User talk:Soni/Archive 13

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Year
As a result of this redirects discussion, the purpose of Year has been changed from Year needed to YEAR. I'm writing this message to let you know that there are existing uses of this template on your user subpage User:Soni/sandbox 2 and User:Soni/sandbox 3 which need to be checked manually and migrated as appropriate. Deryck C. 17:28, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

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Requesting Adoption
Hi Soni,

I'm a newbie to Wiki. I'm interested in publishing an article on the Coral Restoration Foundation, based in Key Largo, FL, but I need some help in getting it done.

Could you please adopt me so that I can make progress?

Thanks! FLkeyseditor (talk) 15:37, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

[WikiConference India 2020] Conference & Event Grant proposal
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Adopter
You have been removed from the list of WP:ADOPTERS due to inactivity. If you wish to re-add yourself, you may do so at any time. Here is the text that you used: |description=Hi there. My name is Soni and I am a Wikipedia editor. I prefer to interact directly with my adoptees and I'm willing to be patient enough to help any adoptees. I specialise in areas involving dealing with new editors, and editor retention. CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 07:43, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
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Editor of the Week : nominations needed!
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"Do or do not, there is no try" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Do or do not, there is no try. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 November 29 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Aasim (talk) 09:15, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Arbitration request
Regarding this edit: nice to see you continue to edit on English Wikipedia. In the past I've given you some feedback on the nature of your comments, so I wanted to tell you that I felt your comment expressed yourself very well. Thanks very much! I have a minor note regarding your reference to the bureaucrats' noticeboard. In spite of your edit to "will exist" (which is a little confusing in itself, as the noticeboard exists, even if administrative action review is in a bit more of an intermediate state), it seems to imply that bureaucrats have a current role regarding removing administrative privileges. (I understand that you don't actually think this.) Regarding your final general note, it's a bit of an aside, since arbitrators can't accept or reject a request based on the community thinking another process should exist. (Of course, many editors have digressions in their statements.) I only mention these in passing; the key point is that I think your comment overall did a good job in raising and explaining some new points to consider. Happy writing! isaacl (talk) 21:54, 8 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Hey Isaac, nice to see you again. I've been lurking for a while, but only slowly started re-dipping my feet into the rest of community and editing. I actually was just yesterday looking at EOTW to see where it had landed and was considering just being BOLD and updating some templates and headers there. Not sure if you're still active in that space, but it was good to check back and reminisce over them.
 * What areas are you active on currently? Since I've been meaning to try editing more, I'm actually actively looking for a bite sized project or two I can attack. I'm currently most active on discord, in case you're also around there.
 * As for the comment, thank you. Like I said, I was actually trying to stay away and continue lurking, but felt like someone had to raise those points. This entire last couple months of following enWiki has been... a bit jarring. But also, what you said is partly why I ended up noting my replies as a "Comment" instead of a "Statement". I thought it was adjacent enough to the discussion matter and wanted to talk on it, just wasn't sure if it was directly interacting with all of the case as a whole.
 * As for XRV/BN... Do you have a suggested phrasing? I was trying to fit the 500 word mark and only later realised your clarification on the state of XRV (Which I actually am somewhat still unfamiliar with). Happy to phrase myself better, I just didn't know what the current state of it exactly was.
 * Soni (talk) 22:57, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
 * There's disagreement on the state of the administrative action review process. As much as I'd like calmer heads to prevail and find a happy path forward, I don't really know how it's going to happen, so I can't say it's effective use of time right now to learn about it. Regarding wording, you can correct me if I'm mistaken: I think you meant to say that you thought there could be a role in future for bureaucrats in a process to remove administrative privileges. By referring specifically to the noticeboard, along with a process that is actually being developed, it made it seem like there was already a process that used the noticeboard.
 * Not much has changed since the editor retention project started: the reasons I added there regarding why I'm not excited to edit articles are still true. Wikipedia works fine when most people agree, but not so well when there is significant disagreement, even (maybe especially) if in good-faith.
 * Buster7 continues to be the one-person show behind Editor of the Week. I stopped paying attention to the nominations to the extent that I let a nomination for me slip by. When the recognition was given, I thought the most graceful approach was to accept it. I'm sure he would appreciate more nominations and people dropping by to thank the recipients. isaacl (talk) 00:05, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Understood. It's been a while since I saw any of WER, so pardon me I don't quite remember most of what happened after, just the initial burst to make EoTW heh. And gotcha. Maybe I shall, just to nominate Buster hehe Soni (talk) 00:09, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Soni. Let me take this opportunity to personally thank you for the nomination. I will receive it on 8/7/2022; my 75th Birthday. By that time 450 editors will have received a small acknowledgement for their efforts but none can feel more honored than me. &#8213; Buster7  &#9742;   15:53, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Nomination of Critical area (computing) for deletion
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Reference link in MacDowell Colony page broken
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