User talk:Glane23/Archive 5

A barnstar for you

		The Article Rescue Barnstar
		Thanks for your hard work improving Pollo Tropical! The Bushranger One ping only 23:13, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

Comment from 70.57.230.5

I have never visited the page for monster energy drinks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.57.230.5 (talk) 2:57 pm, Yesterday (UTC−8)

Appears to relate to this edit from 23 October 2011 by someone using the same IP address. As IP addresses are often reassigned as users log on and log off the Internet, it is not unusual to receive warnings on Wikipedia caused by someone else's edits. You can ignore the warning if you didn't edit the article. If you want to stop receiving such notices, you can create an account. There is no charge. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 15:33, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Precious

adding the spice of humor

Thank you for original flavour and [1] to food and drink, for fighting vandalism, leaving countless explaining messages to users, for adding to Saltimbocca and Butterbrot, for a user page that makes curious, for humor even for arbcom, - Geoff, you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:51, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

Honored! And thanks. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 14:10, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

I've been wrongly accused of vandalizing related to Lake Calhoun

I'm providing factual documentation on Wilkapedia for Lake Calhoun, but someone told me to stop or I will be blocked from making edits. Please tell me what I'm doing wrong. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.160.100.249 (talk) 16:01, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

I reverted this edit as it was added without any reference. I see that another editor, Jonathunder, reverted a later revision you made, apparently another addition without adequate sourcing. Please review helpful articles on reliable sources and on adding citations: Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources, Wikipedia:Citing sources and Help:Referencing for beginners. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 16:30, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

HPV

Hello, The page for Human Papilloma virus says its a DNA virus, but it does not mention which kind (which is an important detail). HPV is a dsDNA virus — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.245.58.6 (talk) 14:37, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

Regarding this edit to Human papillomavirus infection. My concern was whether the source cited refers to the specific subtype of DNA. In other words, I was gently nudging you toward providing a reliable source for your addition. Nothing sinister - just a helpful suggestion. And thanks for joining the effort to improve Wikipedia.Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 18:33, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

User talk:Amitashi

I declined the speedy deletion of User talk:Amitashi because user talk pages are not normally eligible for speedy deletion, and the reason you provided for deleting the page was an OTRS ticket, which I don't have access to. If this page needs to be speedily deleted, please contact an administrator with OTRS access who can evaluate the situation. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 18:17, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. No problem, just passing along a request. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 19:17, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

Unblock Request - editing through IP 108.171.132.171 with my account is blocked

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Glane23 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

Even though I have a valid account and no issues for more than 9 years, I've been caught in a block of 108.171.132.171 so that I cannot edit even with my account. I've emailed the blocking admin, Wizardman, but his talk page indicates he's on a wikibreak. Can someone else help by allowing me to edit through the IP block using my account? Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 15:22, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Accept reason:

I changed block settings of 108.171.132.171 so that logged-in editing is allowed. I hope Wizardman wouldn't mind my decision. Vanjagenije (talk) 19:33, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Much appreciated! Thank you! Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 00:26, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

No problem with the unblock from my end. Alas that's the problem with trying to stop ip vandalism sometimes. Wizardman 00:25, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

no worries thank you

I was a bit overzealous and edited something that was already correct! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.94.22.157 (talk) 02:38, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Regarding this edit to Hoy Wong. No problem. Cheers! Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 15:26, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

New Mexican cuisine

Ping me when you're done and I'll take another pass.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  22:41, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

@SMcCandlish: Just wrapped up a session. It's all yours! Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 22:46, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

For one reason or another, my last edit-conflict with you confused my browser, and I lost hours of editing. I just give up for now because I'm too frustrated to do it all over again. PS: Two entries you removed should be restored; chile con queso most definitely is part of NM cuisine [2] and is not Tex-Mex (our own article saying that is OR, or at least an error of omission and of over-focus on Tex-Mex without a broader view). Even if it had originated in Texas (which it didn't) it would still be a more appropriate entry than, say, churros. The fish entry should not be removed; the article is not just about Mexican-style food in the state, and river and lakefish have long been a part of the diet. The fact that NM isn't stereotypically known for fish is a reason to include it, not exclude it. Restaurants typically use tilapia [3] because it's cheap and has a mild, neutral flavor, but ranchers and other rural people eat the trout and such from their waters on their land (still mostly introduced species, but not recent). I agree with the bulk of the rest of what you did after my first set of edits, and I had a lot of other improvements, including more sourcing, but right now I just want to shoot something due to the time lossage. I'm not sure if it's Chrome's fault or MediaWiki's.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  01:18, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

@SMcCandlish:Got it. I've put both the 'fish' and 'chile con queso' (revised the latter and added a reference) back per your thoughts. Our friend the IP is back with a whole new series. I'll stay away if you let me know you'll be working on it or give me a UTC time range when you'll be on it and I'll avoid that time range. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 15:55, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

Have at it; I have something to do tonight with friends, and Sun. looks busy. If the anon is just reinserting the same stuff, that's unconstructive editwarring that can probably be dealt with at ANI or ANEW. PS: Sorry for being cranky; I just hate losing editing work when the browser and the site don't get along right. Only seems to happen every few months.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  01:14, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

PS: Some of the anon's additions look constructive, but some of it's more assertion of absolutes (e.g. that something is always cooked in bacon grease, etc.), I think some of the thin sourcing is also getting messed up by these edits; in checking yesterday, I found several statements cited to sources that do not contain material that says what is being asserted. Some of the changes are just factually wrong (albóndigas are meatballs, not meatball soup, and so on). Miscapitalization ("Indian Fry Bread"). Random deletions of stuff. Reinsertion of superlatives like "extremely" after notice not to write that way here. This is someone writing blog-style from personal opinion and family recipes. It's not unconstructive enough to seek a block or a page semi-protection, yet, though. Will just have to keep repairing it for a while. I left a uw template.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  01:37, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Change to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginaria

