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Trainor
Not that I think you actually care, but I disagree with your reasoning at the Meghan Trainor article. The DRN really needs to be concluded first. There's been no resolution there. You can't forum shop and take the decision or consensus you like better, saying that's the decision of the community. I don't have a problem that there might be a consensus that doesn't support my viewpoint, I care that there are editors ignoring the open and in progress DRN that remains unresolved. If a DRN discussion is opened and talk page discussion goes on anyway, are we supposed to go with the one we like or the one that was opened to actually get a resolution? It seems to me that the latter is the appropriate choice. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 06:41, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
- @Winkelvi: You are wrong as there is no discussion supporting the vice versa. As the consensus on Trainor's talk page is the only one, it shall be followed 'til the DRN is concluded. Marano fan 06:50, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
- From my reading of the discussion, there is currently a clear consensus on the article's talk page. Maybe that changes after the dispute resolution process takes place, but that doesn't mean there isn't consensus to call her a singer-songwriter right now. (As Winkelvi correctly noted, the discussion DRN has seemingly fallen through the cracks, for what it's worth.) And I honestly don't know what you mean by forum shopping, because the place to discuss content is the article's talk page. -- Calidum 07:53, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
- What I mean is that both Lips Are Movin and MaranoFan are going from forum to forum to get answers they want which will give them permission to edit the article to suit their agenda. That, and getting editors banned, blocked, sanctioned, whatever works to keep those they don't like from editing their pet articles. Last week it was someone else, this week it's me. Both accounts are essentially SPAs -- others have also noted this. It's becoming a complex situation and both accounts (Lips and Marano) are now tag-teaming when it comes to userspace warnings and edit warring. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 08:01, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
- Understood, though I really haven't paid attention to their behavior (or yours) at other articles. If you have particular concerns there are venues to have their actions evaluated. -- Calidum 08:05, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
- @Winkelvi: After this, I kindly take back all my positive remarks. Marano fan 08:07, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
- I realize that. And have tried those venues (3RR and DRN not withstanding). But I've also tried to ignore them as much as possible because their behavior is really troll-like in nature. Personally, I think there's more to all of it under the surface - and know from experience that with these types of something's-not-quite-right situations, the real picture will emerge eventually. Right now, I'm seeking advice and help from editors I trust and am waiting to see how that pans out. Something has to stop the disruption. It's gone way beyond ridiculous. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 08:25, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
- Understood, though I really haven't paid attention to their behavior (or yours) at other articles. If you have particular concerns there are venues to have their actions evaluated. -- Calidum 08:05, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
- What I mean is that both Lips Are Movin and MaranoFan are going from forum to forum to get answers they want which will give them permission to edit the article to suit their agenda. That, and getting editors banned, blocked, sanctioned, whatever works to keep those they don't like from editing their pet articles. Last week it was someone else, this week it's me. Both accounts are essentially SPAs -- others have also noted this. It's becoming a complex situation and both accounts (Lips and Marano) are now tag-teaming when it comes to userspace warnings and edit warring. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 08:01, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
- From my reading of the discussion, there is currently a clear consensus on the article's talk page. Maybe that changes after the dispute resolution process takes place, but that doesn't mean there isn't consensus to call her a singer-songwriter right now. (As Winkelvi correctly noted, the discussion DRN has seemingly fallen through the cracks, for what it's worth.) And I honestly don't know what you mean by forum shopping, because the place to discuss content is the article's talk page. -- Calidum 07:53, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
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Hello, Calidum! Re: this edit, I'm not sure if you reverted by accident since you only reverted one of my edits (and with no explanation), I've undone it as there was no organization called "Negro League". Rather, it was a collection of leagues that played Negro baseball; therefore, "league" is not capitalized when referring to general leagues. See the lede of Negro league baseball for clarification. I hope this explains why I undid your reversion. Rgrds. (Dynamic IP, will change when I log off.) --64.85.216.2 (talk) 17:49, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
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This was your fourth revert in a row of my simple talk paragraph. You know better. Dicklyon (talk) 18:19, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
You're right though that I could have made my notice more neutral. I have done so now, and extended the notices that I placed earlier. It really does seem important to get some participation by editors of affected articles, as the horse guys are so naturally biased in favor of their own topic. Dicklyon (talk) 18:43, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
