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• Archive for November 28, 2004 through June 17, 2006 now at User talk:RJFJR/Archive1
• Archive for June 17, 2006 through October 24, 2006 now at User talk:RJFJR/Archive2
• Archive for October 25, 2006 through 16:00, 24 September 2008 (UTC) now at User talk:RJFJR/Archive3
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• Archive for February 2013 through December 2019 (UTC) (UTC) now at User talk:RJFJR/archive6

George Bellows, North River (1908), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.		Best wishes for a healthy and prosperous 2020.
		Thank you for your contributions toward making Wikipedia a better and more accurate place. BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 13:01, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment asks whether partial blocks should be enabled on the English Wikipedia. If enabled, this functionality would allow administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces, rather than the entire site.
• A proposal asks whether admins who don't use their tools for a significant period of time (e.g. five years) should have the toolset procedurally removed.
• Following a successful RfC, a whitelist is now available for users whose redirects will be autopatrolled by a bot, removing them from the new pages patrol queue. Admins can add such users to Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist after a discussion following the guidelines at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist.

Arbitration

• The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted rather than reasonably construed.
• Following the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Bradv, Casliber, David Fuchs, DGG, KrakatoaKatie, Maxim, Newyorkbrad, SoWhy, Worm That Turned, Xeno.

Miscellaneous

• This issue marks three full years of the Admin newsletter. Thanks for reading!

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Wikipedia:Partial blocks.
• The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.

Technical news

• Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating. There is currently one template: {{uw-pblock}}.
• When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [1]

Arbitration

• Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2020 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2020, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2020, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• The English Wikipedia has reached six million articles. Thank you everyone for your contributions!

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).

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• Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
• A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.

Technical news

• Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2020 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: BRPever, Krd, Martin Urbanec, MusikAnimal, Sakretsu, Sotiale, and Tks4Fish. There are a total of seven editors that have been appointed as stewards, the most since 2014.
• The 2020 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Ajraddatz and Uzoma Ozurumba; they will serve for one year.

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Dear, I am new here, however created my new article in draftspace https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Heena_Shahab but getting trouble in moving it to main space because, 2 years back you redirected it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hena_Shahab&redirect=no from an other users https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Heena_Shahab&oldid=290682324

to his husband's article page "Mohammad Shahabuddin" . 

now I created her article but dear sir, I yet don't know how to put in main space when i am trying to place this there showing you can't do this. Article name already exists Please help me. Sturdyankit (talk) 04:45, 27 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).

Guideline and policy news

• There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.

Technical news

• There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.

Arbitration

• Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.

Miscellaneous

• The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020).

Administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

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Oversight changes

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Guideline and policy news

• Discretionary sanctions have been authorized for all pages and edits related to COVID-19, to be logged at WP:GS/COVID19.
• Following a recent discussion on Meta-Wiki, the edit filter maintainer global group has been created.
• A request for comment has been proposed to create a new main page editor usergroup.
• A request for comment has been proposed to make the bureaucrat activity requirements more strict.

Technical news

• The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. You can review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.
• Enterprisey created a script that will show a link to the proper Special:Undelete page when viewing a since-deleted revision, see User:Enterprisey/link-deleted-revs.

Miscellaneous

• A request for comment closed with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Would you please stop reversing the order of U.S. Thoroughbred horse races. ASAP I will put together the info on this subject and post it to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Horse racing for review so that we can present it to the Wikipedia "rules committee." Just so you are aware, no United States racetrack or racing association posts race history from oldest to newest. That practice ended c. 1910 and it was done for a very real reason. Thanks for your cooperation. Stretchrunner (talk) 11:38, 3 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I posted the info on this today here. Stretchrunner (talk) 21:38, 18 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the July 15th tag re "Chronological order" in Westchester Stakes (NYRA). Please respect protocol and don't put any more of these tags in articles. If you do not understand the "Projects" conclusions and reasons, then ask and someone will gladly clarify. However, Chronological order is not Wikipedia policy, it is non-mandatory. Thank you. Stretchrunner (talk) 22:24, 30 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2020).