Hello - please see citation where I made the change - Short Circutz was indeed a YTV (Canadian) program, not ITV (UK). The wikipedia article about Short Circutz also confirms this. I believe my change was correct and should not have been reverted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.78.157.118 (talk) 18:43, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

You are correct. Rolled back my edit with my apologies. It would help if you would include an edit summary with your edits. Thanks, Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 18:47, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Great, noted for next time (I am a newbie). Thank you! Feel free to delete these messages (assuming that is how it works) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.78.157.118 (talk) 18:48, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Date of birth on Elizabeth Shepherd (musician)

Hi:

sorry I have never edited anything on wikipedia before. But there is extreme doubt that she was born in 1949 as indicated at the top of the page. That would make her 68. Does she look 68? On her web pages she has pics of her new baby about 5 years ago. Just saying.

I believe it would be in every ones best interest if the date was deleted. Unless someone can come up with a substantiated source.

cheers, Keith — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.131.236.126 (talk) 18:29, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Sure, but instead of commenting within the article, you can just delete the date as unsourced and put that reason in your edit comment. You can also discuss the issue on the article's Talk page. The reason I reverted your edit was the comment you left on the article page. Happy editing! Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 19:11, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Edit by 4.14.116.1

i made a mistake. this was not vandalism. my son got on my computer. sorry.

Refers to this edit to Led Zeppelin by 4.14.116.1. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 18:18, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

You deleted my edit!

The article I posted was,from the gadsen times! So yes you erased,it by mistake — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jzbailey222 (talk • contribs) 16:16, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

@Jzbailey222:Regarding unsourced edit to Lisa Ann Millican. Please review this helpful article on how to create inline citations: Wikipedia:Citing_sources. See also: Help:Footnotes#Footnotes:_the_basics. Cheers! (By the way, sign your posts by typing 4 tildes (~~~~) without the parens at the end of your comment.) Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 19:23, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

How

How do I provide the source Jzbailey222 (talk) 16:18, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

See comment above. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 19:24, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

I dont know how it works im the guy from the hungarian king's page

Its true that in 2000 the orthodox church recognized his as saint, making him the first person in history to have this title. I dont know hoe to add this as reference to wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.249.145.60 (talk) 22:49, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/889207.stm — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.249.145.60 (talk) 22:53, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

@92.249.145.60: Regarding edit to Stephen I of Hungary. Please review this helpful article on how to create inline citations: Wikipedia:Citing_sources. See also: Help:Footnotes#Footnotes:_the_basics. Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia. (By the way, sign your posts by typing 4 tildes (~~~~) without the parens at the end of your comment.) Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 11:02, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Test edit mistaken warning

Hi. I noticed that you gave a test warning to ZoeeTalksALot (talk). I reviewed your warning and I think it might have been issued in error. ZoeeTalksALot, in this edit, changed Zombies for Z-O-M-B-I-E-S. I think you thought it was a test edit because of the spelling, but actually Z-O-M-B-I-E-S is the actual name of the movie. I hope you write some kind words to ZoeeTalksALot because he is a newcomer and has received multiple unjustified warnings for his edits. Thanks for your attention. Thinker78 (talk) 00:01, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

@Thinker78: Thanks, Thinker. I see that the image of the DVD box has the dashes, but none of the sources cited in the article use the dashes for the title of the movie and the dashed title did not appear anywhere in the article until this addition. You are probably right, that a different template could have been used. I'll leave the user a note. Maybe it warrants a Talk page discussion? (Anyway, that article can use some better sourcing.) Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 18:28, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

I fixed vandalism on a page and it got reverted

The battle of Buan Ma Thuot was renamed to Ban Me Thot by the user "plz ban me69" which is very obviously a troll account/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:18d:8a01:6909:cdc2:a1ab:6d35:9613 (talk) 16:12, 2 June 2018‎ (UTC)

You're referring to the article Battle_of_Ban_Me_Thuot. The article has since reverted to the last clean version by another editor. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 16:19, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

New page reviewer granted

Hi Glane23. Your account has been added to the "New page reviewers" user group, allowing you to review new pages and mark them as patrolled, tag them for maintenance issues, or nominate them for deletion. The list of articles awaiting review is located at the New Pages Feed. New page reviewing is vital to maintaining the integrity of the encylopedia. If you have not already done so, you must read the new tutorial at New Pages Review, the linked guides and essays, and fully understand the deletion policy. If you need any help or want to discuss the process, you are welcome to use the new page reviewer talk page. In addition, please remember:

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I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm PRehse. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Mahboub Hosseinzadeh, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

PRehse (talk) 18:25, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. ()

Hello Glane23, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

June backlog drive

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers.
Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.

New technology, new rules

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• Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.

Editathons

• Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

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NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello Glane23, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.

Project news

• The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.

As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.

• There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. See Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Coordination#Coordinator tasks for more info to see if you can help out.

Other

• A new summary page of reliable sources has been created; Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources, which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.

