User talk:Roman Spinner

2006 and 2007

Discussion page content from years 2006 and 2007 is located at User talk:Roman Spinner/Archive 1 (2006 and 2007).—Roman Spinner (talk) 09:49, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

2008 and 2009

Discussion page content from years 2008 and 2009 is located at User talk:Roman Spinner/Archive 2 (2008 and 2009). —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 04:14, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

2010 and 2011

Discussion page content from years 2010 and 2011 is located at User talk:Roman Spinner/Archive 3 (2010 and 2011). —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 04:46, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

2012 and 2013

Discussion page content from years 2012 and 2013 is located at User talk:Roman Spinner/Archive 4 (2012 and 2013). —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 04:46, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

2014 and 2015

Discussion page content from years 2014 and 2015 is located at User talk:Roman Spinner/Archive 5 (2014 and 2015). —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 04:46, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

2016 and 2017

Discussion page content from years 2016 and 2017 is located at User talk:Roman Spinner/Archive 6 (2016 and 2017). —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 01:56, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

2018 and 2019

Discussion page content from years 2018 and 2019 is located at User talk:Roman Spinner/Archive 7 (2018 and 2019). —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 01:56, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Jan 22: WikiWednesday Salon NYC

January 22, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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Saturday Jan 25: Met 'Understanding America' Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jan 25, 12:30pm: Met 'Understanding America' Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for the Met 'Understanding America' Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art on the Upper East Side. Together, we'll expand Wikipedia articles on American history and art, and the understanding that all communities bring to American culture, as reflected in the Met collection up until ca. 1900. With refreshments, and there will be a wiki-cake! Open to everyone at all levels of experience, wiki instructional workshop and one-on-one support will be provided. Saturday Jan 25 Met 'Understanding America' Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 12:30pm - 4:30 pm at Uris Center for Education, Metropolitan Museum of Art (81st Street entrance) at 1000 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan (note this is just south of the main entrance) Galleries will be open this evening until 9 pm, and some wiki-visitors may wish to take this opportunity to see exhibits together after the formal event. Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends, colleagues and students! --Wikimedia New York City Team 21:02, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

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Feb 19: WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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"Poopsie" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Poopsie. Since you had some involvement with the Poopsie redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Bulcultorator (talk) 13:46, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

April 22: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

April 22, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. This month, as part of Wikimedia NYC's commitment to the well-being of members, we will hold WikiWednesday online via Zoom videoconferencing! To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! This month, we've invited Esther Jackson of the New York Botanical Garden to join us for an Earth Day focused conversation. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. Wednesday April 22 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms from 8:00-8:30) We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 23:26, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

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Category:Year of birth missing (living people) has been nominated for deletion

Category:Year of birth missing (living people) has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Atlantic306 (talk) 00:58, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

May 20: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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June 17: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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Thank you

	The Working Man's Barnstar
	Well done for continuing to work in the disambiguation and redirects area, and so successfully, over the last while.

Boleyn (talk) 12:06, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

• After fourteen-and-a-half years of near-daily editing, I have my first barnstar. Considering the source, it means even more to me. I am grateful for your kind commendation and regret my resistance to your heartfelt posting in April 2014, above, regarding my overlong dab page write-ups. I arrived late to that lesson, but I have learned it. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 18:55, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Anthroponymy project

I saw that you added the Anthroponymy project to Roberto Fernández (disambiguation). You might not have been aware, but the project is typically interest in only given names and surnames, not disambiguation pages to full names. There is no need to add to other full name dabs in the future. Regards. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bagumba (talk • contribs) 08:22, 26 July 2020 (UTC)

I appreciate the explanation and will no longer add the Anthroponymy template to full name disambiguation pages. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 13:52, 26 July 2020 (UTC)

Sun Aug 16: Great American Wiknic NYC & Beyond

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Hi

Hi, you're generally a sensible and experience editor whom I respect. What are you proposing? Treating Vietnamese fonts on en.wp differently from all other Latin fonts? If so, why? This is as massive and as disruptive a change as anyone could support, and the previous advocates of the diacritic wars 10 years ago mainly ended up with C-bans. What do you want to see happen to existing MOS practice. In ictu oculi (talk) 13:41, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

I appreciate your contacting me regarding this matter. As a Polish-Ukrainian immigrant to the U.S. who has supported / championed the use of Polish diacritics and the use of Ukrainian, rather than Russian, transliterations for Oleh Sentsov, Kyiv, Odesa, etc, I am not hypocritically opposed to the use of accents and diacritics in the main title headers of those English Wikipedia entries which support such use. Thus, since Polish director Ryszard Bolesławski was credited in Hollywood as Richard Boleslawski, I did not make an issue of it. These matters need to be dealt with on a case-by-case basis, rather than as one-size-fits-all. In cases such as those of Evelyne Brochu, Monica Puig or Talk:Vasyl Ivanchuk#Requested move 18 April 2020, that is how the subjects of those Wikipedia entries style themselves.

As for the case at hand, I would go as far as favoring the establishment of a two-tier system for non-diacritically-depicted key names and places associated with the Vietnam War that had appeared on a near-daily basis in English-language newspapers and magazines of that era and continue to be rendered in such historical form to this day. I accept the argument that the Vietnamese-diacritic headers can be easily accessed via redirects, but a select grouping of names starting with Ho Chi Minh, Nguyen Van Thieu and Nguyen Cao Ky should have their main headers in the Anglicized forms.

Ultimately, it is a matter of WP:COMMONNAME and, while the argument can be legitimately made that such names as (per your mention) Lech Wałęsa and, for that matter, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan or the ancient Polish capital of Kraków are also usually depicted without diacritics in the English-speaking world, thus opening Wikipedia to an accusation of cultural bias in favor of Latin-scripted European alphabets, all of these arguments should be considered in light of reliable sources, longevity of use and English-language print media style guides. In the end, since it is near-impossible to satisfy everyone, no consensus (or possibly consensus) will have the final word. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 22:21, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi Roman, I did wonder from the name Roman whether you might be Polish-American, but the above discussion seems to relate more to your view on Anglicising Ana Ivanovic despite her being as Serbian as you are American. Back to the few Vietnamese whom Americans have heard of. You are aware then of a MOS problem when the 3 or 4 Vietnamese known to Americans (or indeed Australians etc) occur in different font from all other Vietnamese. This is clearly as misreading of the principles of consistency and MOS. This creates then a housework problem for editors. That's the main problem here. Apart from the lingering suspicion from 10 years ago (not you) about some editors reacting to Asians differently than East Europeans. Also you'll note from previous outing 10 years ago that one of the reasons the community decided to treat MOS consistently was the below section of WP:RS. In ictu oculi (talk) 07:58, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

The reliability of a source depends on context. Each source must be carefully weighed to judge whether it is reliable for the statement being made in the Wikipedia article and is an appropriate source for that content. In general, the more people engaged in checking facts, analyzing legal issues, and scrutinizing the writing, the more reliable the publication. Information provided in passing by an otherwise reliable source that is not related to the principal topics of the publication may not be reliable; editors should cite sources focused on the topic at hand where possible. Sources should directly support the information as it is presented in the Wikipedia article.

Hi In ictu oculi, I was born and raised as well as early-schooled in Soviet Ukraine and then in Poland. However, I arrived in the US at the age of 12 and have been living here for 59 years, into my retirement. Based on my linguistic experience, I tend to support accents and diacritics when the native form is predominant, but also support WP:USEENGLISH when such form exists.

As I previously mentioned, each RM needs to be considered on a case-by-case basis. I was the one who added the Polish diacritic to the main title header for Joanna Pacuła and I would oppose the removal of diacritics from the header for Rade Šerbedžija since that is how those two actors were credited in their home country productions at the start of their film careers. However, if they were to contact English Wikipedia in the manner of Talk:Vasyl Ivanchuk#Requested move 18 April 2020 and ask for the removal of the diacritics which they do not use in their English-language films, I would support their wishes.

Of course there will always be inconsistencies. There was no consensus for returning Nguyễn Văn Thiệu to Nguyen Van Thieu, but other names such as Ho Chi Minh, Nguyen Van Thinh or Ngo Dinh Diem remain at their Anglicized forms and, since Wikipedia, in addition to its own Manual of Style, tends to follow the standard style guides, that is how those names appear there.

One of participants at Talk:Ana Ivanovic#Requested move 18 August 2020 wrote that "it is incredibly inconsistent to have article titles like this: Ivanovic–Janković rivalry", but Ana Ivanovic lives in Chicago, while Jelena Janković lives in Dubai and neither likely continues using diacritics in their daily lives. Again, however, if Ana Ivanovic were to take the same steps as Vasyl Ivanchuk, I would immediately support the restoration of the diacritic to her name. The same goes for Monica Puig who also lives in Chicago, not in Puerto Rico.

As inconsistent as Ivanovic–Janković may seem, it is not nearly as inconsistent as the father-son inconsistency of Polish diplomat Tadeusz Brzeziński and American presidential national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was born in Poland and did not become a US citizen until he was 30 years old. None of Zbigniew's three children — Ian Brzezinski, Mark Brzezinski and Mika Brzezinski — uses the diacritic in their grandfather's name. Tadeusz Brzeziński's other son, engineer Lech Brzeziński did use the diacritic, but his son, Matthew Brzezinski does not use it (see Brzeziński).

There many examples for other languages which can be cited for continuation of this topic. However, there are different groupings — heads of state and other leaders such as Lech Wałęsa, Nicolae Ceaușescu or Ho Chi Minh (depending on how each specific name appears in major style guides), sports/chess/etc personalities, depending on whether or not they live in their home country and upon their preference on social media and other factors and, to end for now, actors whose stage names may differ from country to country.

For example, English-language actors Željko Ivanek and Malin Akerman, who have lived in the English-speaking world since childhood, have taken a different approach to stage name diacritics — Ivanek insists in keeping the diacritics in his billing, while Akerman has never used the diacritic in her billing (despite the main title header, Malin Åkerman, of her English Wikipedia entry). —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 07:13, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

"The Maltese Falcon (1936 film)" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect The Maltese Falcon (1936 film). The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 August 18#The Maltese Falcon (1936 film) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Clarityfiend (talk) 08:04, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Socratic Barnstar
		A Socratic Barnstar in honour of the excellence of your argument in opposition to moving Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya's wiki page Arianna the First (talk) 07:16, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

An honor indeed. I am most grateful to receive it and very much appreciate your kindness in bestowing it. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 07:13, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

September 6th: NYC COVID-19 Multilingual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon - ONLINE

September 6, 2-4pm E.S.T: NYC COVID-19 Multilingual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon - ONLINE

You are invited to join the Sure We Can community for our NYC COVID-19 Multilingual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon - ONLINE - this Sunday, Sept 6th, 2020. The edit-a-thon is part of Sure We Can's work with NYC Health + Hospitals to stop the spread of Covid-19. We plan to work on translating the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City article into other languages; as well as, brainstorm ideas about how we could use wikipedia to slow the spread of Covid-19. Please join us, all skill levels welcome! Is there an idea you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? Have an idea how we can use wikipedia to slow the spread of Covid-19? Please, let us know by adding it to the agenda. Sunday September 6 NYC COVID-19 Multilingual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon - ONLINE (optional RSVP on-wiki). 2:00pm - 4:00 pm online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms available)

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Thank you for your comment on Talk:Kiev

Hi User:Roman Spinner. Thank you for your comment on Talk:Kiev - it is accurate and timely. I know that these days it is not easy for you to make any comments on Talk:Kiev (my July 5 comment that was, regretfully, removed by sysop El_C (diff) succinctly summarized how several pro-Kiev editors and sysops over the course of multiple years harassed and repeatedly threatened to block you for merely voicing your opinion why Kyiv is now the correct spelling of Ukraine's capital) and this is why it is even more valuable.--73.75.115.5 (talk) 17:12, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

I am grateful for your kind words and for your ceaseless efforts on behalf of Kyiv which finally culminated in the widely-noted successful conclusion. As I noted one year and nine months ago in a reply at User talk:Roman Spinner/Archive 7 (2018 and 2019)#I can not send you a message above, the road seemed to be a long one, but thanks to your endeavor, the votes of all the Wikipedians who supported the move, as well as unforeseen world events, the destination proved to be closer than expected. The next, although lesser, hurdle can be spotted of course in the discussion at Talk:Odessa#Renaming (September 2020) which may benefit from the accelerated pace demonstrated by the climax of the Kyiv discussions.

