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GOCE August 2015 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors August 2015 Newsletter

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New Account, Thompson20, being used by Mrmike1695 (user blocked by you)

Hello DW. You blocked a problematic user who has used multiple IPs and has a very blatant MO before. He is without a doubt operating currently as User talk:Thompson20. I don't know how to open an official sock puppet investigation and I don't do many of those ANI etc things as they require far too much formatting. If you could take a look into this user's edit history, and see some of the exact same details exhibited by MrMike, that'd be appreciated. Thanks! JesseRafe (talk) 15:13, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

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Jimmy Jam tells the truth about how Alexander O'Neal left the Time

[1]Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.79.88.70 (talk) 04:24, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

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Page protection/dispute resolution on Shockwave (video game)

Hi. I'm unclear how I'm supposed to proceed from here. For that matter, I'm unclear on why it was decided to protect Stormwatch's version of the articles. Prior to merging the article, I put up a merger proposal with complete reasoning, put the appropriate tags on both articles, asked for input from relevant WikiProjects, and waited the requisite seven days. Stormwatch took no action during all this time, but within minutes of my completing the arduous work of merging, he reverted my edits with no justification. He has still not attempted to justify his reverts or resolve the dispute on a talk page, just posted flame bait on my personal talk page and reported me for edit warring. He can't even seem to keep straight what it is he wants; when he first started reverting, he was restoring the content to have two separate articles on the same exact subject, whereas now his reverts are for a merge to Shockwave (video game). Is this sort of behavior really now considered the appropriate way to establish consensus?--Martin IIIa (talk) 12:10, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

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David Laudat Page

Hi, I noticed David didn't have a wikipedia page and found out it was deleted. Apparently it was the content below. He is referenced throughout wikipedia in places such as wannabe tv show and david gilmour session musician. I'm happy to help in any way to get this back online.

Best wishes

Matt

Removed page content:

He began his vocal coaching career in 1996 with East 17, before being asked to train the Spice Girls for their first live dates and subsequent world tour.[1] Since then David has built a reputation as one of the UK's leading vocal coaches, working with artists such as:

Jamelia, Blazing Squad, Ash, Jordan (Katie Price), Peter Andre, Westlife, All Saints, Spice Girls, Five, E-17, Asian Dub Foundation, Liberty X, Brian Harvey, 100 Reasons, The Honeyz, Heather Small (M-People), Dina Carroll, Big Brovaz, G4, Lisa Maffia.

David has even worked with non-singers such as the presenters of Blue Peter and CBBC’s Bring It On, as well as celebrities like Ant & Dec, Dick & Dom "aka Richard McCourt and Dominic Wood", and Chantelle from "Celebrity Big Brother". David has also appeared on "E4's School of Performing Arts", David was one of the judges "experts" for 2 seasons of ITV's “X-Factor, as well as being on the judges panel for a new reality TV show for VH1 called "Wannabe".

As a lead vocalist, David scored a top 10 UK hit with US hip-hop band "The Bucketheads", who went to number 1 with the phenomenal dance classic “The Bomb (these sounds fall into my mind)”. David has also had a top 10 album in Japan with the Pop group “ Love City Groove”, as well as a number 1 in Italy and several European dance hits as a solo artist.

Other artists whom David has worked with as a session singer include:

E-17, Take That, Robson & Jerome, Tom Jones, Ben E. King, Peter Andre, Daryl Hall, Lionel Richie, Louise, Beverley Knight, Ronan Keating, Pete Cox (Go West), David Gilmour (Pink Floyd), George Michael, Martine McCutcheon, Dina Carroll. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vascowiki2 (talk • contribs) 11:30, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Pistolplay’s new account

Pistolplay is created a new account name Pistolplay3 after two months. He/she focusing on mainly Maroon 5’s pages. 123.136.111.134 (talk) 04:36, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

Continuous vandalism by User:Bikaz

You had blocked a User, Bikaz, he is continuously involved in edit warring and vandalism. A very new ID is also supporting him at Ahmed Raza Khan page. Just analyse and see how many editors have warned him his contributions are against consensus every where and he is in no mood to listen any one. ScholarM (talk) 06:05, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

You might be busy and sorry to tell you but Bikaz is continue with his behavior again [1]. ScholarM (talk) 08:50, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

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October 2015 GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors October 2015 Newsletter

September drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's backlog-reduction drive. Of the 25 editors who signed up, 18 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

October blitz: The one-week October blitz, targeting requests, has just concluded. Of the nine editors who signed up, seven copyedited at least one request; check your talk page for your barnstar!

