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Welcome to Wikipedia, Geekdiva! I am Marek69 and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing ((helpme)) at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Hi Geekdiva, I've left a reply to your message on my talk page -- Marek.69 ^talk 22:03, 17 July 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank you for resolving the problem I inadvertently caused at Oichi. I've responded to your comments at Talk:Oichi. Although it appears you came to this article because of a fictional manga character, it may interest you to know that the articles about this historical figure and her daughters are going to come under increasing scrutiny in the near future.

• NHK has announced that its 2011 Taiga drama will be named Gō: Himetachi no Sengoku; and it will be based on the life of Ohatsu's daughter, Oeyo.<:ref>大河ドラマ 第50 作 江（ごう）　姫たちの戦国; "Atsuhime"-Autorin für NHKs 2011er Taiga-Drama gewählt (citing Tokyograph), J-Dorama.</ref>

This mistake is one of those I should have caught myself; but, in any case, I'm glad you were the one who first stumbled across my oversight. --Tenmei (talk) 16:39, 17 October 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello Geekdiva, I'm just leaving you a note to tell you that I've moved your Arata Kangatari sandbox page in accordance with Viz's title, and have also done some work on the page itself - it is now located at User:Geekdiva/Arata: The Legend, and I added a couple of external links that should help with adding some more information as well. Cheers! 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000} 20:05, 25 February 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I don't recall ever creating a sandbox. I've been puzzled by this sandbox's existence for a while, especially since when I click View History, it shows me the history of the main article! Unless it would somehow affect the main article, I'm eventually going to delete it. Thanks! --Geekdiva (talk) 22:02, 1 June 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Oops. I forgot I was in a section someone else started when I typed this, so I wasn't demonstratively appreciative. Thanks for your efforts! Sorry I don't check my user talk page often and so I missed your post for years. I dunno what to do... Will it cause problems or waste your efforts to delete the sandbox? Well, WP says to be bold, but I'll need a nap first. :) --Geekdiva (talk) 20:05, 16 June 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Just a heads-up, I replied to your comment on my talk page. =) 「ディノ奴千？！」^{? · ☎ Dinoguy1000} 23:35, 1 July 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I am no technicl writer, so maybe I can semi-explain what is happening in the pic and you can fix the caption in good English. The white bed is brought up to the surface by a small thrust fault splay off of a main thrust fault, hence the white cliff that I (the photographer) am standing on that becomes thinner and thinner along strike of the ridge, in the upper center of the pic. The main fault is expressed by the larger range (including the 3 finger sawtooth mountain) in the upper far right to upper left of the pic, on the horizon, which is the same rock, repeted along the bigger fault. The foreground mountain is actually just a small feature to the larger feature, wrapping around to the right on the pic. Does that make any sense? Let me know. This pic is used in several articles... if you click on it, you can see... so many captions may need to be fixed. Qfl247 (talk) 22:54, 9 June 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello Geekdiva. I totally understand what you said. I'll try to do my best. AlexCovarrubias ^{( Talk? )} 23:49, 28 January 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Here's the latest addition to the religion section of Portal:Contents/Outlines. Wikipedia has rich coverage on this subject. Very interesting, especially from sociological and historical perspectives.

• Outline of Sikhism

This is a call to all members of the Outline WikiProject and outline aficionados to help refine this outline. It needs annotations, missing topics added, and the entries in the general concepts section placed in more specific sections. It needs your editing skills. Let's turn it into a beehive!

Come join in on the fun and get acquainted with members of the Outline WikiProject.

The Transhumanist 04:55, 2 March 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]

P.S.: I had no idea this religion was so extensive or that it had so many followers. Hope to see you on the outline!

Hi. I have responded rather belatedly to your question at Template_talk:Vocab-stub#Deprecated_or_not.3F_In_favor_of_which_template.3F. I hope it clarifies matters. Dominic·t

You seem to know something about categories. I really don't. I think that one of those needs to be created, and presumably it would be made an appropriate subcategory. If you look at the Category: Magic museums there are at least two articles that should be under it. I know nothing about creating categories, and don't want to screw this sup For your consideration. Happy editing. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:09, 18 April 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The Outline of relationships was nominated for deletion.

It was then overhauled and the nomination was withdrawn.

Before → After.

Only a couple members from the Outlines WikiProject showed up at the AfD.

Do you have Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines/Article alerts watchlisted?

If not, please watchlist it.

