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I bitz yur artikl till it ded then I delete it. In memory of content writer Richard Arthur Norton, lynched at AN after 13 years and 6 months at Wikipedia.
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Arbitration
The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.
As you may know, in Japanese you usually write the last name first and then the first name, it is the contrary in many Western languages but not all (Hungarian is also an exception. But your edit has also suppressed an Interlanguage link (ill) that gave access to French article, not a very fair edit. Arorae (talk) 16:19, 7 June 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Arorae - Kuromiya is a scholar living and teaching in the United States, his books appear in card catalogs and on title pages as Hiroaki Kuromiya, and his name should be rendered accordingly on English WP. If there is some sort of interlanguage link to be made, make it without flipping the given name and surname, please. Carrite (talk) 20:39, 7 June 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
The minority faction led by Shachtman eventually split away almost 40% of the party's membership and 80% of its youth organization, the Young People's Socialist League, forming the Workers Party.[1]
^Myers, Constance. "American Trotskyists: The First Years". Studies in Comparative Communism. 10 (1/2 (Spring/Summer 1977)): 133–151. Shachtman took out with him 40 percent of the membership, but this included 80 percent of the Trotskyist youth and left the party the minuscule sect it had been in Communist League of America years before 1934.34
I know that the Trotskyists had belonged briefly to the SP (and presumably to the YPSL), but when the Trotskyists left (or were forced out of) the SP to form the SWP,
did they take the YPSL with them?
did they form their own counterpart to the YPSL and the YCL?
was their youth group called the YPSL?
and when 80% the Trotskyist youth left Cannon's group for Shachtman's,
did they call themselves the YPSL?
I also know that eventually the Workers' Party youth founded the Socialist Youth League (SYL) (while the SWP's youth formed the American Youth for Socialism [AYS]), but I'm unclear on the chronology and very doubtful about this muddled narrative in Wikipedia's SWP article (which I bookmark, but don't work on directly; perhaps you can fix what's faulty).
Shakescene - My belief is that in 1938 there were two YPSLs, but that is from memory rather than sources. I believe the "official" YPSL was controlled by the new SWP and the SPA reorganized the group in parallel. Carrite (talk) 11:58, 13 June 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.
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I have an impression that you left the article unfinished. At least it does not say how the crisis resolved. Care to continue? - Altenmann>talk 17:38, 10 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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November Articles for creation backlog drive[edit]
Hello Carrite:
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There is a backlog of over 1500 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:23, 31 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Carrite, I'd like to apologize for my unduly passive-aggressive comment on the Signpost discussion page. It was ill-though-out and unnecessary. Cremastra (talk) 21:29, 10 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Awww, don't worry about it. I was just flipping you shit for flipping me shit. My original comment — aggressively put for emphasis — stands. Best regards and happy editing. —tim ///// Carrite (talk) 10:35, 12 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Happy First Edit Day! Hi Carrite! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 22:09, 28 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
No, I wasn't. Feel free if you'd like to. Or better yet, maybe we can come up with a photo to illustrate the piece... Carrite (talk) 22:39, 6 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
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Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