The month-long November drive, focusing on our oldest backlog articles (June, July, and August 2014) and the October requests, is just around the corner. Hope to see you there!

Thanks again for your support; together, we can improve the encyclopedia! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, KieranTribe, Miniapolis and Pax85.

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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About the article "Anti-islamism"

Hi, I saw your edit in Anti-islamism and I noticed that now the article Criticism of Islamism exist, so I was wondering if you could redirect the article Anti-islamism to that location if it's not much trouble, since it makes more sense. Regards. Rupert Loup (talk) 00:17, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

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Just a quick question

I have notice that you have recently blocked User:Anaxagoras13. Just before you did it would appear that this user made two "rollbacks" on the baseball links I made (please see) 2001_Baseball_World_Cup and Baseball_World_Cup. please could you tell me why, is it due to an error on my behalf or is it okay to revert back?LoVeNoTwAr101 Lets Talk 18:31, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

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Happy adminship day

Wishing Darkwind/Archive 12 a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Tito Dutta (talk) 17:56, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors 2015 End of Year Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2015 End of Year Report
Our 2015 End of Year Report is now ready for review.

Highlights:

  • Summary of Drives, Blitzes, and the Requests page;
  • New record lows in the article backlog and on the Requests page;
  • Coordinator election results;
  • Membership news;
  • Changes around the Guild's pages;
  • Plans for 2016.
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January 2016

Just letting you know there is a report at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring which concerns you.--NukeofEarl (talk) 16:47, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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Please comment on Talk:Eminem

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Guild of Copy Editors April 2016 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors April 2016 Newsletter

March drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's backlog-reduction drive. Of the 28 people who signed up, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

April blitz: The one-week April blitz, again targeting our long requests list, will run from April 17–23. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the requests page. Sign up here!

May drive: The month-long May backlog-reduction drive, with extra credit for articles tagged in March, April, and May 2015, and all request articles, begins May 1. Sign up now!

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Miniapolis, and Baffle gab1978.

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What is going on?

To Darkwind: One of my students reports that: I'm "blocked my an administrator in response to abuse". I'm not sure why this would be but its not letting me get onto Wikipedia. I am told this was your doing. I have looked at her user and user/talk pages, as well as another student's sandbox where she was working on a project overseen by the Wiki Education foundation. Please explain why you have taken this action, and why you have given no explanation to the student. This project is a major part of the grade for my history of psychology class, and now the student is blocked from participating. user:Ian (Wiki Ed) user:ragesoss J.R. Council (talk) 16:29, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

FYI, Ian at Wiki Ed says: I suspect she tried to edit while logged out. Darkwind has only preformed two blocks this year, both of IP addresses in Asia. In addition, it looks like he almost only does "anon only" blocks. So my guess is that the IP she was editing from was blocked, and she didn't realize that she was logged out. (Note: she was probably editing from a university cluster computer.) J.R. Council (talk) 16:49, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
@James Council: I recently blocked only anonymous users (i.e., anyone who is not logged in with an account) from the IP address range 112.118.128.0/19 (which is any IP between 112.118.128.0 and 112.118.159.255) due to repeated vandalism and attempts to evade more specific, less impactful blocks. The block was for a period of 36 hours starting at 20:50 UTC, 14 April 2016. You can see the error message a logged-out user would have received here: {{schoolblock}}. The user in question should have been able to edit while logged in, and the block would have expired at 16 April 2016 08:50 UTC in any case.
To be honest, I could have used a more helpful block ("error") message like {{rangeblock}}, and I do apologize for any confusion the student experienced. I can reassure you that no action was taken by me against any specific user in this case. –Darkwind (talk) 05:48, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Template talk:Collapse top

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Requesting permission to reclaim content of deleted article

I want to continue to work on and improve the article Edward William Cornelius Humphrey, which you deleted. Given the Wikipedia guidelines, I am not able to undelete the article without first consulting you. If I can't undelete the article, I will need instead to reclaim its content. Thanks.Mitzi.humphrey (talk) 14:43, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

