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Administrators' newsletter – November 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).

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  • Phase 2 of the 2021 RfA review has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues found in Phase 1. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:44, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Question 1

Hi Liz, I saw that you are on the list of currently active admins, so I wanted to ask if you would take a look at something; a blocked user started using another account, (and have stated as such). I had pinged the blocking admin, but then found out they are away on a leave. I don't believe this is particularly urgent, likely more of a procedural block. If you have any questions, let me know. Thanks - wolf 20:29, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Hey, Thewolfchild,
I am really bad at spotting sockpuppets unless they go back to editing the same articles so I don't know how you spotted this one which was originally blocked several years ago. But since they confessed, I really had no choice but to block them and ask them to log into their original account and make an unblock request. Good eye! Liz Read! Talk! 20:35, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
That was quick! Thanks - wolf 20:37, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
Well, I'm usually either right on top of my user talk page or I forget it's there. Liz Read! Talk! 20:40, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Request redaction on my talk page

Hi Liz, Requesting redact for user's recent defamatory comment on my talk page. Thanks. AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 15:56, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, AngusWOOF,
If you are talking about the comments left by 172.119.3.160, I don't think they fit the revision deletion criteria. He was calling Wikipedia, as a project with its notability criteria, racist. Although he/she was going after you, it wasn't the kind of gross vandalism and slurs that would fit revision deletion criteria and I think removing them from your page is sufficient. It is a judgment call though so feel free to ask another admin for their opinion. Liz Read! Talk! 16:04, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
Liz, thanks, I will remove and have them rant about it on the talk page of the subject. AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 16:06, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

Draft:Randy Arrington, PhD

Hi, I added the CSD tag to this due to the following sentence which I believed to be negative: “ But be fully aware that being in the close proximity of Dr. Randy Arrington is NOT a safe space.” which I felt had negative connotations. If I was being overly sensitive, I apologise. Equine-man (talk) 00:02, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Equine-man,
No, you aren't being too sensitive, I'm going to remove that sentence. But when thinking about "attack pages", I think about the definition at WP:CSD,
Examples of "attack pages" may include libel, legal threats, material intended purely to harass or intimidate a person or biographical material about a living person that is entirely negative in tone and unsourced. These pages should be speedily deleted when there is no neutral version in the page history to revert to.
This draft wasn't entirely or even mostly negative in tone (although it is unsourced) except for that sentence which I'm going to delete now. I appreciate knowing that you are looking over new drafts and are sensitive to BLP issues. I think, for the good of the project, it's better to be over-sensitive than tone deaf. Liz Read! Talk! 00:07, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
Thanks :) Equine-man (talk) 00:10, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Deletion of page called "Master of Media in Journalism and Communication program at the University of Western Ontario"

Hello! I published a page yesterday (November 2, 2021) about the history of the Master of Media in Journalism and Communication program at Western University. I based this page off the similar one of its kind for a different program. Here's the link to that inspiration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_and_Information_Science_program_at_the_University_of_Western_Ontario

I'm not really sure why my page was deleted as I didn't include anything promotional. The information was historical and about the current faculty and dean.

Looking for advice so I can get this page to stay up! Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cdonati (talk • contribs) 01:09, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Cdonati,
If you look at the deleted page, Master of Media in Journalism and Communication at the University of Western Ontario, it states it was deleted because it was the recreation of a page deleted in an AFD discussion, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Master of Media in Journalism and Communication. That AFD discussion just happened in May 2021 and any recreation of pages that are deleted in AFD discussions are deleted through speedy deletion (see WP:G4). It had nothing to do with the content of the article you wrote but to a community decision that there shouldn't be an article on the subject. Look at the AFD discussion for details.
The only way I know to get around an AFD deletion decision is to write a draft and submit it for review with Articles for Creation. You might try that route. Liz Read! Talk! 01:33, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Brenda Almond draft

It seems that this draft was deleted in less than 12 hours giving me no chance to respond.

It was marked as "copyright" violation. This is not correct. There were quotes from a page that were clearly marked as quotes, otherwise the page was all a summary in encyclopedia style of this UK women philosopher's work.

Please reinstate the draft. If there is TOO much from the Times Higher profile that can be reduced.Emerald Gibb (talk) 10:56, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Brenda Almond draft

It seems that this draft was deleted in less than 12 hours giving me no chance to respond.

It was marked as "copyright" violation. This is not correct. There were quotes from a page that were clearly marked as quotes, otherwise the page was all a summary in encyclopedia style of this UK women philosopher's work.

Please reinstate the draft. If there is TOO much from the Times Higher profile that can be reduced.Emerald Gibb (talk) 10:59, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi Liz, another version of this discussion is posted on my talk page, would appreciate your input there :D Justiyaya 13:30, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
Copyright violations are deleted as soon as they are discovered. They are not restored. Liz Read! Talk! 02:26, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Statuette of the lady Tiye has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Statuette of the lady Tiye. Thanks! Hoary (talk) 04:10, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

Easy on Me

Hi Liz. Can you semi-protect the page? Those IPs keep removing content without reason. 183.171.114.181 (talk) 04:10, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, 183.171.114.181,
Okay, you do realize this affects you, too, right? Liz Read! Talk! 04:13, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

Nominated for deletion

Hello. I'm new here. I've made 2 categories recently and you nominated them for deletion. Is there any problem with these categories? Thank you. Richard M William (talk) 04:36, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Richard M William,
There is an enormous category structure on Wikipedia and at least 16 years worth of Categories for Discussion cases on what is proper and improper in creating categories. Creating User categories for yourself is not acceptable. They were going to be tagged for deletion, if not by me than by another editor. But I invite you to participate in the CFD discussions involving your categories so you can offer your support for their continued existence. The best way to learn about categories is to participate in CFD discussions and hear the arguments put forward by those editors who focus on categories. Liz Read! Talk! 04:44, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

Draft:Film companion

Did you restore all revisions, including the G12 copyright infringement versions prior to April 17, 2017? Jay (talk) 05:48, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Jay,
I didn't intend to. Now, I'll go check it out. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Liz Read! Talk! 05:50, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
I believe I got all of the edits up to the removal of content as a copyright violation. Liz Read! Talk! 05:54, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

Semi Page protection

Greetings Liz, hope everything is well and healthy, this new IP user [[1]] made a few reverts in very short time without posting any reliable sources to explain their edit and simultaneously ignoring already existing sources. Can something be done? Semi page protection or something else? The page in question is Valtazar Bogišić. Thank you. Theonewithreason (talk) 16:14, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

Albert Fry RIP

I translated the atricle about Albert Fry ( Referenc:https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fry) (from Irish Gaelic to English, because I had thought that it would be of interest to English speaking Wikipedians! Evidently my attempt to stop the article from being removed has fallen on deaf ears! I really don't have the time to spare on this language version of Wikipedia and unfortunately will not spend any more time trying to persuade English Wikipedia of the errors of their ways! Stay safe or as we say ion our language Fan sábháilte. Ériugena (talk) 17:39, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

Manuel B. García Álvarez

I cannot understand why the article Manuel B Garcia Alvarez has been deleted. First, a 7-day period was set for adding new sources. It's only been 4 days and it's already been deleted, this is not serious. Secondly, the article contained sources from newspapers of worldwide importance such as: "El Pais" and "ABC" of Spain and "Izvestia" of Russia and others from newspapers of international importance such as "Diario de León" of Spain and "Komuna" of Russia. I have not had time to add more sources since they have deleted the article in breach of the 7-day deadline they had given me. Please give me an explanation of what has happened and I ask you to proceed to restore the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Morseo (talk • contribs) 11:23, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Finnish municipality/population count

It appears that about 9 hours ago, you deleted {{Infobox Finnish municipality/population count}}, which has 322 transclusions. Perhaps it should be redirected to {{Data Finland municipality/population count}} instead, or restored to whatever its contents were before the deletion. I would recreate it as a redirect, but sometimes when I fix an obvious problem in a sensible way, I end up getting my hand slapped, so I will leave red links in articles until you are available to take a look. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:39, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

The deletion of {{Template:Infobox Finnish municipality/inland waters area}} and other similar subpages also appears to be causing big red convert errors in articles like Vantaa. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:42, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
Also pinging Primefac, who deleted the parent template over a year ago. I am so grateful that people like the two of you are willing to take on administrator tasks, despite having to mop up messes like this constantly. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:34, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
More mess: this nomination was made by an editor now blocked as a sockpuppet. I wonder if the best way to fix this tangle is to replace all of the transclusions with their redirect targets. It seems like that should have been part of the RFD close process a year ago. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:53, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
Hello, Jonesey95,
I typically do not handle template deletions because of the complications of template transclusions but these tagged pages showed up in the regular Speedy Deletion categories which generally means they have been cleared and evaluated by editors who work with templates. I have restored Template:Infobox Finnish municipality/population count and Template:Infobox Finnish municipality/inland waters area but should all of these Finnish municipality templates be restored? Liz Read! Talk! 18:02, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
If they were all redirects, my technical recommendation is to restore all of them to fix the Convert template errors in pages including Vantaa. I don't know how that fix intersects with the various policies and guidelines involved, but I think that would fix the errors. After that, maybe a bot or AWB editor could be recruited to carry out the RFD outcome (or not, if an SP-led outcome is invalid). – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:30, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
Comment as the CSD tagger: it simply never occurred to me that any of the subpages could still be in use. For what it's worth, the original deletion of Template:Infobox Finnish municipality might be worth revisiting given the nominator is also a likely Tobias Conradi sock. On the other hand, it's kind of too deeply entrenched to undo now. The RfD in question is irrelevant, since the pages qualify for speedy deletion as G8 (and if they hadn't been deleted in October 2020 I would have CSD tagged them yesterday). * Pppery * it has begun... 20:16, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
Gotcha, I'll take care of this. These complications are typically why I give a wide berth to templates. It makes regular pages like articles and files seem straight-forward in comparison. Liz Read! Talk! 21:19, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
My non-admin recommendation would be to replace all of the redirects with their targets (which I think should have been done following the RFD, but maybe a step got missed) and move on. I do a ton of template editing, so feel free to ping me if you run into any trouble. Thanks for sorting it, Liz. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:10, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
Jonesey95, I'm just restoring them all and leaving the template talk pages deleted. There is at least one that Plastikspork restored but later deleted that I'll just let be as I assume that, unlike me, they are familiar with templates. You will be able to see all of the pages in the Deletion log. Liz Read! Talk! 22:14, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

Bergius process and Haber–Bosch process

I made a request on the talk page of Bergius process and Haber–Bosch process to hold off deletion. Did you read it before deleting? SpinningSpark 07:06, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

How curious. Instead of removing the PROD tag, you leave a cryptic message on the talk page without even bothering to sign your post. If I didn't know any better I would have assumed this to be an honest mistake, but I think you're deliberately skirting standard protocol to bait your fellow admins into making "mistakes". I wish you would find something better to do with your time. -FASTILY 11:08, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
Not at all, the signature was an honest mistake. I didn't deprod it because I agree it can't stand as an article at that title. Nevertheless, it contains encyclopaedic information and I think we ought to do something with it. So a) I wanted time to think about it, and b) I want to hear from the creator what it is supposed to be doing (who had not been notified of the prod). I don't think a personal attack is warranted quite yet. SpinningSpark 14:01, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you

Thanks for taking your time to explain.

I was already about to quit using wiki. But thanks to you, at least I know I'm not an idiot for staying here. Do have a blissful day!!! Ugochukwu75 (talk) 11:59, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

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Category:Cram schools in India

Hi Liz! This category was used earlier in the FIITJEE article, based on a Reuters reference, and was removed by an editor with a suspected COI in an attempt to whitewash the article. The category resultantly became empty and was C1'd by you. I've reverted the COI edits now, and restored the category, which turns up as a redlink now. Could you please restore the category, now that it is not empty? Thanks! JavaHurricane 14:35, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, 'JavaHurricane,
 Done Restoring empty categories is one of the easier admin actions which I'm happy to do. Liz Read! Talk! 23:33, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
Thank you! JavaHurricane 00:55, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

Might need your eye for something

Hi Liz—hopefully you don't mind, but I've seen you handle situations similar to this in amicable ways in the past, so perhaps you can help here.