Thank you. The Transhumanist 09:30, 29 June 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Factual addendum to above template notification: The AfD discussion concerns a total of 58 asana articles. MarB4 •ɯɒɹ• 18:53, 2 July 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Please solve this mystery if you can...

On September 23rd, traffic to Portal:James Bond doubled, and has stayed at the new level since then. I can't figure out what happened.

See http://stats.grok.se/en/201109/Portal%3AJames_Bond

Traffic to Outline of James Bond stayed the same (though it was at the higher-level already), which leads me to suspect changes made somewhere in Wikipedia.

See http://stats.grok.se/en/201109/Outline%20of%20James_Bond

I'd like to find out what happened, in case it reveals helpful link placement tips that can double the traffic to outlines too!

I look forward to your reply. The Transhumanist 22:41, 5 October 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Please go to Portal:Contents/Outlines' and fill in as many missing annotations as you can, even if it's only one or two. Every little bit helps!

The annotating of the entries on Portal:Contents/Outlines is nearing completion.

Annotated entries look like this:

• Basketball – team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules.
• Canoeing and kayaking – two closely related forms of watercraft paddling, involving manually propelling and navigating specialized boats called canoes and kayaks using a blade that is joined to a shaft, known as a paddle, in the water.
• Cricket – bat-and-ball team sport, the most popular form played on an oval-shaped outdoor arena known as a cricket field at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard (20.12 m) long pitch that is the focus of the game.
• Martial arts – extensive systems of codified practices and traditions of combat, practiced for a variety of reasons, including self-defense, competition, physical health and fitness, as well as mental and spiritual development.

Entries needing annotations look like this:

• Industry –
• Construction –
• Architecture –
• Machines –
• Industrial machinery –
• Robotics –
• Mining –

The links to the country outlines don't need annotations (they are listed by region).

Even if all you can do is one or two, the support will be greatly felt. Many hands make light work.

Thank you. The Transhumanist 00:35, 7 October 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Hello. I and others will be at Café Allegro in u-district this Tuesday January 3 at 7pm. Here is the event description. I would enjoy meeting you there if you are available. Thanks. Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:23, 1 January 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

We are meeting Tuesday 7 February at 7pm at Allegro and details are here. It seems you are not active on Wikipedia currently. If you become active again and want to get in touch then please write to me. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:39, 2 February 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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While you are reading or browsing Wikipedia articles, please...

...keep a lookout for outlines embedded in articles.

I've run across a number of these over the years. One example is the Outline of fencing, which used to be part of the fencing article.

If you know about or spot any structured general topics lists in articles, please let me know (on my talk page).

Another thing you might find are articles that are comprised mostly of lists (without "Outline of" or "List of" being in the article's title). If you come across any of these, please report them to me on my talk page. I'd sure like to take a look at them.

Happy hunting.

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Hi Geekdiva, I saw your comment in the edit section of the Historic states represented in Turkish presidential seal (personally I'd prefer to use the tak page instead of edit sectiont.) This concept is older than 1985. Exactly to which article you have voted to merge? This article is not about Turkic states. There is no sound scientific basis for 16 states. This article is about 16 stars in the seal and official (but unscientific) explanation about the stars. Cheers.Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 18:28, 16 March 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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For this month's issue...

Making sense of a lot of data.

Work on our prototype will begin imminently. In the meantime, we have to understand what exactly we're working with. To this end, we generated a list of 71 WikiProjects, based on those brought up on our Stories page and those who had signed up for pilot testing. For those projects where people told stories, we coded statements within those stories to figure out what trends there were in these stories. This approach allowed us to figure out what Wikipedians thought of WikiProjects in a very organic way, with very little by way of a structure. (Compare this to a structured interview, where specific questions are asked and answered.) This analysis was done on 29 stories. Codes were generally classified as "benefits" (positive contributions made by a WikiProject to the editing experience) and "obstacles" (issues posed by WikiProjects, broadly speaking). Codes were generated as I went along, ensuring that codes were as close to the original data as possible. Duplicate appearances of a code for a given WikiProject were removed.

We found 52 "benefit" statements encoded and 34 "obstacle" statements. The most common benefit statement referring to the project's active discussion and participation, followed by statements referring to a project's capacity to guide editor activity, while the most common obstacles made reference to low participation and significant burdens on the part of the project maintainers and leaders. This gives us a sense of WikiProjects' big strength: they bring people together, and can be frustrating to editors when they fail to do so. Meanwhile, it is indeed very difficult to bring editors together on a common interest; in the absence of a highly motivated core of organizers, the technical infrastructure simply isn't there.

