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"Calvin Case disambiguation" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Calvin Case disambiguation. Since you had some involvement with the Calvin Case disambiguation redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. DannyS712 (talk) 06:08, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

How has Wikipedia changed in the past decade?
You happen to be one of the oldest (by account creation) active Wikipedians that I know, so I was wondering if you had any thoughts about this submission to the Signpost by ? I'm asking because "3 specific references" seems like a reasonable request in an AFD debate to me, but I don't have the context on how wikipedia culture has changed in the past decade to understand whether that was always the case and if not, how that changed. Clover moss (talk) 23:14, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
 * If you look back 10 years, you can see the issue being contested at WP:GNG when it then said "Multiple sources are generally preferred". It now says "multiple sources are generally expected".  Then and now, this doesn't mean any particular number – just more than one.  In my experience, one good source may often be enough.  For a fresh example, see Articles for deletion/Magic system where I pointed to a book on the subject and felt no need to do more. So, I don't think there's much difference in that detail.  Where Peregrine Fisher is correct is that many/most projects are now moribund and numerous institutions have been disbanded.  The Signpost is itself a good example as it seems to have burnt out its producers and so is now on its last legs. Andrew🐉(talk) 00:04, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Typo
Hi there. Just as an FYI I reverted this edit as incorrect. A hangar is a large building where planes are parked. A hanger is a household item upon clothes are hung, or someone who hangs things up. Canterbury Tail talk 16:39, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, sorry about that, chalk it down to editing whilst jetlagged. Should have been this  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  17:39, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

Your input is requested
at Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/Community view before Friday.

Only 100 or so words. It should be fun and serious at the same time.

All the best,

Smallbones( smalltalk ) 00:27, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

Help
Hi. Its been some time since we talked, so I have no idea if you remember me. You Reviewed draft of my first article and offered suggestions. Anyway it got deleted after sometime because I couldn't improve it. However its a different issue that I need your help for. I've been trying to design my user page for sometime by trying to add some templates and other things. However, Those templates won't align themselves to either right or line themselves. Instead they arrange themselves into a staircase. Can you help? You can edit my sandbox (I have a link to it on my userpage).  Dishita Bhowmik  09:45, 26 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Hello again. I have put them into one possible configuration - more options are available at Userboxes, Hope that helps.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  10:47, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

  Dishita Bhowmik  has asked you to join them for a nice cup of tea and sit down here. "Here is a cup of Darjeeling tea for you.Thank you so much for your help :)

However why didn't I get notifications for your edits? I would have never known you had already arranged them if I had not opened my sandbox to start writing a draft for new article, all while waiting and thinking "(24 hrs later) He/she hasn't seen my message, (thoughtfully) what an I going to do now?, (32 hrs later despairingly) how do I fix my page now?" and then, "doesn't matter, let me write the draft." Me after opening sandbox "when did this happen?! how did they arrange themselves?!" and then after scrolling down "Oh...how did he/she do it?" and then "why didn't I get to know when he/she did it?"

Apart from that, how can I align them to the right of page? —Dishita Bhowmik (talk • contribs) 17:03, 28 January 2020‎ (UTC)
 * Hi I've moved it to the right. as for why some things don't appear on your watchlist, can I suggest you check which pages are actually on your watchlist? If that doesn't solve the problem, check in your preferences what your watchlist preferences are set as. Hope that helps, and thanks for the tea.  Ϣere  Spiel  Chequers  13:44, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

The Babel's aligned to right but, I don't think other boxes turned out well. Dishita Bhowmik   14:52, 29 January 2020 (UTC)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dishita Bhowmik (talk • contribs)
 * Did you press on "show"? In any event there are other options at Userboxes.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  01:20, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

I'm not sure I quite understand you. What do you mean by "show"  Dishita Bhowmik   17:19, 31 January 2020 (UTC)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dishita Bhowmik (talk • contribs) Alright, just checked again and I saw it this time. Thanks for your help and sorry for bothering you so much :)  Dishita Bhowmik   17:27, 31 January 2020 (UTC)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dishita Bhowmik (talk • contribs)
 * No bother, you are welcome.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  15:38, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Made me smile
You made me smile with your secularization of 1923 San Francisco Seals season. Thank you for that! Cbl62 (talk) 19:31, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Thou art most welcome. I'm not a sports fan myself. But I do know people who think that the shouty sweary guy on the touchline gets in the way of the transmission of instructions from the fans on the terraces to the players on the pitch. So I suspect there are some people out there who would prefer to have a tub of straw on the touchline.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  16:29, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Need help with java source code
Hi Werespielchequers, I want a list of my subpages to appear in my top bar. But I don't understand the java script enough to accomplish it. Can you help? Regards,   Dishita Bhowmik   06:57, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
 * To reply, please ping. Thank you.
 * Sorry but I don't know Java.  Ϣere  Spiel  Chequers  09:55, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Do you know anybody who can help?   Dishita Bhowmik   09:57, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
 * No, but if you search for java in userspace you are likely to find lots of people who mention it on their uerpages. Check if they have made recent contributions before asking as there will be lots of people who aren't currently active. Good luck  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  10:14, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the help.   Dishita Bhowmik   15:41, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