I've noticed a few COI edit request declines from Quetstar after I informed a paid editor on how they should make one on Talk:LoopUp, which was then declined here, with justification I feel is quite lacking. It also seems this isn't the first time they've been notified about improper ER reviews: I see notices all the way back in September about similar issues on their talk page, with similarly bad ER reviews from just a few days ago, so it could be worth taking a look at from someone with more experience in dealing with this type of situation. (Note that I also reverted the LoopUp ER decline and left a note on their talk page.) Perryprog (talk) 16:55, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Perryprog,
Sorry for the delay but I've been very busy today. I'll look into this. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. Liz Read! Talk! 23:31, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

Question 2

Can you check on the following articles? Justlettersandnumbers restored them, but didn't remove the CSD tag in that restoration edit, which is why I think Anthony Bradbury then deleted them again almost instantly, since they popped back up in the category. Here they are: Ramón Escobar Santiago, Gladys Ejomi, Iñaxi Etxabe, Elisabeth Ebeling, Dick Klaverdijk, and César Salinas. Thank you for taking the time to check the article histories when doing your reviewing, btw, you're one of the only admins that does. SilverserenC 23:07, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Silver seren,
Well, it was upsetting to me yesterday when there was a mass batch deletion of close to 100 articles tagged CSD G5 where clearly they weren't examined and reviewed individually. This action can be justified if the banned editor was the only contributor to these pages (as was the case with much of Brancrandran's pages) but that is not always the case (as with SportsOlympic). From a technical point of view, for an admin, is difficult to look at the deleted versions of pages and judged whether there have been substantial contributions by others as the deleted list of edits just includes the date and time of an edit, the editor's name and the edit summary, without any information about the size of an edit. It's much easier to make this judgment on an article before it has been deleted or after the page has been restored. But I looked at your deleted contributions and saw you made about similar contributions to pages that were then deleted so I was going to check on those later.
To be honest, some admins might have questions about you making some substantial contributions to pages AFTER they have been tagged for deletion but, in my judgment, that still makes them legitimate contributions to an article. I think it's not just a matter of changing admin behavior but also talking to editors who are quick to tag pages for deletion, to make sure they review pages before placing a CSD G5 tag on a page. I don't really understand the rush to delete pages as soon as a sockpuppet is discovered, there are some editors who tag page creations for deletion as soon as an editor is mentioned on a SPI case, before they've even been confirmed as a sockpuppet of an editor evading a ban. It's not like these are copyright violations or pages that violate BLP guidelines, pages that should be deleted upon discovery. Articles about past Olympic Game participants or 19th century judges in South America aren't doing any active damage and we can take our time to review and assess whether or not they should be deleted based on policy guidelines. Liz Read! Talk! 23:28, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
I have the exact same opinion. Especially in regards to this sockpuppet's articles in particular, since almost all of the ones I edited were just translations from other language Wikipedias. I honestly don't know what harm those are supposed to be doing by taking some more time on them. They're even further removed from the potential for copyvios or other issues. And I mentioned to Justlettersandnumbers that the ones I've edited are those that I would be going through the deletion process to undelete anyways to take responsibility for them. Instead, just making substantial changes like this saves everyones' time to not have to bother with that and the article is slightly better than it was before in the process. So, a win-win for everyone, imo. SilverserenC 23:33, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

Deletion of Mikko Medics Clinic

Wondering why the article I wrote on a real health institution in Angono, Rizal, Philippines was deleted. The clinic has existed for 22 years. Komki (talk) 16:22, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Komki,
You have no deleted edits/contributions so I'm not sure what article you are talking about. Did you edit it with a different account? Can you give me a link to the page? Liz Read! Talk! 16:28, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

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ExcuseMePowerGamers

Hello, thank you for deleting Draft:Bloodstain (album) under G3. I am wondering what to do with the creator of that article? They created it with a fake BBC reference and added a bunch of fake references to Tubbo with this edit (1, 2 & 3, dead links, supposed retrival date, source date and lack of a web.archive version makes me think they are fake), leading to said article getting accepted at AfC. Should I bring it to ANI/AIV or does a uw-template suffice? 15 (talk) 00:10, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, 15,
This editor has only made 4 edits which is very low, not enough for me to consider filing a case at ANI. I'd keep an eye on them. I see you have participated in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tubbo but you might cast a vote since you seem to have done some investigation into them. Of course, this is just my gut reaction, another admin might take more aggressive action than I would. Liz Read! Talk! 02:42, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
Ok, that makes sense. Thank you! 15 (talk) 10:05, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

Legitimate use of File:Caucasian man masturbating.jpg

The Masturbation page used this image which I noticed is just a tracing of this image. I thought "why not just use the original image?" so I changed it; however, it did not show. The warning on the file page says "To prevent the use of this file for vandalism, it can only be used on pages for which it is specifically allowed," and "To use this file legitimately, contact an administrator..." so I came to you. I think this usage is legitimate. Desperatefisherman (talk) 02:33, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Desperatefisherman,
I have no idea why you picked me to talk to but I have no interest in getting involved in the correct or incorrect use masturbation photos. It was unfortunate enough that you caused me to go look at this image when I have other tasks to work on. Go make your request at MediaWiki talk:Bad image list and make your argument there. Maybe you'll find someone who is sympathetic to your point-of-view. Liz Read! Talk! 02:37, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
Ok sure, but if you're wondering why you, it's because you were the last person to comment on that page. Desperatefisherman (talk) 02:42, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
Oh, that is a surprise to me. Liz Read! Talk! 03:33, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

File:CW+ 2017 Reach Map.png

Can you again delete the previous revisions on this image? Despite adding text saying 'stop uploading a larger version it's going to be reverted', another account did so today, and the seven-day wait is certainly not needed. Thank you. Nate • (chatter) 03:30, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Mrschimpf,
Okay, I've never actually deleted file versions manually like this on File:CW+ 2017 Reach Map.png so let me know if I did anything incorrectly. I don't work much with files except when they pop up in speedy deletion categories. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 03:36, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
100% perfect. 👍🏽 I appreciate the speed. Nate • (chatter) 03:38, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
Well, I am an inconsistent responder to talk page messages. It's either immediate or I forget to even look at my talk page. It depends on if I'm busy working. It's definitely an area that I could improve on. Liz Read! Talk! 03:46, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

General matrix notation of a VAR(p)

Hi Liz. I'm afraid there was some confusion with your intervention in Vector_autoregression - as you ultimately reintroduced a link to a page you had deleted. I'm not 100% sure of the best way to solve this (as I can't see the content of the deleted page), do you have an idea? Notice the main page has more links to the deleted page (e.g. under "Concise matrix notation"). Notifying QueensanditsCrazy who was involved --Toobaz (talk) 08:51, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

Liz? --Toobaz (talk) 08:28, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

please restore Draft:Florian Krammer

Hi, could you please restore Draft:Florian Krammer. I ask promptly because sometimes in past an editor like yourself has deleted multiple articles in a row. This and other drafts of mine are valid article topics. --Doncram (talk) 06:26, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

P.S. I know I can request "refund" elsewhere but understand it is also okay to ask deleting editor, and I want to head off any new flurry of deletions without causing undue effort on part of others to restore them all. The articles in draft space are about historic sites and about historic architects and others associated with them. --Doncram (talk) 06:30, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Doncram,
I'm not sure what you mean by "in past an editor like yourself has deleted multiple articles in a row"...I delete a lot of CSD G13 stale drafts when they are eligible for deletion. It's not a matter of whether they are valid article topics or not, it is the assumption that after 6 months with no edits, that the draft has been abandoned.
G13 drafts can be restored upon request at WP:REFUND or by asking any administrator and so I'm happy to do so. Liz Read! Talk! 06:48, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
Nothing about you in particular, but there was recently another editor addressing articles which I suppose are on some new list of those "eligible for deletion". Looking it up, the discussion was this: User talk:Explicit/Archive 41#stop with the hotel deletions please; editor User:Explicit did restore all of about 10 historic hotel articles that they deleted. Those were 9 out of 53 drafts indexed at Talk:Historic Hotels of America/Draft articles that were all moved to Draftspace at the same time, of which 29 have been restored to mainspace, including one or two in the last week. I am working on these, sometimes with others' help, and disagree with their having been moved to Draftspace at all. There are also a number of drafted National Register of Historic Places articles which are obviously wikipedia-notable topics. Explicit suggested that all articles in Draft space created by me could be moved to my User space. I would prefer to have them kept in Draft space (including so that others can see and work on them, rather than conveying "ownership" and removing from view) but permanently removed from the deletion queue. Or to get notice before they are deleted / given some report. This should not cause more work than is necessary including edits and admin actions to undo what admin actions are done. Could you advise if there a bunch more about to be eligible for deletion, and/or how can that be headed off? --Doncram (talk) 07:54, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Question about draftifying

Hi I’d like to ask your advice please as I seem to be doing something wrong. When I review new pages I often find articles lacking proper sourcing that I want to move from mainspace to draft. However there us often an existing draft of the same title, usually because the creator has copy pasted from draft to mainspace. What I generally do then is tag the article as G6 so the existing draft can be deleted and I can draftify the mainspace page. Sometimes admins agree to this and sometimes they don’t. Am I doing the wrong thing, and what should I do instead in these situations? Thanks Mccapra (talk) 10:28, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Mccapra,
No, it's not you. Since the spring, I've been looking over the nightly "Draftification" report and there seems to be a growing number of editors who simply copy & paste articles that have been moved to Draft space back into a new main space version. I started a discussion about this at AFC back in June and there wasn't any agreement on how to handle it. And CSD A10 for duplicate articles doesn't cover having one version of an article in main space and another version in Draft space. It doesn't even cover having two identical versions of an article in Draft space. At least when I've tried tagging one draft version for speedy deletion in the past because it was a second copy, another admin has removed the tag and said it wasn't a valid criteria that could be applied in that situation.
What I've been doing lately is giving the editor, who usually is a new editor, a template warning about copy & paste moves with a personal note asking them to, in the future, either edit the draft copy or move the draftified article back to main space (which is allowed) rather than creating a second version. You could also turn the draft version into a redirect to the main space version but I realize that you're losing the original page history by doing this. A page merge is also possible at Wikipedia:Requests for history merge but this is typically not done if the page creator is the only editor on both pages.
Or you can try to tag the main space version as CSD G6 but, as you've seen, some speedy deletion assessments are a matter of judgment on the part of an admin. In another case, some admins believe CSD G4 (recreation of pages deleted in AFD discussions) applies to pages in Draft space and some admins think it doesn't, they believe it only applies to recreated articles in main space. There was a time when we had admins who would delete any page that had a speedy deletion tag, without even looking it over, but after desysoppings, those days are over and most admins who patrol CSD categories take the time to personally evaluate each request which means that your result could be different depending on who is evaluating the page. I know that when I evaluate CSD G5s (pages created by a ban-evading editor), I give more allowance if other editors have contributed to the page while other admins are much more strict about deleting pages created by a sockpuppet regardless of other editors' contributions.
So, I think if an article has already been draftified once, and in your judgment, it is really deficient, then AFD or PROD is the next step. Remember to state in an AFD rationale that the article has already been draftified once (or twice) because this fact will influence the response of some participants. I would only go to AFD if you think that an article can't be easily improved or if the page creator seems unusually obstinate. What we are also seeing in these situations is that as soon as the article gets tagged with an AFD, BOOM! suddenly the page creator wants to move it back to Draft space!
Those are just some observations. I have found it helpful to go to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation or talk to AFC reviewers individually because they primarily deal with new editors and evaluating drafts and can offer me their opinion on whether a page has potential or should just be tagged for some form of deletion. Liz Read! Talk! 20:06, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
Thanks very much that’s really useful to know. Mccapra (talk) 21:03, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

User:Bpoppen13

Hi Liz, you gave this user a short block a couple of days ago, perhaps they need a longer break (straight back in with G3 article creations). Thank you JW 1961 Talk 19:16, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Joseywales1961,
Thanks for your quick attention to this editor. They are now indefinitely blocked. I don't think they made even one positive edit to the project. Liz Read! Talk! 19:26, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for your rapid response - we seem to get a lot people just trying to mess up the place! JW 1961 Talk 20:26, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
Well, I continue to be impressed at the speed at which vandals are noticed. There is one persistent sockpuppet vandal who keeps returning and I swear, his edits are typically stopped within 10 minutes even though he targets obscure pages that I doubt are on many Watchlists. We have a lot of great editors who keep watch over recent changes. Liz Read! Talk! 20:29, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Statuette of the lady Tiye has been accepted

Statuette of the lady Tiye, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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Hoary (talk) 21:25, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
Of course, the stuff above is mere boilerplate automatically generated by the AfC process. Well, that draft, terrible though it was (see the comments on the draft), looked a lot more interesting than most drafts, even in the state it was in when you submitted it. It's still pretty rough; but it would survive AfD, and thus qualifies. Cross fingers that somebody who really knows about this stuff and has time and patience will land on it and work on it some more. -- Hoary (talk) 22:44, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
Oh, wow, Hoary, you really went to work on this, you spent your time getting this into better shape. All I did was submit it for review. Congratulations to you! Thank you for putting the effort into this little article. I bet if Rheaemory ever returns they will be greatly surprised to see how the little draft they started became an article on Wikipedia. Thanks again! Liz Read! Talk! 23:54, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Draft:Makita AWS refund

Hello Liz, would it be possible to have a refund of Draft:Makita AWS to User:Sladen/Makita AWS—it came up in conversation yesterday so the content is probably useful to rescue somewhere… Appreciations, —Sladen (talk) 07:39, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Sladen,
Sorry for the delay in responding to your request. Draft:Makita AWS was deleted simply for being a stale draft, G13, which can be restored upon request. So, I have done so and made a minor edit to the page to make sure it isn't eligible again for CSD G13 for another six months. It doesn't need to be moved to user space unless that is your preferred location. Liz Read! Talk! 21:41, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Deletion of Ihsan El-kousy

Hello! Cn you please let me know the reason why you deleted my article of Ihsan El-kousy? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hoda Sidani (talk • contribs) 15:18, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Hoda Sidani,
Okay this is a bit complicated. I deleted IhsanAhmadAlkousy because it was a broken redirect. It originally redirected to Ihsan El-Kousy but then that page was deleted when Scope creep moved the page to Draft:Ihsan El-Kousy. Wikipedia doesn't allow redirects from the main space to Draft space so that it was why Ihsan El-Kousy was deleted. That made the redirect from IhsanAhmadAlkousy a red link, a broken redirect so that page was also deleted. Ihsan El-kousy was also deleted by EurekaLott as a broken redirect.
Does this help explain things? If your draft is approved by AFC and move back to main space, you are free to recreate the redirects that were deleted. Liz Read! Talk! 20:52, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Miki Agrawal???

hi liz!! im new to wiki & wanted to give a crack at my first AfC submission. im super interested in sustainability n i stumbled upon the Thinx wiki page. noticed that miki agrawal is in red --> which means that someone should look into possibly creating a page?? anyways, im interested in pursuing but wanted to ask you about your previous draft. don't want to step on any toes here!! maybe you just got bored lol all good, only wonderingggg xoxo -- Allthesensualsenses (talk) 20:38, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Allthesensualsenses,
I deleted Draft:Miki Agrawal because under Wikipedia policy, it qualified for a Speedy deletion under G13 grounds in that it was a draft page that had gone at least 6 months without a human editor (not a bot editor) making an edit to the page. That was the only reason for deletion, that it appeared to be an abandoned draft.
But drafts deleted for G13 reasons can be restored upon request. So, you can either choose to start a new draft from scratch or I can restore the old draft and you can work with whatever the previous editor had put together...from what I can see, it was definitely a good start to an article, they had already put found some sources for the biography. Let me know if you would like it restored. Liz Read! Talk! 20:44, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
hi, Liz thx so much! ill get started & will let u know if i need any help :) just wasn't sure if there was some other reason like not being notable, etc. appreciate it mucho!!! -- Allthesensualsenses (talk) 23:38, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
Hello, Allthesensualsenses,
Okay, I have restored it at Draft:Miki Agrawal. I'm not an expert on creating articles so if you find yourself stuck, I recommend visiting the Teahouse or Articles for Creation, two areas of Wikipedia that specialize in helping new editors. Good luck! Liz Read! Talk! 23:41, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
Liz ur a blessing! i would've been sooo lost tysm for a great intro to creating pages :) -- Allthesensualsenses (talk) 16:35, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

