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Talkback

Hello, EggRoll97. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tej Singh.
Message added 19:57, 22 July 2018 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

One can change his AFD vote before the AFD closes. DBigXray 19:57, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

An egg roll for you!

An egg roll for you!
I gave this to HONOR your username and encourage you to keep up your anti-vandalism work ;) ~ Abelmoschus Esculentus (talk to me) 12:11, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
@Abelmoschus Esculentus: Oh my gosh, that's the funniest thing I've ever seen on Wikipedia (besides admins deleting the Main Page)! EggRoll97 (talk) 12:18, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
Sign your posts please ~ Abelmoschus Esculentus (talk to me) 12:17, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
I think I'm getting forgetful of the whole signature thing honestly, I've forgotten it a lot... EggRoll97 (talk) 12:18, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
Then get used to it. I don't wanna template you about this... ~ Abelmoschus Esculentus (talk to me) 12:19, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
@Abelmoschus Esculentus: Sorry, sir. EggRoll97 (talk) 12:23, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
Lol seems you took that too seriously. Just a friendly reminder about your (bad) habit ;-) ~ Abelmoschus Esculentus (talk to me) 12:25, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

By the way

Interested in Huggle? ~ Abelmoschus Esculentus (talk to me) 12:36, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

@Abelmoschus Esculentus:Might be interested in it, after I finish my Rollback trial period. EggRoll97 (talk) 12:40, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

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Hi EggRoll97. After reviewing your request for "rollbacker", I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:

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Thanks for the welcome! Tool was easy to use and understand (besides when you have 2 diff links combined). EggRoll97 (talk | contribs) 00:55, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Heads up

WP:ARCHIVE ~ Abelmoschus Esculentus (talk to me) 02:24, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

@Abelmoschus Esculentus: Whoops, I couldn't figure out how to use the bots to archive it. Hang on, I'm figuring it out gradually right now. EggRoll97 (talk | contribs) 06:32, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

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reopen Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Center for Research and Promotion of Farmers.You need to read WP:AADD and about weighing arguments.∯WBGconverse 09:31, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

Firstly, I would like to point out that I did actually read the policies around weighing arguments thoroughly before closing as a non-admin. At the time of the closure, it absolutely seemed like policy and consensus sided with the article, and in the direction of not deleting. However, per non-admin closure rules, my discretion sides with re-opening the debate. Apologies for any inconvenience caused, EggRoll97 (talk | contribs) 09:53, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

Thank you message

Hi, EggRoll97

Thank you very much for your kind message on my Wikipedia page. Sorry if my reply message to you is late, I've been busy at college, at home and even been out and about with County Care, which is a community project, in the UK, able to help out young adults with disabilities (e.g. autism, downs syndrome, aspergers, deaf or hard of hearing).

The reason why I'm autistic, it's because I was diagnosed with it, when I was a couple of years old, towards the end of the 90's. But autism can't be a bad thing. Sometimes, it can be a gift. For example, I have a very good American accent, as I've only been to America once with my family, since we went to Walt Disney World, in spring 2006, when I was 9 years old.

I have a strong liking to Disney stuff, along with other things like James Bond, Austin Powers, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Art Attack, Mr. Bean etc.

Once again, thanks for your kind message and soz if my reply message is late — Preceding unsigned comment added by DanielMasonThomas79 (talk • contribs)

@DanielMasonThomas79: Not a problem! I do hope you become a routine contributor to Wikipedia, and I thank you again for your contributions. EggRoll97 (talk | contribs) 04:59, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

Please

go through this essay and accordingly volunteer at this notice-board, per the updated header.Best,∯WBGconverse 10:31, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

And, kindly substitute the external link in your signature with a wiki-link.∯WBGconverse 10:39, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

Sorry about that, I didn't think it was a troll, I just believed it was someone extremely angry at the filter. As for the signature, fixed. EggRoll97 (talk) 02:28, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

We decide as to whether someone is a troll or plainly angry, roughly by examining the details of his edit.I am very willing to reply to an user who harvested a good edit, (that was rejected by the edit filter) and subsequently got him to curse at us, over the report-board.:-) ∯WBGconverse 05:18, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

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Hello, there. Thank you for your help earlier. All the best. No Great Shaker (talk) 15:34, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

