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Wow that is from many years ago. 2009 Throwback saturday...LOL - !Moxy- 21:33, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

 Done Moxy🍁 04:24, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! Anomie⚔ 06:49, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Canadian peacekeeping

The article Canadian peacekeeping you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Canadian peacekeeping and Talk:Canadian peacekeeping/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Nikkimaria -- Nikkimaria (talk) 22:00, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Please help! New sockpuppet spotted

I don't know exactly how to proceed. But I'm very sure user Tromneck (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is a sockpuppet of a large list of socks, I don't remember the original name but Hordeolum (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) was one of the banned socks.

How do I know this? This user is obsessed with editing religious statistics from countries all around the world (infoboxes) or the pages "Religion of XXXXX" themselves. And this user named "Tromneck" does exactly the same as Hordeolum (now permanently blocked) did before. Always editing sourced data with fake numbers or doing synth without inserting any new source.

I've also seen other permanently blocked accounts that did exactly the same edits and this belonged to a major "parent" first sockpuppet but I don't know the name. As you are an admin, can you please check this? Thank you. LucenseLugo (talk) 11:14, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Resolved

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rajputbhatti Moxy🍁 16:31, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Editor experience invitation

Hi Moxy. :) I'm looking for people to interview here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 09:47, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Stuff

Howdy Moxy. In answer to your question at WP:ANI. Mies has been blocked (starting March 13, 2024) from the Monarchy of Canada page, for two weeks. But not from its talkpage. GoodDay (talk) 10:21, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Canadian peacekeeping

The article Canadian peacekeeping you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Canadian peacekeeping for comments about the article, and Talk:Canadian peacekeeping/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Nikkimaria -- Nikkimaria (talk) 19:23, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your time.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Moxy🍁 19:29, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

story · music · places

Congratulations! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:33, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

I like to see Appalachian Spring on the Main page today (not by me, just interested and reviewed), and I also made it my story. How do you like the compromise in the composer's infobox? - How do you like the statue (look up places)? - I was undecided so show three versions ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:56, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Please see talk page of Toronto about the picture.

Talk:Toronto Thanks! Félix An (talk) 03:07, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Canadian peacekeeping

On 8 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Canadian peacekeeping, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Canadian peacekeepers participated in every UN peacekeeping effort from its inception until 1989? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Canadian peacekeeping. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Canadian peacekeeping), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Calm down

Calm down, what you actually reverted isn't what you think you reverted. Wellington Bay (talk) 14:58, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

The lead is the overview. Thinking best you propose any changes on talk first at this point. Moxy🍁 15:01, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

April thanks

story · music · places

Thank you for improving article quality in April! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:17, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

ANI-notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. JoshuaJ28 (talk) 06:45, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Possible Vandalism

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did at Head of State, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use your sandbox for that. Thank you. JoshuaJ28 (talk) 06:58, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Talk:Head of government#PhotomontageMoxy🍁 07:09, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

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About 79-93% of sources say exactly what i edit on the country areas (e.g. Puerto Rico is 9,104 km2), and your reverting is a huge mistake. Do better. (and i do admit Portugal's area doesn't need to be changed) I will face the music (talk) 19:32, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

Why are you changing these all over?..... They no longer equal to set numbers in the body of the articles (that is sourced) or the main articles on this topic? Can you explain why these numbers are different for you? Moxy🍁 21:47, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

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History of Africa

Hi, sorry for being pedantic, but can you link the policy section that talks about listing pages/sea of blue? Alexanderkowal (talk) 19:57, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Probably WP:SEAOFBLUE. CMD (talk) 03:33, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, idk why that didn’t come up in a Google search Alexanderkowal (talk) 09:22, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

I think the paragraph listing kingdoms and empires is necessary, partly to refute anti-African bias regarding their history which remains very prevalent, and because the pages on the history of certain regions are quite poor, and the pages on the individual polities are much better, so for people who want to gain a cursory view of African history those links are much more useful. Alexanderkowal (talk) 09:38, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

@Moxy is that okay now? Alexanderkowal (talk) 12:20, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Sorry have been busy..... the lead is an accessibility nightmare. This will cause readers to go somewhere else. Moxy🍁 23:59, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

What do you mean by accessibility? Do you mean someone using audio description? Alexanderkowal (talk) 08:19, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

May music

story · music · places

Today's story mentions a concert I loved to hear (DYK) and a piece I loved to sing in choir, 150 years old (OTD). -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:02, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

29 May 1913: The Rite of Spring - today's story, actually something I saw at that place in a revival. - Do you remember the infobox discussion 100 years after the premiere, often mentioned in the arbcase? - Today a user who returned after several years said that nothing changed. Would you agree? I wouldn't ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:46, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Help needed

Hi, since you previously warned Noaius Paticus, I think your help here would be relevant here. They keep restoring and further continue their unsourced additions of place names even though they have been notified of WP:CIRCULAR, WP:RS, and WP:VERIFY. Now, they are also telling me to add sources for their additions despite WP:BURDEN. I would appreciate if you could intervene. Maybe you could explain why they should follow the rules better than I can. Although their account is only 3 days old, I will have to take this to WP:ANI otherwise. Thank you, Aintabli (talk) 15:54, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Hounding