Redeemer University

Hi Liz! I had tagged Redeemer University for deletion as a cut/paste move so that the page Redeemer University College could be moved to that title - The university underwent a name change and no longer has "college" in the title. Is there any way you can handle that or should I just re-tag it? Sorry for the confusion - I didn't catch it right away and so the edit history was a bit weird. In the future, do you know if there's a way for me to add that explanation somewhere? ThadeusOfNazerethTalk to Me! 12:06, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

I suppose theoretically the redirects could just be switched, so that Redeemer University College redirects to the correct title, but that probably still breaks the page history we need for attribution, right? ThadeusOfNazerethTalk to Me! 12:09, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
Hello, ThadeusOfNazereth,
Please start a discussion on Talk:Redeemer University College about moving the article to a new title. Do you have a source that establishes the name change? This article has a much longer and extensive edit history at this title and, if it is necessary, this page should be moved to a new name. But we are going to require some verification that the name of the school has changed. Please provide that on the article talk page. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 01:50, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
Hey Liz, Thanks for letting me know about the talk page - Yes, sources establishing it go back to the time of the change. Thankfully, somebody else beat me to the discussion. Is starting a discussion/listing at WP:Requested Moves a requirement, or just good practice? I've moved pages before, and want to make sure I follow whatever the norm would be in the future. Thanks again! ThadeusOfNazerethTalk to Me! 01:55, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
No, a talk page discussion is appropriate. Often the problem is that sometimes, article talk page don't get a lot of traffic. But if there is another editor who has started a discussion, that is good. No, it's not required to go to WP:Requested Moves but the name change should be noted in the article with a source provided, ideally an official source for the school. Liz Read! Talk! 02:00, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Appeal against the deletion of Wikipedia article 'NIOA'

I would like to contest the deletion of the Wikipedia article 'NIOA', The company it described is notable in regards to being covered by the Australian national media such as Nine News Australia over its attempts to import Alder shotguns into Australia.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/gunsmiths-working-around-adler-ban/5fa66410-da25-4a67-b14b-123804a82c2b
The coverage are not exclusively promotive. The company have also gathered notability by being awarded a contract to supply ammunition to the Australian Defence Force and weapons to the New Zealand Defence Force.
https://adbr.com.au/nioa-awarded-land17-1c2-artillery-ammunition-contract/
https://www.defenceconnect.com.au/land-amphibious/1805-army-artillery-enhanced-under-100m-project/
https://www.army-technology.com/news/nioa-supply-30-different-munitions-australian-military/
https://www.defenceconnect.com.au/key-enablers/1530-australian-sme-to-deliver-weapon-systems-to-nzdf/
The page can be changed into something more neutral. It can be saved. Please, give the page another chance. -- Hu753 (talk) 02:46, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Hu753,
It is not a matter of convincing me that this article should exist. The article was deleted after an AFD decision, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NIOA, and any recreation in main space is subject to deletion by Wikipedia's guidelines on Speedy Deletion. All I can advise is that you work on a version of this article in Draft space and submit it to Articles for Creation for review. If it receives approval from an AFC reviewer, it can be moved back into the main space of the project. Liz Read! Talk! 02:51, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Restoring The Wanksta36/sandbox2

Hi Liz!

Hope I'm doing this correctly. Seems my Sandbox2 page may have been deleted, as I mistakenly kept creating it as a page when I meant to just explore some functions. Can you restore? Thanks so much :)

Andy — Preceding unsigned comment added by The wanksta36 (talk • contribs) 08:01, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, The wanksta36,
I won't restore The wanksta36/sandbox2 to keep it at this title, but I'll restore it to move to User:The wanksta36/sandbox2. However, you already have a page at this title, do you mind it being deleted or do you want to turn this page into User:The wanksta36/sandbox4? You can't have User pages in the main space of the project which is why it kept being deleted. Is that acceptable? Liz Read! Talk! 19:45, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi Liz!
Yes, restoring it to sandbox 4 would be great! Sorry for the inconvenience and mishap.
Andy — Preceding unsigned comment added by The wanksta36 (talk • contribs) 21:22, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
 Done Don't forget to sign your talk page messages with four tildes (~~~~)! Liz Read! Talk! 22:04, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Talk:Ali Fadhul/Archive 1

Author requested deletion with [2] it's a pretty clear WP:G7 (not to mention as an error, also a WP:G6). Regards, 95.67.131.232 (talk) 04:20, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, IP,
It's an article talk page archive, there is no one page creator. Everyone who participated on the article talk page helped create that page. Liz Read! Talk! 04:22, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
See [3] and [4]. The page itself has one author, who created it by accident, and promptly reversed the archival. You can check the archives at WT:CSD but it's pretty well established that g7 applies in these cases. Further as an obvious error WP:G6 also applies, but as you insist Thryduulf is an expert on this topic and one of the more conservative admins in matters of g6 who I'm nonetheless confident will confirm that in a few hours. Anyway it's early and I need to go for a jog, and then I have stuff to do during the day so follow up if needed will have to wait quite some time. Owing to circumstances beyond my control my IP is hopping everywhere so I'm trying to avoid extended discussion atm, but if really needed I may make an exception. Regards, 95.67.131.232 (talk) 04:33, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
Talk page archives may not be speedily deleted. Liz is also correct that that everyone who participated on that thread is an author. I've also removed the AfD notice as (1) AfD only deals with articles, MfD is the venue for pages in the talk namespace, (2) There is no way that a talk page archive will gain consensus for deletion. Thryduulf (talk) 10:56, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
The mis-archived thread still exists at Talk:Ali Fadhul and all posters are correctly listed at its history. Qwirkle just mis-clicked on the "Archive" button by OneClickArchiver. This is a terrible exercise in bureaucracy; just speedy that per G6/G7, for God's sake. No such user (talk) 11:15, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Mlječanica

Would you please restore Mlječanica that has been prodded by someone? Don't know what the content was, but it's a populated place that should have an article per WP:GEOLAND, and a notable one because of the spa. It has an extensive page at sr:Мљечаница (Козарска Дубица). No such user (talk) 08:43, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Ping? No such user (talk) 10:26, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
Got it at WP:REFUND instead. Do you even read your talk page messages? No such user (talk) 13:28, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
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Hello, No such user,
Most days, I do. Sorry I didn't this time. I sometimes skip to the bottom of the page and miss messages farther up on the page. Liz Read! Talk! 16:13, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

WP:G5

With regard to diff and diff: the pages' creator (BruhOfficial) has been confirmed as a sock of D4rkeRR9 (please see the SPI) and it's just a matter of time before they are blocked. Best, M.Bitton (talk) 12:25, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Shed Simove

Hi Liz, just saw your notes. Thanks for letting me know about Shed's article. I was hoping he would get more coverage in the past 12 months but alas it was not to be. I'll repost something if that happens. DanDavidCook (talk) 17:42, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Matholela Moloi (November 19)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by ThadeusOfNazereth was:
This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of people). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.
 The comment the reviewer left was:
No changes made since the last declined submission. Only two sources specifically mention Kgosi, while other sources mention "Lucas" without clarification that they are the same.
Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
ThadeusOfNazerethTalk to Me! 18:15, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

Exchange article

Hi Liz, I was very surprised by the Bybit deletion to be honest, which was done without any discussion or community consensus. I know that crypto subjects are not well liked on Wikipedia per WP:GS/Crypto, so I know that it's a good idea to stay out of small companies. I would personally agree that over 90% of all new crypto-related articles are not notable enough, but anyone in the crypto community can tell you that Bybit is definitely notable as one of the best-known exchanges.

However, this company is very notable and one of the top 3 exchanges, with a lot of notable news from credible publications. A7 doesn't apply if you check all the citations. I also tried not to make the page sound promotional, even though many of the sources looked like PR. I also noticed that someone else has another draft at Draft:Bybit, but that version was very poorly written. That was why I wanted to give the draft a complete rewrite.

This is the equivalent of deleting something like Venmo or Squarespace simply because someone who doesn't know much about the industry thinks they are "A7". As a result, this article should be reviewed by editors who are actually knowledgeable about this industry.

Also this is clearly not promotion at all, since I don't even work for any crypto companies, but am just an amateur crypto enthusiast. They are one of the top 3 crypto derivatives exchange, so there's no way that they wouldn't be notable at all. This was supported by the citations that I provided. If this was the issue, I can revise and republish.

Thanks! All the best.

Ferrousmeteor8 (talk) 18:20, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Ferrousmeteor8,
There is a skepticism about crypto-currencies on Wikipedia because there are so many people online trying to hype them up. I'd be willing to restore this as a draft, to replace that terrible draft, if you agree to submit it to AFC for review. Perhaps you can find an AFC reviewer who is knowledgeable about crpyto-currencies who can the draft. You might even ask at WikiProject Cryptocurrency if anyone there had any recommendations although their talk page doesn't seem to be very active. What do you think? Liz Read! Talk! 23:55, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion rejection

One editor suggested that change, the other moved to a similar title because a manual move was impossible, but the same later acknowledged (in another place) that the shorter title was best. The talk page discussion isn't primarily about the title, it was mentioned in passing without any opposition being voiced. So, I see no grounds to reject a speedy move. Avilich (talk) 23:45, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Avilich,
You stated in your CSD tag that there was consensus for this move and I don't see any consensus on the article talk page. Those are my grounds for declining to take action. Liz Read! Talk! 23:48, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
Okay, not in that talk page, but, as I've shown now, all 3 editors -- me, Jenhawk777, and Editor2020 -- agree on the shorter one. Can't we skip several procedures here? Avilich (talk) 23:53, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
Regardless of your answer, I brought the issue up in the talk page. Thanks for taking the time. Avilich (talk) 23:55, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for starting a discussion there. Recently, there has been a lot of disagreements and disputes over titles of articles for this historical era and I'm reluctant to move a major article based on one editor's opinion. Liz Read! Talk! 23:58, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
  • Can you help me out here? One Materialscientist, apparently with no clue whatsoever, has now reverted my tag again, this time without explanation, even though I did exactly what I said above, and all 3 involved editors, this time in the talk page, have now declared in favor of a move. Avilich (talk) 01:15, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:165 BC deaths

A tag has been placed on Category:165 BC deaths indicating that it is currently empty, 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. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. UnitedStatesian (talk) 02:18, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

Ah, thanks, UnitedStatesian, you beat me to it. ;-) Liz Read! Talk! 02:23, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

Pokémon competitive play

Pokémon competitive play was moved, blanked and CSD'ed. The redirect from the move should be restored. There are many incoming links. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:57, 21 November 2021 (UTC)

Mail

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Draft:William Lanson

Hello Liz,

I have created a new page about William Lanson. I had clicked on the "publish"button months ago, but the page hasn't been published. What do I need to do?

Also, I have expanded a stub about George Henry Durrie, and would like to how I can create a table of contents.

Thank you,

Ivor SopwithIvor Sopwith (talk) 00:54, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Ivor Sopwith,
You need to submit it to Articles for Creation for review. Just go to the AFC page and copy the submit code and add it to the top of the page. I encourage you to submit it to AFC for review but if you don't add the code to the page, no one knows the draft is there and ready for a review.
Whether or not there is a table of contents depends on how many sections there are on the page. I believe that there is a table of contents if there are four or more sections with headers on the page. The format of the article will automatically generate a table of contents, it's nothing you can add. If you have questions about article creation and editing on Wikipedia, the best place to go is the Teahouse or AFC. There are editors there who are more experienced than I am with content creation. Liz Read! Talk! 02:01, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

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I don't think that could solve the type of problem in this case.

I have been editing for 10 years and I find such suggestions abusive, I can't see how that would lead to anything but me spending time on nothing. The topic is not policies but willingness to solve an issue. I am quite content with what I have achieved in Wikipedia, and leave it with that, and just conclude some things are just not possible. I put my efforts in other things right now.

Thanks for the invitation, hope it was good ment but not that well considered?

--Zzalpha (talk) 07:36, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Zzalpha,
Abusive? I was trying to offer you a suggestion of where you could get some support from fellow editors. You have less that 500 edits, I didn't view you as a long-time, experienced editor and your post on Firefly's talk page sounded like you had some basic questions about how to keep a draft article from being deleted.
I'm sorry if you found it offensive. That was not my intention. I won't bother you again. Good luck with your article. Liz Read! Talk! 17:08, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Gillian Brown - deleted draft (Tyzer007/GillianBrown)

Hi, I've been asked by the actress Gillian Brown to help set-up a wiki page about her and her work. She was previously working with Tyzer007 but for various reasons that have parted company. I am new to wiki but find Tyzer007 draft has been deleted before I was able to look at what had been written (Tyzer007/GillianBrown). Is it possible to restore the draft so that I can at least make a copy of it please? I will need to read up on how to set up a page and edit, but it would just be nice to have a copy of the material as to my knowledge the draft was the only copy. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Almoore99 (talk • contribs) 19:37, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Almoore99,
It looks like Draft:Gillian Brown (actress) has been restored already. Please disclose your conflict-of-interest on your User page and state whether you are being compensated for editing this article or any others. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure for more information.
If you have questions about editing on Wikipedia, please bring them to the Teahouse. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 00:35, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

Deletion review for LiveWorkPlay

An editor has asked for a deletion review of LiveWorkPlay. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 23:44, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Extraordinary Writ,
Thanks for letting me know. It was a pretty straight-forward speedy deletion case. Liz Read! Talk! 00:31, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

The Life of Immigrants in California

Hi @Liz, I thought you'd like to know that a page you previously deleted has recently popped back into existence. It's quite uncanny. Salimfadhley (talk) 00:47, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

pls restore historic hotels articles, and stop deleting any more

Hi, could you please restore Draft:Hotel La Rose, Draft:Stonepine Estate, and Draft:La Valencia Hotel. These are all valid Wikipedia articles, on historic hotels. I think i already addressed you on some others in this group. About 50 or so were moved to draft space in an unfair-in-my-view ANI proceeding, more than half have been restored to mainspace, but i have not yet gotten to these ones. Also, could you or someone inform me in advance about what you or they are going to delete? Again, these are all valid, i don't do shit work, FWIW. --Doncram (talk) 05:35, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Doncram,
I knew that you would come over and complain about a valid CSD G13 deletion so I tagged them for deletion to inform you about their status but I didn't actually do the deletion. You'll have to go complain to another administrator who actually deleted them or go to WP:REFUND. Liz Read! Talk! 05:37, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
That hardly seems helpful. You knew it was invalid and that I would point that out to you? Could you please just restore them now, please. And/or ask whoever else you want to blame for doing the invalid deletion, to restore them. You know what you have done. Fix it now please. --Doncram (talk) 05:43, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
They were not invalid. They were eligible for CSD G13 speedy deletion. They appeared on the G13 eligible list. So, I tagged them and posted a noticed to your talk page. Liz Read! Talk! 05:45, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

Happy belated Thanksgiving!