No problem! EggRoll97 (talk) 01:07, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

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List of foreign Premier League players

Please look of what pending changes you are accepting in the article. Today you accepted one that was pure vandalism or someone trying to insert a fake footballer from a virtual game into Wikipedia. Cheers. Baros1 (talk) 11:27, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

@Baros1: My apologies, it appeared to be an accurate revision when I approved it. EggRoll97 (talk) 14:06, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Spinning jenny pending change

Please don't accept pending changes that involve unnecessary changes between American and British (or other) spellings. I had to undo a change that you approved. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National varieties of English Meters (talk) 02:37, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

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Thanks for the notification. EggRoll97 (talk) 16:22, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

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Hi EggRoll! Long time no see. You may be interested in this script. If you have any feedback or suggestions, feel free to leave a note on my talk page. Cheers. ―Abelmoschus Esculentus (talk • contribs) 11:00, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

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Reversion of Otoya Yamaguchi pending change

"If I reverted your edits and you don't know why, or you don't understand, please do ask!" I had an edit reverted by you without an acknowledgement or reason. The information I changed on the Otoya Yamaguchi page was just to give a more accurate description. There seems to be a group of reviewer who are dead set on ensuring the Proud Boys are labeled as a hate group. There is much contradicting information about this and much of the information in the linked pages is misleading or not factual. There are several lawsuits currently in progress and defaulting to the descrpition used by the group itself is the most accurate while this is figured out. Classification by the SPLC does not provide proof in any way. Yetsnaz (talk) 01:57, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

@Yetsnaz: I reverted the change as I believe it is part of an on-going edit war over the content stated on that page. I have, however, requested page protection. If there IS proper sourcing to support one side of the argument, I would be happy to re-instate your change. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause to your editing of the article. EggRoll97 (talk) 04:05, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
@EggRoll97 If there's any attempt to make a change on the page it would be rolled back by Vif12vf. He seems to have taken the Otoya Yamaguchi page as his pet project. His claim on his talk page "The group is described as adhering to right-wing extremist ideology!" is all the reasoning I've seen to keep the description of the Proud Boys as a "hate group." Using information available from their own web page should be sufficient to ensure the information is neutral and not political.Yetsnaz (talk) 15:09, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
@Yetsnaz: Please keep in mind that I am not an administrator, nor am I a part of dispute resolution. If you can find consensus with other editors to make the revision, or reliable sources, I believe the change would go through much easier. The own organization's website is not a reliable source, as it is self-published. Please read Wikipedia's policies on self-published sources. EggRoll97 (talk) 15:21, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
[1] There seems to be an unwritten consensus to ensure the information on the page is inaccurate. The talk page has no consensus on way or the other. Reverting the page to call the Proud Boys a "hate group" is objectively the wrong path to take. The article for group itself doesn't even go that far. There is a consensus on wikipedia enough to keep that page with neutral wording. Why wouldn't keeping other mentions of the group outside of the main page neutral as well?Yetsnaz (talk) 15:38, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

jovic

it was only a joke Steam n Whistle (talk) 06:48, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

@Steam n Whistle: It may have been a joke for you, but it might not be a joke for someone else. As well as this, that's not something to joke about. Keep in mind, it was only a general reminder. EggRoll97 (talk) 06:50, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

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Whoops! Thanks for the reminder! EggRoll97 (talk) 23:46, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
It's a pleasure! and here's another gentle reminder... please place {{subst:Relisting}} one space after the nominator's signature, as I've done at Talk:VLDB conference#Requested move 19 March 2019. Both problems lead to malformed move requests. Thanks again! Paine Ellsworth, ed.  put'r there  02:00, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

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@69.119.126.255: You may have a point, but do you have any way to disprove the sources already provided in the article? EggRoll97 (talk) 23:54, 27 March 2019 (UTC) This is the exact wording from Mr. Kerik's plea agreement, dated November 5, 2009, concerning the loan: As to Count 13, in the fall of 2003 when being vetted for a position on an advisory council to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security I submitted an executive branch confidential disclosure report to the department on which I falsely stated that I had no liabilities over ten thousand dollars. At the time I submitted that statement, I had an outstanding debt to a friend in the amount of $250,000. (Documented in SDNY case 07 Cr. 1027 SCR) and that charge relates solely to failing to document the loan on a confidential financial disclosure, and has nothing to do with bribery, or some nefarious activity involving an Israeli businessman as constantly written on the page prior. In addition, Mr. Kerik did in fact pay interest on the loan. I would ask that the inaccurate information be removed permanently. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.119.126.255 (talk) 15:04, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

