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Happy First Edit Day, Daniel, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 02:54, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Damien Costas AfD

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Hello - I’d appreciate your input on an AfD discussion regarding the article Damien Costas. The article includes multiple reliable secondary sources from SMH, AFR, Men’s Health, and others. I’ve worked to improve it based on feedback, and a second opinion would be greatly appreciated. AfD link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Damien_Costas CharlotteMilic (talk) 09:37, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Clerknote-accounttaken-usurp

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Hi Daniel! Hope you are doing well—I'm wondering if you feel like Template:Clerknote-accounttaken-usurp is still useful? I'm cleaning up Category:Username changing and usurpation templates after Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations was shut down. It look like it is never used (Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations/Completed/44 is a false positive). I lean towards a TFD nomination, but I wanted to check in before charging off there in case you had some insight as the creator :) Best, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 16:05, 21 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@HouseBlaster: feel free to G7 it and link to this comment. Cheers, Daniel (talk) 03:19, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Awesome—thanks :) HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 03:27, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Re: Comments on itwiki

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Hi, sorry, I have nothing to add, I thought it was understood, the translations from Google translator are correct. If you want more information ask the questura di Milano, I can not disclose more. Hi, LukeWiller (talk) 22:36, 30 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

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Open Proxy Exemption

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Hi, I would like to apply for an Open Proxy Exemption. The reason I am applying is due to the recent wave of censorship here in the UK which might result in Wikipedia getting blocked here. Should that happen I would need to use a VPN to access the site therefore I would need one to edit. If you look at my history you can see my consistent history of good edits, particularly my work adding results for various London elections.

I would only need this so long as the threat of this ban is present. TheHaloVeteran2 (talk) 00:19, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please follow the process listed at Wikipedia:IP block exemption#Used for anonymous proxy editing to request. Thanks, Daniel (talk) 01:27, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I thought the process was to either send an email or ask a CheckUser directly, such as yourself? TheHaloVeteran2 (talk) 20:41, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I am not actively engaged with Checkuser, so will not be actioning any IPBE requests. Thanks, Daniel (talk) 20:56, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Lion's den

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Regarding this comment: an apt reference for someone with your user name ;) isaacl (talk) 22:54, 29 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It is indeed! I can't take credit for the quote itself, it's stolen shamelessly from a journalist here in Australia (which was then repurposed in a quite famous civil judgement a year or so ago). But geez, it speaks to a lot of misjudged choices that I see around these parts at times. It also somewhat aligns with User:Barkeep49/Friends don't let friends get sanctioned too (an excellent essay). Daniel (talk) 00:10, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Was it from a journalist? I thought it was originally from Justice Lee? I'm going to try and use the phrase more often. TarnishedPathtalk 03:10, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@TarnishedPath: The AFR wrote an article about its provenance, which I found really interesting. Daniel (talk) 05:38, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for that. I'll add a bit of detail to the Bruce Lehrmann article, which I've nominated for GA. TarnishedPathtalk 06:57, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
You might be interested that I've just gotten Bruce Lehrmann to GA status and have nominated it for DYK. One of the hooks I've proposed makes use of the lion's den quote. TarnishedPathtalk 07:04, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Question

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Can I just close the thread at Arb Clarifications myself? I think it's a waste of time to go through the whole process if we can just speedy close it and make a new request at the correct place. —Matrix ping mewhen u reply (t? - c) 21:47, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note, will archive it on the basis of this withdrawal. Cheers, Daniel (talk) 21:51, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Matrix: ...and done. Thanks, Daniel (talk) 21:53, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, sorry for the waste of time - will make a new request at AE. —Matrix ping mewhen u reply (t? - c) 22:01, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Sawbrimedline

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Hi Daniel. I just noticed you suppressed some revisions at Sawbrimedline. I didn't realize this when I re-added content about what the user's had posted on their user page back to WP:AN#Unblock request by Sawbrimedline. The user who modified AN post just left an edit summary saying "trim", which didn't make mention of the suppression. Anyway, my apologies if my re-adding of the post created another diff that needs to be hidden. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:52, 28 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Marchjuly thanks for the note, will hide the revisions at AN also. While it wasn't my edit summary, I can speak for maybe why the editor used it - a lot of the time, generic or otherwise mundane edit summaries are used for this thing to avoid drawing attention to it. I used "rv" on the user page for that reason, and often we'll use simple things like "-" etc. Cheers, Daniel (talk) 02:43, 28 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for clarifying. The user who modified my post subsequently explained on my user talk page why they left such an edit summary; so, things have all been sorted out. As for the ANI thread, I notified Oversight myself via email and someone suppressed the diffs; if that was you, then thanks. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:57, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Lithuania national cricket team" listed at Redirects for discussion

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The redirect Lithuania national cricket team has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 September 29 § Lithuania national cricket team until a consensus is reached. Thryduulf (talk) 17:42, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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