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Reverted Simple talk

Please do not remove sections from simple talk unless it is vandalism. It will be archived when it is time to be archived. These are kept for historical purposes in the archives for easier finding, even if it does not make sense. Thanks - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 23:38, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"These are kept for historical purposes"- What's worth keeping here as I'm intrigued?, As stated in the editsum if we kept such posts the page would be full of random letters of the alphabet.... –Davey2010^Talk 23:41, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've pasted yours and their comment to the talkpage which I hope resolves this, I just don't see a point or benefit to allowing people to post O, A, M posts to a talkpage but thats my 2p, Have a great day, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 23:46, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Notice

Hello. This message is being sent to tell you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is "Issue with Davey2010". Thank you. Thanks - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 23:47, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi!

Thanks for being patient on the ^^ above stuff. I saw emails this early morning and went through what happened. I would have been much more annoyed by this, but you just dealt with it like a pro. Haha, just wanted to let you know that I appreciate your work here and don't let this bother you. Cheers! BRP^ever 01:23, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @BRPever, Thank you so much for your kind words they mean a lot to me, I'll be perfectly honest I'm currently indeffed on Commons for incivility and nearly got indeffed on EN for the same reason - So I'm slowly but gradually trying to change the way I approach and deal with things now, I'm not perfect but I'm trying do a better person than I was,

Meh they don't bother me I've had worse lol,

Anyway thanks so much for your lovely words that really do mean a lot to me, I hope you and yours are well, Take care, Warm Regards, Dave /// –Davey2010^Talk 01:50, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies

I wanted to apologize for what I said and did today. It was not right of me to do so. After reading your response to BRP you and I are blocked for the same reason on en wiki. I hope this can be put behind us and we can move forward as a team to build this encyclopaedia. Thanks - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 09:28, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your apology, Without making things worse I feel I should reply to the en block comment - I'm not blocked on en[1], I am blocked on Commons for incivility[2] and unfortunately you're indeffed on en for socking/using an alt[[3] so respectfully not nearly the same reasons,

Anyway I agree we're all here to build an encyclopedia and would much rather we work together than to be at each others throats every time, Have a great day, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 14:39, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It is actually a block for incivility. Very long and drawn out issue that even our sysops could not figure out what was going on and still do not. Agreed! Thank you for expressing and explaining your block comment. But yes it was the same thing. The socks were just me wanting to be on there. 🙃 Thanks - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 14:42, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Side note: You got a few short term blocks for it on en wiki lol. I lost count of my socks and for this account I sent it to them to advise them I lost my password and had to create a new account so they blocked it within minutes of me notifying them, but it is what it is. Thanks - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 14:45, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ah okay fair enough, EN's not known for being relaxed with anything to be fair lol,

No worries thank you for not taking the comment the wrong way - I spent a good 45 minutes trying to word it in a way that didn't come across in a dickish way so thank you for not taking it the wrong way,

Anyway thank you for your apology, Take care, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 14:57, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your Signature

Hey! Just wanted to swing by and let you know that I stumbled upon your signature, and I couldn't resist taking some inspiration from it (basically just copy/pasted it T.T)! Hope you don't mind the imitation. Cheers! – Cyber.Eyes2005^Talk 14:20, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Cyber.Eyes.2005, I'll be honest I don't mind people taking inspiration from it but I'd much rather they change the colours than just reusing the entire thing, there's no creativity or uniqueness that makes you stand out :), Not only that most people associate those colours with this idiot ... surely you don't want to be associated with this idiot lol,

Your signature atm doesn't really match your username, i guess for some reason i expected more of a horror feel so black and red etc, But of course it's what you're happy with and if you're happy with it then cool :), Obviously I can't make you change the colours but anyway thanks for your message, Have a great day :), Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 14:38, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, it doesn't really match, but the thing is, I didn't really know much about how this formatting works, lol. I've changed it a bit, and yeah, it does really confuse people when two people have the same signature (including myself). Thanks, and have a great day as well. :) – Cyber.Eyes2005^Talk 15:15, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Cyber.Eyes.2005, Ah okay fair enough - to be fair I took my signatures from other people but had changed the colours lol, Haha don't worry it HAD confused me too :) Thanks so much for updating it I greatly appreciate that :), I have to say yours actually looks a lot better than mine haha, Many thanks again, –Davey2010^Talk 15:34, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Subpage transcluding

Hi there. Your subpage User:Davey2010/Dashboard is calling a protection template from somewhere. This is putting it in the category of Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates. Can you fix it so it does not transclude into there please? There is a bot from Ferien that does this, however, that page does not have the code on it so the bot cannot remove it because it is being called from something else you have pulled. See User:FerienBot2. Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 08:05, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @PotsdamLamb, Many thanks for making me aware of this, It doesn't look like there's nothing my end I can do but I'll have a look around and see if I can remove it, The page was supposed to be on my userpage but for some reason it's not and truth be told I've obviously never looked at it since like 2017 so I'll have a look around and if there's nothing I can do then I'll blank it by the end of the day,

Many thanks for making me aware of this, I'll see what I can do. Many thanks, Warm regards. –Davey2010^Talk 11:48, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. I am going through them to find my next cat to work on for the project and that happened to pop-out. So you know, I am working on something similar if you would like to view it and maybe help out where I am stuck at. It is at Template:Admin dashboard Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 12:37, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okie dokie I'll take a look at that and see if I can help :), Happy editing, Many thanks, Warm regards, –Davey2010^Talk 12:53, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @PotsdamLamb, I've added "<noinclude></noinclude>" to the protection template at WP:Request for permissions which has removed my page from the category,

Given how easy it was, something tells me you're going to come here later and tell me I've inadvertently introduced a new error somewhere else now :P, Anyway thanks again for making me aware, Many Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 13:20, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Naw I think it should be ok. I did not see any issues when I tested it out on other pages and a lot of pages of the include/noinclude on them. Thanks for taking care of that. Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 13:33, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ah okay I didn't realise that lol - I searched on EN and didn't get far, tested other things but they didn't remove the cat, Seen someone suggest noinclude, Gave up and decided to assume en:WP:ROLLBACK must be transcluded everywhere and checked out the protection on that page and yeah it was wrapped in that code so thought I'd try it and wish for the best lol.

Anyway no worries, I'm rather amazed it's been there for 7 years and no one's ever mentioned it (I'm guessing you're the only person that's viewed that page in a very long time!), Anyway I'm glad I've fixed it instead of going with my original thought "Well it's on WPs page so it's a WP problem", Thanks again, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 13:45, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yup. Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 13:48, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

and again, if you want to help on that board I am creating, you are more than welcome to. I see Peterdownunder is using it, so my goal is for it to be a whole one stop shop. I am working with the CU team about changing the way they do things so it can pop up for them but for now, I am not gaining much ground. Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 13:49, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2024/Dana Tanamachi

Hi, Davey. Just a note: when an RFD is closed, the RFD template needs to be removed from the page. Someone else has removed it for you. We don't usually encourage non-admin closures, but I think this one was OK. Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 00:20, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Auntof6, Slap on the wrist for me!, My apologies, I was closing 2 AFDs at the same time and completely forgot about the main article page, I'll be honest I've spent 3 weeks on an article and I guess I just wanted a change of scenery for a bit or to do something completely different for a while,

I'm surprised you didn't come here about clogging up recent changes - apologies for that too - I did ask at ANI but understandably everyone was busy so after an hour of waiting I just cracked on with it, Anyway thanks for the heads up about the AFD notice I wont multitask in future :P, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 00:45, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't usually look at recent changes, so I wouldn't have noticed unless someone brought it up! I figure if your changes aren't bothering anyone, then it's not a big deal. -- Auntof6 (talk) 00:48, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Golf Article

Since it’s in your user space are you ok if I try to fix that cite error? If I can’t it’ll be reverted to prior to me touching it. Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 00:23, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @PotsdamLamb, Of course you can, I should also add in case you try it - I've tried linking from the page nearest to the page cited (357) as well as used Wayback Machine and Archive.Is and nothing's worked (and using old Google books for linking/wayback/archive.is hasn't worked either) so my plan was to just leave it as it is,

I just felt an old black and white image and some background info on it sort of made it more verifiable than say a 2022 news article on it if that makes sense,

I don't pay for books etc so I don't know why it allows me to view it without issue but doesn't let anyone else view it, Anyway good luck hope you can fix it, Many thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 00:51, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. You can also apply to the Wikipedia library which gives you access to some more resources as well. That’s if you don’t already have it.

Library front page Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 01:07, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@PotsdamLamb, I had no idea that even existed thanks so much!, Could I ask though are you a member of that ?,

One criteria is no active blocks but I'm indeffed on Commons ? I mean Commons is images though .... if I've survived for 10 years on the English Wikipedia without being indeffed then surely that must say something right ?,

Didn't know if it was worth signing up for if I could potentially be declined because of the indef?, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 01:27, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I’m indeffed on ENWP and I have access. If it doesn’t grant you access automatically I believe it allows you the option to request and you can mention it. I’m not sure what the implications of commons blocked would be. Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 01:29, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@PotsdamLamb oh okay fantastic, I'll give a go and see then, Brilliant thank you for that I appreciate that a lot, Many thanks, Warm regards, –Davey2010^Talk 01:31, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Very welcome! Yeah all you do is log in with your account. If it doesn’t like you it will tell you so. The work would be if you get denied. It is a great resource to find old works and a lot of open source information that may be subscription only otherwise. Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 01:36, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ah okay, I'll check it out properly tomorrow and see how it all goes lol, Yeah they reckon theyve partnered with a good load of paywalled companies etc so I bet there is valuable and useful stuff there, I'll check it out properly tomorrow, Many thanks again for telling me about that, Have a great day, Many Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 01:41, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Did you have a chance to check this out? Let me know what happens. Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 01:40, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't as I completely forgot!, Will try tomorrow if I don't forget again!, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 01:50, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok so I found the issues.

First, I ran the citation bot against it, which removed some unneeded parameters from the citations. There was still one issue which I had to manually fix. That was you had url-access=subscription twice in one citation. When I removed that, all the issues were gone and it reflects that all of your citations are good to go.

Two other minor things I did was changed the circa to about (simpler english, as c. is not really a simple word or meaning in most cases) and I rephrased that same sentence for ease of reading. You are more than welcome to revert those back.

If you need anything else, please let me know. Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 02:10, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure how I ended up adding that twice but many thanks for fixing those, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 16:07, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah something’s are hard to spot but during a preview it told me url= was used twice and only the last parameter would be used. Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 19:17, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey

I cannot remember the name off the bat, but I am sure someone may realize who it is. I have seen this before. This is in regard to Special:Diff/9478011 on VIP. If I remember correctly, they were doing this to music articles in late February/early March. They were so random so it is hard to pinpoint it. Might have to look through all the check users and changes to VIP.

Side note, I am going to look at your article now too (I have had a busy couple of days). I also hope we can get little DYK out of it :). I will let you know what I find. Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 01:36, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @PotsdamLamb, Yeah now I think of it I'm sure this happens or used to happen on EN too and I'm sure it was @Binksternet who I always saw revert them?, I remember the name ZestyLemons or something like that but I dont know if this is them either,

Either way this definitely isn't a new user I know that much! :), Haha I'll be honest I thought you already did check the page or that preview source and gave up lol, I'll be honest I've never done DYK stuff before as my creativity in that department is nil lol, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 01:48, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The vandal case may be seen at Long-term abuse/Date-changing vandal from Poland. They used IPs from Poland such as Special:Contributions/31.0.37.29, Special:Contributions/31.0.41.56 and Special:Contributions/176.221.120.24, then they created the username Agnieszka1235. All of these should be blocked. Binksternet (talk) 06:46, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Binksternet Fantastic many thanks for replying, Happy editing, Many thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 16:05, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Binksternet Thanks, I have relayed this post on to our admins. Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 07:02, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Binksternet All were blocked. Thanks for the valuable feedback. Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 21:33, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It is easy. If you can get the article fully developed to at least (I believe, but may be wrong) a GA status, it can be used for a DYK. (Ok so easy for me to say, maybe not easy to do lol). Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 01:51, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ah okay if that's the case that's us screwed lol, Meh to be honest I'm quite happy with the way it is (as in non-DYK or GA), Thanks, Happy editing, –Davey2010^Talk 01:58, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey

Are you on IRC or Discord? If so, hit me up. Username is the same on both. Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 21:32, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately not, Happy editing, Thanks –Davey2010^Talk 23:43, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Katie Hill (actress)

Hi, do you know where this might be copied from? I can't seem to find it anywhere on enwiki. Thanks, --Ferien (talk) 19:48, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Ferien, Oops my apologies, As the other creations were copy/pastes I just blindly assumed this was too, Many thanks for making me aware of this, Many thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 20:24, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That's alright. It does look a bit like a copy tho. I might try and look at it more at some point. Thanks :) --Ferien (talk) 20:50, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ferien, It does it looks way too perfect to be a brand new newb article, I've also come across Yksnamu who's uploaded images of subjects that Eceerp has created which seems slightly weird, Unfortunately over at en:Sarah Sugden (2005 character) her name's never been linked as far as I can see so I can't find anything to say this ever existed but for sure this definitely isn't a new article, If the article layout is different from the deleted articles and things like "Ref" (in table) aren't present in the deleted articles then that would confirm it's been copied/pasted from somewhere but without evidence I guess there's not a lot one can do, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 22:03, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Zat Knight

About this edit: special:diff/9503130, the only visible difference is his height (6 ft 7 vs. 6 ft 6). I'm not sure which is correct but enwiki says 6 ft 6. The removal of spaces probably wasn't the purpose of the edit - it may be done automaticaly by the visual editor. Kk.urban (talk) 17:55, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Kk.urban, Many thanks for making me aware I didn't realise they had changed the height, Indeed EN lists it as 6ft 6in so I've reinstated their edit, Thanks again it's much appreciated, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 18:10, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Chichester buses

I changed busses to buses in the Chichester article because the plural in the article "Bus" is spelled that way. T. Tony Holkham (talk) 21:07, 27 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Tony Holkham, Not quite sure how I came to miss that but you did indeed so my apologies for reverting you, I've reverted back to your edits, Many thanks. Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 06:45, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Rajput and Rajputization and Chandel

hello, @Davey2010. please look at Rajput and Rajputization Chandel and restore old version. An editor has added copy content from English wiki. Hcsrctu (talk) 15:12, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi [[User:Hcsrctu|Hcsrctu], Many thanks for your message, I've reverted all of their edits as as you say their edits all have been copy/pasted from EN, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 16:04, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, @Davey2010. Hcsrctu (talk) 07:50, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome Hcsrctu, Have a great day, Many Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 08:37, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

hello ??? Are you mad or what Council Ministers of Nepal and Cabinets of Nepal are not same 2400:1A00:BD20:E4A9:F119:B176:7416:B986 (talk) 19:49, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:2400:1A00:BD20:E4A9:F119:B176:7416:B986, Yeah that was rather embarrassing no idea what went wrong there my apologies!. Ive reverted back, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 19:56, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

Hi there Davey

I just reverted the Joseph Williams article that you marked for quick deletion. I noticed that the article was vandalized and the old article had links to 19 other wikipedia pages. I see this as intentional vandalism, not a new page, so placing a quick deletion form is unnecessary and confusing. I know your actions were an attempt to prevent vandalism, I acknowledge that and thank you very much for this.

