User talk:Patient Zero/Archive 6
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Global pandemic!
On the off-chance one of my TPSes stuck around and is reading this: crikey, can’t say I ever saw this coming! I am going to be self-isolating as of this week (currently asymptomatic but I am considered somewhat “at risk”), so chances are there’ll be a surge in my contributions for a little while. It’s been a while since I edited here properly, so look forward greatly to returning, and maybe trying something new out, that’s a little different from AV work. We shall see. Patient Zerotalk 14:09, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
- Also chuckling just a little bit at the irony of my username within these circumstances... not that this is a laughing matter as such, just hoping the tables don’t turn and I literally become a Patient Zero or something. Patient Zerotalk 14:10, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
- Patient Zero Hope you're keeping well mate! :) Class455 (talk|stand clear of the doors!) 16:33, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
- Hello there, Class455! Great to see you round here again. :) What are you doing these days? I’m in Aberystwyth studying Law, going into my final year this September but we’ve just closed owing to the COVID-19 situation, so all my exams will be online now! Patient Zerotalk 20:19, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
- Patient Zero Hope you're keeping well mate! :) Class455 (talk|stand clear of the doors!) 16:33, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
The Shot disambiguation Duke/Kentucky
On what planet is adding context and summary to a list not constructive? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.1.114.34 (talk) 13:48, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
- Will respond at your TP, but in the interests of accountability, I noticed I made a mistake and have reverted accordingly. Patient Zerotalk 13:49, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
No problem, thanks for acknowledging and reverting! Wikipedia has become contentious enough that we make bad assumptions :( — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.232.203.249 (talk) 08:31, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
iri/uae
what is problem? Coesegue (talk) 14:49, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
Three Iranian islands are claimed by the UAE and two islands claimed by Iran. I arranged these islands. What's your problem? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Coesegue (talk • contribs) 14:52, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
- Coesegue: please take some time to read WP:NPOV. Best, Patient Zerotalk 15:16, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
ok thanks. i correct them. best regards.Coesegue (talk) 15:22, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
please see : Serial Number 54129 / https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_territorial_disputes&action=history
This problem is solved. The source is provided. He repeatedly reverts the page. I made the reforms, but they still work regardless.Coesegue (talk) 16:04, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
thank you for your message. i am just starting to edit wikipedia. will update the content with source right now (2402:3A80:1E75:8328:C823:C0B9:CC3E:8810 (talk) 18:31, 28 March 2020 (UTC))
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dog meat
I didn't add it, I added notes explaining as such. It was the same text as was already there, I merely moved the section for Croatia from Africa to Europe... since Croatia is in Europe not Africa. Not sure why I would need a source for that. 68.227.175.152 (talk)
- Will respond at your TP, as to the best of my knowledge IPs can't be pinged. Patient Zerotalk 20:43, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
- ok. But you reversion just added Croatia back to Africa, which isn't the continent it's in.... so you might want to re-think that. 68.227.175.152 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:44, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
- Ah, my apologies. I'll remove it entirely until a reliable source can be found. Patient Zerotalk 20:46, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
- ok. But you reversion just added Croatia back to Africa, which isn't the continent it's in.... so you might want to re-think that. 68.227.175.152 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:44, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
Happy Easter Weekend to you all!
Wishing all of my talk page stalkers/watchers (however you identify!) a very happy Easter weekend, no matter how you choose to celebrate this year. Hope you are all keeping safe and staying indoors! Patient Zerotalk 19:05, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
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- thank you, and to you to, calling it the resurrection of loving-kindness --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:50, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
- Thank you very much, Gerda Arendt! Patient Zerotalk 00:26, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
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Edit request
Hello,
I'm new here. I would like to make some changes to a page ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FN_MAG ) But I lack the knowledge to edit the source code.
Could you add the info for me ?
