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Re your June 20th, 2023 edit of Athlone Town A.F.C.
In response to being notified of a damaging falsehood and asked who you were working for, you did not correct the record and instead doubled down on the falsehood by adding a link which attempts to conflate my identity with the proprietor of Molloy's bakery in Roscommon. Harpozep (talk) 16:23, 30 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Harpozep: "In response to being notified of a damaging falsehood" - apologies, honestly, I did not see that notification. The use of "businessman" was a (not totally surprising) leap on my part, based on this Declan Molloy being a "majority shareholder in Athlone Stadium Ltd" (from the Irish Times article) with "Ltd.", I assumed implying some sort of business. "who you were working for" I have no conflict of interest on this subject, I just added some information reported about Athlone Town A.F.C. into the article about Athlone Town A.F.C. If the "Declan Molloy" mentioned is a different person, I can remove same. (done). Given that you believe you have some conflict of interest in making corrections to this article, I believe you can request specific changes on point of fact under the process described at Wikipedia:Edit requests. In the mean time, three sources I gave cited some sort of an issue with the stadium and it's ownership, so I believe it is noteworthy in the history of the club.-Bogger (talk) 21:11, 30 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you Bogger for your reply, which I now accept as evidence of an honest misunderstanding. Your assumption was based on your not knowing about my company Athlone Town Stadium Ltd., which is not a business but a charitable purposes company which (lawfully) holds or (legally) held ownership of the stadium on behalf of the people of Athlone. I and my fellow directors and shareholders have never received any remuneration for doing this. Since the courts' intervention, the members of the company which currently holds the stadium have paid themselves (their own figures, from accounts) E225,000 (almost certainly a minimum of E375,000 if the past two years are included) with E115,561 part paid and pending from the members' claimed loans to that company. The use of businessman on Wikipedia feeds into the smears these same people make about me, that I was trying to make money from the stadium. I am not interested in editing, but if you are keen to correct the record then the following may be of interest: There never was an Athlone Town Association Football Club. Athlone Association FC was founded in 1887 and was replaced around 1989 (the FAI kept it very quiet) by Athlone Town Football Club. The latter club ran concurrently with an Athlone Town Athletic FC (founded in 2016 and 70% owned by the match fixing syndicate Pre Season, which also laundered money through a company called Callaview Ltd.) until its demise in 2018 or 2019. It is not known if AT Athletic FC still exists, but the 2021 accounts of Athlone Town AFC CLG claim that there is now a club called Athlone Town Associated FC, which I assume to be the club currently playing in the League of Ireland (the FAI is refusing to tell us what it is called). The newest club is almost certainly majority owned by an American company called Valeo Futbol Club Inc. Valeo was founded by and controlled by Emelio Williams, who is similarly involved in Outlier Biopharma. 93.107.16.33 (talk) 12:33, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Music to my ears, though it will be hard to get anywhere on the names - the 'A' in AFC covers a multitude of sins. Forgot to include, a company called Dama Management Ltd. was also used for laundering purposes. Good luck Bogger. 93.107.16.33 (talk) 13:19, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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All these sources seem to be by members of the society?
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I saw that youโd also created Wikidata items for the new redirects (e.g. d:Q123668143, d:Q123531401, d:Q123516484), and passed the Q-identifiers as parameters to {{Wikidata redirect}}. I just wanted to let you know that this on its own doesnโt link the redirect to Wikidata - to be connected, the redirect needs to be added as a sitelink to the Wikidata item itself (using the โintentional sitelink to redirectโ badge).
Iโm sorry if any of this came across as condescending โ thatโs definitely not how Iโm intending it, but Iโve found that Iโm not always the best at wording things. If you have any questions about anything Iโve said then please feel free to ask.
In truth, "wikidata redirect" is the shortest template link I could remember to tie a <"not yet an article but definitely a thing" redirect to a thing best related to the not-yet-article>, to wikidata, so that some future person/me, when creating that article, might have some facts/data to work with.
also, in truth, the text in the template "Use this template only on hard redirects โ for soft redirects use {{Soft redirect with Wikidata item}}." reads terribly. "hard redirects", is a piped link to to soft redirects, witch start with a bolded link to soft redirects somewhere else, and is defined as not-hard redirects, so upon reading that I wasn't best motivated to tick the right boxes as to when to use soft or hard.
