User talk:GraziePrego
Welcome to the drive!
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S. Walter Englander
[edit]Hello, I've made iterative edits - mostly grammar and structure - to the S. Walter Englander article. I noticed you placed the copyedit tag last month. Can you let me know if it looks any better, or what you would suggest/recommend? Thank you greatly.
Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report
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Hello, GraziePrego!
I am a complete neophyte writing Wikipedia articles, but nevertheless have been trying to clean up, correct, and add to the article on CBS Laboratories, where I worked for several years. I have been adding to it bit by bit, but have just now been informed by a bot, apparently, about significant issues in my last changes.
After following all of the change pages, I now feel that I have understood what I am being asked to change, and why - hopefully you will agree.
Please let me know if I have missed any important items!
Appreciatively, Richard Johnson
Guild of Copy Editors April 2025 Newsletter
[edit]Guild of Copy Editors April 2025 Newsletter
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April music
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Thank you for improving article quality in April! - My story is about music that Bach and Picander gave the world 300 years (and 19 days) ago, - listen (on the conductor's birthday) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:35, 20 April 2025 (UTC)
I finally managed to upload the pics I meant for Easter, see places. - Also finally, I managed a FAC, Easter Oratorio. I wanted that on the main page for Easter Sunday, but no, twice. You are invited to join a discussion about what "On this day" means, day or date. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:54, 25 April 2025 (UTC)
Question from Àdex Remmy on Speed dating (12:29, 23 April 2025)
[edit]Hello am new here please how can I connect with the people that are looking for a black responsible person to marry with? --Àdex Remmy (talk) 12:29, 23 April 2025 (UTC)
- ????? Wikipedia is not a dating site. GraziePrego (talk) 14:33, 23 April 2025 (UTC)
Question from Breezygamer117 (05:29, 24 April 2025)
[edit]Quick question, is there a way to officially join a wikipedia project instead of just editing the page? I'm looking to join WP:FISH. Any info would be helpful, thanks! --Breezygamer117 (talk) 05:29, 24 April 2025 (UTC)
- The way to join is to add your name to the list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Fishes#Participants
- That's all you need to do to ofishially join :) Happy editing! GraziePrego (talk) 05:40, 24 April 2025 (UTC)
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Pomelo
[edit]I was browsing the rewards board when I saw there was one out for "citrus fruit GAs", after having coincidentally done a GA review for Pomelo, a citrus fruit. Anyway, @GraziePrego, I think you owe @Chiswick Chap a barnstar. Mrfoogles (talk) 22:23, 25 April 2025 (UTC)
- Oh lovely, thank you for pointing that out. :) GraziePrego (talk) 06:58, 26 April 2025 (UTC)
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Question from Revirtualizer (17:07, 15 May 2025)
[edit]is there a way to find articles with specific improvements needed, for example if there is information in spanish that the article does not have in english? --Revirtualizer (talk) 17:07, 15 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Revirtualizer I don't know too much about this topic, but this may help? Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English GraziePrego (talk) 11:10, 17 May 2025 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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- Thank you very much! :) GraziePrego (talk) 14:59, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Question from Arthur Reichhardt (20:59, 16 May 2025)
[edit]Good day, I want to create a Wikipedia page for my rugby club Connect NTK RFC and share the clubs background and history we had 23 Springboks who also played for the club.
Is there some sort of way you can create it in order for me to edit and add information? As well as the club badge? --Arthur Reichhardt (talk) 20:59, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Question from BlueNoteEditor (18:01, 17 May 2025)
[edit]Hello! Thank you for your help. I created an article but I am not sure how to publish. Can you help me? Thank you. --BlueNoteEditor (talk) 18:01, 17 May 2025 (UTC)
- What article have you created? GraziePrego (talk) 04:12, 18 May 2025 (UTC)
- I tried to create via the Wikipedia Article Wizard. Is it lost now? I cannot locate it. I thought is was saved as a draft. They said someone would review and get back to me but I have not heard from anyone. I obviously have a lot to learn. Thanks for your help and patience. BlueNoteEditor (talk) 14:27, 19 May 2025 (UTC)
Edit on Wurundjeri
[edit]Hi there, please do not use the term 'Aborigines' as it is widely considered offensive in Australia. Thank you for your well-intentioned edit. Poketama (talk) 08:21, 19 May 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you for the clarification @Poketama, as a fellow Australian I am aware of that- the bit I was reverting was the edit which introduced incorrect wording- saying there were x thousand "peoples" which wasn't correct as that implies x thousand separate groups, which was not the intended meaning of the sentence. GraziePrego (talk) 10:29, 19 May 2025 (UTC)
Articles for Creation backlog drive
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Hello GraziePrego:
WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive in June!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 1 month of outstanding reviews from the current 3+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 June 2025 through 30 June 2025.