Happy belated Thanksgiving!
Happy belated Thanksgiving! Huggums537 (talk) 10:16, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

List of Alvin and the Chipmunks characters

Hey there. I noticed that you speedy deleted List of Alvin and the Chipmunks characters, and I fear that something's not right here. I don't understand why most of this happened, but it appears that User:MegaSmike46 split the characters section of Alvin and the Chipmunks into a new article without tagging it appropriately. Another editor mistakenly tagged it as a copyvio of some random Tumblr page, which I declined (and then I added the relevant copied-from information on the talk page). MegaSmike46 then mostly-blanked the page and moved it to draftspace, which I thought was inappropriate for established content, so I reverted it. MegaSmike46 then blanked the article entirely and tagged it for G7 deletion, which you performed.

In any case, G7 was clearly not appropriate here—it amounts to claiming others' work as one's own. I think that either the article should be restored or some version of the information should be re-inserted in the main article. It wasn't the best material, but at least some of it was referenced. What do you think? - Eureka Lott 01:45, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Eureka Lott,
Well, User:MegaSmike46 created that page and then later tagged it for deletion as a request from the page creator. And since there were no substantial contributions from other editors, there was no reason to decline their request. Do you know what page they might have split the material to? I could look into the page deleted via copyright violations. It could be there was a version before the copyright violations were added that could be restored. A link to any deleted pages would be helpful. Liz Read! Talk! 01:52, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
Or, you could revert their edits to Alvin and the Chipmunks. It looks like they took material from that page. Sorry I didn't quite understand your message on the first reading. Liz Read! Talk! 01:54, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
Eureka Lott, I just did the revert myself. If this results in a talk page discussion, you might need to go there to make your case. Liz Read! Talk! 01:57, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
Sounds good, thanks. Another chunk of the Alvin and the Chipmunks article was split to List of Alvin and the Chipmunks specials & home video releases, so I'll remove that section from the main article again and tag the new page appropriately. - Eureka Lott 02:24, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

Category restore

Hello, Liz. I accepted a recent AfC submission that would now populate Category:Comic strips started in the 1920s. When I clicked the red link to create the page, I got this note:

A page with this title has previously been moved or deleted.

If you are creating a new page with different content, please continue. If you are recreating a page similar to the previously deleted page, or are unsure, please first contact the user(s) who performed the action(s) listed below.

I figured restoring the previous history would be better than making a new page. Could you please undelete the page?
Thanks, 2pou (talk) 06:33, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, 2pou,
 Done Empty categories are one of the easiest, simplest kinds of page restoration. If it is needed, then it can be restored upon request. Liz Read! Talk! 06:43, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

Query

I believe you may have inadvertently deleted my second sandbox page? at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3ACBDB.CBDB%2Fsandbox02 Still a newbie at this but Is there a way to get it back again?CBDB.CBDB (talk) 00:27, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, CBDB.CBDB,
No, this wasn't an inadvertent mistake. This page had copyright infringements from several different sources. The deletion notice on User:CBDB.CBDB/sandbox02 lists the sources. You can't copy content from another source and place it on a page on Wikipedia for legal reasons. We must delete it when we discover it. All articles have to be original content.
If you have questions about article creation or copyright guidelines, the best place to go is the Teahouse where experienced editors can answer your questions. Liz Read! Talk! 00:31, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
Yes, I was aware that I used that page to keep my sources and references and text snatches, which I was working on, with sentences going to be properly referenced. I was under the impression that sandboxes have slightly different rules in order to support this kind of sand-box work. Is that not the case? Sorry to have to ask, and I will head to the tea house, but just the sandbox issue would be good to know as I am preparing my first pages in the sand box. (P.s. I feel lost without wysiwyg editor.) Thank you. CBDB.CBDB (talk) 00:43, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
Hello, CBDB.CBDB,
Copyright rules apply everywhere on Wikipedia, even talk pages. As far as Sandboxes, they are not subject to some forms of speedy deletion which are applied if you put your page directly into the main space of the project. For example, you could have a blank page in your User space or a page without any references and that is fine, but if it was in the main space, it could be deleted. Other forms of speedy deletion, like copyright and promotion/advertising, do apply everywhere.
If you go into your Editor Preferences and enable email (associate an email address with your account), I could email the content to you but I can't restore it on any page on Wikipedia. Then, if you choose to, you could disable your email if you don't want anyone to be able to contact you via email. It's under your control. Liz Read! Talk! 01:22, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

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Hello

I wanted to thank you for some pages you deleted today after I moved them. These pages were created by user Washington Lincoln (talk · contribs), who seems to have created several pages with issues and also seems to do a lot of page moving, maybe even when not necessary or appropriate. I noticed you had posted on their talk page before, as have I recently, attempting to help this user, but they are not communicative... at all. I wanted to ask if you were perhaps keeping an eye on the situation? I think it would be good to try and steer this person in the right direction, before their editing becomes problematic and has to be dealt with formally. Anyway, t'was just a thought. Lemme know if you have thoughts on this yourself, if you'd care to share. Cheers - wolf 09:18, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi again. There still seems to be an ongoing issue with this user, specifically article creation, page moves and refusal to communicate. I noted you had posted a warning on their talk page previously, and wanted to know if you might be able to follow up on this situation. If you could let me know one way or another, it would be appreciated. Thanks - wolf 15:43, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Bad actor

That's interesting. In fact, I created the article, then decided that I should wait a couple of weeks to see if better sourcing would appear, since the overall outline depended heavily on one article in Slate, backed up by the same contemporaneous sources that the Slate article was using. I'm hoping that some broader research emerges. While it's not a BLP, I had second thoughts and decided I'd like to see more before publishing. Acroterion (talk) 02:35, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Acroterion,
I didn't look at the deleted article after seeing its history (that only you had edited it) so I have no idea what that editor was referring to. Do you? Liz Read! Talk! 02:37, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
Miller was a noteworthy antivaxxer of the 1950s, who was convinced that polio was a nutritional problem brought about by soft drinks, refined flour, and sugar in general. In some ways he was ahead of his time, and he followed a playbook that has seen considerable use in the past year. Obviously, he has relevance nowadays. Acroterion (talk) 02:45, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
Okay, I get it. I see the "political" nature of this article. That must have been a widely-read Slate article for a reader to go searching and find the deleted page. Liz Read! Talk! 02:47, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
Google cached it, so the article shows up at the head of the Google search rankings, and of course then leads to the notice that it was deleted. In point of fact, I'm seeing some more material now, so I think I'll reinstate it and expand it. Acroterion (talk) 02:52, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
It must be nice to know your work is in hot demand! Liz Read! Talk! 02:58, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
It's definitely relevant. I've restored it, minus the userspace development edits, and added a couple more references. It's a bit eerie to see how closely it parallels current events, and how the U.S. Attorney was able to enforce mail fraud statutes in those days. Acroterion (talk) 03:15, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

About the article NOlympics LA

I had noticed that the article was created. So I wanted to add more information, I tried my best to add sources but my edits were biased and the user thinks that I am grammarly inncorrect. Any thoughts and advice? SpinnerLaserzthe2nd (talk) 04:30, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, SpinnerLaserzthe2nd,
I posted a notice on their talk page. Unfortunately, they seem to be focused on this one particular article but they are very new so I'd just give it a little time. You could try starting a discussion on the article talk page. Let me know if there are ownership issues down the road. Liz Read! Talk! 04:41, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
Is there is anything I can do to make unbiased edits? I stopped making biased edits. Also, I cannot find any good sources that were critical of the organization. SpinnerLaserzthe2nd (talk) 04:46, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
Well, I'd be very careful about using words like "controversial" and "notorious" unless they are backed by sources. That's not neutral. The easiest thing to do though is to spend your time on other articles. Liz Read! Talk! 04:51, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

CFI Financial

Hii Liz. Thanks for passing by on CFI Financial. I am Dr. Rami Tarawneh. I am a wikipedian for almost two decades. Sadly, even with my four wikimanias, we did not cross paths. I contribute mostly on Arabic wikipedia. I was an admin, CU, and Bero there, until the will-known Egypt incident. That was when Jimbo tweeted that I was a hero. I am co-founder of Wikimedians of the Levant usergroup, and a Member of the organizing committee of Wikiarabia 2016 Conference. I am also an admin on commons for almost 15 years now. I can assure you that neither me nor my students are associated with CFI Financial. CFI Financial entity was checked by a team in the University. All articles the students work on are initially screened by a team of five professors to make sure that it is eligible and had the Notability required. We have a huge program at the university (NUCT). Actually I started programs in three major universities in Jordan; JU, AHU, and NUCT. I know the pressure when handling new articles. I have been here. I totally understand the process, and appreciate the efforts. I know we all have lots to do in the real world, but I would apprentice it if you have another pass on the article. --Tarawneh (talk) 04:56, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

Torn (2013 American film)

Hi Liz. Someone moved Torn (2013 American film) to User:Torn for some reason and you fixed that. Is the redirect still needed or should the user page be tagged for deletion per WP:U2? FWIW, I came across this because the movie poster being used in the infobox was flagged for a WP:NFCC#9 due to the move. That's no longer a problem since you reverted the move, but I just noticed the redirect on the user page and was wondering if it's needed anymore. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:49, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Marchjuly,
It looks like Fastily deleted the redirect. It wasn't needed, especially because it was from a nonexistent user page, and I probably should have taken care of it myself but I didn't notice it at the time. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I'll try to be a bit faster responding to messages. It was a strange page move for this editor, I don't know what prompted them to move the page unless they have another article they wanted to use that main space title for. Liz Read! Talk! 18:09, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
There was no great rush Liz. I was just curious as to whether there was some reason for keeping the page. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:47, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Draft:Nico Estevez

Hi there! I saw that you removed the G13 tag on the draft, but I added it mainly because there is already a published article for the draft: Nico Estévez. How can I nominate this draft for deletion properly?

Thank you, BRDude70 (talk) 17:55, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, BrazilianDude70
Okay, I see two options. If you use Twinkle, tag it CSD G6 "Housekeeping and non-controversial cleanup" and in the rationale field, write "Duplicate of Nico Estévez. An admin will have to evaluate the reason but some will accept that reason. OR, you could choose to turn the page into a redirect from Draft space to Nico Estévez. There are thousands of redirects from Draft space to main space versions of the articles. They are not very helpful as redirects because readers aren't searching in Draft space for articles but. nonetheless, they exist. You could try nominating it for deletion at MFD but I'm not sure it would be successful and how much time do you want to spend on this page?
Wikipedia allows a lot of leeway in Draft space for all kinds of pages that would not be acceptable in the main space of the project. And if no one edits the page, it can be deleted as a CSD G13 in six months and then will disappear. I hope this helps. Liz Read! Talk! 18:05, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
Very helpful, thank you very much! BRDude70 (talk) 22:35, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

Draft:Truls Klausen

Hi Liz, how come you G13-deleted this draft? I expanded it earlier today, so it was no longer abandoned. I didn't tag it with {{submit}} because if I did and it got mainspaced, it would then be credited as my creation, which would be wrong (the creator is indef-blocked, as I noted in the edit summary for my second, longer edit). Doesn't the automatically generated G13 tag go away when a draft is edited? Or was I too late? Please restore it (per IAR if I was indeed too late; there was time for one of the reviewers I pinged in the edit summary to thank me). Thanks if you do. Yngvadottir (talk) 21:34, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Yngvadottir,
I'm so sorry, I'm very careful looking over drafts but it looks like I made a mistake here. My only excuse is that today we have two lists we are working with, drafts whose last edit was May 30th and those whose last edit was May 31st (since there is no November 31st) so that's over 400 drafts to look over. I apologize and have restored the page. Of course, expired drafts can be restored upon request but that's not necessary since I erred this time. Again, I'm sorry for my blunder. Liz Read! Talk! 21:42, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
I have a more informative, but much longer, answer about how we used to handle expiring drafts, how everything was changed by a bot in September 2020, how we handle things now, how it's now become my main task on Wikipedia, the huge importance of talk page notices to page creators and more should you want to know more about our increasing number of G13s. May be more suitable for an email message though. Liz Read! Talk! 22:44, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
It would probably just make my head spin :-) I hate the way AfC has been weaponized; it's almost impossible to get an article out of there now once an admin has draftified it, especially if it's on a company, and I have the impression it would be a terrible violation of some sort for me to just move such articles myself after working on them. (And I'd be bound to miss some machine-readable point of process normally done by the AfC helper script.) But it follows inevitably from the professionalization of both NPP and AfC, where both have become rights to use a script, so they attract even more gatekeeper-minded editors than they used to. And from where I sit, the viewpoint that business-related articles are almost ineevitably promotional and that promotion on businesses is one of the biggest dangers to the project is a very common one, notably among admins (Iridescent once told me it's the view of only a small group; I wish I didn't keep seeing evidence of its effectively representing consensus). And beyond that, I remember that AfC was supposed to offer guidance and so I and others used to recommend it to new editors as a way to get knowledgeable help and a higher chance of their article surviving after mainspacing; it's been years since I can recommend it at all, since all I see is drafts being templated with uninformative rejection messages, including those that say continued submission risks the article being permanently failed, and those that include a big red stop sign because a single reviewer has decided the topic is unsuitable for Wikipedia. Then the draft gets deleted 6 months later and nobody is any the wiser (including admins; who's conscientious enough to search including draft space even if they can see the deleted versions?) And since we don't link to draft space from mainspace, there won't even be suggestive redlinks; even pre-existing redlinks will likely have been removed if the page was draftified.
But I have no solutions to offer: Kudpung was very proud of that professionalization, so it must have had merits; I do believe business promotion being a dire threat to Wikipedia is the dominant/consensus viewpoint, and my viewpoint that that's a form of bias and there are in any case much more serious threats, a minority view; despite limiting article creation to confirmed editors, we still get floods of new pages that merit speedy deletion, I saw the firehose and samples of the defamatory ones when I was an admin, and I've thought for many years that one of our problems is that many new editors are unfamiliar with the concept of an encyclopedia; and Hanlon's razor: the Klausen draft is from one of the last batches by an incompetent editor (who used AfC! one of the complaints against them was that they kept "spamming" AfC), incompetence is real, and the Norwegian Wikipedia article is unreferenced, possibly not unrelated to the fact that the Norwegian newspapers are mostly paywalled and their older archives may not even have been digitized, in which Norway is hardly alone (the UK is worse except for the tabloids, and unfortunately we aren't allowed to use the Mail even from when it was simply mass-market and thus covered un-snobbish stuff like fat cats and criminal convictions, rather than bending the law and playing fast and loose with the truth)—no solution comes to mind for people being terrible at article-writing, persisting in using machine translations even when we keep repeating we don't want them, or shooting themselves in the foot by not giving Wikipedia editors access to their online archive so they can get lots of lovely traffic. And my usual caveat to those who are unaware: I probably shouldn't even express an opinion on policy matters of problems for the project, since not only did I decline to run for admin again for personal reasons, so it may be entirely my fault that I can't fix stuff, but I now try to keep to 99 edits a month and have so far as I am able, stopped creating new articles, because it makes me ill to appear to endorse the WMF by just continuing as usual as if Framgate hadn't happened or as if they had ever apologized to us for that or any of their other demonstrations of contempt and claims that we work for them. Yngvadottir (talk) 02:08, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
Wow, I just scanned over this and need to digest it thoroughly to give you a decent response. You've given me a lot to think about. I have mainly talked about the situation with AFC with DGG who has his own concerns that he could express to you. What I see, at my end, are abandoned drafts and I'd say half of them were never submitted to AFC and the other half were rejected by an AFC reviewer. While persistent paid editors get all of the attention & worry, I mainly see editors who make an attempt at article writing (most of the time, it's not very good or ever terrible) who leave at their first rejection. I don't know how to get them to stick around and work at getting better at it. I frequently see editors who spend a few hours one day trying to write an article and then give up and don't come back. How do you persuade people to put in the time to improve? I don't know.
For the rest of this, I will return and reply later. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with me. Liz Read! Talk! 02:19, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Talk:Karl Taylor (boxer)

