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The Signpost: 24 December 2024

Thanks

Thanks for this. It's weird googling my name and seeing my AfD come up. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 03:09, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Of course. I am tempted to propose NOINDEXing AfDs (XfDs?) by default; there are definitely ones that should be hidden and I can't see the benefit for not using broad strokes. HouseBlaster (he/they) 03:11, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 26

Cossacks category

Sorted in the correct parent; left Category:Works about Cossacks as a parent as, well, they are about Cossacks! - The Bushranger One ping only 06:04, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Perfect; thanks The Bushranger :) HouseBlaster (he/they) 06:06, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Felix Nativitas and a próspero Año Nuevo

The 12 Days of Wikipedia
On the 12th day of Christmas Jimbo sent to me
12 BLPs
11 RFAs
10 New Users
9 Barnstars
8 Admins Blocking
7 Socks Socking
6 Clerks Clerking
5 Check Users
4 Oversighters
3 GAs
2 Did You Knows
and an ArbCom in a pear tree.

May your holiday season be filled with joy, laughter and good health. – SilverLocust 💬 08:11, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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In response to your holiday greeting on my talk page:
HouseBlaster,
I categorically deny your libels that I am "admirabl[y]" "dedicat[ed] [...] to Wikipedia" and a "great friend". I believe the appropriate rejoinder goes as follows: I'm rubber, you're glue; whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you. What's more, I hereby take back and formally revoke the "greatly admire" thing so that you cannot again use it against me with such saccharine talk messages!
That being said, thank you for the holiday well-wishes. I toyed with jokingly sending you the very unsecular {{subst:Xmas4}} as a juxtaposition. Apparently I haven't casually conveyed my belief in the same faith as Andy Warhol and Oscar Wilde. (Hm, what else do I have in common with those two but which I don't note on my user page?)
Merry Christmas and happy holidays, Jenson (SilverLocust 💬) 08:11, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
SilverLocust, I am touched. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'll even forgive you for the takeback
I meant every word of what I wrote, and I do truly look forward to working with you some more in the new year. Merry Christmas and happiest holidays, HouseBlaster (he/they) 22:01, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2025!

Hello HouseBlaster, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2025.
Happy editing,

Garuda 23:57, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Garuda 23:57, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you too! 😊🎄

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Thank you very much and have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year too! 😊 ~ ToBeFree (talk) 03:19, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ToBeFree, thanks a million. This is really sweet note, and made me smile IRL. Next year your holiday card will include many emoji 😉 Merry Christmas!! HouseBlaster (he/they) 03:54, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
😄💚 ~ ToBeFree (talk) 04:18, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations on your GRN request that was granted per clear consensus

I wish you the best of luck on dealing with unblock requests that can require renames (you can optionally list that you have the global renamer permission on your user page). Also, if you need any help regarding edit filters, don't hesistate to ask me for assistance or similar matters, or another edit filter expert if I'm unavailable. I also thank you for supporting me on my GAFH nomination, as edit filters' regex and code are my expertise.

Thank you and have a happy new year with prosperity. :) Codename Noreste (talk) 03:49, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Codename Noreste! I've definitely seen you do some great work with filters, and I will keep that in mind. Happy holidays, and best of luck in the new year :) HouseBlaster (he/they) 04:22, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Mentorship

Hello, I asked on the teahouse if I had a mentor, and it seems like I was assigned to you. How would I get started? Doopliss 👻 (she) | Creepy Steeple 🏚️ 21:04, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hiya, Doipliss! Just as an FYI I am out of town until the 30th, but in the meantime I can try to help you out some. Just know my ability to do more hands-on stuff is limited :)
Help:Getting started has some great information. If you want to do a particular task, the task center has a list of tasks which need doing. Don't hesitate to ask me any questions you have along the way, and remember: be bold in making changes! There is literally nothing you which takes more than a few clicks to undo, so don't be afraid to try making improvements. Best, HouseBlaster (he/they) 02:44, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Fixing ping to DooplissTTYD. HouseBlaster (he/they) 02:47, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It’s still me, I just got locked out of my previous account. Just leaving this here to let you know. TTYDDoopliss (talk) 21:54, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Alright. To avoid that happening again, make sure you set an email address in Special:Preferences. I'll manually assign you to be my mentee. Best, HouseBlaster (he/they) 23:49, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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CfD Question