Administrator changes

CaptainEek • Creffett • Cwmhiraeth

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CheckUser changes

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Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment asks whether the Unblock Ticket Request System (UTRS) should allowed any unblock request or just private appeals.
• The Wikimedia Foundation announced that they will develop a universal code of conduct for all WMF projects. There is an open local discussion regarding the same.

Arbitration

• A motion was passed to enact a 500/30 restriction on articles related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland. Article talk pages where disruption occurs may also be managed with the stated restriction.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is in progress to remove the T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) speedy deletion criterion.

Technical news

• Protection templates on mainspace pages are now automatically added by User:MusikBot II (BRFA).

Arbitration

• Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
• The Medicine case was closed, with a remedy authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.

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Hello RJFJR. Thanks for your work formatting bare urls. I have a request - when you've run refill like you did here and it has fixed all of the bare urls please remember to remove the {{Bare URLs}} template. It will help keep other editors from coming to the article and running the tool only to find that everything has already been fixed. Of course, it is proper to leave it if it hasn't fixed all of the refs. I know that refill2 sometimes removes the template but other times it doesn't so that can be confusing. Its not a big deal but at the moment I'm cleaning up the backlog of articles that was created while refill was not working and checking on the ones you've already fixed slows things down. Any help you can give will be appreciated. Thanks again and enjoy your weekend. MarnetteD|Talk 18:48, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure why refill only sometimes removes the linkrot template. My current theory is that there are several different templates linkrot, bare-url, etc that all look very similar and refill is only programmed to remove one or some of them but not all. But since I'm not sure if that is the reason I get nervous about removing the template if refill declines to. I'll have too keep track of which it is removing and which leaving and see if I can find a pattern for when I should expect to manually remove the template. Thank you for caring enough to comment. RJFJR (talk) 19:19, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reply R. I've taken the liberty of moving it to your talk page to keep things in one place. I've never figured the pattern out either :-) Sometimes I think it is which template is used as you mention and other times I wonder if it is where it is placed on the page. My suggestion would be to look at the ref section when you are done. If all the links are formatted then you can remove the template. If there are any bare urls left you can leave it and somebody else will be along to fix those that need the extra attention. Cheers. MarnetteD|Talk 19:38, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again. I just ran refill2 on more than a dozen articles that were tagged with {{linkrot}} and it removed the tag every time. Always nice when scrolling time is saved :-) That fits with your theory so I thought I'd let ya know about it. Cheers. MarnetteD|Talk 08:36, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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please share your views on the copyright violations of the article, tools are showing more than 80% violations. Minimiti (talk) 20:31, 30 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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• There is an open request for comment to decide whether to increase the minimum duration a sanction discussion has to remain open (currently 24 hours).
• Speedy deletion criterion T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) has been repealed following a request for comment.
• Speedy deletion criterion X2 (pages created by the content translation tool) has been repealed following a discussion.
• There is a proposal to restrict proposed deletion to confirmed users.

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Thank you for your cleanup work on Yitzhak Goren. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 22:12, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Just adding to the thanks for your work on that article and so many more R. One thing to be aware of though - the {{more footnotes}} template (and its cousin {{no footnotes}}) is used when there are several items in the sources and/or external links sections that need to be moved into the article as inline references. The YG article only had one item in the EL's and no items listed as sources so the template you needed to use was {{refimprove}}. I know it may seem a little counter-intuitive but, if you read the full message that the templates leave on the page I think it'll make sense. Thanks again for all your work and enjoy your Sunday. MarnetteD|Talk 22:34, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2020).

Administrator changes

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Angela • Jcw69 • Just Chilling • Philg88 • Viajero

CheckUser changes

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Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the minimum length for site ban discussions was increased to 72 hours, up from 24.
• A request for comment is ongoing to determine whether paid editors must or should use the articles for creation process.
• A request for comment is open to resolve inconsistencies between the draftification and alternative to deletion processes.

Arbitration

• A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2020 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.
• An open request for comment asks whether active Arbitrators may serve on the Trust and Safety Case Review Committee or Ombudsman commission.

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If I haven't said already thank you for your work turning ugly tables into nice readable prose.