, It's JavaScript not Java (programming language) (the name is the only way they're similar) and you can request help at User scripts/Requests. Hope that helps, Cabayi (talk) 16:27, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

 * please help translate this message into your local language via meta

Thanks again :-) --  Doc James  along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 18:35, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Hey buddy
Hi! I need this page to be moved from Amancio Paraschiv to Amansio Paraschiv since this is his real name. It can't be done manually, only an administrator can process it. Thanks! .karellian-24 (talk • contribs) 15:19, March 9, 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, there seems to be a difference of opinion as to his exact name, and at least one redirect already in place, so i would suggest you follow the process at Requested_moves/Controversial, or at least start a section at Talk:Amancio Paraschiv and ask if anyone objects to such a move. Cheers and happy editing  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  16:18, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks
Trusted the wrong page hmm, fixed now tho!. --qedk (t 心 c) 14:18, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
 * No problem, think of us as a form of double entry bookkeeping. Curiously no one has started running in the era of the lockdowns - I would have thought some people would currently have some time on their hands - I appreciate others are extra busy.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  15:09, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Crat Grats!
Just saw the news.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough  (the apparently calm and reasonable) 09:17, 1 April 2020 (UTC).


 * Thanks. It was surprisingly uncontentious, and I have already used the crat tools twice. Hope you are bearing up well under the current circumstances. BTW would you be interested in doing an AWB masterclass via Google hangouts or something similar?  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  11:03, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Email
ygm Struway2 (talk) 11:12, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, good spot.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  11:43, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

RevDel
Hi. You're listed at CAT:REVDEL. Could you take a look at the recent edit summary at Catholic Memorial School and do whatever you think necessary. Thanks. Station1 (talk) 23:47, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Good spot.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  05:49, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

A pie for reviewing my account

 * You are very welcome. If at some point you want rollback as well, read the rules and tell me when you would and wouldn't use it.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  14:16, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Belated congrats
Just wanted to stop by, say hi, and congrats on passing RFB!  bibliomaniac 1  5  19:05, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks Bibliomaniac, and good to see you around.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  19:14, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Arbitration/Requests/Case/Medicine opened
You were recently listed as a party to a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Arbitration/Requests/Case/Medicine. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Arbitration/Requests/Case/Medicine/Evidence. Please add your evidence by April 21, 2020, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Arbitration/Requests/Case/Medicine/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me &#124; my contributions 20:39, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi . I made a statement, but I don't believe that I have been listed as a party to this. Nor would I expect to be listed as a party on this one.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  20:43, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
 * , I think I mis-copied something. Thanks for alerting me to this. I'll go around and make sure all the notifications are right. You are right. You are not a party. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me &#124; my contributions 20:46, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, accidents happen, hope it doesn't take long to check them all.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  20:49, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

The correct notice (striked above for clarity) is below

You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Arbitration/Requests/Case/Medicine. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Arbitration/Requests/Case/Medicine/Evidence. Please add your evidence by April 21, 2020, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Arbitration/Requests/Case/Medicine/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me &#124; my contributions 21:04, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!
 Happy First Edit Day! Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

From the Birthday Committee, CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 21:03, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks I wasn't sure if anyone but me had noticed. April the 9th 2007 is such a long time ago, in Wiki terms I'm now entering a new phase at an auspicious age.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  21:12, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

No virtual meetup tomorrow?
Just wondered if anything had been arranged.  Serendi pod ous  13:30, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, Looks like Zoom But i might try a google hangout during that afternoon if no one has a zoom subscription.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  13:36, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I can't afford zoom, so Google Hangout would be good for me.  Serendi pod ous  13:39, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Zoom is free, but if you want it to last more than 40 minutes you need one person on the call who has a subscription.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  13:40, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

A Barnstar for YOU!

 * Thanks Zz.ozzz, much appreciated.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  10:27, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Thank you!
Dear WereSpielChequers, thank you so much for all your kindness and help! Much appreciated here! I'm glad at least there was one good editor who takes the time to read my work. Also, thank you for fixing all writings mistakes around here-it is embarrassing to suffer from learning disabilities, so sometimes my prose gets a little fractured. But your help in fixing my errors is much, much appreciated here! I hope all is well with you and thank again for your help and kindness! Best wishes and cheers! --A.S. Brown (talk) 00:38, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
 * You are most welcome, please keep writing interesting content. & Stay safe.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  07:27, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

RfA
How do I self-nominate an RfA discussion? Also thank you for making my account autopatrolled. What does that do?  NASCARfan0548  ↗  17:56, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi NASCARfan. WP:RFA has instructions about starting an RFA, but I'd leave your current review open for a few days first to see other comments. WP:Autopatrolled has details about being autopatrolled. You might also find it interesting to read User:WereSpielChequers/RFA criteria Hope that helps, cheers and happy editing.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  18:01, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