Hi Liz. Delete the article talk page that is Talk:Karl Taylor (boxer) and The article never exists so it's also meet's G3 I believe. 68.193.199.8 (talk) 00:09, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

 Done Thanks for tagging that page. It is very hard to stumble upon orphaned talk pages. Liz Read! Talk! 00:13, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Thanks Liz. 68.193.199.8 (talk) 00:16, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

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CSD of Thompson, Sanford, & Ginocchio

I tagged it a second time thinking another Admin might see it differently, or if it were you again, you might look closer. The actual name of this firm is "Thompson, Sanders and Ginocchio". That is SANDERS, not SANFORD. There is a redirect Thompson, Sanders and Ginocchio, which is obviously useful. But I created this one hastily, and think it is implausible because it uses a totally different name which is not a common typo or natural misspelling. Your original comment was "this seems like a reasonable redirect as an alternative name mentioned in the article", which applies to the version with SANDERS but not this one. Thanks. MB 14:27, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, MB,
Thanks for spelling it out for me in clear, block letters so I can understand it. I spend a lot of time editing and sometimes I miss the obvious. Sorry. Liz Read! Talk! 02:50, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

What on earth is going on?

Hi Liz-- I've got a bit of an odd situation going on and I'm not sure how to deal with it. I've never seen anything like this before and was wondering if you might offer your input. While scrolling through new pages, I encountered the page Pindiga, which at first appeared to be pure vandalism. I was about to tag it for deletion until I saw the edit history, where the author of the page said that the "nonsense information" will be erased and replaced with real information about a Nigerian town. What is going on here and what do you suggest I do? Thanks, Helen(💬📖) 02:38, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Helen,
I see I've already left this editor warning messages from earlier this year. I deleted the page. You can't warn off other editors from editing a page or say that you're going to start with joke edits. If they want to write a serious article, they now have a clean slate. I'd like to ask you to look over his recently created redirects but you might want to keep your distance from them. It's your call. Thanks for letting me know. Liz Read! Talk! 02:48, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
I’m not a new pages reviewer, but the redirects to Mrs. Doubtfire seem fine to me. I’ve watched the movie and know that Lydia, Chris, Natty, Winston, Miranda, and Daniel are all characters. I’m not aware of any policy against making redirects for fictional characters-- if that were the case, I don't think Billy Loomis or Stu Macher would redirect to List of Scream (film series) characters). Helen(💬📖) 03:25, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
I trust your judgment. I'm not familiar with the film but unless there are last names, it seems like those could be names of lots of fictional characters. I just saw that a number of his redirects had been nominated at WP:RFD. Thanks for checking. Liz Read! Talk! 03:30, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
Don't worry, the names on the redirects do have last names. I just shortened it to their first names in this message for brevity. Helen(💬📖) 03:37, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Accusations of conducting a "cut-and-paste move"

Hi Liz, on my talk page you incorrectly accused me of conducting a "cut-and-paste move". This is incorrect - I created a page at Philippe Lavigne, user:dan_arndt moved it to Draft:Philippe Lavigne and flagged the original page for speedy deletion. In the 23 minutes it took for me to notice this and find references, the original page had been deleted - so I recreated it with the sources/references included. All edits incorporated in the page were done by me, so there was no risk of attribution being missed. The page I created should not have been speedily deleted in the first place, as it was obvious that it was notable (chief of a UN nation's military) and information contained therein was factual (easily verified by googling or checking the french language article). If you have any other questions, don't hesitate to let me know. SECProto (talk) 03:40, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, SECProto,
Draft:Philippe Lavigne has never been deleted. Philippe Lavigne was deleted but it was a redirect from main space to draft space, it didn't have any content other than a link. The proper step if you disagree with an article being moved to Draft space is to move the draft back into main space of the project, not start a new version of the article in main space. You are completely free to disagree with an article being "draftified". Now, there are two articles, one in main space, one in draft space. I agree there aren't problems with attribution, I just want to discourage you from doing this again in the future, just move the draft back. It was just a notice, it was not intended as a warning. Liz Read! Talk! 03:50, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
Roger, how do I move the draft back", when it contains no content or edits that would be maintained? The history that it contains is my creation, people moving it to draft, person adding "draft" categorization stuff, and my adding references. The first and last are reflected in the history of the main article, and the other three edits are not relevant to the real article. I also can't move it to article space without overwriting the current cited article, which has since had 6 useful edits from others adding categorization etc. I think the best step moving forward would be to delete the draft article, but I don't know how to do that. SECProto (talk) 04:03, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
I added it to Category:Candidates for history merging for an admin to merge their edit history. SECProto (talk) 04:24, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Category:WikiProject Dietary Supplements members

Hello Liz, could your restore Category:WikiProject Dietary Supplements members? There is now a member implementing the userbox on their user page, thank you. Jerm (talk) 20:27, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Jerm,
 Done Category:WikiProject Dietary Supplements members is restored but is empty right now. If it still empty at 01:02 UTC Friday, it'll appear on the Empty Category list and be tagged again. But it needs to be tagged for 7 days before it will be deleted again. So, you might want to assign a page to it before then. Thanks! Liz Read! Talk! 20:33, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
Thank you and it's now in use but by one person. It's a start though. Jerm (talk) 20:37, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

RE: User page disruption

Thank you for your help Liz. All seems to be in order. Have a good day. :) Samuel J Walker (talk) 22:11, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Samuel J Walker,
I think he's a very young editor but I found he did the same thing back in September. I only saw it because the bad page move was tagged for speedy deletion. If you are ever personally harassed like this with silly vandalism, just bring it to the attention of an active administrator. You shouldn't have to put up with this nonsense. Liz Read! Talk! 22:13, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
Will do, thank you. Samuel J Walker (talk) 22:17, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Remove Speedy Deletion for Deri Lorus (singer)

Hi, this user KH-1 always placing the tag on the article I've created. Nonsmoker0000 (talk) 07:24, 3 December 2021 (UTC)


Hi, I need some assistance on Deri Lorus (singer) page. A user continues to placing the CSD for an article. Not allowing me to do anything. Help me. Thank you! Nonsmoker0000 (talk) 08:34, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

Note that Nonsmoker0000 is probably a sock of IveMadeAn for removal of the CSD template. JavaHurricane 08:59, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
Blocked, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Spreadmediaglobal. JavaHurricane 09:42, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
@Liz: Hi, Iam Dhaneesh Ram, Just I saw that article Deri Lorus (singer) has been deleted.and he is a popular music director in Tamil Nadu. You can Know about him here Previously article about him is deleted many times as of, article doesn't meet notability guidelines. But now he is notable person. So please can you have a look on this issue. Dhaneesh 💙 Ram 10:57, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).

Administrator changes

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Technical news

  • Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
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Arbitration


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Other uploads by WMF-banned sockpuppet

Hey again. Thanks for deleting the uploads that I tagged. Other uploads by Meganesia still remain. What to do with them? --George Ho (talk) 23:59, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, George Ho,
This is a bit complicated because of the intertwining block log of both the sockpuppeteer and the sockpuppet so they sat into CSD categories for a while. I think it's best for you to tag them so that some admin can look them over if I'm busy. I'm not always a fan of your campaign to delete sound files from the project but in this case I agree. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 00:05, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
"campaign to delete sound files" is a fairly extreme mischaracterization of WP:NFCC#3a/WP:NFCC#8 enforcement. Although it may appear counter-productive, there are important legal reasons for enforcing WP:NFCC, so you should be thanking George instead of chastising him. -FASTILY 02:31, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
I just see the files tagged for deletion and I mourn the loss of some great music from articles on the project. But if this must be done, that's fine, I follow the rules and delete the files. I just regret that we can't keep them. I think they add a lot to our articles on musicians and bands. Liz Read! Talk! 02:40, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
George Ho, I apologize if I offended you. I realize you are just doing your job. I just miss the musical tunes. Liz Read! Talk! 05:19, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

Undelete Carowinds and talk page

You deleted the Carowinds talk page per G8 but the page Carowinds should never have been deleted. There was an ongoing discussion on that talk page, and you deleted it. See the discussion at User talk:Jimfbleak. Both the primary article page and the talk page should be restored immediately. There was no valid rationale for its deletion.—JlACEer (talk) 05:12, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, JlACEer,
The page appeared on Wikipedia:Database reports/Orphaned talk pages and orphaned talk pages are deleted. If the article is restored at Wikipedia:REFUND or Wikipedia:Deletion review, the talk page will be restored. I've pinged the deleting administrator to the REFUND discussion and I'd have to hear from him before restoring the article or talk page. Have patience, the right decision will happen, it might take a few days. Liz Read! Talk! 05:17, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for the reassurance that these pages can be restored. I think it's obvious that user:Jimfbleak failed to do due diligence prior to deleting the article and I do feel that he needs to be admonished for his carelessness. As others have pointed out, a simple comparison of dates would have revealed that the alleged copyright violation involved nothing more than a parrot site. There was no notice, no discussion, no warning, no rollback to a previous version. The G12 criteria specifically states: "Only if the history is unsalvageably corrupted should it be deleted in its entirety; earlier versions without infringement should be retained," yet nothing was retained. user:Jimfbleak completely ignored Wikipedia policy.—JlACEer (talk) 05:39, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Admin's Barnstar
Thank you so much for your advice . Will make sure to follow ! Akbar1972 (talk) 13:38, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
Hello, Akbar1972,
Thank you for the barnstar! Good luck with your article...creating a new article is probably the hardest task on Wikipedia so if you need help and support, remember the Teahouse! Thanks again. Liz Read! Talk! 23:49, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

Category Importance for the Sports Project

Hello Liz, I hope your doing well. I am new editor and have been working in the sports projects and education project. I noticed there is not importance categories available in the sports project and tried to create it and noticed you had deleted a page previously. Or that is the notification I saw anyway. I was wondering if you could let me know what has happened in the past with the project categories and if I could create importance categories for the sports project? DannyHatcher (talk) 15:58, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, DannyHatcher,
Could you give me an example of a category that you want to create that has been deleted? Then I could see whether it was deleted through a discussion or whether it was deleted simply because it was empty. If you are talking about WikiProject article assessment categories, we deleted a lot of those over the summer for WikiProjects that are inactive or defunct and not assessing articles any longer so it's unlikely those would be recreated. Taking on article assessment for a WikiProject involves a lot of editors willing to take on the responsibility and isn't a one person job.
Oh, and welcome to Wikipedia! I'm glad you dove in and found some work you are finding enjoyable. Although Wikipedia has been around for almost 21 years, there is still a lot of work to do! Liz Read! Talk! 23:47, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
@Liz: ah it might have been inactive as many of the editors in the sports field seem to be in smaller more specific projects. I was referring to the high, medium, low importance for articles. I am going through sport science articles and there are lots of them which I have categorized myself on my user page but it is becoming quite long and cumbersome to organize. I was hoping I could categorize them with tags or project categories so I could use the table like view. Would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks, enjoying it so far, and yes, lots of work to be done. DannyHatcher (talk) 01:20, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
An example or two would still help, but, yes, it sounds like you are talking about article assessment categories. I know they were deleted for the defunct WikiProjects (WikiProjects that haven't been active in 5 or more years) and also some inactive ones (which have typically been inactive for 2 years or more). Reviving a WikiProject is a big undertaking, I think they usually suggest having at least 3-5 other editors to assist.
You could try inquiring at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council which oversees proposals for new WikiProjects but they aren't terribly active these days. WikiProjects were huge on Wikipedia around 2006-2013, with thousands of them flourishing but now there are just a few hundred ones that are reliably active. It's hard to maintain a high activity level for years as many people's real lives get busy and they don't have time to work on Wikipedia at the level they did when they were in school or when they were single or when they were at another stage of their life. Having kids, new jobs, moving to a new location, illness, real life can interrupt the editing work of even the most devoted editors. It's amazing that we have editors here who have been active for over 15 years! Liz Read! Talk! 01:31, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi @Liz:. I have left a message in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council page about the categories. I have spoken with a few editors on some of the pages and they only do a couple of edits when they can which is why the project page looks inactive. My goal would be just to get the importance up so I can focus on some articles to get some other people involved. It is too messy at the moment to get the other people I know involved. I have made the category pages, best as I can but the Sports template doesn't seem to be attaching the new categories and I don't have admin privileges to change anything in there. I assume that is the last bit I am missing. Any help would be appreciated. :) DannyHatcher (talk) 21:12, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Rewriting page you deleted

Hello. I would like to rewrite from scratch a page that you deleted. Can you please enable the page to be rewritten. Thank you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prasanna_Coomar_Tagore

Anderson1970 (talk) 04:17, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Anderson1970,
Prasanna Coomar Tagore was just a redirect, an empty page with a link to another page, in this case, Prasanna Kumar Tagore. It doesn't make sense to recreate a redirect unless the target page exists. Prasanna Kumar Tagore was deleted by MER-C for copyright problems so you will have to ask them whether or not they are willing to restore that page. It will probably depend on whether or not they can find a version of the page that isn't plagued by copyright problems. They are the best judge of that. Good luck! Liz Read! Talk! 04:31, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Talkback: you've got messages!