Best regards

Rose

Anabelase2 (talk) 15:42, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Anabelase2, Thanks so much for not only spotting this but for also reverting me, I obviously had no idea it was vandalised, I did do a search prior to speedying and obviously it came back with the musician (not the 2003 like I first believed),

I've removed the warning on your talkpage please accept my apologies for this, Thanks again for your help in fighting vandalism it's greatly appreciated, Many thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 15:48, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding CU

You are a really outstanding editor, and to me, you are an admin without tools. If you want to run for adminship in the future, you might be the one for our community. I am happy to nominate you. You haven’t made any mistakes, I just reverted it because you filed a CU, and I wanted CU to check on it. By the way, CU cannot check IP addresses. DIV IN E 13:43, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @DIVINE, Thank you so much for your kind words they really do mean a lot thank you, Unfortunately I'm happy just being a normal editor to be honest and I suspect my indef-block on Commons would sink the RFA anyway,

I would love to be an admin but admins are held to a much higher standard over us normies and to be honest being an admin means more things can wrong, Meh I'm happy being an editor but thank you for your kind words anyway they do mean a lot

Also regarding the CU; I know IPs can't be checked but I was saying the IPs comment was my reason for the withdrawal that was all, Anyway Happy editing, Many thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 19:46, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Rollback

Hey, Just a friendly reminder, Rollback isn't for good faith edits. I feel that this was maybe not the best use of the feature. Happy editing! Yottie ^=talk= 17:33, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I didn't use rollback ? and an edit summary was provided too, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 17:36, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Yottie My mission was to tackle vandalism faster and catch vandalism that could otherwise be missed but I had no idea until now that my (and others) edits all now appear under the rollback filter tag which I have a major problem with,

You can use the undo feature with the tool but you have to click a box for every revert which is a pain/time consuming so I think I'll go back to Twinkle for now, Shame as it was efficient and beneficial to the community but my reverts sitting in that tag when I've not even used rollback doesn't sit well with me so thanks for making me aware of that, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 17:59, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, it was just a friendly warning. It seems strange it's tagged as Rollback if that's not what it is. Maybe one to raise if you are concerned? I'm all for swift and efficient reverts. In this case though, I don't think it was vandalism. Keep up the good work, I have seen some great anti-vandalism work on your part. Happy editing! --Yottie ^=talk= 18:33, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Oh no It's all cool, neither did i but reading it you'd think the editor was rollbacked and is the reverted really going to read that long edit summary ? doubt it lol, Thanks so much, I'll raise it and see if it can be changed - I'm assuming the tool uses the rollback but allows edit summaries, it also allows you to thank IPs -(something you can't do normally!),

Yeah no that revert wasn't the first error I've made either so yeah I think I'll stick to basics - not a lot can go wrong that way :),

Anyway thanks for your friendly reminder and kind words, Take care, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 18:50, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

QD A4

Hi there, I noticed the ping I got on this talk page, and you've removed the conversation since, so I don't want to bother you too much. I just wanted to point out that awards are usually interpreted as claims to notability and therefore make articles ineliglble for A4. Thanks, --Ferien (talk) 12:37, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Ferien, Ah okay I didn't know that so many thanks for making me aware, Have a great day, Many thanks, Warm regards, –Davey2010^Talk 12:41, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Mai Ekhou

When I decline a QD I don't add it an RfD, that's for someone else to do. fr33k man 10:54, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Fr33kman I never said you should ?..... I said "or respectfully you can leave it to someone else to delete ? ".... Never mentioned AFD. –Davey2010^Talk 12:09, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, my mistake. :( fr33k man 13:30, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, Happy editing, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 14:43, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What?

My edit was not what you call "vandalism". People know that adding a picture that you uploaded is not "vandalism" So, stop trying to make me look bad. Thank you! SingFan2023 (talk) 13:48, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed you should have recieved a "disruptive editing" warning, Respectfully only you are responsible for your actions and thus "looking bad", Thank you. –Davey2010^Talk 14:30, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Simple question

Hi @Davey2010 Can you help me to create notable topic about Translator and journalist hi, you can see the news on google in Arabic and Turkish and English Thanks for your time. Alexlovesjournalism (talk) 08:02, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, You're than welcome to look at various other translator articles and create Ali Al Suleiman yourself, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 09:15, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Thanks for that! I was debating on doing that myself, but I was afraid! Cheers, Hockeycatcat (talk) (changes) 12:53, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Hockeycatcat, No worries, The delinking of words, replacing evacuate with restrains and replacing okay words with words such as Empowered didn't sit well with me, I felt their words were more complex than what was already there but anyway no worries :), Many thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 13:01, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent changes to PAW Patrol

Hi, Davey. I've been working on errors in the use of Template:Infobox television, and the ones in this article seem to be from your changes. Your changes added some parameters that aren't supported, and added some invalid parameter values. In case you want the details, here they are:

An image was added that is not in Commons, so we can't use it here.
In the "country" parameter, the linked name "Canada" was changed to the template {{Canada}}. This displays the country name with a flag, which is not supposed to be done in most infoboxes.
The parameter "network" was replaced with "networks", which is an unknown parameter. The singular form is correct, even if there are two or more networks to display.
The following obsolete parameters were added: show_name, website, picture_format, audio_format

I'm sure you already know this, but it's a good idea to preview changes before saving them. That wouldn't have caught all the things I listed, but it would have shown that the image couldn't be found. It would also have shown the flag next to the country name (but I think that not everyone knows that those shouldn't be used). As for the other parameters, you'd have to notice that the values specified were not being displayed, which admittedly is harder to detect.

If you have any questions, feel free to let me know. -- Auntof6 (talk) 12:27, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Auntof6, Many thanks for your message,

You may not be aware but we have a person who's been adding made up/fake information to articles (using new ips everyday) since 2021-2022 so for the time being I've been restoring articles back to x revision,

I understand and appreciate my way isn't ideal but to compare and then copypaste each article is time consuming and it's not going to be a quick fix given they've done this to hundreds if not thousands of articles as like I said it's been going on since 2021 if not earlier,

That all being said I'll make a start this weekend and see how far I get as I'd rather do something about it than just revert back to x revision knowing it's still not the correct info displayed,

Once I've done would it be advisable to get these articles autoconfirmed-protected otherwise I'm just wasting my time and fighting a losing battle (I'm already doing that getting the idiot rangeblocked but would be worse putting the work in and then finding out next day they're adding made up stuff again),

Many thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 14:21, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I get it. At least the articles do show up in maintenance categories so we can find them and fix them again. Thanks for your reply. -- Auntof6 (talk) 05:49, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

True, No worries, Happy editing, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 11:20, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Articles updated

List of Disney movies List of Paramount Pictures movies

List of Paramount Pictures films (1912–1919)

List of Paramount Pictures films (1920–1929) List of Paramount Pictures films (1930–1939) List of Paramount Pictures films (1940–1949) List of Paramount Pictures films (1950–1959) List of Paramount Pictures films (1960–1969) List of Paramount Pictures films (1970–1979) List of Paramount Pictures films (1980–1989) List of Paramount Pictures films (1990–1999) List of Paramount Pictures films (2000–2009) List of Paramount Pictures films (2010–2019) List of Paramount Pictures films (2020–2029) –Davey2010^Talk 18:45, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

List of children's animated television series of the 2020s –Davey2010^Talk 12:33, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Adding/updating infoboxes

Hi, Davey. When you add or update an infobox, would you please check to see if any references or notes were added that need to be displayed? A few of the ones you just did put the articles in Category:Pages with missing references list. Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 16:50, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Auntof6, I'll go through these now, I automatically assumed the ref stuff was on these pages and then some way through realised they were missing, I'll go through and add those I've missed, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 17:06, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sometimes it's notes or grouped references. The message in red at the bottom of the page will tell you what's needed. -- Auntof6 (talk) 17:07, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done fixed these, Yeah I hadn't scrolled that far down as felt I had no reason too, Thanks for making me aware, –Davey2010^Talk 17:11, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Refs missing

Just an fyi gonna fix refs once done getting rid of the content first - not forgotten just can't multitask :) –Davey2010^Talk 20:45, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

June 2024

You have been blocked from changing Wikipedia for 24 hours for being uncivil: swearing at one user when you didn't like what they said and calling another user an idiot.

Once the block has ended you can make helpful changes. Please read Wikipedia's blocking policy and remember that adding spam, making changes that do not have a neutral point of view, making personal attacks on others, not respecting other people's privacy, and vandalizing pages are not allowed. If you do any of these things, you will be blocked again.

If you think this block is unfair, you can ask to be unblocked by adding {{Unblock|your reason here}} below. If you cannot do this or the reason is private please send an e-mail to simple-admins-l@lists.wikimedia.org and an administrator will look at your reason and reply. You may want to read our guide to unblock requests before asking to be unblocked. Auntof6 (talk) 18:06, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Auntof6 Diff for the first one? And respectfully, what would you call someone who spends their time vandalising articles and recieves a block again and again and again ? Idiot was the nicest word.

I take it you didn't like my reply here which is the real reason I'm blocked, Maybe if you don't want to block vandals than maybe you should resign. Clutching at straws in order to block me is sad and rather pathetic. –Davey2010^Talk 18:14, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We wont block the IP whos only a vandal, we'll block the guy who became enraged over his VIP report being declined on the basis that "they were warned insufficiently" despite said reply showing they were warned to death time and time again. Couldn't make it up. –Davey2010^Talk 18:17, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your diff. And you've now lost talk page access. -- Auntof6 (talk) 18:20, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Accidental transclusion of {{copyvio}} in User:Davey2010/RedWarn/Default Warnings

Hi, just saying it seems like User:Davey2010/RedWarn/Default Warnings is in the possible copyright violations category. This seems to be be because it has JSON containing this:

"name": "Removing {{copyvio}} template from articles"

I am fairly confident that is not your intent, but I don't know what parser you use with that JSON so I'm not sure how to stop the template from being transcluded there. — 76.212.74.243 (talk) 22:30, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @76.212.74.243, Many thanks for letting me know I had no idea it showed there - I've blanked the page for now, Thanks again, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 22:34, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Preventing the erasure of vandal edits

Hi! I still want to ask, on what grounds did you undo my edits in articles that literally contained false information, which directly violates the rules of the project? Skerpsov (talk) 14:03, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Skerpsov, You re-added vandalism here[4] so I therefore believed you were a sock of the IP, If you don't want to be reverted then I would respectfully suggest you don't re-add vandalism that block-evading IPs are adding, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 15:07, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Short question

Just curious, have you thought of returning to WM Commons? It has been over a year since your indef block there. I apologise if this question upset you. A1Cafel (talk) 09:28, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @A1Cafel, Many thanks for your comment,

In short no - They weren't interested in unblocking me in August and I highly doubt anything's changed since to be honest. And plus they'd no doubt use the block on here to say "he's clearly not learned his lesson" or some bs excuse, so yeah unless they unblock me as time served then my block expiration date there won't be changing anytime in my lifetime unfortunately,

I of course regret what I said and that I'm the only person responsible for my words 110% but in some ways I also feel resentful at how I was treated or how it was handled - It just felt like "Oh he swore me, indef for him" and even 2 months later that didn't change despite me apologising and saying I would do things differently,

But yeah no I'm happy without Commons to be honest, Of course I'd love to edit there again but too much has been said and done and that bridge has unfortunately been burnt,

I'm happy enough on here and EN so it's all good :), Have a great day, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 14:14, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Connex South Eastern

Why do you think people need to know that they borrowed a train for a couple of journeys 22 years ago? Rathfelder (talk) 16:11, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Because it was a part of history and because it's sourced ?.... –Davey2010^Talk 16:18, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Doesnt seem very significant. Rathfelder (talk) 16:20, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well that's your opinion, Have a great day, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 16:25, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

QD

Why does List of SpongeBob SquarePants cast members need QDing? G6 is not valid. Thx fr33k man 21:57, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Fr33kman, I didn't know if this was associated with an LTA so thought it was best it was started from fresh, I know a few TV shows attract LTAs but maybe this IP is fine and I guess any future others, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 22:03, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

edit warring

I’m not edit warring. Ciaran.london (talk) 23:00, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

this says otherwise. –Davey2010^Talk 23:02, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

IceTre Request

Discussion closed. Please continue this on the RFD page. –Davey2010^Talk 11:12, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further changes should be made to this discussion.

Hello there, about 12 days ago “IceTre” was nominated for deletion and in the most recent reply to you on the “IceTre” deletion talk page I gave absolute without a doubt proof of the subject’s notability (I was able to prove that the subject has released two or more albums on a major record label / or on one of the more important indie labels (i.e., an independent label with a history of more than a few years, and with a roster of performers, many of whom are independently notable.) There has been no response from anyone in 5 days so I am asking for you to please grant acceptance of the subject’s wiki. Since it’s been 5 days after the 17th when a decision was to be made I fear that it may become forgotten about. I do not wish to burden you with this. If you can close the request out and grant its acceptance to stay then I can continue to work on the subjects wiki and add in more sources to keep the page in healthy and proper condition and you can further continue your work here on Wiki and outside of it as well. Please let me know if that is agreeable. Thank you Stephenbestk28 (talk) 03:37, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) @Stephenbestk28 Davey is not and admin and cannot close this discussion, please wait for and admin to look into this. Thanks Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 03:40, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Stephenbestk28 adding on, most of the community think this article should be deleted. Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 03:41, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I wasn't sure if they were the admin or not. It's the communities duty to feel that way and it's my duty to convince them otherwise. That's how this works but if my evidence / proof is not being taken into consideration or being ignored then that shows a clear bias and unfair practices.

Question, did you look at the evidence provided or did you simply comment without looking into the evidence? The subject released two or more albums on a major record label under Guideline #5 in the Music Notability Guideline. I proved that the subject did release music on a major record label thus the evidence was provided.

In court you have to show up to testify otherwise your statements are nullified. They made the statements for it to be deleted but then when I provided evidence on why it's notable then I hear nothing back which renders their statements null.

If someone wants me to provide evidence and I provide evidence and they don't say anything about it then that mean I sufficiently provided evidence to a degree where it was suitable enough for no response.

Ironically speaking, none of those people who nominated it to be deleted could actually prove that the subject isn't notable: they simply raised their concerns but they didn't say anything that wasn't able to be provided with evidence. Stephenbestk28 (talk) 04:13, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I wasn’t trying to say it was going to be deleted, I was just telling the community opinion and I am not related to this topic. Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 04:33, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And also in order to make a solid case there has to be sufficient evidence to back up all claims so skimming over my paragraphs of information falls under unfair practices as well. There has to be impartial fairness behind the process which includes taking my evidence into consideration and weighing out both options.

I was able to prove notability for the subject and as that stands there should be no other hiccups based on that fact alone.

The community said the subject was guilty and my evidence proves the subject is innocent so if that's the case then how come this doesn't feel like a fair trial? I'm just simply using that example as a point reference. Stephenbestk28 (talk) 04:21, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Post this in the community discussion for the deletion Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 04:33, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Stephenbestk28, As kindly noted by Cactus I'm not an admin so I don't have the final say here, I still maintain it should be deleted and wont be changing my mind, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 15:36, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In court they are allowed to poll the jury and find out why they voted guilty or not guilty. You asked for proof of notability, i gave it to you, and you still vote no so this seemingly is no longer about whether the subject is notable or not but it's about self preservation (aka sticking to your guns) and that you simply "don't like the wiki". This is no longer about notability. You are allowing yourself to stay unconvinced and that is okay but for the future do not ask for evidence only to deny it's existence when it's presented to you. There is no reason to be on a jury just to disrupt the process if nothing can be provided to change your mind. Stephenbestk28 (talk) 04:40, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not discuss about an RFD with on the user talk page, please write all this at the RFD discussion. Thanks. Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 07:45, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You haven't provided any evidence that the subject meets NMUSIC and GNG - All's you've done is given your opinion and not much else. Either way I'm closing this because I have no interest in further discussing it,

I will say this - I would invite you to check out the following articles Pyramids FC TV, MIUI, 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC), and COSAFA Cup - All 4 articles ended up at RFD and all 4 were obviously kept because they were notable, I expanded and sourced those articles too - In short if the subject is notable It's a keep, if it's not notable then it gets deleted,

So you can peddle along with this "I don't like the wiki" as much as you like - I don't care for the subject, I care about article inclusion and keeping articles that are notable. Have a great day. –Davey2010^Talk 11:11, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not change it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page, such as the current discussion page. No more changes should be made to this discussion.

