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Boca Raton, Florida

Hi there. I'm not sure why you removed the timeline at Boca Raton, Florida? Thanks. Magnolia677 (talk) 13:27, 14 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I mostly see timelines of cities as a separate article and the timeline has not been maintained since 2017, but I added it back into it's own section. static shakedown ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ

November Articles for creation backlog drive

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A barnstar for you!

		The Color Barnstar
		Great work adding the infobox and content to the page for Cynthia Brewer! She is an extremely important cartographer and color theorist, so I'm glad to see the page improved. GeogSage ^{(⚔Chat?⚔)} 03:26, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pages you might be interested in helping on

Hello,

I've seen you working on Brewers page, as well as some of the cartography/geography pages. I saw your userboxes and thought you might be interested in looking at the pages for geographers Mei-Po Kwan, Anne Kelly Knowles, and then Dr. Kwan's Uncertain geographic context problem and Neighborhood effect averaging problem. GeogSage ^{(⚔Chat?⚔)} 01:45, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! :) I'll look into these static shakedown ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ 01:51, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024

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Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

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Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

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Steven John Ward

Hi @Staticshakedown:, can you now help me create an article for actor Steven John Ward, best known for portraying Dracule Mihawk in the live-action of One Piece? CheAjlt (talk) 06:42, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, done! static shakedown ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ 12:08, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Tyler Lawrence Gray

Hello again @Staticshakedown:, could you now please help me create an article for actor Tyler Lawrence Gray? CheAjlt (talk) 07:15, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done! static shakedown ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ 13:54, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, and Merry Christmas!! CheAjlt (talk) 19:54, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sandra Sandoval

Hi again @Staticshakedown:, thank very much again, now could you please help create an article here on English Wikipedia for Sandra Sandoval [es] from the popular musical duo from Panama (my country of origin) Samy and Sandra Sandoval? You can use the information shown in the Spanish Wikipedia. CheAjlt (talk) 03:19, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This edit...

According to Estigarribia, "This probably makes Guarani the most widely spoken indigenous language in the Americas. Remember that here Guarani refers exclusively to Paraguayan Guarani. Quechua and Mayan are languages that are usually considered to have more than 6 or 7 million speakers, but that number is arrived at by collapsing many dialects that are actually not mutually intelligible." RodRabelo7 (talk) 20:09, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That makes sense to me! I am fine with the sentence going back to the original and maybe adding that citation. Thanks static shakedown ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ 20:17, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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May 2025

Your edit to Tiawanaku has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for information on how to contribute your work appropriately. For legal reasons, Wikipedia strictly cannot host copyrighted text or images from print media or digital platforms without an appropriate and verifiable license. Contributions infringing on copyright will be removed. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. From https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Enigma_Of_Tiwanaku_And_Puma_Punku_A/gkEHBAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=.+One+is+that+they+used+a+%27%27luk%E2%80%99+a,%27%27+which+is+a+standard+measurement+of+about+sixty+centimeters.+Another+argument+is+for+the+Pythagorean+Ratio&pg=PT19&printsec=frontcover which is also fringe and self-published through Lulu.com Doug Weller talk 13:10, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I did not add any new material. I took sections that already exist and ordered them. static shakedown ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ 13:11, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, sorry about that. I found the text in a book by Brian Foerster but it appears he lifted it from the original source word for word. Doug Weller talk 13:31, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, I can't find it in the original, but I do find it here.[1]

By the way, I don't appreciate the personal attack. I've sure you've heard of good faith. I'm not exactly a newbie. Doug Weller talk 13:34, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What personal attack? It is an abuse of the revert button to undo my edits when they are not vandalism. That is frustrating for me when it happens and also comes across as hostile to me editing. Sorry you felt that way and it was nothing personal. static shakedown ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ 13:36, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I thought you were adding copyvio, right? And good faith still applies. But I'm still confused. I can't search the original pdf right now, but can convert it or find a searchable copy. The book i linked to is written after the text was entered. Doug Weller talk 13:38, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

OK, grabbed it from the Library, it's sourced but a bit misleading as the source says "Posnansky and Escalante suggested that the Tiwanaku used a unit of measurement called a luk'a, that is, an arm's length, or roughly 60 centimeters.28 Through all our measurements, we could not only not corroborate this hypothesis, but we were unable-until now-to detect a convincing unit of measurement, or module, from which to derive other measurements either as multiples or fractions of this module" which you wouldn't guess from reading our article. I think that needs to be fixed, do you? Doug Weller talk 13:43, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think the main confusion is that I just made stylistic changes to the article. (:p) There was one big section and I broke it down into subheadings and reordered it. Maybe as part of the reordering it, it seemed like I added a source but I didn't add anything that wasn't already there. It's possible that one of the pre-existing sources is misleading or a copyvio, in which case it can definitely be removed or edited. static shakedown ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ 13:53, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

John H. Thompson

Hello, @Staticshakedown. Thanks for your recent edits to John H. Thompson. I happened to see that you didn't include a citation for Mr. Thompson's alleged death on May 9. Under Wikipedia's policy for biographies of living persons, "All quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be supported by an inline citation to a reliable, published source. Contentious material about living persons (or, in some cases, recently deceased) that is unsourced or poorly sourced—whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable—must be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion." Further, it states that "[a]nyone born within the past 115 years (on or after 13 May 1910) is covered by this policy unless a reliable source has confirmed their death." I spent a little while searching myself, but I was unable to find an obituary or any other source for the death, so I've manually reverted your edits for now. Do you have a source you can provide for the death? Rockhead126 (talk) 18:31, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thanks for letting me know. It is being reported in the DC-area that he passed, but you are right that I couldn't find an official obituary in the news yet. static shakedown ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ 20:23, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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