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There is a backlog of over 3200 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:25, 20 May 2025 (UTC)
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Concern regarding Draft:Candidates of the 2026 Victorian state election
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Hello, GraziePrego. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Candidates of the 2026 Victorian state election, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.
If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.
Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 23:09, 21 May 2025 (UTC)
== which sources need to be deleted == Draft:Prashant Madanmohan
[edit]== which sources need to be deleted == Draft:Prashant Madanmohan
hi, please help me out , which sources need to be deleted in this draft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Prashant_Madanmohan Thehugolion (talk) 08:59, 22 May 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @Thehugolion, sources like amazon, goodreads, Imdb, are not reliable sources. The sources directly from Cognishift are all primary sources as well. WP:RELIABLE and WP:BLPPRIMARY are good reads about this :) GraziePrego (talk) 11:03, 22 May 2025 (UTC)
- thanks, i've followed your instructions ! Thehugolion (talk) 18:58, 22 May 2025 (UTC)
Quit stalking me
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Quit stalking me.
You argue in bad faith, and are contributing absolutely nothing to the discussion. I never claimed that you were Hand That Feels or had the same reasons, so to claim that's what I said is just moronic to the extreme. You said I didn't listen to what editors said, I pointed out that some editors clearly had an agenda as I then proved to you - you then turn round and say thats not you - I never claimed it was.
For the record, it is wrong to oppose me for moral/personal reasons. I would expect you to have known that seeing as you've made (check notes... wow) 11,000 edits in 5 years.
Leave me alone. Icecold (talk) 11:16, 22 May 2025 (UTC)
- WP:Oh I say, what are you doing? Come down from there at once! Really, you're making a frightful exhibition of yourself. GraziePrego (talk) 11:21, 22 May 2025 (UTC)
- Says the editor that keeps popping up uninvited in my discussions with other editors on their talk pages and has made 11,000 edits in 5 years, yet I'm the one taking wikipedia too seriously and need a lie down? Okay... I think we're done here. As I said, leave me alone, quit hounding me. I will no longer reply. Icecold (talk) 11:26, 22 May 2025 (UTC)
May thanks
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Thank you for improving article quality in May. One of mine was Jadwiga Rappé. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:55, 24 May 2025 (UTC)
Question from Clintplayz (05:17, 28 May 2025)
[edit]Hallo!! Uhh do people usually dislike/downvote edit revisions? I corrected the page regarding the "List of wars by death tolls" by removing the Javanese wars, which the last revision had it on the 2nd spot above the mongolian conquest (along with it's Deaths being "0.23 million", no percentage, and no citation), while my edit is the current revision, my edit has been disliked/downvoted 110+ times, is that normal? --The Player (talk) 05:17, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Ah I see what you mean- the “-110” is the number of characters you removed from the page, not upvotes or downvotes :) GraziePrego (talk) 05:21, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
Question from Clintplayz (05:21, 28 May 2025)
[edit]Greetings!! Please disregard the last question I have asked, since i have researched and found that the numbers indicates that the edit added/removed a number of bytes (corresponding to characters) to the page, my apologies --The Player (talk) 05:21, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
Corsican Citron
[edit]Hi! I saw your article request on the reward board about bringing a citrus article up to GA, and I brought Corsican citron up to GA. Зэгс ус (talk) 17:15, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
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Greetings
[edit]Hello am new here and was assigned to you, I hope to learn from you. Thank you Author Street (talk) 20:33, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
Welcome to the drive!
[edit]Welcome, welcome, welcome GraziePrego! I'm glad that you are joining the June 2025 drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.
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Question from Entergalactico (01:08, 10 June 2025)
[edit]Hey can i publish a homepage on a business figure from my country and how to make a full report with pictures and all --Entergalactico (talk) 01:08, 10 June 2025 (UTC)
- Try reading this first :) WP:FIRST GraziePrego (talk) 03:14, 10 June 2025 (UTC)
Question from FarmToTheWorld FuturisticsOfAgriculture on Help:Preferences (23:29, 11 June 2025)
[edit]delete account --FarmToTheWorld FuturisticsOfAgriculture (talk) 23:29, 11 June 2025 (UTC)
Question from RussByTheCliff (04:30, 12 June 2025)
[edit]Hello,
I have someone I saw live. Their story is crazy and I spoke to them about a wikipedia article. They dont see themselves as techy enough to know what to do. I've been thinking about it and think he deserves a page. He's done more than enough. How would I go about this?
All with proper links online this guy is a full time award winning tv appearing comedian, who has climbed the ladder from homelessness and drug addiction. He has been the UK Joke Champion, is playing the main comedy stage at Glastonbury and accidentally became an undercover reporter for national newspapers during the covid pandemic and took 1.5billion pounds off a multinational company by revealing practices of modern day slavery in the UK. This was commented on by the prime minister and laws got changed.
