User talk:Vegantics

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January 2024

Please refrain from making constructive edits to Wikipedia. Your edits appear to constitute helping to build the encyclopedia and have been kept. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Repeated constructive editing may result in Wikilove. Thank you. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 08:44, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just kidding. Thank you so much for tagging articles that are lacking sources. The {{more citations needed}} tag sorted them to Category:Articles lacking sources from January 2024 which is a backlog I'm currently trying to deal with by citing sources. If you're interested, you can find me and others at Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 08:47, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Courtesy ping - sock accusation

See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jedediah78, an account you've been involved with. Thanks. 10mmsocket (talk) 15:44, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Steve Bannatyne has been accepted

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Ibjaja055 (talk) 22:33, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Draft Review - Musaad Al-Harthi

Dear Vegantics,

I hope you are doing well. I wanted to follow up on the draft for the Musaad Al-Harthi article. I have made the necessary revisions based on the feedback I received, and I believe the article is now ready for review and publication.

Could you please review the updated draft when you have the opportunity? I appreciate your time and assistance with this process.

Thank you so much! علي بدر العتيبي (talk) 02:08, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @علي بدر العتيبي, thank you for reaching out. I’m not an Articles for Creation reviewer and would encourage you to use WP:AFCREVIEW to have an experienced editor review your article. That being said I’m happy to do a review and provide feedback before you submit. Just let me know and I can get to it on Monday. Good luck with your edits! Vegantics (talk) 02:52, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced articles June 2025 backlog drive

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Spledia

Due to their obvious lack of editorial oversight, Spledia (talk · contribs) seems to be operating what, in effect, is an unregistered bot account. I've referred them to the bot approval process. In the meantime, I've blocked them from editing article content until they can get approval. Thanks for giving me a heads up on this! — The Anome (talk) 05:45, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Roads

Hey, thanks for merging +10 roads to A roads in Zone 5 of the Great Britain numbering scheme. Could you do the same with all the roads from other zones who are unreferenced and fail WP:GEOROAD? Kind regards. Luis7M (talk) 10:29, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Luis7M, thanks for reminding me of this project, it's a good effort and I'll merge more articles when I have time. I would also encourage you to WP:BEBOLD and do the merges yourself-- if you look at my edits to A1098 road, A roads in Zone 1 of the Great Britain numbering scheme, and the corresponding talk page you can see what steps I have taken and what edit summaries I used.

Alternatively if you want to support this effort without doing merges yourself, I use this website to identify which articles are unreferenced rather than checking each article. As a result, I won't see any articles that do not have the unreferenced article template. If you want to go through and add the template as needed, it will ensure that nothing is overlooked. Cheers! Vegantics (talk) 14:06, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A bowl of strawberries for you!

Thank you for cleaning up Moshe Reuven. COI clean up can be a real time sink! I'm guessing you saw that both editors have been blocked. Netherzone (talk) 20:39, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to the drive!

Welcome, welcome, welcome Vegantics! I'm glad that you are joining the June 2025 drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

Fix a random page lacking sources

Cielquiparle (talk) 03:55, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Year's Best Short Science Fiction Novels

Are you interest in taking this to WP:AfD? Ping me. Bearian (talk) 21:06, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question about edit revert

