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The Signpost: 4 September 2024

Jan Działyński (Polish noble, born 1590)

Hi can you rever the move? There is an ongoing discussion on the Talk:Stanisław Potocki (1659-1683) and it seems there is consensus that using "Polish noble" as disambiguator doesn't really make much sense. Marcelus (talk) 06:48, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

@Marcelus ok. I will be reverting this, and probably make sense to merge the RM together since they are about the same thing. – robertsky (talk) 10:19, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

Question from RainyLakeGirl on Robert A. Good (05:12, 8 September 2024)

Hello, Please tell me how I can add information and cite an article as verification? The bio of Dr.A. Good omits the fact that he was also married to Joanne Finstad. Below is the article I wish to reference as evidence for this. https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/01/archives/minnesota-professor-is-named-president-by-sloankettering.html She too, was instumental in the budding field of immunology. She and Dr. Good worked together, authored published papers together, etc.

Thank you. --RainyLakeGirl (talk) 05:12, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

@RainyLakeGirl please see WP:REFBEGIN for instructions. Apologies for not being more verbose here right now as I am on the move. – robertsky (talk) 06:01, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

Question from StephenCharlesLow (14:04, 8 September 2024)

Hi I have a photo that I took myself and attempt to upload it to include in a paragraph I'm editing. But each time the upload is refused. Any advice. --StephenCharlesLow (talk) 14:04, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

@StephenCharlesLow You will have to upload those photos at Commons and then include the images from there. See Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons. Note that not all of the images should be uploaded, certainly not the booklet as it has copyright implications. – robertsky (talk) 16:19, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

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Question from Subashoza (15:34, 19 September 2024)

I suggest we post "Today's Date" at the top of the page --Subashoza (talk) 15:34, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

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Question from Najzarantar on Civil registration (00:28, 24 September 2024)

Hello, how are you, I'm not sure about my question, but I'm looking for a marriage date --Najzarantar (talk) 00:28, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 September 2024

RFA2024 update: Discussion-only period now open for review

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Move Draft: William Heffernan by Spactues to be placed into article space 29 september 2024

Looking for help of my first artical Draft: William Heffernan by Spactues to be moved to the artical space and accepted review. Spactues (talk) 04:23, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

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Question from Avemalakoff (13:15, 5 October 2024)

Hello: Thanks for your help. There is a new book on the mystery about the Man in the Iron Mask written by me, Sarah Madry, M.Ed. On the Wikipedia page on this topic there is a list of books about this topic. I would like to have my book listed on the list. Since the editors investigate, quite normally and appropriately, the level of accuracy and seriousness of authors and material that appear on Wikipedia (I depend upon you to do that as a regular user of Wikipedia - thank you), I wrote to another editor who responded to me about adding my book to the list about the depth of my research and the new paths covered on the subject. I think that was interpreted as a promotion of my book that I intended to put on the Wikipedia page. I don't want to promote my book, unless putting the book on the list of other books, is promotion. I wanted to show the editor that my book is a serious work that offers dependable new material. I am sorry if that was the wrong thing to do. I have never done this before and I didn't know I was not supposed to do this. I apologize. I hope Wikipedia will be able to list my book as a book on this topic. Sarah Madry --Avemalakoff (talk) 13:15, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

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ANI vs WP

I really like the heading "The court reads", thanks for the chuckle. As another court in India noted at one point,[33] WP is not a reliable source and legal stuff should not be based on it. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 13:46, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

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ANI vs WMF

Your Signpost article made me wonder why we didn't have Asian News International vs. Wikimedia Foundation. Now we do. I love it when that happens, so thanks! Valereee (talk) 18:19, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

@Valereee, personally I prefer to have WMF-related legal cases (even though it is uncommon compared to the other legal cases that are written here) only to be written in the mainspace after the case is over for various reasons. One of the many reasons is its potential to influence ongoing cases, like so; potentially shutting off/opening up possible legal strategies that trial lawyers (on both sides, and now the judiciary as a whole apparently?) can apply and whatever extra scrutiny it may place on our fellow editors living the country. But hey... what's done is done. – robertsky (talk) 10:09, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
Nonetheless, thanks for the article since it now presents a timeline. – robertsky (talk) 10:48, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
I guess I feel like not writing it until the case is settled is self-censoring. There's a huge amount of coverage, and I tried to follow it very carefully. And it's a not-unimportant case. And being not in India, I'm safe from being directly threatened personally even if my personal details were released.
Would be kind of a bummer if I got invited to an Indian wedding, although I'd have an incredibly interesting decline reason: "Sorry, I've got an open warrant there". Which almost would make it worth missing even a fabulous Indian wedding. Valereee (talk) 15:51, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
@Valereee I get where you are coming from. Let's hope that this does not blow up further. – robertsky (talk) 08:44, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

zhwiki mandated to use SecurePoll?