Hey, just looked at your user page. My condolences on coming in dead last in ArbCom elections on both tries. Do you think it's because you haven't been around long enough and done enough edits? Or is that you piss off everyone you interact with, having opinions that often diametrically opposed to following guidelines and such? Dicklyon (talk) 20:43, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
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Not for anything, but before you change the positions of anymore quotation marks, as you did in the Ben Franklin article, please read this section of the Manual of Style. Joys! – Paine EllsworthCLIMAX! 03:44, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
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Come on, reverting someone's comment with the summary "shit", then replying to their earlier -- it really doesn't look too good. Especially since, after asking for help, the other editor specifically noted they weren't accusing YOU of breaching NPOV, but was expressing an opinion that the article's content may not respect NPOV. Removing their comments serve no useful purpose, so just leave them be, and continue discussing,, mk? I know you're trying to defend WP:BLP and commend your intentions, but getting into a pissing match over some maybe-not-too-relevant-but-harmless comment isn't helping. :) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 21:01, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
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New to Wiki, so, thanks (sorry for the oversight on the media mention but, alas, the undo undid both where the ball went exactly AND the media cite). Glad we got it worked out.
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About Allies of World War II
In my memory, there is a discussion consensus in article ww2 which put USSR in front of US. The original version of Allies of World War II put USSR ahead of US [1] and the previous version of article World War II is also like this [2]. Actually current vision was changed by E-960 [3] without discussion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.33.242.35 (talk)
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Possible meatpuppet regarding Jimthing
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Move review for Communist state
An editor has asked for a Move review of Communist state. Because you closed the move discussion for this page, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the move review. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TURTLOS (talk • contribs)
Just a heads up - the MR is here if you're interested: Wikipedia:Move review/Log/2015 March#Communist state Egsan Bacon (talk) 13:24, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks, EB. -- Calidum 01:18, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 2
For this month's issue...
Making sense of a lot of data.
Work on our prototype will begin imminently. In the meantime, we have to understand what exactly we're working with. To this end, we generated a list of 71 WikiProjects, based on those brought up on our Stories page and those who had signed up for pilot testing. For those projects where people told stories, we coded statements within those stories to figure out what trends there were in these stories. This approach allowed us to figure out what Wikipedians thought of WikiProjects in a very organic way, with very little by way of a structure. (Compare this to a structured interview, where specific questions are asked and answered.) This analysis was done on 29 stories. Codes were generally classified as "benefits" (positive contributions made by a WikiProject to the editing experience) and "obstacles" (issues posed by WikiProjects, broadly speaking). Codes were generated as I went along, ensuring that codes were as close to the original data as possible. Duplicate appearances of a code for a given WikiProject were removed.
We found 52 "benefit" statements encoded and 34 "obstacle" statements. The most common benefit statement referring to the project's active discussion and participation, followed by statements referring to a project's capacity to guide editor activity, while the most common obstacles made reference to low participation and significant burdens on the part of the project maintainers and leaders. This gives us a sense of WikiProjects' big strength: they bring people together, and can be frustrating to editors when they fail to do so. Meanwhile, it is indeed very difficult to bring editors together on a common interest; in the absence of a highly motivated core of organizers, the technical infrastructure simply isn't there.
We wanted to pair this qualitative study with quantitative analysis of a WikiProject and its "universe" of pages, discussions, templates, and categories. To this end I wrote a script called ProjAnalysis which will, for a given WikiProject page (e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Trek) and WikiProject talk-page tag (e.g. Template:WikiProject Star Trek), will give you a list of usernames of people who edited within the WikiProject's space (the project page itself, its talk page, and subpages), and within the WikiProject's scope (the pages tagged by that WikiProject, excluding the WikiProject space pages). The output is an exhaustive list of usernames. We ran the script to analyze our test batch of WikiProjects for edits between March 1, 2014 and February 28, 2015, and we subjected them to further analysis to only include those who made 10+ edits to pages in the projects' scope, those who made 4+ edits to the projects' space, and those who made 10+ edits to pages in scope but not 4+ edits to pages in the projects' space. This latter metric gives us an idea of who is active in a certain subject area of Wikipedia, yet who isn't actively engaging on the WikiProject's pages. This information will help us prioritize WikiProjects for pilot testing, and the ProjAnalysis script in general may have future life as an application that can be used by Wikipedians to learn about who is in their community.
