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On the ] article, you de-]'d some links (AnEnquiryConcerningHumanUnderstanding became ]), but in doing so you didn't change the latter link to one that actually works. You could do this in one of two ways: by redirecting the former to the latter page (and moving the scanty text of the former to the latter), or else by writing the link like this: ]. In this particular example, by the way, I don't think it matters very much that the link was broken, because there's nothing there but the text of the ''Enquiry,'' and nobody, I imagine, is going to come to Misplaced Pages to read an outdated text of a philosophical classic. But, well, it's the principle of the thing--we don't want to make links broken. I haven't checked the other articles that you've de-]'d, but if you could check and reinstall the links, that would be good. Thanks. --]
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Sorry about that. I wasn't intending to make any changes to the links and I'm not sure why it did what you said. As a fan of Hume, I wouldn't want to discourage anyone from reading his work! I was just trying to change ''existance'' to ''existence''. I'll go back to all those pages, check out the links and fix them if necessary.
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Nice work on the translation of the Declaration, Derek. Thanks! -- ]
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Hi Derek -- among the very necessary changes you've made to article names for various rules, I noticed you were changing the names of some articles (like for Roman Emperors). I know that that kind of fits in with some of the discussion on nomenclature, but frankly, the "of the Roman Empire" sounds just WRONG to me. Could you hold off on the renaming till we can discuss it on the History talk or nomenclature or whatever it is page? We've got a couple ancient history and classicist types that I'd love to hear from on the subject before anybody goes to the trouble of revising all of these article names!! Thanks -- ]


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No problem. I'll hold off. I only did the Constantines because they were clashing with the Scottish kings. To be frank I'm not too happy with ''of the Roman empire'' either and I did consider using ''of Rome''. In any case I'm perfectly willing to wait until this has been properly thrashed out. I've no wish to do a whole lot of tedious renaming then find out that nobody likes the new names! -- Derek


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Derek, I notice that you have changed the format of the years pages. I do like the +5 and -5 date range, as it is useful to browse through years. I created many of these pages by hand, and am frustrated that I need to now go through all of these pages again and put in the '''Year in Review'' links for the previous and next centuries.
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to the more useful format. -- BenBaker
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== Administrators' newsletter – February 2023 ==
Ben, my reasons for changing the format and deleting these navigational links were as follows.
*The navigation part of the page was taking up more lines than the information in some cases.
*Even where it wasn't, it had an undue prominence. People don't go to the timeline so that they can find out how to reach other parts. They go there in order to find out about Events, Births and Deaths during a given year. So the navigation shouldn't take up more than a couple of lines on the screen. Even the format which I settled on is arguably too large and should probably be moved below the real information.
*The links which I deleted were all present more than once apart from the Year In Review links and redundant links take up precious screen space. I don't feel that there is as much utility in the Year in Review for the previous and next centuries as there is for the other links and that is why I decided to remove them. It is still easy to get to them by going through the previous and next century links in any case.
*The navigation links were inconsistent from year to year. I realise that this is because several different people have been working on them.


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I'm not quite sure what you mean about deleting the hierarchical summary links since each of the links still exists in an obvious position somewhere else on the page. I've actually introduced an extra level of hierarchy with the millenia pages for use in prehistory where timing is vague.

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In any case I have no great love for the current format that I've been using. I'd prefer something more compact but at least as useful. Before you start changing everything back, I think we should agree on something better than what we have at the moment, so that we can work together on making a consistent, easy to use bit of navigation that doesn't take more than three or four lines. That way it'll halve the amount of work that we each have to do and keep both of us happy. -- Derek
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No real plans to do Belgrade. The only reason that I did a stub for Budapest was because I'd visited on business last week and I had my guide book handy to pull a few facts from. It was a nice city to visit. The Roman remains at Aquincum are well worth seeing and the city as a whole has some great buildings going back to the Turkish occupation and before. As for Most Wanted, I only plan to do stuff that catches my eye. Re the 198 date, that's what the guidebook said for the date when Aquincum became an official Roman colony. The same guidebook says that the Celts founded the settlement soemtime in the 1st century BC and that ''Aquincum'' is from the Celtic for ''Many Waters'' referring to the local springs and spas. So your source for 106 may well be better since I'm pretty sure that the ancients Celts didn't write my guidebook and it didn't say where it got the info from! -- Derek
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== Can you help me to replace a "redirect" ==

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cc {{ping|Olga Ernst}}<br />
''Simplon Hospice'' is redirecting readers to the article ]. I developped a new Misplaced Pages article about ''Simplon Hospice'' here >> ]. Can you delete the redirection ''Simplon Hospice'' so I may create the new article '''Simplon Hospice''' under my name? Thank you for helping. Regards, Hp.<br /> ] (]) 12:33, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
:Done. -- ] &#124; ] 15:24, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
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::What a great job !!! Thank you so much for moving the page to the right place and thank you even more for upgrading significantly the Language! I appreciate! Great work! Kind regards, Hp. --] (]) 02:40, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
:::You're very welcome! -- ] &#124; ] 19:06, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

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== Glasgow page history, again ==
Yes, there is something funny going on with Mary Stuart, isn't there? But I think it's part of the general wikipedia problems, and nothing personal!

Hey Derek, you'll probably find ] I just did at the Glasgow article interesting. ] was previously the earliest one available (before ]), so it previously seemed like you created the page. Now the history shows that it was created by an American (from the IP address), tweaked by a Canadian (from the user page), and then you fixed it up with more local knowledge/wording (see the above diff) ... unless there are *still* edits missing, which I highly doubt! I especially notice the "River Clyde" change; that's very much UK/Ireland terminology, as you're probably well aware. You've doubtless noticed that even in Australia we'd say "Clyde River", like North American English. ''']'''] 14:59, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

:Cheers, Graham. Good work! PaulDrye? There's a name I haven't seen for a while. ;) He arrived about a month before me and started (or contributed to) quite a few Scottish articles. As for Clyde River, there's actually one in Nova Scotia too, about an hour and a half from where I now live. And I'm quite happy about that. I tend to use the local terminology, whatever it might be. Although I still find it hard to pronounce Berwick, NS as Berr-wick rather than Berrick. Oh well! -- ] &#124; ] 00:47, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

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Thanks Derek for your comments on the city naming debate. I'd like to raise a few responses here instead of on the subject page to keep the debate from spinning out of control in yet another direction. With your having raised the issue of multiple Newburghs we may need to review just what we mean by "where required". It is also important to remember that outside of the United Kingdom the knowledge of UK counties is somewhat wanting. Some even draw the conclusion that Scotland is a part of England.
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Could you please answer on my talk page. ] 02:40 Aug 14, 2002 (PDT)

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:I appreciate your reply. The debate has gone a long way from the time when the Yanks believed that duplicate country names could happen in no universal country but their own. What you say about people who found communities not feeling the restraint of Bureaucracies on Geographical Names is true everywhere in the world. Our two positions aren't that far apart. I admit that limiting the examples to cities that only occur twice appears simplistic, but it is an essential stepping stone to solving more complicated situations. I also accept that the bulk of the labour fro disambiguating British place names will fall on British shoulders.
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:I think that most disambiguations will develop by degrees. It may very well start as ''Newport, Rhode Island'' and ''Newport, Wales'', and the person who started that may not even imagine that there are several other Newports in the UK. The next person may realize that there is "one" in England and proceed to ''Newport, England''. He may know about Newport-on-Tay in Scotland, but think of that as a completely different name. It may not be until yet another Wikipedian comes along that ''Newport, Wales'' becomes ''Newport, Gwent'' and ''Newport, Dyfed''.
:Your example of Kincardine was an interesting one. I also found a Kincardine Parish in Perthshire, that few people might be presumed to know about. Of the two Scottish sites that you mention my old ''Times Atlas of the World'' shows the one in Fife as "Kincardine on Forth", and the one in Aberdeenshire as "Kincardine O'Neill" in Grampian. Even though I agree with your proposal for listing these two, how would I know whether to use ''Kincardine, Aberdeenshire'' or ''Kincardine, Grampian''?
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What?? I'm sure that I've been contributing for longer than you have, since last summer at least. It's a bit late for Welcomes.


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Derek, there is a vote on the city naming issue at ]. Since you participated in the debate, you may want to let your vote be counted as well. ]


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Thanks, Jeronimo. I know about the voting and I've added mine to the issues I care about. However I don't care about some of the issues because they seem pretty trivial to me, so there's no point in my voting on them. I'll just go along with what other people decide. -- ]

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== Editor experience invitation ==
Whats the deal? Why were my posts removed? What does "reverting product placement" mean? You say it was copyrighted material, but I just got done writing these additions (for Daniel Amos, the Swirling Eddies, Terry Scott Taylor and Lost Dogs) 30 minutes ago. You *won't* find them *anywhere* else, because I wrote them. 100 percent my own words. Stop screwing with my additions. Please. There are other musical artists listed, why can't my favorites be listed too? I was working on additions for other musical artists - should I just abandon my efforts because my favorite styles of music are not welcome here? - ]


Hi Derek Ross. :) Your name kinda rhymes with mine, which is cool. Anyways, I'm looking for people to interview ]. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. ] ] 00:04, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
Just being careful. I haven't a clue what style of music the bands are, so it's a bit difficult to decide whether I like it or not. My reason for doing what I did was that anonymous IP users who contribute gushing text on bands -- copyright or not -- look like they're part of a record company publicity machine rather than people who want to contribute unbiassed material to an encyclopedia. You've taken a step forward by registering a nickname. If you just make the text a bit less sycophantic, a bit more ], there will be no problem from me or anyone else. -- Derek Ross


:Done! -- ] &#124; ] 03:10, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
Derek, I believe the last versions were not copyrighted.
Some were missing a bit of NPOV, and I had never heard
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== Administrative permissions and inactivity reminder ==
Fair enough, AstroNomer. Maybe I'm just too suspicious, it read too much like advertising bumf to me. -- Derek Ross


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I understand that I suppose. However, I posted information on a dozen artists and bands yesterday (which I now know had some possibly copyrighted content problems). Just going through my favorites. Perhaps I have been "gushing" a bit too much on certain artists, but that was not my intention. I was just trying to give as much information as possible (well known artists that worked on some of the records, songs that had some degree of success, etc) as well as a "feel" for each artist's sound. I'll try to tone it down in the future. - ]


== Administrators' newsletter – February 2024 ==
Okay, in that case I apologise for being a bit quick off the mark -- Derek Ross


] from the past month (January 2024).
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* Following a ], the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
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== Scots Misplaced Pages ==
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Would you please come back to ? You were one of the original Wikimedians who got it created in 2005, in fact the ''only'' supporter who said that they were a native speaker. Many articles there were written by people who don't really speak Scots &mdash; the project really needs you! ] (]) 06:57, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

== Administrators' newsletter – March 2024 ==

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== Administrators' newsletter – April 2024 ==

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== Administrators' newsletter – May 2024 ==
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* Phase I of the ] has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including ] (3b) and ] (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as ] (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the ].

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* Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Misplaced Pages. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. ]

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== Administrators' newsletter – June 2024 ==

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* ] of the ] has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in ].

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* The ] feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. ]


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The sure sign of Armageddon: a generation that knows nothing of the '']'' -- ]
* The arbitration case '']'' has been closed.
* The Committee is ], including access to the ].


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Naah, it's just that Scotland is still in the pre-Twinkie stage of civilisation -- Derek
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== Administrators' newsletter – July 2024 ==
:Seems reasonable to me, Ed.


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Hey, we all do it from time to time. Sometimes the hand is quicker than the eye. When I do it, I like to think of it as a typo rather than a spelling error. -- Derek
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== Administrators' newsletter – September 2024 ==
:Authoritative source: http://www.bartleby.com/61/85/P0498500.html

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* Following a ], ] (the topic and interaction bans on ], respectively) were repealed.
* ] of the ] ("{{noping|Cinderella157}} German history topic ban") was ] for a period of six months.
* The arbitration case ] is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.

