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I had been struggling with the rmcloser on the move for the Donald trump shooting article for a full ten minutes. Thank you for closing it. Soni (talk) 04:30, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
It was so cursed lol. Even with admin tools that give me the #fuckit #yolo overrides for everything, I still had to separately move the main page and the talk page and disregard a bunch of warnings -- I think MediaWiki was freaking out at the idea of auto-deleting both destination pages. I really wish there was an option to auto-histmerge short history redirects/dabs, but then again, this would probably cause a bunch of additional unbelievably-stupid edge cases, so who knows tbdesu. jp×g🗯️04:38, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
Yeah I suspect it's the talk page size that caused it. That and the speed of edits for both pages, at least for me it took me quite a while to realise there were new edits after the version I was stuck on.
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I saw Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Griphennus after you put it in WP:RECORDS and was surprised when "griphennus" didn't yield a single non-Wikipedia result in any of the places I searched it. It really sounds like a word. It could be an Austrian meadow or great uncle of Methuselah or a humanoid toilet YouTuber or something. For a minute I started wishing it were a word, so maybe for today I can say it means "interesting, useful, behind the scenes task that I previously did not realize anyone had to do." Like standardizing improperly closed AfDs, that's a total griphennus. Thanks! Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 05:37, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
I used my viewdeleted for goodevil silly when I was looking at that AfD because I wanted to know too. Here is what it was:
This a common slang term used by a group of Marquenvolists of the Acrophedya in Cornolio, (a very secluded pterogynne exchanging thylial expressions) allowing pavilius commonequial . Modern theories concur the usage to be applied to strutting the absolute mendisqual reliance on temporary jargonth. Memphitatically, the fianthropology consisted of technical distribution due to the connorial diction of vixerish methigie. Although amptitwin conditions persist the morpholitus adaptaptable query for maquisurial expenditures. Further information can be found on the messiroial vector summation Law from David Vandelorough's Volume 9-77 listings.
Haha griphennus is what it's like when my friends that are in grad school publish exciting but painfully esoteric papers and I try to read them to be supportive Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 05:58, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
Talk:Attempted assassination of Donald Trump
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Damned if I know -- I didn't do it, I just moved it there. I guess that puts my name in the protection log because I transferred it from the old title. Well, I guess I can take a look. jp×g🗯️10:04, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
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Hi there -- inspired by reflection on recent events, I have written a new essay with ideas for developing our Wikipedian conduct norms. I am looking for advice and collaborators and thought you might find it interesting. Pizpa (talk) 20:43, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
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@Queen of Hearts: I have never before witnessed so much wailing and gnashing of teeth over an image with seemingly zero capacity to offend -- I feel like a picture of a naked person getting their head cut off by a giant swastika made of poop would not earn so much tripe as this random DALL-E pic of the fucking Linux penguin. I feel like every day there is some new random complaint, which is for some reason structured in a way that requires my active participation to respond to. It got deleted on Commons because: someone removed it from an article for a couple days, then during that time someone popped over to nominate it for deletion at Commons because it was "unused", then it could never be added back to the article because it was deleted, then my request for a deletion review was ignored, as was my message to the deleting admin. So when I reuploaded it locally, I had to use the Internet Archive to get the description text from the former Commons page -- nobody could be bothered to give it to me from Commons.
Then there became an endless series of random IP editors and accounts with two edits driveby-removing it from the fanart gallery of the Tux article -- then two accounts with similar writing styles and two previous edits ever opened a talk page section to argue that there was a solid consensus to remove because they both said they don't like it.
Never have I been forced through so much pointless nonsensical bureaucratic busywork over something this utterly inconsequential.