@Mitzi.humphrey: After another review of the deletion discussion, I don't see any way my closure as "delete" was in error; the consensus was clearly that Mr. Humphrey is not considered sufficiently notable by Wikipedia guidelines. To be more specific, the consensus was that none of the following are sufficient to convey notability: being a member of the Presbyterian general assembly or one or more of its subcommittees, being a typical lawyer or judge, or being a college trustee.
I am happy to place a copy of the last version of the article in your user space so that you may access the text and possibly improve the article, but please be aware that you must address the notability concerns raised in the AfD discussion before moving the article back to article space. Otherwise, it is likely the article would fail another deletion discussion. What this basically means is that you need to find and document something else that he is notable for, in order to restore this as a regular article.
You can find the copy of the article at User:Mitzi.humphrey/Edward William Cornelius Humphrey. –Darkwind (talk) 12:53, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
Thank you, Darkwind (talk), for making the text once again available at User:Mitzi.humphrey/Edward William Cornelius Humphrey. Mitzi.humphrey (talk) 14:40, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

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Deprecation warnings

I notice that User:Darkwind/waLib.js causes a bunch of deprecation warnings. Can you fix them, or would you be okay with me fixing them? Jackmcbarn (talk) 01:15, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

Remember me...

Do you get to remember me last year? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.82.14.181 (talk) 01:32, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

Nobody talking? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.82.14.181 (talk) 01:41, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Avedis Zildjian Company

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June 2016 Guild of Copy Editors Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2016 News

Hello everyone, welcome to the June 2016 GOCE newsletter. It's been a few months since we sent one out; we hope y'all haven't forgotten about the Guild! Your coordinators have been busy behind the scenes as usual, though real life has a habit of reducing our personal wiki-time. The May backlog reduction drive, the usual coordinating tasks and preparations for the June election are keeping us on our toes!

May drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's record-setting backlog reduction drive. Of the 29 people who signed up, 16 copyedited at least one article, 197 copyedits were recorded on the drive page, and the copyedit backlog fell below 1,500 for the first time! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

June Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz will occur from 12 June through 18 June; the themes will be video games and Asian geography.

Coordinator elections: It's election time again; how quickly they seem to roll around! Nominations for the next tranche of Guild coordinators, who will serve a six-month term that begins at 00:01 UTC on 1 July and ends at 23:59 UTC on 31 December, opens at 00:01 UTC on 1 June and closes at 23:59 UTC on 15 June. Voting takes place between 00:01 UTC on 16 June and 23:59 UTC on 30 June. If you'd like to assist behind the scenes, please consider stepping forward; self-nominations are welcomed and encouraged. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible; remember it's your Guild, and it doesn't run itself!

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Guild of Copy Editors July 2016 News

Guild of Copy Editors July 2016 News

Hello everyone, and welcome to the July 2016 GOCE newsletter.

June Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 12 through 18 June; the themes were video games and Asian geography. Of the 18 editors who signed up, 11 removed 47 articles from the backlog. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part.

Coordinator elections: The second tranche of Guild coordinators for 2016, who will serve a six-month term until 23:59 UTC on 31 December, have been elected. Jonesey95 remains as your drama-free Lead Coordinator, and Corinne and Tdslk are your new assistant coordinators. For her long service to the Guild, Miniapolis has been enrolled in the GOCE Hall of Fame. Thanks to everyone who voted in the election; our next scheduled one occurs in December 2016. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible; self-nominations are welcome and encouraged.

July Drive: Our month-long July Copy Editing Backlog Elimination Drive is now underway. Our aim is to remove articles tagged for copy-edit in April, May and June 2015, and to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page from June 2016. The drive ends at 23:59 on 31 July 2016 (UTC).

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdlsk.