I tag short tables that should be prose, knowing and expecting that I will probably eventually have to come back around to the same article and do it myself (and that could be months or years). So every time I see your work it is a relief and an unexpected pleasure.

Thanks. Thanks many times over. -- 109.79.167.69 (talk) 02:53, 17 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Administrator changes

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Ad Orientem • Harej • Lid • Lomn • Mentoz86 • Oliver Pereira • XJaM

There'sNoTime → TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment found consensus that incubation as an alternative to deletion should generally only be recommended when draftification is appropriate, namely 1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created.

Technical news

• The filter log now provides links to view diffs of deleted revisions (phab:T261630).

Arbitration

• The 2020 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place from September 27th to October 7th.
• Following a request for comment, sitting Committee members may not serve on either the Ombuds Commission or the WMF Case Review Committee. The Arbitration Committee passed a motion implementing those results into their procedures.

Miscellaneous

• The Universal Code of Conduct draft is open for community review and comment until October 6th, 2020.
• Office actions may now be appealed to the Interim Trust & Safety Case Review Committee.

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I saw you did some clean up on Reg Hartt. I'm honestly not sure if this page even belongs on wiki, there aren't any good sources of him other than the child porn charges and local weirdo who puts up thousands of posters isn't exactly notable. The article is wildly self promotional as well. DO you think this even belongs here? blindlynx (talk) 10:22, 20 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2020).

Guideline and policy news

• Community sanctions now authorize administrators to place under indefinite semiprotection any article on a beauty pageant, or biography of a person known as a beauty pageant contestant, which has been edited by a sockpuppet account or logged-out sockpuppet, to be logged at WP:GS/PAGEANT.

Technical news

• Sysops will once again be able to view the deleted history of JS/CSS pages; this was restricted to interface administrators when that group was introduced.
• Twinkle's block module now includes the ability to note the specific case when applying a discretionary sanctions block and/or template.
• Sysops will be able to use Special:CreateLocalAccount to create a local account for a global user that is prevented from auto-creation locally (such as by a filter or range block). Administrators that are not sure if such a creation is appropriate should contact a checkuser.

Arbitration

• The 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections process has begun. Eligible editors will be able to nominate themselves as candidates from November 8 through November 17. The voting period will run from November 23 through December 6.
• The Anti-harassment RfC has concluded with a summary of the feedback provided.

Miscellaneous

• A reminder that standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people. (American Politics 2 Arbitration case).

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In the entry for the artist Alison Dunhill, I've just seen that you moved a ref out of a subheading on 17th October (sorry, I put it back before I saw it was your deliberate revision). I guess this is a standard practice, but as the ref in this case is the authority for the whole list (of the artists' major solo exhibitions) in this section, I thought it looked ugly and also confusing for the ref to sit on its own separate line beneath the list. Personally I think it works better for the reader in the subheading where it now is, but perhaps you disagree. Maybe it isn't necessary to reference the list anyway, in which case we could just delete the ref which is to the artist's own website? I'd much appreciate your views. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bozhyemoi (talk • contribs) 17:56, 19 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Bozhyemoi: The Manual of Style, at MOS:HEAD contains "Section headings should:...Not contain citations or footnotes." While that is a 'should' and not a 'must' it is part of the MOS. When I move references out of headings before a list I put the reference at the end of the list, on its own line, to indicate it is a reference for the entire list. I believe the reason for avoiding references in headings is because it makes it impossible or at least difficult to have a link go to that particular section. It may also cause problems for text-to-speech readers used by some readers. Let me know if you have a more visually pleasing way of moving the references out of the headings. One possibility would be to add a start sentence that describes how the reference cites the list and put the reference on that sentence. RJFJR (talk) 20:02, 19 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

RJFJR: Thanks for explaining and I agree that it's best to follow the MOS wherever possible. Your suggestion sounds good to me so I've added an end sentence (in italics) and moved the ref there. I think that looks ok and avoids confusion, but do let me know if you disagree.

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Interface administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

• There is a request for comment in progress to either remove T3 (duplicated and hardcoded instances) as a speedy deletion criterion or eliminate its seven-day waiting period.

