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YAY!
Now I can express my I love Seven of Nine feelings again. :) — Ched (talk) 22:16, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Mwahahahahaha. -- The SandDoctor  Talk 00:39, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Maybe there should be an UnProtector of the Wiki barnstar? Thanks for digging in TSD! –xenotalk 13:13, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Maybe there should be...wouldn't be that hard to create . I'm happy to lend a hand. So far done 1000-800 (yes, I'm going through it backwards to mitigate overlap). -- The SandDoctor Talk 17:18, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Wouldn't it be better to downgrade the protection (to EC), rather than remove it altogether? Some of these articles are potential targets for POV moves (or plain trolling), and these can sometimes be really tricky to clean up after. (Though otherwise, yay! I'm glad to see the ball rolling on this project.) – Uanfala (talk) 17:23, 1 May 2021 (UTC)


 * ECP can only be used when semi has proven ineffective. Protection also can’t be preemptive by policy. As it sits, all protections I have removed are over a decade old and are arguably quite excessive in a lot of cases. It appears that a good chunk were preemptive (i.e. page created then immediately protected w/o cause) or were placed after there were a couple instances of (edit) vandalism so they fully move-protected the page while temporarily semi edit protecting it; one could argue that these were quite possibly mistakes. Besides, 10-11 years of full protection is excessive and those trolls/LTAs could be long gone (I doubt they’d wait for 11 years before moving on). Various levels of protection can be re-added if proven necessary, but being preemptive isn’t the answer here.  The SandDoctor  Talk 17:44, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Take this one I just did, for example. It was never move vandalized or previously protected before it was sysop indef move protected. I am casting no judgement as I am not familiar with the policies from 2009, but by current standards (a dangerous lens to use, hence my forward proclamation of ignorance to 2009 practices/policies and indemnification of the admin who protected) that is wholly uncalled for. -- The SandDoctor Talk 17:52, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I don't envisage that the same disruptive editors from a decade ago would show up now, my point was that some topics are perennial targets. We're only talking about move protection, right? I don't know if there are any explicit guidelines here, but pre-emptive protection doesn't seem inappropriate to me – this is already a common practice for templates, and I believe some of the rationales for that apply here as well. Moving requires some level of knowledge of naming conventions and post-move cleanup, the consequence of a bad move is a mess that it takes a careful and prepared wikipedian to clean up, and – given that the articles concerned are mostly well-established ones – there's little scope for bold moves in the first place. – Uanfala (talk) 17:59, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
 * WP:NO-PREEMPT states that "Applying page protection as a preemptive measure is contrary to the open nature of Wikipedia and is generally not allowed if applied for these reasons." It refers to both implicitly as it does not differentiate between the two (its the policy page for both, after all) and states that the level used should be the lowest required; sysop is far from the "lowest required". When it comes to moves, there is no difference between semi and unprotected. Skipping straight to fully protected is indeed excessive. The protection policy section relating directly to ECP (WP:ECP) states that it should not be used pre-emptively. Referring to templates (WP:TPROT), template protection policy only applies to templates (and modules) that are determined to be high risk (the metric linked here is exclusive to templates/modules and is the one linked by policy). Templates are a totally different discussion not relevant to the subject matter at hand/this thread. -- The SandDoctor Talk 18:18, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I agree that the initial protection of Hardwick, Cambridgeshire looks difficult to justify, but the kinds of articles I see as more typical here are ones like Portuguese Timor, Bulgarian language, Chinese culture or Groping. And one more thing – I was under the impression that unprotecting a page usually required getting in touch with the protecting admin first. Now obviously, I don't think anyone expects the usual loop of ask admin – wait for reply – see if  they're OK – then unprotect. But still, there should at least be a way (maybe script-assisted) to send notifications to those admins, because there may sometimes be an actually good reason not to undo their actions. – Uanfala (talk) 18:28, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
 * It's best to look at it from reverse: if these articles were not today protected, would an administrator have a good reason to add full move protection without ongoing pagemove vandalism or move-warring? As far as notifying, the set that TSD is currently working through were all set by a single admin, based on old practice, to whom I did reach out for comment. These unprotections are under scrutiny at Administrators' noticeboard, as well. I think once we get into the later years: where the protections were not all preemptive, would be where maybe pinging individual admins to their sets might be worthwhile. After 10 years, the only way to know if protection is still needed is to try unprotection. Some of these articles will one day need to be moved (this review was prompted by a discussion that lamented about them), and unprotecting them now will allow pagemovers or regular users to move them, rather than adding unnecessary steps. Retitling a page is an editorial action, and should not be restricted to administrators without good reason. –xenotalk 22:47, 1 May 2021 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry, I don't agree with this at all. What earthly reason would there be for anyone to move New Orleans, for example, to a different title? That's just one example I've spotted. Pages of that nature were indef move protected for a reason, and it risks needless disruption to open them up, for no discernible benefit. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 22:48, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
 * But of course, there was a reason to move it - less a year after it was protected. These pages were pre-emptively protected during the tenure of a prolific pagemove vandal, one who is now sufficiently stymied by an edit filter. Lima, Delhi, Mexico City, Cairo, Dhaka, Karachi, San Jose, California, Calgary, Buenos Aires, and Kuala Lumpur seem get along just fine. I'd say that the only reason to treat New Orleans any differently is that NawlinWiki was the one who added most of these pre-emptive protections as the primary protagonist to the vandal, so it might be too much of a flourish to a bull to unprotect their namesake city. In any case, the correct place to support the maintenance of age-old protections is the AN thread here: Administrators' noticeboard, where you could perhaps support stepping them down to extendedconfirmed protection (and presumably advancing for the pre-emptively protecting of other major cities to the same level) if you feel that leaving them unprotected is too great a risk. –xenotalk 00:03, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-18
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15:42, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