Moving to Draft and Page Mover

• Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
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• Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
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List of other useful scripts for New Page Reviewing

Twinkle provides a lot of the same functionality as the page curation tools, and some reviewers prefer to use the Twinkle tools for some/all tasks. It can be activated simply in the gadgets section of 'preferences'. There are also a lot of options available at the Twinkle preferences panel after you install the gadget. In terms of other gadgets for NPR, HotCat is worth turning on. It allows you to easily add, remove, and change categories on a page, with name suggestions. MoreMenu also adds a bunch of very useful links for diagnosing and fixing page issues. User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js(info): Installing scripts doesn't have to be complicated. Go to your common.js and copy importScript( 'User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js' ); into an empty line, now you can install all other scripts with the click of a button from the script page! (Note you need to be at the ".js" page for the script for the install button to appear, not the information page) User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js(info): Creates a scrolling new pages list at the left side of the page. You can change the number of pages shown by adding the following to the next line on your common.js page (immediately after the line importing this script): npp_num_pages=20; (Recommended 20, but you can use any number from 1 to 50). User:Primefac/revdel.js(info): Is requesting revdel complicated and time consuming? This script helps simplify the process. Just have the Copyvio source URL and go to the history page and collect your diff IDs and you can drop them into the script Popups and it will create a revdel request for you. User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js(info): Creates a "Page Curation" link to Special:NewPagesFeed up near your sandbox link. User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/deletionFinder.js: Creates links next to the title of each page which show up if it has been previously deleted or nominated for deletion. User:Evad37/rater.js(info): A fantastic tool for adding WikiProject templates to article talk pages. If you add: rater_autostartNamespaces = 0; to the next line on your common.js, the prompt will pop up automatically if a page has no Wikiproject templates on the talk page (note: this can be a bit annoying if you review redirects or dab pages commonly).

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Shawn David Thompson

Dear Geoff,

Why do you keep deleting sections of the Shawn David Thompson page? All the information added is accurate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Baron Von Creyton (talk • contribs) 15:50, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi Baron! I'm not sure what you mean? I can't find me in the article history making any edits. Can you elaborate? Cheers! Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 17:35, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello Glane23, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Backlog

As of 21 October 2018, there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.

Community Wishlist Proposal

• There is currently an ongoing discussion regarding the drafting of a Community Wishlist Proposal for the purpose of requesting bug fixes and missing/useful features to be added to the New Page Feed and Curation Toolbar.
• Please join the conversation as we only have until 29 October to draft this proposal!

Project updates

• ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
• There are now tools being tested to automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.

New scripts

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List of Korean names.

That was not vandalism. Yoo-suk, as its lead states, is an article about a Korean name, therefore I added a link to it from list of Korean names. 59.149.124.29 (talk) 00:17, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

Regarding this edit to List of Korean given names. Perhaps you want to add another name listing rather than deleting and overwriting an existing one. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 00:20, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

See Seok (Korean name): "Seok, also spelled Suk ... is an element in some Korean given names." Some of the Wikipedia articles about names containing this syllable are at the "suk" spelling (e.g. Dong-suk, Tae-suk, and Jae-suk) while others are at the "seok" spelling (e.g. Ji-seok, Jong-seok, Man-seok). I don't know why the Wikipedia titles are not consistent, but in any case it all corresponds to the Korean syllable wikt:석. The table in List of Korean names is organised by rows and colums corresponding to the first and second Korean syllables of the name (rather than the English spelling); that column of the table lists names containing the syllable 석. Regards, 59.149.124.29 (talk) 00:26, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello Glane23,

Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW

• Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.

If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.

We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.

With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.

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NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018

Hello Glane23,

Reviewer of the Year

This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to Onel5969. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554 reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285 edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.

Thanks are also extended for their work to JTtheOG (15,059 reviews), Boleyn (12,760 reviews), Cwmhiraeth (9,001 reviews), Semmendinger (8,440 reviews), PRehse (8,092 reviews), Arthistorian1977 (5,306 reviews), Abishe (4,153 reviews), Barkeep49 (4,016 reviews), and Elmidae (3,615 reviews).
Cwmhiraeth, Semmendinger, Barkeep49, and Elmidae have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only seven months, while Boleyn, with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.

See also the list of top 100 reviewers.

Less good news, and an appeal for some help

The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640 holders of the NPR flag, most of whom appear to be inactive. The 10% of the reviewers who do 90% of the work could do with some support especially as some of them are now taking a well deserved break.

Really good news - NPR wins the Community Wishlist Survey 2019

At #1 position, the Community Wishlist poll closed on 3 December with a resounding success for NPP, reminding the WMF and the volunteer communities just how critical NPP is to maintaining a clean encyclopedia and the need for improved tools to do it. A big 'thank you' to everyone who supported the NPP proposals. See the results.

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If you are not a bot, please do look at what you're reverting

And then please go and undo this thing yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A_Girl_of_the_Limberlost_(novel)&diff=783264767&oldid=768486785

Above from 83.237.9.251 on 18 December, not sure why it wasn't signed by the signing bot. Any way, Ponyo picked up the pieces of the mangled paragraph from several edits back and reassembled it after I tried to fix one mangled word. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 21:16, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

What was wrong with my edit

I responded to a question it was not vandalism J2088 (talk) 16:45, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

Restored your comment in this edit. Sorry, my mistake. Also, I pulled the warning I issued in error off your Talk page. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 16:50, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

Comment

Hello Geoff, first I apologize for my fault in working with Wikipedia, I tried to upload contributes according to my experience (20Years) manufacturing GTEM cells,(The picture showed into your page is mine...) but every time, also in the past, my upload is "rejected for advertisement contents" Really I don't know where is your limit! In your page of GTEM at the NOTE section, there is an explicit link placed from our competitor: Emctest.it that contrast your policy! Rules are rules and valid for everybody!! If you think that we can contribute with images movie and datasheet please give a look at our site www.GTEMCELL.COM (...in the world we are one of the three main manufacturers of cells and I think we can surely supply useful contribute!) Best Regards Fiorenzo 00:47, 5 January 2019 (UTC)Fiorenzo DeLucia (talk)

About this edit from 2014. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 14:14, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

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Not a problem. Someone has replaced this image with another in the article. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 18:54, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.17

Hello Glane23,

News

• The WMF has announced that Google Translate is now available for translating articles through the content translation tool. This may result in an increase in machine translated articles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the {{rough translation}} tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Wikipedia pages still require attribution per WP:TFOLWP.