I want to use AWB
How do you use AWB? <b style="background:#006A4D; padding:2px"> NASCARfan0548  ↗ </b> 20:24, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
 * There are instructions at AutoWikiBrowser/User manual, but I wouldn't be the able to show you how to install it - I've only done that once, years ago and with lots of help.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  20:38, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Bobby Schofield
Hey was just wondering when Bobby Schofield’s page will be put up ? Thanks Eddie98706 (talk) 22:21, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi Eddie, somehow the AFC tag was commented out. I have put it in the queue, but I'm not sure how long it will take - I think there is a backlog in AFC.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  06:15, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Am quite confused, as I have stated his IMDb page and his Comeing up projects also, they all have their own wiki page and I have included news articles ect about past work ? Thanks for your help guys Eddie98706 (talk) 21:35, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Also would it be possible to make a box including his name dob and place of birth top right ? Thanks Eddie98706 (talk) 00:18, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the help x Eddie98706 (talk) 00:23, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Unfair removel of well-sourced content
Saqib has removed 12,837‎ bytes of material from the article about Ehsan Sehgal without explanation. It would be helpful if editors from the West could have a look since this article is about a prominent Dutch-Pakistani poet. A month ago, I review the deletion discussions, it seems something is not fair, and according to policies. Can you help to protect the article after I revert that until discussion and consensus is on the talk page. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:1C00:1604:BB00:459B:2CED:129E:AAB0 (talk) 16:15, 3 May 2020 (UTC)


 * For your review User:WereSpielChequers: Violation of the rules and ignoring to discussing and reaching a consensus has become such ones' hegemony. If they do not care for and take seriously an administrator input of comment what the hell an IP address can do? - Don't you see, it is clearly bad faith practice and personal motives? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:1C00:1604:BB00:459B:2CED:129E:AAB0 (talk) 19:51, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Bobby Schofield (May 3)
<div style="border: solid 1px #FCC; background-color: #F8EEBC; padding: 0.5em 1em; color: #000; margin: 1.5em; width: 90%;"> Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by AngusWOOF was:

The comment the reviewer left was:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.


 * If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Bobby Schofield and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
 * If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Bobby Schofield, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "Db-g7" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
 * If you do not make any further changes to your draft, in 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
 * If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Help_desk&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:Afc_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:Bobby_Schofield Articles for creation help desk], on the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:AngusWOOF&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:Afc_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:Bobby_Schofield reviewer's talk page] or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

AngusWOOF ( bark  •  sniff ) 17:26, 3 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi and thanks for the invitation to the Teahouse. Can i suggest that you might want to discuss this article with user:Eddie98706 rather than me? Cheers  Ϣere  Spiel  Chequers  17:33, 3 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I will bounce it to Eddie. AngusWOOF  ( bark  •  sniff ) 18:04, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Welcome template

 * Wikipedia talk:Welcoming committee/Welcome templates.--- Moxy 🍁 12:01, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

Sorry I didn't show up
I crashed out on Sunday; I think I'm coming down with COVID.  Serendi pod ous  07:37, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Oh s**t. Hope it turns out to be something less serious, or that you have a mild case. Yesterday was a good, well attended meeting with people from zone 8 (Wales and Yorkshire). Much less beer than normal.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  07:53, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Draft:Cash McCrory changes
Respectfully, I don't think Special:Diff/951934372 is what was wrong with Draft:Cash McCrory... (also, good to see that you were invited to the Teahouse, it's really a great place for a brand-new Wikipedian who happens to have a quarter-million edits and is also a 'crat :) ) --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 01:13, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi Mdaniels, it was close to a couple of lines, a little younger and I would have reported it to oversight for suppression, and a little more hyperbole and I would have tagged it for G3 as a hoax. I have proposed that A7 be extended to month old drafts and if that proposal succeeded Cash McCrory would have been toast, but sadly it is an unsubmitted draft. So I fixed the typo and moved on. Running AWB through draftspace there are a lot where I do that, including many that I would delete if they weren't in draftspace. As for the Teahouse invite, we really need to change some of our tools to differentiate between the person who moves a page or creates a redirect and the person who starts an article either by a new page or from a redirect. As for the teahouse invite, a while ago I did some research on the block logs of our most active editors, and I came to the conclusion that the more edits you do the more likely you are to be accidentally blocked. So one of these days I'm going to log on to find I have been blocked, unblocked and apologised to since my last edit, and I will take comfort in having predicted that.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  08:42, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
 * If you squint hard enough, it looks like it could be a G11... Mdaniels5757 (talk) 02:47, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * That would be a bit of a stretch. But when I trawl draftspace I'm not looking to process everything completely, I'm looking for attack pages hoaxes and stuff that needs suppressing. I leave others to deal with spam and copyvio.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  19:35, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Autopatrolled incident
Just as a heads-up, I came across a new page from a user you recently granted autopatrolled to, NASCARfan0548. The page, a BLP, was completely devoid of references, so I moved the page to draftspace at Draft:Mike Shiplett. I think it may be for the best if that user has his pages reviewed for a while longer so that he can learn how to properly source articles, especially considering that the rationale given for granting autopatrolled was "writes referenced articles on people." Thanks,  Willsome 4 29  (say hey or see my edits!) 02:27, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up, hopefully we can get that editor back to the standard they were on when I made them an autopatroller.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  07:56, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

