WikiProject Polymers
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Polybutadiene
[edit]Hi. I noted your comment in your edit to Polybutadiene. Polybutadiene is definitely an elastomer or a rubber. It certainly does not resemble many of the other plastics listed. However, "plastic" is not well defined in the first place. A better term would be "polymer" but that wikipedia article does not focus on hydrocarbon based synthetic polymers. That said, how does polybutadiene not fit the definition of Plastic?
Plastic covers a range of synthetic or semisynthetic polymerization products. They are composed of organic condensation or addition polymers and may contain other substances to improve performance or economics. There are few natural polymers generally considered to be "plastics". Plastics can be formed into objects or films or fibers. Their name is derived from the fact that many are malleable, having the property of plasticity. Plastics are designed with immense variation in properties such as heat tolerance, hardness, resiliency and many others. Combined with this adaptability, the general uniformity of composition and light weight of plastics ensures their use in almost all industrial segments.
--Rifleman 82 14:48, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi Hispalois. I've copied our discussion to Talk:Plastic so that other contributors may participate in this discussion. Hopefully we can come up with more ideas and reach a consensus on how to classify polymers. --Rifleman 82 22:59, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
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Books and Bytes: The Wikipedia Library Newsletter
[edit]Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2013
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Greetings Wikipedia Library members! Welcome to the inaugural edition of Books and Bytes, TWL’s monthly newsletter. We're sending you the first edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or applied for a free research account: HighBeam, Credo, Questia, JSTOR, or Cochrane. To receive future updates of Books and Bytes, please add your name to the subscriber's list. There's lots of news this month for the Wikipedia Library, including new accounts, upcoming events, and new ways to get involved...
New positions: Sign up to be a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar, or a Volunteer Wikipedia Librarian
Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Off to a roaring start this fall in the United States: 29 events are planned or have been hosted.
New subscription donations: Cochrane round 2; HighBeam round 8; Questia round 4... Can we partner with NY Times and Lexis-Nexis??
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News from the library world: Wikipedian joins the National Archives full time; the Getty Museum releases 4,500 images; CERN goes CC-BY
Announcing WikiProject Open: WikiProject Open kicked off in October, with several brainstorming and co-working sessions
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RE: Te lo mereces
[edit]¡Muchas gracias, compañero! Un abrazo, --Lucien leGrey (m•en•es) 22:18, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
The Wikipedia Library's Books and Bytes newsletter (#2)
[edit]Welcome to the second issue of The Wikipedia Library's Books & Bytes newsletter! Read on for updates about what is going on at the intersection of Wikipedia and the library world.
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Spotlight on people: Another Believer and Wiki Loves Libraries...
Books & Bytes in brief: From Dewey to Diversity conference...
Further reading: Digital library portals around the web...
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The Wikipedia Library Survey
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Why I reverted your edits
[edit]You made this edit [1]. Please read WP:TERRORIST. Philip Trueman (talk) 09:26, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
- (Reply to message on my talk page) Yes, pretty much. You can use the 't' word if you provide a reliable source, of course, but even so it may be better to avoid it - even if it's an established fact it can give the impression that the article isn't written from a neutral point of view. Philip Trueman (talk) 05:07, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
Books & Bytes New Years Double Issue
[edit]Happy New Year, and welcome to a special double issue of Books & Bytes. We've included a retrospective on the changes and progress TWL has seen over the last year, the results of the survey TWL participants completed in December, some of our plans for the future, a second interview with a Wiki Love Libraries coordinator, and more. Here's to 2014 being a year of expansion and innovation for TWL!
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- Broad outreach: Wrote a feature article for Library Journal's The Digital Shift; presenting at the American Library Association annual meeting
Books & Bytes, Issue 4
[edit]News for February from your Wikipedia Library.