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71.68.160.54

You said the edits from 71.68.160.54 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) aren't vandalism. They added George Jones' "You Couldn't Get the Picture" to Deaton-Flaingen's list of directed videos ([2]) even though it was directed by Marc Ball ([3]) and Keith Whitley's "When You Say Nothing at All" and "I'm No Stranger to the Rain" to Michael Salomon's list of directed videos ([4]) even though they were directed by Stephen Buck ([5]) and the rest of their edits have added music videos that don't even exist. They never add sources, warnings to their talk page have gone ignored and they've been blocked twice before for the same behaviour. Eric444 (talk) 11:30, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

@Eric444: I think what you're missing here is the distinction between vandalism and other types of inappropriate edits. Just because an edit results in a factual error doesn't automatically make it vandalism. To quote policy:

Even if misguided, willfully against consensus, or disruptive, any good-faith effort to improve the encyclopedia is not vandalism. Edit warring over content is not vandalism. Careful consideration may be required to differentiate between edits that are beneficial, edits that are detrimental but well-intentioned, and edits that are vandalism.

— Wikipedia:Vandalism
None of what you describe is obvious vandalism, in the sense that determining the user's intention would be required to differentiate between "trying to be helpful, but is wrong" (which is disruptive, but not vandalism) and "intentionally trying to damage the articles" (vandalism). That makes your report inappropriate for AIV, which is a forum for requesting quick, decisive action, and does not allow for discussion or for the editor to defend themselves. –Darkwind (talk) 21:03, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
The user has been making similar edits since November 2015 with increasing frequency, sometimes with misleading edit summaries like "added links" or "fixed grammar", and my messages on their talk page asking them to stop have gone ignored. They've added incorrect information to Michael Salomon's article six times in the last month and Deaton-Flanigen Production's article five times. They added incorrect information to Steven Goldmann's article again this afternoon. At what point does it cross the line from "trying to be helpful" to "intentionally trying to damage the articles"? What can be done to prevent these edits in the future? Eric444 (talk) 21:57, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
@Eric444: Again, just to be clear, I wasn't trying to say that I thought the user's edits were appropriate. My specific point, in declining your report at AIV, was that it was going to take me longer than ~30 seconds to figure out, so it wasn't obvious enough for an AIV report. You can try opening a thread at WP:ANI the next time they're actively disrupting (maybe now?), that's where most disruptive-but-more-subtle cases go. Don't forget to leave a talk page message informing the anonymous editor of your ANI thread. –Darkwind (talk) 22:05, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

Civilization Beyond Earth RT article for deletion discussion

The page Civilization: Beyond Earth - Rising Tide has been nominated for deletion. You have been invited to participate in the discussion Oldag07 (talk) 23:29, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

recent edits to Ruth Faden bio page

Hi, I received a message that you'd removed my recent edits for being less than neutral. I'll clarify: the list of articles posted for Dr. Faden hadn't been updated in many years. I simply replaced the dated list, with a list of recent publications that she has authored. (they are collected and link to pubmed). I'm the director of outreach for the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, merely trying to update her info. thanks.Aregenberg (talk) 20:09, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

Ah, actually, I see that you rejected the edits from the other day to her bio. The biography I replaced, again, was out of date (particularly in not noting that she has stepped down as director, and remains the wagley professor.) the new biography reflects this change - which is very important for the field of bioethics. Aregenberg (talk) 20:11, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

@Aregenberg: The update to her list of works is probably fine (although, as an editorial matter, the list is looking a little too long and too detailed compared to the rest of the information we have in the article about her). What I was referring to was the edits you made to the biographical material in the first couple of paragraphs, which came across as way over the top in upselling the institute.
Sentences like "she transformed what was an informal interest group of faculty across Johns Hopkins into one of the leading and largest bioethics programs in the world" and are considered unencyclopedically promotional, and are not generally accepted by the Wikipedia editorial community. Also, because this is an encyclopedia article, standard biographical information such as birth date and place, etc. are desired.
Also, since you work(ed) with her, there is an inherent conflict of interest here. In general, we strongly prefer that employees of an institution do not directly edit articles about the institution or their colleagues; the excessively promotional language I mentioned is one of those reasons. I will add some conflict-of-interest information to your talk page momentarily. –Darkwind (talk) 20:16, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

BbradleyLA COI

Thanks for the insight. As a newbie I am unfamiliar with the rules but noticed a lot of nonrelevant information and broken links on a page about my work. While I imagine there are very few people who contribute to a topic in which they have absolutely no personal interest or involvement, I'm happy if you'd like to delete my contributions and return my page to its previous state or provide me with insight on the appropriate way I might adjust misinformation about myself