Draft: Revelation 13:18 (rapper)
Hello Nice to meet you I appreciate your feedback on the article can you look at the article and make edits and corrections to the sources and written marterial per Wikipedia specifications so it can be stripped down so the reviewer doesn't have to wade through allot of unnecessary information to make it easier on the reviewer like mentioned. I would appreciate your contribution to the article and Wikipedia. Thanks Allot For Your Time KplusWequalsU (talk) 06:09, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Can you please take care of this editor, they cannot seem to stop posting these incessant messages to multiple talk pages.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 06:13, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Has been dealt with on their talk page... hopefully. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 07:31, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I fixed a typo on the draft in question. But it isn't a topic that I can really help with, so I am unlikely to improve that draft further unless it comes up on another of my typo searches.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  19:18, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Sorry Jonathan but I wasn't able to get an RFC for this
a Filipino IP has been consistently adding Philippines-only events to the Timeline of the 21st century. I can't get him to stop and he won't respond on the talk page.  Serendi pod ous  19:40, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

Request revision delete
On the talk page for Talk:Ricardo_Asch, an editor added a comment that includes a phone number. The whole comment is non-encyclopedic, and I believe should be removed. Angryapathy (talk) 18:15, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I have deleted it, but actually phone numbers are best reported to Oversight  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  18:26, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I will remember that for the future. Angryapathy (talk) 18:55, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for fiixng typo in clicker heroes!
Thanks for fixing th typo! It was kinda embarrassung though.. usually I fix other people’s typos, not make my own;) Stay safe and well, -- Total Eclipse 2017 (talk &#124; contribs)
 * We all have our blind spots, me as much as anyone. The thing about crowd sourcing is that we we can bring all our strengths together.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  19:05, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

Bristol!
Have you seen this?Leutha (talk) 20:26, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, not seen that, but nice work whoever did it.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  20:44, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

fyi
PLS SEE Village pump (proposals).-- Moxy 🍁 11:22, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

US v UK English
Please see Manual of Style/Spelling. Articles about a British subject should use British spelling. Richard75 (talk) 18:22, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I'd agree - but (assuming you're querying re WSC's recent batch of edits) UK Higher Education institutions use the Americanised 'honorary' in the context of degree awards, per this example. (if you're not talking about that, my apologies and feel free to WP:TROUT me...) OcarinaOfTime (talk) 18:27, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, not exactly an EngVar issue. Mind you Wiktionary does describe it as an archaic spelling (American and British) rather than simply a typo. So presumably for some old quotations where archaic language is appropriate. But before I started this on AWB the ratio of honorary to honourary on EN wikipedia was >87,000 to <400 if it was an English/ American English variation it would be more balanced.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  19:49, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

revdel request
I like to request a revdel for. It contains an insult to the reverting admin. KittenKlub (talk) 15:30, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks but I'm afraid at the moment I don't seem to be able to translate that edit summary into English - I assume it is the edit summary that concerns you? Perhaps one of my talkpage stalkers can help, otherwise an admin who knows whatever that language is?  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  16:21, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm a pap-1 as well. The language is Papiamento. It contains a 4 letter word starting with c and then mother. I don't know the verb, but does that really matter? KittenKlub (talk) 16:24, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Ah that clarifies things, Google Translate had thought it was in Japanese, from Papiamento it is clearer. Blocked and revdeled.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  16:34, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Draft:Miniminter
Hello, can you please check and see if the short description template is good in the draft? I've played with it a bit but don't know if it's correct.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Miniminter

What I'm trying to do is when you're viewing the article in mobile, you need to see the text first, but in the article it still shows the userbox, then the text. Can you help me, please? Thanks! :) Andrew012p (talk) 13:17, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi Andrew, I usually use the classic editor rather than the visual editor. But if you use the visual editor you should see the short description when you hover over Draft:Miniminter. Except you can only use the Visual editor in a few spaces such as article space not on this talkpage. But I have tested it and it seems to work, and should work if there were other articles linking to it.   Ϣere  Spiel  Chequers  22:08, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

You've got mail!
You've got mail Megan Barris  (Lets talk📧)  22:43, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

Revdel request
Hello, messaging based on the revdel request admin category. I believe fits criteria 4. Thanks, CMD (talk) 08:24, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, but that sort of thing is above my paygrade and can go straight to WP:Oversight, I have reported it there and it has now been suppressed.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  09:05, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Apologies, I'm unfamiliar with the nuances between revdel and oversight. CMD (talk) 09:14, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
 * No need for apologies, the boundaries between revdel and oversight can be tricky. Take care and happy editing.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  19:45, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks nmudesk, much appreciated.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  21:09, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

One of your photos
of the Trialeti Cup in the GNM is used in Dali (goddess), now at FAC. Cheers, Johnbod (talk) 16:35, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Ooh, thanks for the heads up. Mind you, whenever I look at that cup and the deer it depicts I do find myself thinking reindeer rather than red deer. One of these days I'm sure we will get some analysis of metal source by isotope and impurity analysis, and I expect we will then find that the stuff that got buried with chiefs was more skewed to shiny stuff looted from far away than is currently assumed. My bet is that badges of office and symbols of power from their own culture would get kept by those who did the burying.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  16:19, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