I would like to add Portugal to the user's list, and one or more photos (as examples)
The FN MAF equip some versions of the APC Pandur 8x8 (30mm ICV, Command Post and Mechanical Evacuation Vehicle) Portuguese army official webpage https://assets.exercito.pt/SiteAssets/DMT/VBR%20Pandur%20II%208x8/VBR%20Pandur%20II%208x8-galeria_ICV-05.jpg https://assets.exercito.pt/SiteAssets/DMT/VBR%20Pandur%20II%208x8/VBR%20Pandur%20II%208x8-galeria_IFV-03.png
They also equip the Portuguese Paratroppers. http://www.operacional.pt/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/13-jupiter-92-a-copy.jpg http://www.operacional.pt/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/24-ultima-fav-copy.jpg
And they also equip the MBT Leopard 2 https://assets.exercito.pt/SiteAssets/DMT/CC%20Leopard%202A6/Carro%20de%20Combate%20LEOPARD%202%20A6%20_galeria_05.jpg
Thanks in advance, Swampps (talk) 18:53, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
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Checking in
Hello all - still very much around. I’m in my final year of my undergraduate studies now and strangely have a fair deal of free time on my hands. I have certainly missed this place. Patient Zerotalk 03:29, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
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Woo
Another year older. :) Patient Zerotalk 23:07, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
Happy Birthday!
Have a very happy birthday on your special day!
Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 08:26, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
- Thank you very much, CAPTAIN RAJU! :) Patient Zerotalk 12:52, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
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Dona nobis pacem |
- Have some apple harvest to celebrate! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:55, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
- Awesome! Thank you very much, Gerda. I hope you are keeping well! Patient Zerotalk 21:09, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
- Check out my talk for details. Nutshell: healthy but missing singing in choir. Good friends, but too many missing - click on apples for the hardest case. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:12, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
- Glad to hear all is well health-wise, Gerda. I understand; I’ve been missing being able to play squash and meet with my society members indoors. As you may be aware I’ve just returned to WP and I too found it sad that so many good editors have now gone. :( Patient Zerotalk 22:36, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
- Check out my talk for details. Nutshell: healthy but missing singing in choir. Good friends, but too many missing - click on apples for the hardest case. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:12, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
- Awesome! Thank you very much, Gerda. I hope you are keeping well! Patient Zerotalk 21:09, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
- Have some apple harvest to celebrate! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:55, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
Paula Danziger Page Edit
You removed my edit on her page. She has a book entitled The United Tates of America, NOT the incorrect title listed on her page as The United States of America. A very simple search will prove that my edit was correct and is constructive to her page, since it has a title of one of her books wrong. Please consider keeping my edit. Thanks.
50.245.213.165 (talk) 20:34, 21 October 2020 (UTC) A children's librarian
- Honestly, I thought this was some subtle attempt at vandalism. I was wrong. Just goes to show you don’t always get the full picture when you are supposedly doing “counter vandalism” work on subjects you know very little about. I apologise, and have reverted myself. Best, Patient Zerotalk 00:21, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
Exciting times ahead
I’ve just applied for a Master of Sciences degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice. 14-year-old me would be rather surprised, I reckon - but I’m very much looking forward to next year (and the next two years after that, within which I plan to do my PhD) and everything it will bring. In the meantime, my focus here has definitely shifted more towards editing psychology-based articles. Perhaps I ought to update the user page. :) Patient Zerotalk 00:19, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
- I'm not being ageist, but I do have my exiting times behind me. By the time I was 20 I had my Batchelor of Business Studies and I was travelling the world for my employer in the days when the closest most people in the UK got to an aeroplane was watching them from the perimeter fence at Elmdon Airport. I still had time to do two more post-grad degrees and a 30 year career in teaching teachers. What I'm saying is that with time comes not only what we can absorb for our education, but also a thing called experience. And now you know why AmandaNP is a bureaucrat, checkuser, oversight, sysop, ombuds, otrs-member, with 40516 edits since 2007, and what she said today at User talk:DoSazunielle is solid hard research of exactly the kind I used to do (without the aid of a CU tool) and why I see through a lot of 'new' editors while 'presuming' to AGF for the benefit of those who defend their actions. I have every respect for studies of Criminology and Criminal Justice, (as a linguist I worked on many cases of international crime) and I sincerely wish you success with your PhD and perhaps you could then apply what you know to becoming an admin, then an Arbcom member and turning that Committee into something more equitable. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 08:25, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
- Sounds like a plan. Thank you for the kind words and for reaching out, Kudpung. Patient Zerotalk 21:14, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
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New Page Patrol December Newsletter
Hello Patient Zero,
- Year in review
It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.
