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buses
Regarding this, I searched for bus images, and included in the results were a good number of non-articulated buses with three axles (including two at the rear). I am not saying that I agree with the anon's edit, but I see no basis to treat it as vandalism. --Money money tickle parsnip (talk) 02:52, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
- @Money money tickle parsnip: If you have a reliable source, I'd be all for updating the axle sentence. The IP's edit may have been made in good faith, but it made the sentence wrong, as most buses do not have three axles. When patrolling recent changes, a very common type of vandalism I see is changing numbers, especially on articles for common terms. But I'll try to use a Template:welcomeunsourced banner or the like in the future. gobonobo + c 22:25, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks for the reply. As I said, I am not actually agreeing with the IP's edit, I was simply disagreeing with the use of the vandalism template. Welcomeunsourced looks like a good one for future.
- Mind you, it doesn't exactly help when the original version is also unsourced. A good-faith challenge to an unsourced statement is likely to be good enough reason to remove the original statement entirely (together with any unsourced competing statement), but where the edit is probably somebody just messing about and the original statement is not surprising or controversial, then I might be more inclined to just revert despite the lack of source. Judging where the boundary lies can be difficult, and I think it is not necessarily in the same place as the boundary for treating it as a user conduct issue. --Money money tickle parsnip (talk) 06:05, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
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Books and Bytes - Issue 22
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Your election in Florida 2016 reversion
Mind telling me why you leave "incorrect information" in the article's[1] main infobox then? There you can find your source for the 2.1% figure. 86.90.43.5 (talk) 23:32, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
- Corrected. See Florida Dept of State. A vandal has been changing the infobox totals. gobonobo + c 23:35, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2017
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2017).
- The RFC discussion regarding WP:OUTING and WMF essay about paid editing and outing (see more at the ArbCom noticeboard archives) is now archived. Milieus #3 and #4 received support; so did concrete proposal #1.
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Shorty Awards
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2017).
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- Following a series of discussions around new pages patrol, the WMF is helping implement a controlled autoconfirmed article creation trial as a research experiment, similar to the one proposed in 2011. You can learn more about the research plan at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial. The exact start date of the experiment has yet to be determined.
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The Signpost: 5 August 2017
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Books and Bytes - Issue 23
Books & Bytes
Issue 23, June-July 2017
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Nomination of Beltrami Electric Cooperative for deletion
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2017).
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- ACTRIAL, a research experiment that restricts article creation to autoconfirmed users, will begin on September 7. It will run for six months. You can learn more about the research specifics at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial, while Wikipedia talk:Autoconfirmed article creation trial is probably the best venue for general discussion.
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- Applications for CheckUser and Oversight are being accepted by the Arbitration Committee until September 12. Community discussion of the candidates will begin on September 18.
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PERMISSION REQUEST
Dear Madams& Sirs
I'm writing an encyclopedia in german called "222 Juden verändern die Welt"
(Transl.: "222 jews changed the world")
I would like to use one portrait of Peter Benenson in a final format less than 1,5 x 2 inches from the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Peter_Benenson.jpg
or another portrait.
Please let me know the conditions or how to contact the rightsholder.
Yours,
Prof. Dr. Mario Markus Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Physiologie Otto-Hahn-Str. 11 44227 Dortmund, Germany Tel.: +49-231-128902
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The Signpost: 25 September 2017
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2017).
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- Following a successful proposal to create it, a new user right called "edit filter helper" is now assignable and revocable by administrators. The right allows non-administrators to view the details of private edit filters, but not to edit them.
- Following a discussion about mass-application of ECP and how the need for logging and other details of an evolving consensus may have been missed by some administrators, a rough guide to extended confirmed protection has been written. This information page describes how the extended-confirmed aspects of the protection policy are currently being applied by administrators.
- You can now search for IP ranges at Special:Contributions. Some log pages and Special:DeletedContributions are not yet supported. Wildcards (e.g. 192.168.0.*) are also not supported, but the popular contribsrange gadget will continue to work.
- Community consultation on the 2017 candidates for CheckUser and Oversight has concluded. The Arbitration Committee will appoint successful candidates by October 11.
- A request for comment is open regarding the structure, rules, and procedures of the December 2017 Arbitration Committee election, and how to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.
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