Warning

Please, do not revert any of my changes! I beg of you! 93.40.45.95 (talk) 05:50, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Then don't add unsourced content. –Davey2010^Talk 11:14, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So, if I add unsourced content, my change will be reverted and I will probably get blocked, right? 5.180.207.80 (talk) 11:25, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Yes that is correct, If you're adding cast members to a article than all's you need to do is a find a news article that says they were in that show, unfortunately IMDb cannot be used (see en:WP:Citing IMDb), Hope this helps, Thanks, Kind Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 11:28, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have a question: can Behind The Voice Actors (https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com) be used as a citation for certain cast members? 5.180.207.80 (talk) 11:44, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It can't as it's a fan-made website, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 11:49, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Since "Behind The Voice Actors" is a fan-made website, it cannot be used as a citation for certain cast members. Thanks for the support and have a nice day, Davey. 5.180.207.80 (talk) 11:52, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You know you can create an account, right? Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 11:53, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome, Thanks and you have a nice day too, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 11:53, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wait, there's something else I need to tell you. Profanity, sexual themes, nudity, and all other things are not allowed in any Wikipedia, especially the Simple English Wikipedia (this one). If somebody will put any of these in a Wikipedia page (for example Oijfeaoijgeagea), his/her change will be reverted and he/she will probably get blocked. For example, Oijfeaoijgeagea got blocked indefinitely after doing some disruptive editing.

I don't know any news articles that can be used as a citation for some cast members. If there's one I know, I will return. If there aren't any news articles I know, then there is no desire to return. Thanks and have a nice day. 93.33.22.207 (talk) 12:19, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh okay Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 12:21, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Here's the final word: if any profanity, sexual themes, nudity, etc. is found in a Wikipedia page, it will be deleted and somebody might block the man who inserted one of those things I've mentioned earlier. Bye! 93.33.22.207 (talk) 12:35, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is my talkpage and as such I get the final word here and it's this; go read en:WP:NOTCENSORED, images showing the human anatomy are allowed and are fine, If you have a problem with it then go to WP:Simple talk and propose changes, Until then images stay as are. –Davey2010^Talk 14:14, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, even though this is your talk page. Thanks and have a nice day. 93.33.22.207 (talk) 14:21, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, you too, –Davey2010^Talk 14:22, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Edit on Ice Age (2002 movie)

Hi, Davey. I noticed that you did a change to Ice Age (2002 movie), and here's what you did: you copied and pasted the cast list of that movie from the English Wikipedia. In addition, there are some voice actors that were not mentioned in the English Wikipedia:

Stephen Root also voiced Start #1;
Alan Tudyk also voiced Dodo #4 and Freaky Mammal #2;
Chris Wedge also voiced Dodo #5;
Tara Strong also voiced Start #2;
Peter Ackerman as Dodo #1. Ackerman also voiced Freaky Mammal #1;
P. J. Benjamin as Dodo #2;
Josh Hamilton as Dodo #3. Hamilton also voiced Aardvark;
Denny Dillon as Glypto #1;
Mitzi McCall as Glypto #2.

All of these voice actors are credited in the ending credits of that movie. This is all I can tell you for now. Thank you so much and I hope you have a nice day. 5.180.207.80 (talk) 17:40, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I've reinstated your edits as you're indeed correct they did voice those characters too, –Davey2010^Talk 18:05, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good job! In addition, you said: "Appreciate this isn't the normal way of citing however bar end credits there's nothing else confirming these and obviously I cannot link to said credits as they're copyright violations anyway"
Have a nice day! 93.40.82.17 (talk) 06:10, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks and no worries, Have a nice day too, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 10:44, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can you help me appeal because the administer made it so I cannot even appeal on my talk page!!!!!! 132.147.192.240 (talk) 18:20, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately I can't sorry - I would kindly suggest you don't trout people or leave anyone any messages there (that includes saying hi to everyone everywhere) - Once your block expires in a month focus on articles and improving the encyclopedia, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 19:13, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Recent contributions

Hello there I just wanted to say that the edits that were provided were up to date edits. McClanahan died in 2010 not 2024. Details were provided. For Scorsese he directs more than just movies if you take a look at his filmography. The information on the rappers are currently up to date also. The information was outdated. If you have any concerns leave a message on my talk page. Thank you 108.2.126.127 (talk) 14:38, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi 108.2.126.127 (talk, Please accept my sincere apologies, I saw your edits to the Busta Rhymes article and compared it with the English Wikipedia version and one addition wasn't in the infofox there so I assumed you were a vandal, Having gone through your contributions I can see you are in fact removing vandalism not introducing it so please accept my sincere apologies, I've removed the warning from your page too, Many thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 15:02, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

All good. But why did you revert the contributions? 108.2.126.127 (talk) 15:53, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Because your edits to Busta Rhymes and Lil Wayne weren't at EN and those were the only 2 articles I had looked at, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 15:59, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why are you getting mad? I saw the revisions to more than just those 2 things by you. 108.2.126.127 (talk) 18:35, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not mad ? I explained why I reverted you in the very first reply and then you're asking "But why did you revert the contributions?" .... I don't know how else I'm supposed to reply to that ?, Anyway have a great day 108, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 18:42, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. Sorry 108.2.126.127 (talk) 19:17, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Thank you for creating Primos when I couldn't! 2601:402:4402:61F0:C1A2:D11B:B615:1F48 (talk) 22:11, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome 2601 :), Happy editing, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 22:56, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism per contrib

Is this really a good edit summary for reverting edits? Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 10:54, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I saw you use this. Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 10:55, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Cactusisme, Thank you for reverting the vandalism it's greatly appreciated, Do you have diffs of me saying this because I don't recall ever saying this ? (I remember copypasting a previous editors edit summary about pov pushing),

To answer the question - "Vandalism (per Davey?)" should generally be avoided as it implies you don't actually know if it is vandalism or not, I always compare with the English Wikipedia - if the edit isn't there then I'll revert but sometimes you also need to check the page history at En in case the editor has sneakily added the same edit there too,

But yeah once is fine but I would avoid using that summary all the time, If you're not sure just don't revert, Thanks –Davey2010^Talk 11:21, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Davey2010

 this--Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch  07:38, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Cactusisme That wasn't per anyone - That was an automatic edit summary provided by RW and if you look carefully you'll see it says "Vandalism (from contribs)" not "Vandalism (per contribs)" .... From and Per are two different things entirely...... –Davey2010^Talk 11:08, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also FYI I removed "from contribs" 6 days ago although you wouldn't have known that. Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 11:11, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

oh alright Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 22:24, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Major Edit Denied?

Hello. I came here because I was expanding the Simple Wiki's Hailey's On It!, and when I was done, a Captcha came on, and I answered it. Later it said that it was denied. I went out and looked at the abuse filter log and the description was LTA 351. I don't know what that means, and I don't get why they wouldn't let me edit the page. Can you make the edit for me? Thanks-- 2601:402:4402:61F0:E2DA:D876:6031:1D80 (talk) 19:42, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @2601:402:4402:61F0:E2DA:D876:6031:1D80, LTA 351 is hidden so I unfortunately don't know what you did or said that resulted in your edit being prevented, You might want to consider creating an account as once you reach certain thresholds you won't keep being prevented from creating articles :), Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 20:32, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I'll try the edit again now that I created an account! Amary🪷 ^talk ^edit 20:58, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Amaryllidinae You're welcome :), The world has changed since I first created this account so you probably have a thousand more hoops than I ever did,

I would suggesting reading en:Wikipedia:User access levels#Overview and then en:WP:AUTOCONFIRM as those are applicable to you, The more you edit and the more days you're generally on here the easier it becomes I think, You'll probably still encounter issues with an account but I would hope life would be more easier now than it was on an IP :), Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 21:51, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Inappropriate Name

Hi. A few minutes ago, a new user named "Annespankme" joined the Simple Wiki. The name is inappropriate, and since I'm not autoconfirmed yet on the Meta, I can't report. Can you? Magnolioideae (talk) 16:21, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I'll keep an eye but present they've not edited, I don't personally believe it's offensive enough for a block but you're more than welcome to report at WP:VIP, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 16:25, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Vandal Warner

Hi. I don't know why I'm asking, but by any chance do you know how to get Vandal Warner? I downloaded it, and it's not showing up in my toolbar. Magnolioideae (talk) 18:26, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Vandal IP

This IP vandal keeps on deleting the Quick Deletion template I put on on of their articles because of vandalism. I don't want to get in an edit war. What exactly do I do, and how can I be able to get this article off of Simple Wiki? Maggie🌺 ^talk ^edit 00:03, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Magnolioideae, If the IP reverts then I would suggest going to an admins talkpage (Special:ListUsers/sysop) and asking one of those to delete it,

Regarding Vandal Warner - Unfortunately I've never installed it so wouldn't know sorry L(, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 00:28, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Help creating a page

Hello there I want to know how I can help out by creating a page without it getting deleted. 98.115.58.61 (talk) 02:14, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there! I'm not Davey2010, but you may want to see WP:How to write Simple English pages, WP:What Wikipedia is not, and WP:Citing sources as they are usually big on page deletions. I hope these help :) Maggie🌺 ^talk ^edit 04:00, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. Because sometimes I see that pages get deleted if they have too little information 98.115.58.61 (talk) 16:29, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Have fun editing ✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧ Maggie🌺 ^talk ^edit 16:30, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Archives Bot

Do you know any code to any archive bots? I always self-archive my messages and is pretty exhausting. Maggie🌺 ^talk ^edit 17:30, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Magnolioideae, See en:Help:Archiving_a_talk_page#Automated_archiving - The examples below can be added to the top of your talkpage, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 18:00, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is there Cluebot on the Simple Wikpedia? Maggie🌺 ^talk ^edit 18:12, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yep –Davey2010^Talk 18:16, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*.✧ Maggie🌺 ^talk ^edit 18:43, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) There's no Cluebot, but there's Bot873, which does the same thing. VirusDontKill (talk) 19:18, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh. Does it use the MiszaBot text? Maggie🌺 ^talk ^edit 19:20, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. VirusDontKill (talk) 19:21, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you (✿^‿^) Maggie🌺 ^talk ^edit 19:24, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Snoop Dogg

I updated information about Snoop Dogg which came from English Wikipedia and now the article is up to date. Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoop_Dogg 98.115.58.61 (talk) 14:23, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @98.115.58.61, Fantastic thank you for updating the infobox, Excellent work!, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 14:36, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Should the Simple English Wikipedia Infobox match the English Wikipedia infobox when it comes to occupation and genres for musicians? 159.14.184.11 (talk) 14:52, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also can a page be created here? Whenever people try creating pages on Wikipedia they get deleted 159.14.184.11 (talk) 14:53, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-33

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature news

AbuseFilter editors and maintainers can now make a CAPTCHA show if a filter matches an edit. This allows communities to quickly respond to spamming by automated bots. [7]
Stewards can now specify if global blocks should prevent account creation. Before this change by the Trust and Safety Product Team, all global blocks would prevent account creation. This will allow stewards to reduce the unintended side-effects of global blocks on IP addresses.

Project updates

Nominations are open on Wikitech for new members to refresh the Toolforge standards committee. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy and Abandoned tool policy among other duties. Nominations will remain open until at least 2024-08-26.
One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in West Coast Bajau (w:bdr:) [8]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:22, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

my edits on the 'list of Wikipedias' article and its reversion

The reason I edited the 'list of Wikipedias' article and copied extra information from the English Wikipedia's entry on that article about that topic while replacing some information on this Wikipedia edition's entry on that article with that one's, is to make this article's information more consistent with that one, while using simple Basic English. The first time I did that, @Kk.urban: reverted my edit the following day and told me that edit was too complex, so I made a similar edit six months later while simplifying certain sentences to the best of my abilities. Seeing how you also reverted my edits to that article four days and a half later, a few days ago, and told me the previous revision was simpler, why do you think that, and what do you think I can do to make the information I copy from the English Wikipedia's entry on that article simpler? PK2 (talk) 10:50, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The sentences/paragraphs, images used, tables .... everything was imho over complicated and complex, that all being said I'm not exactly thrilled about List of Wikipedias#Wikipedia edition codes existing either however that's been there for over 10 years seemingly without issue,

I'll be honest I don't have any helpful advice other than "try to keep words simple and sentences short", Thanks. –Davey2010^Talk 13:23, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tom Cruise

Hello there someone keeps adding that Tom Cruise is 5'9" when in reality he isn't 5'9" he's 5'7", I either keep removing it or changing it to 5'7" 159.14.184.11 (talk) 14:50, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I've removed it as it's not pertinent, Height should only be used where it's relevant (ie if they're a model), Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 15:49, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template

Hey there! Can I use your template for counting redirect pages? 🪐 Haumeon the Adventurer 🪐 16:57, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Haumeon, Thanks for asking - I would ask that you didn't purely because there's various issues with it I've yet to fix, You can always use {{User active}} and {{User humility}}, The date that's listed there doesn't work either, Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 17:12, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, ok. Thanks. 🪐 Haumeon the Adventurer 🪐 17:13, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Akiva

Hello, could you wikify my article Akiva, into more simplified English?--Alon9393 (talk) 13:45, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Unfortunately I've tagged it for deletion as it doesn't meet our WP:NMUSIC or WP:GNG guidelines, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 13:59, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This Hassan Yazdani also has no notoriety and still exists--Alon9393 (talk) 14:12, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That person is notable, please see en:Hassan Yazdani, the article here just needs updating,

Also @Alon9393 in case you weren't aware the article won't be deleted for another 7 days yet so you're more than welcome to continue sourcing it and or heading to the RFD and stating why it should be kept, Many thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 14:18, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-34

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature news

Editors who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a new sub-referencing feature. You can read more about the project and how to test the prototype.
Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for: DynamicPageList, Kartographer, Phonos, RSS, Score, WikiHiero. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements. [9]
Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the categories property of mw.title objects. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements. [10][11]

Bugs status

Your help is needed to check if any pages need to be moved or deleted. A maintenance script was run to clean up unreachable pages (due to Unicode issues or introduction of new namespaces/namespace aliases). The script tried to find appropriate names for the pages (e.g. by following the Unicode changes or by moving pages whose titles on Wikipedia start with Talk:WP: so that their titles start with Wikipedia talk:), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them to Special:PrefixIndex/T195546/ instead. Your community should check if any pages are listed there, and move them to the correct titles, or delete them if they are no longer needed. A full log (including pages for which appropriate names could be found) is available in phab:P67388.
Editors who volunteer as mentors to newcomers on their wiki are once again able to access lists of potential mentees who they can connect with to offer help and guidance. This functionality was restored thanks to a bug fix. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

The application deadline for the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has been extended to September 16. Members will help by providing advice to Foundation Product and Technology leadership on short and long term plans, on complex strategic problems, and help to get feedback from more contributors and technical communities. Selected members should expect to spend roughly 5 hours per month for the Council, during the one year pilot. Please consider applying, and spread the word to volunteers you think would make a positive contribution to the committee.