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| 1 | DannyS712 bot III (talk) | 67,552 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 2 | Rosguill (talk) | 63,821 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 3 | John B123 (talk) | 21,697 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 4 | Onel5969 (talk) | 19,879 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 5 | JTtheOG (talk) | 12,901 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 6 | Mcampany (talk) | 9,103 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 7 | DragonflySixtyseven (talk) | 6,401 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 8 | Mccapra (talk) | 4,918 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 9 | Hughesdarren (talk) | 4,520 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 10 | Utopes (talk) | 3,958 | Patrol Page Curation |
- Reviewer of the Year
John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.
- NPP Technical Achievement Award
As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.
Six Month Queue Data: Today – 2262 Low – 2232 High – 10271
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This Month in GLAM: November 2020
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The Signpost: 28 December 2020
- Arbitration report: 2020 election results
- Featured content: Very nearly ringing in the New Year with "Blank Space" – but we got there in time.
- Traffic report: 2020 wraps up
- Recent research: Predicting the next move in Wikipedia discussions
- Essay: Subjective importance
- Gallery: Angels in the architecture
- Humour: 'Twas the Night Before Wikimas
Administrators' newsletter – January 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).
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Guideline and policy news
- Speedy deletion criterion T3 (duplication and hardcoded instances) has been repealed following a request for comment.
Technical news
- You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time.
Arbitration
- By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized
for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes)
. The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason). - Following the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, BDD, Bradv, CaptainEek, L235, Maxim, Primefac.
- By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized
QAI
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I tried to give 2021 a good start by updating the QAI project topics. Please check and correct, - did you know that - at four years - you belong to the project's "older" active members? For moar private "happy new year" see here. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:37, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
- Will check that out, Gerda Arendt! I didn’t know that, either; I know I’m not around here often these days, but it’s made me rather happy that I’ve been part of something for that long. I certainly feel like I’m getting older too, what with the lockdown situation here! Hope all is well with you? Patient Zerotalk 01:52, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you. My health is fine - different from when you joined - but a dear friend's isn't. She had surgery yesterday. That's all I'd say in a public place. If you check out the list of RD you see it beginning with a friend whose article I felt I had to write on the occasion, and his wife died last year. Their DYK was one of the funniest I made. - I need the list of psalms a lot - help from thousands of years ago ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:49, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
- No worries Gerda - I’m glad you’re doing OK, though I am terribly sorry to hear of your friend and send my condolences regarding your friend’s wife. If you’re able to, please send them my well-wishes. Indeed, I believe it’s safe to say that support can come from quite literally anywhere - even if said support is from a historic source. Sometimes that’s what’s needed. :) Patient Zerotalk 19:07, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you. My health is fine - different from when you joined - but a dear friend's isn't. She had surgery yesterday. That's all I'd say in a public place. If you check out the list of RD you see it beginning with a friend whose article I felt I had to write on the occasion, and his wife died last year. Their DYK was one of the funniest I made. - I need the list of psalms a lot - help from thousands of years ago ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:49, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: December 2020
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This Month in GLAM: December 2020
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The Signpost: 31 January 2021
- News and notes: 1,000,000,000 edits, board elections, virtual Wikimania 2021
- Special report: Wiki reporting on the United States insurrection
- In focus: From Anarchy to Wikiality, Glaring Bias to Good Cop: Press Coverage of Wikipedia's First Two Decades
- Technology report: The people who built Wikipedia, technically
- Videos and podcasts: Celebrating 20 years
- News from the WMF: Wikipedia celebrates 20 years of free, trusted information for the world
- Recent research: Students still have a better opinion of Wikipedia than teachers
- Humour: Dr. Seuss's Guide to Wikipedia
- Featured content: New Year, same Featured Content report!