Discussions of interest

• Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
• {{db-blankdraft}} was merged into G13 (Discussion)
• A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
• There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.

Reminders

• NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.

NPP Tools Report

• Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
• copyvio-check – automatically checks the copyvio percentage of new pages in the background and displays this info with a link to the report in the 'info' panel of the Page curation toolbar.
• The NPP flowchart now has clickable hyperlinks.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – Low – 2393 High – 4828
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NPR Newsletter No.18

Hello Glane23,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

Niharika Kohli, a product manager for the growth team, announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:

• Allow filtering by no citations in page curation
• Not having CSD and PRODs automatically marked as reviewed, reflecting current consensus among reviewers and current Twinkle functionality.

Reliable Sources for NPP

Rosguill has been compiling a list of reliable sources across countries and industries that can be used by new page patrollers to help judge whether an article topic is notable or not. At this point further discussion is needed about if and how this list should be used. Please consider joining the discussion about how this potentially valuable resource should be developed and used.

Backlog drive coming soon

Look for information on the an upcoming backlog drive in our next newsletter. If you'd like to help plan this drive, join in the discussion on the New Page Patrol talk page.

News

• Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.

Discussions of interest

• A request for bot approval for a bot to patrol two kinds of redirects
• There has been a lot discussion about Notability of Academics
• What, if anything, would a SNG for Softball look like

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7242 Low – 2393 High – 7250

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New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019

Hello Glane23,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important.

QUALITY of REVIEWING

Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR.

Backlog

The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever.

Move to draft

NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations.

Notifying users

Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging.

PERM

Admins are now taking advantage of the new time-limited user rights feature. If you have recently been accorded NPR, do check your user rights to see if this affects you. Depending on your user account preferences, you may receive automated notifications of your rights changes. Requests for permissions are not mini-RfAs. Helpful comments are welcome if absolutely necessary, but the bot does a lot of the work and the final decision is reserved for admins who do thorough research anyway.

Other news

School and academic holidays will begin soon in various places around the Western world. Be on the lookout for the usual increase in hoax, attack, and other junk pages.

Our next newsletter might be announcing details of a possible election for co-ordinators of NPR. If you think you have what it takes to micro manage NPR, take a look at New Page Review Coordinators - it's a job that requires a lot of time and dedication.

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New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019

Hello Glane23,

Backlog

Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Coordinator

A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.

This month's refresher course

Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired Ballonman, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.

Deletion tags

Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.

Paid editing

Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion

• Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
• Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.

Not English

• A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.

Tools

Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent enhancements to the New Pages Feed and features in the Curation tool, and there are still more to come. Due to the wealth of information now displayed by ORES, reviewers are strongly encouraged to use the system now rather than Twinkle; it will also correctly populate the logs.

Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.

Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.

DannyS712 bot III is now patrolling certain categories of uncontroversial redirects. Curious? Check out its patrol log.

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Barnstar!!

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		This is for your valuable efforts for countering Vandalism and protecting Wikipedia from it's threats. I appreciate your effort. You are a defender of Wikipedia. Thank you. PATH SLOPU 10:26, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

Sirius FM-1

Hey, the revert you did on my edit was improper. I added a sentence saying when the satellite was removed from service; this has to count as "relevant information" on a wikipedia page about a satellite. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.214.79.42 (talk) 16:26, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

Regarding this edit. No reliable source cited. User was blocked after this and other edits. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 18:08, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Aye

October

... with thanks from QAI

Thank you for having supported the right candidacy for arbitration. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:37, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the nice note. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 15:19, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

Today, I am proud of a great woman on the Main page, Márta Kurtág, finally, who has much in common with Schumann! - I moved the thread to his talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:28, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter November 2019

Hello Glane23,

This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.

Getting the queue to 0

There are now 814 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox.
Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards.

Coordinator

Admin Barkeep49 has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers.

This month's refresher course

Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources.

Tools

• It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
• It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.

Reviewer Feedback

Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13.

Second set of eyes

• Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
• Do be sure to have our talk page on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.

Arbitration Committee

The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights.

Community Wish list

There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion.

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Precious anniversary

Precious

Two years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:02, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Dear Gerda - I'm touched and honored once again. Thank you... Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 23:15, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter December 2019

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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ITV Box Office Closure

Hi

I did provide a citation! I added a reference to https://www.itv.com/itvboxofficefaqs which proves the closure! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.171.235.198 (talk) 00:29, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

You are correct. When I first checked the URL given, I went to a page that did not exist. I tried it again just now after reading your message here and it is now working in support of your edit. My apologies. Please put restore your edit and reference if you have not already done so. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 00:33, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020

Hello Glane23,

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

• There is an ongoing discussion around changing notifications for new editors who attempt to write articles.
• A recent discussion of whether Michelin starred restraunts are notable was archived without closure.
• A resource page with links pertinent for reviewers was created this month.
• A proposal to increase the scope of G5 was withdrawn.

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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Orphaned non-free image File:Lychee wine.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:Lychee wine.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 03:31, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Fixed. Image back in article. Thanks, bot. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 17:32, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:100 percent Bran.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:100 percent Bran.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 03:25, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

OK to delete. The article was deleted as non-notable. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 16:09, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

/* Awards */

Hello Glane23! I was the user who just recently added several awards to the awards section of the Dentrix wiki page. I saw that you removed that section as being too promotional. I want to make sure I didn't come across as trying to do that. I was just wanting to update the awards list, as it is now several years old. Should I be wording the awards language differently?

