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- 1 Guild of Copy Editors 2015 End of Year Report
- 2 The Signpost: 06 January 2016
- 3 WikiCup 2016: Game On!
- 4 WikiCup 2016: Game On!
- 5 Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 22, 2016
- 6 This Month in GLAM: December 2015
- 7 Traffic report
- 8 Sorry
- 9 The Signpost: 13 January 2016
- 10 Mail
- 11 The Signpost: 20 January 2016
- 12 Mail
- 13 Wikimedia Highlights from December 2015
- 14 The Bugle: Issue CXVIII, January 2016
- 15 TFA
- 16 The Signpost: 27 January 2016
- 17 Peacemaker67
- 18 A kitten for you!
- 19 Thanks for your support!
- 20 Invite to an edit-a-thon at the Loft Literary Center
- 21 The Signpost: 03 February 2016
- 22 This Month in GLAM: January 2016
- 23 The Signpost: 10 February 2016
- 24 Email
- 25 Seeking your assistance
- 26 :P
- 27 Books & Bytes - Issue 15
- 28 The Signpost: 17 February 2016
- 29 The Feminism Barnstar
- 30 Wikimedia Highlights from January 2016
- 31 The Signpost: 24 February 2016
- 32 VisualEditor News #1—2016
- 33 Signpost tag aliases
- 34 The Bugle: Issue CXIX, February 2016
- 35 WikiCup 2015 March newsletter
- 36 Acorazados sudamericanos
- 37 Dreadnought race
- 38 WikiCup 2016 March newsletter (update)
- 39 The Signpost: 02 March 2016
- 40 ClueBot NG listed at Redirects for discussion
- 41 This Month in GLAM: February 2016
- 42 South American dreadnought race
- 43 The Signpost: 09 March 2016
- 44 I've seen you before!
- 45 The Signpost: 16 March 2016
- 46 2016 Brussels bombings
- 47 Orphaned non-free image File:O class battlecruiser.jpg
- 48 Silly closure
- 49 The Bugle: Issue CXX, March 2016
- 50 The Signpost: 23 March 2016
- 51 Disambiguation link notification for March 31
- 52 The Signpost: 1 April 2016
- 53 Guild of Copy Editors April 2016 Newsletter
- 54 ANI regarding BLP violation protection
- 55 Do you want one Edit tab, or two? It's your choice
- 56 This Month in GLAM: March 2016
- 57 Wikimedia Highlights from March 2016
- 58 The Signpost: 14 April 2016
- 59 Books & Bytes - Issue 16
- 60 Update
- 61 Arb?
- 62 ANI notice - Disruption of ArbCom case by Dan Murphy
- 63 Gamaliel and others arbitration case opened
- 64 January to March 2016 Quarterly Article Reviews
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Guild of Copy Editors 2015 End of Year Report
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WikiCup 2016: Game On!
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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 22, 2016
Ed and Sturmvogel 66, I'll get to this one tonight. Hope you enjoyed the holidays. (Ed, it looks like you're still enjoying them!) - Dank (push to talk) 22:52, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
- Technically I'm on a work-enforced sojourn to San Francisco. :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 00:16, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
- Did Agincourt have more guns and turrets than any other battleship, not just any other dreadnought? This seems likely, and I'd prefer not to repeat "dreadnought" in the first sentence. - Dank (push to talk) 02:14, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
- @Dank: I mean, it really depends on how your define gun and turret. Pre-dreadnoughts had a ton of secondary guns, for instance. I might stick with dreadnought. :-/ Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 23:50, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
- ... now that I look at the TFA, though, I think you've done it well. Never mind me <whistles> Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 23:51, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
- Your changes make it work, I think. - Dank (push to talk) 02:37, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
- Did Agincourt have more guns and turrets than any other battleship, not just any other dreadnought? This seems likely, and I'd prefer not to repeat "dreadnought" in the first sentence. - Dank (push to talk) 02:14, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: December 2015
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Traffic report
Are we free to publish User:Serendipodous/sandbox in the next issue? if so I can start formatting it then. → Call me Razr Nation 17:04, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
- @Serendipodous and Milowent: I believe so! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 20:23, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
Sorry
ED, I want to tell you something. The only thing I regret that I did on Wikipedia was getting rude to you. Sorry, you must belive me because I really mean it. You are a good guy, and we tried to make that Signpost FP a funny, colorful and nice thing. Both you and me. I am sorry that I ever been behaving like a jerk towards you... it is probably the right expression. I was worried and I noticed already then, that my computer was hacked, I was angry and I thought somebody wanted me out on that Skype to make me an even easier target. It was not you. I am sorry, it's an explanation, not an excuse. I hope you can forgive me. Bye. Hafspajen (talk) 17:44, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
- No worries, Haf. I believe you. We've all had our differences on this site, but in the end we all have the same goal. Always remember that. :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 20:34, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
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Wikimedia Highlights from December 2015
- Wikipedia celebrates 15 years of free knowledge
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The Bugle: Issue CXVIII, January 2016
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TFA
Ed, this is more or less my standard offer to people who enjoy fiddling around with TFAs: would you like to write some of the TFAs? If so, which wikiprojects (other than Milhist) are you particularly interested in? - Dank (push to talk) 13:59, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
- @Dank: I might be able to occasionally pitch in with Milhist ones. Sadly, I don't have a lot of time for Wikipedia these days between work and grad school. :-/ Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 08:16, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
- Amazing, you must be great at managing your time. When do you graduate? - Dank (push to talk) 13:37, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
- Well, that's the thing. I'm not that great. ;-) I'm taking one class/semester, so most likely in another two years (one year classes, one year thesis hours). Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 07:46, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
- College can be fun, there's a lot to be said for stretching it out. Some of us give up "student" status too quick and then bore people reminiscing about our college days :) - Dank (push to talk) 13:38, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
