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Happy editing! Bobby Cohn (talk) 20:52, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Marmalade

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Marmalade you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of David Eppstein -- David Eppstein (talk) 19:43, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. Floating Orb (talk) 19:44, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Marmalade

The article Marmalade you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Marmalade for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of David Eppstein -- David Eppstein (talk) 21:22, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Jay Moorman for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Jay Moorman is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jay Moorman until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

Bakhtar40 (talk) 08:37, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, delete it. Floating Orb (talk) 01:38, 7 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Bakhtar40 can you please delete it? Floating Orb (talk) 18:24, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I know it isn't notable. Floating Orb (talk) 18:25, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Floating Orb, in future, you can follow the instructions given at WP:G7 to speedily delete any of your own pages. — Anonymous 20:59, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. I thought at first it was good, but once I knew it wasn't notable I wanted it deleted. Floating Orb Talk! ^{my edits} 21:00, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Marmalade

The article Marmalade you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Marmalade for comments about the article, and Talk:Marmalade/GA2 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:10, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Bean GAN

Hi, this GAN has been running for quite a few weeks now, and it's moving very slowly. One week is the typical expected duration. I'll be away from my desk from the 17th so it'd be nice to get it closed out before then. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:28, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. Floating Orb (talk) 16:03, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is a test

How does my signature look now? Floating Orb 01:17, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Now? Floating Orb 01:19, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Now? Floating Orb 01:20, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

HD Floating Orb 01:20, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

u {{SUBST:darkred|[[User:Floating Orb|Floating Orb]]}} (talk) 01:21, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

u {{darkred|[[User:Floating Orb|Floating Orb]]}} {{tq|[[User Talk:Floating Orb|Let's talk!]]}} (talk) 01:22, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

j {{darkred|[[User:Floating Orb|Floating Orb]]}} {{tq|[[User Talk:Floating Orb|Let's talk!]]}} (talk) 01:22, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

u Floating Orb 01:23, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Now! Yay! Floating Orb Let's talk! 01:33, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Cool. Floating Orb Let's talk! 01:35, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Award

		The Bio-star
		Thank you very much for getting Marmalade to GA! Excellent work. GraziePrego (talk) 05:51, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Floating Orb Let's talk! 14:42, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Destubathon runs until the 16th of July

Hi, just a courtesy message to notify you in case you haven't seen the Wikipedia:The World Destubathon contest update in the last few days that we've decided to run the full month until the 16th of July. For those who have been too busy to contribute, we would love some help in reaching 4000 articles by Wednesday night! At present we're about 480 articles short!♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:35, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Marmalade FAC

My apologies for being so harsh in the review. Looking on the bright side, it's actually better to get it over with quickly than to have a review drag on for months. My recommendation would be to put this on a shelf for a couple of months, at which point you will be eligible for a WP:TWL account which will give you access to a vast array of additional research tools that will help you improve the article. Once you've done that, bring it to WP:Peer review for another look, and in particular make sure to link it into {{FAC peer review sidebar}} so it'll get special attention from people who are used to doing FAC reviews and will be able to give you better feedback. RoySmith (talk) 12:38, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I'll see what I can do until then, Floating Orb Talk! ^{my edits} 16:34, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Avoid Research Gate

Research Gate citations fail and flag red (bad ref) on a WP:RS-detector I use. Better to search the title for a) PubMed from which you can derive a PMID or PMC value to use in the citation (PMC is a full article function), or b) the URL of the original publisher, such as this source for the Liu ref in the marmalade article. Good luck! Zefr (talk) 18:59, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, okay! Thanks for letting me know, Floating Orb Talk! ^{my edits} 19:00, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What detector do you use? I would like to use it too, Floating Orb Talk! ^{my edits} 19:06, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Scripts to install by both Headbomb and N Linguae. Zefr (talk) 19:34, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thank you! Floating Orb Talk! ^{my edits} 23:39, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Zefr 03323357596 39.34.151.38 (talk) 18:40, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for Marmalade

Marmalade has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Laun chba ller 22:20, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is closed, Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Marmalade/1. Floating Orb Talk! ^{my edits} 22:16, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation link notification for October 29

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited John Linnell (painter), you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page British.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 07:54, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Shopping centers

I looked at a recent change in Shopping centers and found at least one error there. J.W. Marriott as the title of the referenced article does not have the form J.W._Marriott. No Wikipedia articles have that form as a title. The form causes a error. The problem may be in the script you used, but all changes should be checked for correctness.

I can not make the correction myself since that would accept your entire edit (I am a pending changes reviewer). Please check the full edit for correctness.