Hey @HouseBlaster, following up on my previous request for guidance, I have another couple of questions. Now that I have been granted Page mover, I will try to reduce the request I make at WT:CFD/W, as I can move some of the small cats myself. While enacting a move CfD, should the cat be moved first or the pages inside be edited? Secondly, as a non-admin, am I permitted to process CFD Speedy discussions? Thanks for your time, guidance, and a happy new year! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 12:05, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Bunnypranav! I would advise you to continue to use WT:CFDW; it is really not that much of a bother for admins. I generally would manually implement empty categories (that is, those tagged as {{possibly empty category}}) and occasionally single-member categories. Whether you move or update the members first is not really important. Finally, you are permitted to process CFDS discussions, but I would again say wait for an admin to do so. It is generally much easier to use CFDW, and Ymblanter is very prompt at handling these. Processing your own WP:C2Es is always welcome. And congratulations on receiving the page mover permission :) Best, HouseBlaster (he/they) 18:01, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Understood, I didn't mention it clearly, but I meant to manually do for the cats that have less than 5 or so members only. Anyways thanks for the advice, and Happy New Year! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 18:21, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Happy new year to you, too! HouseBlaster (he/they) 18:44, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Trinity1951 (17:15, 1 January 2025)

Hello HouseBlaster - Thanks for offering to be my editor! I had a question in the "talk" section of Chris Roberts-Antieau's page. The artists lists a couple of exhibitions that were not in a museum nor academic institution. Rather they occurred in her own commercial retail gallery with links to retail site. Is this okay? Thank you for your assistance! --Trinity1951 (talk) 17:15, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Trinity1951! It is permitted, though "permitted" and "a good idea" are two different things. I would remove them: they are not currently cited to reliable sources, and the list is rather long. Best, HouseBlaster (he/they) 19:09, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Many thanks HouseBlaster - This clarifies the situation. I'll get to it later today. Have an auspicious New Year! Trinity1951 (talk) 20:48, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
You too, Trinity1951 :) HouseBlaster (he/they) 20:49, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Good morning HouseBlaster!
I made the changes as discussed on Chris Roberts-Antieau's page. I also rewrote the bio to remove subjective content. Do you think the page is ready to go? I mean to remove the concerns that are highlighted in the message box? Many thanks for your keen eye and assistance. Trinity1951 (talk) 16:10, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Trinity1951, I think the banners are ready to go down. I have added some of the famous tags to some statements, and the § Select exhibitions section could do with being more, well, selective. But those are different problems, and I'll let you do the honors of removing the banners! Best, HouseBlaster (he/they) 19:16, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This is fun! Many thanks for your help HouseBlaster! The page is much better now. Your final once over of the wiki entry gives me a better understanding of what it should look and read like. Trinity1951 (talk) 22:10, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Happy holidays!

A golden Wikipedia logo with stars, balloons, and the words "New Year" Happy holidays!
It's been... a rollercoaster of a year! One that threw both of us into very uncharted waters – sometimes at the same time, like when we slogged through a whole bunch of bone-crushing RfCs or at your RfA, where I was a fairly green admin and nominator. But I was also incredibly proud to watch from afar as you picked up the toolset – a scary thing for even the most prepared of admins – and adapted to it with the same quiet, killer competence you'd brought to CfD, CSD, and NPP, and now unblocks! And global renaming! And arbclerking! And helping me get through the very new (for me) thing that is an ArbCom election! (Thank you.)

So, yeah, a year of firsts for both of us. I couldn't be happier to not be in the deep end alone, though :) thank you for your own holidays message, it made me tear up! And, sorry I won't be in your neck of the woods this week, but who knows – maybe there's a Social View in NYC this year 😄 happy holidays, House, I can't wait to work with you this year on arb stuffs and I feel very lucky to count you as a friend.

theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 07:08, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, claudia, thank you. Your words mean a lot to me – more than I can put into words – and yet your deeds speak louder than them, so I am not going to set myself up for failure by trying. Instead, I will preface the following two words with this mini-essay, and say: thank you. HouseBlaster (he/they) 16:03, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

An eatery???

Grandfather George Newton Watts Sr married Mary Jewel Mosley from Texas. Lived in Los Alomitas, Ca. 3 children Wilma @ twin sons George Newton Watts Jr married Alice Ann Becker in Anaheim, ca. USA


4 children, Georgann Watts McKee, Marilynn Watts Bragg, Thomas James Watts- Viet Nam casualty@ Lawrence Newton Watts could we be related??? 2600:1012:B1C2:A8A:2CF4:87DA:6586:2E87 (talk) 19:14, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

KMaster888

You might want to look into this. He was removing the PA removed tag and calls it censorship. He's not here to be civil and be understanding. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 15:51, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Stop talking shit about me. I'm here to make a better encyclopedia. That is first, and foremost. KMaster888 (talk) 15:53, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
KMaster888, you need to seriously change course. You at least did not restore your personal attack, so that is something. But being civil is both a policy and a a pillar, and I will also drop a link to WP:BRINE. Your numerous edits to mainspace are very much appreciated, but please take this opportunity to course correct. It is perfectly possible to both make a better encyclopedia and not call people assholes. Best, HouseBlaster (he/they) 19:04, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
You either hate me or love me. Either way, I'm sure you have something better to do than writing paragraphs to me. KMaster888 (talk) 19:07, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, HouseBlaster,