I also appreciate your link to my January 2019 comments but, unlike some editors who were browbeaten into leaving Wikipedia as a result of actual threats and harassment, I have not felt myself subjected to such treatment. These are deeply felt contentious topics which may result in occasionally negative personal interactions but, at the end of the editing day, I am grateful for the opportunity to interact with fellow Wikipedians and exchange ideas which become part of the historical record for decades and, hopefully, centuries to come. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 05:06, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, Roman Spinner

Thank you for creating Rebecca Stephens.

User:Paine Ellsworth, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

Excellent dab page! In the future please be sure to update the talk page and to create the "Foo (disambiguation)" redirect. Thank you very much!

To reply, leave a comment here and prepend it with {{Re|Paine Ellsworth}}. And, don't forget to sign your reply with ~~~~ .

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P.I. Ellsworth  ed. ^put'r there 01:28, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

@Paine Ellsworth: I appreciate your kind compliment, but cannot take the credit for the creation of the Rebecca Stephens disambiguation page. My sole creation was a redirect which another editor expanded into the dab page four weeks later. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 05:06, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

LOL yes that's happened to me before as well. I'm sure you know that when you review a page, there is a place for comments, and those are forwarded to the original page creator rather than to a secondary editor who actually changed the redirect into a content page. I didn't catch what had happened until after I had reviewed the page, so I figured you would set me straight :>) and thank you for doing so! P.I. Ellsworth  ed. ^put'r there 05:28, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

Apologies for waiting a week before posting a response (my computer just returned from ten days at the MAC/PC Guys repair shop) and my thanks for your much more prompt (22 minutes) reply. Also, taking advantage of this opportunity, in view of the main title header Kiev having been moved to Kyiv, my even more belated thanks for your close at another Ukrainian requested move — Talk:Oleg Sentsov#Requested move 21 October 2016. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 06:25, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

Yes, that is an old one! Guess I made a few non-friends there and at the ensuing MRV. Live and learn. It's a pleasure to help. P.I. Ellsworth  ed. ^put'r there 08:18, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

Sat Sep 26: Met Fashion Virtual Edit Meet-up

September 26, 12:30pm: Met Fashion Virtual Edit Meet-up

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October 21: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

October 21, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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November 21st ~ NYC COVID-19: Environmental Justice in Public Health Edit-A-Thon - ONLINE

November 21st, 11am-1pm E.S.T: NYC COVID-19: Environmental Justice in Public Health Edit-A-Thon - ONLINE

Hello Roman Spinner!! You are invited to join the Brooklyn based Sure We Can community for our 2nd NYC COVID-19 themed Wikipedia Edit-a-thon / translate-a-thon - ONLINE - this Saturday, Nov 21st, 2020 11am - 1pm. The edit-a-thon is part of Sure We Can's work with NYC Health + Hospitals to stop the spread of Covid-19. We plan to continue to work on translating the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City article into the many languages spoken in New York City; as well as, work on other ideas about how wikipedia could slow the spread of Covid-19. Please join us, we'd love to see you (online). Saturday November 21 NYC COVID-19: Environmental Justice in Public Health Edit-A-Thon - ONLINE (optional RSVP on-wiki). 11:00am - 1:00 pm E.S.T online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms available)

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October 18: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC (plus weekend editathons)

October 18, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! This month we've invited the creators of instagram accounts @depthsofwikipedia and @wikipediapictures to chat with us about their Wiki* appreciation accounts. If there's a project you'd like to share or a question you'd like answered, just let us know by adding it to the agenda or responding to this message. Wednesday November 18 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms from 8:00-8:30) Editathons this coming Saturday You are also invited to join thse two editathon on Saturday November 21: NYC COVID-19: Environmental Justice in Public Health Edit-a-thon - Sat Nov 21, 11am-1pm Wikipedia Asia Month Edit-a-thon on Exhibition Histories - Sat Nov 21, 12pm-5pm

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A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	I'd like to thank you, as a Circassian, for acknowledgeing the real side of events in the discussion. ~𝓐𝓭𝓲𝓰𝓪𝓫𝓻𝓮𝓴 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓕𝓲𝓻𝓼𝓽~ (Псалъэ) 14:57, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

The value of this award is most appreciated. Taking into account the historical tragedy described by the Circassian genocide article, the Barnstar that you were so kind to bestow can represent the true sense of the term that would meaningfully and personally speak for all the lost families. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 18:48, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

December 16: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

December 16, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! This month will include a discussion of the sixth annual Community Wishlist Survey, an opportunity for editors and other community members to submit proposals for fixes and features you'd like the Wikimedia Foundation's tech team to address. As always, it's the agenda anyone can edit, so please feel free to add any projects you'd like to share. Wednesday December 16 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms from 8:00-8:30)

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Please look at Flemish source, exactly the same as French source, full font height.

https://www.knack.be/nieuws/belgie/applaudisseren-na-seksisme-argument-tegen-francken-ging-de-kamervoorzitter-te-ver/article-news-1678263.html In ictu oculi (talk) 13:02, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

I appreciate your taking the time to present this evidence and I would be glad to follow subject's depiction of her own name, as in the case of the Brzeziński family members. However, she clearly does not use an accent within her own name, as shown by her tweets or by her political autobiography. Also media sources are inconsistent, as shown by this French-language article. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 21:17, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Friday Jan 15: ONLINE Wikipedia Day NYC

January 15, 6pm: Wikimedia NYC celebrates 20 years of Wikipedia

Wikipedia Day is always a big day for Wikimedia NYC. While we cannot meet in person, we still have something special planned. We will begin the event with the debut of a new video celebrating our community. This will be followed by a panel discussion with some of the people you'll see in the video talking about Wikipedia's 20th anniversary, Wikimedia New York City, and the amazing work they do on Wikimedia projects. The event will be broadcast live via YouTube. Feel free to ask questions for the panel through the chat! We will also have some NYC wiki trivia you can participate in, with confectionery prizes. Friday January 15 ONLINE Wikipedia Day NYC. 6:00pm - 7:00 pm online via Wikimedia NYC on YouTube

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WP:BELARUSIANNAMES

• Hi, I have started a thread you might be interested in at Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(Cyrillic)#Belarusian_geographical_place_names,_Part_2. 162.208.168.92 (talk) 18:48, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Thank you

for sharing your family history. I'm a DABfixer; hence my ridiculously high edit count. Most DABfixes take only seconds, but a few take longer. I remember the worst day I had on Wikipedia. Someone had been born in an obscure ambiguously-named village in what is now Belarus. The next problem was the same. And so was the third. None was easy, but with some effort I was able to identify all three by multilingual searching. All that remains of one is an engraved slab in the ground. It wasn't fun, but it was very necessary. Narky Blert (talk) 23:06, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

And my thanks to you for your kind words. It was very considerate of you to visit my page, read it and then leave such a much-appreciated message. I have likewise spent a good deal of time on disambiguation pages as well as on transliteration of Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian names. There is always more to be done — no sooner is one completed when another one awaits. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 02:54, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

February 17: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

February 17, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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Thursday Feb 25: ONLINE Black Wiki History Month at the Schomburg Center

Feb 25, 1:30-5pm: Black Wiki History Month at the Schomburg Center

You are invited to join the AfroCROWD and Wikimedia NYC communities for the 7th year of this edit-a-thon, this time being held in a virtual format. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page, and register on the form to get the Zoom link. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! Thursday Feb 25 Black Wiki History Month at the Schomburg Center (optional RSVP on-wiki). 1:30pm - 5:30 pm online, register on the form to get the Zoom link

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Sat Mar 6: Met Women's History Month Virtual Edit Meet-up

March 6, 12:30pm: Met Women's History Month Virtual Edit Meet-up

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community and the Metropolitan Museum of Art for our The Met x Wikipedia Virtual Edit Meet-up: Women's History Month. We will be partially coordinating with Art+Feminism and all of the International Women's Day and Women's History Month campaigns. Watch and join the livestream! The Metropolitan Museum of Art event on Saturday Mar 6 will host a tutorial and question-and-answer session live on YouTube and other social media platforms. 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm - Presentation 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm - Guidance and Q&A Chat about improving articles! Support will be provided to help guide new editors in this area at Wikimedia Gender Gap Editing Chat for the duration of the campaign. The Met x Wikipedia Virtual Edit Meet-up: Women’s History Month (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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Sat Mar 13: Asia Art Archive in America: Art and Feminism Edit-a-thon

March 13, 12-5pm: Asia Art Archive in America: Art and Feminism Edit-a-thon

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community and Asia Art Archive for our fourth annual (and first virtual) Asia Art Archive in America: Art and Feminism Edit-a-thon! Organized by Asia Art Archive in America and NaPupila in collaboration with Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong and supported by Wikimedia NYC, this event brings together participants to discuss, create, share, and improve Wikipedia articles about women and non-binary artists. We will be partially coordinating with Art+Feminism and all of the International Women's Day and Women's History Month campaigns. Register and join the virtual event! 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm - Register ahead of time on Zoom to get the video link P.S. Next WikiWednesday You are also invited to join our March 17 WikiWednesday next week with a Saint Patrick's Day guest speaker from Wikimedia Community Ireland.

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Article for Deletion/Rachel Shevchenko

Hi Roman,

Thank you for your comment on Article for Deletion of Rachel Shevchenko. I left a comment on it as well that I disagree with deletion. If you have any advice on what I could add to the article so it won't get deleted or what else I could do I would really appreciate it. User:Elegantnetwork1 (talk) 06:39, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

Since Wikipedia is consensus-based, all we can do is submit votes while presenting our strongest arguments against deletion and in favor of retention. Each case comes with its own set of circumstances — immediately after participating in the Rachel Shevchenko discussion, I cast a vote against deletion of the entry for 48-year-old Gavin O'Connor (actor) {Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gavin O'Connor (actor)} where the situation is different since he has a long career with scores of film, TV and stage credits. It is all dependent on notability and references — I found the existing references sufficient while others did not. If her entry does not succeed this year, this young star of the future will have a stronger opportunity next year or the year after that. Once she accumulates additional notices and has entries in databases, such as IMDb, there will be sufficient votes for retention. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 07:50, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

March 17: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC with Wikimedia Community Ireland for St Patrick's Day

March 17, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC with Wikimedia Community Ireland for St Patrick's Day

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Speedy deletion nomination of Scott Allan (disambiguation)

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"Caroline Henry" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Caroline Henry. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 April 9#Caroline Henry until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Rocknrollmancer (talk) 00:25, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

Thank you

My thanks to MarnetteD, Chris troutman and Gerda Arendt for your kindness and consideration in taking the time to read and respond to my anniversary. It is much appreciated. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 00:55, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

You are most welcome RS. Many congrats on the anniversary and all of the years since. It is an honor to edit alongside you. Best regards. MarnetteD|Talk 01:58, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

Thank you once again. I too feel honored to have had you as a fellow editor on many of the same articles over the past decade-and-a-half. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 02:47, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

April 21: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC with with Environmental focus

April 21, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC with Environmental focus