MOS:JOBTITLES
Hi WereSpielChequers - with regard to this edit of yours - am I misreading MOS:JOBTITLES? "Raja Pervaiz Ashraf .... served as the 19th prime minister of Pakistan" seems very similar to the example in the MoS "Nixon was the 37th president of the United States." so shouldn't it be in lower-case? Best wishes - Arjayay (talk) 12:33, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi Arjayay, my concern is correcting minster to minister where it is a typo, and prime minster was definitely a typo. It is possible that in fixing a typo I have created a MOS error, but the typo is much more important than any MOS error. Just think of what Google translate would do to minster as opposed to minister. In any languages you know.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  12:53, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Signpost - Interim Case review committee
Hi there,

I was writing up a Signpost bit on the interim case review committee. It's almost entirely a summary (as opposed to a points of view pros/cons piece), but Smallbones suggested I query a couple of people to give short reactions on it (or the process of making it). You participated on the Talk Page of the charter and Maggie responded positively to a few ideas. Do you have a couple of lines I could include in the piece? Nosebagbear (talk) 18:56, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, I think it has changed a little since my queries in the early edits, and I doubt I have time short term to get back up to speed on it. Reading the current draft on Signpost I gather they have now amended one of the things they initially weren't going to amend. So I'm probably not the best person to quote on this, other than that my assumption is that "interim" really means prototype, which is why I thought it was worth taking part in the dialogue. I was happy with the willingness of the WMF to enter into dialogue and even make some concessions to the community, especially as that hasn't always been my experience of the WMF. But I still have reservations about an anonymous group of people assessing cases against a code that they and I may not agree with.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  20:18, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Khodeir El Borsaidy (September 4)
<div style="border: solid 1px #FCC; background-color: #F8EEBC; padding: 0.5em 1em; color: #000; margin: 1.5em; width: 90%;"> Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Noahfgodard were:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.


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 * Hi and thanks for the teahouse invitation, but I think you need to communicate this decline to user:Marwa Gadallah not me.  Ϣere  Spiel  Chequers  06:53, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Haha sorry about that; those messages are automated (as you're probably aware), so the system must have decided you were the author for whatever reason. I'll go ahead and send this to Marwa Gadallah. Thanks for the heads up! Best, Noahfgodard (talk) 16:29, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
 * The reason is that the AFC helper script sends the decline/accept message to the person who submits the article for review. So because WereSpielChequers submitted the article for review (to help the new editor), the AFC helper script sends the message to WereSpielChequers . <b style="color:#ffcc00">Joseph</b><b style="color:#00e64d">2302</b> (talk) 16:35, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Ah of course, that makes sense. Thanks, Noahfgodard (talk) 16:40, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi to both of you. Yes, not sure if the script could or should be picking that up.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  13:57, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Careful about foreign languages
Be careful about quotes and titles in other languages. Profesor is the correct spelling in Polish.--Srleffler (talk) 17:43, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for spotting that and for correcting my mistake. With 2009 instances in Wikipedia I suspect that this has too many false positives for AWB, so I have suggested that it be dropped from the AWB typo list.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  17:59, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Parfumier
I thought you might appreciate the baroque splendour of the malapropism here. Never seen it before, but perhaps you have? All the best Mccapra (talk) 09:32, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Oh fun. That's on a par with Doe snot/does not or the calvary/cavalry confusion.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  08:52, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

sigh
- I am sort of a loss as to why there is something I am missing, but, it would be great if you are indeed more perspicacious than I to understand why there is a need to insist on identity in the commons position. If am drawing you into some subteranean antipodean issue that might not make sense, please ignore me  JarrahTree 11:54, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, funny thing is, though I have twice been to a nearby country where the wildlife is much less likely to be poisonous, I have not yet made it to Australia. So I have no strong view as to whether one would use that photo or indeed this one. But given we have two photos of that place I would assume we would want to use at least one of them. Maybe both?  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  12:11, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
 * inneresting... JarrahTree 12:24, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Fastest Crat in the West

 * Not to put too fine of a point on it, but wasn't it scheduled to end 15:08? (I'd invoke IAR and leave as is.) –<b style="font-family:verdana;color:#000">xeno</b><sup style="color:#000">talk 14:30, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
 * It is 15:33 - oh whoops are we back into the time when London time and Wikipedia time are different? The template did show 0 days and 0 hours left.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  14:34, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Aye, it doesn't display down to minutes - once it expires proper, it goes to "Pending closure". (I've got the clock in the top right set to UTC - there's a preference somewhere if you think that would be useful.) –<b style="font-family:verdana;color:#000">xeno</b><sup style="color:#000">talk 14:42, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, hopefully from now on I'll wait for the "pending closure" to come up.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  15:36, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

I made the same error!

Far more importantly, I wanted to rant here semi-amusingly about how to bagsy an RfX close but am struck dumbfounded by finding that even after all these years bagsy is a redlink. Is there an equivalent in USEng that we have article for already? --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 16:13, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
 * It definitely helped explain why two 'crats were tripping over themselves to close something an hour early!