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AfD of melee
You voted not to make melee a disambiguation page in a recent move request. Per the discussion, I have suggested the article be deleted due to lack of a relevant, cohesive encyclopedic definition of "melee". Your input would be appreciated. Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Melee.
Peter Isotalo 11:41, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
- I missed this earlier, but thanks for the heads up. Don't have any strong opinions on what to do with the page, honestly. Calidum ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 04:00, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
hurricane vs typhoon vs cyclone
The lead of tropical cyclone naming does not need a line on what a Hurricane, typhoon etc is, because it is a lot more complex than just hurricane vs typhoon vs cyclone. For example hurricanes are officially known as severe tropical cyclones in the South Pacific and very severe cyclonic storms in the North Indian Ocean. As i said in the edit summuary it jsut opens up a pandoras box on which classifications should be added. Please see Tropical cyclone scales for further details. Thanks. Jason Rees (talk) 22:23, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
- You really should read up on slippery slopes before you continue to make this argument. Calidum ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 04:05, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
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Station stuff
Since you participated in the RM discussion at Talk:Greenbelt Station#Requested move 7 February_2015, you may have thoughts worth commenting on at the related RFC at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (US stations)#RfC: some proper talkin' about station title conventions, including especially the survey at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (US stations)#Simpler questions / concise survey. If so, please comment there. Dicklyon (talk) 05:25, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for the notification. It's not something I feel strongly enough to comment on at the moment, however. Calidum ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 17:21, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
Unintentional
I've been using my tablet for editing today, and the same reversion thing happened elsewhere - totally unintentional and had to be a slip of the finger. Thanks for correcting my error. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 21:29, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
- No worries. I edit from my phone a lot and run into the same issue once in a while. Calidum ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 22:11, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
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Hello fellow member! WikiProject X needs your help!
We studied the various needs that WikiProjects have, and have come up with some ideas for our first round of WikiProject tool development. These include:
- An automatically updated WikiProject directory that surfaces WikiProject-related metrics and automatically generates a list of active participants and potential members;
- A lightweight, optional alternative to WikiProject banners, featuring an option to quickly send a message to the named WikiProjects;
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Jr. comma RfC
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April 2015 GOCE newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors April 2015 Newsletter
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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 3
Greetings! For this month's issue...
We have demos!
After a lengthy research and design process, we decided for WikiProject X to focus on two things:
- A WikiProject workflow that focuses on action items: discussions you can participate in and tasks you can perform to improve the encyclopedia; and
- An automatically updating WikiProject directory that gives you lists of users participating in the WikiProject and editing in that subject area.
We have a live demonstration of the new WikiProject workflow at WikiProject Women in Technology, a brand new WikiProject that was set up as an adjunct to a related edit-a-thon in Washington, DC. The goal is to surface action items for editors, and we intend on doing that through automatically updated working lists. We are looking into using SuggestBot to generate lists of outstanding tasks, and we are looking into additional options for automatic worklist generation. This takes the burden off of WikiProject editors to generate these worklists, though there is also a "requests" section for Wikipedians to make individual requests. (As of writing, these automated lists are not yet live, so you will see a blank space under "edit articles" on the demo WikiProject. Sorry about that!) I invite you to check out the WikiProject and leave feedback on WikiProject X's talk page.
Once the demo is sufficiently developed, we will be working on a limited deployment on our pilot WikiProjects. We have selected five for the first round of testing based on the highest potential for impact and will scale up from there.