Learn more

The 2024 Coolest Tool Awards were awarded at Wikimania, in seven categories. For example, one award went to the ISA Tool, used for adding structured data to files on Commons, which was recently improved during the Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon. You can see video demonstrations of each tool at the awards page. Congratulations to this year's recipients, and thank you to all tool creators and maintainers.
The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available, and includes some highlights from Wikimania, an upcoming Language community meeting, and other news from the movement.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:54, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User:Davey2010/script

How do you use scripts? Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 12:11, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Cactusisme what do you mean how do I use scripts ?, Do you mean how do you install them ?... –Davey2010^Talk 12:20, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Davey2010 Yeah Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 12:23, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well you've been installing them at your common.js page so not sure why you're asking me for....., Have a great day. –Davey2010^Talk 12:28, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

But it does not seem to be working. Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 12:31, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The redlinked ones at User:Davey2010/script wont work because they've not been installed here, bluelinked ones work though, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 12:34, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, okay Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 12:37, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cactusisme Sorry, I thought you had the scripts installed but have just seen you've added Ohconfucius instead which is why they don't work - I've updated User:Davey2010/script which now tells you how to install them, Sorry for removing your post I was confused as how you wanted them installed as assumed you already did have them installed but I see not so apologies for that,

Does the update page make sense ? if not I can edit it ?, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 13:07, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I will take a look later,tl thanks Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 22:28, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Cactusisme okay no worries, if you have trouble understanding it or have trouble installing them please let me know, Many thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 22:54, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, I am at school right now so maybe like in 6 hours Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 23:04, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

sure no worries, thanks –Davey2010^Talk 00:20, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It way better now. Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 07:30, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Cactusisme Brilliant thanks for the feedback :) and again i sincerely apologise for being rude to you and for deleting your post, Happy editing, Many thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 11:19, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No problem Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 11:25, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

August 2024

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to make helpful changes to Wikipedia. However, some of your changes, like those to "Talk:Main Page", did not seem to be helpful and have been reverted or removed. If you want to try out changing Wikipedia to learn more about how it works, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Auntof6 (talk) 20:08, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Auntof6 There is nothing "unhelpful" about my comment, I'm entitled to my comment as is anyone else on this project. Please don't abuse rollback either. Thank you. –Davey2010^Talk 21:13, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-35

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature news

Administrators can now test the temporary accounts feature on test2wiki. This was done to allow cross-wiki testing of temporary accounts, for when temporary accounts switch between projects. The feature was enabled on testwiki a few weeks ago. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Temporary Accounts is a project to create a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors which are no longer made public. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page.
Later this week, editors at wikis that use FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") may notice that the indicators at the top of articles have changed. This change makes the system more consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface. [12]

Bugs status

Editors who use the 2010 wikitext editor, and use the Character Insert buttons, will no longer experience problems with the buttons adding content into the edit-summary instead of the edit-window. You can read more about that, and 26 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

Please review and vote on Focus Areas, which are groups of wishes that share a problem. Focus Areas were created for the newly reopened Community Wishlist, which is now open year-round for submissions. The first batch of focus areas are specific to moderator workflows, around welcoming newcomers, minimizing repetitive tasks, and prioritizing tasks. Once volunteers have reviewed and voted on focus areas, the Foundation will then review and select focus areas for prioritization.
Do you have a project and are willing to provide a three (3) month mentorship for an intern? Outreachy is a twice a year program for people to participate in a paid internship that will start in December 2024 and end in early March 2025, and they need mentors and projects to work on. Projects can be focused on coding or non-coding (design, documentation, translation, research). See the Outreachy page for more details, and a list of past projects since 2013.

Learn more

If you're curious about the product and technology improvements made by the Wikimedia Foundation last year, read this recent highlights summary on Diff.
To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
- Community Configuration - Shaping On-Wiki Functionality Together (55 mins) - about the Community Configuration project.
- Future of MediaWiki. A sustainable platform to support a collaborative user base and billions of page views (30 mins) - an overview for both technical and non technical audiences, covering some of the challenges and open questions, related to the platform evolution, stewardship and developer experiences research.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:33, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Spongebob cast members

Thanks for fixing List of SpongeBob SquarePants cast members. I withdrew the RfD and closed it. 2607:F140:6000:802A:543D:8FF4:E1DA:2530 (talk) 21:58, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @2607:F140:6000:802A:543D:8FF4:E1DA:2530, No worries, Thank you for nominating it for deletion which in turn made me spot the rather embarrassing error I made, Had it not been for you I wouldn't have been none the wiser so thank you for bringing it to my attention! :), Happy editing, Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 22:15, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Check your Agar.io

i am added This notice "Wait" to speedy undelete it Ігнат Лостюк (talk) 16:20, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(Noting for historical purposes I've replied at Talk:Agar.io as well as the users talkpage) –Davey2010^Talk 18:31, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Type locality

It may be relevant that my draft User:Darkfrog24/Type locality (biology) is now the article Type (biology). Feel free to wreak your arts on it. Darkfrog24 (talk) 00:27, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah I think I found that out eventually, You're more than welcome to QD it yourself but I have no issues with it sitting there, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 10:22, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Flood flag

Hi there, thanks for removing the short description templates. How many pages do you have left to go through? It's flooding the recent changes and I thought I'd give you the flood flag if you still have more left. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 13:05, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Fehufanga, Oops sorry I had forgot about that - There's a time limit so although I'm done WPC is still sending the edits, I'd say there's anywhere between 30-60 articles left to save, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 13:11, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose the remaining ones are fine to do without the flood flag then. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 13:13, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay no worries, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 13:15, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-36

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can read more about this project update and help to test the charts.

Feature news

Editors who use the Special:UnusedTemplates page can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements. [13]
Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, will now be reminded to add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header. You can read more about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now. [14]
Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with the new dropdown menu.

Project updates

A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia's APIs has been published on Meta-Wiki. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the proposed update’s talk page until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.

Learn more

To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
- Charts, the successor of Graphs - A secure and extensible tool for data visualization (25 mins) – about the above-mentioned Charts project.
- State of Language Technology and Onboarding at Wikimedia (90 mins) – about some of the language tools that support Wikimedia sites, such as Content/Section Translation, MinT, and LanguageConverter; also the current state and future of languages onboarding. [15]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:07, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Anachronistic" Categories

Hello @Davey2010, I need a secondary opinion about an issue. User:Gotitbro recently removed many categories from a number of articles, citing them as anachronistic in the edit summaries. Could you review these diffs and let me know if you find these categories problematic? I’d appreciate it. I don’t think User:Gotitbro wants to follow my advice and build consensus on the talk pages, and my continued reverts would only lead to edit warring. Here are the diffs: (Special:Diff/9750197, Special:Diff/9750186, Special:Diff/9750208, Special:Diff/9750209, Special:Diff/9750246, Special:Diff/9750250, Special:Diff/9750253, Special:Diff/9750257, Special:Diff/9750263, Special:Diff/9750276, Special:Diff/9750289 (Somehow Category:Monarchs of Afghanistan was left alone, but Pakistani monarchs was removed as "anachronistic"), Special:Diff/9750295, there are still lots more, as they spent a significant amount of time removing my contributions. – Cyber.Eyes.2005^Talk 14:07, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WP:Simple Talk would have been a better avenue rather than the canvassing a single editor. I have continued this discussion there. Gotitbro (talk) 14:34, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Cyber.Eyes.2005, Personally I would say no they're fine but maybe there's something here I'm missing or unaware of so agreeing with @Gotitbro it would be best to seek opinions on the Simple talkpage from people who know more about this subject than I do, Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 15:43, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you @Gotitbro for going to the talkpage, most editors would have a slanging match here and not do much else so I certainly appreciate you going to the talkpage, getting the ball rolling and trying to find a resolution so thank you again for doing that, Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 15:55, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-37

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature news

Starting this week, the standard syntax highlighter will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the help page. [16][17]
Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions entity:getSitelink() and mw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid) will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking. [18]

Project updates

Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [19]
Contributors of 11 Wikipedias, including English will have a new MOS namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning with MOS: (usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style) are not broken by Mooré Wikipedia (language code mos). [20]

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:53, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Templates with your name on them

Hi, Davey. I noticed that there are around a dozen or so templates in template space that start with your user name. You can see them at https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex?prefix=Davey2010&namespace=10.

I don't think we should have user-specific templates in the regular template space. If you still want these, could they be moved to your userspace? -- Auntof6 (talk) 08:19, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Auntof6, Many thanks for making me aware of these, Personally I don't see a problem with a few templates being in templatespace however I do agree as it stood it all looked messy (probably didn't need to create the doc pages tbh) but anyway I've moved them all over for now, Many thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 12:36, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much. -- Auntof6 (talk) 13:31, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome, Have a great day, Many thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 13:40, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Asking

Hello. I was wondering if my anger later in the Simple Talk thread "Anachronism" would ruin or spoil my track record and make administrators deny me userrights. Warm Regards, - 🪐●Hau meon 19:08, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Haumeon, I've said a lot worse and I still have userrights so you're fine! :), You're only judged on the relevent edits you make (so if you're applying for rollback you'll be judged on undo edits etc etc), You're entitled to your opinions and there's nothing wrong with a healthy debate now and again, You've not said anything bad in my book so you have nothing to worry about, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 19:15, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That's comforting. Thanks! Have a great day!

Also, while we are talking about rollback, do you think my articles are good enough quality for patroller if I make enough of them? 🪐●Hau meon 19:23, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Haumeon I would say they're okay, Regarding Contact binary star thought; Remember we use Related pages here not See also, Also you need to remove Ivanova2013 from the reference section as this reference isn't used, Thanks and have a great day too, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 19:56, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) @Haumeon: Just keep in mind that Davey would not be the one making the call about this stuff, since he's not an admin. -- Auntof6 (talk) 20:03, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I know. I was just checking if I was going on the right path or not. 🪐●Hau meon 20:05, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Personally I would say yes you are but yeah it's not down to me and admins may have different opinions, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 20:32, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah. They might say I don't have enough experience (I'm only a month old) or that I'm not trusted enough. 🪐●Hau meon 20:34, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly, Anyway happy editing, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 20:38, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-38

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Improvements and Maintenance

Editors interested in templates can help by reading the latest Wishlist focus area, Template recall and discovery, and share your feedback on the talkpage. This input helps the Community Tech team to decide the right technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue adding new wishes.
The new automated Special:NamespaceInfo page helps editors understand which namespaces exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements. [21]
References Check is a feature that encourages editors to add a citation when they add a new paragraph to a Wikipedia article. For a short time, the corresponding tag "Edit Check (references) activated" was erroneously being applied to some edits outside of the main namespace. This has been fixed. [22]
It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so can request a configuration change to display them in alphabetical order. [23]
Tool authors can now access ToolsDB's public databases from both Quarry and Superset. Those databases have always been accessible to every Toolforge user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now be queried from Quarry itself. This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL. You can read more about that, and 20 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes mw-message-box need to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use a global-search to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newer cdx-message group of classes as a replacement (see the relevant Codex documentation, and an example update), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best. [24]

Technical project updates

Next week, all Wikimedia wikis will be read-only for a few minutes. This will start on September 25 at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. This maintenance process also targets other services. The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible. [25]

Tech in depth

The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes details about: research about hook handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.
To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
- Hackathon Showcase (45 mins) - 19 short presentations by some of the Hackathon participants, describing some of the projects they worked on, such as automated testing of maintenance scripts, a video-cutting command line tool, and interface improvements for various tools. There are more details and links available in the Phabricator task.
- Co-Creating a Sustainable Future for the Toolforge Ecosystem (40 mins) - a roundtable discussion for tool-maintainers, users, and supporters of Toolforge about how to make the platform sustainable and how to evaluate the tools available there.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:03, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Closing RFD Requests

Hi, I'm Magniolioideae (just that I lost the password for it). Are non-admins able to close RFD requests when the week is up? Astera🪻 ^talk ^edits 15:59, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) Asteradeae, only admins should close RfD requests, even in keep cases. There isn't much harm in closing RfDs say when an admin has forgot to close it after quick deletion, but determining the consensus on RfD should be up to administrators to deal with. The most recent discussion about this was at Wikipedia:Simple talk/Archive 150#Bring back WP:NAC. --Ferien (talk) 16:04, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ferien Okay. Thank you. Astera🪻 ^talk ^edits 16:06, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Asteradeae, Keeps/Deletes should always be closed by admins however regarding the closure of RFDs where the admin has forgotten; Truth be told I don't know, @Ferien says it's fine, Other admins say it isn't,

The exact same is applied with warning vandals, some admins block on sight, others expect you to go through the warning cycle for each vandal after a block,

There's so much conflicting information on here all thanks to... yeah I'll leave it there, Sorry I couldn't be of any more help, Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 17:28, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Davey2010 It's fine, thanks for your help. @Ferien Thank you for your help. Astera🪻 ^talk ^edits 18:21, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

RedWarn

You use redwarn too? Is there an error message saying "Cannot load rule database" for you? (This is Haumeon, I changed my name) ☀ Solar X☀ 19:35, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Haumeon, I do and nope no error messages here, You may of installed something correctly somewhere?, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 19:37, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I installed RedWarn through user scripts. ☀ Solar X☀ 19:38, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Haumeon Ah yeah you can't install Redwarn that way unfortunately, You would need to create all of the relevant pages here which isn't easy tbh, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 19:44, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, ok.

Also regarding what happened two weeks ago, I heard you were removing shortdesc from many pages, enough to make an admin want to give you a flood flag. How did you find all those pages? I checked on Wikiproject Check Wikipedia and found nothing regarding this. ☀ Solar X☀ 19:47, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, They're at Category:Pages with short description, They're not on WPC and tbh you don't need WPC to remove it - I only use it because if I open a ton of Chrome tabs at once it slows my laptop down whereas tons of WPC windows doesn't affect it much, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 21:42, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Heights

People keep adding heights to people who aren't athletes or models 98.115.58.61 (talk) 17:16, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I know I keep routinely removing these too, Unfortunately I'm not an admin so limited as to what I can do, If you're reverting the same person then report them to WP:VIP, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 17:18, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm removing it also 98.115.58.61 (talk) 17:26, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) I've just gone and blocked an IP range that has done this to many articles, that should counter the problem, but there seem to be a few different IPs doing it. I've reverted the ones that were easy to rollback all of, going to try and have a look at the articles properly later tonight. --Ferien (talk) 17:28, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Heights should be mentioned if the person is either an athlete or a model otherwise it shouldn't be mentioned 98.115.58.61 (talk) 17:31, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for your help @Ferien it's always greatly appreciated :),

98 - You're correct - Of course height may be included if there's notability around their height (which in this case there isn't) but yeah If they're not a model or athlete then no - heights don't need to be used, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 17:42, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-39

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday September 25 at 15:00 UTC. Reading the wikis will not be interrupted, but editing will be paused. These twice-yearly processes allow WMF's site reliability engineering teams to remain prepared to keep the wikis functioning even in the event of a major interruption to one of our data centers.

Updates for editors

Editors who use the iOS Wikipedia app in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or Chinese, may see the Alt Text suggested-edit experiment after editing an article, or completing a suggested edit using "Add an image". Alt-text helps people with visual impairments to read Wikipedia articles. The team aims to learn if adding alt-text to images is a task that editors can be successful with. Please share any feedback on the discussion page.
The Codex color palette has been updated with new and revised colors for the MediaWiki user interfaces. The most noticeable changes for editors include updates for: dark mode colors for Links and for quiet Buttons (progressive and destructive), visited Link colors for both light and dark modes, and background colors for system-messages in both light and dark modes.
It is now possible to include clickable wikilinks and external links inside code blocks. This includes links that are used within <syntaxhighlight> tags and on code pages (JavaScript, CSS, Scribunto and Sanitized CSS). Uses of template syntax {{…}} are also linked to the template page. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [26]
Two bugs were fixed in the GlobalVanishRequest system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message. [27][28]
View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

From Wikimedia Enterprise:
- The API now enables 5,000 on-demand API requests per month and twice-monthly HTML snapshots freely (gratis and libre). More information on the updates and also improvements to the software development kits (SDK) are explained on the project's blog post. While Wikimedia Enterprise APIs are designed for high-volume commercial reusers, this change enables many more community use-cases to be built on the service too.
- The Snapshot API (html dumps) have added beta Structured Contents endpoints (blog post on that) as well as released two beta datasets (English and French Wikipedia) from that endpoint to Hugging Face for public use and feedback (blog post on that). These pre-parsed data sets enable new options for researchers, developers, and data scientists to use and study the content.

