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Fueskichelcher
Hello, Valereee, and please excuse the title that sounds like a sound made when sneezing. A while back, I began a draft for this pastry (fueskichelcher) that was declined at the time. I don't agree with the reasoning of the person who reviewed it after the article was improved. Do you believe the article is in a worthy state? I believe I've gotten most of the best sources for the article. Thanks, UnexpectedSmoreInquisition aka USI (talk) 18:19, 7 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Hey, @UnexpectedSmoreInquisition! What I typically like to see is three instances of significant coverage in independent reliable sources. There are only four sources at that draft, and two of them (Visit Europe and Luxemourg Official Portal) appear to be not independent -- that is, they have a reason for promoting the dish. I do believe the dish is notable, but I'd like to see another source to support notability. Do you read French or German? If you do, you may be able to search in those languages, which it's harder for me to do. Valereee (talk) 19:23, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for responding. Should I removed those two sources? I read a bit of French (still learning), but most of the articles on the topic are written in German. I'll look around, though. Best regards, UnexpectedSmoreInquisition aka USI (talk) 21:11, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
 * The sources are fine for providing additional nocontroversial details, and they can tottally stay. They just don't show notability, which os the minimum requirement, so they can't be used for that. We need at least one more source providing significant coverage in an independent reliable source. Valereee (talk) 22:01, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

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Z1720 (talk) 00:03, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Enough of your accusation of bad faith
enough of your accusation of bad faith.

i did my research to find no evidence of prior discussion or consensus for using nyt in that template. did you assume good faith of my research and effort?

stop meddling if you have nothing constructive to add to a discussion. no other editors in those discussions were not focused on the topic in question, the template itself, but only you have no opinion about the template but keep throwing accusation at me.

i had no intention to reply to your immaterial comments, but i find it necessary only for this one time, because you dont know to stop even after being explicitly told https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&diff=prev&oldid=1175551140. RZuo (talk) 06:13, 27 November 2023 (UTC)


 * also, it seems you dont quite understand why my comments were not "assumption/accusation of bad faith" as you've been repeating, so here i spell it out once.
 * i said "there was no prior discussion or consensus" (after i did my due diligence).
 * someone else said something like "i made the edit because a discussion asked for it or some users asked for it..."
 * my comment #1 is contradicting someone else's comment #2. that's a mere statement. there is no accusation of any kind against any user of any wrongdoing.
 * it's only "accusation of bad faith" if i said without evidence comment #2 is wrong because the user lied or made a wrong/false comment on purpose. that's "accusing another user of bad behaviour without evidence". only that is "assumption of bad faith". ("accusing another user of bad behaviour" alone isnt uncivil. that happens all the time on ANI or sockpuppet investigations.) (contradicting another user's statement, in other words "saying blah blah blah is wrong", is also not accusing the user of bad behaviour.)
 * even if someone says "s/he made a wrong/false comment maybe by genuine mistake or by accident" etc., that's also not assumption of bad faith. on the contrary, that's assumption of good faith. you assume people made mistakes not deliberately.
 * to simplify, here're some example statements:
 * you made a mistake - not assumption of bad faith
 * your statement is wrong - not assumption of bad faith
 * you are wrong - not assumption of bad faith
 * you are deliberately wrong as evident by... - not assumption of bad faith
 * you lied as evident by... - not assumption of bad faith
 * you are deliberately wrong (without evidence) - assumption of bad faith
 * you lied (without evidence) - assumption of bad faith
 * to recap, my comments ("there was no prior discussion or consensus"/"i found no prior discussion or consensus") made no accusation of any kind against any user.
 * i can only say, your imagination filled in everything to my comments.
 * your claims dont warrant my reply or are otherwise interesting if you are not sysop or users still remember https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators&oldid=1185833428#History . before you throw out accusations against users again, check #6.
 * RZuo (talk) 08:33, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
 * @RZuo, thank you for responding. It shouldn't actually make any difference to you whether I'm a sysop or not -- you should be giving due consideration to warnings from any highly experienced user -- but since that seems to be what would make it "interesting" to you, I am. I've given you multiple warnings, and @Moneytrees, another apparently uninvolved sysop, agrees with me. When you are given multiple warnings by more than one experienced user for the same types of behaviors, you should rethink your approach and your understanding of policy. Your edit summary where you removed my most recent of multiple warnings is in itself a problem; you're accusing the zh.wiki sysop of targeting and blocking you for personal political reasons. And now I see you've also been blocked for uncivil behavior on zh-yue.wiki.
 * Given that this is the first time you've agreed to discuss this instead of just removing warnings, I am willing to keep talking until I believe you understand that you are simply going to have to change your approach, or be blocked here too. But you should realize that it's quite likely others are seeing this exchange, and some of them might not be as willing to give you yet another chance to learn. Valereee (talk) 09:44, 27 November 2023 (UTC)