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2020
- Obituary: Flyer22 Frozen
Administrators' newsletter – February 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).
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Arbitration
- The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover
post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people
, replacing the 1932 cutoff.
- The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2021 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2021, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2021, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- Wikipedia has now been around for 20 years, and recently saw its billionth edit!
This Month in GLAM: January 2021
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The Signpost: 28 February 2021
- News and notes: Maher stepping down
- Disinformation report: A "billionaire battle" on Wikipedia: Sex, lies, and video
- In the media: Corporate influence at OSM, Fox watching the hen house
- News from the WMF: Who tells your story on Wikipedia
- Featured content: A Love of Knowledge, for Valentine's Day
- Traffic report: Does it almost feel like you've been here before?
- Gallery: What is Black history and culture?
Administrators' newsletter – March 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a 2019 RfC in favor of creating one such a policy.
- A request for comment is in progress to remove F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a, which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
- A request for comment seeks to grant page movers the
delete-redirectuserright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect. - A request for comment asks if sysops may
place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions
? - There is a discussion in progress concerning automatic protection of each day's featured article with Pending Changes protection.
Technical news
- When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
- When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
- There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (phab:T275322).
Arbitration
- By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions
authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people.
Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions. - The Kurds and Kurdistan case was closed, authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for
the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed
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- By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions
Miscellaneous
- Following the 2021 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AmandaNP, Operator873, Stanglavine, Teles, and Wiki13.
This Month in GLAM: February 2021
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The Signpost: 28 March 2021
- News and notes: A future with a for-profit subsidiary?
- Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments
- In the media: Wikimedia LLC and disinformation in Japan
- News from the WMF: Project Rewrite: Tell the missing stories of women on Wikipedia and beyond
- Recent research: 10%-30% of Wikipedia’s contributors have subject-matter expertise
- From the archives: Google isn't responsible for Wikipedia's mistakes
- Obituary: Yoninah
- From the editor: What else can we say?
- Arbitration report: Open letter to the Board of Trustees
- Traffic report: Wanda, Meghan, Liz, Phil and Zack
Administrators' newsletter – April 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).
Administrator changes
- Alexandria • Happyme22 • RexxS
Guideline and policy news
- Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
- Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the
delete-redirectuserright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.
Technical news
- When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. (T278350)
- Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. (T277803)
Arbitration
- A community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure is open until April 25.
This Month in GLAM: March 2021
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The Signpost: 25 April 2021
- From the editor: A change is gonna come
- Disinformation report: Paid editing by a former head of state's business enterprise
- In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby
- Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct
- Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way
- Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia
- Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles
- Traffic report: The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty
- News from Wiki Education: Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia
The Signpost: 25 April 2021
- From the editor: A change is gonna come
- Disinformation report: Paid editing by a former head of state's business enterprise
- In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby
- Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct
- Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way
- Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia
- Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles
- Traffic report: The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty
- News from Wiki Education: Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia
Precious anniversary
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, consensus was found that third party appeals are allowed but discouraged.
- The 2021 Desysop Policy RfC was closed with no consensus. Consensus was found in a previous RfC for a community based desysop procedure, though the procedure proposed in the 2021 RfC did not gain consensus.
Technical news
- The user group
oversightwill be renamed tosuppress. This is for technical reasons. You can comment at T112147 if you have objections.
- The user group
Arbitration
- The community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure was closed, and an initial draft based on feedback from the now closed consultation is expected to be released in early June to early July for community review.
This Month in GLAM: April 2021
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