Donations drive: news on TWL's partnership efforts with publishers
Open Access: Feature from Ocaasi on the intersection of the library and the open access movement
American Library Association Midwinter Conference: TWL attended this year in Philadelphia
Royal Society Opens Access To Journals: The UK's venerable Royal Society will give the public (and Wikipedians) full access to two of their journal titles for two days on March 4th and 5th
Going Global: TWL starts work on pilot projects in other language Wikipedias
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Books & Bytes - Issue 5
[edit]Books & Bytes
Issue 5, March 2014
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- New Visiting Scholar positions
- TWL Branch on Arabic Wikipedia, microgrants program
- Australian articles get a link to librarians
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Books & Bytes, Issue 6
[edit]Books & Bytes
Issue 6, April-May 2014
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- New donations from Oxford University Press and Royal Society (UK)
- TWL does Vegas: American Library Association Annual plans
- TWL welcomes a new coordinator, resources for library students and interns
- New portal on Meta, resources for starting TWL branches, donor call blitzes, Wikipedia Visiting Scholar news, and more
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The Wikipedia Library: New Account Coordinators Needed
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Books and Bytes - Issue 7
[edit]Books & Bytes
Issue 7, June-July 2014
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- Seven new donations, two expanded partnerships
- TWL's Final Report up, read the summary
- Adventures in Las Vegas, WikiConference USA, and updates from TWL coordinators
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Medical Translation Newsletter Aug./Sept. 2014
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Medical Translation Newsletter
Issue 2, Aug./Sept. 2014
by CFCF
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During August we have translated Disease and it is now live in more than 60 different languages! To help us focus on African languages Rubric has donated a large number of articles in languages we haven't previously reached–so a shout out them, and Ian Henderson from Rubric who's joined us here at Wikipedia. We're very happy for our continued collaboration with both Rubric and Translators without Borders!
- Just some of our over 60 translations:
- New roles and guides!
At Wikimania there were so many enthusiastic people jumping at the chance to help out the Medical Translation Project, but unfortunately not all of them knew how to get started. That is why we've been spending considerable time writing and improving guides! They are finally live, and you can find them at our home-page!
- New sign up page!
We're proud to announce a new sign up page at WP:MTSIGNUP! The old page was getting cluttered and didn't allow you to speficy a role. The new page should be easier to sign up to, and easier to navigate so that we can reach you when you're needed!
- Style guides for translations
Translations are of both full articles and shorter articles continues. The process where short articles are chosen for translation hasn't been fully transparent. In the coming months we hope to have a first guide, so that anyone who writes medical or health articles knows how to get their articles to a standard where they can be translated! That's why we're currently working on medical good lede criteria! The idea is to have a similar peer review process to good article nominations, but only for ledes.
- Some more stats
- In July, 18 full article translations went live (WP:RTT), and an additional 6 simplified versions went live (WP:RTTS)!
- We have a number of new lead integrators into Dutch, Polish, Arabic and Bulgarian, with more to come in smaller languages! (Find them here old sign up page)
- We were mentioned in a Global Voices Online report by Subhashish Panigrahi at Doctors and translators are working together to bridge Wikipedia's medical language gap
- New medical professionals have started, dedicated to working in Odiya and Kinyarwanda!
- Further reading
- Translators Without Borders
- Healthcare information for all by 2015, a global campaign
-- CFCF 🍌 (email) 13:09, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
You're invited! Litquake Edit-a-thon in San Francisco
[edit]You are invited! → Litquake Edit-a-thon in San Francisco → Saturday, October 11, 2014, from 1-5 PM | |
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The Edit-a-thon will occur in parallel with Litquake, the San Francisco Bay Area's annual literature festival. Writers from all over the Bay Area and the world will be in town during the nine day festival, so the timing is just right for us to meet, create and improve articles about literature and writers. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome. This event will include new editor training. Please bring your laptop. The venue: Wikimedia Foundation offices (149 New Montgomery Street, 6th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105) – Google Maps view You must RSVP here — see you there! --Rosiestep (talk) 03:38, 26 September 2014 (UTC) |
Books and Bytes - Issue 8
[edit]Books & Bytes
Issue 8, August-September2014
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- TWL now a Wikimedia Foundation program, moves on from grant status
- Four new donations, including large DeGruyter parntership, pilot with Elsevier
- New TWL coordinators, Wikimania news, new library platform discussions, Wiki Loves Libraries update, and more
- Spotlight: "Traveling Through History" - an editor talks about his experiences with a TWL newspaper archive, Newspapers.com
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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (November 2014)
[edit]Hello Wikimedians!
