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Thank you StrayBolt (talk) 03:18, 9 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Why would a park that's been defunct since 1988 be "probably by popularity too" over a park that currently gets thousands of visitors per year, and has done so for over 175 years? Pdfpdf (talk) 09:27, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Pdfpdf: The first reason I said was favoring articles over sections. I was basing popularity on Wikipedia page views (only the 2 when first sorting) and PP was only Park #18 of 29 (the history for the amusement park didn't get moved, so use PP). Since you asked, I also looked at this chart on redirects which only has 9(+8?) for the past month. Things change over time so maybe it would be rearranged later. Another "popularity" is typing in PP in the search window and see the suggested results. I don't know if that is user-tailored. Also, I don't think PP should have been moved to "PP, Texas"; that implies it is a city. Probably "PP (amusement park)" or maybe "PP (Texas)" or something else would be better. That might be true for your Park #18 too (somewhere there are guidelines for that). When you moved it, you also "broke" (or ambiguated) a few links, so it would have been nice to fix those. Let's figure out the right name before we fix those. StrayBolt (talk) 16:43, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the reply. To clarify, independent of popularity, I have no problem with you putting the page higher on the list than the redirect.
Regarding popularity, I wrongly assumed you were referring to the popularity of the place, not web-page views. (Silly me.) Also, I thought I had fixed the links. It seems I didn't. My apologies. I'll now wait until you sort out page names before I do so.
FYI, I really wasn't sure what to rename the park in Texas to; my main aim was to free the main name for use as a disambiguation page - I'm happy for you to rename PP in Texas to whatever you think is best, and I am happy to support such a move. (Please tell me when you have done so.)
The problem on en.wikipedia with the Adelaide Park Lands is that it consists of many parks and gardens (many more than 29), some of which have their own pages, (e.g. Himeji Gardens which is part of Park 18, and Veale Gardens which is part of Veale Park), and many of which don't, (but with time this should change). The problem on en.wikipedia with the 29 "major sub-parks" (my terminology) of the Adelaide Park Lands is that the City of Adelaide has now given each of them three names - see here. On en.wikipedia this will lead to (at most) 29 pages, and (at least) 58 redirects. The challenge is what to name the pages and redirects, particularly when there is a need to disambiguate. I suspect that Peppermint Park, Adelaide Park Lands is probably always going to be a redirect, and although the target of the redirect may possibly change with time, it will always refer to the same piece of land in the Adelaide Park Lands. Also, "Adelaide" covers over 1,200 square miles; it's possible that there is or may be a Peppermint Park somewhere else in the Adelaide metropolitan area that I don't know about.
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List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events[edit]

Hi there. Thanks for your recent addiction to List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events regarding the Nemesis. I'm having a hard time trying to understand from the text you've added exacted how Nemesis is allegedly going to render life on Earth extinct. Can you clarify somehow?

This article is currently nominated to be a featured list (see here), so It's important right now that there isn't anything potentially confusing on it. Incidentally if you'd be willing to comment on the nomination regarding any potential improvements or whether or not you support or oppose the nomination that would be appreciated. Thanks. Freikorp (talk) 10:26, 9 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Freikorp:I added more details and a counter argument since it is not generally accepted. I was debating about putting it at all. It fit nicely in the time-scale between 1 and 100 million years so I added it. You can remove it if you feel it is too fringy. When I asked David Morrison (astrophysicist) about Nemesis (many years prior to 2011), he didn't directly discount it, but switched back to the general statistical risk, lack of detection, lack of prevention and significant consequence of earth being hit. StrayBolt (talk) 15:57, 9 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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East St. Louis race riots[edit]