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You have misread theconsensus. It is nowhere clear enough for a nac. Please reopen. Spartaz Humbug! 20:56, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

Done. EggRoll97 (talk) 21:46, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

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Thanks! (Added to my barnstars page) EggRoll97 (talk) 12:39, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

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G13

I don't think CSD noms for stuff in userspace, especially for long-term editors, is a good use of your time. I think AfC needs you reviewing drafts. Chris Troutman (talk) 18:30, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

@Chris troutman: I tried to get added to the CheckPage for AFC, but I was told that while I met the numerical requirements, my work was too centered on vandalism prevention, and that I should try to improve my "dismal CSD stats". If you think it's a good idea for me to go up again, I'd be fine with it, but I'm not sure if my stats right now are enough to get added to the list of reviewers. My previous request is here. EggRoll97 (talk) 22:19, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
Ok. Let me look into it. Maybe I can help you get this taken care of. Chris Troutman (talk) 23:02, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
Alright, thank you. EggRoll97 (talk) 01:37, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

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Hi Eggroll,

For some reason my edit request has already been deleted (despite being only 5 days old), so I cannot ask on the project page Wikipedia:Edit_filter/False_positives/Reports. In this diff [1] you write: 

Done – The edit for this report has been implemented; however, no changes to the filter were made. Looks to be fine here

However, my edit was not implemented on the Campaign for the neologism "santorum". What did you mean by the above? Can you please implement the edit that was falsely flagged as improper? Thank you. 24.217.247.41 (talk) 01:26, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

@24.217.247.41: Of course, sorry about that. I thought I made the edit, but apparently not. Regardless, it's been implemented now. EggRoll97 (talk) 04:31, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

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Reviewer of the Year

This year's Reviewer of the Year is Rosguill. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.

Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.

Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.

Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.

Top 10 Reviewers over the last 365 days
Rank Username Num reviews Log
1 Rosguill (talk) 47,395 Patrol Page Curation
2 Onel5969 (talk) 41,883 Patrol Page Curation
3 JTtheOG (talk) 11,493 Patrol Page Curation
4 Arthistorian1977 (talk) 5,562 Patrol Page Curation
5 DannyS712 (talk) 4,866 Patrol Page Curation
6 CAPTAIN MEDUSA (talk) 3,995 Patrol Page Curation
7 DragonflySixtyseven (talk) 3,812 Patrol Page Curation
8 Boleyn (talk) 3,655 Patrol Page Curation
9 Ymblanter (talk) 3,553 Patrol Page Curation
10 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 3,522 Patrol Page Curation

(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)

Redirect autopatrol

A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III.

Source Guide Discussion

Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.

This month's refresher course

While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.

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New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020

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Source Guide Discussion

The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.

Redirects

New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.

Discussions and Resources
Refresher

Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7095 Low – 4991 High – 7095

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New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020

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Your help can make a difference

NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference.

Google Adds New Languages to Google Translate

In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.

Discussions and Resources
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  • Also at the Village Pump is a discussion about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
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About the content policing system

Hello, today I filed two reports considering edit filter. One of them seems to have been removed without answer and a response to the other one suggest that we are not on the same page regarding the contents of the edit. My intent was to add an image to the infobox and I am not sure how am I supposed to prove what it presents via reference and how adding an entry to the discussion page to the article that has had no human editors since it's inception in 2008 is supposed to help the fact that any file from Commons containing "chodu" cannot be added to English Wiki because it will fail the automatic tests. Dominik27.09 (talk) 18:36, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

@Dominik27.09: Done, added both images. EggRoll97 (talk) 08:45, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

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Add bitchute to Comparison of video hosting services

Dear EggRoll97

I haven't been active on wikipedia for a long time and I don't know how this goes. Bitchute is a major video hosting site (alexa rank ~2000), it seems to qualify for being added to the list, and I would like to add it to the comparison, but the obscenity filter trips because of the name of the site. I know there were other problems with my edit like the nowiki tag that I'm apparently not supposed to use, I just tried to mimic the other rows, which were using the nowiki tag too. My intent is not to vandalize, but to improve. Can you please clarify why you would think that I am a vandal and what I need to change?

