User talk:Eptalon/Archive 16

Quick deletion of Template:Botanist

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Was kept as I added it to a couple pages. -DJSasso (talk) 02:19, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Lists

I saw you created User:Eptalon/List of communes in Allier in your userspace. I think this is a good idea, and I will create a list of my own when I have time (in a few days, as I am currently writing an essay). It would be a good idea, even if the proposal to redirect the stubs does not pass, to create these lists where they do not already exist, and format the ones that do exist. Good luck. Yottie ^=talk= 00:59, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) There's already an article for these at Communes of the Allier department. --Auntof6 (talk) 02:20, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

The problem with that list is that it does not contain the info we are likely interested in. How many people are interested in the postcode, or the number the French government assigned to the commune?--Eptalon (talk) 10:09, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

My understanding was we would turn that existing page into the kind of page Eptalon is making (maybe adding a couple more columns). Yottie ^=talk= 11:03, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Also, Eptalon, regarding your last comment on ST, maybe we could focus on getting the Préféctures and Sous-Préfecture of each département expanded, as they are most likely to be looked up. The other places are usually quite secondary, and a temporary redirect until someone can write more than 'X is a place in X' will be more informative. Yottie ^=talk= 11:07, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

True, I just pointed it out so we wouldn't end up with a duplicate article.--Auntof6 (talk) 15:34, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

AFAIK, there are about 100 depratments in France, each has a Préfecture, and 2 Sous-Préfectures; this mean there are about 300 articles to cover the whole of France.--Eptalon (talk) 15:52, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

More reasonable, at least as a temporary measure, than 36,000. Yottie ^=talk= 21:55, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Corollary interest

(talk page stalker) My interest in the subject of Communes of the Allier department in France is tangential. In this thread, I wonder if it might be constructive to highlight the under-appreciated value of multiple points-of-view, including an indirect perspective? Is it not a significant factor in the process of wiki-growth?

This short thread is an uncontroversial example of a core wiki function which was distorted and eclipsed by diffs at Wikipedia:Simple talk#Minimal city stub.

As we all know, Minimal city stub is now archived; and its practical results were inconclusive. We have moved on ..., but the development of articles about villages, towns and cities remains an on-going topic.

This diff is part of a process of re-focusing: You have noticed that there have been mainly two of us working to expand the list of articles in Category:Municipalities in Japan -- compare User talk:Osiris#Municipalities of Japan. As we continue to work together to develop a better context for new articles Is it not proper for us to give close attention to corollary discussions of articles about villages, towns and cities in other countries?

Stepping back, can we not agree to recognize that some of the issues and implied strategies for further development of in articles about French communes are not mirrored in Category:Cities in Japan, including City designated by government ordinance, Core cities of Japan and Special cities of Japan?

In other words, the further development of this thread and ones like it may help informs the strategies and perspective of a slow-growing group of contributors to articles about places outside of France. Japanese municipalities Let's work together. --Jinki (talk) 15:10, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

@Eptalon -- When I first quickly scanned Communes of the Allier department, its importance was striking in ways that you and others many not have perceived.

For example, the table format suggested a way to simplify recurring issues presented by en:Category:Populated places in Japan by prefecture.

I didn't know what to make of the table format -- especially the use of acronyms like these?

• (CAML) fr:Communauté d'agglomération de Montluçon, created in 2001.
• (CAMO) fr:Communauté d'agglomération de Moulins, created in 2001.
• (CAV) fr:Communauté d'agglomération de Vichy, created in 2001.

In part, this thread has something to do with the diff which started the ball rolling here. In part, the thread is about an article development strategy, isn't it?

The strategic program of this thread suggested a plausible resolution to a set of problems which are not on your radar screen.

Was I wrong to wonder if the strategies implied by the the array of articles in en:Category:Communes in France by department might be modeled? I wondered if the development pattern would be good to follow in the process of "growing" articles about Category:Villages in Japan, Category:Towns in Japan and Category:Cities in Japan?

My guess is that it is unlikely you will know much about the post-war history of Japanese municipalities. You probably don't know about Japan's Local Autonomy Law (地方自治法 Chihō-jichi-hō) of 1947? However, if you look at a random selection of articles in en:Category:Populated places in Japan by prefecture, you will discover that the slow process of agglomeration is explained quite often. In writing about the history of Japanese villages, towns and cities, the wiki-community has tended to highlight an oft-repeated story of agglomeration.