Hi, you reverted my edit, saying that the race riots "included lynchings". How are you defining "lynchings" in this event? It is not a synonym for hangings. It was my understanding that usually lynchings refer to a mob killing an individual or a few specific persons, often one or more who had been accused of a crime or perceived offense. Sometimes the mob took persons who were suspects from custody of jails or courts, and operated outside the law in extrajudicial murders, sometimes held on the courthouse square. Other times they did not wait for the suspect to be taken to court. The race riot, by contrast, is a larger outbreak of violence, in which attackers direct their violence at any member of an ethnic group they see or find. Both are forms of racial terrorism but there is a distinction in most of the studies on these topics.Parkwells (talk) 15:06, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Parkwells: I had reviewed WP lynching lead def: "an extrajudicial punishment by an informal group. It is most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob, often by hanging, in order to punish an alleged transgressor, or to intimidate a minority group." Most RS use "lynching" as well as reporting the mob using that verb. The shot-up Model T, inaccurate stories about the shooting, and the no-consequences unleashed the mob. Checking further, wiktionary lynching def: "Execution of a person by mob action without due process of law, especially by hanging." Some have preferred the term "mass lynching" instead of "race riot". Lynching in the United States mentions many race riots with lynchings. Can you give a source to say a race riot is mutually exclusive from lynching? StrayBolt (talk) 19:31, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Star Suvarna[edit]

Hi, I am ZaxoteZ, I had added a logo of Star Suvarna channel few days ago, but unfortunately, the logo has been deleted today. If possible, please add a logo for the channel. Without logo, something is missing on the page. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Suvarna ZaxoteZ (talk) 17:29, 24 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@ZaxoteZ: I have not yet added graphics to WP so you might ask someone else if you want speedy results. StrayBolt (talk) 17:39, 24 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox[edit]

I have just added the infobox in 2 pages, but it seems, something is wrong here. Please edit the infobox please for both the pages https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zee_Madhya_Pradesh_Chhattisgarh https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zee_Uttar_Pradesh_Uttarakhand ZaxoteZ (talk) 17:51, 24 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@ZaxoteZ: Zee Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand‎ had nowiki tags too. StrayBolt (talk) 20:49, 24 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox[edit]

Please edit the infobox for this page too https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Ganga ZaxoteZ (talk) 01:04, 25 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@ZaxoteZ: No. You have to either stop pasting in "nowiki" tags or delete them after you added them. You can even see the notification in the history where it says "nowiki added". StrayBolt (talk) 02:29, 25 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please edit this. In my mobile screen, nowhere is showing "nowiki". U just simply edit the infobox, I will provide all information. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Ganga — Preceding unsigned comment added by ZaxoteZ (talkcontribs) 02:55, 25 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@ZaxoteZ:I will teach you how to do it. You simply touch the pencil menu and pick "Source editing". Remove all the tag pairs with nowiki. You can then go back to "Visual editing". StrayBolt (talk) 03:25, 25 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Finally I have done with your guidance. Thank you so much. Need your guidance in future too. I have uploaded few logos here, but unfortunately all's are deleted, claiming non permitted logo. I can't understand this licence matter. Can you help me regarding this matter too? — Preceding unsigned comment added by ZaxoteZ (talkcontribs) 04:05, 25 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@ZaxoteZ: Glad you were able to fix it. As I said before, I have not uploaded images to WP so you need to find someone else who has spent the time to figure it out. Suggest you look at some other international company's wikipage with a logo and get the info for how that image qualifies. There must be instructions out there somewhere. StrayBolt (talk) 04:39, 25 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You just do me a special favour. I will upload the logos, then pass you the link, you just fix the license issues of that logo image. Then only my uploaded images will remain here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ZaxoteZ (talkcontribs) 04:43, 25 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Zee Bangla Cinema[edit]