Mike 75.169.176.182 (talk) 20:44, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

About Dentrix. Hi Mike. Please see the policy on promotions which you can find here: Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#PROMO. Lists of awards don't add much to knowledge about a subject and serve promotional purposes ("bragging") more than anything else. If you like, you can start a discussion about it on the article's Talk page to try to reach a consensus on whether to include any awards. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 22:40, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020

Hello Glane23,

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

• A discussion on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
• Also at the Village Pump is a discussion about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
• A proposed new speedy deletion criteria for certain kinds of redirects ended with no consensus.
• Also ending with no change was a proposal to change how we handle certain kinds of vector images.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 10271 Low – 4991 High – 10271

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Wrong revert with Huggle

Do you know what happened here? Jackmcbarn (talk) 21:47, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Mistake. I saw the vandal's edit and, it appears, I hit the revert just after ClueBot had reverted, though I couldn't see it at the time. My fault. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 22:08, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Comment by 50.1.114.34

I am reverting your blank page to let you know that your moderation, censorship, and stuffing your head in the sand is not beneficial to society. This false aura of neutrality reinforces the notion that Wikipedia is a joke and exists to push the agenda of those with higher editing powers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.1.114.34 (talk) 18:30, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

Refers to a warning after this edit. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 19:28, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

Comment by 82.40.130.75

Hi Geoff, I just wanted to ask why you reverted my edits on Braunau-am-Inn, the fact is true and the fact may be on the page already, and I just wanted to know why you deleted my contribution Thanks 82.40.130.75 (talk) 16:37, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Hello - the statement was added without reference to a reliable source. Wikipedia articles need sources. See WP:RS. You could cite: "Kotanko, Florian. "House of Responsibility". House of Responsibility – Braunau am Inn. HRB News. Retrieved 19 April 2020." as was done in the Adolph Hitler article. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 16:49, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Port Elizabeth - not constructive??

Hi,

With regards to the removal of my update, can I please ask why you have reverted the whole thing because you don't think it is constructive?

Could you please explain to me why this is not constructive to you.

Basically it highlights the canal linkage source, that no one knows about and well basically is not documented anywhere maybe only one person that knows and well when he is gone, this information is gone with it. The only place in South Africa that one can document this without very important things like this going missing, website info and documentation just gets lost, with this government is basically a wiki. I am Engineering actually has the Fotos, but no really knows what's going on here.

This is basically the most important and largest water resource in the country that needs to be managed for electricity generation, irrigation and drinking water, in which current city port Elizabeth that water has been redirected to has declared a day zero.

I basically know this because I have been on there and was explained, I am not connecting the 2 major water basin transfer scheme so that people can understand where the water actually comes from as redirected from the other side of the country via many complex rivers and channels, which is like 5 hours away.

Its is very important that this information gets added.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Port%20Elizabeth&diff=979600519

I look forward to hearing back from you.

Kind Regards,

Wesley Oliver

Hi Wesley. I've reverted my edit. But do you suppose you could provide reliable sources for the addition? For instance, that reference to http://www.dwaf.gov.za/orange/Mid_Orange/fish-sun.htm can't be accessed, so I was unable to evaluate it as a reference. Cheers! Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 18:16, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi Geoff,

Sadly, this what is the problem in the country, website with resource and things like that and books are slowly disappearing and when updated websites, they losing information. That reference that I have quatoed there is basically brought forward from the fish river wiki page, to consolidate the flow of water into a single paragraph on one page. Should I reference the wiki-page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundays_River#Fish-Sundays_River_Canal_Scheme where this is stated first time instead?

Basically, the department of water affairs has lost that information. What I now do with things is I print-to-pdf and put in my drive, because in like a few months or years time it will just get lost, or resource for the page go missing images, extra. I found other interesting resource, but they are available for as long as that persons entity maintains the server and pays those bills. So ultimately, the world is going to need other solution to this, mabye wiki in the further could be the world decofactor source of information, where it snap and mirrors copies of references, because information will eventually get lost. One way or the other especially in 3rd world countries, we going to have to find a solution to this problem. Same applies for youtube video documenteries and self documenteries, in which things get lost need be index mabye kinda official ones, as typically no else get see things but them, so video footage will be the only thing one has in the future years. Also those place that are well, very popular, there are many videos and it takes a while for googles recommender system to get the rights ones to surface, have watch a few, before start find ones might be looking for. Anyways those just some thoughts i guess, where could document what tourism and government doesn't but extremely interesting history of places visually as we never be able to re-vist those places.

Let me know you thoughts on that reference, weather better to reference the other wiki page or the original source.

Basically I am still reading into what I can do with the following information and how I can present this as just photos and reference the Gareip Dam guide tour institution. Can I for instants post the photo and then do a verbatim memo of the text in the photo under the photo or somthing for search engine purposes. In all these photos you will find this information. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xBjU72tcOnIR9vqwCxRemJzT1tk3lm4d?usp=sharing

Look forward to hearing from you.

Don't forget to sign your Talk page messages with four tildes (~~~~) without the parens at the end of your comment. That will automagically fill in your user name and time. And start your replies by indenting with colons, as you can see I've done here (you can see in the edit view - each colon is another indent). With many web references, you can find them archived on the Internet Web Archives, such as for this fish one: https://web.archive.org/web/20040919085744/http://www.dwaf.gov.za/orange/Mid_Orange/fish-sun.htm. The main page for the web archive site is here: https://web.archive.org/. You can't cite Wikipedia pages as Wikipedia is not a reliable source. Read up on reliable sources here: Wikipedia:Reliable_sources. You'll see that you don't have to always cite websites or web-available resources - print books are good references as well. Here's a guide to citing sources: Wikipedia:Citing_sources. Posting photos is problematic unless you took them yourself, because any photos you find on the internet or elsewhere are almost certainly copyrighted and cannot be used on a free site like Wikipedia. Same goes for text posted elsewhere. I can also direct you to a very helpful group of volunteers who are willing to help with editing questions, The Teahouse: Wikipedia:Teahouse. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 19:25, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Comment by 199.7.158.232

Hi Geoff,

I worked at Data card for a long time. The company started as Addressograph (was know as Data Card Addressograph) before being Data Card (two words) Corp. It wasn't until after the short and failed re-branding in the 1990's that the name Datacard Group was spun in circa 1998.