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Qwerfjkltalk

RE: President of the European University Institute (or TWINKLE)

Thanks for letting me know. I checked my preferences, and the checkbox is checked for all CSD related templates Twinkle can add. That pertains to the technical aspect - the social aspect is less straightforward. Is there a policy or help page about this? I'm a bit uncertain how to balance between WP:GOODFAITH and WP:DENY. I tend to lean towards WP:DENY more, as a result of experiences doing admin work on MediaWiki.org. —Mainframe98 talk 13:06, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Deleted article Stewart Vaughan

Dear Liz, Thank you for your e-mail. First, may I say, for the reason that follows, that, apart from the odd spelling correction, I have hardly touched wikipedia for over a year. I will have to go back to the online course I took and learn how to do it again. Then I will have to practice, doing minor edits to existing pages (when justified, obviously). I still consider Wikipedia to be the top reliable resource on the web, and when I did my online course, I was very happy. The reason I stopped, is the deletion of my article. As I say in a previous talk, I have seen many articles that are far less referenced than mine, and they have not been deleted. If you Google ["Stewart Vaughan" theatre], you will find that Google reference him substantially. So I cannot understand the disdain with which my initial article was deleted. Jimmy Wales sent me a request for money. For the first time, I declined. As I say above, I love and respect wikipedia. I want to be able to contribute again. So, as I also say above, I will relearn how to do it, and then I will request the undeletion of my page. This will take time, so there is no hurry from my end; as long as delaying doesn't mean the article, into which I put a lot of work will be squashed forever. I have you have any advice for me of how to "get back on the horse", I would be grateful. Thanks. Kirkleyditch (talk) 13:55, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Kirkleyditch,
Upon your request, I have restored Draft:Stewart Vaughan. You have access to the entire history of the article, all edits. But this is the third restoration and I think that it's unlikely that an admin will restore it a fourth time so please continue to work on it, even a little bit at a time, so it doesn't fall into "stale draft" territory (6 months with no human edits).
If you have questions about an AFC review, it's best to go directly to the reviewer and ask them about it or, if they are slow to respond, go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk or the Teahouse to get some more information on what you can do to meet their approval. Sometimes it's just 1 or 2 better references or some copyediting. Good luck! Liz Read! Talk! 21:08, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Deleted article J. Craig Wheeler

I've been updating this article for a former president of the American Astronomical Society and Fellow of the American Physical Society. Please undelete so I can save my last edit. Thankyou. StarryGrandma (talk) 20:50, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, StarryGrandma,
I don't understand your request. J. Craig Wheeler page was deleted in 2006 and the entire content of the page was:
"J. Craig Wheeler was a twentieth century American astrophysicist.""
That's it. I don't see any recent edits to the page. If you are working on a draft, I'd just move it over to this title. Liz Read! Talk! 20:59, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
Sorry, it was Draft:J. Craig Wheeler that I was editing when it disappeared. StarryGrandma (talk) 21:03, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
Many thanks. StarryGrandma (talk) 21:12, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
Oh, StarryGrandma, this is my fault. Draft:J. Craig Wheeler is restored. I don't know how I missed seeing your recent edits. I look over hundreds of expiring drafts each day and this is the second time in a week I deleted a draft for being stale that had a recent edit to it. I don't remember this happening since I took on this task in September 2020. I think it's a sign I need to slow down. My apologies to you. Thank you for coming to me, I'm glad this blunder had an easy solution. Liz Read! Talk! 21:18, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Emma Bunting topic

Hi Liz, with regards to your tag removal, to clarify, I am looking to create a fresh article at that topic unrelated to the redirect, and wished to remove the redirect which I had previously renamed (it was itself of no significance, and the existing links to the article were related to the person whom I am looking to create an article for). Bungle (talk • contribs) 22:02, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Bungle,
Thank you for your explanation. I think the easiest thing to do is to change the redirect into an article and build on top of what exists. If you want credit as the article creator, start an new article in Draft space or User space and then we can move it over to this title. I don't think an admin will delete an existing redirect for an article that doesn't exist yet, just to clear space for what potentially could be there. We have to see that what you written is an improvement over the page as it currently exists. Liz Read! Talk! 22:15, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi, likewise, thanks for the explanation. Although there is no particular reason to keep the redirect, I can alas demonstrate in due course the article i'd propose taking its place, if that is a credible course of action. Thanks. Bungle (talk • contribs) 22:23, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for moving the article the other day. I am a little perplexed why you chose not to remove the redirect from draft title too, or when I tagged it, as it's entirely useless. Would have been just as easy to do so than not? Not that it matters significantly, just baffled me a bit! Bungle (talk • contribs) 14:10, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

December 2021 GOCE Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2021 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the December GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since September 2021.

                 Current and upcoming events

Election time: Our end-of-year election of coordinators opened for nominations on 1 December and will close on 15 December at 23:59 (UTC). Voting opens at 00:01 the following day and will continue until 31 December at 23:59, just before "Auld Lang Syne". Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here.

December Blitz: We have scheduled a week-long copy-editing blitz for 12 to 18 December. Sign up now!

Drive and Blitz reports

September Drive: Almost 400,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 27 people who signed up, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here.

October Blitz: From 17 to 23 October, we copy edited articles tagged in May and June 2021 and requests. 8 participating editors completed 26 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

November Drive: Over 350,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 21 people who signed up, 14 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here.

Other news

It is with great sadness that we report the death on 19 November of Twofingered Typist, who was active with the Guild almost daily for the past several years. His contributions long exceeded the thresholds for the Guild's highest awards, and he had a hand in innumerable good and featured article promotions as a willing collaborator. Twofingered Typist also served as a Guild coordinator from July 2019 to June 2021. He is sorely missed by the Wikipedia community.

Progress report: As of 30 November, GOCE copyeditors have completed 619 requests in 2021 and there were 51 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog stood at 946 articles tagged for copy-editing (see monthly progress graph above).

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Wheaton Lyons

It seems as though a move you made from Wheaton (Massachusetts) Lyons to Wheaton Lyons ended up breaking the 2006 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament article. I fixed it, but I thought you should be aware. -BRAINULATOR9 (TALK) 23:13, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Brainulator9,
That was a page move requested by Pichpich. Thank you for fixing the broken link. I correct a lot of broken links every day and appreciate it when another editor fixes a broken link left from an edit I made. Much appreciated! Liz Read! Talk! 23:18, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
You're welcome! I only caught that one because it ended up under Category:College sports link error. -BRAINULATOR9 (TALK) 23:22, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Something new

Looks like 331dot made an off by one error while hiding an email address, shouldn't be hard to find, hope this is discrete enough. 176.247.149.96 (talk) 02:02, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, 176.247.149.96,
I have no idea what you are talking about, you're going to have to be more specific, like give me a page link and a statement of the problem. Liz Read! Talk! 02:09, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
I hear the walls have ears. I also hear that someone may have already remedied the situation. -- zzuuzz (talk) 02:15, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
I agree, nothing to see here. 176.247.149.96 (talk) 02:18, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Redirects

You should not be deleting the redirects currently listed at User:AnomieBOT III/Broken redirects. Just rollback the bot to restore the original targets. ✗plicit 14:12, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Okay, sorry about that, I jumped the gun. I need to have my morning coffee. Liz Read! Talk! 14:14, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Gangapurna CSD

Re:"Removing CSD tag, I'm not going to move that messy draft into main space. Please clean up the draft, remove reviewer comments and other AFC tags." The easiest way to do this is if the redirect is deleted and then I accept the draft via the AfC helper script, without you moving the draft into mainspace yourself. I'm a new reviewer - is there a reason this is a bad idea here? If yes, I'm happy to do the cleanup manually. Rusalkii (talk) 16:35, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Rusalkii,
The best place to ask about this is at AFC, if you talk to other draft reviewers (and I'm not a new page reviewer). I'm coming from the perspective of an admin who patrols speedy deletion categories and moves & deletes drafts that have been tagged. So, I don't know the exact procedure to get a draft into shape to move it, I just know that they are "cleaned up" before they are moved. Typically, they have a header at the top that states they have been AFC approved and are in the process of being moved. But they don't have all of the previous reviewer comments and remarks on them, all of the notation that AFC reviewers have left over the past months of previous reviews.
I'd just ask at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation, I've found page reviewers to be very helpful when I've brought questions there, folks like Fiddle Faddle, Novem Linguae or KylieTastic are very experienced. Sorry I couldn't be more specific. Liz Read! Talk! 16:47, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
Got it, thanks. Rusalkii (talk) 17:04, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
Just in case you missed the ping, the answer to your (Liz') question(s) are at this WT:AFC thread. Primefac (talk) 08:49, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
- Hello Liz. I was reviewing the article Draft:Gangapurna and I think the editor has done sufficient work to make the article suitable for main space. AFC for Draft:Gangapurna with AFCH tool is showing error because there already exists an article in main space (which contains a redirect). I suppose it needs admin privilege to move the draft to main space in such conditions. I also noted in the history of Gangapurna that you had reverted the request to delete it. Can you please resolve the issue? Best regards! nirmal (talk) 14:35, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled

A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)=

Potential ip sock

Greetings. 2021–22 Swadhinata KS season was created by III69, who was blocked on 8/17/21. There have been substantial edits to the article since, by all by IPs who only started editing the article subsequent to III69's block. In addition, the several I checked all seem to have begun their editing (except for a single edit 2 years ago) with editing this article. Since there are numerous IPs on this article, should I open up an SPI? Or should I simply mark it for G5, since the puppetmaster was blocked back in 2020? Thanks. Onel5969 TT me 15:08, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, onel5969,
I apologize for the delay in responding. I get busy with editing tasks. To be honest, I don't have a good sense for detecting sockpuppetry. You might approach one of our friendly checkusers to do a check on it. I see that III69 was blocked as a sockpuppet but I don't see them reported at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SR Alamgir Khan which I usually want to see to tag a page for G5 deletion. There are a lot of editors to that page and I also usually like to see that the sockpuppet was the primary editor. They created the page but a lot of other editors contributed to it. But I might have a higher bar for G5s than other admins.
You could open an SPI but that is usually not effective with IP accounts because checkusers won't confirm them as sockpuppets. To be honest, I would go to User:zzuuzz, the admin who blocked III69, and ask them if they see similarities.
I'm sorry I couldn't offer you a more decisive answer. This case is more murky than the ones I usually deal with. Liz Read! Talk! 03:48, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
No worries. I never expect quick replies. We all get busy. And thank you for the detailed response. I agree, this one is murky, that's why I'm seeking guidance. I'll take your advice and ask zzuuzz. Thanks again. Onel5969 TT me 10:42, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Re: User talk:Qwerfjkl#Empty categories

Can you reply to this? Thanks. ― Qwerfjkltalk 16:52, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Qwerfjkl,
I think I did. Was there more that I missed? Liz Read! Talk! 03:33, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
No, I posted this comment about 7 hours before you replied. Sorry for any confusion! Also, I fixed the script issue by wrapping it in nowiki tags. ― Qwerfjkltalk 07:14, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

A birthday present barnstar for you!

The birthday present barnstar
A birthday present barnstar sent from me to you. You are also an amazing contributor and administrator on Wikipedia, and congrats! Severestorm28 (talk) 00:28, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
Hello, Severestorm28,
Thanks, I appreciate it. But it's not my birthday. Is it written somewhere on Wikipedia that it is today? Liz Read! Talk! 03:34, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
Oh, yes, it was my birthday. Just giving you a present. Severestorm28 (talk) 12:06, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Liz

Hey what’s happening?

Just editing. What's happening with you? Liz Read! Talk! 05:43, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Not much just trying to keep busy at work! Frankiethesexaddict (talk) 05:45, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Test pages

Please do not delete pages in userspace as "G6: Test page". The proper criterion for test pages is G2, which explicitly does not apply to userspace, and attempts to circumvent that prohibition should not succeed. Thanks. * Pppery * it has begun... 19:54, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

I was not trying to circumvent any criterion, this was my explanation for an uncontroversial deletion. I will find another way/words to explain the deletion. Liz Read! Talk! 19:57, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
Deleting pages in the user namespace because they are test page[s] is clearly a circumvention of the rule that prevents G2 deletions of pages in user namespace, whether that is your intention or not. Looking at it more closely, these seem to be G13s done a few days early; why not just wait the few days and call it a G13? * Pppery * it has begun... 20:05, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Proper "Categorization" of drafts

Liz, thanks for your edits and explanation regarding drafts and categories on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Rusyns/Drafts/Rusyns. I wasn't aware of the guidelines surrounding this topic and have done some homework on Wikipedia:Categorization.

However, while I agree my inclusion of the majority of those categories was incorrect, I kindly disagree with your application of these guidelines in regards to the removal of Category:Rusyns drafts from the article.