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For the record, on March 11, 2018, I created a redirect with this edit summary: "Redirecting main title header delineating the early stage name of American film and television actress, Rita Ray, to its most-frequently credited form, Dona Drake". On November 10, 2020, Evajohannna converted that redirect into Draft:Rita Ray, a proposed English Wikipedia entry which has as its lead paragraph, "Rita Ray (born Kristi Raias; 26th august 1996) is an Estonian composer, singer, songwriter and keyboard player.. She mainly performs blue-eyed soul, with influences of R&B and Disco. Rita Ray band consists of Artis Boriss (keys), Kristen Kütner (guitar), Jasper Alamaa (bass) and Ott Adamson (drums)"

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May 19: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

May 19, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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"Goehr (composer and conductor)" listed at Redirects for discussion

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June 16: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

June 16, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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Disambiguation link notification for June 20

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YRepaired. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 19:12, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

Your recent move

Hi there, You recently moved Chris Connolly to Chris Connolly (Australian footballer). I'm not really sure why, as IMO the page views show that he is the primary topic compared to the ice hockey player, with a constant gap in page views between the two. But I'm not going to move it back, because as a former coach, it is more likely than unlikely that the views will decrease over time. As a headsup for future moves, if there is no ambiguity, for Australian footballers, (footballer) is preferred as the qualifier and (Australian footballer) is generally only used when there is ambiguity with a soccer, rugby or NFL player. I will make that move. The-Pope (talk) 15:32, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

Since you are arguably or actually Wikipedia's top contributor and expert on the subject of Australian football in particular, as well as on numerous other topics, I appreciate your contacting me regarding my recent move. In retrospect, I regret making it unilaterally, rather than at RM, or even making it at all. If you ultimately would prefer for Chris Connolly (footballer) to be restored to Chris Connolly, I would be glad to support the restoration. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 22:47, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for that response, but like I said, there is merit in neither being a true primary topic. However, I've just reverted your move of Fred Clarke (Australian footballer), because whilst year of birth is generally a very unique disambiguator, I consider it to be a very poor one, because most people don't know a person's year of birth. Especially if the nationality is clear and unique. I know that with some globetrotting people, nationality is confusing/changes, but for many, it's just the simplest and easiest qualifier to use. Cheers, The-Pope (talk) 14:42, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Once again, I am grateful for your kind counsel and it is certainly an argument against my making any further unilateral moves, at least as far as these matters are concerned. Upon being confronted with two inconsistent qualifiers — Fred Clarke (Australian footballer) and Fred Clarke (footballer, born 1941), my initial instinct was to move Fred Clarke (footballer, born 1941) → Fred Clarke (Northern Irish footballer), but instead of making the Northern Irish footballer analogous to the Australian footballer, I erred in deciding to make the Australian footballer analogous to the Northern Irish footballer.

This time, I am submitting my original intent to Talk:Fred Clarke (footballer, born 1941)#Requested move 24 June 2021 and, if consensus ultimately decides that the existing forms are fine in their current forms, then at least the matter will be on record in the remote possibility that it might be brought up again. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 18:23, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

July 14: Virtual Coney Island Meetup + NYC monthly collaboration

July 14, 7pm: Virtual Coney Island Meetup + NYC monthly collaboration

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YRepaired. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 13:51, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Sat Aug 14: Wikimania Wiknic NYC

August 14, 12-5pm: Wikimania Wiknic NYC

Wikimania 2021 Welcome to Wikimedia New York City! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for a planned socially-distanced Wiknic ("the picnic anyone can edit") in Brooklyn's Prospect Park to coincide with the virtual Wikimania 2021. For this occasion, and to allow more space as desired, we have individually packed lunches provided by the chapter, and attendees are encouraged to RSVP at Eventbrite and give sandwich/entree orders. Saturday August 14 Wikimania Wiknic NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 12:00pm - 5:00 pm in a shaded grove in front of the Picnic House (Prospect Park, Brooklyn) Long Meadow of Prospect Park

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August 25: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

August 25, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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Archiving

Hello. It appears your talk page is becoming quite lengthy and is in need of archiving. According to Wikipedia's user talk page guidelines: "Large talk pages are difficult to read and load slowly over slow connections. As a rule of thumb, archive closed discussions when a talk page exceeds 75 KB or has multiple resolved or stale discussions." – this talk page is 691.8 KB. See Help:Archiving a talk page for instructions on how to manually archive your talk page, or to arrange for automatic archiving using a bot. If you have any questions, place a {{help me}} notice on your talk page, or go to the help desk. Thank you. Interstellarity (talk) 15:30, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

I appreciate the reminder and will attend to the matter on September 1. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 23:53, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

User:Roman Spinner: A friendly reminder that even after your archiving efforts your talk page is still very large - well over 400K. Perhaps you would consider archiving everything before 2021? This should reduce this page from well over 200 entries to a much more manageable 30 or 40. Cheers! CapnZapp (talk) 21:22, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

As in the case of the previous reminder, I once again appreciate this one and will further reduce the older content on November 1. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 14:31, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

Jaclyn Bernstein/Jaclyn-Rose Lester

Looking at the awards she won, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0077064/awards, I would think Jaclyn Bernstein merits an bio article here on Wikipedia? Winning the child actresses version of the Oscars equals notability, surely? 180.150.39.166 (talk) 13:53, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

September 29: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon + Annual Members' Meeting NYC

September 29, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon + Annual Members' Meeting NYC

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Upcoming events:

• Prospect Park photo contest, ongoing
• Latinx Art Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, October 6
• Wiki-Pavilion Picnic NYC in Prospect Park (with WikiProject Craft + WikiConference North America), October 10

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Sunday: Wiki-Pavilion Picnic NYC (part of WikiConference NA, Oct 8-10)

Sunday October 10, 12-5pm: Wiki-Pavilion Picnic NYC (part of WikiConference North America 2021, Oct 8-10)

WikiConference NA, October 8-10 Welcome to Wikimedia New York City! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for a planned socially-distanced Wiknic ("the picnic anyone can edit") in Brooklyn's Prospect Park, being held at the historic Concert Grove Pavilion to coincide with WikiConference North America 2021, which will run virtually from Friday to Sunday. For this occasion, and to allow more space as desired, we have individually packed lunches provided by the chapter, and attendees are encouraged to RSVP at Eventbrite and give sandwich/entree orders. Sunday October 10 Wiki-Pavilion Picnic NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 12:00pm - 5:00 pm at the Concert Grove Pavilion 40.65934°N 73.96414°W / 40.65934; -73.96414 (Prospect Park, Brooklyn) Concert Grove Pavilion

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Nomination of List of governors of Texas by age for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of governors of Texas by age is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of governors of Texas by age until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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List of governors of California by age has also been included in the nomination with List of governors of Texas by age. OCNative (talk) 22:15, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

quick question

Hi Roman, I saw the RM about Tom Drake, and I was trying to figure out if you meant it should be moved or it shouldn't be. So I didn't want to touch anything before understanding your opinion. Dr. Vogel (talk) 15:51, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi Dr. Vogel, the issue of the Tom Drake main title header had been resolved at 02:11, 5 November 2021 (UTC), shortly after my 00:36, 5 November 2021 (UTC) posting under "Technical requests", although at the time of your above posting it was still listed under "Technical requests". My comment was simply meant to call attention to the cut-and-paste move which resulted in the then-existing revision history of the Tom Drake article showing solely the move, while the revision history of the newly-created redirect Tom Drake (actor) showing the 236 intermediate revisions by more than 100 users dating back to the article's creation in January 2005. Happily it is now a moot point. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 15:38, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

Ah ok cool. Thanks for taking the time to explain. Dr. Vogel (talk) 15:40, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

And my thanks to you for being so considerate as to contact me regarding the matter. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 18:38, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

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Curious

I’ve been noticing the edits you’ve been making on Death of Benito Mussolini in recent weeks. I’m curious regarding your interpretation of NOPIPE. Most of your NOPIPE changes seem fair enough, but one or two seem somewhat…extreme for want of a better word. It’s almost as though you’re reading NOPIPE as generally encouraging eradication of piping if at all possible. In your last edit of that article two changes seem to me to be quite strange: (1) it looks like you created two redirects to enable removing 2 pipelinks. No other articles link to those redirects. That works functionally but is that really worth doing? (2) The change from “Swiss border” to “Italy-Switzerland border” works functionally but loses concision and in the context of the sentence makes it unnecessarily clunky. I think we should only use the actual article title rather than a pipelink if the title is at least as good as the pipelink. I don’t mean to appear overly critical as I can see this type of editing (which you are very diligent at) is generally highly useful. But I am curious. DeCausa (talk) 15:01, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

I appreciate your consideration in taking the time to post such a detailed query. First of all, since you are the creator of this article, I need to assure you that I did not single out Death of Benito Mussolini for special editing attention in the aftermath of my unsuccessful Talk:Death of Benito Mussolini#Requested move 18 September 2021 and that I have been unpiping links in scores of other articles at the same time.

I am not against piping and, of course, piping is essential in hiding parenthetical qualifiers, as in "a member of the Action Party (Italy)|Action Party" and, on some occasions, for hiding the equivalent of a parenthetical qualifier, as in "near the village of Dongo, Lombardy|Dongo on Lake Como."

I do feel however that, as explained under WP:NOPIPE and, in greater detail, under MOS:PIPEDLINK, editors should not pipe simply to avoid redirects (the Archbishop of Milan, Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster|Cardinal Schuster]]) and, likewise, to avoid creating surprise links, per MOS:EASTEREGG ("he was reduced to being the leader of a Italian Social Republic|German puppet state in northern Italy]]" or "With the Spring 1945 offensive in Italy|final collapse]] of the German army's Gothic Line in April 1945, total defeat for the Salò Republic and its German protectors was imminent.").

I revised the latter link as, "With the Spring 1945 offensive in Italy bringing a final collapse of the German army's Gothic Line in April, total defeat for the Salò Republic and its German protectors was imminent."

A reply is also needed regarding your points, "(1) it looks like you created two redirects to enable removing 2 pipelinks. No other articles link to those redirects. That works functionally but is that really worth doing? (2) The change from “Swiss border” to “Italy-Switzerland border” works functionally but loses concision and in the context of the sentence makes it unnecessarily clunky. I think we should only use the actual article title rather than a pipelink if the title is at least as good as the pipelink."

The creation of some redirects, such as "Cardinal Schuster" redirecting to Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, is obvious, but in many cases, if content creators discover that the links within their text are red ones, they are likely to return to those links and unlink them. Thus, specialized links such as Italian anti-fascist partisans redirecting to Italian resistance movement or German puppet state in northern Italy redirecting to Italian Social Republic are unlikely to have existing red links awaiting the creation of these redirects.

As explained under MOS:EASTEREGG, the problem with such hidden redirects is that the hidden text does not directly represent what is indicated in the link — a user clicking "Swiss border", a non-existent link which is hiding as a piped redirect to Italy–Switzerland border, would probably expect a review of the relationship among Austria–Switzerland border, Italy–Switzerland border, France–Switzerland border, Germany–Switzerland border and Category:Liechtenstein–Switzerland border.

Likewise, the hidden word in "Palmiro Togliatti, the Secretary-General of the Italian Communist Party|Communist Party]], claimed that he had ordered Mussolini's execution prior to his capture" gives the impression that Togliatti was the Secretary of the world-wide Party. rather than solely of the Italian Party. In some of these cases, there may be no need for a link per WP:OVERLINK.

Since I have already exceeded the intended length of my explanation, one additional clarification should be provided in that I frequently revise an article only to the point that the revisions fit within the edit summary and then return to the article after a week or two with the same routine.