Please, for the love of God, just delete the goddamn thing so I can stop hearing about it. I do not give a fuck anymore. jp×g🗯️02:38, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
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For what it's worth, your redrawing of the image wouldn't be a speedy if uploaded here instead of Commons, though it probably wouldn't get kept at FFD. It is unquestionably fair-use (in the sense of being allowable under US law, not in the sense of it not being allowable on WMF sites) and has a stronger case for that if hosted here instead of at Commons. —Cryptic13:31, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
For me it is just an issue of exhaustion more than anything else: there are hundreds of Signpost articles with illustrations on Commons, and there are so many arbitrary differences (either in the actual policy or in house interpretations of what are nominally supposed to be identical policies) that it's basically worthless to try to beat back the tide. Sometimes it is a license being on the image description page but not in the right template field, sometimes it is a person batch-nominating 100 images for no apparent reason, sometimes it is a vandal smashing their keyboard: the only constant is that it consumes a gigantic amount of time because I have to go personally respond to it every time. Presumably you are enforcing the Commons policies evenly and in line with consensus there -- I just find said policy/consensus to be unreasonably difficult and inconsistent. jp×g🗯️13:42, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
That's interesting
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Oh, God damn it. I had a feeling there was going to be some additional hidden layer to this. Well, at any rate, I undeleted it so a Signpost writer could look through the revision history to write an article about how the AfD and the article development process worked -- so I think that if this can veg for a few days it will be fine. Yeah? jp×g🗯️02:48, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
My post is informational only. I didn't really have a dog in the fight, was just trying to tidy up around the edges, and still don't have a strong opinion. I do know that the objection was to the tabloidish nature of the content, but that the content itself was all RS'ed, just perceived as tacky and in poor taste, especially once the cancer diagnosis was revealed. I'm not a subject of the crown, and have less personal emotional investment in Catherine Middleton than in school acquaintances I haven't seen in decades. Jclemens (talk) 02:55, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
@JPxG, I think you should take the article down for the time being, as I feel you may have overridden the deletion consensus of it being a BLP violation, tabloidish, and everything Jclemens said above. I'm still writing up the Trump photo one for the upcoming issue, so perhaps we can set a date when you restore the Kate article, Saturday or Sunday? Svampesky (talk) 11:46, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
What a mess. I wish people would put more detailed notes/references to the actual discussions that originated consensus in the deletion log instead of just leaving it up to guesswork - but I guess it can't be helped. At any rate, sure, I can re-delete it until you are actually ready to write. I can also restore the revisions to page in your userspace somewhere (if you are fine with having the page's deletion/move log have the link to User:Svampesky/resource or whatever) -- everyone I asked prior to doing this mostly seemed to agree that would be acceptable for a few days, I just didn't do it because of the additional PITA etc. jp×g🗯️11:51, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
Okay, cool. Delete for now and I'll ping you when I need access to it for the signpost. Alternatively, is there any way of you hatting my account and admins give me access to pages ad hoc, in line with writing reports? I think it would've helped if I had access to Kalloor (and I don't think I even knew admins had access?) Svampesky (talk) 12:01, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
There's no rule about sending deleted pages to non-admins but I think there is some kind of actual legal issue with letting non-admins see pages. At least this was my recollection the last time people were talking about this -- the WMF had some kind of legal thing going on where people could strictly never be allowed access to the full sum of all deleted content without going through some kind of community selection process (e.g. why all the rfa sortition stuff didn't end up going through). @Barkeep49: Now that you've got free time I can ping you for piddling shit like this right? jp×g🗯️16:07, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
Why me? But yes access to deleted material is considered by the WMF to be something that needs community consensus and could not be unbundled from RfA (or an RfA-like process). Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 16:13, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
There's no rule about sending deleted pages to non-admins but I think there is some kind of actual legal issue with letting non-admins see pages. The first part of this sentence contradicts the last. You're allowed to send pages, but the recipient is not allowed to see it? I'll just work with the resources I have available. Given that the deletion report primarily pertains to the discussion itself and the policy under consideration during said discussion, the article is not really needed. The article may enhance the report. My suggestion is: initiate a Restore for Signpost (RfSP; as RfS was already in use) and post it on the newsroom page. Additionally, notify the admin noticeboard so the community can assess its suitability. The report will proceed as planned, but the community can decide whether the article/selection revisions of it can be linked. Svampesky (talk) 16:32, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
I have mixed feeling about the restoration of the Kate article. I would've opposed the restoration and linking of the Kalloor article, as it effectively disregarded the community's consensus for deleting it. The Signpost probably shouldn't restore articles without prior consultation with the community. Svampesky (talk) 16:39, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
I undelete pages pretty often, e.g. stuff like Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adam woeger or Slashdot subculture that got deleted for some bizarre reason like "the article was deleted so we don't need to keep the deletion nomination page" or "if we have a redirect people will inexorably expand it into an article" -- well, maybe in 2007 but certainly not now. The Kalloor AfD closed with nothing against a redirect, so I figured it would be fine inasmuch as there was no likelihood of someone reverting to the old version. With the Kate one, well, I thought I had read all of the discussion around it beforehand but I guess there was a separate thing which I missed -- am glad to re-delete if you are done with the thing. jp×g🗯️11:22, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