Unless I am misunderstanding, the guidelines here only stipulate that drafts "do not belong in content categories" (not administrative categories); I have to argue that Category:Rusyns drafts is not a content category, but an administrative category and thus does not break any guidelines.

Quoting that section: "Administrative categories include ... WikiProject and assessment categories, and categories of pages in non-article namespaces." As the purpose of Category:Rusyns drafts was to organize draft articles for my WikiProject, I believe inclusion of that category in the article and continued usage of the category in general is allowable.

If Category:Rusyns drafts is not properly formatted to meet the specs of an "administrative category", please let me know where I can get the info needed to set it up properly (and avoid issues in the future).

Thanks again.
- KaerbaqianRen[ talk ] 00:22, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, KaerbaqianRen,
I'll be brief:I've never seen a category used as you are using Category:Rusyns drafts. If you disagree with me, which you are free to do, then I will nominate it for discussion at WP:CFD and see what the category experts say. The regular participants at CFD have almost an encyclopedic knowledge of the history of categories on Wikipedia and they might see a precedent that I don't see.
I've also never seen article drafts kept in Wikipedia space and I'm surprised that your draft hasn't been moved to Draft space or User space yet. It looks like you've set up a WikiProject just for your own personal use and it doesn't resemble other WikiProjects on Wikipedia. Liz Read! Talk! 00:30, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
Thanks, Liz. If we could pass it on to WP:CFD, I'd appreciate it as I feel it's allowable per quotes in my last post.
Regarding the draft being in the Wikipedia namespace: I felt this was the best location as Rusyns is pre-existing and doesn't meet the definition of a draft laid out in Wikipedia:Drafts. As far as I could tell that page only discusses drafts of new articles. Information on drafting major changes to existing articles was difficult to find when I looked... I also felt that including the draft within the project provides a central location for collaborators versus a userpage.
Regarding the WikiProject: I did not create it, but I have been in the process of making it functional for future users to take advantage of. The subject-matter is admittedly niche, but I have a few people who are interested in contributing to the upkeep of the relevant articles. I don't intend on keeping it for personal use, but at the same time, finding Wikipedians who have recently made useful contributions to relevant pages has been a challenge.
- KaerbaqianRen[ talk ] 01:02, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
Hey, Liz, just following up on the nomination of Category:Rusyns drafts in WP:CFD. Alternatively, I can nominate it myself--I'm just not sure if it would be "for deletion" (since I'm arguing against deletion) or "for other options" per their procedure. Thanks.
- KaerbaqianRen[ talk ] 20:14, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

Re: Contested PROD - Patrick McGuire

Thank you, Liz for starting this discussion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Proposed_deletion#Contested_PROD?

I wonder if you have had a chance to look at the proposed amendments for Patrick's page in my Sandbox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ShimsCabot/sandbox and the supporting statement for my objection to the PROD. Patrick's work as a campaigner and solicitor advocate is notable for the reasons mentioned there; in particular his campaigning to change Scottish laws so as to benefit individuals who have suffered mass wrongs. His current work in the field of historical child abuse claims is particularly noteworthy now the case against Celtic FC has become a group (class) action - this is a first in Scottish law and the case will undoubtedly set precedents as to how the new Group Action laws, under the Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Act 2018, are used in the future - it will be noteworthy whether the case is won or lost. Many of Patrick's previous cases have set similar precedents, but I took a list of these cases out of his page as there had been a negative comment about them and the source refs. I would welcome any advice on neutrality, so that I can make the entry as encyclopaedic as possible. ShimsCabot (talk) 07:30, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Thank you so much

I have read those WP:CSD guides as said. I really want to do more with time, i used to edit in bits back but i just got an account. Quackgates (talk) 08:46, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

You've got mail

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It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.ClaudineChionh (talk – contribs) 05:22, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
Never mind, it's been handled ClaudineChionh (talk – contribs) 07:29, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

RE: Tagging pages for speedy deletion

I still don't quite understand your policies which are quite different from Spanish Wikipedia. I thought given the blockings on eswiki, that tag was appropriate. I have also had problems when submitting SPIs, could you file one properly about these users for me, please? They have been a headache in various projects lately. Thanks and sorry.--MexTDT (talk) 05:25, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

RE: AfC Untact

Hi, Liz - I saw you drafted and then abandoned at article on the social phenomenon "untact" -- contactless human interaction. TBH it was difficult to know if you'd deleted the article or let it lapse. I looked for a talk page and tried to retrieve the draft copy but was unable to. My point is I wonder if it isn't time to revisit the idea of creating a page for Untact. It's much more in the news -- the Dec 12, 2021 piece from the Guardian is just the latest. If you agree, what's the process? Just create a new article? There are a fair number of media references, so i think it would pass notability. Thanks! --Sam Perkins (talk) 06:42, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Sam Perkins,
Can you give me a link to the page you are talking about? I look at hundreds of pages a day. If I delete a page, I need to see the reasons why. Also, I'm logging off soon. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 06:45, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for your speedy reply. I must have misread this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untact. I thought I saw you referenced as the creator/editor of this article. I guess it was Geschichte. My apologies if I misunderstood. That said, since you're Wiki veteran: although I've been editing on Wikipedia for awhile, I've never recreated an article that was deleted. Can I just go ahead and give it a try? Is there an accepted process? I can't find whatever the original entry was. Many thanks in advance! Sam Perkins (talk) 17:56, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Talk:Hindustan Sea Turtle Alliance (HSTA)

Did you forget something? Maybe Talk:Hindustan Sea Turtle Alliance (HSTA)? --awkwafaba (📥) 03:26, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, awkwafaba,
When admins use Twinkle to delete a page, it will delete the page, the talk page and any redirects to the page but it won't delete any redirect talk pages. I've asked about this at Twinkle's talk page. So this was leftover from a Twinkle page PROD deletion of Hindustan Sea Turtle Alliance. But pages like this do show up on an Orphaned talk page list so I did get to it last night. Thanks for the reminder though. Liz Read! Talk! 18:21, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

HiMedia Company

What was the problem ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nmou88 (talk • contribs) 11:17, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Nmou88,
When an article is moved from the main space of the project to Draft space, the redirect is deleted as a cross-namespace redirect, CSD R2. We don't have redirects from the main space to User space or Draft space because Wikipedia does not want readers directed to these other name spaces. So, I deleted HiMedia as a cross-namespace redirect.
You can continue to work on the article in Draft space and I recommend submitting it to Articles for Creation for review when you think it is ready. AFC's goal is to help you improve the draft so that it won't be deleted if it is moved back to main space. Moving the article to Draft space is usually an alternative to deleting the page, so it was a move to give you more time to improve the article rather than deleting it outright.
If you have questions about article creation, you can bring them to AFC Help Desk or the Teahouse. Liz Read! Talk! 18:29, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Dimitar Stojmenovski has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Dimitar Stojmenovski. Thanks! Rusalkii (talk) 01:44, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
Hello, Rusalkii,
Thanks for looking at this so quickly. I submitted it to AFC because an editor said it had been approved by an AFC reviewer as they were moving it into main space when it clearly hadn't, at least it didn't look like it by examining the edit history of the page. I've seen a problem lately of other page creators "approving" their own pages by posting copied AFC approval notices to their own user talk page. I'll go check out your comment. Liz Read! Talk! 01:51, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

File:Chanchhaya.jpg

Hi, you deleted File:Chanchhaya.jpg by PROD despite the fact that I declined its deletion eight minutes prior. Files that survive FFD are no longer eligible for deletion via PROD. WP:PRODNOM makes this clear. Fastily, I'm a little surprised you nominated it since you were the closing administrator of the debate. Surely you should have argued for its deletion at the discussion? ✗plicit 13:59, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Explicit,
I'd appreciate it if I could explain my mistake. I often have Wikipedia pages open in tabs if I know I'll be looking at them soon. I opened File:Chanchhaya.jpg in a tab right before its PROD expiration time. It was tagged for proposed deletion for one week. Eight minutes before the PROD was due to expire, you edited the page and removed the PROD tag. I should have refreshed the page before carrying out the deletion but I didn't do so as I didn't expect a last minute action on this image. In my experience, typically editors who patrol Proposed Deletion categories and remove PROD tags do so soon after they are tagged, not right before they are due to be deleted. But this was my fault. I let my expectations of what usually happens on my daily editing routine keep me from what I know are best practices which is to refresh the page and look for any last minute changes.
I also should have noticed the prior FFD discussion but, honestly, in all of the times I have dealt with files that are PROD'd, I've never come across one that had been part of a FFD discussion or that had been PROD'd before. Almost all of the PROD'd images I've seen have been unused personal photos. But now I know that it happens. I don't know anything about the outcome of this FFD case as I don't work much with files so I can't explain Fastily's decision to PROD a file that had been part of a FFD discussion.
I have restored this image and I appreciate you telling me about my error. Thank you for that. Liz Read! Talk! 22:54, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
Hm, I'm not aware of any policy that explicitly prohibits me from nominating a page for deletion, even if I just closed a discussion about it. Yes, this would be disruptive editing if I nominated it for the exact same reason as the previously closed discussion, but I nominated this file on the basis that it was unused, whereas the FfD discussion was about copyright status. I vaguely recall thinking PROD could be used if the previous FfDs were nominated with different reasons, but this would appear to be a mistake on my end. Apologies for the trouble folks. -FASTILY 02:21, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

Nat Bowen

Before I take Nat Bowen to AfD can you tell me if the article is a recreation of an earlier versions that were deleted? If memory serves me right, it is very much the same, but it would be nice to know if Herashjehkan took what Ckennedy18 had or rewrote it from sources. I think there is some CoI or socking going on. Vexations (talk) 12:44, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Vexations,
Well, it looks like the article has been deleted twice for being promotional, I guess I have a higher tolerance for this than other editors/admins. To be honest, unless there is a lot of peacock language and flowery praise, I often don't see a big difference between articles on artists that are labeled "promotional" and those that are currently existing on the project. It seems like we have plenty of artists' bios here that look just like Nat Bowen's.
The other two versions were very similar to the current version but the very first version had even more sources. But I can say that they were almost identical. I'd like to see this go through AFD to see whether these sources are strong enough. I don't know if there is a connection between page creators, Herashjehkan and HansSachs18, it seems like there is some paid editing going on involving the visual arts/artists but they've learned not to make the articles over-the-top, gushing nonsense. Liz Read! Talk! 19:55, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

Woah

Well that draft sure took an unexpected turn...-- Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 19:37, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Ponyo,
I know, I was reading it and thinking, "This isn't so bad" and then, BOOM!, a knife to the back. Betcha it was an employee who was told to write a Wikipedia article about a boss or co-worker. I'm often surprised that our page patrol catches these drafts so quickly after they are created, I thought they mainly checked out new articles to main space but I find them tagging brand new draft pages. I have a feeling most draft page creators don't think anyone will stumble upon their little creations. Liz Read! Talk! 19:42, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
I think someone asked the wrong intern to create an article for them (ha).-- Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 19:59, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
Thank you for your guidance in one of the deleted BLPs. Rdfcvn (talk) 08:27, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
Thank you, Rdfcvn! Appreciation is always, well, appreciated. Have a great holiday! Liz Read! Talk! 23:19, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

Marjan Shirmohamadi

Liz Hello. We talked about this article before.[5] The author of the article is a famous figure in Iran. Please return the article to the name field.خاچی (talk) 08:42, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
Hello, خاچی,
I didn't delete this article, it's been moved to Draft:Marjan Shirmohamadi. Work on the draft and submit it to Articles for Creation for review. Liz Read! Talk! 03:32, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

G13

Hello Liz, thanks for your diligence. I agree that G13 does not apply here, but which criterion can be used to get this 10-year-old userpage deleted? 4nn1l2 (talk) 13:19, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi again Liz, and congratulations on passing the 250K edits milestone! You've probably missed my question, so I'm making another attempt. Hope you don't mind. 4nn1l2 (talk) 11:17, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
Sorry for the delay, 4nn1l2. I made a huge mistake on Sunday that took me hours of time to fix, I went Christmas shopping yesterday and today, the power went out while the utility company was making repairs! I'm just getting around to responding to people.
There are tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of old user pages, just sitting there, that are not eligible for CSD G13. I haven't done a search for it at the Village Pump but I'm sure there have been many attempts to propose cleaning house and getting rid of them all. But, obviously, there was pushback from folks who think that "Hey, they aren't harming anyone, no readers see them, just let them be." So, the only way I know of to delete them are the obvious no-nos, if you find content that violates copyright or BLP guidelines, attack pages, vandalism, advertising, hoaxes, that kind of thing. There is one editor, MrLinkinPark333, who is doing the thankless work of looking at old user pages and tagging ones that are clear violations of Wikipedia standards. If you are interested in taking this on, you might approach him and he could give you pointers on where to start.
But, believe me, you are not alone among editors who think this stuff serves no purpose and should be deleted. If you are really motivated, you could make a proposal at the Village Pump and test the waters. Good luck! Liz Read! Talk! 23:31, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

Recent talk page message

Hello. Sometimes extreme confusion does set in during recent changes patrol, but I'm confused what the purpose of this message signed by you being placed on my talk page is for, since it seems to be addressed to User:Jalapestra. Sincerely, Randompointofview (talk) 03:30, 20 December 2021 (UTC).