 * i didnt notice the block on yuewp on a single page. i didnt get a notification. that only happened this morning. actually, i wasnt notified of the discussion involving me that started on 7 november that led to that block. i replied there.
 * if you are really interested in understanding the zhwp block on a single page, maybe you can help me get an answer from that sysop, because you should see https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ARZuo&action=history and see that i asked that sysop twice but there was no reply. i also asked a third time but also was not replied https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AMys_721tx&diff=prev&oldid=79834496.
 * the reason given was "贬损特定国籍", translated as "insulting a certain nationality", but without mentioning what nationality i was insulting or how. my edit that they used against me is https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3A%E8%AB%8B%E6%B1%82%E8%A9%95%E8%AB%96%2F2024%E5%B9%B4%E7%AE%A1%E7%90%86%E4%BA%BA%E5%93%A1%E5%88%B6%E5%BA%A6%E6%94%B9%E9%9D%A9&diff=prev&oldid=79795347 . feel free to google translate to get an idea.
 * from my understanding it's generally frowned upon to bring up other wiki projects' issues. i'm not accusing you here, take note, dont misinterpret again. i'm saying this only to say that, my impression of wiki customs is that i should not go at great lengths to discuss other wikis' things. i'm writing these here only because you are mentioning those things, and without specific contexts of what happened else where, so i feel i have to respond once. zhwp controversies are long lasting, as reported by media. RZuo (talk) 10:41, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
 * You're exhibiting an apparent pattern of similar problematic behavior on multiple projects. The point is that you see what is resulting from that pattern, in hopes that you'll see it's not working for you. Valereee (talk) 11:02, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
 * i'll summarise the problem on zhwp. as enwp users are familiar, the common recipe is when a user challenges a block repeatedly, they get blocked further "for battleground behaviour". but my questions were met with silence and no further blocks.
 * i'm satisfied with this outcome, because from my point of view, it stands as evidence of that user's pro-china bias and usage of sysop tools to target anti-china-govt users, so i dont challenge that block.
 * as for yuewp, i know what's happening behind the scene, involving telegram group discussions and chats, but revealing what's actually happening will be wp:outing. i can only say, users should keep in mind that small wikis are often rife with problems with sysops, for example croatian, Azerbaijani... all these wikis have bigger communities than yuewp too.
 * enwp users should know how easily sysops or any users can use perfectly normal things as excuse to frustrate users they dont like. enwp is not free of such problems either. (take note, not accusing you Valereee here, dont misinterpret again.)
 * and if those other wikis' things are taken out of context to be used here, it's not ethical.
 * i think it's more ethical if you can hide the mentions about other wikis and collapse these sections. focus on enwp all you like. hiding or collapsing doesnt imply that i try to cover up (on the contrary i'm open to users scrutinising my edits on all wiki projects including but not limited to zhwp), but only to keep the long discussions short and on point about enwp. RZuo (talk) 11:28, 27 November 2023 (UTC)


 * just to pre-empt any more of your accusation against me:
 * it's obviously difficult to show evidence to prove something is non-existent (the consensus to add nyt to the template), but why was i so sure that it doesnt exist? because i not only had found nothing through my searching in archives of discussion on vp, template talk, module talk, etc., i also had found why and how nyt was added. all this was done before i even initiated the topic on 13 July 2023 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&diff=prev&oldid=1165227990 .
 * and that's why i worded my proposal in that way. because the addition of nyt was done by a single user and had no Consensus, any objection to it should send templates back to the original state (without nyt), then people can discuss whether they should include nyt. so i said "i disagree with the edit..."
 * and inclusion from 2008 to 2023 for a long time (15 years) cannot be equated to consensus, as explained by Consensus ("An edit has presumed consensus until it is disputed or reverted.") and Silence and consensus. notably, i'm not the first user to object to the solo usage of nyt. its inclusion was already disputed before i even registered my account.
 * the addition of nyt is traced to this edit by a user https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Find_sources_3&diff=prev&oldid=217157307 . their user contribs records also show that they most likely created the template out of their own action, instead of some discussion, because they didnt have edits to any discussion pages before or after that edit https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&end=2008-06-05&namespace=all&start=&tagfilter=&target=Jwillbur&offset=&limit=500.
 * you knew nothing about the template and kept making accusations against me. i ignored your accusations (Ignore personal attacks) but you are relentless. RZuo (talk) 09:45, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
 * burden of proof was never on me. users claiming "consensus" need to point to that by themselves. and i know thru my research they never will be able to do that.
 * what about Valereee? she has no opinion about the template. she has no clue about the history of the template. she doesnt know where's the "consensus" she was pointing to. she did not or can not find that "consensus" (after 130+ days). she keeps assuming bad faith of me by claiming i was making accusations (i was not making any accusations) without evidence (i did my research and had evidence).
 * stop harassing me. already ruined my morning. i personally dont need an apology because i dont care, but i expect one so that other users understand Valereee's many accusations against me were unfounded. RZuo (talk) 10:03, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
 * @RZuo, so what you're saying is that you are not interested in or willing to discuss changing your approach to the collaborative process here? Valereee (talk) 10:05, 27 November 2023 (UTC)


 * can you put the indentation back? (revert https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Valereee&diff=prev&oldid=1187081948 )


 * my 09:45, 27 November 2023 (UTC) comment was not a reply to your 09:44, 27 November 2023 (UTC) comment. obviously i already wrote the long texts before and sent them coincidentally at the same time as yours.