- Then again, some of us keep our student status into our thirties... <eyes darting around shiftily> — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:07, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
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- Lucky dog. - Dank (push to talk) 14:45, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
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- Woof? Of course, it takes a lot of energy. But if Ed wants to end up teaching at a university, that'll be the way to go. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:37, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
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- I'm sure I'll be no different.. Not much colleging (yes, that's an adjective now) going on right now though, too many other things going on. :-p Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 22:16, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
- College can be fun, there's a lot to be said for stretching it out. Some of us give up "student" status too quick and then bore people reminiscing about our college days :) - Dank (push to talk) 13:38, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
- Well, that's the thing. I'm not that great. ;-) I'm taking one class/semester, so most likely in another two years (one year classes, one year thesis hours). Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 07:46, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
- Amazing, you must be great at managing your time. When do you graduate? - Dank (push to talk) 13:37, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
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Peacemaker67
So Ed, what's a "con-nominator support"? Is that mean you're anti-nominator? Your co(n)-nominator decided that cloning your vote was an outstanding idea. --Bbb23 (talk) 01:53, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) I blame Ed entirely for my obvious incompetence here. I've fixed his mistake ;) (and thanks!) Nick-D (talk) 02:03, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
- You weren't supposed to fix it. I liked it the way it was: different. BTW, I would have said "co-nominator support" rather than "co-nomination support", but that's just personal preference. Cheers.--Bbb23 (talk) 02:13, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
- @Nick-D and Bbb23: Look Nick, if I jumped off a bridge, would you follow? No? Then don't blame me. ;-) Good eye, Bbb! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 19:22, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
- How old are you, Ed? You sound like my dad. Parsecboy (talk) 20:07, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
- @Parsecboy: Your dad sounds like a cool guy. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 22:16, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
- Hehe, clever answer. I doubt I would've thought of it.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:28, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
- Oh, he's a pretty cool guy, Ed. Tell me, when you walked to school, was it uphill both ways, with naught but a pair of hard boiled eggs (the entirety of your lunch) to keep your hands warm? Parsecboy (talk) 00:21, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
- Also snow. Never forget the snow. Plus wind chill. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 00:37, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
- Well yeah, you Yooper, that's a given. Parsecboy (talk) 00:48, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
- So if you're tallying, uphill both ways, hand warmers (sorry, pops, we upgraded from hardboiled eggs awhile ago), snow, and wind. Still better than Ohio. ;-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 00:55, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
- Tell that to Harbaugh. Do they even have football in that snow-blasted hellscape up there? Parsecboy (talk) 01:25, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
- YES. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 06:21, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
- Tell that to Harbaugh. Do they even have football in that snow-blasted hellscape up there? Parsecboy (talk) 01:25, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) @Parsecboy: Hard boiled eggs??? Inasmuch as Ed is being coy about his age, how old are you, or, if you prefer, how old is your father? (I had to look up yooper.)--Bbb23 (talk) 00:58, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
- I'm 30 years young - Ed is, I believe, 14. Parsecboy (talk) 01:25, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
- Ah, the truth is out. You are Ed's father. Couldn't you at least have waited until you were 18?--Bbb23 (talk) 01:54, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
- Oh dear god, don't say something like that. The horror. ;-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 06:21, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
- Ah, the truth is out. You are Ed's father. Couldn't you at least have waited until you were 18?--Bbb23 (talk) 01:54, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
- I'm 30 years young - Ed is, I believe, 14. Parsecboy (talk) 01:25, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
- So if you're tallying, uphill both ways, hand warmers (sorry, pops, we upgraded from hardboiled eggs awhile ago), snow, and wind. Still better than Ohio. ;-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 00:55, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
- Well yeah, you Yooper, that's a given. Parsecboy (talk) 00:48, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
- Also snow. Never forget the snow. Plus wind chill. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 00:37, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
- Oh, he's a pretty cool guy, Ed. Tell me, when you walked to school, was it uphill both ways, with naught but a pair of hard boiled eggs (the entirety of your lunch) to keep your hands warm? Parsecboy (talk) 00:21, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
- Hehe, clever answer. I doubt I would've thought of it.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:28, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
- @Parsecboy: Your dad sounds like a cool guy. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 22:16, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
- How old are you, Ed? You sound like my dad. Parsecboy (talk) 20:07, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
- @Nick-D and Bbb23: Look Nick, if I jumped off a bridge, would you follow? No? Then don't blame me. ;-) Good eye, Bbb! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 19:22, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
- You weren't supposed to fix it. I liked it the way it was: different. BTW, I would have said "co-nominator support" rather than "co-nomination support", but that's just personal preference. Cheers.--Bbb23 (talk) 02:13, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
A kitten for you!