We wanted to pair this qualitative study with quantitative analysis of a WikiProject and its "universe" of pages, discussions, templates, and categories. To this end I wrote a script called ProjAnalysis which will, for a given WikiProject page (e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Trek) and WikiProject talk-page tag (e.g. Template:WikiProject Star Trek), will give you a list of usernames of people who edited within the WikiProject's space (the project page itself, its talk page, and subpages), and within the WikiProject's scope (the pages tagged by that WikiProject, excluding the WikiProject space pages). The output is an exhaustive list of usernames. We ran the script to analyze our test batch of WikiProjects for edits between March 1, 2014 and February 28, 2015, and we subjected them to further analysis to only include those who made 10+ edits to pages in the projects' scope, those who made 4+ edits to the projects' space, and those who made 10+ edits to pages in scope but not 4+ edits to pages in the projects' space. This latter metric gives us an idea of who is active in a certain subject area of Wikipedia, yet who isn't actively engaging on the WikiProject's pages. This information will help us prioritize WikiProjects for pilot testing, and the ProjAnalysis script in general may have future life as an application that can be used by Wikipedians to learn about who is in their community.

Complementing the above two studies are a design analysis, which summarizes the structure of the different WikiProject spaces in our test batch, and the comprehensive census of bots and tools used to maintain WikiProjects, which will be finished soon. With all of this information, we will have a game plan in place! We hope to begin working with specific WikiProjects soon.

As a couple of asides...

• Database Reports has existed for several years on Wikipedia to the satisfaction of many, but many of the reports stopped running when the Toolserver was shut off in 2014. However, there is good news: the weekly New WikiProjects and WikiProjects by Changes reports are back, with potential future reports in the future.
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Greetings! For this month's issue...

We have demos!

After a lengthy research and design process, we decided for WikiProject X to focus on two things:

• A WikiProject workflow that focuses on action items: discussions you can participate in and tasks you can perform to improve the encyclopedia; and
• An automatically updating WikiProject directory that gives you lists of users participating in the WikiProject and editing in that subject area.

We have a live demonstration of the new WikiProject workflow at WikiProject Women in Technology, a brand new WikiProject that was set up as an adjunct to a related edit-a-thon in Washington, DC. The goal is to surface action items for editors, and we intend on doing that through automatically updated working lists. We are looking into using SuggestBot to generate lists of outstanding tasks, and we are looking into additional options for automatic worklist generation. This takes the burden off of WikiProject editors to generate these worklists, though there is also a "requests" section for Wikipedians to make individual requests. (As of writing, these automated lists are not yet live, so you will see a blank space under "edit articles" on the demo WikiProject. Sorry about that!) I invite you to check out the WikiProject and leave feedback on WikiProject X's talk page.

Once the demo is sufficiently developed, we will be working on a limited deployment on our pilot WikiProjects. We have selected five for the first round of testing based on the highest potential for impact and will scale up from there.

While a re-designed WikiProject experience is much needed, that alone isn't enough. A WikiProject isn't any good if people have no way of discovering it. This is why we are also developing an automatically updated WikiProject directory. This directory will surface project-related metrics, including a count of active WikiProject participants and of active editors in that project's subject area. The purpose of these metrics is to highlight how active the WikiProject is at the given point of time, but also to highlight that project's potential for success. The directory is not yet live but there is a demonstration featuring a sampling of WikiProjects.

Each directory entry will link to a WikiProject description page which automatically list the active WikiProject participants and subject-area article editors. This allows Wikipedians to find each other based on the areas they are interested in, and this information can be used to revive a WikiProject, start a new one, or even for some other purpose. These description pages are not online yet, but they will use this template, if you want to get a feel of what they will look like.

We need volunteers!

WikiProject X is a huge undertaking, and we need volunteers to support our efforts, including testers and coders. Check out our volunteer portal and see what you can do to help us!

As an aside...

Wouldn't it be cool if lists of requested articles could not only be integrated directly with WikiProjects, but also shared between WikiProjects? Well, we got the crazy idea of having experimental software feature Flow deployed (on a totally experimental basis) on the new Article Request Workshop, which seeks to be a place where editors can "workshop" article ideas before they get created. It uses Flow because Flow allows, essentially, section-level categorization, and in the future will allow "sections" (known as "topics" within Flow) to be included across different pages. What this means is that you have a recommendation for a new article tagged by multiple WikiProjects, allowing for the recommendation to appear on lists for each WikiProject. This will facilitate inter-WikiProject collaboration and will help to reduce duplicated work. The Article Request Workshop is not entirely ready yet due to some bugs with Flow, but we hope to integrate it into our pilot WikiProjects at some point.

