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Does this editing pattern remind you of anyone, adding a lot of irrelevant figures to great precision, always metric first? WCM_email 13:21, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

It does. If it's the person I'm thinking of, I've suspected I've seen them a few times as an IP trying to put a spanner in the works.

That said, while the 18-month gap in editing is a bit weird, they also look a bit like someone who's found the measure tool on Google Maps and is just having fun measuring stuff. I haven't looked hard (so I may be missing something), but I haven't seen anything that says to me that they're definitely a sock. This one ended up miles-first after they got their units mixed up. Same with this one. And it looks like they're mostly copying the markup off the measurement in the previous sentence.

Of course, we've established before that measuring stuff on Google Maps is original research, and that holds whoever they are. Kahastok talk 17:31, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Metrication of British transport (2nd nomination)

Given your previous involvement, this deletion discussion may be of interest to you. WCM_email 17:00, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

An amendment requeste where you are involved has been filed regarding the Gibraltar case here. You are invited to participate. - Imalbornoz (talk) 00:50, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

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I forgot to thank you for putting that template together for Talk:Kiev and Talk:Kiev/naming. My skill set at Wikipedia doesn't reach to building templates. Thank you. --TaivoLinguist (Taivo) (talk) 17:35, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

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Since you'd like to discuss the edits, please proceed.2607:FEA8:F420:3DD1:559E:12E3:AB2A:8FA5 (talk) 08:10, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

If you wish to discuss any particular edit to the article List of sovereign states, the place to do that is the article talk page. Kahastok talk 22:00, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

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--Izno (talk) 18:26, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Hello Kahastok. I saw the discussion at AN about abolishing these sanctions. When I go to the WP:GS/UKU page I notice some notifications being given as late as 2018, though no record of any enforcement. Can you recall what caused the most recent notifications to be issued? The case for retaining sanctions would be stronger if there were some real examples of where they were needed, or might have been used. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 03:40, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

I don't know about the two most recent, but two before that were in a discussion over the use of chains on articles on British railways, that got heated in odd directions. It wasn't just metric vs imperial, it was also also fractional/decimal miles vs miles and chains, and the reasons for choosing one measurement over another. I'm not sure I understand quite why it got as heated as it did.

Anyway, I gave the first notification because the editor said something that implied (at least to me) that he intended he start going through articles flipping things currently in kilometres. I wanted to head that off at the pass. I interpreted the return notification as retaliatory, since he was quite upset at being notified in the first place - but if that sounds like I'm strongly objecting to it then I'm not. I mean, I could hardly have given him a sanctions notice, and then claimed not to have been aware of the sanctions myself. Kahastok talk 10:44, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

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