— Neonorange (talk to Phil) (he, they) 04:11, 1 December 2025 (UTC) —[reply]

By the way, your red popup is a bit ambiguous and/or does not cover all cases (I think). Unless you are experiencing user talk page unpleasantness, perhaps you could ditch that admonition. Your user talk page would be so much more welcoming. (my post is neither a complaint nor a question; just a heads up)

If you should ever want any help that I am competent to provide, please ask! — Neonorange (talk to Phil) (he, they) 04:21, 1 December 2025 (UTC) —[reply]

Hey, sorry @Neonorange. I never edited the page, unless if you see something different. Floating Orb Talk! ^{my edits} 04:57, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think you mean the shopping mall page. Floating Orb Talk! ^{my edits} 04:59, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think I fixed it, but I'm not sure. I just removed the underscores. Floating Orb Talk! ^{my edits} 05:06, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:Highland spring2

Was there a reason to ping me there? 45dogs (they/them) (talk page) 03:14, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There isn't a reason. Just that User:Highland spring2 keeps making seemingly disruptive to articles and I had to revert it too, Floating Orb Talk! ^{my edits} 03:20, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, twinkle functions like rollback, and allows you to warn users. I would recommend getting it, especially since I'm not sure your rollback request here will be accepted at this time.

I'm mostly of the opinion that rollback isn't too terribly useful. Twinkle and other anti vandalism tools like Ultraviolet and Redwarn accomplish the same thing. 45dogs (they/them) (talk page) 03:27, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, Floating Orb Talk! ^{my edits} 04:33, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2005 Valley City State Vikings football team

Hello Floating Orb,

I based the distribution of the image and logo on similar articles such as Colgate Raiders men's ice hockey and 1954 Missouri Tigers baseball team. What is different about this article that makes it unacceptable, apart from the unsubstantiated list of members? Sarge Graham (talk) 09:16, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I thought I added it back. Floating Orb Talk! ^{my edits} 20:32, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Pasco eSchool on Reward Board

Hi! I saw your request on the Reward Board and was wondering if I could move ahead with editing it--- if you have any preferences, please let me know. Magnesium Cube (talk) 21:37, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, @Magnesium Cube! You can start editing. I was thinking that you could improve the page ("by adding information, changing wording, prose quality fixes etc.") to surpass me in overall edit amount (or at least even it out a little). You can see that on the xtools.wmcloud.org page (I have 91.5% edits). Actually, the xtool is good for any article (if you haven't heard of it yet). About editing preferences, I'm thinking expanding the article would be good. Thank you! Floating Orb Talk! ^{my edits} 21:43, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Of course! (And Xtools is used regularly by me, hehehe). I'll start editing. Magnesium Cube (talk) 21:46, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sound's great! Floating Orb Talk! ^{my edits} 21:46, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Magnesium Cube, thank you for doing a copyedit! I think the article sounds a lot better now. I just also made a few edits. Floating Orb Talk! ^{my edits} 23:11, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Floating Orb Thanks! Not done, of course. I'll add any more information I can find. Magnesium Cube (talk) 02:42, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay! Floating Orb Talk! ^{my edits} 02:58, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Magnesium Cube, you have made some great edits to the Pasco eSchool page (the wording is a lot better). What are you planning to do next? Floating Orb Talk! ^{my edits} 02:42, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm currently doing research on the school and plan to add at least a few new paragraphs/sections. Magnesium Cube (talk) 03:17, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome! Floating Orb Talk! ^{my edits} 03:53, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Floating Orb Talk! ^{my edits} 03:53, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Floating Orb Hi! I tried to do all the research I could and added an Academic performance and a Controversies section, though I couldn't find a load of information online. If you want me to do anything else for Pasco eSchool, please tell me. You've already done so much that it was hard to improve it! For now, I think this is all I can do. Thank you for the working experience! Magnesium Cube (talk) 00:40, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for taking time to improve the page! The controversy section seems to have to do more with the district than the school itself. There is one controversy that I added in this edit that was removed some time ago. Maybe it could be added back. Floating Orb Talk! ^{my edits} 00:51, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I will try. Magnesium Cube (talk) 00:53, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Floating Orb I used the enrollment source by Tampa Bay Times, and added some other controversies. However, I didn't find the two first criticisms notable enough, so I didn't add them. Magnesium Cube (talk) 01:28, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the first ones were not notable. Thank you, Floating Orb Talk! ^{my edits} 01:28, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Magnesium Cube, I updated the three barnstars reward to four. Floating Orb Talk! ^{my edits} 03:17, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Revert

FYI. I have reverted your edit to Qadri Shattari. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section says you need not have to cite references in the lead section lf the summarised content in the lead is already cited somewhere else. Please keep this in mind. Tempdispacc (talk) 01:30, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I didn't notice it was in the lead. Okay, Floating Orb Talk! ^{my edits} 02:34, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Continuing Harv/Sfn cite error edits

