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Fall of the Berlin Wall

Hey, Kusma! I'm doing a DYK review for the above new(!) article for which the creator has requested a Nov 9 date. Because it's quite likely to get a lot of interest that day, I'd love a quick read by someone who maybe would detect a nuanced neutrality issue better than this Yankee can. :) Would that be something you'd be able/willing to do? --valereee (talk) 18:31, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

Valereee, I have made some remarks on the article talk page. —Kusma (t·c) 20:14, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the help! --valereee (talk) 09:48, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).

Administrator changes

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Arbitration

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:55, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Stop edit-warring

Kusma, as you well know, there is discussion underway at WP:ANI on whether to revert my edits.

Your unilateral reverts are completely out-of-order. Please stop. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:28, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

Note that your use of rollback was clear breach of WP:ROLLBACKUSE. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:42, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

The irony of your actions is pretty awesome. —Kusma (t·c) 16:54, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

DYK for A Voyage Round the World

On 16 October 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article A Voyage Round the World, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Georg Forster's 1777 report A Voyage Round the World, about the second voyage of James Cook, was not reprinted in English for nearly two centuries? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/A Voyage Round the World. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, A Voyage Round the World), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:15, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Sanatech page deletion

Hi Kusma, I wonder could you please let me know about possible reasons of Sanatech page deletion. How can we prevent this deletion. Regarding copy right, I should say that I am working in this company and it is completely okay that I used the text. Regarding advertising, I can revise the text to prevent this. Looking forward to hearing from you. Do not hesitate to contact me directly via (email address removed) Sincerely Mohammad Reza — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.185.145.60 (talk) 11:44, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

Writing about your company is strongly discouraged in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. You will need to adhere to all of the rules stated there. —Kusma (t·c) 11:51, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Thomas P. Saine

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Workshop for the creation of new Portal Guidelines

Hello Kusma. There is currently a workshop going on about the creation of a new Portal Guideline: User talk:Scottywong/Portal guideline workspace. Your insights and ideas would be appreciated. --Hecato (talk) 16:28, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

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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 Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Portals. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Portals/Evidence. Please add your evidence by December 20, 2019, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Portals/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, SQL^{Query me!} 20:27, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

SQL, thank you for the message. Is there any guidance as to what the scope of the case is or why I am considered a party to the case? —Kusma (t·c) 20:47, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Kusma, I apologize if I missed something, this is the first case that I've opened. The scope I was given was "The conduct of parties and others in discussions around portals and deletion of portals". SQL^{Query me!} 20:49, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Template:WikiProject Hertfordshire

Why did you revert[1] my edit to Template:WikiProject Hertfordshire?

Per WP:REVEXP, a revert should be explained, but your edit supplied no reason for the revert.

Portal:Hertfordshire was deleted. Why reinstate a link to the non-existent portal, thereby pacing the template in the cleanup category Category:Portal templates with all redlinked portals? --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:51, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

BrownHairedGirl, my apologies, I didn't mean to do that. Stray click :( —Kusma (t·c) 16:03, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

Such accidental reverts usually open the page reverted, so I am surprised that it went un-noticed. But thanks for restoring my edit. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:06, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:48, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Thank you CAPTAIN RAJU! I already made the obligatory celebratory edit. —Kusma (t·c) 16:47, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

Conversion therapy in Germany

Sorry, I didn't misinterpret on purpose. :) Beg your pardon :) --CoryGlee (talk) 20:20, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

CoryGlee, no problem, I didn't mean to imply that it was on purpose (sorry if my edit summary made you think so). It is easy to misread the article into believing that the law has changed already, but Parliament still needs to approve it. —Kusma (t·c) 20:26, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas, Kusma! Or Season's Greetings or Happy Winter Solstice! As the year winds to a close, I would like to take a moment to recognize your hard work and offer heartfelt gratitude for all you do for Wikipedia. And for all the help you've thrown my way over the years. May this Holiday Season bring you nothing but joy, health and prosperity.CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 07:39, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of User talk:Cₕᵣᵢₛₜₘₐₛ ᵥₐₙdₐₗ

Please do not introduce inappropriate pages, such as User talk:Cₕᵣᵢₛₜₘₐₛ ᵥₐₙdₐₗ, to Wikipedia. Doing so is considered to be vandalism and is prohibited. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Under section G3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, the page has been deleted. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges.

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331dot, what is wrong with using Twinkle to leave a block notice while blocking a vandal? —Kusma (t·c) 08:04, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Kusma It is a long term abuser, so WP:DENY. I didn't delete it because of your warning, just to get rid of their nonsense unblock request. 331dot (talk) 08:06, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

331dot, deleting is fine. I was also considering revoking TPA, but thought I'd wait and see: a vandal writing nonsense on their talk page isn't finding a new IP to vandalise anywhere in mainspace. Just please don't send me nonsensical messages like the one above where you told me that leaving that block notice was vandalism. —Kusma (t·c) 08:21, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

I apologize. That was done automatically, I took no action to send it. It went to you because you created the user talk page with your warning. 331dot (talk) 08:22, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Good luck

豊かな十年へようこそ/WELCOME TO THE D20s

Miraclepine wishes you a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and a prosperous decade of change and fortune.
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