In depth

The Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) is used to get answers to questions using the Wikidata data set. As Wikidata grows, we had to make a major architectural change so that WDQS could remain performant. As part of the WDQS Graph Split project, we have new SPARQL endpoints available for serving the "scholarly" and "main" subgraphs of Wikidata. The query.wikidata.org endpoint will continue to serve the full Wikidata graph until March 2025. After this date, it will only serve the main graph. For more information, please see the announcement on Wikidata.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:37, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Davey2010

Just a note, I nominated you for adminship. Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 12:54, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Cactusisme, I wished you had asked me first because I have no desire to be an admin, I much prefer being a normal editor, Thanks though I appreciate the kind gesture, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 12:57, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

range for VIP report

Hi Davey, I looked at the IP range that would cover the IPs who've kept making the disruptive edits on Bus, Truck etc. The smallest range to contain all the IP addresses appears to be a /38 range which is too wide for a IPv6 block. If the issue gets worse, please feel free to request semi-protection for the pages in question. Thanks, --Ferien (talk) 16:25, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ferien, Ah okay no worries, Yeah I certainly wouldn't want random people being caught up in the block, I just spotted the similarities at the last minute so chucked it in there just in case lol, Thanks for your message, Take care, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 16:32, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

observation

Not that it's necessarily my business, but I noticed in dealing with the QD request on your userpage: the top template on RfDs is just {{archive top}} substituted, with the corresponding {{archive bottom}}, if that's helpful at all :) --Ferien (talk) 22:00, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Ferien, Oh ..... okay thank you for letting me know lol, Because it uses the "did/did not succeed" category I just assumed it was some sort of template or script that did this, Never once thought it was the atop/abot templates so thank you so much!,

Alls I need to do now is buy a keyboard with the | symbol and then I can finally get rid of the box altogether :), Thanks again for letting know about the rfd template much appreciated :), Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 22:39, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No problem :) The category comes from the deleted/kept templates, btw --Ferien (talk) 06:30, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ooo never knew that either :O, Thanks for letting me know that's very kind of you :), Also @Ferien could I be a pain and ask that User talk:Davey2010/Discography be moved back to User talk:Davey2010/DiscographyCodes please? (the redirect can be deleted),

Thanks again for the insightful knowledge :), Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 16:58, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done, happy to help :) --Ferien (talk) 17:00, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ferien You my friend are amazing thank you again :), Take care, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 17:03, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-40

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

Readers of 42 more wikis can now use Dark Mode. If the option is not yet available for logged-out users of your wiki, this is likely because many templates do not yet display well in Dark Mode. Please use the night-mode-checker tool if you are interested in helping to reduce the number of issues. The recommendations page provides guidance on this. Dark Mode is enabled on additional wikis once per month.
Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor as their default can access features from the 2017 wikitext editor by adding ?veaction=editsource to the URL. If you would like to enable the 2017 wikitext editor as your default, it can be set in your preferences. [29]
For logged-out readers using the Vector 2022 skin, the "donate" link has been moved from a collapsible menu next to the content area into a more prominent top menu, next to "Create an account". This restores the link to the level of prominence it had in the Vector 2010 skin. Learn more about the changes related to donor experiences. [30]
The CampaignEvents extension provides tools for organizers to more easily manage events, communicate with participants, and promote their events on the wikis. The extension has been enabled on Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, and Meta-Wiki. Chinese Wikipedia has decided to enable the extension, and discussions on the extension are in progress on Spanish Wikipedia and on Wikidata. To learn how to enable the extension on your wiki, you can visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-Wiki.
View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

Developers with an account on Wikitech-wiki should check if any action is required for their accounts. The wiki is being changed to use the single-user-login (SUL) system, and other configuration changes. This change will help reduce the overall complexity for the weekly software updates across all our wikis.

In depth

The server switch was completed successfully last week with a read-only time of only 2 minutes 46 seconds. This periodic process makes sure that engineers can switch data centers and keep all of the wikis available for readers, even if there are major technical issues. It also gives engineers a chance to do maintenance and upgrades on systems that normally run 24 hours a day, and often helps to reveal weaknesses in the infrastructure. The process involves dozens of software services and hundreds of hardware servers, and requires multiple teams working together. Work over the past few years has reduced the time from 17 minutes down to 2–3 minutes. [31]

Meetings and events

October 4–6: WikiIndaba Conference's Hackathon in Johannesburg, South Africa
November 4–6: MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 in Vienna, Austria

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:20, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

re: blanking

Point taken. In future, I will avoid it in cases where it's not strictly necessary. Even though it does technically apply here, it also got me into a big dispute with another editor, and ultimately it isn't worth unnecessary disputes just to follow that guideline. Thanks, --Ferien (talk) 18:15, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Ferien, It's unfortunately one of those policies that in cases like this suck for everyone,

When the user blanks their talkpage - the redwarn preview box for their talkpage is blank - so when you come to warn them again in 2 weeks/2 months time you have the impression that the user has never been warned and so anyone may start from Level 1 instead of from whatever warning they last received or final warning, that and I felt the user was only blanking to further disrupt the project,

Anyway I don't blame you personally as at the end of the day you were doing what policy says is fine and basically you were "doing your job" so to speak so I don't blame you or have any issue with you,

You're more than welcome to continue as as I said you were doing what is basically correct,

As I said the message left to you was honestly accidental - I wasn't happy sure but I then remembered BLANKING and felt it just wasn't worth complaining over,

In short you're good :), Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 20:51, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-41

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

Communities can now request installation of Automoderator on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can read details about the necessary steps for installation and configuration. [32]

Updates for editors

Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now customize their articles suggestion list from 41 filtering options when using the tool. This topic-based article suggestion feature makes it easy for translators to self-discover relevant articles based on their area of interest and translate them. You can try it with your mobile device. [33]
View all 12 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

It is now possible for <syntaxhighlight> code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if the copy=1 attribute is set on the tag. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [34]
Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. [35]
Later this month, temporary accounts will be rolled out on several pilot wikis. The final list of the wikis will be published in the second half of the month. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 11 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available.
Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools Gerrit and GitLab to address ongoing issues caused by malicious traffic and scraping. Clients that open too many concurrent connections will be restricted for a few minutes. This rate limiting is managed through nftables firewall rules. For more details, see Wikitech's pages on Firewall, GitLab limits and Gerrit operations.
Five new wikis have been created:
- a Wikipedia in Komering (w:kge:) [36]
- a Wikipedia in Mooré (m:mos:) [37]
- a Wiktionary in Madurese (wikt:mad:) [38]
- a Wikiquote in Gorontalo (q:gor:) [39]
- a Wikinews in Shan (n:shn:) [40]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:43, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Invited

Template:Diddy Party Invitation

DaNoteman (talk) ^contribs 15:11, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@DaNoteman, 10/10 for creativity sir. Shame you can't put all of that time and energy into articles here instead of goofing around :) –Davey2010^Talk 15:15, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-42

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is starting to be removed. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. A first set of wikis are being contacted. These wikis are invited to stop using Flow, and to move all Flow boards to sub-pages, as archives. At these wikis, a script will move all Flow pages that aren't a sub-page to a sub-page automatically, starting on 22 October 2024. On 28 October 2024, all Flow boards at these wikis will be set in read-only mode. [41][42]
WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A change last week on over 30 languages makes it easier to find words with accents and other diacritics. This applies to both full-text search and to types of advanced search such as the hastemplate and incategory keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available. [43]
View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, EditCheck was installed at Russian Wikipedia, and fixes were made for some missing user interface styles.

Updates for technical contributors

Editors who use the Toolforge tool Earwig's Copyright Violation Detector will now be required to log in with their Wikimedia account before running checks using the "search engine" option. This change is needed to help prevent external bots from misusing the system. Thanks to Chlod for these improvements. [44]
Phabricator users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. Sending email to Phabricator has been fixed. [45]
Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a <bdi> element, to make our HTML output more aligned with Web standards. More changes like this will be coming in future weeks. This change might break some tools that rely on the previous HTML structure of the interface. Note that relying on the HTML structure of the interface is not recommended and might break at any time. [46]

In depth

The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes: updates on Wikimedia's authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, updates on Parser Unification and MathML rollout, and more.
The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition include: research about improving topic suggestions related to countries, improvements to PHPUnit tests, and more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:21, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Short description

when did short description end? I seem to been short a while ago fr33k man 17:06, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Fr33kman, Sorry was never notified of your message and didn't spot it earlier - I don't think Short description has ever been a thing here, Think it's just used on the English Wikipedia only, Thanks –Davey2010^Talk 18:27, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) Hello, Fr33kman ☺️ (and hello Davey ☺️)! Judging by the template and its documentation history, it was never a thing. They imported it here in 2018 and blanked it in the same year. According to the doc, it doesn't work here. I think they blanked it instead of deleting it to easily spot copy-pasted content from enwiki. I saw an admin talking about this, but I am only 95% sure. Have a nice day or night ☀️🌙 ✩ Dream Indigo ✩ 20:26, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

They deactivated it in 2019, not 2018, I am sorry! It was commented out on 22 Jan 2019. I am on mobile and I can only open a tab at the time, so I had to rely on my memory (who failed). ✩ Dream Indigo ✩ 20:32, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Dream Indigo☺️, Thanks for your insightful reply, I had to no idea a discussion was even had here (or long forgotten it!), I know short desc was created because Google results for articles were showing very offensive vandalism, Not really sure why we don't use it considering WikiData items can still be vandalised, Anyway thanks and you have a nice day or night too :), Take care, –Davey2010^Talk 20:40, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I played archeologist and read some random Simple Talk Archives, that's where I found out I think. Back then I didn't even know Simple English was a thing. Kinda sad how they resorted to this template instead of protecting WikiData itself, which is useful to all Wikipedias, but I am a Wikidata lover, so… I am biased 😁 Jokes aside, it might have been a cache problem: it's quicker to clean up something on English Wikipedia than to wait for the description to purge itself. Also, enwiki has the most editors. I don't know how many editors Simple English Wikipedia and Wikidata have. Anyway, if you want to know the truth, you should ask the admin who commented it out, I am sure he remembers the actual reason. Have an amazing night, ciao ciao! ✨⭐️🌟💫 ✩ Dream Indigo ✩ 20:59, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree it is a shame but I guess WikiData couldn't be protected because of the whole "IPs have to be allowed to edit" mantra, Exactly enwiki has a lot more editors so any vandalism there is instantly seen and reverted, Anyway thanks and you have a great day/night too, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 21:24, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that must be it. Thank you and no problem ☺️ ✩ Dream Indigo ✩ 09:19, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry

I'm sorry for calling you "worthless"

If it matters, then I do that because my vocabulary is very small. I didn't actually mean it. W;ChangingUsername (talk) 02:34, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@W;ChangingUsername Thanks for your apology, Have a great day, Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 11:59, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Electra-Afikim

Hello,

I changed the categories on Electra-Afikim because that one didn't exist. If we have 3 articles about bus companies we can make a category for them. Thanks. 2603:3005:902:5E00:E8DC:F279:19C1:1783 (talk) 18:41, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like you undid your edit at the same moment as I left this message! It's all good now. 2603:3005:902:5E00:E8DC:F279:19C1:1783 (talk) 18:42, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @2603:3005:902:5E00:E8DC:F279:19C1:1783, Yeah sorry I didn't realise the category didn't exist, Thanks for your contributions, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 18:45, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Enviro400MMC discussion

Hi, I just thought I'd add one more note, that primary references are ok but need to be used with caution. w:en:WP:RSPRIMARY explains this well - in this instance we are just referring to a simple fact, that the product launched in 2014. Secondary references are preferable but for this it is fairly uncontroversial so not an issue here as that was the one easiest to find. Perhaps it could be replaced with a secondary reference when one can be located. Thanks, --Ferien (talk) 18:27, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Okie dokie I'll try to remember that in future, Thanks for your helpful reply and help here, Many thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 19:08, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-43

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

The Mobile Apps team has released an update to the iOS app's navigation, and it is now available in the latest App store version. The team added a new Profile menu that allows for easy access to editor features like Notifications and Watchlist from the Article view, and brings the "Donate" button into a more accessible place for users who are reading an article. This is the first phase of a larger planned navigation refresh to help the iOS app transition from a primarily reader-focused app, to an app that fully supports reading and editing. The Wikimedia Foundation has added more editing features and support for on-wiki communication based on volunteer requests in recent years.

Updates for editors

Wikipedia readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with some early ideas on potential features that recommend articles for further reading, automatically summarize articles, and improve search functionality. For more details and to stay updated, check out the Web team's Content Discovery Experiments page and subscribe to their newsletter.
Later this month, logged-out editors of these 12 wikis will start to have temporary accounts created. The list may slightly change - some wikis may be removed but none will be added. Temporary account is a new type of user account. It enhances the logged-out editors' privacy and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 12 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available. Read more about the deployment plan across all wikis.
View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the South Ndebele, Pannonian Rusyn, Obolo, Iban and Tai Nüa Wikipedia languages were created last week. [47][48][49][50][51]
It is now possible to create functions on Wikifunctions using Wikidata lexemes, through the new Wikidata lexeme type launched last week. When you go to one of these functions, the user interface provides a lexeme selector that helps you pick a lexeme from Wikidata that matches the word you type. After hitting run, your selected lexeme is retrieved from Wikidata, transformed into a Wikidata lexeme type, and passed into the selected function. Read more about this in the latest Wikifunctions newsletter.

Updates for technical contributors

Users of the Wikimedia sites can now format dates more easily in different languages with the new {{#timef:…}} parser function. For example, {{#timef:now|date|en}} will show as "25 April 2025". Previously, {{#time:…}} could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation. #timef (or #timefl for local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta. [52][53]
Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language using {{USERLANGUAGE}} instead of using {{int:lang}}. [54]
The Product and Tech Advisory Council (PTAC) now has its pilot members with representation across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. They will work to address the Movement Strategy's Technology Council initiative of having a co-defined and more resilient technological platform. [55]

In depth

The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: an upcoming Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module, new Community Configuration options, and details on new projects.
The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official partner of the CVE program, which is an international effort to catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This partnership will allow the Security Team to instantly publish common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) records that are affecting MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins, along with any other code the Foundation is a steward of.
The Community Wishlist is now testing machine translations for Wishlist content. Volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content.

Meetings and events

24 October - Wiki Education Speaker Series Webinar - Open Source Tech: Building the Wiki Education Dashboard, featuring Wikimedia interns and a Web developer in the panel.
20–22 December 2024 - Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024 in Odisha, India. A hackathon for community members, including developers, designers and content editors, to build technical solutions that improve contributors' experiences.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:52, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Teaǃ

Asteralee has given you a cup of tea! Spread WikiLove by giving someone else some tea, whether it is someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.

Give someone a cup of tea by adding {{subst:Wikitea}} to someone's talk page along a nice message!

Aster🪻 ^talk ^edits 18:50, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the tea :), Happy editing, Thanks –Davey2010^Talk 18:54, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-44

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

Later in November, the Charts extension will be deployed to the test wikis in order to help identify and fix any issue. A security review is underway to then enable deployment to pilot wikis for broader testing. You can read the October project update and see the latest documentation and examples on Beta Wikipedia.
View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pediapress.com, an external service that creates books from Wikipedia, can now use Wikimedia Maps to include existing pre-rendered infobox map images in their printed books on Wikipedia. [56]

Updates for technical contributors

Wikis can use the Guided Tour extension to help newcomers understand how to edit. The Guided Tours extension now works with dark mode. Guided Tour maintainers can check their tours to see that nothing looks odd. They can also set emitTransitionOnStep to true to fix an old bug. They can use the new flag allowAutomaticBack to avoid back-buttons they don't want. [57]
Administrators in the Wikimedia projects who use the Nuke Extension will notice that mass deletions done with this tool have the "Nuke" tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. [58]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:56, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

i thought Wikipedia is an open space for volunteers to improve an article. Why did you add the deletion tag Spaceteez (talk) 13:12, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Because the subject isn't notable, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 13:16, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Vanguardngr is a notable newspaper in Nigeria Spaceteez (talk) 13:20, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

https://www.thehistory.co.za/damo-k-damokillababy-biography-career-state-of-origin-songs-net-worth/ is your average biography-songs-net worth spam site and isn't a reliable source so cannot be used
https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/07/30/damo-k-i-am-my-biggest-inspiration/ - Not sure if this is a paid advertisement but looks to be okay
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/09/i-started-my-music-career-from-church-bhadboi-turner-singer/ is a trivial mention and on its own cannot be used.