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/apr/02/knock-knock-jokes-homeless-comedian-kev-mud-pun
This is the article he wrote with the editor of the guardian (he is credited at the bottom) https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jul/04/boohoo-booms-leicester-garment-factories-linked-lockdown
He is on the main Glastonbury stages here- https://glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/line-up/line-up-2025/?view=artists
heres another article on him https://www.comedy.co.uk/live/features/kev-mud-homeless-to-stand-up-interview/
Another https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwall-comedian-went-being-homeless-9599158
Another https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-68284422
Here he is in The Sun, next to Shakespeare https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/33283761/local-shop-name-best-puns-britain/
His 'comedy cv' https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/kev-mud/ --RussByTheCliff (talk) 04:30, 12 June 2025 (UTC)
Question from Hisham Ibn Mu'adh (21:16, 12 June 2025)
[edit]How you doin --Hisham Ibn Mu'adh (talk) 21:16, 12 June 2025 (UTC)
Good day could you please assist me in moving my article out of sandbox --Idris86 (talk) 13:44, 13 June 2025 (UTC)
Hello GraziePrego. I am pleased that my article "Gwen Lamont" has been created, but am puzzled how we proceed from here. For instance do I attempt to make my wording more encyclopedic or do I leave it for others? Do I create links to existing related wikipedia articles (Sir Cornelius Kortright, Annora Brown, Betty McNaught) ? If so how? etc etc etc. Isfahan62. --Isfahan62 (talk) 18:31, 17 June 2025 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:Candidates of the 2026 Victorian state election
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Hello, GraziePrego. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Candidates of the 2026 Victorian state election".
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.
Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 22:33, 19 June 2025 (UTC)
Question from Rammehar1313 on Draft:Jaspal Singh Atwal (18:24, 20 June 2025)
[edit]Can you please check this draft Jaspal Singh Atwal and help me to more improve --Rammehar1313 (talk) 18:24, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
June thanks
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Thank you for improving article quality in June! - I heard this music, yesterday, - streamed a day before at a different location. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:54, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
June Backlog Drive is almost over!
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Hi! Thanks for participating in the Articles for Creation June Backlog Drive! We've done amazing work so far, dropping the backlog by more than 2000 drafts already. We have around 400 drafts outstanding, and we need your help to get that down to zero in 5 days. We can do this, but we need all hands on deck to make this happen. A list of the pending drafts can be found at WP:AFCSORT, where you can select submissions in your area of interest. Thank you so much for your work so far, and happy reviewing! – DreamRimmer ■ 01:32, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
Question from Gaiacoyote (20:24, 26 June 2025)
[edit]Hi GraziePrego. I appreciate your availability. I just created the page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coryphantha_compacta That looks OK but I set the page to be for Coryphantha cornifera. Apparently there's a redirect. Now the page's title says one thing, but the whole page refers to a different species. I've checked with the usual sources like POWO and they mention no synonym status for the name I use. Not quite sure how to handle this. Thanks. Gaiacoyote (talk) 20:24, 26 June 2025 (UTC) (gayacoyote)
May 2025 NPP backlog drive – Points award
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Hi Ixtal,
I created a page as a tribute for a journalist as I see pages created for many of his fellow journalists faced same challenges, but the page is failed to publish. Is it because my account is new or am I doing something wrong? --K317hAr (talk) 02:38, 28 June 2025 (UTC)
- Same happened to me.I am not a professional,but it may look like some editors/publishers/staff thought it may look more like an essay,than a Wikipedia page for help.Same happened when I tried to create a page for the Monegasque Eurovision national selections translated from French Wikipedia,but they thought it's an essay-like page. Hayden Eurovision editor (talk) 07:18, 4 July 2025 (UTC)
Question from Truthlinker (06:39, 29 June 2025)
[edit]I’m new here and came across your work while exploring related topics. I’d love to contribute more on Wikipedia and learn from experienced editors like you.
If you ever need help with any page maintenance, citations, or general cleanup, I’d be happy to assist in my free time. Appreciate any tips or suggestions you have!
Thanks, TruthLinker --Truthlinker (talk) 06:39, 29 June 2025 (UTC)
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Guild of Copy Editors' June 2025 Newsletter
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Question from Hayden Eurovision editor (07:15, 4 July 2025)
[edit]Hello!I am always posting the right media and information,always double-checked and I am posting it only because I know it.I am very interested in editing articles about Eurovision and making them longer/righter/more interesting.Which articles need to be changed for them to look more interesting and with good quality? --Hayden Eurovision editor (talk) 07:15, 4 July 2025 (UTC)
Question from Kealeboga kobile (21:03, 4 July 2025)
[edit]Hello how can I add a link when editing articles? --Kealeboga kobile (talk) 21:03, 4 July 2025 (UTC)