In other words, this franophile thread caused me to begin to wonder about wiki-development strategies implied by the array of articles which are listed in en:Category:Agglomeration communities in France? Isn't this the kind of thing our wiki-community is designed to encourage?

This begs a question: Why is it necessary to explain this now in such detail? Answer: Because investigation or examination of any and all subjects related to this thread was not possible.were thwarted, quashed, side-tracked, etc. The filibuster which blocked this discussion has consequences in the array of unanswered questions which have been distorted and eclipsed.

There are issues and questions which can be helped by the tactic of further discussion. Let's work together. --Jinki (talk) 16:14, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Culture of bullying

I have responded to some of your off-wiki comments here. If you do not understand, I am ready and willing to try to explain on-wiki in different words. --Ansei (talk) 14:12, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Title

Duodecahedron? Did you mean Dodecahedron? Macdonald-ross (talk) 17:22, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I did... -Eptalon (talk) 17:24, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Quick deletion of Category:Bridges in Sweden

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Quick deletion of Category:Bridges in Switzerland

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Jinki

The username "Ansei" is now semi-retired. I formally set it aside in a manner which is consistent with Wikipedia policies.

This username is derived from Jinki (神亀), which was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, lit. "year name") during the years from 724 through 729. The era name change was part of a pacification or peace-making ritual. The nengō Jinki means "sacred tortoise".--Jinki (talk) 20:58, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Catalyst for consensus-building

On the wall at the U-Bahn (subway) Station Gesundbrunnen (Berlin) → German translation of George Santayana's words: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Eptalon -- At Wikipedia:Simple talk#Racepacket's unblock request, I want to join your opinion here. I want to work with you in creating a consensus made up of the two of us.

Also, I want to learn from this small opportunity to work with you.

Regardless of what happens to Racepacket over the course of the coming year, I want to learn how to be an a more active catalyst for consensus-building. Will you please help me try to figure this out in 2013?

What can we do together? --Jinki (talk) 19:29, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Please notice that I posted a diff here which links your words here. --Jinki (talk) 16:30, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Pope Francis

Hello. The real name of the Pope is Francis, and not Francis I. The Holy See --Jsl2lyon (talk) 22:59, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Four color theorem

Hey Ept. How are you doing? When you have a chance, could you please follow up on Template talk:Did you know#Four color theorem. The year 1976 in which the theorem was proven is not mentioned in the text, that I can see. And is there a page number for the source? I can only see a snippet view on Google Books, and I think it's page 209. But do you have access to the book to confirm? Osiris (talk) 05:53, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

I am not a mathematician, but I think the original publication of the proof was Appel/Haken (1977) 'Every Planar Map is Four Colorable', parts 1 and 2; I have linked the freely avaiable endmatter of their publication of 1989; I have also linked a PDF of the full publication of Robertson/Sanders/Seymour (1997): In their abstract on the first page, they cite the year 1976....--Eptalon (talk) 08:27, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

I have a decently equipped library nearby, and if necessary, a larger (probably one of the largest where I live) within 2 hrs travelling distance. If you give me the reference, I could probably get access to the book... --Eptalon (talk) 08:30, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! That's excellent. I've added the year to the article text, with an in-line to Robertson. The source for the New York Times fact is Wilson, "Four Colors Suffice" (2002), but I'm almost certain that the relevant page is 209, so I added that aswell. I'll add the hook to the queue now. Osiris (talk) 10:12, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Forced user renames coming soon for SUL

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Semi-Protect

Why don't you semi-protect Backup. This page was vandalized several times and more than 3 users are after it. And almost everyday it's vandalizing. Answer please?--Pratyya ^(Hello!) 14:19, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

All I can see so far is that the vandalism is coming from 2 users, one ip, and one named users. There is no reason to semi-protect the page, if blocking the users has the same effect... --Eptalon (talk) 14:27, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Duplicate articles

You must be getting old, Eptalon ;P You've already written an article on Psilocybin mushrooms under the name Psychedelic mushroom. Osiris (talk) 04:49, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

I was tired yesterday, thanks for noticing. I deleted and redirected one article to the other. Since psychedelic mushroom is more complete, it is the one to stay... --Eptalon (talk) 08:11, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Shabbat

Hi, Eptalon. Many thanks for all your help on this.