Thanks for your help with our editathon tonight!
Heathart (talk) 04:45, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
- Any time! I hope everything else went well! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 06:13, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for your support!
Peacemaker67 RfA Appreciation award | |
Thank you for co-nominating my RfA, Ed. It was very much appreciated, and I am humbled that the community saw fit to trust me with the tools. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 06:12, 6 February 2016 (UTC) |
- You're quite welcome, Peace. Use them well! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 06:21, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
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Seeking your assistance
Hi, I'm seeking your assistance with the article Kitchen cabinet -- there's a user who keeps inserting Swedish WP:REFSPAM in this article such as here and here and I'm not an administrator; could you please help?--Tomwsulcer (talk) 13:49, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
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- @Parsecboy: <employs terrible Australian accent> Come off it mate, it was like 3am. ;-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 22:11, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
Books & Bytes - Issue 15
Books & Bytes
Issue 15, December-January 2016
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The Feminism Barnstar
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Wikimedia Highlights from January 2016
- Content Translation tool has now been used for 50,000 articles
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The Signpost: 24 February 2016
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VisualEditor News #1—2016
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Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Indic, and Han scripts, and improving the single edit tab interface.
Recent changes
You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing. This function is available to nearly all editors at most wikis except the Wiktionaries and Wikisources.
Many local feedback pages for the visual editor have been redirected to mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
You can now re-arrange columns and rows in tables, as well as copying a row, column or any other selection of cells and pasting it in a new location.
The formula editor has two options: you can choose "Quick edit" to see and change only the LaTeX code, or "Edit" to use the full tool. The full tool offers immediate preview and an extensive list of symbols.
Future changes
The single edit tab project will combine the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab. This is similar to the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398) Initially, the "Edit" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as an account preference for logged-in editors, and as a cookie for logged-out users. Logged-in editors will have these options in the Editing tab of Special:Preferences:
- Remember my last editor,
- Always give me the visual editor if possible,
- Always give me the source editor, and
- Show me both editor tabs. (This is the state for people using the visual editor now.)
The visual editor uses the same search engine as Special:Search to find links and files. This search will get better at detecting typos and spelling mistakes soon. These improvements to search will appear in the visual editor as well.
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at most "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers would like to know how well the visual editor works in your language. They particularly want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect the following languages: Japanese, Korean, Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, Assamese, Thai, Aramaic and others.
Let's work together
- Please try out the newest version of the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org. You may need to restore the default preferences (at the bottom of test2wiki:Special:Preferences) to see the initial prompt for options. Were you able to find a preference setting that will work for your own editing? Did you see the large preferences dialog box when you started editing an article there?
- Can you read and type in Korean, Arabic, Japanese, Indic, or Han scripts? Language engineer David Chan needs help from people who often type in these languages. Please see the instructions at mw:VisualEditor/IME Testing#What to test if you can help. Report your results on wiki (Korean – Japanese – all languages).
- Learn how to improve the "automagical" citoid referencing system in the visual editor, by creating Zotero translators for popular sources in your language! Join the Tech Talk about "Automated citations in Wikipedia: Citoid and the technology behind it" with Sebastian Karcher on 29 February 2016.
