User talk:Iazyges/Archives/2018/November


I'd like to be removed from adoption

You're busy in real life and on Wikipedia so I don't think it would be beneficial for us to continue. I hope we can work together in the future. I might go for adoption by another person, maybe not. You're a great coord on MILHIST. Clikity (talk) 21:36, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

@Clikity: I hope we can work together in the future; apologies for the inactivity. Best of luck my friend! -- Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 19:46, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Biased Admin Donald Albury

I want to report Donald Albury, an administrator, who is clearly a Florida based PR agent. This admin continually and consistently edits I formation on behalf of 5W PR clients, specifically Roy Donahue Peebles and The Peebles Corporation, removing accurate, unbiased, and well-sourced information in favor of inaccurate, misleading, and untruthful (but positive) information. Donald Albury has even edited names, business information, and historically significant facts for misleading misrepresentations. See for example, Donald Albury's edits of Roy Donahur Peebles, Jr.'s name and business activities, including corporate names, developments, square footage, and financial information that is demonstrably and facial untrue. Note that all Donald Albury edits rely on the identical, unsourced language contained on The Peebles Corporation's website, and excludes numerous sources and news reports.

I refuse to believe any corporation named "Peebles" holds a lot of power. -- Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 19:49, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Fold3

Hello! I requested access, and was accepted, but I was unable to actually gain access to the full website. I was emailed with instructions to give account info (username); I did, and nothing has happened since. The Fold3 system indicates that I only have a Basic Free Membership account. We talked about this back in September and nothing has moved on it. I was approved for access back on 12 January 2018, yes January 2018. Can you help. Broichmore (talk) 08:24, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

@Broichmore: I've notified their coordinator; I had sent an email including your info, but it appears to have slipped through the cracks. Apologies. -- Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 19:52, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018 November newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is South Carolina Courcelles (submissions), who over the course of the competition has amassed 147 GAs, 111 GARs, 9 DYKs, 4 FLs and 1 ITN. Our finalists were as follows:

  1. South Carolina Courcelles (submissions)
  2. Wales Kosack (submissions)
  3. Hel, Poland Kees08 (submissions)
  4. SounderBruce (submissions)
  5. Scotland Cas Liber (submissions)
  6. Marshall Islands Nova Crystallis (submissions)
  7. Republic of Texas Iazyges (submissions)
  8. United States Ceranthor (submissions)


All those who reached the final win awards, and awards will also be going to the following participants:

Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition.

Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2019 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email) and Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email).

Congrats, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia! ---Another Believer (Talk) 06:23, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2018).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Partial blocks is now available for testing on the Test Wikipedia. The new functionality allows you to block users from editing specific pages. Bugs may exist and can be reported on the local talk page or on Meta. A discussion regarding deployment to English Wikipedia will be started by community liaisons sometime in the near future.
  • A user script is now available to quickly review unblock requests.
  • The 2019 Community Wishlist Survey is now accepting new proposals until November 11, 2018. The results of this survey will determine what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year. Voting on the proposals will take place from November 16 to November 30, 2018. Specifically, there is a proposal category for admins and stewards that may be of interest.

Arbitration

  • Eligible editors will be invited to nominate themselves as candidates in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 4 until November 13. Voting will begin on November 19 and last until December 2.
  • The Arbitration Committee's email address has changed to arbcom-en@wikimedia.org. Other email lists, such as functionaries-en and clerks-l, remain unchanged.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:18, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

WikiCup award

Awarded to Iazyges for reaching the final 8, and finishing in seventh place, in the 2018 WikiCup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email) and Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email)

Your MilHist A-class review

Please respond to the comments left by the reviewers at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Aegidius. Failure to do so in a timely manner will cause the review to be failed.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 03:11, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLI, November 2018

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Your Military History Newsletter

The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 09:40, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello Iazyges/Archives/2018,

Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW
  • Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.
If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.
We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.
With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.

Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here)18:37, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

ArbCom 2018 election voter message

Hello, Iazyges. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Happy first edit day!

Happy First Edit Day!

Have a very happy first edit anniversary!
From the Birthday Committee, A 10 fireplane (talk) 15:55, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
A 10 fireplane (talk) 15:55, 26 November 2018 (UTC)