User talk:Legoktm/January 2021

Latest comment: 3 years ago by Legoktm in topic The Signpost: 31 January 2021


Administrators' newsletter – January 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).

  Guideline and policy news

  Technical news

  Arbitration

  • By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
  • Following the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, BDD, Bradv, CaptainEek, L235, Maxim, Primefac.

15:41, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

16:09, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

About the Legobot

Can you see the bot's edits in there? Looks like the bot identifies the deleted GA nominations as unknown. Is it a known workaround or a bug? I would be happy if you are able to reply.Ahmetlii (talk) 19:35, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

18:29, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost material is great!

I particularly like all the quotes. Which has me worried. You do know that all quotes have to be cited don't you? If they're onWiki or on the web you can just link to them. Or you can use a regular inline citation and a reflist. I sorta feel silly telling you this, but i'd hate to see all your good work wasted! Smallbones(smalltalk) 01:18, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

@Smallbones: Thanks :) I should have the rest of the story up tonight. The quotes are nearly all from interviews I conducted myself, over email. I think I cited everything else that isn't primary material, but I'll double check. Legoktm (talk) 02:24, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
So I'll suggest just one footnote for the personal emails "From personal email" or similar. Smallbones(smalltalk) 02:32, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
@Smallbones: I didn't end up with any other footnotes, so I put "said in an email" in the prose itself, which is how I learned how to do it in school - if that's not okay I can switch it to the footnote or whatever format you prefer. I marked it as ready for copyediting as I finished all of the text. I'll look for photos to add to the article tomorrow. Legoktm (talk) 12:19, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, looks good. Smallbones(smalltalk) 12:27, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

I did a final review of the content and found only one thing that definitely needs a change It's approx: "At end end of the month" I added *(what month, what year?)* because I didn't have a clue. It did get me thinking about dates - you do go back and forth - not purely chronological, so a few more dates might serve as anchors. There are 20 years mentioned, so it's not too bad, Smallbones(smalltalk) 23:16, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 January 2021

Your signpost article was great. Thanks for taking the time to report it. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 20:34, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
Thank you! Legoktm (talk) 23:17, 31 January 2021 (UTC)