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Protester vs. Protestor

Hello, I just wanted to apologize. I saw you reverted my edit on Irish Freedom Party, when I switched "protester" to "protestor." I changed that based on Commonly misspelled English words. I did notice that a few Irish articles often (though not always) used protestor and I did some light research, but didn't see anything that said it was Hiberno English. Obviously, I didn't look hard enough. That being said, there are a few other articles where I changed it but didn't know. I'll do my best to go back and fix it, but I wanted to apologize in case you come across more since you appear to be quite active on Irish Wikipedia. Cheers. Mukedits (talk) 00:30, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited James "Lugs" Branigan, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Mount Argus.

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(talk page stalker) removed as there is no link to that church. ww2censor (talk) 12:48, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
Thanks! - Alison talk 13:38, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Compromised account check

Hi Alison! Would you be willing to use your CheckUser special powders to glance at this editor to see if their account has been compromised? This is a very strange edit after 24 hours of not editing (and with no further edits since) after a run of vandalism on that template by an IP.

No need to tell me, a random IP, the outcome, feel free to nuke this section once you're done. Thank you! 81.187.192.168 (talk) 16:58, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, I thought I was reverting the vandalism instead of the restoration. I apologize for the confusion. Blueskiesdry (talk) 23:38, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
no worries! Thank you both :) - Alison talk 23:45, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
I am willing to be trout slapped fyi. Blueskiesdry (talk) 00:49, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

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Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Always precious

Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:56, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

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Re: A History of English Food‎

Thanks for fixing the link to Irish potato famine. When I did the review back in April, this stuck out to me, but I wasn't certain if I should have requested a change. Is the reasoning simply that it's an older, non-inclusive term that has fallen out of use, or is there another reason? Viriditas (talk) 23:48, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

  • Hi there! It's complicated, but let me see if I can summarise. Firstly, it's never referred to as the "Irish Potato Famine" in Ireland, or the "Potato Famine" - it's The Great Famine, the Great Hunger, or An Gorta Mór / An Drochshaol in Irish. The potato term seems to have been popularised in the US, for some reason, but it's far from universal. As the page says, the proximate cause was potato blight, but reality is more nuanced. There's the fact that it was largely a monoculture due to circumstances where absentee landlordism, colonialism and the last vestiges of thePenal Laws meant that families had little alternative to feed themselves. When the crops failed, the British government initially provided some aid but that eventually dried up - partly due to Charles Trevelyan's belief that this was a just punishment on the Irish for their perceived laziness. As the population of Ireland dropped from around 8m to 4m in just over five years, many today consider this a deliberate genocide (I disagree). Thus, the term "Irish Potato Famine" can be seen as a whitewash to some, and a way of blaming the people themselves for their fate, when reality was far more complex. And frankly, I'd rather defer to the people themselves to determine the name of the event - Alison talk 02:09, 27 July 2024 (UTC) (disclaimer - I'm Irish-born)
  • Here's a quote from Thomas Robert Malthus;

“The land in Ireland is infinitely more peopled than in England; and to give full effect to the natural resources of the country, a great part of the population should be swept from the soil.”

  • And one from Trevelyan himself;

“The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.”

  • - Alison talk 02:16, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Thank you for the education. It's strange that we still use the term "potato famine" in the US when more than six million emigrated here over a larger period of time. You would think they would try and change it in the school books. Anyway, I appreciate your help. One other thing that's bothering me: I made a comment about Dún Briste last week here. Any idea about this? Viriditas (talk) 08:47, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
    story · music · places

August music

story · music · places

Today I have three "musicians" on the Main page, one is also the topic of my story, like 22 July but with interview and the music to be played today -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:00, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

On 13 August, Bach's cantata was 300 years old, and the image one. The cantata is an extraordinary piece, using the chorale's text and famous melody more than others in the cycle. It's nice to have not only a recent death, but also this "birthday" on the Main page. And a rainbow in my places. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:28, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

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September music

story · music · places

Today is Schoenberg's 150th birthday! On display his portrait by Egon Schiele, music from Moses und Aron, and two DYK hooks, one from 2010 and another from 2014; the latter, about his 40th birthday, appeared on his 140th birthday ;) - See places for a stunning sunrise, on the day Bruckner's 200th birthday was celebrated (just a few days late). -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:03, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

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CheckUser

Hello, I need some assistance. Currently, there seems to be an increasing number of "puppet accounts" (sockpuppets) on the Uzbek Wikipedia. To help identify and manage these accounts, I would like to request checkuser status. Abdufattohov Ibrohimjon (talk) 02:29, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

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Weird Censoring Issue from 2011

I know this is from over a decade ago, but I was looking at my contribution history and it made me think of the time when my browser was inexplicably censoring everything on your page and the page of User:Jolly Janner and you ended up having to be in the middle of it. Not sure if you even remember it occurring, but I thought you might be interested in hearing an update all these years later because it was so bizarre.

Anyway, just for context, I was just short of 13 years old when that happened. Age-wise, I could see my parents maybe having some sort of filter on my computer, I'm pretty sure it was not some sort of computer virus. I never specifically asked them about it, my mom could get kind of reactive about things so I didn't want her assuming I was doing something inappropriate. The only thing I can think of on why it never recurred again is that they took internet away from that computer (for reasons that stretch outside of this conversation, nothing terrible though, mainly staying up too late and being lethargic at school) and they maybe never thought to do that again.

It definitely was not malicious on my part, I was as confounded about it as anyone else, plus I curse like a sailor in certain environments so I am not against profanity as a rule. --Thebirdlover (talk) 05:24, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

  • Hey there, @Thebirdlover:. Yeah, it's been nearly 15 years since that incident. I can tell you what happened. Back then, I was an Oversighter, and had responsibilities for personally-identifying information and for children's privacy. Back then, you were a minor, and I was alerted to remove certain information from your user page for your own safety. It's usually done very discretely and even administrators can't see the edits. So that's what happened.
    • I know what the oversight issue was about (that was going back to when I started here), I was talking about this situation that you were involved in related to my computer haphazardly removing expletives because I was reminded of it and felt like trying to explain what was going on as best as I possibly could (even though I still don't completely know what happened). --Thebirdlover (talk) 02:15, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Dickie Rock

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story · music · places

Thank you today for pointing at him! - I have Michael Ruetz on the same page (see story), and music to express happiness and sadness. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:54, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

CheckUser / IP Block exemption

Hello! Just got a notification that my IP block exemption is about to expire, and would love to have it renewed. Hope it's ok to contact you as a CheckUser directly on your discussion page, and that I haven't misinterpreted the guidelines on WP:IPBLOCK. Many thanks in advance! Listz3 (talk) 22:13, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

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