Best Regards, --Wolfgang.brehm (talk) 21:09, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

@Wolfgang.brehm: I'd suggest getting consensus first here. EggRoll97 (talk) 21:17, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
EggRoll97 :@EggRoll97:@EggRoll97: Thanks, I went there and just noticed that there also exists a List of video hosting services where bitchute is listed and now I am a bit confused. I agree with the merge proposal, but so long they aren't merged, I'll suggest adding bitchute, also it has already been suggested by Ayo. Wolfgang.brehm (talk) 21:48, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
@Wolfgang.brehm: Done after viewing talk page consensus and checking your references. I've also updated the Alexa ranking from 2,311 to 2,318 after verifying on the Alexa ranking site. EggRoll97 (talk) 08:18, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

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New Page Patrol December Newsletter

Hello EggRoll97,

A chart of the 2020 New Page Patrol Queue

Year in review

It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.

Rank Username Num reviews Log
1 DannyS712 bot III (talk) 67,552 Patrol Page Curation
2 Rosguill (talk) 63,821 Patrol Page Curation
3 John B123 (talk) 21,697 Patrol Page Curation
4 Onel5969 (talk) 19,879 Patrol Page Curation
5 JTtheOG (talk) 12,901 Patrol Page Curation
6 Mcampany (talk) 9,103 Patrol Page Curation
7 DragonflySixtyseven (talk) 6,401 Patrol Page Curation
8 Mccapra (talk) 4,918 Patrol Page Curation
9 Hughesdarren (talk) 4,520 Patrol Page Curation
10 Utopes (talk) 3,958 Patrol Page Curation
Reviewer of the Year

John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.

NPP Technical Achievement Award

As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.

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Deletion of Doomspire Brickbattle

I wanted to make that page so users on Roblox or just browsing Wikipedia can learn what the game Doomspire Brickbattle is, in case they don’t know what the game is. LunarLOL (talk) 01:20, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

EFH granted

Hello. I've granted you +EFH per your request at EFN. I see there's actually a template for this one at Template:Edit filter helper granted, so you're welcome to go ahead and read that. Any questions, just ask someone, which may include me. -- zzuuzz (talk) 14:14, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! EggRoll97 (talk) 20:50, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
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Thanks! EggRoll97 (talk) 20:50, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Congrats

As an EFH, you are now able to view private filters (details, code, logs) as well as their associated logs. Please take care not to abuse this right, and happy editing! — 64andtim (chat • see here) 16:03, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, will do. EggRoll97 (talk) 20:50, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Fantasy trope RM

As I explained in my comment near the end, I don't think it is accurate to characterize the situation as "clear consensus that the article should move away from the present title". The main point of contention was whether the title should be plural or singular, so supporters of Tropes in fantasy should not be assumed to prefer Fantasy trope over Fantasy tropes. Taking this into account, the !vote total for moving to Fantasy trope is 5 in support and 5 opposed, which is not a consensus unless the support side was significantly better argued. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 01:34, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

@King of Hearts: As for the consensus about moving away, only two people seemed to generally be opposed to a move in general. I've jotted down on a notepad a somewhat recount of the participant's desires for the direction of the article, and I'm reading 4 supporting the original title, 2 supporting the alternative (with 1 stating "prefer" for the alternative, suggesting they believe the article should be moved, but to the alternate), and 2 opposing the move altogether, with 1 of the full opposition explicitly stating they were open to the alternate, and not suggesting in any way they were open to the original. I still see a consensus in favor of moving and a fairly split consensus for direction of the article, with support side possibly being weighted ever-so-slightly more on policy basis. I would say the general consensus, from my reading of the RM at least, would still be that the consensus supported a move, just not a specific place. I encourage anyone with objections to the moved title though to open an RM to Tropes in fantasy specifically though, in accordance with WP:NOTCURRENTTITLE. EggRoll97 (talk) 03:36, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

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