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• Voting for proposals in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey, which determines what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year, will take place from 8 December through 21 December. In particular, there are sections regarding administrators and anti-harassment.

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Walter Elmer Schofield, Across the River (1904), Carnegie Museum of Art.		Best wishes for a safe, healthy and prosperous 2021.
		Thank you for your contributions toward making Wikipedia a better and more accurate place. BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 15:15, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply] Oneupsmanship: This painting turned the friendly rivalry between Edward Redfield and Elmer Schofield into a feud. Schofield was a frequent houseguest at Redfield's farm, upstream from New Hope, Pennsylvania, and the two would go out painting together, competing to capture the better view. Redfield served on the jury for the 1904 Annual Exhibition of the Carnegie Institute; at which, despite Redfield's opposition, Across the River was awarded the Gold Medal and $1,500 prize. It was not until a 1963 interview that the 93-year-old Redfield revealed the painting as the cause of the 40-year feud between them. Schofield may have painted it in England, but a blindsided Redfield knew that it was a view of the Delaware River, from his own front yard!

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).

Guideline and policy news

• Speedy deletion criterion T3 (duplication and hardcoded instances) has been repealed following a request for comment.

Technical news

• You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time.

Arbitration

• By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
• Following the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, BDD, Bradv, CaptainEek, L235, Maxim, Primefac.

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Hi ,,, can you see this articles Abdul Aziz al-Uqaili ,Mirza Yahya Khan Moshir od-Dowleh and Ezzat ed-Dowleh,,Thank you ,,Hamaredha (talk) 15:52, 7 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).

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• The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.

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Hi, I wanted from you to see if grammars are correct for English sentences in the articles . Thank you ,,Hamaredha (talk) 22:37, 1 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much ,, Hamaredha (talk) 14:56, 2 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for the cleanup you did on Seema (actress) to re-order the filmography lists/tables. Cheers.– 108.56.139.120 (talk) 15:52, 13 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).

Administrator changes

TJMSmith

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Interface administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a 2019 RfC in favor of creating one such a policy.
• A request for comment is in progress to remove F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a, which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
• A request for comment seeks to grant page movers the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect.
• A request for comment asks if sysops may place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
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Hi,

Regarding the INSEEC Business School article, may you please let me know what do you define as "guff"? You added a banner about "puffery and guff", so I assume that you do.

Incidentally, I am quite shocked about the use of "guff". It is insulting regarding French culture. Have you read Montaigne, René Descartes and analyzed their influence on the Grande Ecole system to be able to say that?

This leads to the question: How should I edit this section to get rid of this banner then? Should I therefore describe this Business School as: barren, purely pragmatic and with no history or humanist values? And thus, when you do some anthropological, sociological and philosophical research about a Business School precepts, therefore, it's guff and puffery.

The content which you may qualify as "puffery and guff" is certainly the section about the honestus clerus, which doesn't infringe any copyrights, and is verifiable. Correct?

To me it seems like there is room for interpretation. Shall there be a section in Wikipedia's codex defining "guff", I will be happy to be enlightened.

I will be equally happy to know what are the criteria to get rid of "guff".

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Onna Bugeisha 2020 (talk • contribs) 08:39, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Onna Bugeisha 2020: I didn't put the puffery and guff reason in the cleanup tag, I added "Layout, overly long headings" to cleanup reason. RJFJR (talk) 14:02, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You need to ask user:Baffle gab1978 who added the original reason. RJFJR (talk) 14:05, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@RJFJR:

Hi, Understood. Thanks. And sorry for the confusion occured. Onna Bugeisha 2020 (talk) 16:13, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello I see that you made 3 recommendations to improve the article.

In regards to the History Section. I can break up the history into 4 parts: 1 Early history in Bohemia, 2 Northern Moravia 1390-1520, 3 Southern Moravia 1435 -1755, 4 History after the year 1755.

In regards to Reference. The two books listed cover over 98 % of what is listed in the article. The 2nd book itself has 245 pages of the family's history from 1300 to 2008. I added additional references which in turn expand what was listed. Some of these could be linked to the article but I do not know how. I may need you help ?