Your blanking of my recent edits without justification and your cross-posting of this in Talk:Christianity is a violation of Wikipedia's policy against harassment. Kindly discontinue. Struct (talk) 00:11, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

Best WP:Drop the stick.... Don't get yourself blocked over a stupid image. Moxy🍁 00:12, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

You might want to consider discontinuing your tendentious blanking and doing the same, ma'am or sir. If you believe that I should be blocked, I suggest you put in an admin report. If you continue be unproductively obstructive, please be aware that I will have to report you. Thank you for your consideration. Struct (talk) 00:22, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

Invite any administrator who watches my page to see these contributions Moxy🍁 00:26, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

I will, thank you. Struct (talk) 00:59, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

Notice of edit warring noticeboard discussion

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion involving you at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring regarding a possible violation of Wikipedia's policy on edit warring. Thank you. Struct (talk) 01:08, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

We tried to explain to you to move on....o well. Moxy🍁 01:21, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

Re: A barnstar for you!

Thank you! I didn't really expect a barnstar for my work on the "Italy" article, it was really unexpected. The important thing is that now the article is finally okay, also thanks to my contributions. Thanks again. Regards. --LukeWiller (talk) 12:31, 5 June 2024 (UTC).

"Wikipedia:BOOKLINKS" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Wikipedia:BOOKLINKS has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 June 5 § Wikipedia:BOOKLINKS until a consensus is reached. Daask (talk) 21:24, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Mission Statement

Hi. I wonder if you'd like to revert your edit on WP:PURPOSE. What the article says is not what the source says. "free access to the sum of all human knowledge" is not the same as "a comprehensive collection of all of the knowledge in the world". Indeed WP:PRIME make the exact same point while discussing Wales' quote.

I see no reason why WP:PURPOSE can't contain the actual quote, rather than a bad interpretation. Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 10:43, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Sounds good go for it. Moxy🍁 11:14, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Confrontation

I can tell you're from the US and not Canada, and also stop bringing back my edits. At least you never reverted Chad thank god I will face the music (talk) 12:53, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Best go to talk pages when reverted by multiple editors.Moxy🍁 02:08, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Breaking the 3-revert rule on the Estonia article

Your recent editing history at Estonia shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war; read about how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saltsjöbaden (talk • contribs) 17:33, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Yes best YOU read over this before adding disputed content. Moxy🍁 17:38, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Notice of edit warring noticeboard discussion

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Try to move forward don't waste other people's time. Moxy🍁 18:12, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

User watch

Hi I'm just curious, can admins watch users like users watch pages, so it comes up on your watchlist? I appreciate the input, I know my edits aren't always great. I'm going to try to be less polemical but it's just frustrating seeing bias you disagree with. If there's any instances where I behave poorly or don't take the best route please feel free to contact me, idm being held to a high standard, I'm still learning basic things lol Alexanderkowal (talk) 20:46, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

@Alexanderkowal:...Anyone can look at what YOUR DOING... But I can assure you articles that are contentious are many people's watch list (especially admins who've had to do actions on the page)... I have over 30,000 pages on watch list I believe....but the reason for me noticing the quote copy pasting was this tool that I and many others look at on a regular basis. Moxy🍁 00:07, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

If your looking for niche things to do look at Wikipedia:Maintenance..... We always need help behind the scenes. Moxy🍁 00:08, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

Sorry I’ve got too much on my to do list, maybe in the future Alexanderkowal (talk) 00:25, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks that makes sense Alexanderkowal (talk) 00:24, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

Response for you reverting my edits

I know it’s you. Please reverting my edits. I’ve told you this FOUR TIMES NOW. You’re a fucking stalker at this point. LEAVE. ME. ALONE. Get a fucking life dude. I’m fed up you, this behavior is insane. Your actions are actions of somebody who shouldn't be a fucking editor. You better stop. DO YOU FUCKING HEAR ME!? YOU BETTER FUCKING STOP!!! You clearly need mental help, something is WRONG with you. Normal people don’t do this shit. Get a fucking life, grow up. And haha you never reverted my edit on Chad, did you? No you didn't, thank God :) I will face the music (talk) 12:08, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

Editor simply not here. We have tried to talk to them many times to no avail. Problem outlined at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries#Area of countriesMoxy🍁 12:14, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

• I've blocked the user for 72h for personal attacks (the one above) and for refactoring another user's Talk page on June 23. If you want a longer block, you'll have to take this to WP:ANI. I suggest not doing that until after the block expires and you see what the user does then.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:08, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

  Thank you. Moxy🍁 17:32, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi

Leave me alone while i'm editing and don't bother reverting I will face the music (talk) 15:21, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

Either participate in discussions or don't

Hello, I'm Elinruby. I noticed that you made a comment that didn't seem very civil, so it may have been removed. Wikipedia is built on collaboration, so it's one of our core principles to interact with one another in a polite and respectful manner. If you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you.