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Hi,

Previously you have contributed in updating Bisj pole#See also. I wish and request a little contribution to article Poles in mythology from your side.

Thanks and regards

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Development of the extension for setting up WikiProjects, as described in the last issue of this newsletter, is currently underway. No terribly exciting news on this front.

In the meantime, we are working on a prototype for a new service we hope to announce soon. The problem: there are requests scattered all across Wikipedia, including requests for new articles and requests for improvements to existing articles. We Wikipedians are very good at coming up with lists of things to do. But once we write these lists, where do they end up? How can we make them useful for all editors—even those who do not browse the missing articles lists, or the particular WikiProjects that have lists?

Introducing Wikipedia Requests, a new tool to centralize the various lists of requests around Wikipedia. Requests will be tagged by category and WikiProject, making it easier to find requests based on what your interests are. Accompanying this service will be a bot that will let you generate reports from this database on any wiki page, including WikiProjects. This means that once a request is filed centrally, it can syndicated all throughout Wikipedia, and once it is fulfilled, it will be marked as "complete" throughout Wikipedia. The idea for this service came about when I saw that it was easy to put together to-do lists based on database queries, but it was harder to do this for human-generated requests when those requests are scattered throughout the wiki, siloed throughout several pages. This should especially be useful for WikiProjects that have overlapping interests.

The newsletter this month is fairly brief; not a lot of news, just checking in to say that we are hard at work and hope to have more for you soon.

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"It would be funnier and instructive if we could see the original images next to each parody."—yes, that's something I intend to do, though these parodies aren't meant to be "funny ha-ha". Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 02:09, 8 March 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I have moved the actual article to Patriots (novel series), which is the correct form. I have fixed the major double-redirects resulting, but someone has spammed in so many (e.g. five different ones, Andy Laine, CPT Andy Laine, CPT Andrew Laine, Captain Andy Laine and Captain Andrew Laine, for a single character) that I am leaving the rest to the bot which should do them in the next day or so. JohnCD (talk) 16:44, 20 March 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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In the last issue of the WikiProject X Newsletter, I discussed the upcoming Wikipedia Requests system: a central database for outstanding work on Wikipedia. I am pleased to announce Wikipedia Requests is live! Its purpose is to supplement automatically generated lists, such as those from SuggestBot, Reports bot, or Wikidata. It is currently being demonstrated on WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health (which I work on as part of my NIOSH duties) and WikiProject Women scientists.

Adding a request is as simple as filling out a form. Just go to the Add form to add your request. Adding sources will help ensure that your request is fulfilled more quickly. And when a request is fulfilled, simply click "mark as complete" and it will be removed from all the lists it's on. All at the click of a button! (If anyone is concerned, all actions are logged.)

With this new service is a template to transclude these requests: ((Wikipedia Requests)). It's simple to use: add the template to a page, specifying article=, category=, or wikiproject=, and the list will be transcluded. For example, for requests having to do with all living people, just do ((Wikipedia Requests|category=Living people)). Use these lists on WikiProjects but also for edit-a-thons where you want a convenient list of things to do on hand. Give it a shot!

The value of Wikipedia Requests comes from being a centralized database. The long work to migrating individual lists into this combined list is slowly underway. As of writing, we have 883 open tasks logged in Wikipedia Requests. We need your help building this list.

If you know of a list of missing articles, or of outstanding tasks for existing articles, that you would like to migrate to this new system, head on over to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Requests#Transition project and help out. Doing this will help put your list in front of more eyes—more than just your own WikiProject.

WikiProject X maintains a database that associates article talk pages (and draft talk pages) with WikiProjects. This database powers many of the reports that Reports bot generates. However, until very recently, this database was not made available to others who might find its data useful. It's only common sense to open up the database and let others build tools with it.

And indeed: Citation Hunt, the game to add citations to Wikipedia, now lets you filter by WikiProject, using the data from our database.

Are you a tool developer interested in using this? Here are some details: the database resides on Tool Labs with the name s52475__wpx_p. The table that associates WikiProjects with articles and drafts is called projectindex. Pages are stored by talk page title but in the future this should change. Have fun!

