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Hello, Swarm. I am fairly new to Wikipedia, and often find myself consulting help essays and I feel it greatly limits how much I can contribute to the site. I do have some knowledge of how to use HTML, but there's lots of room for improvement. I saw your ad on the adoptee's area, and you seemed like the best fit for me. I will accept no as an answer, so don't feel any great pressure. Thank you in advance. ShortyMcShortFace (talk) 04:42, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
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| Guild of Copy Editors October 2022 Newsletter
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Hello and thank you for granting me rollback rights. One thing I've wondered when reviewing recent and pending changes is whether large-scale removal of entire paragraphs without explanation counts as clear vandalism, especially when info is seemingly well-sourced. So far, I've erred on the side of caution and provided an edit summary along with my reverts, but I wonder if this is necessary in these cases. Throast {{ping}} me! (talk | contribs) 17:48, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
I'm contacting you because you Topic banned me and I think that makes you my first point of contact. With this edit I've made a mistake. Not having read the details of the topic banned recently, I thought I was able to make this edit, but re-reading it I don't think I was allowed to make the edit. Being a page creation I'm unable to rollback, but have G7'd it. Please advise me on my next steps. Stuartyeates (talk) 10:42, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
USaamo is now engaging in talk page disruption by rigging the RfC.[1] He is moving opposing comments (to his edits) outside the "Survey" section to a new section he created, and adding comments of another user to that new section. This is clearly being done to weaken the position of the another opposing editor while strengthening own position. Aman Kumar Goel (Talk) 03:34, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
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The GOCE December 2022 newsletter, as sent on 9 December, contains an erroneous start date for our December Blitz. The Blitz will start on 11 December rather than on 17 December, as stated in the newsletter. I'm sorry for the mistake and for disrupting your talk page; thanks for your understanding. Sent by Baffle gab1978 via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:30, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
Hey, you might want to check the screen on Yae4's user page before supporting lifting his ban on climate change. 2601:199:447F:8450:952A:B45B:1DA9:35B4 (talk) 16:23, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
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Hey, could you revdel this diff. The edit contains my real name. I'm not particularly secretive about it, and frankly it's pretty obvious from my user name, but it's not cool at all that it would be used. Pretty clear WP:OUTING violation. Doesn't help that the person made the dot as part of a long winded screed against Wikipedia policy. oknazevad (talk) 23:22, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
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Dearest Swarm, how are you? I hope you have been well since we last corresponded regarding my premature Autopatrol request back in 2018. I was recently reminded about our first and [[User talk:Swarm/Archive 16#Autopatrolled Permission Discussion - Spinster300 [Cont.]|second]] discussions that occurred after my application.
I have been contributing off and on recently, but I was reminded of my application earlier today because of a particular concern another editor brought to my attention about my recent spree of article creations and them likely piling on at New Page Patrol. Their primary concern was regarding the quality of my recent creations, and I have tried my best to address those – you can follow these on my talk page. But, this made me think if applying again for autopatrolled rights after all this while might make any significant difference. And hence, I approach you today.
It has now been more than 4 years that I have been actively editing Wikipedia, and I have created nearly 400 articles on the English Wikipedia so far. While I have made some contributions over at Template:Authority control and its counterpart on Wikidata, I have specialised mostly on creating quality stubs (if I may say so myself), translating biographies from other language Wikis off of the redlists from Women in Red in particular. I will admit that about a dozen of the articles that I created over the years were either nominated for deletion/speedy deletion, or were drafted (but later brought into main space after improvements), or were kept following some very healthy discussions after being nominated for deletion. It took me a while to learn that fulfilling article requests over at Requested articles was not always a good idea, and hence I focused on Women in Red. However, I would like to point out that the most amount of trouble I experienced was rather unsurprisingly about subjects not from the Western/developed world (I believe there is a Wikipedia essay about this issue as well). If when you check my record, you may find me skewing towards making my signature stub articles mostly on European or North American topics because of these troubles I faced earlier on.
I write to you today to ask how you have been, and to provide some (hopefully) insightful updates on my goings-on on Wikipedia over the years. If you have the time, please let me know if I may be in a better position now to acquiring the auto-patrolled rights. I love contributing to Wikipedia the way I do, and I have no intentions at causing unnecessary backlogs over New Page Patrol; if any of my future articles miss the mark of our encyclopaedic standards, the ample templates, categories, and talk page WikiProject tags I format in my articles should alert experienced editors to address those concerns in good time. It has been an honest delight to see so many of stubs expanded into decently sized articles by experienced copyeditors.
I look forward to hearing from, as and when you have the time. Kindest regards, Spinster300 (talk) 12:02, 15 March 2023 (UTC).
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Hello. Hope you're doing great! You know me as Garagepunk66. I've been away from Wikipedia for awhile, but I'm still here. Now that I have some time, I'm getting caught up with things. I'll be editing under a new name: GloryRoad66. However, no big change (other than name). I've been doing an expansion on the Glyn Johns article, amongst other things. Always grateful for the help you've given me over the years. Best withes! GloryRoad66 (talk) 03:04, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
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Swarm - You've stung my thoughts again! Now I have to figure out how to get the yellow jackets out of my mental backyard! I'm just sending you a message because we haven't said "hello" in quite some time. I wanted to let you know that I was thinking about you, my friend. I hope you're doing well and I hope that life is filled with nothing but happiness for you. :-) ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 07:34, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
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US politics is a contentious topic (per Arbitration Committee and my own opinion) and protection of Kamala Harris’ page made sense in 2020. However, there isn’t as much of a reason for her page to continue to be protected now as she’s barely even in the press anymore and she isn’t as much of a target for vandalism and disruptive changes. I think her page should be lowered to pending changes, though semi would be fine too. CharlieEdited (talk) 19:41, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
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