–Davey2010^Talk 13:26, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

the vanguardngr was an interview with Damo K Spaceteez (talk) 13:36, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

https://www.thehistory.co.za/damo-k-damokillababy-biography-career-state-of-origin-songs-net-worth/

This article was created in accordance to Vanguardngr. So it should be a reliable source. Spaceteez (talk) 13:38, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Vanguardngr is an interview with "Bhadboi Turner" and it states and I quote “I’m just myself and I don’t copy anyone’s style. I’m working on a couple of projects and I’ve got to work with Seyi Vibes, Damo K, Tobless, Kennyblaze, Waskido Frosh, Surelyboi and many more and these are hit tracks to watch out for,” he gushed. (emphasis mine)

So the Vanguard source is an interview with a different person and simply mentions Damo K, Vanguard is a reliable source however it's a trivial mention so cannot be used, If it was an interview with Damo himself then it would be fine to use, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 15:28, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Article deletion Inquiry

Hello Why did you request for the Deletion of the Page “Kefas Brand” the page is available on Wikipedia and it was sourced.

you may view the page below

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Kefas_Namisi

i simply recreated the same page since it’s the same platform Wikipedia.

what could have been the issue could you share it please

41.210.155.75 (talk) 16:10, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @41.210.155.75, Thanks for making me aware of it existing on the English Wikipedia, I did search on Google but there was nothing substantial and to be honest I only did a preview-search at enwiki but unbeknown to me "Kefas Brand" hasn't been created there so his article wouldn't show, (I was expecting his article to be under the same name at enwiki so didn't think to search his full name although had I actually searched for Kefas Brand his article would've come up), The one time I do a lazy preview-search and it comes back to bite me!, Anyway I've quickly deleted the RFD and have removed the RFD from the daily log, Thanks again, –Davey2010^Talk 16:28, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Again for your Revision im greatful its restored. 41.210.155.75 (talk) 19:02, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome, Happy editing, Thanks –Davey2010^Talk 19:32, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I’ve tried to add a short description of Ugandan actor but I can’t seem to could you assist with that 41.210.155.75 (talk) 19:54, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What do you mean a short description? If you mean {{short description}} then we don't use that template here, Thanks –Davey2010^Talk 20:00, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Understood so how do you add Article description like Cristiano Ronaldo [under

it “Portuguese Footballer” ] 41.210.155.75 (talk) 20:12, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You don't as thats what {{Short description}} is :), Thanks –Davey2010^Talk 20:18, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We don't have article descriptions here, Thanks –Davey2010^Talk 20:18, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Understood Thanks I’ve learned a lot from you today thanks for sharing 41.210.155.75 (talk) 20:23, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome, Happy editing:), Cheers –Davey2010^Talk 20:44, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Dave I have updated this Article could you remove the Update Notice on it

Here is the article “https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ruhakana_Rugunda&wprov=rarw1” Idrisskunle (talk) 09:36, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Idrisskunle, What notice do you mean ?, To my knowledge there is no notice ?, Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 12:30, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think the notice stated about updating information which I did I can see the notice though Idrisskunle (talk) 12:40, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed it I hope it doesn’t affect Anything Check through the edit history and review the edit. I’m saying so because I don’t want to mess up anything since I’m not yet a great editor but still learning Idrisskunle (talk) 12:44, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay no worries, Happy editing, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 13:06, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy anniversary!

You've been on Simple Wikipedia for 10 years, 10 months, and 10 days! Happy anniversary, and happy Halloween as well!! Contributor^118,784 Let's talk 10:58, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Contributor 118,784, Thanks so much, my editing here has been fits and starts so I technically probably haven't been here for 10 years per se but I'll take it thank you :),

It's also mad knowing I've made 19,302 edits this year alone - 19 thousand edits in 10 months! - I really need to get out more! :P, Anyway thanks again, Happy editing, –Davey2010^Talk 13:12, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy 10x10x10 anniversary, Davey! Thank you so much for your valued contributions to this Wikipedia and also for the good company! ✩ Dream Indigo ✩ 21:22, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Dream Indigo, Aww thank you so much and same to you Thank you for your valued contributions and thank you for your help here :), Always a pleasure seeing you :), Happy editing, Take care –Davey2010^Talk 21:50, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Take care, my friend :D <3 ✩ Dream Indigo ✩ 21:55, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Aww thank you you take care too friend :) –Davey2010^Talk 21:58, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with you guys too! And also Happy Halloween and 10x10x10! thetree284 (talk) 23:09, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks thetree284, Happy Halloween to you (and everyone else too), Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 23:14, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar 3

		The Special Barnstar
		Happy Halloween! thetree284 (talk) 23:21, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Tree, Happy Halloween :) –Davey2010^Talk 23:36, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Award

thetree284 has given you four cups of bubble tea! Spread WikiLove by giving someone else four cups of bubble tea, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.

Give someone four cups of bubble tea by adding {{subst:Bubble tea2}} to someone's talk page along a nice message!

thetree284 (talk) 18:32, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks @Thetree284 that's kind of you, Happy editing, Take care, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 16:07, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Username Violation

Hi @Davey2010, I found users with username violation because i found above with offensives words Raayaan9911 Talk to me! 16:00, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Raayaan9911, Account's been blocked here by an admin and I'm assuming Meta have already locked it, I've been told off before for reporting a locked account which don't show as locked my end so I'm simply assuming it's been spotted and locked already. If it hasn't been locked they have over 100+ projects to continue their vandalism at but that's not my problem, Not going to be disrespectfully shouted at again over something I cannot see with my own eyes so yeah you've done as much as you can as far as I'm concerned, Thanks. –Davey2010^Talk 16:07, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Davey2010 If you can't see them on Special:centralauth, it's locked and hidden (oversighted). Also, this one is old, @Raayaan9911 I recommend not digging them out unless quite serious.-- BRP^ever 16:11, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@BRPever and @Davey2010, thank you for blocking a users Raayaan9911 Talk to me! 16:15, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @BRPever, Okay thank you I'll try that in future first, I hadn't spotted this was an old name either so my bad, Thanks for the helpful link, Happy ediitng, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 16:19, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Suggestion

Hi, Davey! I was looking at your userpage and noticed the User:Davey2010/Userbox/Olympics userbox. You see, the black background ends before the French flag does (at least on my PC screen res) and I can't see the closing ceremony because the Super Bowl userbox covers it as soon as the black border ends. If you remove height:845px; from the Olympics userbox, the black border should automatically hug (forgot the correct word lmfao) the userbox very nicely, thus solving the problem. I really hope this doesn't come off as annoying, but I am the most annoying perfectionist, so yeah :D ✩ Dream Indigo ✩ 01:36, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you don't hate me already, you could also remove height:147px; from User:Davey2010/Userbox/LaurenMayberry and height:360px; from User:Davey2010/Userbox/Eurovision. Sadly, I have no way to test how your userpage will look after these three changes, but, if they work as I imagine, it will fix the overlap that's currently covering the bottom half of your userboxes. Take care, signed: an annoying ✩ Dream Indigo ✩ 01:55, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Dream Indigo, Yeah I've noticed they appear differently on different devices some they show fine and others half of it's cut off, I just assumed the div thing only worked on some devices, Lol hug that made me smile :), I didn't realise the heights automatically hugged the userbox,

Nooooo I could never hate you nor find you annoying! It's always nice seeing you pop up here :) Thanks so much for your helpful suggestions it's very much appreciated :), Take care, Have a lovely day, Thanks again, –Davey2010^Talk 12:17, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also forgot to say so sorry for reverting you, I somehow accidentally hit rollback instead of thanks 🤦‍♂️ so apologies for that, Thanks –Davey2010^Talk 12:21, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Aww I am very happy I made you smile :) It's always nice seeing you too :D And no worries about the accidental revert, you too have a lovely day, thank you! ✩ Dream Indigo ✩ 13:48, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Awww thank you thank you thank you :), Take care, –Davey2010^Talk 13:57, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

:) <3 ✩ Dream Indigo ✩ 14:06, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Inquiry

Hey Dave it’s me again I’m finding Truble adding an image to this Infobox maybe you could help show me how to here is the link “Identity School Of Acting” Idrisskunle (talk) 13:53, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Idrisskunle, Unfortunately the image doesn't show because it's being hosted on the English Wikipedia only - Images that are uploaded on the English Wikipedia only can't be reused on other projects, Only images uploaded on Commons can be reused on other Wikipedias, I hope this makes sense, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 14:31, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh yes understood that

Thanks once again for you guidance im greatful Idrisskunle (talk) 14:43, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You're very welcome Kunle, Happy editing, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 15:00, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Misery

IP refuses to read anything I say so closing –Davey2010^Talk 12:42, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further changes should be made to this discussion.

I'm serious someone took off 1990s Psychological horror categories from the Misery film article on Wikipedia just want it to be restored 152.86.164.35 (talk) 17:29, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Then sort it out on the English Wikipedia where the problem is?...., That editor doesn't even edit here any more so your message wouldn't be seen by them, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 17:34, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

English Wikipedia is difficult to understand 152.86.164.35 (talk) 17:35, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Many tried. 152.86.164.35 (talk) 17:35, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can't you do it you have experiences 152.86.164.35 (talk) 20:06, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You already did it thank you 152.86.164.35 (talk) 20:15, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @152.86.164.35, Please accept my apologies for the tone of my reply above - I didn't read your message there and just assumed you were complaining over an enwiki problem, I had checked the edit and wasn't happy so reverted as you noted above :), Happy editing, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 21:49, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not change it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page, such as the current discussion page. No more changes should be made to this discussion.

Uh

There Is No Source That I Know Of I Used AI To Instantly Look Up Information Yummy Vegetables (talk) 11:57, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Yummy Vegetables, Your edits need to be backed up by wp:reliable sources, ~~Please don't use AI to add content here as that would be wp:copyright and you can get blocked indefinitely for that,~~ Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 12:14, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) @Davey2010: How would using AI be copyright? Doesn't AI generate original material based on input you give it? -- Auntof6 (talk) 12:51, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Auntof6, I don't know why but for some reason I thought ai results were taken off of various websites, I've searched the users quotes and none show up as copyright so no idea why I thought that, @Yummy Vegetables please ignore the copyright bit as that doesn't apply here, Sorry for giving out the wrong information, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 13:03, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

AI might amalgamate stuff from websites (I guess it has to get its knowledge somewhere), but it doesn't do anything like copy/paste as far as I know.

Have you seen the strange images and videos AI has generated? -- Auntof6 (talk) 14:57, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ahhhh I see, I've never used AI stuff so am utterly clueless with it,

I have - Just lately I've been seeing dog videos turned into AI ([62]) - horrifying is an understatement lol –Davey2010^Talk 15:26, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You Implied I could Restore The Information

Is It Really Preferable To Have Pitifully Short Articles? What A Shame. Yummy Vegetables (talk) 19:38, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Yummy Vegetables - AI or no AI you still need to provide reliable sources. We want real editors who write real things.... Not people who mass-dump ai generated shite everywhere and call those dumps "improvements". Thanks –Davey2010^Talk 19:44, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Between AI generated garbage and short articles I'll take short articles all day long. –Davey2010^Talk 19:45, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The AI Never Lies. Embrace The AI. Become One With The AI. Yummy Vegetables (talk) 19:47, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm good thanks Yummy vegetables:) –Davey2010^Talk 19:50, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I Did Add Citations Man

Took Information From The Big English Wikipedia Yummy Vegetables (talk) 20:05, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My bad thought it was more AI nonsense, Anything you copy from the English Wikipedia needs to be simplified, Thanks –Davey2010^Talk 20:38, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You Are Acting Like You Want Your Wiki To Remain Shriveled And Empty For Eternity. This Is What Will Happen If You Do Not Allow Simple Information Retrieval. Nobody Has The Time For "Intensive Research" Anymore. Yummy Vegetables (talk) 20:41, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"You Are Acting Like You Want Your Wiki To Remain Shriveled And Empty For Eternity" - Wrong, I just want someone who can expand articles without relying on AI, I want someone who can contribute to Simple without making a hash of it and causing disruption in the process.

"This Is What Will Happen If You Do Not Allow Simple Information Retrieval. Nobody Has The Time For "Intensive Research" Anymore. Bs, Hell will freeze over before AI will ever be accepted here.

If you don't have the time to do research then I would very respectfully suggest you find another hobby. The whole point of editing here is Researching, Expanding and Sourcing. If researching and sourcing are too much for you then yeah this place isn't for you. Thanks –Davey2010^Talk 20:48, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Prove Me Wrong, Then. Become The Paragon That Saves This Wiki From Certain Destruction. Yummy Vegetables (talk) 21:05, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's not me that needs to save anything, Save yourself and become an independent editor instead of relying on AI to do everything for you :) Save yourself. –Davey2010^Talk 21:31, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Train

Hi Davey2010,

Can you please look at LB&SCR Class E2 105 Thomas? I think it's a hoax, it's Thomas the Tank Engine... 131.109.225.17 (talk) 19:17, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @131.109.225.17, Thanks for the heads up, You were correct in your thinking :), I've tagged it as a hoax, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 19:22, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! 131.109.225.17 (talk) 19:23, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome, Happy editing 131, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 19:35, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Required Help

@Davey2010 hope you are doing great? The page has been previously deleted Oceanic International Yoga School Goa Which I have checked and has been deleted before but again and again it is published with new user.

Can you please look into this if I am not wrong Ksy 15:30, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Kuskrey, I'm great thanks hope you're doing great, I've RFD'd the article :), Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 15:45, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am also fine Thanks for asking And thank you for your help Ksy 15:49, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Kuskrey, That's great to hear, You're very welcome, Happy editing –Davey2010^Talk 16:08, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

November 2024

Hello, I am BZPN. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Alycia Debnam-Carey, but you did not provide a reliable source. It has been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you want to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need help with referencing, please see Wikipedia:Citing sources, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. BZPN (talk) 13:21, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) BZPN, doesn't this go against en:WP:DTTR? ⯎ Aster alee ⯎ 13:22, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Asteralee, why? Davey2010 did the same thing on my talk page, and it's not against any rule. BZPN (talk) 13:25, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@BZPN Templating the regulars aside, a citation is only absolutely necessary when there is material whose verifiability has been challenged, or material whose verifiability is likely to be challenged (en:Wikipedia:Verifiability). I doubt that filmographies are that contentious. It would be nice to have sources for the movies, but you really didn't need to throw the baby out with the bath water with this one by reverting the entire edit.

