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paint the whole picture of the trial. Please help me to reinstate my work. Marc Dutroux was officially in court convited not only with his wife but also with Michel Lièvre and at least one other accomplice was officially named in court documents (Bernard Weinstein) but was already dead at the trial so not convicted with Dutroux. It is horrid that Dutroux is constantly painted as a lone serial killer even though he was clearly involved in the crime scene of Belgium. The people in Belgium know that he was part of a network but outside of Belgium there is near to no knowledge on the case. This must be changed. Especially considering that Dutroux will be eligible for parole soon. Thanks, --

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But I do not want to "open a fuss" about this. My interests are usually the belief in spirits, demons and conceptions of God in Middle East, but my Study subject requires much about Middle Eastern history, society and religions. Nevertheless, there is not much about specific legal actions such as rape. When I find something accidently, I want to add my acquired knowledge (as long as I keep editing) here. But I do not have the current knowledge nor the time to make contributions in this matter. Still, thanks for asking me.--

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you put that heading in the article. Why does it need to state that the content is disputed? The Dutroux case is an obvious example of a criminal enterprise subverting the European political sphere. It should be in everyone's interested to make that known and avoid such things from happening in the future.--

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would be fine and dandy). When you did not accept my invitation I hoped you'd allow me to re-revert without discussion. Since Eppstein has reverted I've opened the discussion about this serious editing issue. (Please join in.) BTW: I don't know what you mean by "contentious edit". We improve WP via

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Yes, "pending discussion" because a discussion was due by the initiating editor because the edit was contentious. When you make an edit to a policy or guideline, if someone reverts you, that means your edit was and is contentious, and it needs to be discussed before being added again. Editors making

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I do not have a lot of material regarding this subject ready. I would need to do much research a about this matter. My first impressions are, that the term "Rape" has no direct equivalent in Sharia terminology and maybe the article should be changed into something like "illicit Sex in Islamic law"?

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The BRD supplement suggests discussing the concern on the article talk page, which is why I asked you to open the discussion. At that point you could have opened the discussion (in which case I would have responded). OR – the other choice – you could leave my edit as-is, without discussion (and all

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Hello and welcome to the March newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2018. All being well, we're planning to issue these quarterly in 2019, balancing the need to communicate widely with the avoidance of filling up talk pages. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see

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I have sourced everything with reliable newspaper articles. Everything written in the article is publicly accessible. I do agree that the subheadings are too long. And probably the style in general could be improved. But the content itself is solid. And everything is sourced well. I don't know why

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I don't understand what's your request if it's been deleted for a year. I looked for sources and, at least in the news, I failed to find practically anything. I usually put the threshold for notability in at least three reliable sources that are independent of the subject, and cover the subject in

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Hello, could you please reinstate the section "deaths of potential witnesses" in the Marc Dutroux article? Also all of the rest of the article before the revision of Toddy1 was all sourced. I put a lot of time into gathering sources in French, German, Dutch and English (reliable ones) in order to

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has recently expired, I just thought I'd contact you once to let you know I would still honour the original offer if you translated it (or any other article I have written) at any point in the future. One barnstar for translation, another for successful nomination to FA. Or if you prefer I could

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Ummmm, evidently the article is in a dispute. Other editors are disputing with you the factual accuracy of the content. You say one thing, the other editors say another thing, and this is called a dispute. I share your feelings regarding the Dutroux case very much, but Knowledge (XXG) is

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As of 09:05, 3 December 2020 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 663 requests (18 from 2019) since 1 January and there were 52 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 494 (see monthly progress graph above).

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Hi Thinker78. You may recall you got in touch with me on my talk page last May asking if I was still offering barnstars to translate any good or featured articles I had written into another language. Specifically you said you were thinking of translating

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Reidgreg was chosen as lead coordinator, and is being assisted by Baffle gab1978, Miniapolis, Tdslk, and first-time coordinator Twofingered Typist. Jonesey95 took a respite after serving for six years. Thanks to everyone who participated!

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Greetings, you recently requeted my aid in judging a dispute about the mentioned article, right? I read myself into various debates, but they all seem to be several months old. Which dispute exactly should have an overview

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during the May drive, and the month ended with 35 requests pending. Of the 26 people who signed up for this drive, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available

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begin a discussion, it doesn't say "should". But it does state, "Discuss the contribution, and the reasons for the contribution, on the article's talk page with the person who reverted your contribution.

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As of 03:00, 23 September 2019 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 413 requests since 1 January. The backlog of tagged articles stood at 599 articles, close to our record month-end low of 585.

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Please excuse any potential canvassing, but I read your comments on the Mark Dice talk page, and I'm wondering if you might be willing to take a look at the second AfD of the article about me:

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I did manually revert it and saved the code so that it won't take as much time the next time around. Nevermind so. And thanks for editing to keep the list of dead witnesses in the article...--

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Thank you for reaching out! I am honored at the opportunity and will take part soon! I hope we can all manage to come to an agreement. Zurkhardo (talk) 07:20, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

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You have shown interest in post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called

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I was planning in doing some work and restoring some info with more sources. Be sure to read the talk page regarding your edits and the policy they are bringing forth (

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are placed below the request. The bot uses the Guild's standard "purpose codes" to determine the way it should archive each request so it's important to use the

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YOU referred to a "pending discussion". But no discussion ensued, even after I extended an invitation to open one, so I reverted your Bold edit. In any event, a

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As of 23:39, 18 March 2019 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 108 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 851 articles.

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Nomination of candidates in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 1 June, and voting will take place from 16 June.

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and 116 backlog articles from the target months of June to August 2019. At the conclusion of the drive there was a

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this roundup of the year's activity at the Guild is planned for publication in late January or early February.

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There is no discussion going on re "notable" verses "notability" in this guideline. Please start one per

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before removing content that is obviously relevant. Didn't intend to offend. Cheers!

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We are experimenting with automated archiving of copy edit requests; a discussion

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It is not a personal attack. I was instead simply asking you to have some

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or good or featured article nominations of your choice. Have a nice day.

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