However, to avoid returning to this article for future brief bursts of editing, I will now read through the entire text and unpipe whatever appears to be in need of it. You may ultimately disagree and revert my edits or we may further discuss the specific details. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 23:07, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for taking the trouble to provide such a detailed response. As I previously mentioned, I don’t have any objection to the majority of your “de-pipings”. I do have a couple of points on some of the specific ones you mention. Both the one for “Swiss border” and “Communist Party” need to be read in context and, as a result, I don’t think EASTEREGG applies. In context, “Swiss border” can only have meant the Italy–Switzerland border, and there could not possibly have been any expectation that France–Switzerland border, Germany–Switzerland border would be covered. The sentence was very clearly and exclusively about moving from Italy to Switzerland. Likewise on the “Italian Communist Party” there is no reasonable prospect of anyone thinking that, in context, “Communist Party” means anything other the Italian Communist Party - there is of course no such thing as a world-wide Communist Party. The context was clearly and exclusively about Italian Communists. However, those very theoretical EASTEREGG concerns lead to an actual reduction in concision and flow quality of the text with the removal of the pipe link. Where concision and flow is affected, I’d recommend being more cautious on applying EASTEREGG if the context really doesn’t leave that much doubt where the pipelink goes to. DeCausa (talk) 23:42, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

I accept your arguments and will restore the piping for Italy–Switzerland border|Swiss border.]] —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 01:16, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Thank you. DeCausa (talk) 08:14, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

"King of Cloves" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Sixteen Years of Editing!

Happy First Edit Day, Roman Spinner, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Chris Troutman (talk) 00:15, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

My thanks to you, Chris Troutman, and to the Wikipedia Birthday Committee for your kindness and consideration in noting my 16th WikiBirthday. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 00:42, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

My additional gratitude to you, Bobherry, and to the Birthday Committee for so kindly noting my WikiBirthday. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 17:00, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

Mario Cerrito III

Hello,

I am newer to this so please forgive me if I'm writing this in the wrong place. Are you able to help me get Mario Cerrito III name changed. I made a mistake and accidentally put the period at the end of it and I feel bad. I saw you commented and saw your a very experienced editor on here. Thank you for any help. Summerlee44 (talk) 01:48, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

I am always pleased to be of service although, in this case, the dot deletion nomination has already been submitted and the process is underway. There is no need to feel bad or be concerned — simple uncontested technical requests, such as this one, are sometimes resolved within the same day but, since Wikipedia has no blue link for the plain name Mario Cerrito or his alternative billing form Mario G. Cerrito, thus resulting in the supplementary proposal that the generational suffix "III" is not needed, it may take a week to determine consensus regarding those details. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 08:15, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your response! So I checked back today and it seems the 7 days are up. I appreciate your help on the matter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Summerlee44 (talk • contribs) 22:30, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Hello Roman! The article was moved to Mario Cerrito but when I logged on today I saw they tagged it for articles for deletion, there's an open discussion. I did see you supported him as well. I have contributed to the article and as he is from my former high school. I grew up with him and Joe Flacco both from Audubon, NJ. I believe he deserves an article. Would you voice your vote on there? Thank you.Summerlee44 (talk) 14:08, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

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Wikimedia NYC: Strategic Planning Survey for our community

Wikimedia NYC: Strategic Planning Survey for our community

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Apr 27: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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May 2022

Hello, I'm DonQuixote. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Talk:Adric have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse. Thanks. DonQuixote (talk) 00:53, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello DonQuixote. I wanted to let you know that I do not make edits that are not constructive. I you have an issue with the substance of my edit, it should be discussed at the relevant talk page. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 01:06, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

All edits, such as this [1], are archived. DonQuixote (talk) 02:29, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

As well they should be. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 08:31, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

May 25: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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"Kalimna" listed at Redirects for discussion

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June 8: NYBG Environment of The Bronx - Editing Wikipedia for Beginners

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Would you consider becoming a New Page Reviewer?

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NYC Wiknic, June 26

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Stakhanov, Ukraine

The leader of the Oppose has been banned. His basic motivations look mysterious to me, he fought in several fronts. The Britannica uses 'Stakhanov', which in my opinion proves EB's bias.Xx236 (talk) 12:14, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

June 22: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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Aug 24: WikiWednesday Salon NYC (+Sep annual meeting)

August 24, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

Welcome to Wikimedia New York City! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit the Zoom link on the meetup page. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! If there's a project you'd like to share or a question you'd like answered, just let us know by adding it to the agenda or the talk page. Wednesday August 24 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms from 8:00-8:30) P.S. September 28 will be our chapter's online Annual Election/Members Meeting

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August 2022

Please do not use styles that are nonstandard, unusual, inappropriate or difficult to understand in articles, as you did in The Blue Bird (1940 film). There is a Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. Thank you. FilmandTVFan28 (talk) 04:13, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to use disruptive, inappropriate or hard-to-read formatting, as you did at The Blue Bird (1940 film), you may be blocked from editing. There is a Wikipedia Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. FilmandTVFan28 (talk) 04:16, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

I did not "use styles that are nonstandard, unusual, inappropriate or difficult to understand in articles" nor did I "use disruptive, inappropriate or hard-to-read formatting". WP:ASSUMEGOODFAITH. Please take any issues you may have regarding each individual edit I made at The Blue Bird (1940 film) to Talk:The Blue Bird (1940 film) and I will be glad to respond there. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 04:30, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

You were over linking the Infobox and that is not what we do. — FilmandTVFan28 (talk) 04:33, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

I dispute your contention that I was overlinking the infobox. All my edits are detailed in the edit summaries I made at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Blue_Bird_(1940_film)&action=history and should be discussed edit by edit at Talk:The Blue Bird (1940 film), not here. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 04:43, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

Sep 28: Wikimedia NYC Annual Election/Members Meeting (+October 2 picnic)

September 28, 7pm: ONLINE Wikimedia NYC Annual Election/Members Meeting

Welcome to Wikimedia New York City! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our Annual Election/Members Meeting. To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit the Zoom link on the meetup page. Important election info: register your chapter membership at wmnyc:Membership read the Election FAQ review and possibly add yourself to the board Nominations voting will be online, via emailed ballots, and the poll will be open for the 24-hour period of September 28 Wednesday September 28 ONLINE Wikimedia NYC Annual Election/Members Meeting (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms from 8:00-8:30) P.S. Sunday October 2 will be post-election picnic gathering at the Grecian Shelter in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.

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Sun Oct 2: WikiNYC Post-Election Wiki-Picnic

Sun Oct 2, 2-5pm: WikiNYC Post-Election Wiki-Picnic

Grecian Shelter at Prospect Park, Brooklyn. You are invited to join us for a planned outdoor gathering with the local Wikimedia NYC community at the Grecian Shelter of Brooklyn's Prospect Park. We will celebrate after Wednesday's Chapter Election, share some food, and informally discuss wiki-plans for the coming year. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Sunday October 2 WikiNYC Post-Election Wiki-Picnic (RSVP on-wiki). 2:00 - 5:00 pm (Grecian Shelter, Prospect Park, Brooklyn)

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Sat Oct 29: Wikidata Day in NYC

Sat Oct 29: Wikidata Day in NYC

Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn. Wikidata 10th Birthday You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for Wikidata Day in NYC, an event marking the Wikidata 10th Birthday with a celebration and mini-conference. The all-day event will feature beginner workshops, keynote presentations, breakout group discussions, lightning talks and yes, CAKE. It is inspired by such past events as the Wikipedia Day tradition in New York City. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Brooklyn Public Library encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity. Saturday October 29 Wikidata Day in NYC (RSVP on-wiki). 9:30 am - 5:30 pm (Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn) P.S. Three days before, October 26 will be October Online WikiWednesday

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Sat Nov 12: WikiConference North America in NYC

Sat Nov 12: WikiConference North America in NYC

Like Wikidata Day last month, this event will be at Brooklyn Public Library by Grand Army Plaza. WikiConference North America 2022. You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for WikiConference North America in NYC, as a local satellite event and celebration of the primarily online WikiConference 2022 (Nov 11-13). The Saturday in-person event will feature beginner workshops, keynote presentations, breakout group discussions, and lightning talks. It is inspired by such past events as the Wikipedia Day tradition in New York City. In keeping with the online conference's partnership this year with Mapping USA and theme of "open knowledge allies", we are highlighting OpenStreetMap NYC efforts and other local organizing around various communities of practice. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Brooklyn Public Library encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity. Saturday November 12 WikiConference North America in NYC (RSVP on-wiki). 9:30 am - 5:30 pm (Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn)

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Disambiguation link notification for November 25

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Marshall Eriksen, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Gouda. (Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:05, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

Gouda has been disambiguated as gouda cheese|gouda. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 19:24, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

Nov 30: WikiWednesday Salon in Brooklyn + online

Nov 30: WikiWednesday @ BPL + on Zoom

WikiWednesday is back in-person, pizza included! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Brooklyn Public Library by Grand Army Plaza, in the Central Library's Info Commons Lab, as well as an online-based participation option. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome! We are proud to announce that monthly PIZZA has returned! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Brooklyn Public Library encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity. Wednesday November 30 WikiWednesday @ BPL (RSVP on-wiki). 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm (note modified time) (Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn) Also online via Zoom

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"Lauren White" listed at Redirects for discussion

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"Laurie White" listed at Redirects for discussion

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A tip

Have a look at WP:EDITSUMMARY. It will explain to you that Edit summaries are meant to be brief, not a copy and paste of your entire contribution to a discussion. HiLo48 (talk) 01:13, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

I appreciate your interest regarding the length of my edit summaries. I have been editing Wikipedia on a near-daily basis since my first edit on January 22, 2006 and yours is the first comment that has taken issue with my summaries, some of which are brief, while others may indeed run near the 500-character limit.

While you are correct that the lead sentence states that an "edit summary is a brief explanation of an edit to a Wikipedia page" and WP:SUMMARYNO indicates, "Avoid long summaries", my summaries help me to keep track of the essence of my contributions and, while it is always best to seek the golden mean (philosophy), given the option of excess or deficiency, with the existing 500-character limit, I opted for excess.

Also, as of now, it appears that decisions regarding the length of summaries are basically left up to individual contributors, as stated atop the Help:Edit summary, "This is an information page. It is not one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines, but rather intends to describe some aspect(s) of Wikipedia's norms, customs, technicalities, or practices. It may reflect varying levels of consensus and vetting." —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 17:02, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

Dec 28: WikiWed Salon (+ Wikipedia Day on Jan 15)

Dec 28: WikiWednesday @ BPL + on Zoom

WikiWednesday is back in-person, pizza included! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Brooklyn Public Library by Grand Army Plaza, in the Central Library's Info Commons Lab, as well as an online-based participation option. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome! We are proud to announce that monthly PIZZA has returned! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Brooklyn Public Library encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity. Wednesday December 28 WikiWednesday @ BPL (RSVP on-wiki). 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm (Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn) Also online via Zoom P.S. Next big event January 15 will be Wikipedia Day NYC 2023, and you can sign up now for your lightning talk!

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Sun Jan 15: Wikipedia Day returns to NYC!

Sunday January 15: Wikipedia Day 2023 NYC

Wikipedia Day NYC is back in-person at Jefferson Market Library, cake included! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our Wikipedia Day 2023 at Jefferson Market Library in Greenwich Village, a Wikipedia and Public Domain Day celebration and mini-conference as part of birthday festivities marking the project's founding in 2001. In addition to the party, the event features presentations by Jason Scott of the Internet Archive and Anne Hunnell Chen of the International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive, panels, and, of course, lightning talks. Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! And there will be WIKICAKE. Sunday January 15 Wikipedia Day 2023 (RSVP on-wiki). 1 - 5PM at Jefferson Market Library, 425 Sixth Avenue in Manhattan After 5PM, migration to afterparty at Ace Hotel, 20 West 29th St Livestreaming is likely, watch the wiki meetup page All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. New York Public Library encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity. P.S. Next regular event February 15 will be Feb WikiWednesday.

