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William Marshal four/five kings
[edit]Hello LindsayH! I noticed you responded to a question regarding Young King Henry and his status as a king a few months ago. A similar debate has started and I opened up a discussion section on the Talk Page. I just wanted to invite you to give your two cents should you feel it useful. Best to you and yours. Vyselink (talk) 19:32, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
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RFA2024 update: no longer accepting new proposals in phase I
[edit]Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is now no longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:
- Proposal 2, initiated by HouseBlaster, provides for the addition of a text box at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship reminding all editors of our policies and enforcement mechanisms around decorum.
- Proposals 3 and 3b, initiated by Barkeep49 and Usedtobecool, respectively, provide for trials of discussion-only periods at RfA. The first would add three extra discussion-only days to the beginning, while the second would convert the first two days to discussion-only.
- Proposal 5, initiated by SilkTork, provides for a trial of RfAs without threaded discussion in the voting sections.
- Proposals 6c and 6d, initiated by BilledMammal, provide for allowing users to be selected as provisional admins for a limited time through various concrete selection criteria and smaller-scale vetting.
- Proposal 7, initiated by Lee Vilenski, provides for the "General discussion" section being broken up with section headings.
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[edit]Hi there! Phase I of the Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review has concluded, with several impactful changes gaining community consensus and proceeding to various stages of implementation. Some proposals will be implemented in full outright; others will be discussed at phase II before being implemented; and still others will proceed on a trial basis before being brought to phase II. The following proposals have gained consensus:
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Your edit summary question at "Augustus"
[edit]In your recent edit to "Augustus" you wrote this edit summary:
AD more normally goes in front of the year; reverting. Though, why aren't we using CE/BCE in this article?
The only real talk page discussion I found was at "Talk:Augustus/Archive 2". The substantial reason given in that discussion is that "Manual of Style/Dates and numbers" calls for consistency within an article and following the style used by the first editor to use era notation, unless there is a reason specific to the article to change. Mere preference for one style or the other is not a sufficient reason. Jc3s5h (talk) 16:43, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you. Yes, tbh, it wasn't an entirely serious question, that is, not one i intended pursuing at the time: I was and am aware of the MOS discussion ~ i closed an RfC once about which era to use in an article ~ i suppose my point was that there probably is an article-specific reason to use the Common Era dating, in that Augustus really has nothing to do with Jesus or Christianity. Anyway, thanks for taking the time to drop by and answer me! Happy days, ~ LindsayHello 19:35, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- Since the MOS regards both styles as equally valid, I don't think "has nothing to do with Jesus or Christianity" is a sufficient reason. If it were an article about a person who was a member of a group about a group that opposes AD notation, that would be an article-specific reason. Jc3s5h (talk) 14:01, 28 June 2024 (UTC)