In regard the Genealogies: not sure what the concern is ? The links provide information on hundreds of relatives. Many are listed in multi other family genealogies.

If one is willing to search there are thousands of pages on the history of the family. Almost all are in Czech or German. Some are incomplete of incorrect. What is listed is the accurate history.Thanks for your interest in improving the article. Your help is appreciated.--Vlasime (talk) 03:04, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hiya R. Per this Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Toolforge_down refill and citer are down but reflinks is working again. It's ability to mark dead links and fix some PDFs is so valuable I hope it keeps running for awhile. I know you might already be aware of this but I thought I'd let ya know just in case. Cheers. MarnetteD|Talk 16:18, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi RFJR

Why are you doing edits such as these[2], [3]?

I get that you were trying to fill in bare links, but the website to which those links pointed (http://www.leighrayment.com/) has lapsed and has now been taken over by some cybersquatters who appear to be advertising online gambling. I would have thought that even if you knew nothing about the topic,it would be very obvious that a casino is not a valid ref for a parliamentary by-election.

I know that Refill can be a handy tool, but Wikipedia:ReFill#Health_warning is very clear that you need to check its results: ReFill is not perfect, and never will be. You are responsible for every edit that ReFill 2 suggests so you must take the time to inspect every citation that this tool creates and fix anything that isn't quite right. Do not make work for other editors to clean up.

In this case, it seems that you did no inspections. Please can you now self-revert all these edits, so that others do not have to clean up after you?

Thanks. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:55, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

RJFRl I see that you are editing again, but you have not replied to my message.

You have not gone back to correct previous errors, and instead you are adding misleading refs yo new articles. e.g. on 1942 Sheffield Park by-election, your edits[4] have labelled the link solely as "House of Commons", whereas the page linked is https://web.archive.org/web/20190428141724/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons.htm ... which is an archive of a hobbyist's page. Your edit cites the website as "web.archive.org", whereas that is just the archiving site, not the publisher. The result is very misleading.

I assume that you intentions are good, but this is just making things worse.

Please can you stop and discuss before continuing? --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:11, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• A far as I can see, you have now reverted all the problematic edits, in these contribs.
  Thank you for doing that. However, having taken the time to write two explanatory messages to you, I am very disappointed that you chose not to extend to me even the basic courtesy of a brief acknowledgement to either of them.
  The result of your silence was that I suspended my other work to spend time watching your edits to check that you did revert them all, and not just some of them. Your silence led e to think that I would probably have escalate this matter. That is an unnecessary drain on my time.
  I still have no idea whether you even agree that there was a problem, or whether you just reverted to avoid discussion. I also don't know whether you intend to change your methods to ensure that your further use of Refill doesn't produce more nonsense lie the 84 articles which you mangled here.

That sort of stonewalling is not collaboration. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:04, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I was busy reviewing your message, then reviewing and reverting my edits. Sorry if it caused you concern. I am sorry my spot checks for the tool did not spot the difficulty. I am still considering if there is a long term problem with these items, which are now clogging Category:Articles needing cleanup with bareurl notices. (Also, I'm just about to take a break for dinner.) More later. RJFJR (talk) 22:11, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, @RJFJR, but I don't buy that.

1. You did 84 successive near-identical edits adding nonsense. If you were doing spot checks, you'd have seen that.
2. My second msg to you, asking for a reply, was at 21:11. You replied exactly one hour later, only AFTER you had started on others stuff, and after I a had reverted some of your edits. So your excuse looks like baloney.

--BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:26, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

(Still editing above. Left separate message on your talk page. RJFJR (talk) 22:17, 29 May 2021 (UTC))[reply]

(@BrownHairedGirl: need to leave computer for a bit. Will edit more when I get back. RJFJR (talk) 22:18, 29 May 2021 (UTC))[reply]

(@BrownHairedGirl: I'm Back.) RJFJR (talk) 22:27, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely ZERO response for an hour when I need you, then you bombard me with pointless pings. Unbelievable.. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (