See also these subpages to which content has been moved:

• Thanks received & Older Thanks received
• Criticism & Older Criticism
• Requests & Older Requests
• Deletions and Deletion Proposals & Older Deletions and Deletion Proposals
• Other discussion to keep

I don't use an archive-bot as I want to be a bit more selective in what gets retained in searchable space. Not that I'm concerned about retained content, but there's no need to add to bloat by auto-archiving newsletters, for instance.

https://www.clinicalomics.com/articles/qiagen-bolsters-its-oncology-informatics-with-n-of-one-buy/2070

https://www.clinicalomics.com/articles/sophia-genetics-completes-77m-financing-with-more-hospitals-in-mind/2069

Issue --> https://clinicalomics.epubxp.com/i/1040438-nov-dec-2018/5?m4=

http://www.appliedclinicaltrialsonline.com/latest-business-and-people-news-28?topic=249&CID=actdirect.2339934.APCT*%2520Applied%2520Clinical%2520Trials%2520Direct%2520%7c%2520Bi-monthly&eid=188358419&bid=2339934 — Preceding P. I. Ellsworth, ed. ^put'r there 17:39, 8 September 2019 (UTC)unsigned comment added by 104.129.194.127 (talk) 20:37, 8 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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• A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.

Technical news

• Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. (T178356)
• The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
• A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on Special:Contributions. This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.

Arbitration

• The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
• A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.

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• @Bmjc98: - I've consolidated citations and content as you highlighted. Thanks. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 12:51, 22 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.

Arbitration

• The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.

Miscellaneous

• The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).

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• Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
• As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.

Technical news

• Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.

Miscellaneous

• Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to Jimbo Wales.

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Administrator changes

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• Deckiller
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• MBisanz
• Penwhale
• Raul654
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• Viridae
• Yannismarou

Bureaucrat changes

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Guideline and policy news

• Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead of CC BY-SA 3.0. Contributions are still also released under the GFDL license.

Technical news

• Discussion is open regarding a proposed global policy regarding third-party resources. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.

Arbitration

• Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.

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Your relisting of a CfD discussion went technically wrong because there is no link on the original log page and your signature is lacking on today's page. Besides you are not supposed to relist a discussion if it can be closed. Could you please revert? Marcocapelle (talk) 04:41, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Also, when you are closing a discussion, you should add a clickable link in your edit summary, not like this. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:12, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Marcocapelle: Hello - I've addressed your concerns at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 July 29#Category:2nd-century women rulers. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 00:10, 3 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).

Administrator changes

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• AlisonW
• Amberrock
• Closedmouth
• Scottywong

Interface administrator changes

Novem Linguae

Technical news

• The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (T334338)
• Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. (T337431)

Arbitration

• The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
• The SmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.

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@Ceyockey: Regarding your recent revert, it's worth mentioning that I'm pretty sure Special:WhatLinksHere/The_Queue is currently broken as none of the hundreds of pages currently listed on there link to or even mention the word "queue" at all. I've just found one article that had such a link, but I don't believe there are any other such articles. Chessrat ^{(talk, contributions)} 00:52, 11 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've already replaced a couple using autowikibrowser and am working through them. Don't be so quick to say "oh, you idiot", please. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 00:55, 11 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Turns out that the majority of the what-links-here are due to a link to The Queue in Template:Elizabeth II. Not broken what-links-here, just an annoying confluence of text and template driven links. I hate that "feature". --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 01:04, 11 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ceyockey, I couldn't help noticing that you are adding numerous categories like "Category:Evolutionary biology terminology" to articles.

Now, in the case of a tricky term like "Adaptation", you are arguably correct, the term has multiple meanings, so the article does not describe (or the term denote) a single biological entity, however much we feel that we understand the process, but several, and its topic must be considered at least in part as describing the term and its extension within biological discourse.

On the other hand, with something well-defined like "amino acid" or "adenine", we are not talking about tricky overlapping or conflicting meanings. Many, I hope most, terms in biology have a definite meaning, and a typical biology article is about the thing that the title names, not about the term itself. We are in fact explicitly enjoined by policy to write about things, not terms: WP:NOTDICT.

So, categories that end in "... terminology" do not fit well with subjects like these; indeed I would say that calling Adenine an article about "biology terminology", for instance, is a definite error.

One other thing: I don't really see why this sort of categorisation is needed, as if A is a biochemical and B is a taxon (group of types of organism), then both A and B will fit into a hierarchy which will be topped off by Category:Biology eventually.

I do not wish to spend the next days undoing thousands of newly-added biology categories, so it would be helpful if you could demonstrate consensus for the current categorisation drive (I hope the fact that these articles begin with A means it hasn't gone too far yet!) before proceeding. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:07, 20 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• @Chiswick Chap: I'm trying to make SOME consistency among glossaries, terminology sets and categories of terminology and I appreciate input, but there is essentially no sense or reason to how things are included in these three piles at the moment. I'm not stupid nor editing in a didactic manner. I will likely re-evaluate in the near future but I'm trying out something to feel if it fits. It doesn't fit quite right at the moment and I do think that "aligning" glossary of biology with biology terminology will likely be bad in the long run. I'm going to step away for a bit and come back and see how I feel about the shape and will likely recompose the inclusion criteria in the terminology category to take into account your comment and some additional thoughts on the matter. Regards. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 19:14, 20 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thank you. I certainly don't think categorisation or categorisers are stupid; I do think that categories about words are unlike categories about things. Whether categories about words are sometimes valid (as, it could be argued, with slippery customers like "adaptation") or always valid (again, it could be said that every article is named by a term, but that line of argument would have very far-reaching implications) is a subtle matter that warrants careful thought. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:19, 20 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• @Chiswick Chap: I've reverted a couple of additions I made as I agree they didn't belong (things like "amino acid"). I've substantially re-written the inclusion criteria statements. I've also added a full accounting of the revisions to the category talk page so that the rationale for my removals from and additions to the category are transparent. I'm thinking of proceeding along these lines. Thanks for your thoughts. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 03:26, 23 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Many thanks. On the inclusion criteria, which are obviously welcome, I'd say explicitly that taxa, right up to the top-level (animal, archaea, bacteria, eukaryote) should be excluded, as we ought either to include all N million of them, or none (every taxon is an encyclopedic thing; the name of every taxon is a WP:NOTDICT dictionary term). The current list of 3 criteria is plainly difficult to apply, and could sweep in very many articles, including (uncomfortably) every member of "Biological concepts" and "Glossary of biology". I'd want to restrict membership to articles which are specifically about biology terminology, which discuss terms like adaptation precisely because they are of terminological (not purely biological) interest. To put it a different way, I believe that categories for terms should contain only meta-level articles, ones that discuss how concepts (in object-level categories like "Biological concepts") should be applied; it should not contain any object-level articles. So for example, "acclimatization", "aerobic organism", and "autotroph" are biological concepts, and the terms for them are not of special interest (they apply simply and directly to single, sharply-defined concepts). All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:23, 23 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that you created this stub category yesterday; I'm proposing it for deletion here due to concerns about its placement and usage. Please feel free to comment. Her Pegship (?) 19:41, 22 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I created it strictly to help to reduce the size of the parent category. A companion one for Confederate soldiers can be created ... then there would be a handful of articles remaining in the parent category for people who were involved with the War, but not affiliated with either side. Regards --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 00:43, 24 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've added a comment with rationale at the category-for-discussion discussion. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 00:53, 24 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
• A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that [s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.

Technical news

• Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. (T324166)

Arbitration

• The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.

Miscellaneous

• Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.

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Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text: Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.

Technical news

• Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. (T272294)

Arbitration

• Remedy 9 ("MarioProtIV topic ban") of the WikiProject Tropical Cyclones case has been rescinded.

Miscellaneous

• The 2023 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of one new CheckUser.
• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections opens on 2 October and closes on 8 October.