I admire your editing zeal but you have recently created multiple problematic "(Year) in France" articles. They all had or have Harv/Sfn cite errors. You are adding Sfn cites without the necessary complete citations - such as cite book, cite web, etc. - for the Sfn cites to link to. One way to correct these types of errors is to substitute a complete citation for the errant Sfn cite, as I did for the article you created 1249 in France. Another way is to create a References section and list the complete citation there. As the Template:Sfn page states:

"The shortened footnote template {{sfn}} creates a short author–date citation in a footnote, with a one-directional link to the first matching citation template on the same page. It will combine identical footnotes automatically.

The {{sfn}} is designed to be used to create shortened footnotes, a citation style which pairs a short, author-date citation in a footnote with a complete citation in the references section at the end of the article ..."

Please refer to Template:Sfn and for the possible issues, refer to its subsection Template:Sfn#Possible issues for helps and instructions. The 2 most recent problem articles are 1271 in France and 1270 in France. Once you clear the errors your two articles will no longer be in Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors. - Shearonink (talk) 16:14, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, @Shearonink! I fixed it. The issue happened because I copied the references from the articles (like 1271 in France has the citation from the Philip III of France article) because they are reliable citations (also my articles are based off of the main topics anyway). I fixed it by copying the actual reference and not the sfn version. Thank you for letting me know about this! Floating Orb Talk! ^{my edits} 01:12, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Rollback granted

Hi Floating Orb. After reviewing your request, I have temporarily enabled rollback on your account until 2026-01-31. Please keep the following things in mind while using rollback:

Being granted rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle or Ultraviolet. It just adds a [rollback] button next to a page's latest live revision. It does not grant you any additional "status" on Wikipedia, nor does it change how Wikipedia policies apply to you.
Rollback should be used to revert clear and unambiguous cases of vandalism only. Never use rollback to revert good faith edits. For more information about when rollback is appropriate, see Wikipedia:Rollback § When to use rollback.
Rollback should never be used to edit war, and it should never be used in a content-related dispute to restore the page to your preferred revision. If rollback is abused or used for this purpose or any other inappropriate purpose, the permission will be revoked.
Use common sense. If you're not sure about something, ask!

I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, and feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into trouble or have any questions about appropriate use of rollback. If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. For information on rollback, see Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Rollback (even though you're not an admin) and Wikipedia:Rollback. Good luck and thanks! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:50, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:501(c)(5) nonprofit organizations

A tag has been placed on Category:501(c)(5) nonprofit organizations indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:57, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Liz, I contested it for now. I created the category because the new FBI Agents Association article was in it though the category didn't exist at the time. For some reason, the page has moved to the category 501(c)(6) nonprofit organizations so now my category is left blank. I don't know if the category I created should be deleted or we should find something to put in it. I imagine by this point Wikipedia covers another 501(c)(5) nonprofit organization somewhere. Floating Orb Talk! ^{my edits} 23:22, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know what should be done, I can just say that except for a small group of categories (category redirects, WikiProject categories, etc.), empty categories are deleted after 7 days of emptiness whether or not they are tagged. On the plus side, a category that is deleted simply for being empty can be recreated whenever it is needed unlike categories deleted through CFD. If you have any more questions about categories, please bring them to the Teahouse. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:38, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Just wanted to say thanks for the review and also wanted to mention a few things that might make your life easier in future reviews. User:SD0001/GAN-helper makes closing GANs super easy. User:Anne drew/Veracity makes a table for spot-checking sources. Also, when using one of the GAN review tables/lists, unless it says otherwise on the template page always use subst: at the start so that it will pop in all of the elements for you to fill out. And finally, when using the lists/tables they typically have a spot that says {{GAList/check| }}. In that spot you can use any of these inputs to make the symbols.

y, yes, pass, good, ok, k, +, aye all produce a pass symbol:
n, no, fail, bad, nk, -, nay all produce a fail symbol:
?, ??, ???, dunno, question, huh, idk all produce a question symbol:
wtf produces Wikipedia's "I am out of my comfort zone" symbol:
hold and on hold produce the on hold symbol:
neu, neutral and und produce the neutral symbol:
blank or no input produces the unassessed symbol

I really appreciate your time, I hope you have a happy holiday! Snuggle 📫 🖤 05:07, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thank you! Floating Orb Talk! ^{my edits} 05:18, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion

I suggest you to install the User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/GANReviewTool script so that you can close GA reviews more easily (and without any errors). Cheers, Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 21:49, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Floating Orb Talk! ^{my edits} 22:24, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]