Sup. Kindly redelete. This was not a bizarre reason. Discussion is clear. Judged by the community as non-compliant material under the BLP policy. It's a discrete, codified, DELREASON. History deleted per consensus around a BLP concern -- administrators are obligated to treat it as bad material, not for public access. That's the consensus: material is inappropriate for public viewing on this website. It's available for public viewing with two additional clicks now. It's not like it was deleted for lack of notability; it was wholly redacted out of the encyclopedia, ejected from the entire site as actively bad. There's a hierarchy of values, and respecting such a consensus in particular takes precedences over making it easier to write Signpost article. No biggie so far but this can't hinge on someone telling you they're done with their thing. I'm emotionally detached from this topic, but had to tell you this, however, as these principles are good. Respectfully —Alalch E.00:11, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
Support/Delete per above and the overwhelming community consensus that the article should be deleted. The article is not necessary for me to write the report, as it will focus on the discussions and the policy concerns that were raised. Discussing the content of the article, if it was not addressed in the various discussions, would also seem like exploiting a loophole against the community. Svampesky (talk) 01:45, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
Additionally, I may have bitten off more than I can chew with this one. When I was reading the article at the time, I was only aware of the AfD and RM. I didn't know about the additional complexities and layers involved with the other discussions. Therefore, I believe it is best for me to slowly work on this one, as I need to acquire more policy knowledge to write it effectively. I'm not too invested in getting this particular deletion report published as soon as possible, so gradually writing it is probably best. Svampesky (talk) 02:06, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
Well, I said if anyone gave enough of a damn to ask, I'd be happy to re-delete it, so there is no need to convince me; back down the toilet it goes. jp×g🗯️03:28, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
Okay, the stupid thing is buried again, this time with some actual indication that consensus exists and a link to where it can be found. If something is really that toxic, I think it really ought to be marked in some way, not just left for people to stumble across. Exemplis grata: jp×g🗯️03:44, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
I missed this, sorry. What I mean is that individual admins are allowed to send the contents of deleted pages to whoever at their discretion (ofc unless it is some kind of snuff-film thing or whatever) -- the thing Legal dislikes is the idea of people who haven't passed a community confirmation process being given the idea to themselves go willy-nilly through deleted page histories unattended. jp×g🗯️03:27, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
[11] was a very kind comment of you to leave. The project as a whole can benefit if we all show mutual understanding and compassion towards one another. I'm also learning of WP:BITE - so, in general, thank you for setting a great example for how we all should act in our regular interactions on here (and in real life too). — ThatCopticGuyping me! (talk) (contribs) 15:28, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
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I saw this Help:Drawing attention to new pages. I propose featuring newly published essays in the essay column to draw attention to them. These essays can vary in tone, including serious and humorous ones. The column will be a good place for readers to check on if there's any new essays, discuss and improve them. Svampesky (talk) 14:46, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
This is a very good idea. At some point, I believe it was me and Bri were combing through Category:Wikipedia essays to try to find gemmy stuff that had been forgotten. We got a couple out of that. If there were some way to actually comb through and find newer essays I think this would be fruitful. jp×g🗯️03:24, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
I will nitpick just this once
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The upload form literally presented this license template as the own-work option, you siliconaceous bumberchute. jp×g🗯️02:50, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
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Hello! I was wondering if I could become a copy editor for the Signpost, as I want to contribute in some way, but I’m not very skilled at writing. Thanks! Shadestar474(talk)03:35, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
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Hey there, welcome to the 25th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 1 March 2024. We've got a ton of wonderful editors taking back their pitchforks today. Don't worry, for they come in peace, to forcibly fix and extend existing scripts you use with sheer passion. There's so many, them forks have got what's basically their own column now! gift us with some rows before it's too late Aaron Liu (talk) 04:01, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
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Hi, could you share the link to the deletion discussion? I created that page because the joke seemed to me to be a noteworthy event. There was no attack on Vance in the slightest - the meme has gone viral beyond what would be considered a cursory interest. There is much precedent for creating pages devoted to political jokes, such as Dean scream, for instance. The article was merely a brief summary of the joke in question, but with much more weight given to the media frenzy it inspired. I made it clear in the page title it was about the meme itself. Was there consensus to delete it? Dhantegge (talk) 00:15, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.
Special:Diff/1237237809 — really? I seriously assumed one of the tendentious vandals common in the topic area did this; I was stunned to see it was an established editor and admin. There's no universe where tagging every other word in a sentence is constructive; if you really thought the sentence was that bad, you should have just removed it. Anyways, it should be better now. Dylnuge(Talk • Edits)21:26, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
here, look, it's in use. Now I never have to hear about it again. jp×g🗯️ 02:40, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
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No I didn't. jp×g🗯️ 00:53, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
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