I worked there at the same time Stephan Quandt worked there. I was a director of the SI division and also the Government Group under Greg Thom (DCG Corporate attorney) that saw the company revenues surge as we moved from solely products to solutions. I still deal with Datacard products everyday in my current job.

Regards,

Ian Williams

About this edit to Datacard_Group. Unfortunately, statements in articles cannot be supported by your own knowledge or research. See WP:OR. Instead, please cite reliable sources. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 17:54, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Tagging of Groundwire Ministry

I recently removed a speedy delete tag that you had placed on Groundwire Ministry. I do not think that Groundwire Ministry fits any of the speedy deletion criteria  because There is no rule against moving or copying a declined draft into the main article space. AfC is never mandatory. Please do not tag for speedy deletion unless a page clearly fits one of the specified criteria at WP:CSD. If you wish, you may try using the simple proposed deletion (PROD) process, or the full articles for deletion (AfD) process, instead, if this was an article, or another process such as MfD or XfD as appropriate. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 18:27, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

Live and learn. PRODded instead. Thanks. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 19:10, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

Comment by Shubham Dhingra15s

Hi I saw your recent edit on deletion log. I'm facing a biased attack on my page, the editor seems to have a personal issue and is falsely reporting to delete my page. Can you help in this case? Shubham Dhingra15s (talk) 17:39, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

Are you referring to the deletion discussion here: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Vivek_Singh_(entrepreneur)? I haven't participated in that discussion, so I am not sure why you are writing to me. See this article for more information on Wikipedia's deletion policy. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 17:53, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

Reverted edit (NADRA) from Amaan4210

I'd removed vandalism from an IP address user and you reverted my edit. Please undo it.

Can you also explain why you reverted it in the first place?

I'd also used an IP address for my edit because couldn't access my amount at that time, in case that's why you reverted it.

Sure. I made a mistake and please accept my apology. I could not tell from the short edit comment by the IP User that the change was productive. Reverted back to the version by 2a02:c7f:a871:cc00:f89a:d0fc:5bd:847b.

P.S. You want to sign comments with the 4 tildes (~~~~) without the parens. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 22:24, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

OK thanks, I'm still new to editing Wikipedia. Amaan4210 (talk) 22:28, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Error on Mayo Clinic

You reverted an edit by 202.131.135.183 on Mayo Clinic. The reference states that the company name is in fact "nference," not "conference." Please see https://nference.ai/ and https://xconomy.com/boston/2020/01/16/mayo-clinic-joins-60m-financing-for-biomedical-software-firm-nference-2/ for more details. Trantorian (talk) 13:42, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

My apologies as I see you have reverted my revert. I was sure it was a spelling error but I do see from the reference that the firm name is indeed "nference", lower case and all. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 16:34, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

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Thanks. Edited the FUR to describe a product cover, rather than just a logo. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 22:33, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

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Three years!

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Thank you, Gerda! Cheers! Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 19:02, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

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Fixed - The image is added back to the article. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 18:59, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

reversion

You have just accused me of writing a comment to an Andrew Yang that you had to "revert". I have no idea what you're talking about. I don't care whether or not you want me to join yet another passworded venue, I won't. Please take my name and IP address off anything you have immediately. I have just donated to Wikipedia, and you've made me wish I hadn't. Check carefully and privately before you accuse. I would never do this to anyone! There have to be better ways to do this; e.g., take a comment off and that's it!

Gosh, you've spoiled my moment.

eepeirson — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.29.72.157 (talk) 18:36, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

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Mehwish Hayat

Regarding this removal; Gulf News isn't a blog. It lists her date of birth as "January 6, 1983". I wonder why you removed it. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 16:52, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Neither is Pakistan Today for which I've added the archive, which mentions her birthday. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 17:01, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

@Fylindfotberserk: They looked like blogs to me, plus several of the sources cited for the DOB were dead links for which I couldn't find archived pages. Reasonable minds can differ so feel free, of course, to add the info back with appropriate sources. Thanks for the nice note. Cheers, mate! Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 17:40, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks and Happy New Year to you and your family . - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 17:44, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Abdi

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Your tag on Abdi

Please have a look on the number of the visitors of this page during the years.Thanks 92.19.72.180 (talk) 21:45, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Feel free to participate on the nomination page Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Mohammad_Abdi. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 22:16, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

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Fixed - returned to the article. Thanks. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 23:55, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

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Article on Balkundra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkundra)

Hi Glane23, The correct name of the town/village is "Balkudra" not "Balkundra". That why I have corrected it being resident of the village, but the changes has been rolled back by you. you can refer india post website for correct spelling using below link with state as Jharkhand and District as Ramgarh. "https://www.indiapost.gov.in/vas/pages/findpincode.aspx" I was not able to correct the article heading as Balkudra. can you do that please. I see the same thing with other websites like weather.com etc doing so as they might be referring wikipedia. Could you please help.

Thanks, Deepak — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deepak Pd Sahu (talk • contribs) 04:10, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

@Deepak Pd Sahu: The name is from one of the sources in the article - the 2001 India Census report: [4]. You should start a discussion on the article's Talk page about the proposed changes to see if a consensus can be reached. Additional sources are needed for the article. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 14:09, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

????Mike Stoker????

