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As you may know, in Japanese you usually write the last name first and then the first name, it is the contrary in many Western languages but not all (Hungarian is also an exception. But your edit has also suppressed an Interlanguage link (ill) that gave access to French article, not a very fair edit. Arorae (talk) 16:19, 7 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Arorae - Kuromiya is a scholar living and teaching in the United States, his books appear in card catalogs and on title pages as Hiroaki Kuromiya, and his name should be rendered accordingly on English WP. If there is some sort of interlanguage link to be made, make it without flipping the given name and surname, please. Carrite (talk) 20:39, 7 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

https://huri.harvard.edu/people/hiroaki-kuromiya

https://history.indiana.edu/faculty_staff/faculty_emeriti/kuromiya_hiroaki.html Carrite (talk) 20:40, 7 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

Socialist_Workers_Party_(United_States)#1940_split says that after Shachtman split off,

The minority faction led by Shachtman eventually split away almost 40% of the party's membership and 80% of its youth organization, the Young People's Socialist League, forming the Workers Party.^[1]

1. ^ Myers, Constance. "American Trotskyists: The First Years". Studies in Comparative Communism. 10 (1/2 (Spring/Summer 1977)): 133–151. Shachtman took out with him 40 percent of the membership, but this included 80 percent of the Trotskyist youth and left the party the minuscule sect it had been in Communist League of America years before 1934.34

I know that the Trotskyists had belonged briefly to the SP (and presumably to the YPSL), but when the Trotskyists left (or were forced out of) the SP to form the SWP,

• did they take the YPSL with them?
• did they form their own counterpart to the YPSL and the YCL?
• was their youth group called the YPSL?

and when 80% the Trotskyist youth left Cannon's group for Shachtman's,

• did they call themselves the YPSL?

I also know that eventually the Workers' Party youth founded the Socialist Youth League (SYL) (while the SWP's youth formed the American Youth for Socialism [AYS]), but I'm unclear on the chronology and very doubtful about this muddled narrative in Wikipedia's SWP article (which I bookmark, but don't work on directly; perhaps you can fix what's faulty).

Any fraternal help much appreciated. —— Shakescene (talk) 04:03, 12 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Shakescene - My belief is that in 1938 there were two YPSLs, but that is from memory rather than sources. I believe the "official" YPSL was controlled by the new SWP and the SPA reorganized the group in parallel. Carrite (talk) 11:58, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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I have an impression that you left the article unfinished. At least it does not say how the crisis resolved. Care to continue? - Altenmann >talk 17:38, 10 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Carrite, I'd like to apologize for my unduly passive-aggressive comment on the Signpost discussion page. It was ill-though-out and unnecessary. Cremastra (talk) 21:29, 10 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Awww, don't worry about it. I was just flipping you shit for flipping me shit. My original comment — aggressively put for emphasis — stands. Best regards and happy editing. —tim ///// Carrite (talk) 10:35, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Happy First Edit Day! Hi Carrite! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! ✠ SunDawn ✠ (contact) 05:07, 28 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red | January 2024, Volume 10, Issue 1, Numbers 291, 293, 294, 295, 296 Online events: New: Education (year-long initiative) | Alphabet run M & N | Temperance women Continuing: #1day1woman | Women who died in 2023 Announcement In 2024 Women in Red also has a one biography a week challenge as part of the #1day1woman initiative! Tip of the month: Check out the new navigation on our Women in Red Project home page. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

Happy First Edit Day! Hi Carrite! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 22:09, 28 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).

Arbitration

• Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Cabayi, Firefly, HJ Mitchell, Maxim, Sdrqaz, ToBeFree, Z1720.
• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
• The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• The New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,000 unreviewed articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

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Nice work! Were you planning on nominating for WP:DYK? « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 21:12, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, I wasn't. Feel free if you'd like to. Or better yet, maybe we can come up with a photo to illustrate the piece... Carrite (talk) 22:39, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

An automated process has detectedthat when you recently edited Jon Arnett, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Rose Bowl.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 05:48, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red | February 2024, Volume 10, Issue 2, Numbers 293, 294, 297, 298 Online events: New: Alphabet run O & P | Black women Continuing: #1day1woman | Education (year-long initiative) Announcement Please let other wikiprojects know about our February Black women event. Tip of the month: AllAfrica can now be searched on the ProQuest tab at the WP Library. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
• Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
• Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
• The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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