as BN, hence this courtesy note. –xeno</b><sup style="color:#000">talk 16:44, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

Bureaucrat discussion notification
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The Bugle: Issue CXII, July 2015
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Community & Bureaucrat based desysoping proposal
A discussion is taking place regarding a proposal to create a community and bureaucrat based desysoping committee. The proposal would modify the position of bureaucrat. Your input is encouraged. Please see Administrators/RfC for BARC - a community desysoping process. Thank you, --Hammersoft (talk) 19:55, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Bureaucrat discussion notification (Liz)
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Implementation of Bureaucrats
Following a community discussion ending August 2015, consensus was reached to remove the bureaucrat permissions of users who have not participated in bureaucrat activity for three years.

Bureaucrats are expected to exercise the duties granted by their role while remaining cognizant of relevant community standards concerning their tasks. In addition to the "Inactive bureaucrat accounts" requirements, if a bureaucrat does not participate in bureaucrat activity for over three years, their bureaucrat permissions may be removed. The user must be notified on their talk page and by email one month before the removal, and again and a few days prior to the removal. If the user does not return to bureaucrat activity, another bureaucrat may request the removal of permissions at Steward requests/Permissions. Permissions removed for not meeting bureaucrat activity requirements may be re-obtained through a new request for bureaucratship.

To assist with the implementation of this requirement, please see Bureaucrat activity. Modeled after Inactive administrators and similar to that process, the log page will be created on 1 September 2015. Bureaucrats who have not met the activity requirements as of that date will be notified by email (where possible) and on their talk page to advise of the pending removal.

If the notified user does not return to bureaucrat activity and the permissions are removed, they will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFB. Removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon the affected user in any way.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. –<b style="font-family:verdana;color:#000">xeno</b><sup style="color:#000">talk

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The Bugle: Issue CXIII, August 2015
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The Bugle: Issue CXIV, September 2015
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WikiProject Military history coordinator election
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The Bugle: Issue CXV, October 2015
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The Bugle: Issue CXVI, November 2015
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ArbCom elections are now open!
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Notification of pending suspension of bureaucrat permissions due to not meeting bureaucrat activity requirements
Following a community discussion ending August 2015, consensus was reached to remove the bureaucrat permissions of users who have not participated in bureaucrat activity for three years. As a result of this discussion, your bureaucrat permissions may be removed if you do not return to bureaucrat activity within the next month. If you do not return to bureaucrat activity and the permissions are removed, you will need to request reinstatement at RFB. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past bureaucrat efforts. –<b style="font-family:verdana;color:#000">xeno</b><sup style="color:#000">talk 21:06, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Nominations for the Military history WikiProject historian and newcomer of the year awards now open!
On behalf of the Military history WikiProject's Coordinators, we would like to extend an invitation to nominate deserving editors for the 2015 Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year awards. The nomination period will run from 7 December to 23:59 13 December, with the election phase running from 14 December to 23:59 21 December. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:05, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXVII, December 2015
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Notification of imminent suspension of bureaucrat permissions due to not meeting bureaucrat activity requirements
Following a community discussion ending August 2015, consensus was reached to remove the bureaucrat permissions of users who have not participated in bureaucrat activity for three years. As a result of this discussion, your bureaucrat permissions may be removed if you do not return to bureaucrat activity within the next few days. If you do not return to bureaucrat activity and the permissions are removed, you will need to request reinstatement at RFB. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past bureaucrat efforts. –<b style="font-family:verdana;color:#000">xeno</b><sup style="color:#000">talk 14:44, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

Suspension of bureaucrat permissions due to not meeting bureaucrat activity requirements
Following a community discussion ending August 2015, consensus was reached to remove the bureaucrat permissions of users who have not participated in bureaucrat activity for three years. As a result of this discussion, your bureaucrat permissions have been removed by a Steward. If you wish to request reinstatement, you may do so at WP:RFB. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past bureaucrat efforts. –<b style="font-family:verdana;color:#000">xeno</b><sup style="color:#000">talk 06:19, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXVIII, January 2016
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