And to Davey, please tone down your edit summary. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 13:30, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

~~@Davey2010~~_{Sorry, I meant Fehufanga BZPN (talk) 14:02, 21 November 2024 (UTC)}, why are you quoting English Wikipedia? Our Wikipedia:Verifiability doesn't mention about such a thing, and it also says Verifiability is the key to becoming a reliable resource, so editors should cite credible sources so that their edits can be easily verified. The filmography may be questionable - following what you said, to check it, you need to, for example, look at the film's subtitles, and the films may not be available to everyone. The source of such information should be provided, as it is not obvious in any way. Have a nice day :). BZPN (talk) 13:50, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@BZPN You're replying to the wrong person. WP:FOLLOW is a guideline in this wiki. If enwiki is doing it, then it's probably for a good reason since they've been doing it for two decades over now. If you think that filmographies have to be fully sourced, then your time is better spent by finding sources for these sections rather than deleting them outright. Liv_Morgan, Kevin_Spacey, Coen_brothers, etc. And what about the English Wikipedia? en:Coen_brothers#Filmography. It is unfair to make later editors dig for sources to check your work, particularly when the initial content is questionable. Are filmographies that contentious? No. Are claims of scientific discoveries contentious? Very likely. Are allegations about living people contentious? Definitely. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 13:58, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Fehufanga, WP:FOLLOW does not say that enwiki rules override local rules. We have WP:Verifiability here and we should stick to it. Moreover, there is no mention anywhere that information about the filmography is not controversial (this is your opinion, I think differently), just as there is no mention that the filmography is obvious information for everyone (which of course it is not, it is not 2+2=4). Also, if I understand correctly, the quote It is unfair to make later editors dig for sources to check your work, particularly when the initial content is questionable refers to the user whose talk page we are on, not to me - I withdrew information whose reliability and verifiability readers might have doubts about. BZPN (talk) 14:33, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@BZPN Practices are policy. Our practice when we find unsourced content is to see whether the content is actually correct or not. Reverting at a sight of content without any actual effort is counterproductive. The steps at Wikipedia:Verifiability tells you how exactly to proceed with verifying the content. I don't think you need to follow exactly what it mentions, but at least some attempt to communicate or verify the content is necessary. This is clearly a case where you assumed bad faith from the start. I think Davey went a bit too far with the edit summary but I see a lot of error in the way you handled this situation.-- BRP^ever 14:54, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

First off BZPN I apologise for calling you a moron, that was not okay. I like to expand articles and I've never once been reverted for copypasting so to see me being reverted felt like I can't be trusted or that the information I've added must be fake. In an ideal world yes they should be sourced but as Fehufanga correctly points out Could you really not have done this yourself if you had such a huge problem with it ?, If I spot someone adding unsourced content that I believe could be fake I'll do the research and source where necessary.

I appreciate the onus is on me to source the content but I'm simply copying what's deemed to be acceptable content on the English Wikipedia over so surely you should be telling them to source it ...

Sourcing individual entries takes a lot of time and effort and it's not a 5 minute job (If you check my EN userpage you'll see my expansion edits have all been to source filmography tables but I certainly don't see why those at EN should be down to me to do which is why I sort of stopped and just do it occasionally).

The time and effort you've spent reverting me and templating me could've been far better spent on sourcing that very filmogrpahy table that you have a problem with.... Nonetheless none of that excuses my comment to you so I apologise for that, I'll do better going forward. Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 15:08, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I understand that you want to expand the articles - that is also my goal. However, I believe that any non-obvious information should have a source. As you said, I could have added sources myself, but I didn't have time for it at the time - I decided it would be better to remove unsourced information so as not to cause doubts for readers, rather than leaving it for an indefinite period of time. I have nothing more to say. I have no problem with anyone - my goal is only to ensure the reilability of the information :). Best regards, BZPN (talk) 15:26, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. I have already added sources to this content, I hope it helps. Have a nice day! BZPN (talk) 15:33, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly that's both our goals here - to expand and to give our readers knowledge, Thanks for sourcing but unfortunately IMDB can't be used as per en:WP:Citing Imdb - IMDB is user generated) (Sorry I didn't take any joy from removing them either but I cite Citing IMDB on EN so I can't just turn a blind eye here), Have a great day, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 15:44, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Filmweb is a relatively reliable source - although it is not scientific, it is not created by users/community. Filmweb acts as a news source written by the editorial staff (like other online newspapers). Users cannot edit Filmweb, except for the ability to write opinions (but separate from the content). BZPN (talk) 15:55, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh okay thank you I didn't realise it was written by editorial staff, I thought it was user generated, Thanks –Davey2010^Talk 16:29, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please Check

I have tagged one article Aleksei Pethkurov in QD but same publisher has removed the tagged with out giving any reason.

Can you please look into it if I am not wrong Ksy 08:41, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Kuskrey, The has since been deleted as A4 :), Have a great day, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 12:40, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted IP vandalism

Hello @Davey2010, Thank you for reverting me IP's Vandalism Message in my user talk page Raayaan9911 Talk to me! 11:54, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Raayaan9911, You're very welcome, Happy editing Raayaan :), Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 12:44, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome Raayaan9911 Talk to me! 12:46, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-48

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

A new version of the standard wikitext editor-mode syntax highlighter will be available as a beta feature later this week. This brings many new features and bug fixes, including right-to-left support, template folding, autocompletion, and an improved search panel. You can learn more on the help page.
The 2010 wikitext editor now supports common keyboard shortcuts such Ctrl+B for bold and Ctrl+I for italics. A full list of all six shortcuts is available. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. [71]
Starting November 28, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: bswiki, elwiki, euwiki, fawiki, fiwiki, frwikiquote, frwikisource, frwikiversity, frwikivoyage, idwiki, lvwiki, plwiki, ptwiki, urwiki, viwikisource, zhwikisource. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF).
View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a user creating a new AbuseFilter can now only set the filter to "protected" if it includes a protected variable.

Updates for technical contributors

The CodeEditor, which can be used in JavaScript, CSS, JSON, and Lua pages, now offers live autocompletion. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. The feature can be temporarily disabled on a page by pressing Ctrl+, and un-selecting "Live Autocompletion".
Tool-maintainers who use the Graphite system for tracking metrics, need to migrate to the newer Prometheus system. They can check this dashboard and the list in the Description of the task T350592 to see if their tools are listed, and they should claim metrics and dashboards connected to their tools. They can then disable or migrate all existing metrics by following the instructions in the task. The Graphite service will become read-only in April. [72]
The New PreProcessor parser performance report has been fixed to give an accurate count for the number of Wikibase entities accessed. It had previously been resetting after 400 entities. [73]

Meetings and events

A Language community meeting will take place November 29 at 16:00 UTC. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Mooré Wikipedia, the language support track at Wiki Indaba, and a report from the Wayuunaiki community on their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community over the last 3 years. This meeting will be in English and will also have Spanish interpretation.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:42, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Citroën Berlingo

Hello. The word other is not the best in this situation, because it suggests connections between these models and Citroen (if you know better ones, you can replace them). "Other models" must be separated from the 3rd generation with a separate heading so as not to suggest connections with Citroen. BZPN (talk) 17:26, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I can't think of any better word hence settling with other, I'll mess around with it later thanks –Davey2010^Talk 18:21, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @BZPN, Many thanks for patiently waiting, Would you say this is better?, I know it's repetitive but I've kept the "x by X" in so it doesn't sound like Citroen make the van under those names, You're more than welcome to change the article and improve it, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 20:09, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, this is much better. Thank you for taking care of this :). Best regards, BZPN (talk) 20:31, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @BZPN, You're welcome and thanks again for patiently waiting it really is greatly appreciated :), Enjoy the rest of your day/evening, Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 20:36, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-49

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

Two new parser functions were added this week. The {{#interwikilink}} function adds an interwiki link and the {{#interlanguagelink}} function adds an interlanguage link. These parser functions are useful on wikis where namespaces conflict with interwiki prefixes. For example, links beginning with MOS: on English Wikipedia conflict with the mos language code prefix of Mooré Wikipedia.
Starting this week, Wikimedia wikis no longer support connections using old RSA-based HTTPS certificates, specifically rsa-2048. This change is to improve security for all users. Some older, unsupported browser or smartphone devices will be unable to connect; Instead, they will display a connectivity error. See the HTTPS Browser Recommendations page for more-detailed information. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [74]
Starting December 16, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: arwiki, cawiki, frwiki, mediawikiwiki, orwiki, wawiki, wawiktionary, wikidatawiki, zhwiki. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF). [75]
This month the Chart extension was deployed to production and is now available on Commons and Testwiki. With the security review complete, pilot wiki deployment is expected to start in the first week of December. You can see a working version on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug with the "Download as PDF" system was fixed. [76]

Updates for technical contributors

In late February, temporary accounts will be rolled out on at least 10 large wikis. This deployment will have a significant effect on the community-maintained code. This is about Toolforge tools, bots, gadgets, and user scripts that use IP address data or that are available for logged-out users. The Trust and Safety Product team wants to identify this code, monitor it, and assist in updating it ahead of the deployment to minimize disruption to workflows. The team asks technical editors and volunteer developers to help identify such tools by adding them to this list. In addition, review the updated documentation to learn how to adjust the tools. Join the discussions on the project talk page or in the dedicated thread on the Wikimedia Community Discord server (in English) for support and to share feedback.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:23, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Holidays!

Hello Davey2010: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it is occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, ⯎ Aster alee ⯎ 22:46, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

⯎ Aster alee ⯎ 22:46, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Asteralee, Thank you so much for your lovely greeting, I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy and Healthy New Year,

Where has the year gone though ?, 30/29 days left until 2025 :O, I aint ready for Christmas and I'm not ready for 2025 lol, Just feels like I've blinked and 2024 has gone straight by, Anyway hope you all have a lovely Crimbo and New Year :), Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 23:45, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Awww! Thank you very much! 2024 has gone by fast :) ⯎ Aster alee ⯎ 23:53, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome, I know too fast! :), –Davey2010^Talk 00:25, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Kirpan

Hey, thanks a lot! Now, the article has a first sentence that is clear. 2001:2020:309:EA48:8548:8C38:3F:D6BC (talk) 06:33, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @2001:2020:309:EA48:8548:8C38:3F:D6BC, You're very welcome :), Happy editing, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 11:50, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-50

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

Technical documentation contributors can find updated resources, and new ways to connect with each other and the Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team, at the Documentation hub on MediaWiki.org. This page links to: resources for writing and improving documentation, a new #wikimedia-techdocs IRC channel on libera.chat, a listing of past and upcoming documentation events, and ways to request a documentation consultation or review. If you have any feedback or ideas for improvements to the documentation ecosystem, please contact the Technical Documentation Team.

Updates for editors

Later this week, Edit Check will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. Edit check is the feature for new editors to help them follow policies and guidelines. This layout change creates space to present people with new Checks that appear while they are typing. The initial results show newcomers encountering Edit Check are 2.2 times more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is not reverted.
The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "All collection" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the <page-collection> </page-collection> tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to the step-by-step guide. [77]
The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has a multiselect filter for namespace selection. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion.
The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements. [78]
The Editing Team is working on making it easier to populate citations from archive.org using the Citoid tool, the auto-filled citation generator. They are asking communities to add two parameters preemptively, archiveUrl and archiveDate, within the TemplateData for each citation template using Citoid. You can see an example of a change in a template, and a list of all relevant templates. [79]
One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Indonesian (voy:id:) [80]
Last week, all wikis had problems serving pages to logged-in users and some logged-out users for 30–45 minutes. This was caused by a database problem, and investigation is ongoing. [81]
View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug in the Add Link feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases. [82][83]

Updates for technical contributors

Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, now has an early-stage implementation in PHP. It is available for general use in MediaWiki extensions and Toolforge apps through Composer, with use in MediaWiki core coming soon. More information is available in the documentation. Thanks to Doğu for the inspiration and many contributions to the library. [84]
Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. On December 4, the MediaWiki Interfaces team began rerouting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content endpoints on testwiki from RESTbase to comparable MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The team encourages active users of these endpoints to verify their tool's behavior on testwiki and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket before the end of the year, as they intend to roll out the same change across all Wikimedia projects in early January. These changes are part of the work to replace the outdated RESTBase system.
The 2024 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 3 January 2025, and has an associated privacy statement.
There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [85]

Meetings and events

The next meeting in the series of Wikimedia Foundation discussions with the Wikimedia Commons community will take place on December 12 at 8:00 UTC and at 16:00 UTC. The topic of this call is new media and new contributors. Contributors from all wikis are welcome to attend.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:16, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the thanks! :)

{{subst:currentuser}} has given you a cookie! Cookies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. You can spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a cookie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.

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☆ Adelaides lement8723 ☆ 13:47, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Adelaideslement8723 You're welcome, Thanks for the cookies :), Happy editing, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 14:30, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What do you think?

Hello, I've seen you writing about buses a lot, but I don't know if you're interested in cars or only buses. If you are interested, Luxury car starts with "A luxury car is a type of car that gives a feeling of comfort and luxury in travel but relatively less than a luxury lorry and luxury bus." That doesn't sound right to me, how about you? Also, it lists many car companies, some of which are not known for their luxury cars in particular. If you're interested in editing this, please go ahead. Otherwise I may remove some of this. Depextual (talk) 17:26, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Depextual, I agree that version made no sense and I believe the rest was vandalism (Citroen are a lot of things but luxurious isn't one of them) so I've reverted, I'll expand it later tonight, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 20:41, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your help! Depextual (talk) 20:41, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No worries thanks for the heads up, Thanks –Davey2010^Talk 20:42, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Short description

Hi! I see you've created a load of articles on English locations. Just to note that the short description template is also being copied across which leaves a message on each one. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 23:01, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

~~:Hi @Lee Vilenski, Don't worry there is a method to my madness :), Once I've created them all I'll be heading to Simple talk and asking for the shortdesc to be removed with AWB,~~

It's a slog creating these as it is and removing the shortdesc individually slows this already boring process down even more so I figured it would be better to just ask at Simple talk as soon as I'm done :), Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 23:24, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done - These aren't on one page so I have no idea why I thought my idea would work?, Anyway removed them, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 00:04, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

perhaps we should change the template so it shows an error only on hidden mode. It already adds it to a cleanup category.

Not sure it makes sense for it to show an error message above an article. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 00:15, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Lee Vilenski, I disagree, Having it as it is makes people inclined to remove it and actually since I've added that text a lot more people are removing it upon article creation so it's working as intended, Also I had taken the text from {{Portal}} as that's obviously not used here either, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 01:11, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-51

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Weekly highlight

Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? The CampaignEvents extension offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit the deployment status page.

Updates for editors

Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in Italy and Mexico on the Italian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias, can see a personalized Year in Review with insights based on their reading and editing history.
Users of the Android Wikipedia App in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can see the new Rabbit Holes feature. This feature shows a suggested search term in the Search bar based on the current article being viewed, and a suggested reading list generated from the user’s last two visited articles.
The global reminder bot is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. See the technical details page for more information.
The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 13 January 2025 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the Android Wikipedia App which had caused translatable SVG images to show the wrong language when they were tapped.

Updates for technical contributors

There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January. [86]

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:25, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Holidays!

Hello Davey2010: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it is occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, ⯎ Aster alee ⯎ 22:46, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

⯎ Aster alee ⯎ 22:46, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Asteralee, Thank you so much for your lovely greeting, I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy and Healthy New Year,

Where has the year gone though ?, 30/29 days left until 2025 :O, I aint ready for Christmas and I'm not ready for 2025 lol, Just feels like I've blinked and 2024 has gone straight by, Anyway hope you all have a lovely Crimbo and New Year :), Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 23:45, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Awww! Thank you very much! 2024 has gone by fast :) ⯎ Aster alee ⯎ 23:53, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome, I know too fast! :), –Davey2010^Talk 00:25, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas!

BZPN (talk) is wishing you a Merry Christmas!

This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!

Spread the Christmas cheer by adding {{subst:Xmas3}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

BZPN (talk) 17:40, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @BZPN, Thanks so much, I hope you and yours have a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy and Healthy New Year, Take care, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 19:54, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Have a jolly, jolly Christmas!

Brioche23 (talk) is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!