Hello there, I’m a student doing research and edits on artists’ Wikipedia pages and noticed that you just reverted the edits I made this morning. I’m definitely new to this so I’m just wondering if you can let me know why you reverted the edits? YiyangMikeLiu (talk) 19:55, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@YiyangMikeLiu, You added content without citations or citations to WP:PRIMARY sources such as Talwar Gallery. Your removed maintenance templates without justification. The tone of your additions was extremely promotional. Most significantly, artists associated with Talwar Gallery have a long, long history of paid editors adding unreferenced promotional content and so it is unlikely at best that your edits are in good faith. Vegantics (talk) 20:00, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I just googled your username. Tell your bosses to knock off the promotional editing. Vegantics (talk) 20:01, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your feedback. As unfriendly as your response is I do appreciate you getting back to me quickly and I’m just wondering if there’s any constructive feedback on making edits to the artist page? I do believe that it is fair to have an artist’s latest exhibitions updated and as for sources I’m just wondering if other art journals online also count as primary? I’d assume that art journals written by critics would count as secondary. Thank you so much! YiyangMikeLiu (talk) 20:09, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@YiyangMikeLiu Let me be very clear: you cannot edit articles related to Talwar gallery. Doing so will get your account banned if it isn't going to be already. That being said, art journals not connected to the artist in question are absolutely okay. The goal of WP:SECONDARY is to ensure that information is notable enough to merit inclusion on Wikipedia and is not biased through a connection to the article subject. Vegantics (talk) 20:13, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

June 2025 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award

		Citation Barnstar
		This award is given in recognition to Vegantics for collecting more than 47.0 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's JUN25 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing over 9,500 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – DreamRimmer Alt ■ 15:53, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mukundananda

Thanks for your observations of sockpuppetry in this article. Can you create a report per WP:HSOCK? Thanks. - Ram1751 (talk) 19:11, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Moshe Reuven for deletion

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

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Dear @Vegantics, as a major contributor to the article above, I'd kindly ask for your expert opinion on the matter. Silvymaro (talk) 22:15, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, @Silvymaro, I'll take a look and weigh in. Vegantics (talk) 13:35, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Lists of downloadable PlayStation games

I found that you added the Unreferenced template into Lists of downloadable PlayStation games, which is a list of lists that wouldn't need any references and as such wouldn't need to be tagged. Please keep in mind. Go D. Usopp (talk) 09:11, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Go D. Usopp, per MOS:LISTS, lists “must be supported with references like any article.” I didn’t see guidance excepting lists of lists from that requirement— is there somewhere else that clarifies this? Thanks. Vegantics (talk) 09:50, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Per Wikipedia:List of lists, these lists may have references, but not mandated. Go D. Usopp (talk) 09:58, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also from sourcing rules per WP:LISTVERIFY, there are no statements that would warrant inline citations as references in this list of lists. Go D. Usopp (talk) 10:01, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Go D. Usopp, I'm not seeing where in WP:LoL it says that references are optional. If this is a policy across all lists of lists I'd like to respond accordingly. However, without citations it becomes much more difficult to demonstrate WP:NLIST.

As for Lists of downloadable PlayStation games, video games are by no means my domain. I assumed that the information about these games being originally released for PlayStation and later being made available for download (as well as the relevant consoles) would require citations to verify. If this is such obvious knowledge that it does not require a citation, I defer to you. Vegantics (talk) 13:34, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Pinball barnstar for Spooky Pinball

Great article, filling one of the gaps of pinball manufacturers.

		The Pinball Barnstar
		Awarded to you for your creation of the Spooky Pinball article.

Wilbers (talk) 15:05, 18 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

space.com

It looks like maybe in your purge of Willamette Weekly citations you inadvertently deleted a space.com citation. Or was that intentional? The article in question is Hakuto-R Mission 2. Feel free to follow up on the talk page there, or ping me. Best regards, (— 𝐬𝐝𝐒𝐝𝐬 — - talk) 21:34, 19 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Sdsds, While removing the Willamette Weekly citations from Hakuto-R Mission 2, I also tried to combine duplicated citations and accidentally replaced the space.com article with one the ispace-inc.com citation from the preceding sentence. Thank you for bringing it to my attention-- I moved the ispace-inc.com citation back to the correct spot. Vegantics (talk) 21:58, 19 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Spooky Pinball has been accepted

Spooky Pinball, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as C-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. This is a great rating for a new article, and places it among the top 23% of accepted submissions — kudos to you! You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

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Thanks again, and happy editing!

– LuniZunie ツ_(talk) 18:27, 18 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced articles November 2025 backlog drive

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