I adjusted the Biblical sources per our conversation at Talk:Shabbat, and nobody has added any further comments or edits since then. So I think this is ready for publication. I could just cut-and-paste, of course, but then we'd be missing a bunch of editing history we might want to capture. So I'd appreciate your help. Please keep the following in mind:

1. What is currently at Shabbat was originally created in the same sandbox (User:StevenJ81/Sandbox). I don't think that there were any material edits at Shabbat between the time it was created and now that have not also been incorporated in the sandbox version; the only one I hadn't changed was your recent one about "sunset," and I just did that a few minutes ago. So, again, I think we can consider the current version as obsolete, in favor of the sandbox version. How one might handle the couple of edits that happened at Shabbat with respect to history I don't know.
2. From the sandbox, everything that appears within the "Level 1 Header" Shabbat should be moved.
3. I'm not sure I even need anything else that's currently in the sandbox. If I build a new sandbox, I can repopulate it with the "User Sandbox" and "בס"ד" templates easily enough. And the "Sabbath (disambiguation)" stuff is just a copy and paste from that dab page; I haven't done anything with it, and can easily start over there.
4. The only other two bits of history that are potentially "in the way" are (a) related to some playing with that "User sandbox" template up top, and (b) related to my creation of the "Simple Barnstar." Frankly, I don't care if those pieces of history are retained in the history of a revised Shabbat page. But if it's a problem I'll leave the best solution of that to you.

Once this is moved and published, I think we could nominate it for GA status. The only problem with respect to GA is the redlinks, and the problem there is that at least some of those (e.g., Jewish holidays, Jewish prayer services) really require non-trivial work themselves. As much as there might be just a touch of ego in my wanting GA for this, I'm truly hoping that by getting GA I can use that to attract some Judaism editors from enwiki to get involved here. Judaism is really poorly covered here, and I want to change that, but it's hard for me to do it alone. So I'd appreciate your thoughts on this aspect.

Many thanks, and have a good weekend. StevenJ81 (talk) 18:55, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Hello, and thanks for the work you did, it is great to have proactive editors around:

• I moved the article in your sandbox to mainspace, and removed the bits that looked like something else.
• Our disambiguation page already contains your suggestion
• The rest looks like testing, basically what a sandbox is for.

In short if you want to play around with another article: I deleted your sandbbox in the process, you can start over... --Eptalon (talk) 14:47, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		This is given for all your kind, detailed help with my first major page here, Shabbat. Thank you very much! StevenJ81 (talk) 16:11, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Legitimacy of Edits

Hello Eptalon, We are a metal magazine that regularly conducts interviews with many metal bands and reviews albums submitted by labels. Without promoting our magazine, we have added information on some bands (As gathered form press releases or interviews) and links to the reviews of albums. We have not, and this is important, said anything that promotes our site, our magazine or our staff (we haven't even created a page for our magazine, as we don't deem it necessary) but only provide links to our magazine's reviews and interviews. It should be noted that Metal Blast is absolutely legitimate, as can be seen from both the interviews and the fact that the labels themselves send the pre-releases of the albums, demonstrating our objectivity and legitimacy. Right now we are victims of some deletions and edits by another user, arguing that our account violates the conflicts of interests rules; a review of these rules, however, shows that this is not the case, as it complies with both http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CONFLICT#Citing_yourself and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SELFPUB#Self-published_and_questionable_sources_as_sources_on_themselves I would really appreciate if you could clarify this point; we are very happy being able to contribute our little grain of sand to Wikipedia, and wish to continue to be able to do so. Thank you for your help! :) MetalBlastZine (talk) 20:59, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Deletion Based on "Fake" or "Hoax"