Please tell me exactly what was vandalism about the edit you reverted? That was in no way vandalism; and it's explained exactly. You're allowed to disagree with the edit. You are not allowed to label constructive edits vandalism. Revert your warning message, and unless you can mount an arguement against redirecting a BLP without citations to a related subject for an actor who had one very minor roll in one TV series and no other indication of even the possibility of notability, you should also restore the redirect. WP:IPs are people too and many of us have been doing this for a long time. 174.254.192.112 (talk) 20:10, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Seems you have PRODded the article, so there is nothing to discuss. Though how redirecting an article about an actor to the Emergency article makes any sense is beyond my ken. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 16:29, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

North Country Basketball Association

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:North_Country_Basketball_Association Can this be edited North Country Basketball (talk) 18:17, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

@North Country Basketball: If you mean can the draft be edited, the simple answer is that it can. Your user name, though, is problematic because it (1) suggests a shared or organizational user rather than an individual and may violate the user name policy and (2) creating and editing an article about your own organization may be a conflict of interest. Conflicts of interest are discouraged and, at a minimum, must be disclosed, particularly if paid editing is involved. For more on that, see the terms of use FAQs on paid editing without disclosure. Hope that (and the linked articles) answers your question. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 18:36, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

Can I change my username North Country Basketball (talk) 18:37, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

Yes. See how here. You'll probably want to go to the Global Rename Request page. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 18:41, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

Ok I changed it North Country Basketball (talk) 18:42, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

• North Country Basketball is a sock of Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Zaner25. Cabayi (talk) 07:20, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

@Cabayi: Thanks! I had no idea and no idea why they reached out to me. Cheers! Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 15:23, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

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Thanks, bot, but the draft was created by an IP User and moved to draft space at their request. See User_talk:188.28.52.34. That user has not edited for 11 months, so they may well have abandoned the project. I'll copy the notice to their Talk page just in case, but there is nothing I can do about the draft myself as I was not the creator. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 15:48, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

OTRS ticket

Thanks for your comment about the OTRS ticket in the recent AfD. Can you tell me how you were able to verify it? -- The Anome (talk) 06:58, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Regarding WP:Articles_for_deletion/Kokumo: Without betraying any confidences, personal information provided in the communications with OTRS about the article subject accompanied by new comments internally consistent with [5] and [6] which were cited in the AFD nom. Other than posting the ticket number, I refrained from participating in the AFD. Had I participated, I would have !voted for deletion and salting on lack of notability grounds, as well as the article subject's request. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 15:11, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Natacha

I have improved the Natacha Peyre article. At least take a look. Regards.BabbaQ (talk) 18:23, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, BabbaQ. I looked but didn't see those more recent references when I was doing my WP:BEFORE searches, perhaps because I am challenged by Swedish beyond a simple "Skål!". And so I thought she had faded away after just a very few appearances since the first AFD in 2012. I'm happy when an AFD nom results in improvement to an article, though I realize that is not the primary purpose of AFD. Cheers! Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 18:38, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you! Yes, I noticed as well that the article had not been updated for years and had awful sources, so no wonder you nominated it. Anyways, I see now that the AfD has three Keep opinions, so hopefully the article will be kept. Cheers.--BabbaQ (talk) 08:34, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

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As I mentioned earlier, that article wasn't created by me. So "you may fire when you are ready, Gridley." Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 17:20, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

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Vanitoscani submission at Articles for creation: Hooksounds music (May 13)

Your recent article submission has been rejected. If you have further questions, you can ask at the Articles for creation help desk or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help. The reason left by Theroadislong was: This submission is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. The comment the reviewer left was: just advertisng

Theroadislong (talk) 17:27, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

@Vanitoscani: Thanks all, but I submitted the draft for its creator who was having trouble with the Submission button. It's not mine but was created by Vanitoscani. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 18:42, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

My article was not advertising

Hey Glane23, how are you? I don't understand why my article is being declined for being just advertising, I just wanted to create the information about a company, its history, and how it was made. How can I do this without it getting declined? Can i ask someone to help me?

@Vanitoscani: Follow the links in the rejection notice at the top of the article, Hooksounds music. I didn't make the decision to reject, as I only pressed the submit button on your behalf, so you need to seek help at the Teahouse or you can ask the volunteer who rejected the article, who is also in the notice. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 15:14, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

May 2021

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to remove maintenance templates without resolving the problem that the template refers to, as you did at French dressing, you may be blocked from editing. You've been removing maintenance templates without solving the issues from this article for the past 6 years.[7]. If you continue to do so to this article or any other, you will be blocked. Toddst1 (talk) 04:35, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

@Toddst1: Really? You recently tagged French dressing with a BLP tag plus an OR tag, neither of which seemed warranted at the present time, so I removed the tags (a) because the article is not about a living person; (b) because there does not seem to be OR currently; (c) you've added back the tags with dates from 2012 and 2014; (d) you've mentioned in your notice maintenance tags I removed 6 years ago after I added sources, thus resolving the issues which lead to the tagging at the time; and, (e) you're threatening blocking over this? What on earth are you thinking? Surely, there is an occasion to assume good faith? At least to discuss your concerns and outline what it is about the article that involves a BLP and OR at the present time. Perhaps we can work together to improve the article? Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 12:48, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

OK, I hit the wrong tag in WP:TW. BFD That has nothing to do your removal of the tags. All the stuff that's left tagged with {{cn}} or {{better source}} is likely to be WP:OR, given the history of drive-by opinions dropped in this article. Glad to help improve it, but let's start with acknowledging the problems and solving them with WP:RS. Toddst1 (talk) 05:01, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Cannon

Hello, I'm 201.227.226.140. I did made some changes to an article, Raymond Cannon (actor) by adding images, I didn't provide a source but I did add images from the Commons Category to make the article more complete, so don't remove it again please! Thank you. 201.227.226.140 23:50, 23 May 2021

What primarily concerned me was the addition of the name, "Ulises Tildmann Cannon", without a source. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 14:42, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Dear Geoff

I just edited the article on "Honky Tonk". Not only do i NOT interpret your removing that changes as a "Personal Attack", :-) i honestly think i owe you an apology for NOT having any references.