Spread the cheer by adding {{subst:Xmas2}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Brioche23 (talk) 23:36, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Brioche23, Thanks so much for your lovely greeting, I hope you and yours have a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy and Healthy New Year, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 23:44, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Answer to your question

Reason why I have two accounts is that, Incase I lose the password to my main one, I have a backup one just in case. I hope this answers your question. And yes I am highly aware of WP:SOCK Jayden Johnson 2314 (talk) 00:39, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Jayden Johnson 2314, If you were highly aware of SOCK you wouldn't have created this account :), Please stick to one account otherwise I'll just report you for socking and you'll be blocked on both accounts, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 00:41, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, I don't to be reported or be blocked again... I'll stick to my main for now. Thanks! Jayden Johnson 2314 (talk) 00:44, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay brilliant thank you, Happy editing, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 00:46, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Remember to have an email address tide to your account. If you do forget the password, you can follow the directions at Help:Reset password to reset the password. Then you don't need to have two accounts (and what happens if you also forget the password to the second account...). Ravensfire (talk) 20:01, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for reporting Adelaideslement and one other. Being honest, I’d seen the bad history of their socks on enwiki and decided to let it go. I just reported both on SRG for LTA. Thanks again! ⯎ Aster alee ⯎ 03:42, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Asteralee, You're welcome, Thanks for the thanks :), I'll be honest despite their socking on Enwiki I probably would've let it slide putting it down to a silly mistake (I'm perhaps too naïve for my own good) but their reply about how they've learnt their lesson on Enwiki made me think they were just taking the p*ss and It wasn't something I could just ignore (Like how can you say "I've learned not to sock" but under the same breath you're creating a whole new account seemingly for no reason?🤣, make it make sense ffs lol),

As of writing this I've not checked the CU page but from experience SRG haven't actioned my previous sock reports seemingly because I'm not believed ... so I use the CU page here as evidence, Anyway thanks for reporting the idiots to SRG it's much appreciated, Take care and stay safe, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 15:50, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As of now, the SRG hasn't completed the action (idk if they're ignoring me or smth), surprisingly they have completed actions on the newer requests, so I'm still waiting...

As of the CU page, Eptalon closed the request, and Adelaide + the one other aren't blocked/locked yet, and so, Adelaide restored their user page and has continued editing. Have a lovely rest of your week, see ya! ⯎ Aster alee ⯎ 16:11, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Asteralee, That's exactly what I've been facing there too - Ignored but newer requests actioned, I really did expect to log in today to see the CU request actioned, accounts blocked, .... the norm ..... but nope nearly a whole day later we are no better off than we were yesterday night!. Hows that make any sort of sense ?, Thanks and you have a lovely week too, Take care, D x –Davey2010^Talk 18:53, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wishing a merry christmas for you

Hello i am here to wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year! Good luck with your contributions and i hope everything good happens to you in the next year best regards! 179.109.143.159 (talk) 18:29, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks 179 and likewise I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year, Thanks, Warm regards, –Davey2010^Talk 18:54, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WikiBirthday!

Hello again! Despite what is going on with Adelaide, I would like to wish you a happy WikiBirthday! Nice work on Wikimedia, friend :) ⯎ Aster alee ⯎ 20:13, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Asteralee Thanks so much, I'll be honest I've long forgotten the date I signed up here, I thought you were wishing me a Happy Birthday and I was confused as to why as 22 October has long sailed haha, All of this idiocy today has made me lose every braincell I had icl. Anyway thanks again :), Take care, –Davey2010^Talk 22:19, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm late to the party :( Sorry Davey for not saying anything yesterday! I put 8 October as your WikiBirthday on my calendar, so I forgot the Simple Wiki one. Also, lately I've been focusing more on the Italian Wikipedia, which means that I haven't been as active here and I feel a little guilty when all of my edits of the day are on talk pages lmfao (will be more active here soon, promised). So Happy SimpleWikiBirthday!!! 😊🎉 ✩ Dream Indigo ✩ 00:42, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Dream Indigo, Aww noo you've got nothing to be sorry for - Until Asteralee told me I had no idea haha, I've missed seeing you everywhere to be honest, Anyway thanks so much :D, Take care and enjoy Italy Wikipedia :P, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 01:06, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Awww that's so sweet of you! Be careful not to call it the Italy Wikipedia though, or the Swiss might get mad and change their minds about neutrality (really bad joke I know, that's what studying History instead of editing – then failing the exam – does to someone lol). ✩ Dream Indigo ✩ 01:21, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Dream Indigo Hahahaha awwww I shouldn't laugh but the end bit to your comment made me laugh out loud, I had no idea Italian was spoken outside of Italy lol, –Davey2010^Talk 01:37, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, they speak Italian in Ticino, Switzerland, and in some other small countries like San Marino (as an official language or not). Wikipedia is about sharing knowledge after all :D Btw I wanted to make you laugh :P so everything's fine (as long as it isn't the professor laughing, then I'm crying lol). ✩ Dream Indigo ✩ 01:47, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh wow, you learn something new everyday :), It is 110%, Hahaha awwww, Sorry about the exam too, As asterlee says things will get better and things take time :) –Davey2010^Talk 02:09, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Dream Indigo Sorry about the exam; things will go better (I’m still laughing tho lol, sorry). Thanks for all the facts, and lets all hope your professor isn’t laughing too :P ⯎ Aster alee ⯎ 01:50, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Asteralee: Aww thanks! No worries, he doesn't even know my face, I didn't exactly "fail", I just gave up beforehand and ran away. Some might call it a "cowardly move", but I prefer a "strategic retreat", kind of like the one Stalin pulled on the Italians (See? I studied!). Anyway, I went offwiki too much tonight, so see you around. As promised, I'll be back to normal (and actually constructive) editing soon. Have an amazing day and night! ✩ Dream Indigo ✩ 02:08, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Dream Indigo Studying really gets you somewhere doesn’t it? If only I could get myself to do the same...

Bye, have a lovely rest of your day; take care, both of you! ⯎ Aster alee ⯎ 02:13, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wishing a happy WikiBirthday to you

hello again happy WikiBirthday to you! good luck with your contribuitions and again best regards! 179.109.143.159 (talk) 22:06, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks 179, Thank you for your conribs here and I wish you all the best. Take care and stay safe, –Davey2010^Talk 22:19, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Explaining what i do on simple english Wikipedia

hello again the reason i am here on simple english Wikipedia is to create car articles and car brands articles because i want this wikipedia to have more automobile articles and also i create articles using the engilsh wikipedia articles as base but i put different words and also i add sources and again i am the same person contribuiting here and the same person who wished you merry christmas and a happy new year and wikibirthday but my ip frequently changes but this dosent bother me as i am more comfortable being anonymous anyways i hope you understand that and again merry christmas and a happy new year to you hope everything good happens to you in the next year and best regards! 179.109.143.151 (talk) 02:06, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi 179, Thanks so much and likewise I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year, Thanks, Warm regards, –Davey2010^Talk 12:03, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Technical problems during article creation

Hello again,

My IP is different, but I am still the same person contributing here. And i am dont have mutiple accounts its just my ip that changes I was working on creating the article for the Hyundai Alcazar, but the internet was very slow, and the CAPTCHA did not load properly. So, I copied the text to avoid losing it and restarted my phone. Since i only use a phone to create articles and it is in google go because its more easier to me However, after restarting, I lost my work, and I felt a little disappointed by that.

And again thanks for your contributions, and good luck with your editing.

Best regards!

179.109.143.218 (talk) 19:56, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi 179, Sorry to hear that, Just a suggestion have you ever thought of using an online notepad (IE something like https://www.rapidtables.com/tools/notepad.html) ?, You can save your work during or after too, –Davey2010^Talk 20:21, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi davey2010

Thank you for your suggestion! I prefer using Google Go for editing because it’s easier for me, and I’m still dont know how to use different tools. But I appreciate your understanding!

As for the Hyundai Alcazar article, unfortunately, I lost my previous work. Could you possibly help by creating the article? If you do, please add a "Market" section. Like for example The Hyundai Alcazar is primarily sold in India, but it’s also available in Mexico under the name Hyundai Creta Grand and in South Africa as Hyundai Grand Creta. Please keep it simplified if possible.

Thanks again for your contributions and help. I really appreciate it!

Best regards. 179.109.143.218 (talk) 20:39, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi 179, You're more than welcome to try creating the article again or like I say saving your work elsewhere offline/online first so you don't lose what you've created, Unfortunately I've still got things to do myself without creating articles for other people, I appreciate your understanding, With Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 21:19, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

no problem bro! i will focus on creating another car and car brands articles best regards! 179.109.143.218 (talk) 21:22, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okie dokie Happy editing my friend, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 23:47, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

thanks! Good luck with your contribuitions on buses articles and also expanding car articles see you later and best regards! 179.109.143.218 (talk) 01:05, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks 179, Enjoy the festive period, Take care, Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 01:07, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas, Davey! I got some pandolce (lit. sweetbread) for you! It's a typical Christmas Genoese dessert, that's why it's called a Genoa cake in English. I'm from Liguria, so I hope you like it! And if you don't, more cake for me lol. Have the best holidays! ✩ Dream Indigo ✩ 01:12, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Dream Indigo, Aww thanks so much for your lovely greeting, That looks really really nice, I want to try some now :D, Thank you so much and I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy and Healthy New Year :), Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 01:18, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you :) I wish the same to you :D ✩ Dream Indigo ✩ 01:25, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome and thank you so much :D –Davey2010^Talk 01:32, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Taking a break from making articles

Hello again i am taking a 2 day break for making car brands and car articles because its too hard for me and also i will keep editing car articles and the newest article i created is the M-Hero article which is a brand of Dongfeng anyways good luck with your contribuitions best regards and merry christmas and a happy new year!. 179.109.143.218 (talk) 20:40, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello 179, Okay no worries, I'm taking a break too as would rather spend time with my loved ones than creating articles here, Enjoy the festive period friend, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year my friend, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 22:57, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A change you made on Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas

Thank you for pasting the cast list of Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas from the English Wikipedia article. Hope you have a nice day! 5.180.207.80 (talk) 12:16, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @5.180.207.80, No worries, I'm not quite sure how I managed to paste the wrong list though .... but anyway no worries, Thank you for providing a source for your edits it's much appreciated, Thanks and I hope you have a nice day too, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 12:38, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Opnion on car articles

hello again i returned from my break and anyways i have a question what do you think about simple english wikipedia having more car and car brand articles? i think its great to see this wikipedia having more car and car brand articles what do you think about this? let me know!

Thank you for your contribuitions best regards! 179.109.143.218 (talk) 18:59, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi 179, Yes this is great, You don't need to keep leaving me messages though :), Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 19:47, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

i understand sorry and anyways good luck with your contribuitions best regards! 179.109.143.218 (talk) 21:41, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I apologise if I come across rude I just dislike constant talkpage messages that's all it's nothing personal, Anyway thanks, good luck and happy editing 179, Take care, Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 22:33, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

no problem! Its apologised take care stay safe and good luck with your contribuitions best regards! 179.109.143.218 (talk) 22:55, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Flooding RC

Hiya! Do you need the flood flag? fr33k man 02:51, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've gone ahead and given you the flood flag. It'll expire in one hour. :) fr33k man 02:57, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Fr33kman, Ah damn - you just asked as I finished :), Apologies for flooding RC, previous requests have either been declined or no admins have been so I just crack on with it now lol, Anyway It's 3am and I need sleep :), Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 03:01, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I'll turn it off. In the future email me with what time you want to start and I'll turn it on for you. Email pings my phone so I can do it from anywhere at any time. G'nite fr33k man 03:05, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey @Fr33kman, Okay brilliant thank you I'll email you in future :), Thanks again for your help and for initially granting it it's much appreciated, Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 13:06, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why you closed the move request on WP:AN?

I don't think you needed to "close" that request as not done. It seemed like there was support for movig the page. Griffinofwales generally supported it and Lee mainly said "there should be a discussion" and he didn't seem to have a strong opinion. Your opinion counts as much as anybody else's! 2601:644:907E:A70:7547:7317:E4F6:13E0 (talk) 17:00, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I apologize if this message sounds rude, I'm not trying to tell you what to do, just comment on the situation. I sometimes have trouble conveying tone in written communication. 2601:644:907E:A70:7547:7317:E4F6:13E0 (talk) 17:03, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi 2601, Unfortunately I've been here long enough to know how this plays out and it would've been closed as "not done" with myself being told to start a requested move, From previous experience I know the moment someone comments on a request that request is then not actioned,

I don't have trouble conveying tone in written communication, I just know when discussions will be a waste of time and I knew it would've dragged on for a week and then yeah someone would've closed it as not done,

Not to be rude (and I apologise if I come across as arrogant that's not my intention) but it wasn't up for debate - if I wanted a 2 week discussion on it I would've gone to Simple Talk.... But yeah it is what it is and as I said I've been on WMF long enough to know how this plays out and I know 110% it wouldn't be in my favour,

Thanks for your message and you wasn't rude either - I appreciate the feedback so thank you, Enjoy the rest of the festive period, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 18:25, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) Hi Davey! Apologies for jumping in. I understand the frustration with many of the processes & discussions on Wikipedia, it can unnecessarily hold up actual progress. While consensus-building is an important part of our project, it should not get in the way of being BOLD and making changes (after all, the undo button exists for a reason!). Personally, my focus on Wikipedia has always been on the administrative side of the wiki, and as I begin trying to become more active on the project, one of my main goals is to move discussions and processes along with actions or resolutions so that something is decided (even if that something is taking no action).

There may be times where you and I disagree, but in the end, you and I are on the same team, trying to make Wikipedia a better place for readers and editors alike. For this 7 and i move, I encourage you to be BOLD and move forward with action, and I'll work in the future to try to get discussions resolved with decisions quicker.

That being said, I am busy in my personal life, so if there is some discussion that just needs someone to say yes or no to, please poke me on my talk page, email me, or poke me on IRC (I'm on IRC anytime I'm on project) and I'll respond to the discussion with my opinion.

Thanks for all your work on the wiki and happy new year! Griff (talk) 19:04, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Griffinofwales, Exactly my friend we're all here to improve the encyclopedia for our readers,

Unfortunately I can't be bold as I can't physically move the page so shy of starting an RFA my only option is to make requests,

I could moan about why it's not controversial and how we literally follow each and every Enwiki policy, guideline and title names but I won't get far ant to be fair I'd be moaning at the wrong person anyway :),

Anyway happy editing, Thanks, Warm Regards –Davey2010^Talk 20:44, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Italian

Hi :) Hope you're having a great evening. I saw this change of yours and I wanted to tell you that that's actually 100% Italian (source: fidati di me, fra). Feel free to remove this message once you've read it! Signed, your Italian friend who was very surprised to be suddenly reading Italian on simple, also known as ✩ Dream Indigo ✩ 01:38, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Dream Indigo, Haha I was having a great evening until I saw your message :P, I genuinely want to cry right now!, In my defence I was busy but still .... how do I translate English to Italian and not even realise it! :'(,

This is me right now!, I'm genuinely lost for words for once!,

Anyway thank you for pointing out that really stupid mistake of mine much appreciated, Poor editor probably doesn't even know if they're coming or going lol,

It wouldn't be a normal Davey day if something didn't go wrong or backfire lol, Anyway yeah I'm having a great evening ty I hope you are too :), Thanks again, –Davey2010^Talk 02:11, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the good laugh ahahah the gif is hilarious. Yeah they must be so confused, but maybe they had a good laugh too XD Jokes apart, mistakes like this happen all the time, no worries! And yes, it took me almost 40 minutes to write this short reply because I originally wrote something else, then I changed my mind, but I forgot what I wanted to say. So yeah I gave up trying to remember :/ Good night! ✩ Dream Indigo ✩ 02:49, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Haha no worries :D, Haha I hope so, Haha these sort of mistakes only happen to me :P. Awww okay no worries :), Enjoy the rest of your day/evening/night :D, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 11:58, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tulisa and enwiki

Hi Davey2010,

I saw you said on the Tulisa page that it needs to follow the enwiki style, but seeing as all the sources on here are sourced and only pop and R&B are on her English page, surely, that one would need to match this one too? Satinpurple (talk) 14:32, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Satin, Articles here should follow enwiki, If you have a problem then you'd need to take your concerns to enwiki, It makes no sense having one project showing one thing and another project showing another, I appreciate you've taken the time to source these but imho this should still follow en,

You're more than welcome to go to WP:Simple talk and seek other peoples opinions on this as I may be wrong, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 15:25, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Then why isn’t enwiki including the other genres as well? Just doesn’t make any sense Satinpurple (talk) 15:35, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well you'd need to ask Enwiki, If they're accepted then they can be accepted here, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 15:36, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]