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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (December 2014)
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Books and Bytes - Issue 9
[edit]Books & Bytes
Issue 9, November-December 2014
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs)
- New donations, including real-paper-and-everything books, e-books, science journal databases, and more
- New TWL coordinators, conference news, a new open-access journal database, summary of library-related WMF grants, and more
- Spotlight: "Global Impact: The Wikipedia Library and Persian Wikipedia" - a Persian Wikipedia editor talks about their experiences with database access in Iran, writing on the Persian project and the JSTOR partnership
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Books and Bytes - Issue 10
[edit]Books & Bytes
Issue 10, January-February 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs)
- New donations - ProjectMUSE, Dynamed, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, and Women Writers Online
- New TWL coordinator, conference news, and a new guide and template for archivists
- TWL moves into the new Community Engagement department at the WMF, quarterly review
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A new reference tool
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Books and Bytes - Issue 11
[edit]Books & Bytes
Issue 11, March-April 2015
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- New donations - MIT Press Journals, Sage Stats, Hein Online and more
- New TWL coordinators, conference news, and new reference projects
- Spotlight: Two metadata librarians talk about how library professionals can work with Wikipedia
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Books and Bytes - Issue 12
[edit]Books & Bytes
Issue 12, May-June 2015
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- New donations - Taylor & Francis, Science, and three new French-language resources
- Expansion into new languages, including French, Finnish, Turkish, and Farsi
- Spotlight: New partners for the Visiting Scholar program
- American Library Association Annual meeting in San Francisco
The Interior 15:23, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Books and Bytes - Issue 13
[edit]Books & Bytes
Issue 13, August-September 2015
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- New donations - EBSCO, IMF, more newspaper archives, and Arabic resources
- Expansion into new languages, including Viet and Catalan
- Spotlight: Elsevier partnership garners controversy, dialogue
- Conferences: PKP, IFLA, upcoming events
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Books and Bytes - Issue 14
[edit]Books & Bytes
Issue 14, October-November 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)
- New donations - Gale, Brill, plus Finnish and Farsi resources
- Open Access Week recap, and DOIs, Wikipedia, and scholarly citations
- Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref - a citation drive for librarians
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Books & Bytes - Issue 15
[edit]Books & Bytes
Issue 15, December-January 2016
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- New donations - Ships, medical resources, plus Arabic and Farsi resources
- #1lib1ref campaign summary and highlights
- New branches and coordinators
The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:20, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
Books & Bytes - Issue 16
[edit]Books & Bytes
Issue 16, February-March 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs)
- New donations - science, humanities, and video resources
- Using hashtags in edit summaries - a great way to track a project
- A new cite archive template, a new coordinator, plus conference and Visiting Scholar updates
- Metrics for the Wikipedia Library's last three months
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Books & Bytes - Issue 17
[edit]Books & Bytes
Issue 17, April-May 2016
by The Interior, Ocaasi, UY Scuti, Sadads, and Nikkimaria
- New donations this month - a German-language legal resource
- Wikipedia referals to academic citations - news from CrossRef and WikiCite2016
- New library stats, WikiCon news, a bot to reveal Open Access versions of citations, and more!
The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:36, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
Books & Bytes - Issue 18
[edit]Books & Bytes
Issue 18, June–July 2016
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- New donations - Edinburgh University Press, American Psychological Association, Nomos (a German-language database), and more!