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Happy WikiBirthday!

Hello and forgive my intrusion. While I am stepping away from Wikipedia, I still browse it regularly, and I clicked on your profile after coming across one of your comments on a article move request in which I was uninvolved but curious. Personally, I disagree with your position and, seeing as you had taken a similar view in other such requests (in which I did participate!), I got the feeling you were taking a "default" stance on some issues. This is, however, beside the point now - I just wanted to explain how I got here.

I'm leaving this comment not because of any dispute, existing or potential, arising from edits (it is evident that you're acting in good faith regardless of whether we agree or not) but because your user profile in itself struck me as very interesting and surprisingly open (too open, perhaps - I would never feel comfortable posting that kind of real-life information for all to see!). These snippets of your life story and that of your family were fascinating read, and I appreciate you sharing it. As a historian, while I am "trained", so to speak, not to accept things at face value, I am also naturally inclined to treasure these testimonies and mementos, oral or material, of pasts long gone. I would also like to point out that the fact that in spite of your advanced age you still endeavour to remain a productive member of the community is commendable. Under different circumstances I would still most likely have kept this to myself, were it not for the fortuitous coincidence that I happened to check your profile on your "wiki birthday", as you describe it, which seems to be a date you value highly enough to update your user page on a yearly basis to commemorate it. Allow me to send you my best regards on this date, a wish for health and good fortune, and may you celebrate many more "wiki birthdays" while contributing to this encyclopedia at your own pace. Ostalgia (talk) 13:07, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

It is so considerate of you to take the time for such a thoughtful comment on my 17th WikiBirthday. My 74th personal birthday is in three weeks and, at this point in my life, I feel I have little to fear in exposing details of my and family's past to the public. In fact, it is something of a self-penned obituary for those who might care to explore the history of Wikipedia contributors from some point in the near- or far-off future when Wikipedia (and possibly everything else) might be taken over as Artificial Intelligence projects.

At the time of my graduation from Talladega College in June 1972, I was a history and political science major and remain a history buff, but did not pursue academic subjects as a profession. Any edits that I make regarding Polish, Russian and Ukrainian topics are limited to talk page comments at WP:RM and a very occasional RM nomination, such as Execution of the Romanov family → Killing of the Romanov family at Talk:Murder of the Romanov family#Requested move 1 January 2023. Wikipedia remains my daily preoccupation or perhaps simply a retirement hobby.

Hopefully, I can continue editing for as many years as possible in the spirit of User:Anthony Appleyard who made his final edits on 13 February 2022, 15 days before his death on 28 February (Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians/2022#Anthony Appleyard) or in the spirit of Piotr Domaradzki, whose English Wikipedia posthumous entry I created in November 2015 and who made his final edits on the day of the October fire that took his life.

Again, thank you for reading my user page and for your kind words even in the face of our apparent lack of consensus on Russian-Ukrainian topics. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 23:18, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Happy Seventeenth First Edit Day!

Hey, Roman Spinner. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Chris Troutman (talk) 16:39, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

I am most appreciative that you were so kind as to post such a welcome WikiBirthday message. Thank you so much!. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 23:18, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Feb 15: WikiWednesday Salon in Brooklyn

Feb 15: WikiWednesday @ BPL + on Zoom

WikiWednesday is back in-person, pizza included! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Brooklyn Public Library by Grand Army Plaza, in the Central Library's Info Commons Lab, as well as an online-based participation option. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome! We are proud to announce that monthly PIZZA has returned! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Brooklyn Public Library encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity. Wednesday February 15 WikiWednesday @ BPL (RSVP on-wiki). 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm (Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn) Also online via Zoom

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Talk:Maël

Hello, would you please take a look a the newly put move at Talk:Maël#Requested_move_5_February_2023. Thanks, 121.127.212.32 (talk) 13:09, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

well wishing

Hello, happy 2.24 Love, William 198.163.159.103 (talk) 20:10, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

How kind of you to send such a much-appreciated note. Many thanks. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 22:32, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

Mar 8: WikiWednesday Salon by Grand Central

Mar 8: WikiWednesday Salon by Grand Central

The gathering is in the vicinity of Grand Central Terminal. You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community and visitors from the global Wikimedia Foundation for our WikiWednesday Salon by Grand Central, in-person at Convene 101 Park Avenue in the vicinity of Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome! This is somewhat of a sequel to last year's Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Brunch in terms of the participants, though this time it is an evening event in a different borough. We may leaven the event with a few impromptu lightning talks, a Wiki-fashion show (yes, really!), and likely an afterparty tour. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Wednesday March 8 WikiWednesday Salon by Grand Central (RSVP off-wiki at Eventbrite to attend in-person). 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm (Convene 101 Park Avenue, near Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal)

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"Robert Matthew Montgomery" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Apr 12 WikiWednesday + Earth Week (Apr 15-23)

April 12: WikiWednesday @ BPL + on Zoom
WikiWednesday is back in-person, pizza included! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Brooklyn Public Library by Grand Army Plaza, in the Central Library's Info Commons Lab, as well as an online-based participation option. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome! We are proud to announce that monthly PIZZA has returned! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Brooklyn Public Library encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity. Wednesday April 12 WikiWednesday @ BPL (RSVP on-wiki). 5:30 pm -6:30 pm (Open Hour) 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm (Wiki Salon) (Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn) Also online via Zoom starting at ~6:30 pm
April 15-23: Earth Week!
Please RSVP on-wiki to any of the Earth Day/Week activities you will be joining, all are open: Earth Day and the Digital Environment - Beacon, NY When: Saturday, April 15, 11pm - 3pm Where: Howland Public Library, 313 Main Street, Beacon NY Earth Day 2023 Translat-a-thon at LaGuardia Community College When: Wednesday, April 19, 2pm-5pm Where: LaGuardia CC - Room MB10B, 31-10 Thomson Avenue, Queens, NY 11101 Earth Day 2023 Edit-a-thon Environment of Brooklyn with Sure We Can When: Saturday April 22, 11am-2pm Where: Spectrum Learning Lab - DeKalb branch Brooklyn Public Library and Sure We Can & Hybrid Earth Day Wiki-Picnic NYC When: Sunday, April 23, 12-5pm Where: Concert Grove Pavilion, Prospect Park

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Sat: Earth Day Edit-a-thon + Sun: Wiki-Picnic

April 22: Earth Day Edit-a-thon + April 23: Wiki-Picnic

Join us for two final Earth Week events! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for a pair of special events this weekend as we wrap up Earth Week! No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome. Earth Day 2023 Edit-a-thon Environment of Brooklyn with Sure We Can What: Improve Wikipedia articles on the Environment of Brooklyn! When: Saturday April 22, 11am-1pm (BPL), 1pm-5:30pm (SWC) Where: Spectrum Learning Lab - DeKalb branch Brooklyn Public Library and Sure We Can & Hybrid Earth Day Wiknic NYC What: Enjoy a picnic celebration and Wiki-Seder! When: Sunday, April 23, 12-5pm Where: Concert Grove Pavilion, Prospect Park

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Disambiguation pages

Hi, Roman, I hope you are doing well. I see you have been removing some red links from dabs which meet MOS:DABRL. Can you please leave these in? They make it much easier for people to create the article, plus clicking on 'what links here' will show up any other incoming links. It also reduces the case of people creating different named red links for the same people, leading to confusion, e.g. John Smith {journalist), John Smith (writer) and John Smith (commentator) could all be created. Thanks, Boleyn (talk) 11:06, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi, Boleyn. Always glad to hear from you and, upon approaching my 75th birthday, I hope to remain well enough to continue editing for a while longer. As for the red links within disambiguation page, since you feel that such links are indeed more helpful than their unlinked equivalents, from this day forward, I will leave all dab page redlinks in their redlinked form. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 22:14, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

Thank you, and congratulations on your upcoming birthday. All the best, Boleyn (talk) 21:00, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

I greatly appreciate your kind thoughts and please accept all my best wishes. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 23:00, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

Precious

disambiguation

Thank you for service from 2006, for creating and maintaining disambiguation pages, for transliteration of Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian names, for thoughtful comments in move discussions, for a rich presentation of your memory pool, - Roman, you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 2852 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:15, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

Thank you so much, Gerda. I am very touched that you were so considerate as to read my autobiographical excerpts and add me to the Precious list which you have been so dedicated in maintaining for over a decade. With my gratitude, Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 23:00, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

May 17: WikiWednesday Salon + Queering Wikipedia

May 17: WikiWednesday + Queering Wikipedia @ BPL + on Zoom

WikiWednesday is back in-person, pizza included! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Brooklyn Public Library by Grand Army Plaza, in the Central Library's Info Commons Lab, as well as an online-based participation option. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome! We will also sync with the Queering Wikipedia 2023 Conference and Wiki Loves Pride 2023 and have a Wikidata session on LGBT themes for figures in religion/mythology. We are proud to announce that monthly PIZZA has returned! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Brooklyn Public Library encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity. Wednesday May 17 WikiWednesday + Queering Wikipedia @ BPL (RSVP on-wiki). 5:30 pm -6:30 pm (Open Hour + Wikidata-thon) 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm (Wiki Salon) (Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn) Also online via Zoom

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June 21: WikiWednesday Salon back in Manhattan!

June 21: WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce

WikiWednesday is back in Manhattan! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, as well as an online-based participation option. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome! We are proud to announce that monthly food has returned! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Prime Produce encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity. Wednesday June 21 WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce (RSVP on-wiki). 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm (Prime Produce, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan) Also online via Zoom

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Discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 June 18 § Category:Association football people by prefecture in Japan

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 June 18 § Category:Association football people by prefecture in Japan. Qwerfjkltalk 16:39, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

Move review for Operation Gideon (2020)

An editor has asked for a Move review of Operation Gideon (2020). Because you closed the move discussion for this page, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the move review. WMrapids (talk) 02:27, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

Would you consider becoming a New Page Reviewer?

Hi Roman Spinner, we need experienced volunteers.

