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CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 January 6 § States and territories (dis)established in YYYY

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A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 January 6 § States and territories (dis)established in YYYY on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. harrz talk 21:01, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Correction of the "Gender self-identification around the world" SVG

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Hey there, I'd like you to correct the SVG diagram to show Botswana as having self-ID. This has been the case since 2017.[1][2] Thanks :). Aficionado538 (talk) 22:20, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ "ND v. Attorney General of Botswana and others". ESCR-Net. Retrieved 2025-04-07.
  2. ^ Camminga, B. (2020-07-30). "One for one and one for all? Human rights and transgender access to legal gender recognition in Botswana". International Journal of Gender, Sexuality and Law. 1 (1). doi:10.19164/ijgsl.v1i1.993. ISSN 2056-3914.

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Happy First Edit Day!

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Talk:Raegan Revord

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Over at Talk:Raegan Revord, you have repeatedly removed a discussion regarding what pronouns should be used on the page. While it's not the most productive of discussions, it's not a WP:FORUM matter -- it's an attempt to improve the page, and the individual is now putting forth sources (even if not winning ones.) I ask that you not continue to remove it. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 18:55, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough. It looked more like persistent vandalism / FORUM to me, but I'm happy to leave it be if you disagree 🙂 — OwenBlacker (he/him; Talk) 22:54, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for the barnstar!

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Many thanks @OwenBlacker for the The LGBTQ Barnstar you put on my talk page :-) I am very happy to make these articles and help shine a light on these important people. In June, Women in Red is doing a focus on LGBTQ topics, so thank you for pointing me to the WikiProject AIDS/To do list, I will be happy to lend a hand for those this June. If there are similar To do Lists out there that need attention I would be happy to lend a hand. Many thanks again for the kind gesture! Nayyn (talk) 08:49, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question

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Hi there, thanks for fixing the graphs here. Do you know if there is any way to change graph height, to make them more vertically compact? Zenomonoz (talk) 23:12, 7 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think only be changing the width of the {{image frame}} around it — note that I removed the (narrow) width from the 1st chart and added a widened the width of the 2nd. I figured the widths I set weren't terrible, but I certainly wouldn't disagree with changing them, just bear in mind that some people have relatively narrow screens (it's not quite half of the article are on my screen). — OwenBlacker (he/him; Talk) 23:15, 7 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. Also what about the big 'raw data' text? Can that be removed since it doesn't link anywhere? Presumably the sentence + source is fine at the bottom. Zenomonoz (talk) 23:30, 7 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, that was a typo on my part; I've fixed that now. It is expected that we link directly to the raw data for the chart. (The instructions I used are from c:User:Tomastvivlaren/graphDataImport — OwenBlacker (he/him; Talk) 08:34, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ah ok, cool thanks. I wish they made the 'raw data' thing smaller and beneath the caption, but alas. Zenomonoz (talk) 09:15, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, it is quite prominent. I would guess that the link could be reformatted to incorporate into the existing captions on this page; not all charts have quite as much caption detail, I would guess? — OwenBlacker (he/him; Talk) 12:02, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Arbcom notice

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You are involved in a recently filed request for arbitration. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case#Transgender health care misinformation on Wikipedia and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. As threaded discussion is not permitted on most arbitration pages, please ensure that you make all comments in your own section only. Additionally, the guide to arbitration and the Arbitration Committee's procedures may be of use.

Thanks, Raladic (talk) 00:16, 15 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Support for RPDR Article

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Hi @OwenBlacker. I recently posted an article for Akashia (drag queen) and someone immediately nominated it for deletion. I would appreciate it if you would take a moment to visit the deletion discussion and add your voice why she should have an article.

Appreciate it.

BadNewsBear (talk) 04:04, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Transgender healthcare and people arbitration case opened

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You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Transgender healthcare and people. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Transgender healthcare and people/Evidence. Please add your evidence by August 11, 2025 at 23:59 UTC, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Transgender healthcare and people/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Party Guide/Introduction. For the Arbitration Committee, Jenson (SilverLocust 💬) 06:52, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Archbishop of Wales

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Just a courtesy to say I have uncommented Vann from the table because she legally became Archbishop with her confirmation immediately after the election. DBD 20:06, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh thank you; I didn't realise that was the case. Thanks for the correction — OwenBlacker (he/him; Talk) 08:05, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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