Hi. The article you deleted Les Gulden is not a fake or a hoax. The awards he has won as a writer are documented. The change of laws in Illinois are documented. The articles written as a scientist and blackjack writer are documented. How can it be a "fake" or a "hoax"? Neversplittens (talk) 21:06, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi. I see you put the article back which is good because it’s not a hoax. I found out about this guy from a friend in Las Vegas. It seems that Mr. Golden began a national movement to save a dog who attacked the family child and now the supreme court in Nevada has scheduled oral argument and the story was covered in the American Bar Assn journal website because of the implications for animal laws. So I googled the name and found a couple wiki articles about him. What I put on simple.wikipedia was borrowed from "mywikibiz" but when I loaded it onto simple.wikipedia I didn’t know how to make that clear according to the commons procedure. So yes it was taken from another wiki but I didn't know hbow to say it was shared. Can you add that for me or tell me how to do it? Thanks. Also, there are a lot of photos on the mywikibiz page but I don’t know how to put them on the simple.wp page. How do I do that? Do I just refer to the picturs the same way as it was done on mywikibiz? As far as notability, the article is among the top 10 or 15 in hits on mywikibiz so somebody thinks he’s notable!! I checked notability requirements and as a writer having won awards makes him notable and as a politician laws have been changed because of his activism in Illinois and Texas. I am going to research the Las Vegas dog scenario because obviously if his leadership in animal welfare went to the supreme court and is important enough to lead the full court to hear oral argument it seems that activity may be notable too. It was covered internationally and I found an article in the NY papers, Chicago papers, LA papers, and of course all over Nevada t.v. and newspapers. Thanks! Neversplittens (talk) 21:47, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Looks like the best is to go through a discussed deletion process; this will take a week, and give everyone the opportunity to comment. The article will probably need a lot of "cleanup" work, if kept. Quick deletion cannot be used if the deletion is contested. --Eptalon (talk) 21:51, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your help! --Leopardfoot (talk) 23:07, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

No consensus

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24.218.110.195 (talk) 12:23 2 June 2013 (UTC) 8:23am 06/2/2013 EDT.

There has not been a consensus at Wikipedia:Simple talk#Official colors for Historical geology/Geological period articles/templates. You need to post a reply over there. 24.218.110.195 (talk) 22:48, 15 June 2013 (UTC) 6:48pm 06/15/2013 EDT.

Thanks!

Thanks for deleting the page! I really needed that page deleted, I accidently created the page. I tried to make a template, but I was vain. --Aaqib Hola! 23:40, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

Cookies!

Somebody has given you some cookies! Now enjoy them!

--Aaqib Hola! 19:46, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Kiddush

Hi, Eptalon. As we did with Shabbat last month, would you please replace the stub at Kiddush with this page: User:StevenJ81/Sandbox/Kiddush? You don't need to leave a redirect behind. Many thanks. StevenJ81 (talk) 20:52, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks very much! StevenJ81 (talk) 18:39, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Main nav geological period template (read once you log back in)

Until we reach consensus on Wikipedia:Simple talk#Geological navigational boxes, let me remove the table timeline and add the main nav template on the page "Hadean". This is a speedly edit/move I will make. Do not call this move(edit/change) as part as edit warring. 24.218.110.195 (talk) 15:36 22 June 2013 (UTC) 11:36am 06/22/2013 EDT.

My userpage

Could you please look at my user-page. For my articles, I put the # beside the words, but a number does not come out. Please tell me how to fix it, thanks! Lucky102 (talk) 15:53, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

RfD nomination of Hymn of the Soviet Union (other language versions)

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Robert Cook, Jr.

Sorry, I thought a QD would streamline things. I've seen that happen before when an rfd was in progress. --Auntof6 (talk) 23:31, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Birth defect

Birth defect and Congenital defect are fine-looking articles, but they're both referring to the same thing. I've merged more than a dozen of these duplicate pages in the last few weeks. Most of them were pretty easy, but this is one with which I could use some help. You wrote the first one, and Mac wrote the second one, so I'm posting to both your talk pages. Any chance you've got some spare time on your hands? Osiris (talk) 22:30, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

Ep, he's right. I'm going to merge my Congenital into your Birth defect, since 'birth defect' is obviously the simpler term. You might like to read through in a day or two. I think the content is not in doubt, just needs fitting together. Macdonald-ross (talk) 13:21, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Shabbat/Jewish holidays template

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StevenJ81 (talk)

Hi, Eptalon. We can close the PGA next Sunday or Monday, I think. I'd appreciate your opinion before then on my proposal to condense the Jewish holidays template. See at Template talk:Jewish and Israeli holidays (moved from my sandbox 22 July 2013). StevenJ81 (talk) 17:01, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Looks good, I think we can live with that solution, for now. The idea is however, if in 6-8 months, the number of red (or grey) links has not gone down, we should look at demoting the article, if it is promoted --Eptalon (talk) 21:56, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

OK. I have replaced the template. I will eliminate the red links as described in "Step 2" in the next day or two. StevenJ81 (talk) 04:09, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Have turned about half of the red links in the template blue—all the ones described in "Step 2." Will get to the others over time, but need to turn my attention to real life for a bit.