• New Page Patrol is currently struggling to keep up with the influx of new articles. We could use a few extra hands on deck if you think you can help.
• Reviewing/patrolling a page doesn't take much time but it requires a good understanding of Wikipedia policies and guidelines; Wikipedia needs experienced users to perform this task and there are precious few with the appropriate skills. Even a couple reviews a day can make a huge difference.
• Kindly read the tutorial before making your decision (if it looks daunting, don't worry, most pages are easy to review, and habits are quick to develop). If this looks like something that you can do, please consider joining us.
• If you would like to join the project and help out, please see the granting conditions. You can apply for the user-right HERE.
• If you have questions, please feel free to drop a message on my talk page or at the reviewer's discussion board.
• Cheers, and hope to see you around — ❯❯❯ Raydann^(Talk) 22:51, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

July 19 WikiWednesday + New York Botanical Garden Edit-a-thon (July 29)

July 19: WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce
WikiWednesday is back in Manhattan! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, as well as an online-based participation option. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome! We are proud to announce that monthly free food has returned! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Prime Produce encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity. Wednesday July 19 WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce (RSVP on-wiki). 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm (Prime Produce, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan) Also online via Zoom
July 29: NYBG Environment of the Bronx Edit-a-thon!
Flyer for the NYBG event You are also invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our 9th Editathon with the New York Botanical Gardens! Attendees familiar with editing Wikipedia can edit off of a worklist focused on the environment of New York City; as well as, a sub-list focused on the environment of the Bronx. Additionally, LuEsther T. Mertz Library will pull topical media from their collection to assist the editing. You can also learn more and RSVP on the NYBG website here. Bring your own laptop if you can, the Library can only provide laptops on a first-come, first-served basis. Entrance to the Library is free; when you arrive, alert Security that you are here for the event. Please enter through the Mosholu Entrance at 2950 Southern Boulevard. Saturday July 29 NYBG Environment of the Bronx Edit-a-thon (RSVP on-wiki) 12:00pm - 3:00pm (Mertz Library at the New York Botanical Garden, Bronx)

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WikiWednesday (Aug 23) and Governors Island Wiki-Picnic (Sun Aug 27)

August 23: WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce
WikiWednesday in Manhattan You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, as well as an online-based participation option. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person, you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Wednesday, August 23 WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce (RSVP on-wiki). 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm (Open Hour) 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm (Wiki Salon) (Prime Produce, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan) Also online via Zoom
August 27: Annual NYC Wiknic @ Governors Island
Group photo from 2012 Governors Island Wiknic Additionally, you are invited to the picnic anyone can edit on Governors Island, at Colonel's Row by ArtCrawl Harlem house, as part of the Great North American Wiknic celebrations (and Wikimania satellite events) being held across the continent. This is the first big summer Wiknic since the 2019 edition and will feature an edit-a-thon focused on Governors Island and ArtCrawl Harlem, Depths of Wikipedia (recently of perpetual stew fame), as well as plenty more food topics drawing on the potluck ethos. All are welcome, new and experienced! Sunday, August 27, 2023 Annual NYC Wiknic @ Governors Island (RSVP on-wiki). 2:00 pm – 7:00 pm (come by any time!) Wiknic Discussion Groups: 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm (session A); 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm (session B) Picnic site: Governors Island, 406b Colonel's Row by ArtCrawl Harlem house. Reach the island by the Governors Island Ferry. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct, and don't forget your sunscreen!

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Be bold and move if need be

Hi, Roman Spinner! I've checked through your recent move requests and have so far found them to be more easier than I thought. In case you've forgotten or haven't noticed, you can move/rename articles yourself to a name provided it fulfils WP:NAMECHANGES without resorting to either using RMs or WP:RMTR, as you've been here on WP for a while. To rename/move pages, click "Tools" at the right side of the article/page in question, click "Move" (appears based on page protection status), change the current title to the title of preference or choice, add a reason for this and then, click "Move page". Once a red error box appears on the next screen, then you can resort to using the methods above. Please don't see this as a deterrence to continue using them, but see this as, going foward, a more easier alternative than to wait a week or a fortnight to move pages/articles to redlinked unused names when they could be moved yourself — unless the prefered title(s) is/are blue/hyperlinked or already taken. Thanks! Intrisit (talk) 14:39, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

Hi, Intrisit! I appreciate your kind advice regarding page moves. As you note, I have been editing for a while — a near-daily schedule since January 2006 — and, while I occasionally make unilateral moves, such as here a couple of days ago {Thomas Frye (politician) → Thomas Frye (Rhode Island governor)}, my usual preference is to leave a historical record in the form of a WP:RM discussion on an entry's talk page in the event a future editor may consider a similar move. You are of course correct that many (a majority of ?) move requests hold little interest to many (a majority of ?) Wikipedians and many (a majority of ?) unilateral moves may pass with little or no notice. Occasionally, a single "oppose" vote will result in a "no consensus"/"not moved" outcome, such as Sabu Dastagir → Sabu (actor) at Talk:Sabu (actor)#Requested move 27 August 2018, but the arguments put forth at least preserve a record for future discussions. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 03:12, 25 August 2023 (UTC)

Sunday: NYC Wiki-Picnic @ Gov Island

August 27: Annual NYC Wiknic @ Governors Island

Group photo from 2012 Governors Island Wiknic You are invited to the Annual NYC Wiknic, "the picnic anyone can edit" on Governors Island, at Colonel's Row by ArtCrawl Harlem house, as part of the Great North American Wiknic celebrations (and Wikimania satellite events) being held across the continent. This is the first summer Wiknic since the 2019 edition and will feature an edit-a-thon focused Governors Island and ArtCrawl Harlem, Depths of Wikipedia and perpetual stew, as well as plenty more food. All are welcome, new and experienced! Sunday, August 27, 2023 Annual NYC Wiknic @ Governors Island (RSVP on-wiki). 2:00 pm – 7:00 pm (come by any time!) Wiknic Discussion Groups: 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm (session A); 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm (session B) Picnic site: Governors Island, 406b Colonel's Row by ArtCrawl Harlem house. Reach the island by the Governors Island Ferry. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct, and don't forget your sunscreen!

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Sep 20: Wikimedia NYC Annual Election Meeting

September 20: Annual Election & Members Meeting

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our Annual Election & Members Meeting, with in-person at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, as well as an online-based participation option. The Members' Meeting is similar to other WikiWednesday meetups, except that its primary function is to elect a new Board of Directors. We will elect five board seats. After being elected, those elected can potentially appoint more seats. We will also have a fun WikiWednesday! Election info: To run for election or to vote, you must be a dues-paying member of Wikimedia New York City, having renewed in the past 12 months. Voting will be both online, via emailed ballots from the ElectionBuddy service, and in-person. The poll will be open for the 48 hours between 8pm EDT on September 18 and 8pm EDT on September 20. For additional information, please consult the Election FAQ. Meeting info: Wednesday, September 20 Annual Election & Members Meeting (optional RSVP on-wiki). 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm (Open Hour) 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm (Wiki Salon) (Prime Produce, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan) Also online via Zoom All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person, you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate.

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Sun Oct 1: NYC Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month 2023

October 1: Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month 2023: Edit-a-thon!

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month 2023: Edit-a-thon!, with in-person at Prime Produce Guild Hall in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. It is being held in the middle of National Hispanic Heritage Month (Sep 15–Oct 15). Some past local edit-a-thons touching on this area have included the two editions of Wikipedia:Meetup/WikiArte at MoMA in 2015-16, and the CUNY LaGuardia translat-a-thons held annually since 2018. Meeting info: Sunday, October 1 Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month 2023: Edit-a-thon! (optional RSVP on-wiki). 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm (Prime Produce Guild Hall, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan) Alternatively, you can sign up for the edit-a-thon on Eventbrite. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person, you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate.

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CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 October 1 § X by Y in Z

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Wiki.NYC Pavilion for Open House New York (Oct 21–22) and Wikidata Day (Oct 29)

October 21–22: Wiki.NYC Pavilion for Open House New York @ Prime Produce
Prime Produce You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our Wiki.NYC Pavilion for Open House New York at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. The event will feature several interactive exhibits highlighting the "wiki way" for New York City Saturday, October 21 & Sunday, October 22 (optional RSVP on-wiki). 10:00 am – 6:30 pm (come by any time, either or both days!) Prime Produce Guild Hall, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan
October 29: Wikidata Day in New York City
2023 Wikidata Day NYC flyer Additionally, you are invited to Wikidata Day in New York City at Butler Library, Columbia University, in celebration of Wikidata's 11th birthday. This coincides with the online/global WikidataCon 2023 and is a sequel to Wikidata Day 2022. The event will feature a Harlem Arts & Culture edit-a-thon, spotlight sessions, lightning talks, and cake! Sunday, October 29, 2023 Wikidata Day in New York City (RSVP required on Eventbrite and optional on-wiki). 11:00 am – 5:15 pm Butler Library (Room 203), 535 West 114th Street, Morningside Heights RSVP off-wiki is required! See the event page for a tentative schedule. At both events, all attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person, you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate.

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Nov 15: WikiWednesday Salon + Wikimedia NYC Executive Director job

November 15: WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly WikiWednesday Salon at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, with an online-based participation option also available. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person, you should be vaccinated and be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Meeting info: Wednesday, November 15 WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce (optional RSVP on-wiki). 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm (Open Hour) 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm (Wiki Salon) (Prime Produce, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan) Also online via Zoom
Wikimedia New York City Executive Director job listing
Wikimedia NYC, the 501(c)(3) non-profit supporting Wikipedia and related projects in the metro area, is hiring our founding Executive Director, apply here.

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Wed Dec 6: Hacking Night + job listing

December 6: Hacking Night @ Prime Produce
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our first NYC Hacking Night at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. This event is intended primarily for technical contributors, though newcomers are welcome as well! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct and Wikimedia's Technical Code of Conduct. Meeting info: Wednesday, December 6 Hacking Night @ Prime Produce (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm (Introductions + Hacking) 9:30 pm – 10:00 pm (Showcase) (Prime Produce, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan)
Wikimedia New York City Executive Director job listing
Wikimedia NYC, the 501(c)(3) non-profit supporting Wikipedia and related projects in the metro area, is hiring our founding Executive Director; apply here.

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"Time in office" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Time in office 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/2023 December 2 § Time in office until a consensus is reached. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 19:13, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Tony Delgado (Entrepreneur)

Hello, Roman Spinner. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Tony Delgado (Entrepreneur), a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it. Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 21:05, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

For the record, my sole contribution to this topic was the creation, on 7 March 2019, of the redirect Tony Delgado to the Anthony Delgado (disambiguation) page. It remained as a redirect for four years and four months, until 9 July 2023, when it was converted into the above-mentioned draft. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 01:06, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

Thu Jan 4: Hacking Night + Wikipedia Day soon

January 4: Hacking Night @ Prime Produce
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for NYC Hacking Night at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. This event is a successor to our inaugural December 2023 Hacking Night. It is intended primarily for technical contributors, though newcomers are welcome as well! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct and Wikimedia's Technical Code of Conduct. Meeting info: Thursday, January 4 Hacking Night @ Prime Produce (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm (Introductions + Hacking) 9:30 pm – 10:00 pm (Showcase) (Prime Produce, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan)
January 14: Wikipedia Day 2024 @ Columbia University
In addition, you are invited to Wikipedia Day 2024, hosted at Columbia University by the Brown Institute for Media Innovation with Wikimedia NYC. Eventbrite RSVP is required, while RSVP on-wiki is also highly encouraged. The special focus this year will be Artificial intelligence in Wikimedia projects. More details about the event will be shared later, but save the date for now!