- Spotlight: GLAM and Wikidata
- TWL attends and presents at International Federation of Library Associations conference, meets with Association of Research Libraries
- OCLC wins grant to train librarians on Wikimedia contribution
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Books and Bytes - Issue 19
[edit]Books & Bytes
Issue 19, September–October 2016
by Nikkimaria, Sadads and UY Scuti
- New and expanded donations - Foreign Affairs, Open Edition, and many more
- New Library Card Platform and Conference news
- Spotlight: Fixing one million broken links
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ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!
[edit]Hello, Hispalois. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
Books and Bytes - Issue 20
[edit]Books & Bytes
Issue 20, November-December 2016
by Nikkimaria (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs), Samwalton9 (talk · contribs)
- Partner resource expansions
- New search tool for finding TWL resources
- #1lib1ref 2017
- Wikidata Visiting Scholar
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Books and Bytes - Issue 21
[edit]Books & Bytes
Issue 21, January-March 2017
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- #1lib1ref 2017
- Wikipedia Library User Group
- Wikipedia + Libraries at Wikimedia Conference 2017
- Spotlight: Library Card Platform
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Request reason:
This is the first time I have been blocked in Wikipedia and therefore I do not know the procedures very well. Apologies for any mistake I may be making in this request. I am surprised at having been blocked * without any previous warning by an admin or in general by any editor on my talk page * without having had the possibility to participate in the discussion at the admins’ noticeboard I acknowledge I am in disagreement with another editor about one specific article. I have taken the disagreement to the Talk page in hopes of reaching a consensus. I will be happy to follow the indications of any admin about how to behave regarding this disagreement and will refrain from editing the article in question until then. Hispalois (talk) 15:56, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
Accept reason:
Assurances of future conduct per this discussion. --RexxS (talk) 17:39, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
Would you agree to a ban from editing the Catalans article and editing about the Catalan ethnicity broadly construed? PhilKnight (talk) 20:08, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
- I agree to a temporary ban but if you think a ban forever is necessary, I guess I am not in a position to reject the offer either. Thanks. --Hispalois (talk) 22:08, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
- I would have no objection to an unblock on those terms.
- Hispalois, I hope you can appreciate my concern over edits which, for example, removed the sourced words "ethnic group" something like seven times since last September. If you are unblocked, please continue to contribute in other topic areas and take the opportunity to demonstrate how productively you can edit. --RexxS (talk) 23:35, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
- @RexxS: Might I suggest a topic ban on Catalan and Catalan ethnicity and ethnicity/"ethnic group", broadly construed, to be reviewed at WP:AN after six months of editing constructively?-- Deepfriedokra 09:24, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
- @Deepfriedokra: As I'm sure you're aware, an admin cannot impose a topic ban on their own discretion in areas not covered by discretionary sanctions, which do not cover the article in question. Otherwise that would have been my preferred option in response to the ANI report. Nevertheless, if Hispalois accepts PhilKnight's binding terms for an unblock as a reasonable way to resume editing in other areas for the time being, we could arrive at the point you suggest by that route. What do you think, Phil? --RexxS (talk) 11:41, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
- @RexxS: Might I suggest a topic ban on Catalan and Catalan ethnicity and ethnicity/"ethnic group", broadly construed, to be reviewed at WP:AN after six months of editing constructively?-- Deepfriedokra 09:24, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
Exactly. As a condition of being unblocked. Though I think they already agreed in principle.-- Deepfriedokra 14:04, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
I just wanted to offer a potential endpoint via an appeal at AN-- Deepfriedokra 14:06, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
- Hopefully Hispalois can accept the version outlined by Deepfriedokra, that is a topic ban on Catalan and Catalan ethnicity and ethnicity/"ethnic group", broadly construed, to be reviewed at WP:AN after six months of editing constructively. PhilKnight (talk) 20:42, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