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Signpost tag aliases
Hi there. :) I noticed you updating a few tags in Module:Signpost/index/2014 from "lila" to "lilatretikov". In cases like these, it might be easier to add a tag alias. I have done so for you here, so now any pages tagged with either "lila" or "tretikov" will be treated as actually being tagged with "lilatretikov". (This works for both Module:Signpost itself and for the tagger gadget.) There's a bit of documentation for this system on the gadget's doc page, but it can probably be improved - let me know if anything there is unclear. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 03:22, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
- @Mr. Stradivarius: I was concerned that another Lila might come along in a couple years—I thought specificity was a better long-term solution. :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 04:08, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
- That's very true! Good thinking, that. If another Lila comes along we can always re-purpose the alias, but changing it now is better. If you can think of other aliases please do add them to Module:Signpost/aliases, by the way - they will be helpful both for other taggers and for people using the module. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 09:03, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
- @Mr. Stradivarius: Will do! Thanks again for building all of that infrastructure. It's really cool and is going to help a lot of people someday when they're trying to look into Wikipedia's history. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 19:40, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
- That's very true! Good thinking, that. If another Lila comes along we can always re-purpose the alias, but changing it now is better. If you can think of other aliases please do add them to Module:Signpost/aliases, by the way - they will be helpful both for other taggers and for people using the module. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 09:03, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue CXIX, February 2016
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WikiCup 2015 March newsletter
That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. Forty-seven competitors move into this round (a bit shy of the expected 64), and we are roughly broken into eight groups of six. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups.
Twenty-two Good Articles were submitted, including three by Cyclonebiskit (submissions), and two each by MPJ-DK (submissions), Hurricanehink (submissions), 12george1 (submissions), and Cas Liber (submissions). Twenty-one Featured Pictures were claimed, including 17 by Adam Cuerden (submissions) (the Round 1 high scorer). Thirty-one contestants saw their DYKs appear on the main page, with a commanding lead (28) by Cwmhiraeth (submissions). Twenty-nine participants conducted GA reviews with J Milburn (submissions) completing nine.
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Acorazados sudamericanos
Hi, I just wanted to thank you for taking notice of my ongoing translation of the article about the South American dreadnoughts on the Spanish language Wikipedia. It was a fine gesture of yours. Very interesting article, by the way. --Andrés C. (talk) 09:44, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Andres C.: No, thank you! I'm really happy that the knowledge I've been putting together for several years is being disseminated across various languages. Please let me know if I can help with anything. :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 08:05, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
Dreadnought race
Hi! Nowadays with google translate you can read those articles. Portuguese is quite similar to Spanish too. Robert Scheina, in Latin America's Wars, wrote about it too. If I find any, I'll send it to you.
Best regards!Brasileiro1500 (talk) 10:09, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
This is the book I meant, not "Latin America's War" but: "Latin America: A Naval History, 1810-1987". It was also written by Robert Scheina.Brasileiro1500 (talk) 13:28, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Brasileiro1500: Exactly my point! But for me, it's not easy to find those online pdfs because I use Google in English. Thanks for pointing me at Scheina—I happen to own them both already, but that's exactly the sort of material I'm looking for. :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 08:04, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
You are welcome! Unfortunately I do not have any text in English on it though, except for Scheina. If I find any, I'll mention them to you. Best regards.Brasileiro1500 (talk) 12:33, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Brasileiro1500: No worries! I'll take anything in Portuguese as well, because like you said I can Google Translate them! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 05:19, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
I have found this other one here as well: http://www.semacip.ufscar.br/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/As-negocia%C3%A7%C3%B5es-para-a-limita%C3%A7%C3%A3o-dos-armamentos-navais-sul-americanos-o-caso-dos-encoura%C3%A7ados-no-per%C3%ADodo-entre-as-guerras-mundiais.pdf .Brasileiro1500 (talk) 14:17, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Brasileiro1500: Whoa, this is a great find! The background sections pretty closely mirror what I've written in the South American dreadnought race article, but the rest of it is really helpful—much of the information I have on the 1920–30s here is only from Argentine perspective (and even then, that is focused on their naval expansion plans). Do you know when this was written and for what journal so I can cite it in Wikipedia articles? Ed
[talk] [majestic titan] 04:42, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
It was written by Ludolf Waldmann Júnior, department of Political Science of University of São Carlos, São Paulo.Brasileiro1500 (talk) 00:06, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Ed. been meaning to get back to you for some time. I passed your request on to my Brazilian counterparts and then actually forgot about this. Now I see it has been translated. Best regards, Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 17:00, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
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Update
It has been over a year and a half since you updated User:The ed17/Good articles by prose size and the related articles. Could you do it when you get a chance.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 02:14, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
- @TonyTheTiger: I can't, as the script no longer retrives all of the articles—only the first 500. Someone will have to fix it (I have no idea how). :-/ Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 05:34, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
Arb?
Since "Drmies" is not an "arb," Ed, I found your demand that I not "revert the actions of 'arbs'" very confusing. What am I missing? Also - why shouldn't an "arb's" action be reverted when it's a wrong action?Dan Murphy (talk) 05:36, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
- It's SOP to not revert arbitrators, of which Drmies is most definitely one, on arbitration committee pages. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 05:42, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
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