 * Calling dibs maybe? (dibs) <b style="font-family:verdana;color:#000">xeno</b><sup style="color:#000">talk 16:17, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Ah, bagsy used to redirect there, until it's demise. –<b style="font-family:verdana;color:#000">xeno</b><sup style="color:#000">talk 16:23, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Perhaps what we really need is a change in policy such that Wikipedia articles can link to Wiktionary when obscure words are used. Perhaps with a different link colour to differentiate them from links to Wikipedia articles.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  17:15, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

<- Back to the more important topic, my kids are showing a distressing tendency to [mis]use "shotgun" instead of "bagsy". --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 09:19, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
 * That was a new one on me. Shotgun Wedding was the shotgun allusion I was expecting, but perhaps it is a good thing if we no longer need that one. Languages change over time, each generation wants a few words that are theirs and not their parents - it is part of generational rebellion. I quite like the Saffy generation, rebelling by actually doing their homework, sadly my own extended family contains some exceptions. Absolutely we need an article for dibs/bagsy, and indeed Saffy.  Ϣere  Spiel  Chequers  09:58, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

Early closure of Requests for adminship/LuK3 2
Hello WereSpielChequers, I noticed that you had closed the RfA of LuK3, Requests for adminship/LuK3 2 almost an hour before its scheduled end time. It was scheduled to end at 15:08 and I had added my support !vote at 14:48 but it has been reverted. I believe that my support !vote is valid and should be kept as it is well within the RfA time schedule. Thank you. TheGeneralUser (talk) 15:03, 23 September 2020 (UTC)


 * (tpw) Generally comments following closure are not permitted (however if WSC decides to allow the comment I don't have a strong objection to their re-adding it). –<b style="font-family:verdana;color:#000">xeno</b><sup style="color:#000">talk 15:08, 23 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks both. I've made the change per Xeno's lack of objection. I hope the page can now stick.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  15:35, 23 September 2020 (UTC)


 * the same a similar situation occurred at Requests for adminship/Ajpolino. I left a message for Maxim, but they haven’t yet edited, and there is an edit war at the RFA over a vote that came in within the seven days of the timestamp when I transcluded; there was an edit conflict with Maxim. Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  12:46, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't say they're the same, since it ended on the dot rather than an hour early. I would lean towards allowing that one, since it came simultaneously with the closure (looks like the edit conflict handler even allowed it through), though ultimately it is up to to decide. –<b style="font-family:verdana;color:#000">xeno</b><sup style="color:#000">talk  12:52, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Whatever Maxim decides is good, but I don’t think JJMC needs to intervene when Maxim has not yet edited to make the call. Bst, Sandy Georgia (Talk)  12:56, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I would say it's best to leave it in the state the closing bureaucrat did, until they can look at it. It's not pressing, in any case. –<b style="font-family:verdana;color:#000">xeno</b><sup style="color:#000">talk 13:04, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
 * It's not pressing in this case because the overall vote is clear beyond any conceivable doubt, and there is nothing contentious in that additional !vote. What I think we do need to allow for is that improved handling of edit conflicts means that such non conflicting votes are now part of life, and have been for some time. The closing crat is going to edit the very start and end of the RFA, someone adding a !vote is doing so in a section that is deemed not to cause conflicts with that. Our normal understanding is that two editors can change two different sections of a page at the same time, RFA/RFB closes are a rare example of somewhere where that can cause issues. Though I'm not sure I would like the opposite situation, where the closing crat risks edit conflicts with last minute !votes.  Ϣere  Spiel  Chequers  16:14, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

RevDel
Hi! I was hoping you could at this to see if a RevDel is appropriate. Doctorhawkes (talk) 06:12, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
 * It was indeed, thanks for pointing it out.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  09:23, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

Copyright revdel ahoy!
Howdy! Please consider revdelling, in which some newbie apparently thought they were helping the encyclopedia by gracing it with an admitted copyright violation. Thanks! -  Julietdeltalima   (talk)  22:18, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi Juliet, the copyvio would seem to be the picture itself rather than the caption. So I have tagged the picture for deletion on Commons as copyvio (I'm not an admin there so I can't delete it myself). Once that deletion happens the image would become a redlink if anyone looked at that diff in the history, so I don't think that revision needs deletion.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  07:40, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Awesome. Thank you! -  Julietdeltalima   (talk)  00:17, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

October harvest
thank you --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:07, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks
Hello, WereSpielChequers,

Now that I've been on CSD G13 patrol for a couple of months, I just wanted to tell you that I see how you work to improve drafts with little edits, drafts that might just be a sentence or two long, drafts that have no chance of being accepted into article space. The editors who create these pages are unaware of how you try to help their chances so, if it is not presumptuous, I just wanted to say thank you for caring enough to fix typos or misspellings on these new editors' beginning attempts to write articles. Your effort is noticed...and I hope the better drafts survive beyond six months and some turn into full-fledged articles! Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 22:00, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks Liz, I changed my AWB settings to search in draft space as well as mainspace and have since done a bit in draftspace, plus deleting a few hoaxes and reporting a few to oversight. It is just unfortunate that draftspace is a separate area and loses most collaborative editing.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  11:28, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

