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Question from Mark Hutton 100 (09:17, 26 December 2021)
Howzit?Hope you're well? Just seen the Arch.Bishop Tutu obituary page and I'm concerned that the initial reputable South African source,revealing his death,via the Tutu Foundation to the SA media News 24 was removed and replaced by two American media houses.Why would a non South African and non American choose to alter the source,when the info was sourced in South Africa?Shouldn't local journalists be credited with the news scoop,rather than media giants picking up secondary or 3rd hand sources? Thank you. --Mark Hutton 100 (talk) 09:17, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
- @Mark Hutton 100 Sorry for the late reply, its the holidays and was quite busy. I see your point, and I think it could be valid. You should raise that on the talk page of the relevant article, Talk:Desmond Tutu CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 19:58, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
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RFA 2021 Completed
The 2021 re-examination of RFA has been completed. 23 (plus 2 variants) ideas were proposed. Over 200 editors participated in this final phase. Three changes gained consensus and two proposals were identified by the closers as having the potential to gain consensus with some further discussion and iteration. Thanks to all who helped to close the discussion, and in particular Primefac, Lee Vilenski, and Ymblanter for closing the most difficult conversations and for TonyBallioni for closing the review of one of the closes.
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Comment at WP:ARC
Hey CaptainEek,
Regarding your reply to Lomrjyo at WP:ARC[1] - can you expand on where the committee's standing ATM?
Best regards,
François Robere (talk) 18:16, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
- @François Robere I don't think we have a consensus yet on the course of action to take. The new committee is still being seated and oriented. We are considering resolving by motion, but are still working on the text of a motion. Various parties have also provided some private evidence, which we are considering. The matter is also complicated by the multiple directions this case request has taken. What started as a COIN concern became a Holocaust in Poland topic in general, and then included misbehavior during the ARC as well as concerns about Ice Whiz, plus the famous Ha'aretz article. Bottom line: a lot to sort through, and tearing a case between two committees always makes thing take longer. I can't give a definite timeline, but we are working on it. We'd rather do it right than rush into accepting or declining. CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 20:07, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
- Good to know. I've a lot of evidence of my own, but I'm not keen on posting it for two reasons: a) APL is a cesspool of bullying, tag-teaming and harassment, and I'm not anxious to get back in; and b) It's unclear if ArbCom is finally willing to tackle this head on, so it'll be a waste of time and diffs if I did. That said, some of my evidence is already on record with T&S (correspondence from Feb. 23rd to March 16th, 2021), and a lot of evidence is on record at WP:APL, ARCA, AE and ANI, if anyone is willing to connect the dots instead of treating them as "isolated incidents". François Robere (talk) 11:54, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
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Welcome to the 2022 WikiCup!
Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2022 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:01, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
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Very strange behaviour
Greetings and all the best in New Year, for a few days now there are unsourced changes in lots of wikipedia articles, some of them were already noticed by admins, it started with this ip [[2]] after few days it continued with this ip [[3]] and today it continued with this ip [[4]],All 3 have the same target articles, the last 2 ip have the same geolocation, could it be that they are the same person, could you run a quick SPI check ? Thank you. Theonewithreason (talk) 17.January 2022 (UTC)
- Theonewithreason, I've left them a message. Let me know if more IPs pop up. CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 21:19, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
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