It is unacceptable to decline to read, as you did at WikiProject Canada, which is in itself fine, but then suggest based on not having looked into something that the discussion is so bizarre that my account must be compromised. Hopefully now that the discussion has been derailed to explain that to you, we have put that to rest, but this is becoming a pattern and the above follows a warning at WikiProject Canada after you cast source verification as ignorance of the issues. Despite the pattern I am starting at the level one template out of courtesy for your past contributions. Elinruby (talk) 07:20, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Can you not lose the snark

yes there are other sources, many of them better than your 1991 publication probably. I accept that you aren't willing to help but in that case please stop getting in the way. Elinruby (talk) 06:50, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

If you are aware of other sources why are you wasting peoples time? Never said I won't help......best try to comprehend what others say better. Moxy🍁 10:37, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

all I know is what you are doing right now is definitely not "helping". Elinruby (talk) 10:48, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Providing you with sources and restoring a few statements you have removed with better sources is not helpful? Moxy🍁 10:57, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Let me explain yet again in hopes of not being called TL;DR this time. I went all through this topic up and down when the graves were found in Kamloops at the time in 2021. This is a local news story for me. There are about six sources, none of which had previously been discussed at any noticeboard, which have been promoting the idea that there are no bodies in those graves. I discovered to my horror that the article had been rewritten based upon them. I have made some headway with that problem; the article at least no longer cites spiked.com. The Dorchester Review and Western Standard likewise have been discredited and removed. It is now possible to say "the genocide in Canadian residential schools" without getting instablocked. Now we are down, for the most part, to missionary sources pushing a narrative of attacks on the faithful, and some synth involving otherwise good sources for actual events. There was indeed a church fire in Hazelton, for example. It doesn't matter how close in time it was to the Tofino fire however, because it is physically impossible that the same person set both fires. Etc.

And no, waving around a volume of the TRC report is not helpful without a page number, and that's a primary source anyway. To avoid anyone else having to to explain that we do have RS in Canada I am trying to only add peer-reviewed or at least very high-quality sources. Although in some some cases I have cited the report just to get a reference in there, mostly for highly contentious points like the studies on malnutrition, and hope to replace that as I plug each school into Scholar, jstor and The Wikipedia Library. Since I am already seemingly being gas-lighted by civil POV-pushers, having an experienced editor following me around muttering darkly that I need to acquaint my self with foundational documents is not helpful, no.

I think you possibly got this impression from the discussion about COMMONNAME with another editor I had pinged into the discussion. I asked him about this topic since we had crossed paths in the area of whether Canada is still a common law system, since I have done considerable work on legal systems that are not. And no, it isn't really, he says, btw. He says it is now a hybrid system. In any event, I don't know what he does IRL but it's probably something legal and I consider him knowledgeable about such matters as "was there a Government of Canada per se before Confederation?"

Source verification can require asking some questions that seem blindingly simple-minded to other editors. Sometimes that is because they missed something and sometimes not, but I make a point of not just verifying the parts I don't like. I really don't want to argue with you and completely understand your desire to protect these articles, but this is not the stable version I left two years ago and I am not the person they need to be protected from. My goal here is to source all this scheisse so irrefutably they won't be able to use it in a hoax again. I hope this clears things up. I have a couple of articles in the works that may also help with this. Elinruby (talk) 11:36, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

You must be working on articles I'm not aware of...... I don't see any edit wars or anyone banned from the topic. I simply don't understand why there's 10 posts at the reliable sources noticeboard.... why are you simply not replacing sources you find contentious? Moxy🍁 16:32, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Gallery on UK page

Hi, I put a 5 image gallery on the topography section, as it is appropriate to showcase the UK landscape, so people can see what it looks like. If you look at the France page in French you can see they have huge galleries and it is no way as extreme as that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117PXL (talk • contribs) 19:29, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

Pls review WP:COUNTRYGALLERIE..... We simply don't do this for country articles ....pls review the structure of our featured content that is listed at here on a section about size of articles....that the UK page also needs to work on. Moxy🍁 19:34, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

What are your thoughts about the French page, that has huge galleries of scenery and actors? 117PXL (talk) 19:48, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

The French page has many accessibility problems. Not sure if French Wiki has an accessibility guideline ....see ours for images at MOS:ACCIM Moxy🍁 20:13, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

Declined speedy deletion of Schleese Saddlery

Just a reminder that G12 would apply only if all revisions are copyright violations. -- Whpq (talk) 14:24, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

Sounds good.....did not see anything that would benefit our readers from past editions .....but I get it. Moxy🍁 14:27, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

It's terribly stubby, but it was kept at AFD and there are suggested sources in the talk page for anybody wanting to improve the stub. -- Whpq (talk) 14:30, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

Jihad

Were those edits not okay? Kowal2701 (talk) 06:55, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

Ik my writing style is poor for academic writing and I shouldn’t really be editing topics I’m not proficient in but the initial lede was really terrible Kowal2701 (talk) 07:04, 15 July 2024 (UTC)