If you feel you can support promotion now, I'd appreciate your saying so at the PGA page. Thanks. StevenJ81 (talk) 16:33, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Update 16:54, 19 July 2013 (UTC). Just to let you know, I am working right now trying to get en:Shemini Atzeret to GA status. It's an article I've been improving on and off for a long while, and I'm now in the last push. (OK, I'm biased: it's my birthday on the Hebrew calendar.) When I have finished that, I will look to simplify it for simplewiki, which will turn two red links in the template (Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah) blue. I should get to some of the other red links after the Jewish holidays in September.

Bluegoblin7 (talk · contribs) is going to propose that making sure all red links in navboxes go blue may not be necessary for GA or VGA in the future. I intend to fulfill our agreement in this case, however. I just wanted you to know why it is not happening "immediately". StevenJ81 (talk) 16:54, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

... for this. I just saw the QD request, and I was just about to clean it up after creating something, but you went ahead and did it. Thanks for always being the responsible and fine editor I've always known you as, Eptalon. Little things give me great hope and inspiration for this wiki. — RyanCross (talk) 10:54, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

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Sample

Hey Ept. Am I right in concluding that your new article Sample is about roughly the same thing as Sample (statistics)? Would it be a good idea to merge the two? Osiris (talk) 07:39, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

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Wikikids

Hi Eptalon,

Following our IRC discussion, here are the links of the project : m:Wikikids, m:Category:Wikikids, and the message in which I bring along some arguments that are quite closed to the ones you gave. There is also a special page on the SEWP/Wikikids question: m:Wikikids/Relation to Simple English Wikipedia, though not very developed. I hope it will interest you ! Astirmays (talk) 16:09, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

RfD nomination of Ancestor

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First Jewish–Roman War

Hey Eptalon. You created First Jewish–Roman War today, but you already created First Jewish-Roman War in March 2011. I've proposed that they should be merged. Del_♉sion23 (talk) 23:08, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Special Barnstar
		For this! Thank you. Yottie =talk= 11:00, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Pike

Is there a particular reason this is needed? Usually I haven't seen the need for this kind of hat note on pages whose titles are qualified, such as this one is with "(weapon)". Unless, of course, there's a new thing where people are using fish as weapons (a Monty Python thing, maybe?)! If we do need it, do you mind if I change it to one of the hat note templates such as {{distinguish}} or {{about}}? I've been trying to use templates for all hat notes as much as possible. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 16:44, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

I just added the x-ref in both articles, to tell people that there is likely a fish with the same name. We can also create a disambiguation page and link to it, if you like. And no, I don't mind if you change the way the cross-reference is made. --Eptalon (talk) 17:27, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

24.19.171.138

Can we do something about this user? They obviously aren't going to stop vandalizing anytime soon, returning to Boohbah directly after their blocks are lifted. I'm getting sick of reverting their stuff. Thesixthstaff (talk) 18:36, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Evolution

Hi!

Semiprotect Evolution article and block 188.67.231.221 user, please.

Cheers, --Alan ^(talk) 14:26, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Done by M7 and Barras. --Alan ^(talk) 14:30, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

RfD nomination of Category:File formats

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Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

please help translate this message into the local language

	The Cure Award
	In 2013 you were one of the top 300 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you so much for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date medical information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do!

We are wondering about the educational background of our top medical editors. Would you please complete a quick 5-question survey? (please only fill this out if you received the award)

Thanks again :) --Ocaasi, Doc James and the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation

Thank you in advanced ..

i have noticed you were the first who corrected http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarafa_Baghajati ...

I would like if you can help me please in the following ...

1-how can i move this page from simple.wiki to en.wikipedia sicne its sourced now ?

