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Hi, I seem to have reached an impasse in editing the Low Carbohydrate Diet page Low-carbohydrate diet#Diabetes and I'm not sure how to proceed. Could you have a look at talk and let me know what the best options to resolve this are? Talk:Low-carbohydrate diet#Lifestyle Management: Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes 2019. A low-carb high fat dieter (talk) 17:30, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
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I apologise for pestering your ivote and I struck it and reworded it. I actually believe that you would make a great admin and I will support your RFA whenever you are nominated (hopefully soon). You are a inspiration to a lot of younger editors. JC7V (talk) 01:16, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
I’m sorry,user: Manderiko kept on reverting back the contents in SMU School of Law including advertisement and overly detailed tags from user:Drmies.
I’m not sure if user: Manderiko have any interest in that page since he seems to be overly involved in it and other Law and Law school related pages. Applepineapple (talk) 13:15, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
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Hi. I recently opened a request for dispute resolution. I have never been involved in one before and have a question about how it's suppose to work. When I opened the request, I entered a short description of the dispute, trying to be as neutral as possible. One of the involved editors has now responded with their own description of the case, in which they argue extensively for their position, and in the process, mischaracterize the situation extensively, IMO, and also launch attacks against me and other editors. I feel like I should respond to those mischaracterizations and attacks, but I a) don't want to do that it if would be counterproductive at this point, eg. by bloating the request before a volunteer has gotten involved, and b) want to engage in the appropriate place and way, and I don't know how that's typically done. So my question is, would it be appropriate to respond? And if so, when, where, and how would be the appropriate way to respond? Thanks for any tips you can give me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alweth (talk • contribs) 18:58, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello!
I wanted to take the time and ask why do you deem the full-width variable for the RuPaul's Drag Race judges table unnecessary?
Expecting for your reply, k_cms (talk) 11:32, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
Dear all. Recently, our community lost a dedicated user, Abelmoschus Esculentus (talk). Among their projects were a number of user scripts that they left behind. I (DannyS712) have copied the scripts, and have taken over maintaining them. You currently import one or more of Abelmoschus Esculentus' scripts, and I thought that you might want to import a maintained version. Links to each script are provided below.
If you have any questions, please reach out and talk to me. --DannyS712 (talk) 00:30, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
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For the frank and civil discussion at that AfD. While you and I disagree on the interpretation, it's always good to see the thought process for other editors' decisions. Keep up the good work. Onel5969 TT me 16:47, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nihlus, I've run into a problem which is new to me and would appreciate some help. The background is detailed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019_February_11#William_Henry_Newdigate cheers Paul venter (talk) 15:01, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
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I am a professor who is using Wiki Ed for the first time with my Modern Global History class. Last night, I was suddenly attacked by a Wiki editor who accused me of not being a professional and saying that my students did not know enough to be on Wikipedia. The editor would not give me specific incidents of my students' failures despite repeated requests by me to do so. Here is a copy of our discussion:
Hi, are you professional? Your supposed students are causing chaos! Do you even know what is going on?!? MPS1992 (talk) 23:46, 22 April 2019 (UTC) It would be much more helpful to have specific examples of what you are referring to. My students have been working very hard on their projects which are due this evening Sheddedl (talk) 00:02, 23 April 2019 (UTC) wow, no surprise there then. MPS1992 (talk)
I am not tempted to cite specific students of yours and their disruptive editing. I realize that they are doing the best that they can. But the "last minute" behavior is annoying and disruptive. Please make sure that this does not happen again. MPS1992 (talk) 00:09, 23 April 2019 (UTC) This is most certainly NOT last minute behavior. They have been working on this project with me looking over their shoulders once a week, every week for months. They know to use proper sources and have worked with the college librarian. I would need to know specifics of the problems that you are finding. Sheddedl (talk) 00:14, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
Please explain how this is not a last-minute edit, after already having been told that it was not appropriate, more than five hours earlier, in this edit. MPS1992 (talk) 00:20, 23 April 2019 (UTC) Incidentally, I don't want that student penalised for their Wikipedia edits -- but I did look at the edits of other students and I was concerned. I think students on this course are not yet suited to involvement with Wikipedia. That's just my opinion, with which you may disagree. MPS1992 (talk) 00:30, 23 April 2019 (UTC) I am not going to penalize my students. It would be very helpful to know your specific concerns rather than having you attack me. This is a learning process for me too because this is my first Wikipedia course, and I am having trouble seeing what you feel that my students are doing wrong. In the case of my young Spanish major working on Tupac Amaru II, she went to great lengths to find the information that she did. She translated it herself and then COMPLETELY REWROTE it, just like you would do for an English source. She has not plagiarized. We discussed her edits and your concerns today. There is nothing in the WikiEducation training pages saying that information from foreign language sources is forbidden. Sheddedl (talk) 00:48, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
I am sorry if I over-reacted. I will reply later about the Tupac Amaru II issue. To a very large extent, I think you have been misled about how useful Wikipedia is for students at the level you are teaching. MPS1992 (talk) 00:59, 23 April 2019 (UTC) (I am a volunteer, it is after 2am here right now, I have to get up for work in a few hours. MPS1992 (talk) 01:02, 23 April 2019 (UTC))
As you can see, the editor has been minimally apologetic, but is still very much on the attack. I have no idea how to handle this situation. I really don't want to open up any more discussions with the editor for fear that the editor is going to come back with more attacks. However, I also don't want all of my students' hard work deleted with no explanation. Do you have any suggestions? Sheddedl (talk) 14:00, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
Template:Rupaul's drag race progress table has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 15:52, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
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If you can find any other reliable sources that consistently distinguish "high safes" and "low safes" from regular "just plain safe safes", then I'd be more than happy to defer to them. Recaps don't necessarily do that, however, but usually just discuss the winner and the bottom without necessarily giving a detailed recording of whether the safe queens were high, low or middle — and in many of the seasons, the only reference used to cite the rankings in our articles at all is metasourcing them to the episode itself, which also isn't a helpful source in the event of a dispute. So if somebody tries to alter the rankings in a DR results table, the only options I have are to either check the Drag Race Wiki tables, or to manually Google all the different episode recaps in the hopes that maybe one of them might have been more specific for that one queen than they usually are otherwise, or to rewatch the entire episode myself.
Again, if you've got a reliable source that consistently records the "highs" and "lows" for every episode in every season, so that we can always go to that specific site and verify a high/low/safe ranking in the snap of a finger without having to manually read through 98 different episode recaps or illegally download the episode off BitTorrent to watch it myself, then by all means bring it on. But user-generated or not, Drag Race Wiki is the only resource I'm aware of that records "high" or "low" placements at all. The only other alternative would be for us to entirely drop high/low tabs, and just stick with "safe" across the board for anybody but the winner and the bottoms — but I really don't envision a consensus for that emerging anytime soon. If there's a better source than Drag Race Wiki for this purpose, I'd be happy to defer to it if I knew what and where it was. Bearcat (talk) 18:15, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Nihlus. I'm DannyS712 (talk), and I wanted to send you a warning about a change I am making to a script, User:DannyS712/DiscussionCloser, that you currently import. If you are an administrator, feel free to ignore this message. For non-administrators, you should be advised that I am removing the script's automatic addition of {{nac}} to your closes. If you have relied on this to mark such closes for you, please remember to add {{nac}} yourself. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk)
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I'm not sure why you removed the entire sentence at 2019 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles. Removing the entire topic of the article is against wikipedia guidelines. It looks like the term fits nicely so can easily be bolded, but it it could also be shortened to just "In the 2019 Wimbledon Championships..." and not be bolded. Either way is fine. What is not fine is to remove it completely as was discussed by administrators recently at Tennis Project talk. Thanks. Fyunck(click) (talk) 22:08, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
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I'd like to inform you of my request for edit filter helper rights, currently at Wikipedia:Edit filter noticeboard#EFH for DannyS712 (2). I'm leaving this note because you participated in the previous discussion at Wikipedia:Edit filter noticeboard/Archive 5#EFH right for DannyS712, and per policy I am supposed to notify you of this new request. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 05:25, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
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Nihlus, I wanted to thank you for the time you took in evaluating my candidacy for adminship and for the thought you put into your oppose and your response to Bish. I hope that my actions as an admin will lean towards the "great admin" side of things far more than the "bad admin". Should you have feedback going forward please know I welcome it. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 22:25, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
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focus[ing] on how harassment and private complaints should be handled in the future, there is currently a global community consultation on partial and temporary office actions in response to the incident. It will be open until October 30th.
Hi Nihlus, there's a dispute at ANI between two admins that I and some others have been trying to mediate, but I'm a little busy with an edit-a-thon today. I saw that you're coordinator at DRN and thought you might be able to lend an experienced hand. The discussion can be found at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Talking it out if you're able to help. Thanks! Wug·a·po·des 16:39, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
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Hello,
Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.
I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!
From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.
If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.
Thank you!
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Since the discussion was closed, just so I understand this right: I can perform several reverts within 24 hours of content that has been added or modified before my first revert during that 24 hour period. Right? BeŻet (talk) 20:47, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
There has been no roll call since November 2017 so with that said, it is time to clean up the volunteer list. Please go to the Roll Call list and follow the instructions. If no response is received by May 30, 2020, it will be assumed that you no longer wish to participate and you will be removed as a DRN volunteer. Thank you for your attention to this and for helping Wikipedians in their dispute processes.
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Well I thought that was a possibility at first, so (because I didn't want to look stupid) I checked first and didn't find your name. What would have helped more for me not to look stupid would have been to look for Nihlus, not Nilhus.... --Floquenbeam (talk) 03:24, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
I posted the Rfc. You can find it here. I narrowed it to two options because options A and C were basically the same and could split the vote. If there are any changes you'd like me to make, please let me know. Smith0124 (talk) 00:33, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
Darryl isn’t respecting your decision to keep things how they were initially until the results of the Rfc. He’s continued to accuse me of awful things and he’s threatening to revert back to his/her edits. I need you to calm him/her down and tell him/her to respect your decision. I’m so sick of arguing with this guy it’s all giving me a headache can you please talk some sense into Darryl. Thanks. Smith0124 (talk) 04:15, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for your help. I agree. Honestly it feels admins can block impulsively and I was scared of that. I’ve been trying to say we should just part ways but Darryl has persisted. Honestly I have a headache and just want all this to stop. You’ve been so nice and I really appreciate it. Smith0124 (talk) 05:59, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
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