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asilvering (talk) 21:08, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you @Asilvering! This will help a lot. Metallurgist (talk) 17:43, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
Happy reviewing! -- asilvering (talk) 17:55, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
@Asilvering Looking at things now, I seem to have mixed this up with the talk page edit requests. Is that a separate right to get the list to review? "Extended-confirmed-protected edit request" is what the talk page discussions say. Thanks. Metallurgist (talk) 18:06, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
I don't think you need any special permissions to handle those - are you experiencing problems when trying? Just extended confirmed should do it, and you have that. -- asilvering (talk) 18:17, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
@Asilvering Ah ok, is there a link that compiles them? It seems so because I have seen random editors respond to them. I havent found such a list yet. Metallurgist (talk) 18:19, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
Does the section at the bottom of WP:ER answer your question? There are various tables and categories to find edit requests in. There's also a helpful userscript, can't recall what it is. @Rusalkii? -- asilvering (talk) 19:02, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
There's User:Terasail/Edit Request Tool which helps you answer requests (I do recommend it) but I don't think that's what you're looking for. The lists are at User:AnomieBOT/PERTableHeader: you should be able to answer the semi, extended, COI, and most partial ones. Rusalkii (talk) 19:10, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
Yep, that's the script I meant! -- asilvering (talk) 19:16, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
Great, thanks to both of you!! @Asilvering @Rusalkii Metallurgist (talk) 19:25, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Hostages list

Hello. A good resource you can use for List of Gaza war hostages is hopeforhostages.com. It provides ages, nationalities, and where they were kidnapped from. Do note that the ages given for the living hostages are their current ages, so you'll have to subtract 2 years for their age when kidnapped. Another resource for where each hostage was kidnapped from is oct7map.com 2600:1700:7558:1890:19E1:7A0F:F3B6:6FA3 (talk) 03:46, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

There are templates we can use that work with the birthdate to calculate the age at kidnapping, but thank you for those suggestions. Metallurgist (talk) 04:05, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

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Ferret!

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Introduction to contentious topics

TarnishedPathtalk 11:59, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

@TarnishedPath ...See banner at top? ← Metallurgist (talk) 17:31, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
@HouseBlaster you had mentioned here that there would be no issue with hiding the CT aware under a collapse, but it appears to not have worked for Tarnished. I am wondering if there if I did something wrong or it didnt work. You can check back a few diffs to see how it was, but I have now switched to your method, altho I may adde a banner like you have so its not just coded. I know this was 2 months ago, but just thought of this possibly being an issue now. Thanks and happy new year. ← Metallurgist (talk) 12:54, 31 December 2025 (UTC)
Hmm. I will investigate when I get back to my computer :) HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 17:43, 31 December 2025 (UTC)
There was a bug in the code, which has now been  fixed :) HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 21:58, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

Serious question..

Do you think there are NPOV issues in the Israel-Palestine space, particularly in the 'Gaza genocide' family of articles? I'm a reader, not an editor, but just curious.. ~2025-31558-13 (talk) 19:10, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

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@Sohom Datta would you be able to extend me to the end of February for the backlog drive? Thanks! ← Metallurgist (talk) 13:44, 1 January 2026 (UTC)
 Done Sohom (talk) 14:24, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the heads up and my apologies for removing the template! -Darouet (talk) 22:00, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

@Darouet No worries. Just wanted to let you know. Its an easy thing to mess up. ← Metallurgist (talk) 22:03, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

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Thoughts about your statements

When did archiving become a crime on Wikipedia? The page is already set to auto-archive every 30 days. Also, page moves are linked at the top of the talk page. Did I open another discussion after archiving? You’re implying that I archived the page to hide something or act in bad faith.

Can you explain how my RFC on Israel constitutes “POV pushing”? If Wikipedia has already reached a consensus that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza (as reflected in the Gaza genocide article), why is it suddenly considered improper to acknowledge the same on the Israel article? In what world thats POV pushing? Im not pushing my POV. Im trying to apply consensus equally and fairly.

Judges edit, not motives. Suggesting sanctions based on assumptions without evidence and insinuating i'm WP:SPA is really inappropriate.

ref : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#Statement_by_Metallurgist_2 Cinaroot (talk) 09:50, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

@Cinaroot It isnt a crime, it just can be curious. Im not accusing you. Im just wondering. There are set auto archives for a reason, given some of the discussion may still be useful. You may have had a perfectly good reason to archive it. I just wondered why.
Its already mentioned. Changing it does not seem to have any purpose. And its been noted by several people that we should probably have a global RFC on this. The genocide article consensus only applies to that page, altho like many editors, I presumed otherwise. A global RFC is probably a good idea just to have a clear stance, but there is also a case for localized consensus.
I am judging the edits, but when the edits dont seem grounded in a neutral view, one has to wonder. If people find fault with your edits, it is best to pull back a bit and seek advice and more consensus. ← Metallurgist (talk) 20:26, 2 December 2025 (UTC)
You accused me of POV-pushing and of forcing my views across PIA, yet you haven’t provided a single diff or any evidence. If you have concerns about the neutrality of my edits, just ask and tag the specific diffs before accusing me of POV pushing. If you look at someone through a critical lens, that’s all you’ll ever see. If you’re going to investigate someone, make sure you keep an open mind. Cinaroot (talk) 21:29, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