Delicate question
Hi ! I'm not a power-user by any means, but I edit Wikipedia on a regular basis. A delicate question - where and how do I appropriately report a user whose edit summaries are bizarre, violate NPOV, and may create an unfriendly environment for other users. This user seems very interested in prurient content, that, while sourced, is often at a level of detail that goes beyond any encyclopedic interest that Wikipedia may have. I'm really not sure where the right place to go is to resolve this issue. Thank you for your help Ganesha811 (talk) 14:20, 15 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi Ganesha811, and thanks for the query. There are a few issues there, and a couple of possible ways to handle things. Firstly I suggest you look at their talkpage, the relevant article's talkpage and their recent history. Have others raised these issues with them and if so what was their response? If it looks like you'd be the first, I suggest you start off with a focused comment that raises one or at most two issues. for example can you tell me what you meant with this edit summary?, and give them a link to the edit summary in question. That gives them the opportunity to either acknowledge a typo or explain why they thought that was the right edit summary. On the issue of excessive amounts of prurient content, one policy to look at is WP:Undue, if the prurient content involves living people it may also be a breach of WP:BLP. If you think either policy is being breached I would suggest starting off on the article talkpage (article talkpages are more neutral ground, so always better to start there if the issue can be considered to be content), perhaps quoting the policy you think has been breached and if you need to escalate a BLP matter, you can escalate things to the Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard. One of the most common issues of excessive prurient detail is when people who are not fans of a public figure bring up poorly sourced, even tabloid sourced matter that isn't really relevant to why they are notable. hope that helps.  Ϣere  Spiel  Chequers  15:41, 15 November 2020 (UTC)
 * , thank you for your detailed answer. Another administrator advised me to bring this to WP:ANI, which I have now done. While I agree that generally the steps you suggested would be helpful and lead to a lesser escalation, this doesn't seem to be an isolated incident and I think the edit summary issue is more egregious than the content issue. I just don't think this is a case of a few individual edit summaries gone wrong that can be addressed one-by-one. I appreciate you taking the time! Ganesha811 (talk) 16:24, 15 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi Ganesha, those nine examples you gave aren't just bizarre, I'd describe several as hate speech. so good spot and well done with the ANI posting, please remind me of this if you ever run for RFA. I have gone through a few hundred of their other edit summaries, and the vast majority were innocuous or in some cases arguing a particular side. So kudos for spotting those 9  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  20:06, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

by gender
has run some stats for me on our gender ratio based on declared genders from user preferences:


 * 19 bureaucrats, 11 male, 1 female, 7 unknown
 * 41 former bureaucrats, 20 male, 1 female, 20 unknown
 * For the first 500 admins (up to J), 248 male, 20 female, 232 unknown
 * for the first 500 rollbackers (up to ‘Ar…’, 228 male, 18 female, 254 unknown

for the first 500 auto patrol, up to ‘Be’, 194 male, 26 female, 279 unknown I don't know about statistical confidence of this, I suspect there could be skews based on user name. However it does fit in with the theory that our rollbackers and largely our admins are slightly more male than our writers. Which fits into the theory that vandalfighters are more male than article creators. What I hadn't expected was the greater proportion of undeclared gender among the article creators. This does accord with the view that some have raised that there could be a lot of women writers quietly among us but carefully not disclosing their gender.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  18:18, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I think there are - I've long thought that female editors with high edit counts are more likely than their male equivalents to be actually writing text. Don't know how to prove that though, and it may be affected by my areas of interest. Johnbod (talk) 18:24, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
 * To my mind the obvious step to take is to resume the annual editor survey that started after the 2009 Strategy Process. OK I'm assuming that those anonymous females would happily disclose some details to an anonymised reseach survey. There's a broader point, how to act on 's suggestion of opening up more of a path for Content Creators to RFA. I suspect that we could use such admins to trawl lists of active writers and appoint more Autopatrollers and pending changes reviewers..... Whether we could get someone through RFA with that in their Q1 answer is the question.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  18:38, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I think Johnbod is right (about women writing content ... but my sample is skewed towards the FA women). Remember, I intentionally chose a gender neutral name, and hid my gender for a very long time, knowing the dangers to women on the internet.  And I wonder about assumptions about names; I assumed for a very long time that Jo-Jo Eumerus was female, but don't think so any longer.  I seriously doubt that true content creators would be rejected at RFA, although that is often the claim. (By "true" I mean not someone with a couple of GAs, rather a long-term FA process participant.) They may have a harder time, but I think they would prevail if we just started nominating them, as I well used to.  See Requests for adminship/Ajpolino; one of the finest editors I have encountered in a very long time, in the tradition of TimVickers. He didn't rack up a high support count, but the character I have seen in him was shining through in every answer. We should all force  to run the gauntlet. It is, and always has been, about character, integrity, and trust ... not whether you've climbed the grease pole by checking all the boxes.  So, Johnbod, whatcha waiting for???  Not that this will address the gender issue, so off the top of my head, I can't think of any female content creators that would submit, while I can think of several I would oppose.  Gender is no guarantee of character. Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  18:48, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
 * who should be in this conversation. Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  18:50, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
 * John, I agree with your suspicion. Thanks to Mike and WSC for this data. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 19:01, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Looking at Sandy's ten successful nominations I see nine near unanimous ones and one at about 80%, and the opposes in that one 80% case were very focused on either "no need for the tools" or lack of knowledge of admin activities. I'm sure I have seen RFAs fail because people read the answer to Q1 and don't see a need for the tools - the other nine ranged from ones with a clear need for the tools to some from 2008 where I was surprised that the RFA succeeded. Maybe I'm overcautious on this, it was and possibly still is quite a low bar. But I think that enough members of the community expect an answer to Q1 that sounds like the candidate will make some use of the tools that even an FA writer could fail for that reason. That said, I would have thought that anyone who actually wanted to run could give some examples where the tools will be useful.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  19:37, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
 * To make this in any way quantitative, one needs to define the notion of "writing content" first.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:39, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Autopatrol is only given to people who create lots of new articles that don't get deleted. Obviously that's only a subset of our content writers, but you don't get Autopatrol without writing content. However you can get Rollback just by proving you know the difference between vandalism and stuff you disagree with.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  18:54, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

