Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-03-27/News and notes


 * Congratulations, and many happy returns! FactMaster007 (talk) 14:37, 30 March 2022 (UTC)


 * An early happy birthday,, and many happy returns! Have fun and all the best,  Mini  apolis  22:21, 27 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Happy, happy birthday to !! Thanks for all you do! I hope to be half as spritely when I'm your age Crunchydillpickle (talk) 17:07, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I'd settle for being alive when I'm his age! FeRDNYC (talk) 14:11, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

Would someone please tell jimmy that we love him?[]35252600:387:C:6C31:0:0:0:4 (talk) 17:10, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Happy birthday, ! You’re a legend around these parts, takes some serious dedication! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Inficiat (talk • contribs) 18:09, 28 March 2022 (UTC)


 * So, you're saying we should go with "bro-heim", then? So noted! (And Happy Birthday, Been!) FeRDNYC (talk) 14:10, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Congrats on the 100,000h edits, nice work. Your Shatner-like accomplishment should be publicly trumpeted by those at the Foundation who get paid to trumpet, because, in what may be the most overlooked demographic for new editors, there are hundreds if not thousands of very good editorial, research, and otherwise accomplished professionals in their 70s and above who would love this place. Wikipedia would better fulfill its goals if many more elders got involved and used their skill and long-memory to add content, accuracy, and established knowledge into the world's best encyclopedia. As well as to further explain to the young pups still wet behind the ears, for example, just what it meant to the world for people to orbit and then walk upon the Moon (or, for film buffs, just who Veronica Lake was, bless her heart). BeenAroundAwhile, you are a Wikipedia role-model, and when we all meet in Vegas for the next North American Conference (hint, hint), remind me to buy you the best drink (or something) in town. Randy Kryn (talk) 21:57, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
 * shouldn't the ip psudeoanynonimity thing replace the comma with a full stop? 晚安 (トークページ) 07:53, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
 * If you are talking about the popup help text in the UI mockups, then I agree. It is poor English. The same error seems to exist in the task given to the developers: T300263 ☆ Bri (talk) 15:03, 30 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Re "It is not clear what was the legal basis for the arrest, as the 2022 Russian fake news law presumably does not extend into Belarus' borders": You forgot to add the obvious second half: "But then, of course, legal bases for arrests have not mattered in Belarus since 1917, the last time any rule of law existed there." Karmanatory (talk) 04:14, 1 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Re: "Due to community policies, The Signpost can not discuss all of the media reports in detail", could you be more specific? Which policies? What sort of media reports? 17:36, 2 April 2022 (UTC)2600:1700:D0A0:21B0:6172:11C0:CFAA:9946 (talk)
 * The rules can sometimes be very inconsistantly applied on Wikipedia. The one at play here involves the penalty that any admin can disappear you at will for linking to something off-wiki that includes an editor's name and username. We discussed this early in the month and I told staffers that they could decide whether to include such a link and I would respect their decision, but I didn't think the rule applied because the name and username were already included in a Wikipedia article. So I was good both ways. Strangely enough I almost switched my view, when a related discussion on another page started moving toward eliminating the username in the article. But they eventually saw the common sense of allowing the inclusion in that Wiki article. So I stuck with my decision and the wrier stuck with his. If the final product looks a bit inconsistent don't blame us, blame the folks who enforce the rules. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 18:41, 2 April 2022 (UTC)