So, from now on I will use {{[[Template:R with Wikidata item|R with Wikidata item]]}}, and if I use it incorrectly, a bot can clean up after meย :).
(I've also just learned that the Visual editor is a mess to work with in writing replies as the cursor jumps up to preceing lines/sections on a whim.) -Bogger (talk) 21:40, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Women in Red January 2024
Women in Red| January 2024, Volume 10, Issue 1, Numbers 291, 293, 294, 295, 296
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Hi. I had intended to say so yesterday, but got a bit distracted by some noise. Nice work on the Castletown-Kilpatrick article. I continue to be surprised that, though we have titles on some very small townlands (scarcely encompassing single fields and containing no people/buildings/ruins/geo-features/etc), we're still "missing" articles on established towns and villages. That well-sourced start/stub is a great addition and fills a gap which (in hindsight) is conspicuous by its absence. Nice one. (FYI - I was hoping to help by adding a decent infobox image of the village proper. But Geograph, for once, has "let me down"ย :) ) Guliolopez (talk) 12:04, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Women in Red July 2024
Women in Red | July 2024, Volume 10, Issue 7, Numbers 293, 294, 311, 312, 313
For further context, I chose Squares as a broader category that encompasses four, nine squares courts and for games such as Hopscotch that utilise a Squares grid but are not ball games.
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Election news: Project coordinators play an important role in our WikiProject. Following the mid-year Election of Coordinators, we welcomed Mox Eden to the coordinator team. Dhtwiki remains as Lead Coordinator, and Miniapolis and Wracking returned as assistant coordinators. If you'd like to help out behind the scenes, please consider taking part in our December electionย โ watchlist our ombox for updates. Information about the role of coordinators can be found here.
Blitz: 13 of the 24 editors who signed up for the June 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 169,404 words comprising 41 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.
Drive: 38 of the 59 editors who signed up for the July 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 482,133 words comprising 293 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.
Blitz: 10 of the 15 editors who signed up for the August 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 71,294 words comprising 31 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.
Drive:Sign up here to earn barnstars in our month-long, in-progress September Backlog Elimination Drive.
Progress report: As of 05:14, 11 September 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 233 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,824 articles.
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I believe all the copy-pasted text in the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District article has been removed or reworded, and I can't figure out how to continue the DYK submission from here. Please let me know, otherwise I'll just resubmit.
FYI - I tried to send this reply on the DYK template and Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District talk pages, but an error prevented me. Hence me reaching out here. Gb321 (talk) 17:16, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Hello, and welcome to the December newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since September. If you no longer want this newsletter, you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. If you'd like to be notified of upcoming drives and blitzes, and other GOCE activities, the best method is to add our announcements box to your watchlist.
Election news: The Guild's coordinators play an important role in the WikiProject, making sure nearly everything runs smoothly and on time. Editors in good standing (unblocked and without sanctions) are invited to nominate themselves or another editor to be a Guild coordinator (with their permission, of course) until 23:59 on 15 December (UTC). The voting phase begins at 00:01 on 16 December and runs until 23:59 on 31 December. Questions may be asked of candidates at any stage in the process. Elected coordinators will serve a six-month term from 1 January through 30 June.
Drive: In our September Backlog Elimination Drive, 67 editors signed up, 39 completed at least one copy edit, and between them they edited 682,696 words comprising 507 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.
Blitz: The October Copy Editing Blitz saw 16 editors sign-up, 15 of whom completed at least one copy edit. They edited 76,776 words comprising 35 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.
Drive: In our November Backlog Elimination Drive, 432,320 words in 151 articles were copy edited. Of the 54 users who signed up, 33 copy edited at least one article. Barnstars awarded are posted here.
Blitz: The December Blitz will begin at 00:00 on 15 December (UTC) and will end on 21 December at 23:59. Sign up here. Barnstars awarded will be posted here.
Progress report: As of 22:12, 7 December 2024 (UTC), GOCE copy editors have completed 333 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,401 articles.
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