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Your draft article, Draft:Tony Delgado (Entrepreneur)

Hello, Roman Spinner. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Tony Delgado".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:07, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

I appreciate the notice and point to the User talk:Roman Spinner#Concern regarding Draft:Tony Delgado (Entrepreneur) reply above. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 20:15, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

First Edit Day

Happy First Edit Day, Roman Spinner, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Ezra Cricket (talk) 04:08, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

My thanks to you, Ezra Cricket and to you, The Herald (Benison), along with Wikipedia Birthday Committee for the kind remembrance of my 18th WikiBirthday. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 23:28, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

"Like a Child (Noel song" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Like a Child (Noel song 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 February 3 § Like a Child (Noel song until a consensus is reached. Utopes _{(talk / cont)} 19:39, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

My vote was: "Delete all, including Like a Child (Noel song, inadvertently created January 4, 2013." —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 01:56, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Thu Feb 8 NYC Hacking Night + Feb 21 WikiWednesday

February 8: Hacking Night @ Prime Produce
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for NYC Hacking Night at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. It is intended primarily for technical contributors, though newcomers are welcome as well! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct and Wikimedia's Technical Code of Conduct. Meeting info: Thursday, February 8 Hacking Night @ Prime Produce (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm (Introductions + Hacking) 9:30 pm – 10:00 pm (Showcase) (Prime Produce, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan)
February 21: WikiWednesday Salon @ Prime Produce
WikiWednesday is back this month! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, with an online-based participation option also available. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person, you should be vaccinated and be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Meeting info: Wednesday, February 21 WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce (optional RSVP on-wiki). 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm (Open Hour) 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm (Wiki Salon) (Prime Produce, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan) Also online via Zoom

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Captain Miller

Do you mind helping to populate the rest of the entries into the dab page? Thanks! – robertsky (talk) 06:25, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

"Shadrach (Beastie Boys song" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Shadrach (Beastie Boys song 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 February 21 § Shadrach (Beastie Boys song until a consensus is reached. Utopes _{(talk / cont)} 07:29, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

My vote was: "Delete all, including Shadrach (Beastie Boys song, inadvertently created May 18, 2012." —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 07:57, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Tue March 5: Wiki Gala NYC

March 5: Wiki Gala @ Prime Produce

Wiki-fashion show at last year's event You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community and visitors from the global Wikimedia Foundation for our Wiki Gala at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. All are welcome! This is a sequel to the March 2023 Grand Central Salon and the March 2022 Wiki-Tent Brunch. The event will feature lightning talks and a Wiki-fashion show, for which you are encouraged to dress in your finest Wikimedia clothing and accessories (bags, buttons, even books), or clothing connected to the topics you edit on wiki projects. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Meeting info: Tuesday, March 5 Wiki Gala @ Prime Produce (optional RSVP on-wiki). 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm (Prime Produce, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan)

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Sean O'Malley

Need support to move Sean O'Malley.Marty2Hotty (talk) 00:33, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

@Marty2Hotty: You might not aware, but you can NOT do that to ask/inform/persuade another editors to support what you have nominated for - see Wikipedia:Canvassing. Kindly stop immediately. Cassiopeia talk 00:49, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

WikiNYC: 3/14 Hacking Night + 3/16 Queens Name Explorer

March 14: Hacking Night @ Prime Produce
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for Pi Day Hacking Night at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. It is intended primarily for technical contributors, though newcomers are welcome as well, and pies will be served in celebration of Pi Day! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct and Wikimedia's Technical Code of Conduct. Meeting info: Thursday, March 14 Hacking Night @ Prime Produce (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm (Introductions + Hacking + Pie) 9:30 pm – 10:00 pm (Showcase) (Prime Produce, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan)
March 16: Queens Name Explorer @ QPL Tech Lab
You are also invited to the Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Queens Name Explorer edit-a-thon at the Queens Public Library Tech Lab in Long Island City, which will be hosted in collaboration OpenStreetMap US, Urban Archive and the Queens Memory Project. This is an opportunity for the tech savvy to learn about Queens history and for the history savvy to hone their open data skills – plus, there will be refreshments and prizes for everyone! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person, you should be vaccinated and be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Meeting info: Saturday, March 16 Queens Name Explorer @ QPL Tech Lab (optional RSVP on-wiki). 11:00 am – 1:00 pm (Morning edit-a-thon, focusing on Wikidata) 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm (Afternoon edit-a-thon, focusing on OpenStreetMap) (Tech Lab, Queens Public Library at Queensbridge, Long Island City)

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WikiWednesday (April 10) and City Tech Library LGBTQIA edit-a-thon (April 11)

April 10: WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce
Prime Produce You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, as well as an online-based participation option. Among the topics, we'll be covering the newly-released drafts of the Movement Charter for Wikimedia global governance. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. Wednesday, April 10 WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce (RSVP on-wiki). 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm (Open Hour) 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm (Wiki Salon) (Prime Produce, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan) Also online via Zoom
April 11: City Tech Library LGBTQIA edit-a-thon
New York City College of Technology Additionally, you are invited to City Tech Library LGBTQIA edit-a-thon at the New York City College of Technology Library in Downtown Brooklyn! Join us in person on April 11th to learn about these great new materials at City Tech Library; to learn about editing Wikipedia; and to help increase representation of LGBTQIA individuals and issues online. All are welcome, new and experienced! Interested in attending, but not a CUNY student or faculty? Please get in touch; we'll help you navigate City Tech building security. Email Jen: jennifer.hoyer18 (at) citytech.cuny.edu. Thursday, April 11 City Tech Library LGBTQIA edit-a-thon (RSVP on-wiki). 12:30 pm – 3:30 pm (come by any time!) 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm (reception to celebrate the library's LGBTQIA collection) City Tech Library Multimedia Screening and Meeting Space, 300 Jay Street, Brooklyn NY All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct.

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Thu April 25: WikiNYC Hacking Night

April 25: Hacking Night @ Prime Produce

Past event at Prime Produce. You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for NYC Hacking Night at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. It is intended primarily for technical contributors, though newcomers are welcome as well! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct and Wikimedia's Technical Code of Conduct. Meeting info: Thursday, April 25 Hacking Night @ Prime Produce (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm (Introductions + Hacking) 9:30 pm – 10:00 pm (Showcase) (Prime Produce, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan)

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Proposed deletion of Frances and Richard Lockridge

The article Frances and Richard Lockridge has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

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Hi User:Roman_Spinner! I've gone ahead and created a separate page for Frances Louise Lockridge, so I'm proposing to delete the joint redirect to her husband, which it looks like you created some years ago. Letting you know per the protocol, let me know if you see any issue. Thanks! Bookworm-ce (talk) 02:47, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

"Frances and Richard Lockridge" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Frances and Richard Lockridge 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 April 30 § Frances and Richard Lockridge until a consensus is reached. Bookworm-ce (talk) 14:48, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

May 8: WikiWednesday Salon with new Executive Director

May 8: WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly WikiWednesday Salon at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, with an online-based participation option also available. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome! This special WikiWednesday will feature a welcome session and beginning of a listening tour by the newly appointed executive director of Wikimedia NYC, the first staff member leading our local non-profit. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. Meeting info: Wednesday, May 8 WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce (optional RSVP on-wiki). 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm (Open Hour) 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm (Wiki Salon) (Prime Produce, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan) Also online via Zoom

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Your nomination of Patricia Quinn (disambiguation) for deletion seems to have become stalled halfway. Do you want to continue with this? PatGallacher (talk) 17:35, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the reminder. I was called away in the middle of this task and will finish it in five minutes. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 17:39, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

One year!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:05, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

My thanks for the kind remembrance. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 13:41, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Requested move for Twitter article

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June 2: Hacking Sunday (+preview of June 8 Wiknic)

June 2: Hacking Sunday @ Prime Produce

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our Hacking Sunday at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. It is intended primarily for technical contributors, though newcomers are welcome as well! The event runs for the whole day, though you are welcome to come by for as little or as long as you'd like. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct and Wikimedia's Technical Code of Conduct. A documentary filmmaker will be in attendance, working on Rabbit Hole, which aims to document Wikipedia's community to showcase how our network tackles important questions about how history is recorded. They will be in attendance to film snippets of this gathering for the documentary. It is completely optional to be a part of the film and there will be protocols in place if you wish to not be filmed. If there are any questions about the filming please reach out to the filmmaker, Meg Vatterott (meg.vatterott@gmail.com). Meeting info: Suunday, June 2 Hacking Sunday @ Prime Produce (optional RSVP on-wiki). 9:00 am – 8:00 pm (Prime Produce, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan) P.S. Next up will be Sat June 8 Wiknic on Governors Island!

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Sat June 8: Governors Island Wiknic

June 8: Wiknic @ Governors Island

2023 Wiknic group photo You are invited to the picnic anyone can edit on Governors Island, at 403 Colonels Row by the ArtCrawl Harlem house. This is a sequel event to the 2023 Governors Island Wiknic and will feature a workshop led by AfroCrowd at the ArtCrawl Harlem house. We'll also encourage collaboration for wiki-coverage of ArtCrawl Harlem's current exhibition at Governors Island. All are welcome, new and experienced! Bring a picnic blanket and some potluck, as well as some sunscreen! We'll also provide sandwiches for everyone, and maybe some NYC pizza too, but we encourage you to bring your own favorite dishes to share, especially for those food cultural topics you would like to improve on Wikipedia. We'll also do a portal thing for a bit with West Coast friends at Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/Wiknic2024. Saturday, June 8, 2024 NYC Wiknic @ Governors Island (RSVP on-wiki) Time: 12:30–7:00 pm (come by any time!) Demystifying AI for Creatives: A Wiki and Media Workshop: 2:30–5:00 pm (indoor presentation led by AfroCrowd and ArtCrawl Harlem) Location: Governors Island (picnic site: 403 Colonels Row by ArtCrawl Harlem house). Reach the island by the Governors Island Ferry. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct.

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June 26: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

June 26: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

Welcome to Wikimedia New York City! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our Online-Only WikiWednesday Salon on Zoom. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome! This special online-only WikiWednesday will be dedicated to the Wikimedia Movement Charter referendum, and also to exploring future options of other online-centric events for our Wikimedia NYC chapter. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. Meeting info: Wednesday, June 26 ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Not in-person this month Online via Zoom

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Disambiguation link notification for June 28

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Profiles in Courage (TV series), you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Jose Quintero. (Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 08:51, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

I appreciate the reminder and will immediately attend to the matter. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 23:24, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

Fri July 19: Wikicurious in NYC, Editing Wikipedia for Beginners

July 19: Wikicurious: Editing Wikipedia for Beginners @ Civic Hall

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for the inaugural event of the beginner-focused Wikicurious series at Civic Hall! All are welcome, and newcomers and aspiring editors are especially encouraged to attend. Registration via Eventbrite is required for building entry, and is also encouraged on the event page on Meta. The Wikicurious series at Civic Hall is supported by Craig Newmark Philanthropies. Wikimedia NYC is an official affiliate and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. Meeting info: Date: Friday, July 19, 2024 Time: 3:00–8:00 p.m. Location: Civic Hall 124 East 14th Street, Floor [TBD], New York, NY Equipment: Please bring your own computer. We are not yet able to provide loaner laptops. Eventbrite RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wikicurious-editing-wikipedia-for-beginners-tickets-929793225567 RSVP is necessary for building entry

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Sat August 24: Roosevelt Island Wiknic

August 24: Wiknic @ Roosevelt Island

2019 Wiknic group photo, last time we held it on Roosevelt Island You are invited to the picnic anyone can edit on Roosevelt Island, at Southpoint Park. Following up on this month's Wikimania in Poland, this Wiknic will have as guest of honor User:DerHexer, the 2024 Wikimedia Laureate of the Year, marking his triumphant North American tour! Bring a picnic blanket and some potluck, as well as some sunscreen! We'll also provide a little something for everyone, but we encourage you to bring your own favorite dishes to share, especially for those food cultural topics you would like to improve on Wikipedia. We'll also do a portal thing for a bit with West Coast friends at the WikiLA ocean life edit-a-thon. All are welcome, new and experienced! Saturday, August 24, 2024 NYC Wiknic @ Roosevelt Island (RSVP on-wiki) Time: 2:00 - 7:00 pm (come by any time!) Salon-style Discussions: 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm (session A) 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm (session B) Location: Roosevelt Island (Southpoint Park, look for our Wikipedia/Wikimedia NYC banner). All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. See also upcoming events in September and October at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC.

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Sep 25: Wikimedia NYC Annual Election Meeting (plus Latin music event on Sep 21!)

September 25: Annual Election & Members Meeting

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our Annual Election & Members Meeting, with in-person at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, as well as an online-based participation option. The Members' Meeting is similar to other WikiWednesday meetups, except that its primary function is to elect a new Board of Directors. We will elect three board seats, half of the elected seats on the board. After being elected, those elected can potentially appoint more seats. We will also focus on the Wikimedia NYC Strategic Plan, our Financial Report, and Annual and Monthly event teams for the coming year. Election info: To run for election or to vote, you must be a dues-paying member of Wikimedia New York City, having renewed in the past 12 months. Voting will be both online, via emailed ballots from the ElectionBuddy service, and in-person. The poll will be open for the 48 hours between 8pm EDT on September 23 and 8pm EDT on September 25. For additional information, please consult the Election FAQ. Meeting info: Wednesday, September 25 Annual Election & Members Meeting (optional RSVP on-wiki). 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm (Open Hour) 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm (Wiki Salon) (Prime Produce, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan) Also online via Zoom All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. P.S. Also upcoming just before our annual meeting is the Latin music edit-a-thon, Wikicurious: Editing to the Beat (RSVP at Eventbrite), on Saturday September 21!

