User talk:PaleoNeonate

God Jul och Gott Nytt År!

Gråbergs Gråa Sång is wishing you the season's greetings.
Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's solstice or Christmas,
Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus,
or the Saturnalia,
this is a special time of year for (almost) everyone.

@Gråbergs Gråa Sång: Many thanks, same to you, —PaleoNeonate – 03:49, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

No images, fancy backgrounds or fancy code in those curly bracket things. Just a boring old plain text note wishing you a very peaceful Christmas season, and a Better New Year. Cheers GirthSummit _(blether) 11:23, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

@Girth Summit: thanks, it'll indeed be "more peaceful" than usual, even. And I also hope about the "Better" part. Merry holiday, —PaleoNeonate – 06:24, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Crochety creations

An outbreak of crocheted creations locally has brought light relief and cheer in dark times. Here's a couple of them.
Thanks for all your work pushing against the de-enlightenment of creationism,

Wishing you and yours merry festivities, and a happy and healthy New Year!
dave souza, talk 21:25, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

@Dave souza: I'm not sure if it's back in fashion, but my gf actually also received as a gift a recent crocheting book, an interesting coincidence. And many thanks for the recognition in relation to creationism, it's especially encouraging from you, who I acknowledge also did impressive work in the area. Best wishes to you too, —PaleoNeonate – 06:28, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Eshed

You're such a weasel and a bitch Go WP:TAGTEAM 3RR yourself to death with your buddies Don't write on my talk page again Bigbaby23 (talk) 15:27, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

@Bigbaby23: You may want to count the times you reverted and note that multiple editors objected to that material. You should seek consensus at the article's talk page or at the WP:FTN noticeboard. While I have no reason to pester you at your talk page (and blanking posts at your page is allowed), policy-based warning messages are exempt from no-post requests (WP:OWNTALK). As for namecalling editors, on Wikipedia these are considered personal attacks and are not allowed. I won't report you for a first offense, but you now know. —PaleoNeonate – 13:44, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

Empire AS ^Talk! — is wishing you a Happy New Year! It's the last day of 2020 and tomorrow will be 2025. Hope the coming year brings pleasures for you. Have a prosperous, enjoyable and a productive 2025. This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!

Spread the New Year cheer by adding {{subst:New Year 2}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Empire AS ^Talk! 19:08, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

@Empire AS: Many thanks, best wishes too, —PaleoNeonate – 10:21, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks :) Empire AS ^Talk! 10:28, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

C64 Lovecats xmas/hny demo (in case anyone seeing it likes it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fg0nRnZT5g —PaleoNeonate – 16:08, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-02

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can choose to be reminded when you have not added an edit summary. This can be done in your preferences. This could conflict with the CAPTCHA. This has now been fixed. [1]
• You can link to specific log entries. You can get these links for example by clicking the timestamps in the log. Until now, such links to private log entries showed no entry even if you had permission to view private log entries. The links now show the entry. [2]
• Admins can use the abuse filter tool to automatically prevent bad edits. Three changes happened last week:
  • The filter editing interface now shows syntax errors while you type. This is similar to JavaScript pages. It also shows a warning for regular expressions that match the empty string. New warnings will be added later. [3]
  • Oversighters can now hide multiple filter log entries at once using checkboxes on Special:AbuseLog. This is how the usual revision deletion works. [4]
  • When a filter matches too many actions after it has been changed it is "throttled". The most powerful actions are disabled. This is to avoid many editors getting blocked when an administrator made a mistake. The administrator will now get a notification about this "throttle".
• There is a new tool to build new skins. You can also see existing skins. You can give feedback. [5]
• Bots using the API no longer watch pages automatically based on account preferences. Setting the watchlist to watch will still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database. [6]
• Scribunto's file metadata now includes length. [7]
• CSS and JavaScript code pages now have link anchors to line numbers. You can use wikilinks like w:en:MediaWiki:Common.js#L-50. [8]
• There was a new version of MediaWiki last week. You can read a detailed log of all 763 changes. Most of them are very small and will not affect you.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 January. It will be on all wikis from 14 January (calendar).

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15:41, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Discussion on MEDRS/RS debate regarding fringe lab leak theory

Your comment on whether MEDRS are mandatory before editing a claim implying the lab leak theory is not a conspiracy/fringe idea is requested by this Diff in this page, please take a look. Forich (talk) 02:52, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

List of Jewish Communists

It was literally just a list of names, wikilinked to their articles. But when I listed it, Georgy Arbatov had nothing about his religion (added during the MfD, Gyula Hevesi which was red-linked as he listed the names in a different order, still doesn't. That one alone (red link) suggests he got them from some other site. But also see the issue raised on my talk page about him and his edits, in particular this one. Doug Weller talk 12:28, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, yes, not too promising so far... —PaleoNeonate – 21:14, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-03

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all wikis from 21 January (calendar).

Future changes

• The Growth team plans to add features to get more visitors to edit to more Wikipedias. You can help translating the interface.
• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). [9]
• MassMessage posts could be automatically timestamped in the future. This is because MassMessage senders can now send pages using MassMessage. Pages are more difficult to sign. If there are times when a MassMessage post should not be timestamped you can let the developers know.

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16:09, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

COVID-19

This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date. You have shown interest in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Due to past disruption in this topic area, the community has enacted a more stringent set of rules. Any administrator may impose sanctions—such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks—on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic. For additional information, please see the guidance on these sanctions. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.

Template:Z33 —PaleoNeonate – 08:36, 21 January 2021 (UTC)