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• • • I'll put this up top because it looks like the switchover will start in about 3 minutes!!!! Smallbones_(smalltalk) 13:57, 19 March 2025 (UTC)Reply
      • It started late, but I saw it. And now it's back to write mode. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 14:19, 19 March 2025 (UTC)Reply
• Can we cite ourselves? Because I just did. kencf0618 (talk) 14:00, 27 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
• I love tying in the server backup to Listen Wikipedia. Great way to bring "life" to what can be a "dry" topic. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 15:36, 27 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
• "fly north in the spring and south in the fall" - isn't this a bit Northist? What does the other hemisphere say? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Verbarson (talk • contribs) 18:54, 27 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
  • In Australia at least, we don't have an equivalent saying because our birds don't usually migrate like that (also see Bird migration § Short-distance and altitudinal migration). Graham87 (talk) 02:43, 28 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Of course it’s ‘Northist’. And this isn’t just any old article; it’s an article that contains material like this (emphasis added):

  Picking something memorable that does not particularly change across cultures, countries, hemispheres, jurisdictions, et cetera, ….

  I guess this form of discrimination remains stubbornly persistent. It seems that it remains easy to unintentionally marginalize the southern hemisphere, even when specifically trying to avoid doing that. Brianjd (talk) 05:05, 28 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

  @Brianjd: Discrimination is something that, you know, discriminates—something that divides people or things into categories, implicitly negatively. Someone using a saying that is not true in some places is, however you feel about it, not discrimination. Please remember that Signpost articles are written by real people, and that Wikipedia:No personal attacks applies in Signpost comments as much as anywhere else on-wiki. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe|🤷) 02:03, 2 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

Something like "fly north in the fall and south in the spring", I would suppose. jp×g🗯️ 03:19, 28 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

It should be like the original but with north/south swapped, so more like ‘fly south in the spring and north in the fall’. But ‘fly south in the spring and north in the fall’ would be even better. As far as I’m concerned, the birds in the other hemisphere can ‘fly north in the spring and south in the fall’. Brianjd (talk) 09:11, 2 March 2025 (UTC)Reply