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Curious
Who did you think I was impersonating? KillerChihuahua 14:05, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
- Honestly I did not intend to edit your page with that content at all, I had intended to make that edit to another user's page, as I recall some user who was impersonating you (I don't remember who). And as soon as I realized I had made the edit to your page instead, I was horrified and so reverted my edit immediately. IntoThinAir (talk) 14:08, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
- ah, that makes more sense. Thanks for clearing that up. KillerChihuahua 14:13, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
- You're welcome. I actually just checked, and this is the edit I made to your page by accident (and made to the correct userpage of a now-indeffed user less than a minute later). IntoThinAir (talk) 18:09, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
- ah, that makes more sense. Thanks for clearing that up. KillerChihuahua 14:13, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
Nomination of Damn You Auto Correct for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Damn You Auto Correct is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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Category:Library websites has been nominated for discussion
Category:Library websites, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Rathfelder (talk) 18:31, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
New Page Review newsletter November 2019
Hello IntoThinAir,
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 817 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.
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- 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.
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- Reviewer Feedback
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- 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.
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Nomination of Craig Loehle for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Craig Loehle is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Craig Loehle until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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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.
| Rank | Username | Num reviews | Log |
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| 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
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- 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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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Alkaloids found in Amaryllidaceae
A tag has been placed on Category:Alkaloids found in Amaryllidaceae requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
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can you help me?
I don't know someone to adopt me, can you please adopt me?, thank you for listening to my offering
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New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020
Hello IntoThinAir,
- 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.
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Category:American journalists of Spanish descent has been nominated for discussion
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"Phenome-wide association study" listed at Redirects for discussion
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Nomination for merging of Template:Inadequate lead
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Precious anniversary
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Nomination of ASMR Darling for deletion
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Adoption
Do you want to adopt me I will stick around :) I’m not very experienced. MerhabaU (talk) 21:01, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
- @MerhabaU: Sure, I'll adopt you. Sorry for the late response. IntoThinAir (talk) 02:02, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
Adoption
Hello! I'm trying to become a more active member on Wikipedia, but don't know where to start. Perhaps you could adopt me? Thegreatcount (talk) 00:03, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Thegreatcount: Sure, what do you need help with? IntoThinAir (talk) 02:02, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
- Ever since joining, I've wanted to understand more about standard procedures for editing pages and whatnot. Afterwards, I wanted to see if I could go ahead and start contributing? Otherwise, I'm not really sure of where to continue. Thegreatcount (talk) 06:16, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Thegreatcount: This seems pretty broad, but check out WP:HOW. IntoThinAir (talk) 00:15, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
- Ever since joining, I've wanted to understand more about standard procedures for editing pages and whatnot. Afterwards, I wanted to see if I could go ahead and start contributing? Otherwise, I'm not really sure of where to continue. Thegreatcount (talk) 06:16, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
The article Stuart J. Ritchie has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
does not meet WP:BIO
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Nomination of Stuart J. Ritchie for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Stuart J. Ritchie is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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Delete “Murder of Blaze Bernstein”
I am the mother of Blaze Bernstein. I appreciate you adding the entry to Wikipedia so that there is some place for interested parties to learn of my sons story but I would like to take what you have created here and added as a segment in a larger Wikipedia entry on Blaze Bernstein and his legacy. Would you be open to that? I will create the content for it before I publish it and show you how I would like to incorporate your original piece into it. Let me know your thoughts on the matter. I plan on going forward if I do not hear from you and creating a Blaze Bernstein entry separately. Jeannepepperbernstein (talk) 20:00, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
- Thank you for contacting me. I'm not sure if this is a good idea, but you need to consider the relevant notability guidelines (e.g. WP:VICTIM and WP:NOTMEMORIAL) to see if your son is notable independently of the circumstances that led to his tragic death. Furthermore, when editing a Wikipedia article, you do not need the permission of the creator of the article (me in this case) to make the changes you want to it. IntoThinAir (talk) 20:30, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Nomination of Wikimedian of the Year for deletion
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"MERIDITH BAER WIKI" listed at Redirects for discussion
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ISCB Wikipedia Competition
Hi IntoThinAir, I noticed you'd created the computational biology related article Batch effect. I wondered if I could bring the ISCB Wikipedia Competition to your attention? If you are interested (and eligible, of course), you may wish to enter this article - or other relevant articles, of course. The closing date is next Friday, 15 May. If you've any questions just let me know. Thanks, Amkilpatrick (talk) 06:24, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Sweet Pea Atkinson
On 8 May 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Sweet Pea Atkinson, which you created. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. SpencerT•C 17:58, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
I have sent you a note about a page you started
Hello, IntoThinAir
Thank you for creating 2016 Alaska Republican caucuses.
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nice work
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Nomination of Diane Harper for deletion
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Adopt-a-user program
hello there! I an looking for an experienced user (you!) to be my mentor, I have been in Wikipedia for a few weeks and gained experience on vandalism and have rollback perm but want to gain more experience on other departments and project, is it possible for you to be my mentor?. Trains2050 (talk) 19:41, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020
Hello IntoThinAir,
- 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.
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- 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.
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Adopt-a-User
Hello,
I would like to be be adopted by you. I am interested in combating vandals, learning Wikitext, and doing behind-the-scenes work for
the wiki.