Thanks for your time and help and contributions to this resource! (@Darkwind:),— Preceding unsigned comment added by BbradleyLA (talk • contribs) 21:51, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

@BbradleyLA: First, three quick tips. 1) Don't indent your paragraphs with a space. The MediaWiki software interprets that as "please make this paragraph a fixed-width font". 2) There's no need to {{ping}} me when you write on my own talk page; editors automatically get informed of edits to their own talk pages. I have to ping you if I write here because you don't automatically get notified. 3) Don't forget to sign your comments on a talk page with four tildes ~~~~. In this case, a bot came along and did it for you.
Second, thank you for being up-front about your editing goals. We absolutely welcome contributions from everyone, it's just that we've found that people with conflicts-of-interest have a great deal of difficulty focusing on Wikipedia's editorial goals and standards. Many people tend to upsell themselves or their organizations, downplay any negativity, and generally just try to make the article as flattering as possible. Wikipedia's goals, on the other hand, are to have neutrally-written and verifiable information in every article.
As for your actual path to achieving the goal of up-to-date information in articles you are related to, I suggest following the steps in this page to use the {{request edit}} template. That template will add your proposed changes to a list, and an experienced Wikipedia editor will come around eventually, review the changes, possibly suggest alterations, and ideally, make the changes you've requested. That way, you can work with an interested editor to avoid promotional language and "whitewashing", but still get the information in the articles to be as up-to-date and accurate as possible. –Darkwind (talk) 22:07, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

Recent block

I see you recently blocked a vandal [6]. They are back making the same edits [7] Zekenyan (talk) 05:06, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Mahindra Enforcer (PBA team)

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UFC 200 situation

Hey, just noticed I thought Renzoy16 was an admin... So I restored it again before a proper decision here. If you considered that as part of the edit warring: my bad, really thought there was an admin input earlier. Anyways, I'm not restoring it again if it comes to it. If he pulls off that same edit, I'll recall the warning I sent on the IP talk page and this discussion before proper measures. A edit dispute should be dealt with, sure. But if someone shows up proposing changes, he's the one that needs to propose a discussion. I always find it difficult to be dealt with. Edit war apparently can't exist without two people in it. So if someone disruptively (but it does not fit vandalism) edits a page, how can it be restored without putting myself in harm's way? Gsfelipe94 (talk) 00:39, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

@Gsfelipe94: I'm not sure why he's just randomly commenting on ANEW reports, but I don't exactly blame you for taking the advice. As for the article, honestly, at this point just leave it as it is; I'm not worried about your last edit there, since neither you nor the IP editor broke 3RR.
In regards to your more general question of how best to deal with this situation, I think the first thing you have to remember is not to panic when you think someone's pushing bad formatting, misinformation, POV edits, etc. into an article. If you revert an edit you percieve as bad, and the editor puts it back in, it's OK if the bad edits stay there for a short time while you work through dispute resolution processes. Just because the other editor isn't following the suggested "bold, revert, discuss" cycle doesn't mean you shouldn't. If you revert, and he puts it back in without discussion, you should start a discussion, and if he doesn't participate, use dispute resolution steps to achieve a consensus. –Darkwind (talk) 03:21, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
Fine. I created a discussion and just saw he reverted it once again. I've (most certainly in vain) added a pingback on the IP's talk page. Let's see the discussion. If he ignores it, I'm sure he's done. Thanks. Gsfelipe94 (talk) 17:49, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

sorry

i am very sorry but my intention was not to vandalize wikipedia, i just wanted to edit the article that was missing a few details that i read on other sites and books, i do not know how to edit. please help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Musawinxclub16 (talk • contribs) 16:04, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

Looks like it's time for an indef block

Remember when you said TylerNguyen1 did not have the maturity necessary to participate constructively as an editor? Well, he just made these edits to his talk page, and his immaturity is on full display here. ElectricBurst(Electron firings)(Zaps) 14:39, 31 July 2016 (UTC)

I did nothing! TylerNguyen1 (talk) 21:56, 31 July 2016 (UTC)

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User has been blocked again for edit warring

I've closed a 3RR complaint by blocking both parties for 24 hours. You have blocked the person named in the complaint on July 15 and may be concerned about the long-term pattern. If you think my block ought to be longer, feel free to modify it. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 15:25, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

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Guild of Copy Editors September 2016 News

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Request to unblock?