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Hi. Could you please reopen this. There are four parallel RM discussions going on for the four lines of this system (Talk:Line 1 of the Guadalajara urban rail system, Talk:Line 2 of the Guadalajara urban rail system, Talk:Line 3 of the Guadalajara urban rail system). They should clearly all have the same naming style and the current one isn't standard. Thanks. -- Necrothesp (talk) 09:44, 19 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I undid my close. The several moves would have been best bundled or cross-referenced, but it is what it is. Regards --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 22:47, 19 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Agreed. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:25, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I noticed that you added delsort notices to AfDs like Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Barnes Street but didn't put them onto the actual delsort page, for example Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Transportation. I have now sorted this for you. There is an automated way of doing delsorts which most of use called User:Enterprisey/delsort. It enables me to do several delsorts in one minute and adds it directly to the delsort page from the AfD. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 09:13, 26 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the advice. I will investigate and use going forward. P.S. I hope the delsorts I did were considered appropriate. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 00:31, 27 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi friend, I see that you have draftified an article on Shrawan Kumar, the geneticist. Now, I have worked a bit on it to spruce it up before creating the page Shrawan Kumar (geneticist). Thanks jojo@nthony (talk) 06:52, 17 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).

Administrator changes

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Interface administrator changes

Pppery

• Ragesoss
• TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

• The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
• There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
• Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
• Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
• Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
• Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
• Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
• An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

Miscellaneous

• The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!

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• Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
• The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
• Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.

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• An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
• Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
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• Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
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• Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
• Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.

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• The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

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• The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).

Administrator changes

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• TLSuda

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.

Technical news

• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".

Miscellaneous

• Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

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Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.

Technical news

• Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

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Hi @Ceyockey

I found your site and as a newbie to Wikipedia editing it's super impressive what you've already done here!

For my first article, I thought it would be easiest to take an existing article in my native language (German), translate it, and add additional information. I wrote about Nanoscribe which is part of the BICO group. In case you did not hear about them yet, they make 3D laser microprinters. e I made some mistakes at the beginning and didn't realize some problems with citations. But I think I have that pretty well fixed now. I submitted it for review and I've been waiting for several weeks for someone to review it. Could you help me with this? As a newbie, if there are still problems with the article, I would be happy to get your tips :)

Greetings from @3DmicroPrintExpert 3DmicroPrintExpert (talk) 06:47, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed you performed the moves but didn't close the discussion: Talk:Izer Aliu (footballer)#Requested move 15 May 2024. Skynxnex (talk) 03:27, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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added links pointing to Craik, Craigie, Carrick, Craggs and Cragg

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...adding Discussion apparently completed at Teahouse. Other editors may have a different opinion. David notMD (talk) 07:13, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is no need to mark conversations at the Teahouse as completed. Clerking should be kept to a minimum unless obvious disruption is involved. Threads are archived regularly. Cullen328 (talk) 07:26, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Craig_(surname)&oldid=1246310587

Your edit on 18 September, has inadvertently led to some Disambiguation links: Craik, Carrick, Craigie, Cragg and Craggs. Only Carrick was able to be resolved because it had a wiki dictionary name variant etymology page.

Do you want stub pages made for variant names; Craik, Craigie, Cragg and Craggs?

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Thanks for letting me know. I'll give this some thought and return with some thoughts and comments. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 04:35, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 19:22, 23 October 2024 (UTC) [reply]

Thanks for your contributions to List of placenames of Choctaw origin. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it has no sources. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. I dream of horses (Hoofprints) (Neigh at me) 05:08, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This was being created as the outcome of an official category discussion outcome. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2024_August_7#Category:List_of_place_names_of_Choctaw_origin_in_the_United_States. I will undelete forthwith and do not expect it to be deleted again. Is that reasonably clear? --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 02:28, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ceyockey Okay, incubating it in draftspace/userspace first isn't contradicting the consensus there, but since it falsely appears that I deleted it, fair enough. When do you plan on sourcing it? I dream of horses (Hoofprints) (Neigh at me) 02:43, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it is, as I'm removing the pages from the category as I add them to one or more lists. Some items will not be sourced; many will. The name sources in the original articles are not uniform or complete. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 02:48, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Sorry about the road rage. I've been here for a LONG time and seldom create new articles and when I do it usually starts in Draft space and -- your comment just came at the wrong time. I had considered adding an "in progress' or some other hatnote at the outset, but wanted to see whether anyone would just blast it without asking questions -- shoot first and ask questions after has become the standard operating procedure here and you've demonstrated another anecdote to that effect. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 03:25, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The reason why it's become standard operating procedure is that people have, in the past, said "I have sources," then abandoned the article. The fact is, you had over an hour to add sources, but you didn't. I dream of horses (Hoofprints) (Neigh at me) 05:01, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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