2-all red words has a wikipedia page ...but for some reason it didn't show it even i put the name between [ [ ] ]

3-I still have more sourced information to add but i just need to make sure first it's good and up to the standard for wikipedia

thank you and looking fwd to hear from u

Vikidia

Hi Eptalon,

Since we import some articles from SEWP to en.vikidia, you already have quite a few "edits" there ! ;-) Thanks ! Astirmays (talk) 18:13, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

An important message about renaming users

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Why is this happening? As currently stated at the global rename policy, a global account is a name linked to a single user across all Wikimedia wikis, with local accounts unified into a global collection. Previously, the only way to rename a unified user was to individually rename every local account. This was an extremely difficult and time-consuming task, both for stewards and for the users who had to initiate discussions with local bureaucrats (who perform local renames to date) on every wiki with available bureaucrats. The process took a very long time, since it's difficult to coordinate crosswiki renames among the projects and bureaucrats involved in individual projects.

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Your help is greatly needed during this process and going forward in the future if, as a bureaucrat, renaming users is something that you do or have an interest in participating in. The Wikimedia Stewards have set up, and are in charge of, a new community usergroup on Meta in order to share knowledge and work together on renaming accounts globally, called Global renamers. Stewards are in the process of creating documentation to help global renamers to get used to and learn more about global accounts and tools and Meta in general as well as the application format. As transparency is a valuable thing in our movement, the Stewards would like to have at least a brief public application period. If you are an experienced renamer as a local bureaucrat, the process of becoming a part of this group could take as little as 24 hours to complete. You, as a bureaucrat, should be able to apply for the global renamer right on Meta by the requests for global permissions page on 1 September, a week from now.

In the meantime please update your local page where users request renames to reflect this move to global renaming, and if there is a rename request and the user has edited more than one wiki with the name, please send them to the request page for a global rename.

Stewards greatly appreciate the trust local communities have in you and want to make this transition as easy as possible so that the two groups can start working together to ensure everyone has a unique login identity across Wikimedia projects. Completing this project will allow for long-desired universal tools like a global watchlist, global notifications and many, many more features to make work easier.

If you have any questions, comments or concerns about the SUL finalisation, read over the Help:Unified login page on Meta and leave a note on the talk page there, or on the talk page for global renamers. You can also contact me on my talk page on meta if you would like. I'm working as a bridge between Wikimedia Foundation Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Stewards, and you to assure that SUL finalisation goes as smoothly as possible; this is a community-driven process and I encourage you to work with the Stewards for our communities.

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Service animals and working dogs

Hey, Eptalon, I changed some of what you did with these categories. Service animals are a specific subset of working animals, so I added the service animal category back to the articles. I also took the service animal category off of the working dog category, because not everything there is a service animal. The concept of service animals fits under working animals, but I didn't add the working dogs cat to the service animal cat because "service animals" covers animals other than dogs (although we only have dog articles there right now). Let me know if you have any questions about this. --Auntof6 (talk) 20:35, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

I think we could discuss if we need both categories; In what way is a police dog (trained by police to do various things), or a dog specialized in search and rescue different from say a dog that is trained to help a blind person?--Eptalon (talk) 13:53, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

The difference is that "service animal" means an animal that helps a disabled person. I see the similarities, but there are also differences in the kinds of things they do, in their general purpose (providing personal assistance), and in their place in society. Looking at that enwiki article, I see that enwiki has service animals under the broader category of "assistance animals". We could change our service animal category to that: it's probably a better description of the mix of articles currently there. --Auntof6 (talk) 17:23, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Quick deletion of Pinax

The page you wrote, Pinax, has been selected for quick deletion. If you think this page should be kept, please add {{wait}} below the line {{QD}} and say why on the talk page. If the page is already gone, but you think this was an error, you can ask for it to be undeleted. You can find more information about the reason here. Amanda Call Me 14:21, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

Who is tyche sibling

Hey, Ep, I deleted this page. For future reference, it's only when a QD is declined by an admin, not contested, that it has to go to RfD. Adding a {{wait}} template means contesting a QD, not declining it. An admin (such as you!) could very likely have deleted the page even with the wait template because, as you said, it was ill-named. I'm kind of curious about why you didn't delete it yourself! --Auntof6 (talk) 22:10, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

I hadn't looked into the overlap, in detail; so I was hoping that the info would be transferred within the week. I have now transferred it (from the deleted article). --Eptalon (talk) 22:21, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Delete

Hey Eptalon, Could you please remove and delete the "Dear Amanda" section on my talk page. I don't want people getting worried when they go to my talk page.Amanda Call Me 15:07, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

Regression toward the mean

Hi Eptalon, We apparently bumped heads; both editing the same stub at the same time. I was patrolling the article, editing and adding source citations. I see you are in the process of copying and simplifying the article from enwiki. I'll let you go ahead and finish. Thanks Rus793 (talk) 21:00, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

Category:Early Christian saints

Hi, Eptalon. I wanted to put some text on this category you created saying what time frame was intended by "early". Can you tell me what time frame that would be, or maybe add something to the category yourself? Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 21:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

I have no exact dates, but lets say the time period includes the time up to the 8th century AD.--Eptalon (talk) 19:46, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Cane Corso

Thankyou for successfuly putting the pic of the dog in there. I have been trying and trying with no luck!!! MySweetMelissa (talk) 15:29, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

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Subsidiary alliance

Hi, Ep. Were you going to simplify this any more? Everything but the first two paragraphs is still a direct cooy from enwiki. --Auntof6 (talk) 18:42, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

In short: yes, I am done with my edits, bur as pointed out on your tp, this is not my subject of expertise, so if you know better, please feel free to extend/correct what I have written. And yes, I am aware that some of it comes form EnWP. --Eptalon (talk) 19:51, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Bible

Your edit crossed with one of mine, so I'm going to redo mine. I will then try to replace any of yours which get temporarily changed. Macdonald-ross (talk) 07:25, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

Archimedean solids

Please feel free to improve this page. It's all Greek to me.... Macdonald-ross (talk) 11:22, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

RfD nomination of False memory

An editor has requested deletion of False memory, an article you created. We appreciate your changes, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article meets Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not").

Please comment on the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2015/False memory and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

You may also change the article during the discussion to address the nominator's concerns. But you should not remove the requests for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you very much. Hydriz (talk) 13:31, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

could you help me

I know English is not your primary language. However, I need more help identifying the complex words and long sentences in Anne Braden. Could you please reply at User talk:September 1988/Anne Braden? Angela Maureen (talk) 04:16, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Hey Eptalon, could you help me on identifying the other complex words in Anne Braden? I've taken care several areas, now I need help looking for more. Angela Maureen (talk) 01:18, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

Es Brenebon

I saw that you linked this in Wikidata to "Manado cuisine". I unlinked it because that does not match. Interwiki links in Wikidata should be made only where the topics match exactly. Some pages just won't have a match. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 22:08, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

That was the closest match I could find. If the article survives RFD, we can look where we hook it up to. --Eptalon (talk) 22:10, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

If the match isn't exact, we don't connect it at all. If other Wikipedias don't have an article on that specific drink, then no connection is made or needed. Please don't force connections. --Auntof6 (talk) 22:40, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

Reason for deletion

Hey why did you delete this page.--2.180.63.21 (talk) 18:02, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

Originally I deleted it, because it is an album of an artist which is a red-link here. ("Does not claim notability"). Since you contested it, I have restored it. Can you fix at least the red link of the singer? - Also, if you intend to stay, creating an account would be helpful... --Eptalon (talk) 18:08, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

See m:Talk:Title_blacklist#Javad_Ramezani. --Stryn (talk) 18:15, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

Ep, I didn't see this discussion before I re-deleted the page, sorry. However, in view of the above, it looks like it should stay deleted anyway. Also, please note that not having a page for the artist is not a reason to delete an album article. --Auntof6 (talk) 21:04, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

Oskar Heinroth

Could you check the personal information in this page against the German version? [1] I say he married twice, but the French and English versions don't mention this. I think I have it right, but my German is none too good... Cheers, Mac. Macdonald-ross (talk) 07:35, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

He was married with Magdalena Wiebe (1904-1932, her death) and with Katharina Berger (1933-1945,his death at age 74; Berger died 1989). So, yes, he was married twice.--Eptalon (talk) 22:39, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

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Hi!

I'm hoping you can point me in the right direction. I have been working on some edits to a page, but another user is reverting the edits in a manner which i believe to be indicative of profound institutional racism. I made comments on the talk page to this effect, but the page was reverted anyway. I do not feel i have the technical expertise to effectively combat this, but it disappoints me to see this type of activity on Wikipedia, and I would like to pursue this in the most appropriate way possible. Can you advise me on what I should do?