SPA-ness

The numbers come from this tool I'm trying to develop to help people identify extendedconfirmed gaming. It's a good point about the relevance of the set of articles when thinking about SPA-ness - the size of the set of articles in the topic area, the narrowness of an editor's attention. You can imagine a sorted histogram showing page name against the number of revisions an editor made to each page. The shape of curve will tell you something about SPA-ness. Sean.hoyland (talk) 03:52, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

I find this useful too, thank you.Halbared (talk) 19:39, 10 December 2025 (UTC)
@Sean.hoyland interesting. I will have to play around with that. So it uses a curated set of articles? Or does it use projects? ← Metallurgist (talk) 22:50, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
The model used is described in the 'ECR pages strictly in PIA' and 'any ECR page' in the Notes. Unlike the ARBPIA5 model that could use categories to look for all talk page ARBPIA related template presence and WikiProject template intersections (Israel+Palestine, Israel+Lebanon...), it doesn't include WikiProject intersections, not the deployed version anyway. The introduction of the decision code based template (which is used on many pages now) makes things a bit more complicated because we can't check for the presence of the decision code 'a-i' or relatedcontent=yes/section=yes without reading the talk page wikitext, which is a bit too slow for a tool like this. I'm hesitant to include WikiProject intersection information as its relationship to ECR coverage is a bit fuzzy, and the ECR stuff is really only there because the notion of 'gaming' presumably relies on the intent to edit pages covered by ECR. Sean.hoyland (talk) 04:13, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Celtic/British iron bar currency

Both British Iron Bar currency and Iron currency have significant room for expansion and I have sources to hand. Just haven't done it yet. There are a lot of british iron bar finds that could be discussed and a suppressing number of groups have tried iron currency at some point or another. Celtic currency of Britain overlaps with the roman period and ancient usually means pre-iron age. Celtic still seems to be the most common term in this area even if its a bit questionable if the groups making it could reasonably be considered celts. So unless you have some plans for a broader rework I think its fine as is.©Geni (talk) 17:20, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

@Geni Ok, thats why I wanted to check with you. I thought perhaps that was the case. I may add to them when I get some time if I find anything. Very interesting topic. ← Metallurgist (talk) 22:49, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

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@Metallurgist Just as a heads up, I noticed that GreenMontanan has been indefinitely blocked. He is the user with the most edits to the list. I wanted to let you know as it affects page expansion and maintenance. EaglesFan37 (talk) 20:31, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

@EaglesFan37 FFS not another one gone. ._. ← Metallurgist (talk) 22:50, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

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While I don't entirely disagree with you about the condition of the article, just remember when you write edit summaries like this that they may show up on the watchlists of the people who might originally have created the article and might take some comment like that as a de facto personal attack.

You might want to look at the last version of the article close to how I created it, before two editors (neither who have edited in a few years; one of whom stopped editing right after they finished their last edit to the article (reputation management, anyone?) went after it. I wouldn't claim that version should be restored exactly, but it could at least show you how I meant the article to flow and how indiscriminately it got chopped at). Daniel Case (talk) 00:05, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi @Daniel Case. No one should take this as a personal attack, I will make sure to state that on the talk page. I think pages like this end up slapped together over the years by well-intentioned editors, but never really assembled together. I have reworked a number of articles and in examples like this, I will just go source by source and assemble what seems appropriate. Often, these are controversial articles and looks like there were some COI issues in the past. This looks like another example of a half-promo half-hitjob article that I have seen far too many times. I will take a look at your recommended version. I plan to give it a once over and if you or anyone else wants to add more, have at it. My view of it is to have it more as a assemblage of his career, than to list every client, which I think has a number of issues with that formatting. I feel like that makes better reading. Thanks for your advice and again you are more than welcome to hop back in. Happy new year! ← Metallurgist (talk) 00:18, 1 January 2026 (UTC)
Yeah, as far as comments like that go, yours was mild. It's the ones that say something about the contributor who created the content like "What drunken idiot wrote this?" that I have been thinking of writing a project-space essay cautioning against. Maybe I'll call it "Don't summon spirits from the vasty deep" (WP:SUMMONS?) Daniel Case (talk) 00:23, 1 January 2026 (UTC)
@Daniel Case Yea I make every effort to focus any issues at the article or the sources, not other editors. Altho one gets an accusation here and there when misinterpreted... But we all have personal views and interpretations so it never really matters. Meanwhile, some people just dont get it... ← Metallurgist (talk) 00:29, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

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