Rocca di Manerba Del Garda
Hi, I am running a university project, we have finished our draft page on Draft: Rocca di Manerba del Garda, I would like to ask you if you have time to take a look at it and give us some advice in order to make it accepted. We need to make it accepted within one week. Thank you.Unklemerk (talk) 08:41, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, Thanks for writing that. I have made some small changes and accepted it as Rocca di Manerba del Garda. I have put a couple of queries on the talkpage.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  10:51, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Draft:Canadian Party Life
Hi WereSpielChequers, as an end of the semester group project, my group and I have finished our draft page on a Canadian digital media company of our choice which was Draft:Canadian Party Life. Would you be able to please take a look at it and give us some advice in order for it to get accepted? The project is due on the 15th of December and it needs to be an accepted Wiki page. Our team would really appreciate it! Thanks --RickyRosea69 (talk) 16:53, 5 December 2020 (EST)
 * Hi Ricky, it is a bit short, and looking at the sources cited, they don't seem to be more than passing mentions. Have you got anything more than that?  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  23:34, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi WereSpielChequers, we added a few more sources from nationally reliable news sources. Will that be enough to get it approved? If not, what additional steps do we need to take in order for it to get approved? Thanks for the feedback. RickyRosea69 (talk) 10:08, 9 December 2020 (EST)
 * Hi, I'm not sure I can add as much to the discussion as DGG has at User_talk:DGG, other than there being plenty of potential topics out there that are much easier to create an article on. For starters, go to the obituary achives from national newspapers in the 90s or earlier - before Wikipedia started. It shouldn't be too difficult to find someone who died in that decade, does not yet have an article but has obits published in two major newspapers.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  08:15, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia has a problem of recentism - our coverage is so good of everything that has been in the news while we have existed that it is hard to find a new or current thing that we miss. but there are huge gaps about the past and unlike currently trading entities, little worry that we are dealing with a spammer.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  08:19, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Question about reviews and scams
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Adelerenault (talk • contribs) 15:10, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

Hello!
Hello ! You have been very friendly and helpful from the very beginning so thank you but could you possibly do me a favor? Would you please sign my contact book? Yours  Dishita Bhowmik   talk 10:49, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, I've signed, you might want to add yours to User:Jack/ABs, cheers and happy editing.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  11:04, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank You for signing! However it is not a guestbook. Rather it is a place, where I am listing the helpful people I have met on Wikipedia (like my good article review mentor, etc) so that I remember who to ask help from. Hence I am not adding it to the guest book list. Wikipedia is a vast place. It's good to have people who can guide you through :)  Dishita Bhowmik   talk 11:28, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
 * However I wanted to bring it to your notice that your sign does not link to your user or talk page. You might want want to fix it up. If this was intentional then its alright :)  Dishita Bhowmik   talk 11:31, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Normally the first part links to my userpage and the second part to my talkpage.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  12:17, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Missing "no"?
in " this means that we would be more ready to block newbies than the regulars (I don't buy this last reason myself, but I believe others will)."? Just now. Johnbod (talk) 13:48, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, I think it means what I meant. Partly that these additional people would have the power to block IPs but not established editors, and partly because they wouldn't have other sanctions available such as protection.  Ϣere  Spiel  Chequers  14:28, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Letting you know some minor things
First, I wanted to point out that it seems someone might have inadvertently vandalized(?) your guestbook at the top. Secondly, I wanted to point out that you deserve to update your top userboxen. You're 116th now instead of 161st as you were back then! Just wanted to let you know. ~Gwennie &#128008; &#xFF5F;💬 📋&#xFF60; 04:52, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, it looks like a newbie topposting, I do watchlist that page, but won't have been around much at that point. Anyway someone resolved their query. As for the userboxen, I start and end with that one and will probably update it in March next year, by which time I suspect I will have spent over a decade in Wikipedia's second hundred on that scale:)  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  06:05, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
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I am using your greeting on your page because I wanted to tell you that I think this is a great season's greeting. I will be using it. I perhaps should not (approximately) date myself but I think that, in view of the image, I should tell you that I took a picture from inside the ring at Stonehenge some years ago. By sheer luck, the sun was behind a standing stone so I got the glare from the sun behind a dark image of the stone as I had hoped. Donner60 (talk) 04:59, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks Donner60, glad you like it. I've been doing these for a few years now, and this may be he first where I am reusing a photo. But I do like stonehenge.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  21:43, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
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