Regarding this comment of yours at WT:RFA: Is there a place I can read more about this? For instance, a WMF thing outlining its perspective? If not, would you mind giving me a brief explanation? You have piqued my curiosity :) HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 06:10, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

there is a link somewhere. Will pull it out later. Tldr: back when WMF got wind of CUs on zhwiki misusing the right to breach the privacy of editors and coupled with undesired behaviours from the pro-China faction, they yanked the perm there and set conditions to fulfill before returning the perms. One of them was to use SecurePoll for CU elections. One thing led to another, RFA there also uses SecurePoll. – robertsky (talk) 08:06, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
@HouseBlaster: you will have to use Google Translate for most of the following two links, however, most of the admin terms do not translate well. zhwiki RfC to use SecurePoll for admin elections (which vote was conducted on SecurePoll as well), zhwiki RfA talk archive 8. The talk archive contains a series of activities which solidified the current voting practices on zhwiki, starting from the mandate for the usage of SecurePoll for CU appointments, and further discussions on the earlier linked RfC and modifications to the rules on the RfA page. – robertsky (talk) 09:10, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

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Mail from me

Hello, Robert. Just noting that I've sent you an email. Thanks, Sdrqaz (talk) 15:10, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

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Question from Kamogelo Mankosi (05:25, 2 November 2024)

Hello how can l edit --Kamogelo Mankosi (talk) 05:25, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

@Kamogelo Mankosi welcome to Wikipedia. You can peruse the links in the welcome message dropped on your Talk page to learn how to edit at your own time. Alternatively, you can jumpstart with Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Adventure as a tutorial. – robertsky (talk) 06:02, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
okay thanks for your help Kamogelo Mankosi (talk) 06:09, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

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How do the user page describe one's personal information --Kamogelo Mankosi (talk) 09:19, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

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Thank You!

@Robertsky: Thank you for sorting out the discussion and setting up the centralized Talk:Jews in Madagascar#Requested move 1 November 2024 and for the placing the notifications on the 3 articles' pages. I greatly appreciate your efforts. Sincerely, IZAK (talk) 18:49, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

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Question from Klangustaccount (06:49, 5 November 2024)

How many pages do I have to edit before I can publish a new article? --Klangustaccount (talk) 06:49, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

@Klangustaccount: To create a new article on the main space, your account will need to be 4 days old (48 hours from when you have registered your account) and have already accrued 10 edits. You can however create a draft article either in the draftspace or userspace, i.e. Draft:Example (change the bolded portion to the actual title of the topic you want to write on) or User:Klangustaccount/sandbox.
As new user, you are however encouraged to edit on existing articles first to get yourself comfortable with editing on Wikipedia. I have dropped a standard Welcome template on your talk page. Do look through the links to familiarise yourself with editing on Wikipedia and the various policies and guidelines. – robertsky (talk) 06:59, 5 November 2024 (UTC)
If the article I want to write is in a different language (Tagalog), will I have to edit 10 articles that are in Tagalog or are English articles okay? Klangustaccount (talk) 07:39, 5 November 2024 (UTC)
@Klangustaccount:If it is in Tagalog, you have to check out the Tagalog Wikipedia. Do not submit anything in Tagalog on English Wikipedia as it will be removed without question. Each language project has their own policies. tl:Wikipedia:Kapihan would be the appropriate place for your query. – robertsky (talk) 07:57, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

Question from RedPekingDucks8 (13:15, 5 November 2024)

hello --RedPekingDucks8 (talk) 13:15, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

@RedPekingDucks8 hi. I have also dropped a welcome message on your talk page. Do go through the links in there to get started on editing on Wikipedia. – robertsky (talk) 13:18, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

Please solve an issue

@Robertsky:, Please solve the issue in the Women in the Bangladesh Army article, seven days have been passed since the request of page moving, see the talk page of the article. 119.30.47.8 (talk) 03:15, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

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