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Verification

Re: your comment about the Haaretz coverage. What kind of verification I can provide that does not violate expectation of privacy? I already linked a copy of my publicly posted reply to Haaretz: [1] which you are welcome to link from your piece. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 00:56, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

That will work fine. Thank you!--3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 10:27, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

One more nitpick, if I may. This is about the "User:Poeticbent, who retired from Wikipedia due to the Antisemitism in Poland dispute, is named by Icewhiz as one of the Polish nationalist editors intentionally spreading misinformation on Wikipedia." AFAIK is never described in Haaretz as "Polish nationalist editor." I think this is implied, perhaps, but overall I'd suggest using a neutral description "one of the Polish editors." That piece, while suggesting that there are many Polish nationalists active on English Wikipedia, actually fails to name a single one... Oh, and I don't think it is necessary to refer to him as 'they' as he discloses his name (and by default, gender) on his user page. I also think it might be worth mentioning that Poeticbent was the most active editor in the Polish-Jewish topic area; creator of numerous articles on Jewish ghettos, and such (I say this as someone who edited Polish-topic area since 2004 and who effectively knows all active content creators in this topic area, past and present; while this is a bit hard to qualify, no other editor comes to mind or has ever been suggested as rivaling his contributions in this topic area; further, if you look at his userpage, there are public statistics, like that 7 out of 8 of his most viewed DYKs were related to Polish-Jewish history, and all of the Top 10 of his most actively edited articles are from that content area). I think that Signpost is the right place to recognize editors who devoted so much of their life to this project, and have statistics to show for it. One nore tidbit that I find might be interesting to the readers: User:Halibutt, RIP, author of 10+ Polish history Featured Articles (according to his userpage) that is mentioned in the Haaretz piece as the creator of the first entry on KLM, and is also implied by Haaretz to be one of those 'nationalists' just like Poeticbent, or at the very least of being guilty of adding saind fringe/conspiracy/hoax theory to Wikipedia in the first place, has described himself on his userpage as a Jew. It might be interesting to point out the irony involved in accusing a Polish Jew of being an [antisemitic?] Polish nationalist. A last thought: I don't want to taut my own contributions (I stopped updating my userpage with them few years back, you can check it if you want...) but all three users named by Haaretz and implied to be part of the 'Polish' POV side or such (Halibutt, Poeticbent, myself; all three who have chosen to reveal their real name on this project, as I think we never had anything to hide or be ashamed for) have been major content creators, who collectively contributed dozens of FAs/GAs and 1000+ DYKs to this project. Icewhiz, according to his userpage, has written about a dozen DYKs, and I am not aware of a single GA or higher quality article hr worked on. This is something to consider in light of Wikipedia:Here to build an encyclopedia... --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:25, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

The Week summarizes this nicely in Nationalists hijacking Wikipedia, their punch line being: " But most of the Polish editors involved are still active on Wikipedia. Who knows what else they are revising?". 194.71.227.61 (talk) 04:18, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, Piotrus, I've included some of those details. 194.71.227.61, I've included a link to The Week in the list of publications which reported on the Haaretz story.--3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 10:18, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

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Thank you!--3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 12:47, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Peter Muhlenberg Memorial

Please see note on your DYK review. Yoninah (talk) 22:24, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Five years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:42, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Togashi Masachika

On 7 November 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Togashi Masachika, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Togashi Masachika was restored to power by a rebel army, only to later commit suicide when confronted by a similar force? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Togashi Masachika. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Togashi Masachika), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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.

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Syxxpackid420

Please could you provide assistance as to how I could resurrect the account Syxxoackid420 which is currently moribund as the email associated with the account password reclamation procedures no longer exists 109.157.144.71 (talk) 14:29, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

109.157.144.71, take a look here. You probably will need to create a new account and have an admin move the history of your old page to the new account.--3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 22:05, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

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FAC: Aftermath (Rolling Stones album)

Hi Kenneth. I opened a featured-article nomination for Aftermath (Rolling Stones album) earlier this month, and it's garnered a good amount of reviews so far. I found your name at an FAN for another rock-related article and wanted to welcome you to offering one more review, if you are interested. isento (talk) 01:16, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

I'll see if I can help.--3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 16:31, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

March Madness 2020

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116 (hip hop group) again, a questionable action

The move to 116 (hip hop group) may have been premature as they are not yet commonly known by the name. Walter Görlitz (talk) 17:02, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

The group hasn't been going by "116 Clique" for some time now.--3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 00:55, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Removal of maintenance template?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reach_Records&curid=39302068&diff=947192866&oldid=947167271 Are you planning on citing? Walter Görlitz (talk) 06:54, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

I removed the template because I provided a citation to the Reach Records discography page, which has all the releases listed.--3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 00:57, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 March 2020

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DYK for Wande (rapper)

On 4 April 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Wande (rapper), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Nigerian-American Christian hip hop artist Wande became interested in rapping after her biology teacher allowed her to compose a rap about cellular transport? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Wande (rapper). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Wande (rapper)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Extracted

On Commons, you should add {{extracted from|File:"I'm Lecrae".webm}} to screenshots from videos. The original video should also have {{licensereview}} to request a license review. (File:"I'm Lecrae".webm already does) If the source video hasn't been uploaded on Commons, the screenshot should have {{licensereview}}. Thanks for helping btw. - Alexis Jazz 16:05, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Okay, will do.--3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 17:01, 10 April 2020 (UTC)