While a re-designed WikiProject experience is much needed, that alone isn't enough. A WikiProject isn't any good if people have no way of discovering it. This is why we are also developing an automatically updated WikiProject directory. This directory will surface project-related metrics, including a count of active WikiProject participants and of active editors in that project's subject area. The purpose of these metrics is to highlight how active the WikiProject is at the given point of time, but also to highlight that project's potential for success. The directory is not yet live but there is a demonstration featuring a sampling of WikiProjects.
Each directory entry will link to a WikiProject description page which automatically list the active WikiProject participants and subject-area article editors. This allows Wikipedians to find each other based on the areas they are interested in, and this information can be used to revive a WikiProject, start a new one, or even for some other purpose. These description pages are not online yet, but they will use this template, if you want to get a feel of what they will look like.
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As an aside...
Wouldn't it be cool if lists of requested articles could not only be integrated directly with WikiProjects, but also shared between WikiProjects? Well, we got the crazy idea of having experimental software feature Flow deployed (on a totally experimental basis) on the new Article Request Workshop, which seeks to be a place where editors can "workshop" article ideas before they get created. It uses Flow because Flow allows, essentially, section-level categorization, and in the future will allow "sections" (known as "topics" within Flow) to be included across different pages. What this means is that you have a recommendation for a new article tagged by multiple WikiProjects, allowing for the recommendation to appear on lists for each WikiProject. This will facilitate inter-WikiProject collaboration and will help to reduce duplicated work. The Article Request Workshop is not entirely ready yet due to some bugs with Flow, but we hope to integrate it into our pilot WikiProjects at some point.
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Here
[4] You may be interested in this... All About That Bass (A word?? / Stalking not allowed...) 16:12, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
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Hillary Rodham Clinton - Move Discussion
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Issue at the move discussion
- With this edit, Red Slash changed all the numbers to bullets. While we all know it's not a !vote, the closing admins probably need all the help they can get. Care to change it back? Softlavender (talk) 21:11, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
- I'd rather just leave it. Calidum T|C 21:25, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
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WinkelviBan
I see that they reverted your reversion. Do you want to go for a block on Winkelvi? I would certainly support and a lot of others would. I don't want to make it seem like I have a problem with him but what he is doing is blockable. Just wanted to ask. Thanks so much for the barnstar by the way. All About That Bass (A word?? / Stalking not allowed...) 07:55, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
- MaranoFan, I'm not really interested in pursuing anything against him at this time. But if Thing 1 and Thing 2 decide to try something again at ANI, I'm prepared to provide some evidence that would show both sides of the story. Calidum T|C 04:17, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
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SPI
Hey, Calidum! What do you think should be the action taken against WV once the SPI fails? All About That Bass (A word?? / Stalking not allowed...) 18:20, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
- ANI. Calidum T|C 18:20, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
- I've sort of lost faith in ANI, because supporters seem to pop out of nowhere for Winkelvi. But these bogus reports need to stop. I was thinking maybe arbitration? All About That Bass (A word?? / Stalking not allowed...) 18:23, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
- Arbitration is the place of last resort, so go to ANI first where you can seek an WP:IBAN between each respective editor. I would start by looking for threads about you Wink and Chase started at each other's talk pages. You can also use the editor interaction analyzers for you and Wink and you and Chase to look for patterns or evidence of harassment (specifically WP:HOUND). Calidum T|C 18:31, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
- I've sort of lost faith in ANI, because supporters seem to pop out of nowhere for Winkelvi. But these bogus reports need to stop. I was thinking maybe arbitration? All About That Bass (A word?? / Stalking not allowed...) 18:23, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
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Drake
Discuss on the talk page. I wasn't the one to change it back to mixtape. I've been blocked for a month. If you look on the talk page of the mixtape, consensus appears to be mixtape. -- Joseph Prasad (talk) 01:23, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
- Well I got that part wrong, but it's not relevant whether it's a mixtape or not. See my comment on talk:Drake (rapper). Calidum T|C 01:36, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Proposed site ban for User:MaranoFan. Thank you. –Chase (talk / contribs) 18:13, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
Courtesy notification
Hi Calidum, I just wanted to let you know that I linked to one of your previous comments, during a current WP:AN discussion [5].--BoboMeowCat (talk) 21:19, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks. I planned on chiming in on that discussion at some point, but it looks like the community agrees (so far) Chase and Wink are part of the problem here too. Calidum T|C 21:23, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
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New question raised regarding Talk:Hillary Rodham Clinton/April 2015 move request
Some opposers of this move have now contended that there is a "Critical fault in proposal evidence", which brings the opinions expressed into question. Please indicate if this assertion in any way affects your position with respect to the proposed move. Cheers! bd2412 T 04:36, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
- The thing should have closed days ago. Now it's just the same editors arguing with eachother. Sigh. Calidum T|C 17:13, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
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Question
Hey, can I borrow a few of those templates you have on your user page, like the edit count? -- Joseph Prasad (talk) 06:16, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
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RfC: Guidance on commas after Jr. and Sr.