how do you get two different color in your signature
pls help me as I am struggling with this Tdhello 14:33, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
 * see WP:SIGAPP. -- The SandDoctor Talk 15:55, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2021
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Many thanks
Dear SandDoctor - Many thanks! I could really use the help of a Wikipedia "angel" right now! I may be old, but I believe I still possess most of my mental faculties, and Wikipedia has been really difficult for me to decode. I have supporting materials for most all claims, ie; accounts for foreign sales by distributor, film festival awards, etc. However, these things are all in my possession. I have at least five more published reviews. One or two of them talk about the film awards that they verified before publishing. Unfortunately, I don't have a newspaper.com account. Another wikipedia editor linked the first two for me, but he never commented on the body of what I'd written. The one article I REALLY want to find was written by Stanley Crouch for the Village Voice in 1983. All I have from that article is one amazing quote! The two things most important to me are to acknowledge the support of radio station KCRW, for both my musical education and promoting the premiere and the support of Randall Kline and SFJazz for producing the second premiere in San Francisco, including flying Jon Hendricks from NYC to be master of ceremonies. Thank you! PS - my name is Stephen Rice and I'm prepared to disclose whatever is needed re: conflict of interest. I definitely DO have an interest! Thedevoutcatalyst (talk) 15:47, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I am happy to assist. I might be able to take a look at newspapers.com, do you have any recommended searches? With respect to the conflict of interest, please see WP:COIDISCLOSE and let me know if you have any questions. -- The SandDoctor Talk 20:08, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

Ok - Cleared up the disclosure issues on both my User and Talk pages. Here is the Stanley Crouch quote from the Village Voice. I'm thinking he saw the movie just as we finished in late 1982, maybe early 1983.

“Thelonious Sphere Monk was one of the few real geniuses of American music. The film, Music in Monk Time captures that genius with a frequency and a communicative power rare for cinema in general, but particularly rare for that elusive blue-print of the American spirit we call jazz.” -Stanley Crouch, Village Voice

Newspaper Write-Up Searches:

Weiss, David (March 13, 1983). "A belated but worthy tribute to Thelonious Monk". Los Angeles Herald Examiner.

Hamlin, Jesse (February 23, 1985). "Monk, Historic Jazz In Two Films Here". San Francisco Chronicle.

Feather, Leonard (March 20, 1987). "Thelonious Monk Tribute Slights the Man's Music". Los Angeles Times.

Johnson, William (March 7, 1985). "Thelonious Monk gets his due even if it's late". Times Tribune, Peninsula.

Johnson, William (April 8, 1987). "How PBS botched its chance at a good Monk special". Times Tribune, Peninsula.

Cahill, Greg (March 9, 1985). "Local video music producers hope to find gold in long-form music projects". Independent Journal, Marin.

Siders, Harvey (May 6, 1983). "A Secular Monk Revisited". Daily News, Los Angeles.

Elwood, Philip (May 25, 1990). "'Monk Time' videofilm a rare gem". San Francisco Examiner.

The Peninsula Times Tribune and the Marin Independent Journal are more regional papers. Thanks again for your help! Thedevoutcatalyst (talk) 01:40, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm not having much luck. CCing . -- The SandDoctor Talk 03:19, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Found one reviewed as "magnificent" -- The SandDoctor Talk 03:21, 10 May 2021 (UTC)


 * The Feather, Leonard (March 20, 1987) piece confirms it won "numerous honors", including a bronze award at the New York Film festival. -- The SandDoctor  Talk 03:41, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * This appears to be about all I can find at this time, . I was able to grab these by taking advantage of the free access for mother's day, but that goes away tomorrow sadly. I have requested access via The Wikipedia Library and am awaiting account details. -- The SandDoctor Talk 03:41, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks to you, TheSandDoctor. A few of those are useful for establishing the notability of the film and providing some useful details. Others are of the "event listing" type and of not much use. Good work. Cullen328  Let's discuss it  03:58, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I agree. I was just clipping all I could find that looked remotely interesting (given my time crunch) so that it could be referenced and later determined what was best suited. -- The SandDoctor  Talk 04:14, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Well again, thank you both so much - you've each put a lot of time in this weekend and I'm very grateful! I will scan and send articles tomorrow. Appreciatively, Stephen Rice aka: Thedevoutcatalyst (talk) 04:48, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

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 * Thanks for the heads up. -- The SandDoctor Talk 13:44, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

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13:48, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

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1989, 1990 and 2004 Miss Universe pageants. Citation needed
Hello, TheSandDoctor. I am writing this message to you because of these three edits. Here there are three pages, where you can find that the names (Macarena Mina, Uranía Haltenhoff and Gabriela Barros) are written correctly and that these Misses Chile were chosen semifinalists in 1989, in 1990, and in 2004, respectively. Thanks for reading this message. Cheers! --Alpinu (talk) 23:51, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you for this. You can go ahead and add them yourself without having to seek permission per WP:BOLD. -- The SandDoctor Talk 13:29, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
 * The three references have been added. Cheers!--Alpinu (talk) 03:24, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

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17:05, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Western Standard
Hi There,

How do we get the merger of the Western Standard and Ezra Lavant undone? The business was purchased and relaunched in 2019. We are a completely different entity.

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by JimBFink (talk • contribs) 22:38, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
 * The easiest way is to demonstrate notability for the new company in a draft submitted for review. I'd strongly recommend reviewing WP:YFA, WP:PAID (is a requirement, not a recommendation), and following this tutorial. -- The SandDoctor Talk 23:11, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

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17:04, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Lala Milan


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Tech News: 2021-23
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Arbitration
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