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DYK nomination of London Partnership Register

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DYK for London Partnership Register

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Wiki-project Prussia

Hey there OwenBlacker,

I recently saw that you're a member of the inactive project Prussia, I also joined a few days ago, and today submitted a draft article about Landkreis Heilsberg. Anyway I wanted to ask you if you would be interested in reviving the project and recruiting and memebers Crainsaw (talk) 13:39, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

@Crainsaw: Sorry for the delayed response. I'm afraid I devote a lot of time to the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group now and I don't really have the capacity to be very helpful here. Sorry — OwenBlacker (he/him; Talk; please {{ping}} me in replies) 19:05, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
its alright i was just asking to see if any existing member still wanted to help Crainsaw (talk) 19:08, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

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CSS help

Thanks so much for the suggestion about fonts and the offer to help. Honestly I have no idea where I'd start other than (presumably) creating User:Guettarda/common.css Guettarda (talk) 16:04, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

Hey Guettarda, I've been writing up a how-to at m:User:OwenBlacker/Customising your fonts on Meta. D'you wanna take a look and give me some constructive criticism on the content?
I'm very conscious I might have made it way too overcomplicated 😅 — OwenBlacker (he/him; Talk; please {{ping}} me in replies) 18:35, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

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I saw your signature. I think you might want to consider the option to "Automatically subscribe to topics" in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:58, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

Oh, thank you. That's super obvious and I don't know why it didn't occur to me to look for that setting. — OwenBlacker (he/him; Talk; please {{ping}} me in replies) 20:54, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
It's a pretty new feature. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:46, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

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I dunno if you got the ping

Hey. I dunno if you got the ping, would you or someone else from the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group be able to chime in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject LGBT studies#Lia Thomas on Wikidata? Hopefully you, given your familiarity with Wikidata's policies and guidelines. There's some issues at that discussion which I think the user group would be well suited to handling, especially in line with goals 5 and 7 of the user group. Thanks. Sideswipe9th (talk) 15:36, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Hey, sorry, I had seen the ping and was ADHDing about replying to it; I just replied there now (indeed before seeing this ping 😅). Thank you for pinging me on it, @Sideswipe9th; please do ping me for other conversations if you want to make sure I see them — one of the things I find frustrating on here is how difficult it can be to keep track of conversations going on in different places. Thanks again! — OwenBlacker (he/him; Talk) 16:36, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
No worries! I totally get you on the ADHD thing, keeping track of all the conversations you might be involved in is a nightmare when you have the working memory of a goldfish! Meds help a little, but working memory is still shot. Sideswipe9th (talk) 17:02, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

July 2023

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Hey @Jonathan A Jones, thanks for the heads-up. Which edit are you referring to? I make a lot of minor edits and occasionally mark some more substantive edits as minor by accident. — OwenBlacker (he/him; Talk) 10:53, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
It was the edit to Simon Edge which I first saw [1]. Whether the language tagging edits count as minor is debatable, but that one certainly wasn't - though definitely a good edit. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 12:30, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
I'd disagree; I would consider that minor — sure, I added an infobox, which might be debatable, but language tagging, formatting and linking in refs certainly all are. There's no change to the substantive content; it's all GNOME-work. Guess we might need to agree to disagree — OwenBlacker (he/him; Talk) 13:05, 23 July 2023 (UTC)

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It looks like [2] you are accusing me of being disruptive. This looks like a personal attack to me. Disagreement is not disruption. Would you care to clarify your comment? Sweet6970 (talk) 14:38, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

I've corrected the wording to more accurately reflect what I was trying to say — "could be considered to be disruptive" rather than "would be disruptive". But I wasn't accusing you of anything, much less making a personal attack. Perhaps we both need to remember to be better at assuming good faith. — OwenBlacker (he/him; Talk) 15:17, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

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Hi, I do work in the industry and am positive about what I wrote. I will try and edit some pages to bring I some clarity on the changes. Pignoof (talk) 19:04, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

I didn't meant to imply that you might not, sorry 🙂
More of an update to talk about the changes the Building Safety Act make and the ways in which things have started diverging between England and Wales would be awesome. But I only made the edit because I had literally just been reading something while trying to buy a flat 😅
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I just wanted to quickly let you know that I am very impressed by your ability to make arguments. I've only been on this site for half a year and am already seeing my skill improve, however bad it may be. I can't wait to get onto your level. —Panamitsu (talk) 11:35, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Sam Altman

Thanks for the new references. I see there's a larger problem than just the dispute at Sam Altman. I've never given WP:CT/GG disputes much attention. Is there somewhere to request help at this point, or are you waiting until there's a clear WP:AE or WP:AN/WP:ANI case? - Hipal (talk) 20:26, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for messaging; I've been repairing some of the damage (and improving those articles further a little) during the BoT call just now and I've added a {{Uw-vandalism3}} warning to the user's talk page earlier. Hopefully that should stop things, but I want to make sure the user has had a clear and specific warning before looking at AE or ANI. — OwenBlacker (he/him; Talk) 20:38, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
I have boldly edited pages where in my view references to someone's sexuality is irrelevant. To be accused of vandalism for this is not acceptable. As a gay man who has worked in technology for 32 years, I have a view about this, as my bold editing has been. Wikipedia is not censored. Juddlackland (talk) 18:27, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
@Juddlackland: As I have just pointed out on your own Talk: page, it is vandalism to be removing relevant information without consensus. Of the people's biographies you have removed their sexuality from, several are people for who their sexuality is a key part of their work.
I too am a gay man who has been working in technology (for nearly 30 years in my case). Our personal views are not the key point here, rather the consensus on biographies. Censoring people's sexuality out of their articles is vandalism, not "boldness". You need to stop doing that. — OwenBlacker (he/him; Talk) 22:22, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

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✗ Not done. Hells no. —  OwenBlacker (he/him; Talk) 22:23, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

Accusation of vandalism

I have boldly edited pages where in my view the references to someone's sexuality in my view were unnecessary. It is not vandalism and to accuse me of it is not in the spirit of Wikipedia. Juddlackland (talk) 18:08, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

(I have answered this above and on your talk: page; we dont' need to discuss this in 3 places.) — OwenBlacker (he/him; Talk) 22:34, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

LGBT in the Ottoman Empire

Hi there - I noticed you mentioned in the references to improve the above article. I've been doing some work on the article at the moment and opened it up to peer review - would be very interested to hear your thoughts on the article at the moment and any possibilities for improvement. Thank you! GnocchiFan (talk) 14:08, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Just as an update, this has now been moved to Gender and sexual minorities in the Ottoman Empire and I've nominated it for GA status; let me know if you still think there are improvements to be made to the article or any further comments. Thanks! GnocchiFan (talk) 15:14, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

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