We have a big problem. This category should be empty, and it normally is, but now it has over 6,000 categories because, it looks like, bad instructions going to User:JJMC89 bot III when it was instructed to rename categories. Soft redirected categories should be empty and the categories in Category:Wikipedia non-empty soft redirected categories are redirect categories created by JJMC89 bot III but they are full of articles and other categories. It looks like this problem started in mid-December with some renaming requests and JJMC89 bot III created these redirect categories but didn't move the contents of the categories from the category redirect to the actual category they were supposed to be in (or it moved the pages into the redirect categories, I'm not sure).

I noticed this problem last week but it will take a huge effort to figure out how to fix this if it needs to be done manually so I put off inquiring about it until now when I came across another redirect category that wasn't empty. You and User:Fayenatic london are the admins who have the deepest understanding of how categories function so maybe you can come up with a solution that won't take hundreds of editor hours to correct. I'm willing to pitch in to help but I think we first have to understand how this problem happened before we get down to moving thousands of pages to the right categories. Liz 21:12, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

We should also see if this huge mistake is the result of newer editors handling CFD closures. They are tricky! Liz 21:18, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
MSGJ has been doing a lot of work on templates and modules to update these. See e.g. Module_talk:WikiProject_banner#Changes_for_FM-class, and Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion/Working/Archive 37. I've been assuming that the editors listing all these categories for renaming are also working on template updates to implement the outcomes. I did some housekeeping on backlinks to FM-class articles categories, but the template work is beyond me. (So I left that project to help with moving Timor-Leste pages, until that was taken to Move Review.) – Fayenatic London 21:43, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Liz! It was a result of Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 December 7#Category:Category-Class articles. As usual, this is because of template-generated categories. The jobqueue is still catching up; there were 13,000 of them (you can see the full list at WP:CFDWLM) a week ago so we are making good progress. It should be sorted (fingers crossed!) in less than a week. No manual action is needed; there might be some templates which need updating, but I've been taking care of that as they come up. Best, HouseBlaster (he/they) 22:00, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, it's me back but I need to repost a bad problem. A new IP User named 2A00:1851:8007:ECFC:2DC7:F9E5:B63:3DD6 started erasing many of my regularly-read Wikipedia pages. Other users reverted their edits, and I warned the user. Gnu779 (talk) 13:25, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I only see edits from five days ago at their contributions; do you have the right IP? Thanks, HouseBlaster (he/they) 15:13, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, they removed all essential text in one of my regularly read pages, which contained my template. The page was WP:ZZZ. Gnu779 (talk) 12:06, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The user fell asleep in contributions over the last few days. Gnu779 (talk) 12:07, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Alright. We generally wait for people to be warned a couple of times before blocking them (some people don't realize they are actually editing the real, live Wikipedia). Additionally, blocks are to be be used as punishment, so even if someone has been warned a billion times we would never block someone if the disruption stopped a few days ago. Best, HouseBlaster (he/they) 15:51, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
We warned them for a couple of times, but this user isn't disruptive anymore. So we can retreat. Gnu779 (talk) 13:14, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Zachary Fet (18:14, 6 January 2025)

Why do you blast houses? --Zachary Fet (talk) 18:14, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Zachary Fet: I don't, it is just a username that 8-year-old-me found exciting :) HouseBlaster (he/they) 20:24, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
How long have you been editing?! 2003:FA:574A:1A68:BE87:54DB:EEFA:B679 (talk) 20:28, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I've had this username for long before I started editing Wikipedia. (And a reminder to log in when posting; editing while logged out can be a violation of our policy restricting the use of multiple accounts :D) HouseBlaster (he/they) 20:30, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oh ok. What do you mainly enjoy editing (My bad. Also I don't fully remember the policy so, is just chatting with editors like you also against it?(I'm rly bored)) Zachary Fet (talk) 20:41, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Zachary Fet: It is technically against policy (specifically WP:NOTSOCIALNETWORK), though there is some leeway. I you won't get blocked for this conversation. If you want to help out at Wikipedia, you can try your hand at some of the newcomer tasks listed at your homepage. HouseBlaster (he/they) 20:46, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, I would love to do some work in my free time but, currently my studies have been taking more space as I move into the second semester. Zachary Fet (talk) 22:05, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Good luck with school, Zachary Fet :) HouseBlaster (he/they) 00:28, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]