• The work on the CollaborationKit extension continues. The extension will initially focus on reducing template and Lua bloat on WikiProjects (especially our WPX UI demonstration projects), and will from there create custom interfaces for creating and maintaining WikiProjects.
• The WikiCite meeting will be in Berlin in May. The goal of the meeting is to figure out how to build a bibliographic database for use on the Wikimedia projects. This fits in quite nicely with WikiProject X's work: we want to make it easier for people to find things to work on, and with a powerful, open bibliographic database, we can build recommendations for sources. This feature was requested by the Wikipedia Library back in September, and this meeting is a major next step. We look forward to seeing what comes out of this meeting.

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Hi, you added a "clarify" template to the American Legend Cooperative page for "EMBA", noting that the name EMBA is not explained. I have not found any sources that explain this name. Apparently, until 1948, they were usually called MMBA, but then decided to use EMBA. I'd guess that it had always been pronounced em-ba, and this was just to make it easier to know how to pronounce it, but I have no evidence for that. See http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/127/217/1664036/ for some background on the trademark: "MMBA also claims the term "EMBA" as a trade-mark. This term is a coined term formed by substituting an "E" as the initial letter in the letters which otherwise stand for the name of the association, M. M. B. A." -- as though that explained anything! In any case, I don't think a "clarify" template is useful here; the current text is clear, though arguably incomplete. But then, all articles are incomplete in some way.... Best. --Macrakis (talk) 18:48, 31 October 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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This month: A general update.

The current status of the project is as follows:

• Progress of the project has been generally delayed since September due to development issues (more bitrot than expected, some of the code just being genuinely confusing, etc) and personal injury (I suffered a concussion in October and was out of commission for almost two months as a result).
• I currently expect to be putting out a proper call for CollaborationKit pilots in January/February, with estimated deployment in February/March if things don't go horribly wrong (they will, though, don't worry). As a part of that, I will properly update the page and send out announcement and reach out to all projects already signed up as pilots for WikiProject X in general, at which point those (still) interested can volunteer specifically to test the CollaborationKit extension.
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Pilots was originally created for the first WikiProject X prototype, and given this is where the project has since gone, it's only logical to continue to use it. While I haven't yet updated the page to properly reflect this:
  • If you want to add your project to this page now, feel free. Just bear in mind that more information what to actually expect will be added later/included in the announcement, because by then I will have a much better idea myself.
• Until then, you can find me in my corner working on making the CollaborationKit code do what we want and not just what we told it, per the workboard.

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Updates: I've been focusing largely on the development side of things, so we are a lot closer now to being ready to actually start discussing deploying it and testing it out here.

There's just a few things left that need to be resolved:

• A bunch of language support issues in particular, plus some other release blockers, such as the fact that currently there's no good way to find any hubs people do create.
• We also probably need some proper documentation and examples up to even reference if we want a meaningful discussion. We have the extension documentation and some test projects, but we probably need a bit more. Also I need to be able to even find the test projects! How can I possibly write reports about this stuff if I can't find any of it?!

Some other stuff that's happened in the meantime:

• Midpoint report is out for this round of the project, if you want to read in too much detail about all the problems I've been running into.
• WikiProject Molecular Biology have successfully set up using the old module system that CollaborationKit is intended to replace (eventually), and it even seems to work, so go them. Based on the issues they ran into, it looks like the members signup thing on that system has some of the same problems as we've been unable to resolve in CK, though, which is... interesting. (Need to change the content model to the right thing for the formwizard config to take. Ugh, content models.)

Until next time,

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Please note that it is not necessary for already-disambiguated titles to hatnote back to the plain title, or to cross-hat each other. Nobody is going to accidentally end up at Victor Martin (politician) while actually seeking the swimmer or the sociologist, because the "politician" disambiguator already prevents people from mistakenly thinking that's the swimmer, so those don't need to be linked at the top of the politician's page — the only page that needs to contain hatnotes is the plain Victor Martin itself, because that's the only page that people might accidentally go to while actually looking for one of the others. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 16:38, 18 July 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

A final update, for now:

The third grant-funded round of WikiProject X has been completed. Unfortunately, while this round has not resulted in a deployed product, I am not planning to resume working on the project for the foreseeable future. Please see the final report for more information.

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A tag has been placed on Athens of the South (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an orphaned disambiguation page which either

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You added a link to WP:ARBINFOBOX to the Manual of style about infoboxes. I am not sure whom that would help to what. All that remains of that case of 7 years ago is what the MoS says anyway (... consensus on each article's talk page). It was much ado about almost nothing (the introduction of ((infobox opera)), hotly debated back then, but now in 1109 articles), imho, and might best be forgotten. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:50, 6 July 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I see the health tag only now: best wishes, and never mind if you have better things to do than explain. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:53, 6 July 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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