 * it was to my own 08:33, 27 November 2023 (UTC) comment. or you can split it out to another subsection. RZuo (talk) 10:46, 27 November 2023 (UTC)


 * I've put it back in with a bullet to show where my comments end and yours begin. It would help if you'd start capitalizing sentences. Valereee (talk) 10:56, 27 November 2023 (UTC)


 * @RZuo, your last edit removed much of this conversation, including comments of my own and comments I just replied to. Please revert. Valereee (talk) 11:06, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

sectioning
You've made this conversation impossible to follow, so I'm sectioning off to start fresh.

What's happening here on enwiki: it doesn't matter whether you feel you've done all the research you need to do to convince yourself the other editor was either, according to you: when you do not have the evidence to back that up. I agree with you that it's impossible to prove a negative, which means you cannot make such accusations. It absolutely does not matter whether that evidence is impossible to find; when the other editor is saying to their recall they made the edit in response to some discussion somewhere, you must give at minimum the pretense of assuming good faith. Valereee (talk) 11:49, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
 * 1) deliberately wrong as evident by... - not assumption of bad faith
 * 2) you lied as evident by... - not assumption of bad faith


 * i did not accuse any editor of those two lines you quoted.
 * i repeat, i did not make any accusation against any user.
 * i repeat, it's very certain the inclusion of nyt was not made based on any discussion, because i found how it originated.
 * "the addition of nyt is traced to this edit by a user https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Find_sources_3&diff=prev&oldid=217157307 . their user contribs records also show that they most likely created the template out of their own action, instead of some discussion, because they didnt have edits to any discussion pages before or after that edit https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&end=2008-06-05&namespace=all&start=&tagfilter=&target=Jwillbur&offset=&limit=500."
 * take note, this edit was in 2008, not the edit in 2016 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Module%3AFind_sources%2Ftemplates%2FFind_sources&diff=prev&oldid=722553515 . 2016 edit was merely migrating the template to a module and then using the module in the template.
 * any user can claim there was no consensus. any user can claim there was consensus. two contradicting statements. obviously the burden of proof is on people who claim something exists.
 * regardless, making claims about the existence of a consensus is not accusation against any user. there's no assumption of good faith or bad faith towards any user.
 * i will explain to you again what "assuming good/bad faith" really means. given these 2 facts:
 * "the other editor is saying to their recall they made the edit in response to some discussion somewhere"
 * no one could find that discussion
 * then, if someone makes the following claims based on these 2 facts:
 * the other editor remembered it wrong or forgot. (this is assumption of good faith.)
 * the other editor lied. (this is assumption of bad faith.)
 * what i did was, i didnt say anything about the other editor. i dont know and dont care about the other editor's motive, aka why s/he said there was a discussion. i have always only said, there was no such discussion. so i made no accusation against any one, nor any one's motives.
 * what you've been accusing me of, the target user of my "bad faith", is the user behind the #4 2016 edit. my assessment of that edit is #4. their action was merely converting the template to the module design. that's technical! not assumption of good/bad faith of them!
 * read Assume good faith before you throw the catch phrase again! i've explained three times to you. i wont do it anymore.
 * RZuo (talk) 12:28, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Indef p-block from WP & WT for WP:IDHT. Valereee (talk) 12:37, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
 * an analogy and gist version:
 * user A: "there are aliens in the universe."
 * me: "there are no aliens." ("i've done my research and cannot find any aliens blah blah blah...")
 * Valereee: you assume bad faith of user A. RZuo (talk) 12:39, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

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Hi Valereee, I regret that I need to correct you, but I didn't say that my interest in THIS discussion is waning. Perhaps I misspoke, but what I meant is that my interest in the article is past its peak, and I do not expect to be participating in the future discussions at the same level of engagement. This should not be construed as me being absent from the discussion in question or that nothing good will come out of it. The talk thread was just posted, and it would be too early to assume that only disruption can come out of it. Also, there is a specific proposal for the lede to remedy the situation if editors can begin to agree that there is a problem. I’m asking you to please consider reversing the closure, and I recommend that you watch the page for signs of incivility or disruption if you have concerns about the direction of the discussion. Thank you. XMcan (talk) 14:10, 3 December 2023 (UTC)


 * @XMcan, a lack of interest in the article is actually worse. If you aren't interested in the article, why are you opening discussion on the talk? I closed it slightly more kindly because I'd seen you say your interest was waning, but I'd have likely closed it and recommended it be moved to a more appropriate place. Maybe your talk? Or the other editor's? Valereee (talk) 14:43, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
 * XMcan, you say, I recommend that you watch the page for signs of incivility or disruption, but you already reverted four times on the page in less than 24 hours -  - which is a clear bright-line 3RR violation. Isn't that already pretty clearly disruptive? Newimpartial (talk) 19:02, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

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 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The 2023 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 5 January 2024, and has an associated privacy statement.

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MediaWiki message delivery 02:11, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

A WP:DYK holiday award for you?

 * Hey, Lightburst, thanks! It's great working with you there, too! Valereee (talk) 19:26, 15 December 2023 (UTC)