I actually began editing the article with the intention of refering ONLY to Wikipedia source. There used to be an article on the Gammon language in Wikipedia in which they clearly sourced the "Gammon" syllable inversion:

Mac (Celtic for boy [of]/son [of]) becomes Cam Colleen (Celtic for girl) becomes Locheen, etc. etc.

The fact is the reference has been moved to a SEPARATE wiki page of it's own and i should have checked that BEFORE i forced you to make the correction. Here is the correct reference from Wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelta#Lexicon

Celtic --> Shelta

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Colleen --> Lacheen (girl)

Doors -- Rodas

Mac --> Cam (boy[of] / son[of])

Pog --> Gop (Kiss)

A common phrase we use: "Pog ma Fat Gypsy Thoin!"

becomes

"Gop omi Taffy Pikey Hoinkty"

I am not entirely comfortable making these changes without your approval. I really do think for consistency the reference actually TO wikipage:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelta#Lexicon

should be used, but i don't want to force you to take the time to remove it again if something is wrong.

Thank You VERY much

Peter

@2600:1700:A700:58E0:0:0:0:C: Hi Peter, no problem. However, you'll want to reference not a Wikipedia article, but instead a reliable source such as one of those cited in the article you mentioned, assuming there is one for the term. You can read about reliable sources here: Wikipedia:Reliable sources. Wikipedia, as a user-generated publication, is not a reliable source. See Wikipedia:Reliable sources#User-generated content. This is primarily because there is no fact-checking capability here at Wikipedia. Keep calm and carry on, mate! Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 14:49, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Reverting - and then returning - your edit to QUIC

@Glane23: Hi. I reverted your edit to QUIC where you set the start date back to 2012... because in my brain I was thinking about the formal standard for the QUIC protocol that was only approved in 2021. However, in re-reading the article and the infobox, I see that your 2012 date makes sense as that was when the first experimentation with the protocol happened. So I reverted my reverting of your edit. 🙂 Anyway, I just wanted to let you know why there was that activity. - Dyork (talk) 01:24, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, mate. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 14:18, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

JOE FORTE possible deletion

Hello. I would like to add outside sources to show that Joe deserves a page on Wiki -- but I am new here. Can you tell me how to do that? Do I just site them here with you? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.169.57.14 (talk) 22:29, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

If you have a relationship to the article subject, you should edit the Talk page of the Joe Forte article, rather than the article. You can use a tool to do that. You can request edits be made to a page you have a link to by going to Wikipedia:Edit_Request_Wizard and following its instructions. For the first step, you'd be clicking the button appropriate to your relationship to the article subject, or the last button, if the article is protected. This will post a request on the article's Talk page and flag it for the attention of any interested volunteer. It will be especially helpful if, along with your suggested changes, you can provide links to reliable sources as references along with your suggested changes. Reliable sources are described here: Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources. If you wish to participate in the deletion discussion, you should do so there: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joe Forte. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 22:48, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

edit to the description of Prophecy

hey what was wrong with what i posted i did say it was my opinion and many will see it as propaganda, so there's a heads up to all sides but its something not taught and this is a platform for ppl to learn, so why delete that comment do i need a user name so ppl can target me of any negative response and not the community? what can i do to keep the post is what im asking, thatnk you for your time and i uploaded this to tic tok before the post and after so many ppl are going to see ether way, btw this infomation will be lost very soon so keep what you can, even if it sounds crazy lol laters

About this edit to Prophecy - Wikipedia is not the place to post your opinion or to publish your thoughts. See WP:OR and WP:V. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 15:58, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

fair enough but what if i tell you its not an opinion in truth but 100% fact that cant be known cuz if it was it would stop alot of deception and free many from the horrors to come, kinda like the red dust that will be forming everywhere but shh lets not spoil that one, the stuff that sounds crazy has truth, did you know to believe something others tell you as fact is having a faith in it cuz you didnt come up with it but agreed with what was said, same thing but what been said has happened and that's why it comes to pass to Show ppl to Christ, ppl are going to leave the common knowledge real soon and be looking for the ones that dont filter subjects out, you can help get it out, or you will be against it and all against it will be dealt with first mentally (spirit) then flesh, btw nations are at there tipping point and its a perfect timing cuz after 1 hour with the best 10 kings that have no kingdom as of yet will have it and submit it to the beast, get rdy for your bracelet (for your protection) and a whole new type of citizenship, why say all this in a rant no one will see, cuz 1 only needs to see it and nothing you can do to stop that sry i had to make a username someone already had my name so i got creative lol but yes its Skoomz you can find me everywhere from tick tok, Instagram, twitter, dont like or sub i dont want that but this is other places i post my propaganda fill free to watch when thing start going and seek Christ and his walk , love all above your self and God above that, so simple but many wont, that's why ppl get changed right before the end and if i dont well that suxs but all thouse that keep Christ will

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OK by me. I uploaded the image 11 years ago, and it has just now been superseded by a logo image uploaded by another volunteer. No need for this file anymore. Added a G11 tag to the file page. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 20:47, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

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No problem, I've added an author’s deletion template to the image file. Per an old post on the article Talk page, Talk:Guinness_Yeast_Extract, this was the wrong image in that it was an image of a different product. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 17:24, 27 September 2021 (UTC)