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Sep 21: Wikicurious for Latin Music: Editing to the Beat ♫

Sat Sep 21: Wikicurious - Editing to the Beat ♫ @ Lehman College

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for the "Editing to the Beat" event of the beginner-focused Wikicurious series at Lehman College. This is the second event of the series, following the inaugural event at Civic Hall in July. Led by a 9-person live band demonstrating Caribbean and Latin musical genres, we'll engage with efforts such as WikiProject Latin Music, and will encourage editing on both English and Spanish Wikipedia. All are welcome, and newcomers and aspiring editors are especially encouraged to attend. Registration via Eventbrite is required for building entry, and is also encouraged on the event page on Meta. The Wikicurious series is supported by Craig Newmark Philanthropies. Wikimedia NYC is an official affiliate and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Also supporting this event are Equis, The Celia Cruz Foundation, and the International Museum of Salsa. In association with WikiCari and AfroCrowd. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. Meeting info: Date: Saturday, September 21, 2024 Time: 1:00–7:00 p.m. Location: Lehman College (CUNY) 250 Bedford Park Blvd W, Bronx, NY Equipment: Please bring your own computer. We are not yet able to provide loaner laptops. Eventbrite RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wikicurious-editing-to-the-beat-tickets-1009115641047 RSVP is necessary for building entry.

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• Wed Sep 25: Wikimedia NYC Annual Election/Members Meeting 2024!
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ANI notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. seefooddiet (talk) 19:44, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the kind notice. I will post a reply at the indicated link shortly. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 21:17, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

Oct 26: Wikidata Day NYC

October 26: Wikidata Day in New York City

2024 Wikidata Day NYC flyer You are invited to Wikidata Day in New York City at Pratt Institute School of Information in Manhattan, in celebration of Wikidata's 12th birthday. This event, held by our chapter in collaboration with Pratt and Girls Who Code, will be our third annual celebration of Wikidata Day. It will feature spotlight sessions, lightning talks, and the customary Wiki-cake, while those unable to attend in person will be able to watch a livestream. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. Saturday, October 26, 2024 Wikidata Day in New York City (Eventbrite RSVP is required and also optionally on-wiki). 11:00 am – 5:00 pm Pratt Manhattan (rooms 201 and 214), 144 W 14th Street RSVP off-wiki is required for building entry!

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Discrimination towards Irish people

You never addressed the allegation here that your continued campaigning against the use of diacritics in Wikipedia titles ([2][3][4][5][6][7]) is potentially discriminatory towards Irish people. Could you do so? seefooddiet (talk) 21:13, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for contacting me regarding this matter which I would be happy to address. The key words in my so-called "boilerplate vote", "Oppose. Since English language does not contain accents or diacritics, transliterations into English from languages that do not use the Latin alphabet likewise should not contain any marks that are not part of English", are English language and Latin alphabet.

Since the only consideration in the matter at hand, is Irish use of the written English language, such use is no different than English as used in English-language newspapers published in Britain, Australia, South Africa or India. Websites for Irish newspapers, such as Irish Independent or The Irish Times show few if any diacritics.

I should also add that I have never been "campaigning" against the use of diacritics and have no general opposition to English Wikipedia's use of diacritics in entries from languages, such as French, Polish or Turkish, that have diacritics as part of their alphabet. The entry which displays the English alphabet obviously does not include letters containing diacritics. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 01:33, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia article titles are not necessarily exclusively in purely the English language or Latin alphabet. Why are you making this boilerplate vote and campaigning against article titles that don't even pretend to be in either?

The quality of your argument, relying on two newspapers and a Wikipedia article, is poor. You use the "English alphabet" page, but no mention of what the articles Acute accent, Grave accent, or Diaeresis (diacritic) say. Example: In English language texts it is perhaps most familiar in the loan words naïve, Noël and Chloë, and is also used officially in the name of the island Teän and of Coös County.

So poor arguments, poor behavior, and I think still no adequate addressing of potentially discriminatory exclusionary behavior. seefooddiet (talk) 01:42, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

As for why I insist on the use of the term "campaigning", I invite others to look at Roman Spinner's edit history, particularly all their recent posts on move requests. Look at any related to diacritics and tell me whether or not they're consistently biased in a certain direction.

So yes, it is campaigning. seefooddiet (talk) 01:56, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

No campaigning at all and no agenda. I rarely, if ever, edit articles related to Korea, transliteration, accents or diacritics and do not submit such topics to WP:RM. The only times I ever comment on these topics is when other editors submit them to RM.

As for "Noël", "Chloë", etc, I had already written in a previous RM that, "Although English language has no accents or diacritics, it uses some words borrowed from languages that do use such marks, with "naïvety" or "naïveté" along with "fiancé" or "café" among the examples that have become part of English language. All such words are also acceptable if rendered in English without accents or diacritics."

There is absolutely no bias or discrimination against any aspect of Ireland or, for that matter, any other language or culture and if two Irish newspapers are insufficient evidence, I invite anyone interested to glance at List of newspapers in the Republic of Ireland, all of which have websites and check if any English-language content in those newspapers uses accents or diacritics.

Ultimately, since my objection solely concerns diacritics used in transliteration from non-Latin alphabets into English and since Ireland uses the Latin alphabet, the matter is not even germane to the discussion. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 03:28, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

The only times I ever comment on these topics is when other editors submit them to RM. Yes, and you consistently vote in a certain direction. That constitutes a campaign/agenda to me; it's not as active as editing pages or making RMs, but you sure are persistent in pushing this boilerplate argument through. I don't even think you account for when WP:COMMONNAME contains the diacritic; you certainly actively ignore MOS:DIACRITICS.

All such words are also acceptable if rendered in English without accents or diacritics. This argument doesn't work for McCune–Reischauer in Korean. If you omit the diacritic it indicates a completely different sound. Sŏ -> 서 and So -> 소.

Non-Latin alphabets into English again, not all Wikipedia titles use the English language.

You never even bothered to try and discuss this with us at MOS:KO, even after I invited you to under more pleasant circumstances. You try to maintain a thin polite facade, but your actions speaks for themselves. Really not looking forward to your continued posting on this. We'll keep having the same discussions over and over again, ad nauseum, for years. Of course, this would have been completely avoidable if you just presented centralized discussions at the MOS-level. What a productive use of our time. seefooddiet (talk) 03:45, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

For others reading, discussion somewhat continued here. Talk:Gyeongguk daejeon#Requested move 17 October 2024

What I find insulting is the attempt to disingenuously use the "proven expertise" thing even after I called out what you were trying to do with it. Do not insult my intelligence; compliments from you mean little when you actively ignore me at your convenience. You even went out of your way to ignore my objectively good suggestion to make a formal proposal to modify either the MOS or the MOS:KO. Instead you continue to waste our time and try these poor arguments. Not one person I've seen so far has agreed with you.

I also disagree with parts of the MOS and with the opinions of other editors. And when I do I try to do the right thing by proposing changes. I mean I literally was the main author of rewriting the entirety of the MOS:KO through this process. I could have adopted your tactic by making micro changes in violation of both the main MOS and the MOS:KO, but I didn't because I respected the time of others. You don't.

So yes, if I'm not assuming good faith from you anymore it's because of your avoidable actions. Respect our time and actually respect my expertise (instead of paying the hollowest lip service to it) if you want good faith. seefooddiet (talk) 05:07, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

Regarding "productive use of our time", I likewise regret that an obviously highly educated and productive editor, such as yourself, with expertise in history, linguistics, geography, etc, devoting time and energy towards expanding and improving Wikipedia's coverage of all these topics has to have the pleasure of accomplishing such work diminished by opposition regarding one or another aspect of that work from one or more other editors, but such is the nature of this collaborative project, especially if you accept that these editors may feel as strongly about their position as you do about yours and attempting to browbeat them into submission will not help in the advancement of your cause.

I understand that transliterating from Korean into English with the help of diacritics to indicate pronunciation is not the same as transliterating from, for example, Ukrainian into English without the help of diacritics to indicate pronunciation, but my sole point continues to be that it is not helpful to use marks as an orthographic indicator in transliteration into a language that does not use marks.

Other editors may or may not agree with me, but my single vote stands as my view on this matter. It will not affect the final outcome in a given RM, nor do I wish it to affect the final outcome, all other aspects being equal.

Also, as you have already discovered, I also posted at Talk:Gyeongguk daejeon#Requested move 17 October 2024 about that specific nomination and may need to post there again if a response to that posting requires it. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 05:55, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

Here's the thing: that's not even my position and I actively dislike it. I dislike diacritics and am on a campaign to discourage their use at WP:KO by advocating for switching to a system that doesn't use it.

But this is what makes me not you: I'm taking the proper channels to make that change and having discussions in the right places. Isn't it ironic? We have the same goal, I just pursue it in a better way and actually get results when I do it.

I'm annoyed at your behavior. There are better and worse ways to collaborate, I think you're doing it in worse ways. I disagree with other editors but have great relationships with them. You are an exception, and it is because of your avoidable behaviors. seefooddiet (talk) 06:10, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

obviously highly educated and productive editor, such as yourself, with expertise in history, linguistics, geography, etc Also these backhanded compliments are not lost on me. Your behavior is truly awful. seefooddiet (talk) 06:12, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

Once again, please WP:Assume good faith since describing my sincere compliments as "backhanded" and adding "Your behavior is truly awful" is the antithesis of good faith as is the continued accusations of my having an "agenda" or engaging in "tendentious editing".

If I truly had an agenda regarding this topic, I would at least submit to WP:RM some Korean main title headers containing diacritics or complain about unilateral moves of Korean headers without diacritics to those with diacritics, but I have done none of those.

I certainly applaud your effort to convince others at WP:KO that transliterating Korean into English without the use of diacritics is the better way and if the matter were to be ready for a vote, I would add my support.

However, it must be reiterated that my opposition to use of diacritics in transliterating non-Latin alphabets into English is a general one and not specifically focused upon Korean. Thus, I do not feel that I can usefully contribute to the discussion at WP:KO beyond stating such general opposition.

Ultimately, since we are all unpaid volunteers, contributing our time and effort to the expansion of knowledge, experts such as yourself should be welcomed and appreciated. Over the years, I have seen a number of expert editors retire in frustration at the opposition to their work or even those who were driven away when they persisted.

Thus, please accept my straightforward "Support" votes at Talk:Shin Suk-ju and Talk:Gyeongguk daejeon even if the latter vote was paired with a caveat regarding diacritics. Without investigating the matter further, I take it for granted that your proposed transliteration revisions represent the proper forms.

In fact, taking into account that these types of RMs usually elicit low participation, it may even be best if, for the time being, I abstain from taking part in any future RMs involving use of diacritics in transliteration of Korean into English. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 17:06, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

I'm going to hold you to your word: stop participating in these RMs for Korea topics. You are so unproductive and ineffective as to be distracting. And you'll get your way eventually; if you had done it right the first time you would have gotten it faster without all of this drama and wasted time. Please do not vote in the discussion btw; you already ignored my previous invitation to participate and you ignored our previous community consensus. It's clear you don't actually respect us, are just doing this because you dislike diacritics, and do not understand what ways are effective in actually bringing about change.seefooddiet (talk) 20:44, 20 October 2024 (UTC)