Hi, I have created another new page for Zee Bangla Cinema channel here. Please check & edit somewhere where it needed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zee_Bangla_Cinema_(TV_Channel) ZaxoteZ (talk) 08:57, 25 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have already created 2 more pages in Wikipedia. Just check & edit. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zee_Bangla_Cinema_(TV_Channel) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%26_Priv%C3%A9_HD — Preceding unsigned comment added by ZaxoteZ (talkcontribs) 12:18, 25 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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There has been an edit war going on at this article between two sets of socks. You have essentially reinstated the material of one of those sets. I don't think you're a sock, but I do think that the material is misplaced. It should be put in the body of the article, and a very brief summary in the lede. I'd rather not do it myself, as I have no interest in the article except from a policy standpoint. However, if you don't want to do it - and nothing commpels you to do so - I may undo your edit. That kind of detailed negative material simply does not belong in the lede of any article. Another option, if it's easier for you, is simply to create a new section for the material and not bother with a summary in the lede. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:50, 16 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Bbb23: Thanks. I saw your Admin Noticeboard revert on my Watchlist and looked at it thinking they posted the request in the wrong place, but there was more. Yes, very messy article in terms of issues. Somewhat regret getting in it. Probably only notable because of the past (hidden) history. Thanks for not "socking" me. StrayBolt (talk) 23:39, 16 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, I don't see how an article on CNET saying "QAnon is an internet hype, and John Titor was back in the 2000s" establishes John Titor as a notable see-also. Titor was not a conspiracy theory or a moral panic; QAnon is not predictions about the future from a time-traveller. Could you explain your reasoning? AllGloryToTheHypnotoad (talk) 14:20, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@AllGloryToTheHypnotoad: I added another example to the See also list. Here is a post about the connection.[1] It looks like there are more examples out there. Do you think I should put them into a section in the article to explain it better, maybe after QAnon#Identity_of_"Q"? StrayBolt (talk) 16:52, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The Medium post doesn't say anything about Titor. I don't really see the connection. And no, I don't think the QAnon article needs a section with other examples of internet hype. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad (talk) 14:07, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi StrayBolt. I didn't want to revert your revert; thought it would be better to exchange thoughts. It appears to me that the "Chicks" naming of their album "Gaslighting" was as intended as a pejorative, a slur. I looked at the lyrics and the back story and the album is a vindictive rant aimed at her husband/ex-husband. If anything, the term is misused; one could argue that it validates misuse (i.e., slur) of the term.

There is nothing in the references (or the lyrics) that would help anyone to better understand the meaning of the term. I used this metric to decide which examples should stay and which should be pulled. If we listed every pejorative or nonspecific mention of "gaslighting", the popular culture list would be endless/useless.

Does this seem reasonable? Wiki-psyc (talk) 16:56, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Wiki-psyc: I think the usage is for the song, not the album. Perhaps you missed the ref I added by Ramani Durvasula: A psychologist reacts to 'Gaslighter' by The Dixie Chicks. Perhaps you should add sourced material to show where the song falls short. The word could still be used as a pejorative, part of a rant, and still be valid. StrayBolt (talk) 19:20, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
StrayBolt. The question was what criteria should be for keeping/removing items fro the "Popular culture" example list. If you look at the article history, items a on and off and on again. My suggestion was "examples should help readers to better understand the meaning of the term/concept"
I used this song as am example. The lyrics of the song are:
Gaslighter, denier
Doin' anything to get your ass farther
Gaslighter, big timer
Repeating all of the mistakes of your father
She/they are talking about adultery (not gaslighting). And she doesn't suggest that her husband was trying to trick her and hide it, she comments on how brazen he was "You thought I wouldn't see it if you put it in my face". Neither the you tube video (not a reliable source) nor the other sources suggest that this song portrays gaslighting - just that it mentions gaslighting. If someone names their horse "gaslighting" and the horse wins the Kenticky Derby and gets a lot of media coverage, should that make it on the list too.
So the bigger question is what metric should editors use (see one example above in bold) in deciding what which references should goes on the list Popular culture examples of gaslighting?
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Clarification: As of 11 April 2022 access to yann.lecun.com does indeed require login, for some people.[edit]

Greetings StrayBolt,

The other day I made several changes to the MNIST_database article to flag the fact that the web site yann.lecun.com requires a visitor to log in.

As I discussed (Bit rot necessitates some updating.) in the article's talk page; when I hit an URL on that site it asked me to login.

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The lecun.com web site is the only place where I am away
of this some people need to login, some don't thing happening.
Frankly I am bit stumped as to where to even look for why
we are seeing different behavior.
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Perhaps you should try from a different connection or browser or turn on some debugging info. Since no one else has responded, I am assuming it is something very specific to your setup. You might try here too: Wikipedia:Reference desk/Computing StrayBolt (talk) 00:47, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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