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Nomination of Storybooth for deletion
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Nomination of 270towin.com for deletion
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Nomination of Anthony Walsh (criminologist) for deletion
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Category:State climatologists has been nominated for renaming
Category:State climatologists has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:15, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
Nomination of Fred Pincus for deletion
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Speedy deletion nomination of Experimental criminology
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- IntoThinAir, I've removed this tag; no evidence or links were provided, and at the very least, your original 2017 revision does not seem to be a violation. You may wish to check the 2018 IP additions. – Teratix ₵ 06:12, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
Nomination of YAD06 for deletion
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Adoption?
I saw that you were currently accepting new adoptees so I was wondering if you would consider a new, pretty inexpereienced editor as a mentee. I had previously done some edits (no more than 100) in an old account, but I decided to create a new one as I am starting to get more involved in the community. The resources and guidelines, however, can be so overwhelming at first and it would be so amazing to have someone to guide me through the process. I'm interested in the behind the scenes grunt work of wikipedia (categorization, copyediting, references checking, article patrol etc.), but I am also open to trying my hand at content creation. I probably won't edit every day, but you can expect me to log in pretty regularly. I hope that you do consider adopting me. Wikignometry (talk) 06:10, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
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New Page Patrol December Newsletter
Hello IntoThinAir,
- 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.
Six Month Queue Data: Today – 2262 Low – 2232 High – 10271
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18:17, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
Category:American scientists of Italian descent has been nominated for deletion
Category:American scientists of Italian descent has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 07:55, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
Category:American scientists of Japanese descent has been nominated for discussion
Category:American scientists of Japanese descent has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Place Clichy (talk) 16:54, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
January 2021
Hello and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I saw that an article you created, Template:Be Your Own Pet has not been added to any categories. According to the guideline Wikipedia:Categorization, every article should be in at least one category. Please help by adding categories to the articles you create. You can take a look at the categorization FAQ. If you need further help, ask at the Teahouse. Thank you. --Jax 0677 (talk) 05:12, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
Nomination of Dangmattsmith for deletion
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— Yours, Berrely • Talk∕Contribs 09:44, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
Wretched umlauts
Actually, it's not Dutch. "Frühling" is the German word for "Spring". The Dutch don't have umlauts, although they have a similar sign called a "trema", but which has a very different function. :-DD --Randykitty (talk) 19:06, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
- Fair enough. All I could tell was Rijsdijk (hard to spell that last name) seems to be Dutch given that she got her PhD at VU Amsterdam. Of course, I don't speak Dutch or German so I know basically nothing about things like the trema-umlaut distinction, and in fact this was the first I had heard of a "trema". IntoThinAir (talk) 16:10, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
- I'm not sure what nationality she has, as she was born and raised in Surinam (she speaks Dutch with a Surinam accent). The family name is Dutch all right. Difficult to pronounce for non-native speakers. And another arcane bit of knowledge: In Dutch, "ij" is a single letter. Old fashioned typewriters have a special key for it, so that "ij" occupies just the space of a single letter. The two-letter combo "ei" (also the Dutch word for "egg") is pronounced exactly the same, so when spelling words a Dutch person simply has to learn whether ei or ij is correct. :-) --Randykitty (talk) 16:32, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
- This is often an issue for me with articles about academics. It's often impossible to find reliable sources saying their nationality/citizenship, so you just have to guess. When they were educated in country A, teach in country B, and the editor (in this case, me) is from country C (in this case, the United States), and you have no idea where they were born, this becomes especially difficult. Not sure if I should remove the Dutch nationality stuff from the article on Rijsdijk given this uncertainty. You can remove it if you want of course. IntoThinAir (talk) 17:06, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
- I'm not sure what nationality she has, as she was born and raised in Surinam (she speaks Dutch with a Surinam accent). The family name is Dutch all right. Difficult to pronounce for non-native speakers. And another arcane bit of knowledge: In Dutch, "ij" is a single letter. Old fashioned typewriters have a special key for it, so that "ij" occupies just the space of a single letter. The two-letter combo "ei" (also the Dutch word for "egg") is pronounced exactly the same, so when spelling words a Dutch person simply has to learn whether ei or ij is correct. :-) --Randykitty (talk) 16:32, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
- I won't: I know that she was born in Surinam, but I don't have a source for that. And not only do I not have a source for her nationality (Surinamese or Dutch, or British by now), I don't know this either. I could ask her, but that's not a source either... Yep, academics usually don't care much about nationality. I know one who has 3 different ones :-) Goes for most academic journals (and even publishers), too. --Randykitty (talk) 17:11, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
The article Larry Bell (architect) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
No claim nor evidence of notability, under WP:NPROF, WP:GNG or any other notability criterion. WP:BEFORE shows no evidence of sufficient sourcing to meet even WP:BASIC on a WP:BLP.
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Precious anniversary
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--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:25, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
getting around to thanking you for creating this in 2015.--Milowent • hasspoken 15:21, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
The article InboxDollars has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
Fails WP:NWEB. Coverage consists of advertorials and passing mentions on 'how to make money online' articles.
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Nomination of InboxDollars for deletion
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KH-1 (talk) 01:58, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
Adopt me!
:I want to be adopted. I've been editing for a month but I keep making mistakes. I only edit outer space related articles. There is a discussion about me at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents - Wikipedia. When you respond, please {{mention}} me. Starship SLS (formerly IP 64.121.103.144) (talk) 18:26, 28 April 2021 (UTC)