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Infobox linking RfC
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Page move request: Houghs Neck
Hi, I noticed your page move request for Hough's Neck to Houghs Neck. Just wanted to give you a tip that you could add to your reasoning, most websites use the title without the apostrophe and even Google will ask "Did you mean: 'Houghs Neck'" when you type in the title with the apostrophe. This would further support your requested page move. Nick Mitchell 98 (talk) 05:57, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks. If for some reason the technical request isn't done, I plan on providing more evidence. At this point I don't think it's necessary though. Calidum T|C 05:59, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
- And it was just moved. Calidum T|C 06:36, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
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Comprised of (sic)
Greetings, Calidum. About your recent edit to "Shining Star (Jerry Garcia Band album)", check out User talk:Giraffedata#"Comprised of" in direct quotes. — Mudwater (Talk) 01:19, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
- I've gone ahead and put the hidden sic tag back, here. Feel free to let me know if you have any comments or questions. — Mudwater (Talk) 23:34, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
how popular is the new iphone 6s plus?
it is the last one, that is the 7, just like 2 is the original. SingingJoseph4MusicalFilmFans (talk) 13:13, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
- I really don't know what you're trying to say, but I suggest you read WP:CRYSTAL to see why we don't include unannounced products and other such speculation. Calidum T|C 13:40, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
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The discussion you closed at the above page was reopened, by which I mean the editor who initially launched the discussion reverted your close. I believe this is inappropriate, and reverted them, but they in turn reverted my re-closure. I'm reluctant to take further action at ths point but felt you should be aware. DonIago (talk) 14:01, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
War of the Triple Alliance / Paraguayan War
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Hey. I feel like you can understand what is going on here. What do you suggest I do? I honestly don't have the energy to through ANI/3RR and such petty dramas with the user all over again. - Lips are movin 23:57, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
- You could try WP:ANI or WP:AN3 but I doubt you'd get the desired the result. I truly appreciate the honesty of him calling you two dicks in that edit summary though; that gave me a good laugh. Calidum T|C 00:40, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
Your reversion of my edits
Hello. I refer to the article on the Who's "You Better You Bet", in which I lowercased the definite article in the group's name (i.e., from "The Who" to "the Who"). Your comment was "Something like this needs to be discussed first". I think you'll find that my edits were in perfect conformance with Wikipedia's Manual of Style/Music for definite article usage in names and to English convention--e.g., The Chicago Manual of Style. Urgos (talk) 00:58, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
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[6] Can you please tell me what part of the template says to use the common name? --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 16:00, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
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re: chg on Warren G. Harding page
To Whom it May Concern:
While I do not make changes often, many of my changes in the past (particularly on Eastern Catholic/Byzantium Rite Churches, the Eastern European diaspora in NE Pennsylvania, and a little-known minority that I am part of - Rusyns - have enhanced Wikipedia's knowledge in these areas.
One of our current national treasures, Jon Stewart, made a comment about adding comments to his page. I never do such things normally; however, given Stewart's imminent retirement, I thought it would be funny, and was planning to remove it myself within a half-hour.
Given my previous editing background and how long I have been a member and contributed to wiki, I would have appreciated a talk message rather than a page splash. One shoe does not fit all, even in a Perl/Python script.
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