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* Editors can now enter into ], an alternative for informal '']'' arrangements, to have a ] reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
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Thanks for pointing that out, Ec. I assumed that they always spelt it using the -s- form, like license. If they always spell it practice, then it's not a mispelling, just a US variation, so I'll stop changing it. -- Derek
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== Administrators' newsletter – October 2024 ==

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* The arbitration case '']'' has been closed.
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Hmmm, looks like I was being over-zealous with humourous. Okay, since I'm British myself, I'll leave it alone. There are plenty others. -- Derek
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== Invitation to participate in a research ==
:Sorry about that, Dan. The process was:
#] uploads a wav file (mono, 11kHz,
#I use Advanced WMA workshop to convert it to a WMA file.
#I use the same utility to convert the WMA to an OGG file.
#I don't check it because the PC I'm using doesn't have a sound card.
#I upload it to Misplaced Pages
#I check the Wiki link on another PC with a soundcard.
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Can you help me to replace a "redirect"

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Simplon Hospice is redirecting readers to the article Simplon Pass. I developped a new Misplaced Pages article about Simplon Hospice here >> User:Hp.Baumeler/playground Simplon Hospice. Can you delete the redirection Simplon Hospice so I may create the new article Simplon Hospice under my name? Thank you for helping. Regards, Hp.
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Done. -- Derek Ross | Talk 15:24, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
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What a great job !!! Thank you so much for moving the page to the right place and thank you even more for upgrading significantly the Language! I appreciate! Great work! Kind regards, Hp. --Hp.Baumeler (talk) 02:40, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
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Glasgow page history, again

Hey Derek, you'll probably find this edit import I just did at the Glasgow article interesting. This edit of yours was previously the earliest one available (before my last history retrieval there), so it previously seemed like you created the page. Now the history shows that it was created by an American (from the IP address), tweaked by a Canadian (from the user page), and then you fixed it up with more local knowledge/wording (see the above diff) ... unless there are *still* edits missing, which I highly doubt! I especially notice the "River Clyde" change; that's very much UK/Ireland terminology, as you're probably well aware. You've doubtless noticed that even in Australia we'd say "Clyde River", like North American English. Graham87 14:59, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

Cheers, Graham. Good work! PaulDrye? There's a name I haven't seen for a while. ;) He arrived about a month before me and started (or contributed to) quite a few Scottish articles. As for Clyde River, there's actually one in Nova Scotia too, about an hour and a half from where I now live. And I'm quite happy about that. I tend to use the local terminology, whatever it might be. Although I still find it hard to pronounce Berwick, NS as Berr-wick rather than Berrick. Oh well! -- Derek Ross | Talk 00:47, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:59, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

Invitation to participate in a research

Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a survey of Wikipedians to better understand what draws administrators to contribute to Misplaced Pages, and what affects administrator retention. We will use this research to improve experiences for Wikipedians, and address common problems and needs. We have identified you as a good candidate for this research, and would greatly appreciate your participation in this anonymous survey.

You do not have to be an Administrator to participate.

The survey should take around 10-15 minutes to complete. You may read more about the study on its Meta page and view its privacy statement .

Please find our contact on the project Meta page if you have any questions or concerns.

Kind Regards,

WMF Research Team

BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 19:21, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).

Administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

removed Maxim

Oversighter changes

removed Maxim

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:20, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

Reminder to participate in Misplaced Pages research

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I recently invited you to take a survey about administration on Misplaced Pages. If you haven’t yet had a chance, there is still time to participate– we’d truly appreciate your feedback. The survey is anonymous and should take about 10-15 minutes to complete. You may read more about the study on its Meta page and view its privacy statement.

Take the survey here.

Kind Regards,

WMF Research Team

BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 00:17, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

ArbCom 2024 Elections voter message

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The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Misplaced Pages 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.

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2024).

Administrator changes

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Interface administrator changes

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Arbitration

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:19, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).

Administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

added
readded Worm That Turned
removed Ferret

Oversight changes

added
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Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:47, 5 January 2025 (UTC)