User talk:M.Bitton

Congratulations from WP:STiki!

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The Gold STiki Barnstar of Merit
Congratulations, M.Bitton! You're receiving this barnstar of merit because you recently crossed the 25,000 classification threshold using STiki.

We thank you both for your contributions to Wikipedia at-large and your use of the tool.

We hope you continue your ascent up the leaderboard and stay in touch at the talk page. Thank you and keep up the good work! West.andrew.g (talk) 14:40, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
Hi, because of lack of time, i was not able to complete the article yesterday, thank you very much for taking the time to explain me how to use the Harv style and for completing (and correcting my mistakes) my edits at Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire. Cheers. ---Wikaviani (talk) (contribs) 21:36, 20 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Wikaviani: Thanks! Glad I could help. M.Bitton (talk) 23:47, 20 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
It’s always great to see more people fighting vandalism. Have a star! Jeb3Talk at me hereWhat I've Done 23:41, 12 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Jebcubed: Thank you so much for your encouragement. M.Bitton (talk) 23:57, 12 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A cup of coffee for you!

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I see that you check recent edits for appropriateness. I clicked through to see a set of the reversions that you had made for rejected submissions, and I agreed with all of what I saw you had done. It seemed apparent to me through the decisions you made and the comments that you left that you were giving human attention to the decisions you made rather than over-relying on tools and automation. Thanks for that, and thanks especially for the notes you leave. You are doing good review. Blue Rasberry (talk) 01:39, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Bluerasberry: Thank you so much for your words of encouragement. Best, M.Bitton (talk) 22:07, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
For your excellent job with creating the administrative maps of Albania! Ahmet Q. (talk) 07:40, 5 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Ahmet Q.: Thank you so much for your feedback. Best, M.Bitton (talk) 22:27, 5 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Another barnstar for you!

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The Original Barnstar
For answering a lot of edit requests and helping to keep the backlog at bay. For a while, I was taking care of that on my own, and it feels nice to see someone else get to it first every now and then! Actualcpscm (talk) 17:22, 17 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Actualcpscm: thank you very much for the encouragement and for tackling those time consuming edit requests that tend to be pushed to the back of the queue. Keep up the great work! Best, M.Bitton (talk) 22:39, 17 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for your incredible work on the Horn of Africa relief map :)

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The Original Barnstar
Here's a barnstar for your incredible work on the Horn of Africa relief map! Really appreciate the effort you put into it :) KluskaSlaska (talk) 16:21, 21 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]


Also, on a related note, I would love to do some more map work once I have more time in late summer. Do you have any good guides on how to get started on maps for Wikipedia? :) KluskaSlaska (talk) 16:21, 21 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@KluskaSlaska: Thank you so much for your feedback. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any good guides that would help you. Best, M.Bitton (talk) 14:02, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
Honestly, I'm a bit disappointed in myself for not giving this to you sooner! You have been a great help creating maps for many articles, don't stop doing what you do! – Treetoes023 (talk) 22:09, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Treetoes023: Thank you so much for your words of encouragement. Best, M.Bitton (talk) 12:01, 12 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Barbary slave trade

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Due to unrelated drama I won't bore you with, I found myself looking at the history of this article, and uuh, thanks. A whole lot of POV-pushing was going on. When I have fewer tabs open I will try to remember to come back and give you a barnstar.

A barnstar for you!

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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Thank you for your great Anti-Vandalism work on Wikipedia! I really appreciate it! :D Wiiformii (talk) 23:24, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Wiiformii: Thank you so much for your words of encouragement. Best, M.Bitton (talk) 23:31, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you again!

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The Barnstar of Diplomacy
You're simply wonderful to have a conversation with. You're a breath of fresh air in contentious topics. Moxy🍁 21:42, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Moxy: thank you so much for your kind words. Best, M.Bitton (talk) 13:04, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Long overdue

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The Patroller's Barnstar
for outstanding contributions to maintaining article quality Elinruby (talk) 04:10, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Elinruby: thanks you very much for your words of encouragement. Best, M.Bitton (talk) 01:15, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Maps for the geography RfC

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When I blocked M.Bitton, I considered carefully whether I would be prejudicing the outcome of the RfC by removing their position from the discussion, and concluded that this would not be the case, since M.Bitton had already argued their position at length and any neutral editor should be able to summarize it. However, I was partly wrong on this - in this comment, M.Bitton promised to upload two maps for the purposes of the RfC, and hadn't managed to do so before getting blocked. Since this was not my intent, I'd like to invite @M.Bitton to link those maps here, with, if necessary, a brief and neutral-as-possible comment about them for the editors participating in the RfC.

RfC participants: please don't discuss the maps here. That's unfair to M.Bitton, but also seriously runs the risk of you getting dinged for proxying for a blocked editor. -- asilvering (talk) 17:11, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Asilvering. As promised, here are the two maps in question.
  • The first is self-explanatory.
  • The second is based on the first. The only differences are cosmetic (projection, background, etc.). It's not set in stone and I intend on improving it (maybe changing the font, font size, moving the position of the text and other minor improvements).
I also don't expect the second to be perfect, so if you notice a mistake, please leave a note on its commons talk page and I will correct it. Everything else (suggestions for improvements, discussion about it, etc.) will have to wait. M.Bitton (talk) 18:07, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template at Rita Ora article

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Hi. Hope you are doing well. Saw after a quite long time you responded to the edit request I had done at the aforementioned article's talk page. Thank you on the one hand for doing it but you also removed another template, i.e. the Music of Southeastern Europe (the Balkans) one, while I had asked only for the Albanian music one to be removed since Ora doesn't have any contribution to it throughout her career. So I kindly ask you to put it back. Also please check the most recent edits at the article (namely the last two), I think they are vandalism and done without consensus. Thank you in advance and have a good Easter in case you are Christian. 2A02:587:4205:8A7C:CC88:2808:7B28:3936 (talk) 06:51, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What's the relation between her music and the music of the Balkans? M.Bitton (talk) 20:49, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Kaïd Ahmed

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Hi, I wanted to double check why you reverted my edit at Kaïd Ahmed? I linked to WP:INFONAT in the edit summary to explain why I was removing the nationality parameter from the infobox. The nationality parameter should be avoided per discussions at the talk page and the citizenship parameter shouldn't be used if it can be inferred from place of birth which in this case it can because he was born in Argentina. Also, it would be helpful if you used an edit summary to let someone know why you're reverting their edit. Suonii180 (talk) 14:50, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Suonii180: I reverted the edit because it introduced a factual error (Argentina). M.Bitton (talk) 14:53, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Again, an edit summary would have been useful. Fair enough reverting an edit I made a mistake on but leaving a short sentence clarifying the issue would have been helpful. Suonii180 (talk) 15:00, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]