- I do not object to the 6-month ban on Catalan ethnicity but I am afraid that ethnicity "broadly construed" encompasses a very diverse range of topics, so I risk editing a "forbidden" article inadvertently. Someone could argue for example that the ethnicity topic covers everything under Category:Ethnic groups, but that category happens to include articles like Taco Bell (a Mexican fast-food chain), Hobbit (a fictional race), Joe Lieberman (categorized as Jewish US senator) or the Sicilian revolution of 1848. Could we please keep it simple and limit the ban to the article Catalans and those that are directly related to Catalan ethnicity (examples appreciated)? --Hispalois (talk) 22:28, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
- Hello? @PhilKnight: @RexxS: @Deepfriedokra: --Hispalois (talk) 08:22, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
- I do not object to the 6-month ban on Catalan ethnicity but I am afraid that ethnicity "broadly construed" encompasses a very diverse range of topics, so I risk editing a "forbidden" article inadvertently. Someone could argue for example that the ethnicity topic covers everything under Category:Ethnic groups, but that category happens to include articles like Taco Bell (a Mexican fast-food chain), Hobbit (a fictional race), Joe Lieberman (categorized as Jewish US senator) or the Sicilian revolution of 1848. Could we please keep it simple and limit the ban to the article Catalans and those that are directly related to Catalan ethnicity (examples appreciated)? --Hispalois (talk) 22:28, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
- Hopefully Hispalois can accept the version outlined by Deepfriedokra, that is a topic ban on Catalan and Catalan ethnicity and ethnicity/"ethnic group", broadly construed, to be reviewed at WP:AN after six months of editing constructively. PhilKnight (talk) 20:42, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
I think it should apply to human ethnicities and changing ethnic groups or removing ethnic groups from articles. Or the word "ethnic group". Unless you disruptively changed ethnic groups of fictional races?-- Deepfriedokra 10:36, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
On the other hand, I don't see Taco Bell or Joe Lieberman with Cat:ethnic groups. Needs more coffee. Let's go back to the original disruptive behavior. What did that consist of?-- Deepfriedokra 10:40, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks Deepfriedokra for answering my ping. I am not sure if the question "What did that consist of?" is for me. In case it is, I will sum it up in a nutshell:
- I got into a disagreement with another user about the lead section of the article Catalans. I opened a discussion in the Talk page, where we managed to reach a partial consensus but for two specific issues. Unfortunately, there was no third opinion. On 24 August, the other user removed the {{disputed}} template I had inserted. That pissed me off and I reverted him, inadvertently also removing some improvements he had done to a reference. He/She reverted me, I reverted him again and he reported me to the admins' noticeboard. His arguments were heard and I was blocked before even knowing I had been reported.
- If the question was not for me, and this is not the place to retell the story, please accept my apologies.--Hispalois (talk) 12:08, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
- @PhilKnight: @RexxS: @Deepfriedokra: Apologies for pinging everyone again. I have been blocked project-wide for 11 days now and the discussion here has idled. --Hispalois (talk) 15:10, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
- Do you agree to the topic ban unblock condition--Catalan and Catalan ethnicity broadly, and changing ethnicity/"ethnic group" in articles? To be reviewed at WP:AN after six months of editing constructively?-- Deepfriedokra 15:30, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
- Ok, I agree to the topic ban as defined: Catalan and Catalan ethnicity broadly, and changing ethnicity/"ethnic group" in articles. --Hispalois (talk) 15:53, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
- I've unblocked you given your assurances of future conduct per this discussion. --RexxS (talk) 17:36, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
- Ok, I agree to the topic ban as defined: Catalan and Catalan ethnicity broadly, and changing ethnicity/"ethnic group" in articles. --Hispalois (talk) 15:53, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
For the record, in this conversation of April 2020 it was agreed by all those involved to end my topic ban.Hispalois (talk) 18:37, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
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