Thank you so much! Evanclifthorne (talk) 17:30, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Hello there. Edit warring (reverting other people's edits) is generally not acceptable behaviour. If it has occurred three times or more, it will generally lead to a block of the people involved (no matter what it was they were edit warring over). Looking at your edits here (under this username), the setting likely concern another wikipedia. As to "racism": What I can point to is that words change in meaning over time (Mark Twain using the word "Nigger" was perfectly fine, as it was not racist at that time, a similar case can be made for "gay" which has taken on it current meaning ("homosexual") in the last 20-30 years). Notwithstanding, I think you have several options to resolve the problem.

• Calm down. Let the issue rest, This about your edits, and re-try in a while (at least a few days from now).
• Use the article's talk page to talk about the problematic edits. Ask the editor in questions for the reasons for reverting you.
• Some Wikipedias have certain procedures for conflict resolution; If there is no such procedure (as is the case for SEWP), try talking to a senior editor (likely an admin or bureaucrat), and ask them to mediate between you two.

Please also note that I only edit Simple English Wikipedia; my influence at other language wikipdias is very small.

I hope that this answer was helpful; all the best. --Eptalon (talk) 19:34, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

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Wizard of Oz block

Hi Eptalon...since it's a known sock, and because it's merely making disruptive pages (as were the other accounts from a couple of days ago), why did the account get a 1 week block rather than an indef block? Thanks! Only (talk) 21:17, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Some of the accounts are locked (that is: they cannot edit Eikipedia at all). At the moment, this looks like merely disruptive, but pretty harmless otherwise. Personally, I believe in the good in people, so I wanted to give this editor a chance to reform, so the block ends before Christmas. If I block for months, I doubt the editor will show any sign of change, or remember the reason for the block. Besides: When the editor comes back in a week, and is still disruptive, you can increase the block time, as usual. --Eptalon (talk) 21:22, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Uh I think it is too late This account has been globally banned/locked.--Grind24 (talk) 21:37, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Oops

You closed Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2015/سلام‌ رساندن‌ which was fine, but there is a broken "subst" template in the closed article. I don't know if it matters, but it says {{subst:archive bottom} (missing the final bracket). Just thought you'd want to know. Etamni | ✉ | ✓  14:44, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Fixed. :) --Auntof6 (talk) 17:51, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Reply

Thanks for that Ept! :) Sorry I didn't reply, I hadn't set my stalk words and got distracted with editing. I'll catch you next time. Osiris (talk) 15:54, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

Those two football squad template deletions

Hi, Eptalon. Do you mind if I restore the West Ham United template so it can be deleted with the "correct" RFD link in the edit summary? Since it was part of a group deletion request, the summary generated by the delete process doesn't work. --Auntof6 (talk) 08:41, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

No, I don't. Go ahaead, restore, replace the correct deletion link, and re-delete if you think that is useful.--Eptalon (talk) 08:44, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Cool, thanks. It's done. Maybe it's just me, but sometimes I do look at delete history to find why something was deleted. --Auntof6 (talk) 08:50, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

The script that runs which places the template is not too bright: It should probably ask,where to link to, proposing the current RFD, but also letting you choose among the existing RfDs. Thank you for your works, esp. in the case of deletion discussions it is useful ot know where the original discussion was.--Eptalon (talk) 08:55, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Revdel required

Please can this be revdel'd to hide the text. See en:WP:AN#How to handle a BLP violation? Mjroots (talk) 23:46, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I've taken care of this. @Mjroots: You would usually get quicker response if you post this kind of request at WP:AN. --Auntof6 (talk) 23:58, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

@Auntof6: Thanks, should have thought of that. This is an issue that affects the article in many languages. Stewards at the Foundation are aware and have the power to take the necessary action across all affected articles. Mjroots (talk) 06:29, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Dear Eptalon

I wanna apologize about westboro church. I was joking. I will not vandalize wikipedia no more. Adrgin515 (talk) 21:57, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

RfD nomination of Controversy

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List of inventions

Hello, sorry to bother but I am just wondering where I stand with the list as nothing is still made certain. Are you able to close it or how does it work?

Thanks Derek scissor hand (talk) 19:21, 13 November 2016 (UTC)