Hello, Ryan, I am sorry if I am not doing this the right way, but I would like to do either of the following: 1. Ask what I did to cause my account to be blocked, and/or 2. Request that the block be lifted.

I see that some other people blocked me too but I am at a loss for the reason. I honestly try to make mostly corrections to grammar or add information about which i have personal knowledge.

Again, I apologize for bothering you because I know you must have thousands of messages. Sally — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.219.17.53 (talk) 16:23, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

Extended confirmed protection

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Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

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A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi Darkwind.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

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Guild of Copy Editors December 2016 News

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October Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 16 through 22 October; the theme was Requests, since the backlog was getting a bit long. Of the 16 editors who signed up, 10 editors completed 29 requests. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part.

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Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Wishing Darkwind/Archive 12 a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Lepricavark (talk) 22:20, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

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HBC AIV helperbot11

Hi Darkwind. HBC AIV helperbot11 hasn't edited in well over a month now. Recently poor HBC AIV helperbot5 has been left to do all of the AIV/UAA work all by itself, and it seems to be having some trouble as well (Noticed there's a backlog of requests at UAA of users that have already been blocked). If you're able to, could you restart bot11 and get it running again? Thanks, —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 20:45, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

I've been having a great deal of trouble logging in to Tool Labs, but I'll give it a try. –Darkwind (talk) 08:42, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

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About Dominican DNA:

.. Mr. Darkwind. I've made several attempts to remove the new addition in reference to a dna portion made about Dominicans in the DR page, inly for it to be re-added and eventually leading to me being unable to make edits anymore. The reason I've made several attempts to erase it, is because of the bias info which contradicts findings from several other DNA studies. This study was conducted on 1000 people in certain towns in a few provinces within the DR with predominant afro influence. Studies done on 1,000 Dominican citizens from these towns do not represent the entire population of 10,000,000.

Extended content

Here is some examples of other DNA studies done in DR with some links:

In the Last 2010 Dominican Census, Dominican marked themselves as follow...

59% Other(Mixes) 28% White 12% Black

According to C.I.A. Fact Book estimates Dominicans are:

73% Mix Tri-racial(Spanish ,Afro ,Native) 16% White( Spanish/Other European) 11% Black

According to recent genealogical tests by DNA-Tribe the average Mix Dominican is estimated to be:

58.1 % Spanish European 35.2% African 6.4% Taino Indio

http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp323/cristiano3/DNA-4.jpg

According to 23andMe DNA test, Mix Dominicans are estimated to be:

60% European 35% African 5% Taino Indian

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?authkey=CL2T54EF&hl=en_US&key=0At1sp4m_NTCLdHB4a2FZYXRxZnh0UzRfbzlTV2lXSWc&type=view&gid=0&f=true&sortcolid=-1&sortasc=true&rowsperpage=250

According to PLOS Genetic the average Mix Dominican is:

57% Spanish European 38% Afro 5 % Native

http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1003925

According to "History Of The Caribbean" book Pg. 34 written by Franklin W. Knight a extremely important Historian of the slavery in the Caribbean inform that by 1750 Dominicans were:

38,000 Whites 30,000 Mixed 15,000 Slaves

My point, is that DNA shouldn't even be used in this Wikipedia page about DR, because of all the conflicting findings and opinions. This is very divisive within our community and alienates a large portion of the population. Please remove this info, because it isn't a fact. Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jpimentel201 (talk • contribs) 03:00, 19 July 2016‎ (UTC)

  1. ^ Here is a link to a written interview in which Jimmy Jam, the original keyboardist for the Time, tells the story that I referenced: http://waxpoetics.com/features/articles/jimmy-jam-interview/ He can also be clearly seen and heard telling the same story on the DVD in the Condensate album from the Original 7ven - as I stated in my deleted correction to the Alexander O Neal page. It is common knowledge and accurate that Jam said what I claimed because there is visual and audio evidence on the DVD. Those who have an encyclopedic knowledge of the Minneapolis Sound and Prince history, as I do, know this to be fact would most likely appreciate the added accuracy and information from someone who was actually present and in the Time.
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