Hello, Randompointofview,
It was a comment addressed to the other editor. He was complaining about you leaving a Welcome message on his user talk page and also a note about some mistake he had made. I ran into him because he wanted his user talk page deleted because of your remark which is something we don't do here. So, I was just telling him that he should get used to people telling each other about mistakes they've made. I've been editing here regularly for over 8 years, I'm an administrator and if you look at my user talk page, you'll see it is full of messages from other editors and admins pointing out a mistake I've made. It's the nature of a collaborative project, it helps us become better editors. I hope that explains things. Liz Read! Talk! 03:38, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
What's the best part of being Administrator? --Jalapestra (talk) 03:51, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
That's hard to say. I like that when I communicate with another editor, I'm more likely to get a response than I did before I became an admin. Although there are still some editors, mostly new editors, who ignore me, I think it's because I'm female. At least, they can be very dismissive and even rude to me until they discover I'm an admin and then they become more civil.
It's also useful to be able to view deleted edits, I wish this was an ability that more editors could have, so they could view their deleted contributions. Since there are times when editors do not receive notices that pages they have created are deleted, it would be helpful if they could see their deleted contributions so they would know what has been deleted and they would be able to see why. Contributions are a record of an editor's work and not to be able to see what has been deleted is unfortunate, I think. But this wouldn't be so necessary if they always received notifications which is something I repeatedly ask people to do. It's my guess that many editors do not want any confrontation and so they don't always post notices that a page might be deleted. But that's just a guess. Liz Read! Talk! 00:25, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

RE: Comment

I'm just editing adding more references in La Paz, Baja California Sur and this "editor" complains about "I don't use right edit summary", how I are wrong with your ideas of "collaborative editing project and everyone is subject to scrutiny"?, I "can't handle criticism"?, can explain you try say? with it and i'm not understand this text of you: "If you don't like messages from other editors noting mistakes you've made, you will not be an editor here very long.", can explain you idea?. --Jalapestra (talk) 03:33, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

And please, don't touch my talk page. --Jalapestra (talk) 03:37, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
Hello, Jalapestra,
With that lousy attitude, I can see you blocked on your first day as an editor. Liz Read! Talk! 03:39, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
Well, another weird editor... --Jalapestra (talk) 03:41, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
Well, Jalapestra, I've been here over 8 years and have almost 250,000 edits so I have survived here longer than you. I might know a thing or two. Liz Read! Talk! 03:43, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
Well, what's your favourite Wikipedia topic? --Jalapestra (talk) 03:47, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
Well, actually, these days most of my time is spent dealing with inappropriate, junk, empty pages or abandoned drafts. So, I see the worst stuff people throw on pages. But I know that there are editors like you, here, improving articles and making things better. Liz Read! Talk! 04:32, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

I apoligize

Hi Liz, I would've written this on my own page but I still do not know how to mention people or reply to talk messages. I jst wanted to apoligize for all my hoax articles, I made most of those a while ago before I realized how I should use this site. I assure you no more of those will be made. --Rfkatz2005 (talk) 04:23, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Rfkatz2005,
Well, go forth, and hoax no more! Welcome to a community of contributors. I encourage you to find a WikiProject where you can work on articles with editors with similar interests. It makes editing more fun. Liz Read! Talk! 04:26, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Talkback: you've got messages!

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Action of 13 December 1814

I'm challenging this as a prod and have restored it. I was actually in the process of deprodding it at the moment you deleted. Sorry about that. SpinningSpark 16:21, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Spinningspark,
That's amazing that we were editing that page at the same time. Well, now you know it can't be PROD'd again! Have a good week. Liz Read! Talk! 16:29, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

Do you perform history splits?

Hello, Liz. I know you're active in the deletion/restoring of articles. Do you also work with splitting out histories a la WP:HISTSPLIT when an previously redirected article is usurped/repurposed? Basically, The Falconer (film) was once at a location where it hosted a completely different article. If the history prior to it's redirection here Special:Diff/639541548 on 02:23, 25 December 2014, could be split out and moved to The Falconer (Saturday Night Live), then I think the right history preservation would remain in place for the original topic. If this is not an area you work with, let me know, and I can seek another admin's help. Thanks, either way! -2pou (talk) 17:01, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, 2pou,
Unfortunately, I have no experience with splitting articles. There are 2 or 3 admins who patrol Wikipedia:Requests for history merge and I think they will have the required skills for a task like this. I'd approach one of them. Sorry not to be any help! Liz Read! Talk! 23:18, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
Hey, 2pou,
I just noticed in the Deletion Log that admin Scott did a very complicated partial deletion and restoration of an article, you might consider asking him for assistance. Liz Read! Talk! 23:42, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
Thumbs up icon Thanks for the pointer, Liz. Worth a shot! -2pou (talk) 00:25, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Holiday greetings (2021)

Liz,
I sincerely hope your holiday season goes well this year especially with what we went through last year. I'm optimistic that 2022 will be a better year for all of us: both in real life and on Wikipedia. Wishing you the best from, Interstellarity (talk) 19:03, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

That's very kind of you, Interstellarity! I hope you have a wonderful holiday, whichever you celebrate, and enjoy time away from Wikipedia! Liz Read! Talk! 23:14, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas, Liz!
Or Season's Greetings or Happy Winter Solstice! As the year winds to a close, I would like to take a moment to recognize your hard work and offer heartfelt gratitude for all you do for Wikipedia. May this Holiday Season bring you nothing but joy, health and prosperity. Onel5969 TT me 22:49, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
Thank you, onel5969! I hope you have a wonderful solstice and New Year! Liz Read! Talk! 23:13, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

User: User:ⵓⵡⵓ ⵓⵡⵓ

Hi Liz User:ⵓⵡⵓ ⵓⵡⵓ appears to be using Wikipedia exclusively to host made up alphabets. I’ve asked for three to be speedily deleted and one has gone to draft. I think WP:NOTHERE applies. Mccapra (talk) 07:14, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

User:ⵓⵡⵓ ⵓⵡⵓ

Hi Liz User:ⵓⵡⵓ ⵓⵡⵓ appears to be using Wikipedia exclusively to host made up alphabets. I’ve asked for three to be speedily deleted and one has gone to draft. I think WP:NOTHERE applies. Mccapra (talk) 07:14, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Mccapra,
You know, admin Shirt58 has deleted some of their pages and tried to start a discussion with the editor on their user talk page so I would defer to them to make any decision about taking action on this editor. Liz Read! Talk! 20:03, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Draft:Salvatore Ambrosini

Hi Liz, could you help me out? I'm trying to improve the draft on Salvatore Ambrosini, but when I move it to the main space the other users put it back in the draft space. Where am I wrong? Could you give me some advice to improve the draft or if you can improve it yourself? :)

Nonna Angelina (talk) 08:53, 22 December 2021 (UTC)User:Nonna Angelina

Hello, Nonna Angelina,
Typically, editors submit drafts to Articles for Creation where one of our reviewers can look over your draft and make recommendations on how to improve it. Once a draft is approved by an AFC reviewer, it has much better odds of surviving a move to the main space of the project. AFC also has a Help Desk where you can ask questions about article creation. There is also the Teahouse for general questions about editing on Wikipedia and policies. I recommend both sites as places where experienced editors can offer you advice and support. Liz Read! Talk! 19:52, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Category:Talk pages with broken ClueBot III templates

Hey, I went to check on Category:Talk pages with broken ClueBot III templates recently which is a maintenance back-log category applied by ClueBot III when it comes across a broken or invalid User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis template, and noticed that had deleted it. I didn't want to wheel war, so would you mind undeleting it (or, alternatively letting me know you're fine with it being undeleted, and I'll do so). Thanks! -- Cobi(t|c|b) 19:46, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Cobi,
Categories that have been deleted via CSD C1, simply for being empty, can be recreated whenever there is a need for them. The only reason they are deleted is because they are empty, not for any other reason. If you assign a page to this category, I'll recreate it. But I don't want to recreate it before a page has been placed in it or it will just show up on our Empty Category list and be tagged for deletion again. I hope this answers your question. Liz Read! Talk! 19:57, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

~~~ Merry Christmas! ~~~
Joyeux Noël! ~ Buon Natale! ~ Vrolijk Kerstfeest! ~ Frohe Weihnachten!
¡Feliz Navidad! ~ Feliz Natal! ~ Καλά Χριστούγεννα! ~ Hyvää Joulua!
God Jul! ~ Glædelig Jul! ~ Linksmų Kalėdų! ~ Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus!
Häid Jõule! ~ Wesołych Świąt! ~ Boldog Karácsonyt! ~ Veselé Vánoce!
Veselé Vianoce! ~ Crăciun Fericit! ~ Sretan Božić! ~ С Рождеством!
শুভ বড়দিন! ~ 圣诞节快乐！~ メリークリスマス！~ 메리 크리스마스!
สุขสันต์วันคริสต์มาส! ~ Selamat Hari Natal! ~ Giáng sinh an lành!
Весела Коледа!

Hello, Liz! Thank you for your work to maintain and improve Wikipedia! Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 19:58, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove and leave other users this message by adding {{subst:Multi-language Season's Greetings}}
Thank you so much, CAPTAIN RAJU! I hope you have a wonderful holiday season, on- and off-Wikipedia! Liz Read! Talk! 20:05, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Suganesh Mahendran

Hello, you recently speedily deleted Suganesh Mahendran but I objected to this deletion on the talk page so I just wondered if you missed my objection comment? Thanks NemesisAT (talk) 22:02, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, NemesisAT,
Yes, I did miss your comment on the article talk page. I have restored the article and talk page. Liz Read! Talk! 22:05, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
No worries, easily done I imagine! Thank you NemesisAT (talk) 22:20, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Cheers!

Hello Liz: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Qwerfjkltalk 22:28, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message
Oh, thanks so much, Qwerfjkl! I'm going to get back to you, between holiday busyness and power outages here, it's been a crazy week. Liz Read! Talk! 22:30, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Removal of CSD tag

I see you removed the CSD tag at Draft:UJober. To be clear on procedure, since there is an SPI case on this matter, should I revisit CSD options for the page if the user is blocked as a sock (if someone else doesn't get to it first)? I'm not upset or questioning your decision, I just want to be clear on how to proceed. TornadoLGS (talk) 22:34, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, TornadoLGS,
Typically, page creations are only tagged after an editor is confirmed to be a sockpuppet. The exceptions I have seen are when an administrator is very familiar with a particular sockpuppet and so deletes their pages before a checkuser has confirmed them as a sockpuppet. I'll admit that I'm pretty strict about this because I've seen SPI cases where there wasn't enough data to confirm a sockpuppet so I'd rather not delete pages and have to restore them later if this occurs.
I will say that your conduct isn't unusual, there are other editors who will tag dozens of pages as soon as they have opened an SPI case against an editor and then we have to untag them all until they've been confirmed. Often the reporting editor is absolutely convinced but I'd prefer to wait until a checkuser has confirmed this. Liz Read! Talk! 22:41, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
Well, The folks at SPI seem to think it's two different people, though I'm thinking the draft may still meet WP:G11. TornadoLGS (talk) 02:20, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
Yes, it might well warrant deletion on another criteria. Liz Read! Talk! 02:24, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

CSD G5

Hi Liz, regarding this summary, does the sock have to be blocked for this to apply? My understanding from WP:G5 is that it is the user that has to be blocked (in violation of their ban or block), not the newest sock iteration (in this case proxy IP). Best, CMD (talk) 21:49, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, CMD,
See the discussion above this one when I reply to the same question. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 21:52, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
A checkuser block will never apply to an IP, and a CU will never confirm an IP on technical grounds, so I'm not seeing how the above conversation would apply here (even if CU was less fallible). CMD (talk) 22:09, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
Well, on what basis should I take your judgement that an IP account is a sockpuppet? I need confirmation. If checkusers won't confirm because of policy, then I won't delete a page based on an editor's suspicions. Liz Read! Talk! 22:15, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
On the usual basis for non-CU behavioural checks perhaps, such as your note of admin action in the above conversation. Technical confirmation is a very high bar given IPs cannot be technically confirmed and even named accounts can avoid it. If you need more information on the case I'm always happy to have a note dropped on my talkpage. (In this particular case its forking [6][7][8][9] among other socks, and using a redirect to loophole the autoconfirmed requirements.) While I understand being unwilling to delete based on suspicions, not deleting is not the same as removing the tag, and I followed up here due to that action and the linked edit summary. CMD (talk) 22:32, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas Liz

Hi Liz, I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia,
★Trekker (talk) 22:18, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Share these holiday wishes by adding {{subst:User:Davey2010/MerryChristmas}} to your friends' talk pages.

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 22

Hello everyone, and welcome to the 22nd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter. This issue will be covering new and updated user scripts from the past seven months (June through December 2021).

Scripts Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

New scripts New scripts

  • Ahecht:
  • Awesome Aasim:
    • Infiniscroll adds infinite scrolling to user contributions, page histories, and log pages.
    • Quick create allows for the fast creation of red-linked pages with two clicks.
  • Caburum:
    • UTCclock adds a clock displaying the current UTC time.
  • Chlod:
  • DaxServer:
    • BooksToSfn adds a portlet link in Visual Editor's source mode editing, in main namespace articles or in the user's Sandbox. When clicked, it converts one {{cite book}} inside a <ref>...</ref> tag block into an {{Sfn}}.
  • FlightTime:
  • Jon Harald Søby:
    • diffedit enables editing directly from viewing a diff "when, for instance, you notice a tiny mistake deep into an article, and don't want to edit the entire article and re-find that one line to fix that tiny mistake".
    • warnOnLargeFile warns you if you're about to open a very large file (width/height >10,000px or file size >100 MB) from a file page.
  • JPxG:
    • PressPass adds a collection of tools for Newspapers.com including configurable automatic citation generation in five different formats.
    • CurrentSwitcher gives you links on the contribs page to hide duplicate entries, current revisions, rollbacks, huggles, twinkles, and redwarns.
    • TrackSum lets you automatically sum the lengths of tracks in templates like {{track listing}} and get total runtimes.
  • Nardog:
    • CopySectLink adds a button to copy the unencoded page title or section path next to each heading.
    • IPAInput allows you to type in IPA symbols by directly looking at an IPA key like Help:IPA/English and clicking on the symbols.
    • TemplatePreviewGuard warns when you try to use "Preview page with this template" with a page that doesn't transclude the template.
  • NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh:
    • ContribsTabVector adds "Contributions" and "Statistics" tabs to user and user talk pages on the Vector skin.
    • CopyvioChecker adds a "CopyvioCheck" tab to all pages, except Special (Vector skin only).
    • LiveDiffLink is a version of Equazcion's LiveDiffLink which shows a wikilink instead of a URL.
    • QuickDiff (by OneTwoThreeFall at Fandom) lets you quickly view any diff link on a wiki, whether on Recent Changes, contribs pages, history pages, the diff view itself, or elsewhere. For more information, view its page on Fandom.
  • Novem Linguae:
    • DetectSNG scans a list of 1,600 SNG keywords and displays them at the top of the article.
    • NotSoFast highlights recently created articles in the new pages feed, to discourage patrolling them too quickly.
    • UserRightsDiff concisely displays what perm was added or removed when viewing Special:UserRights.
    • VoteCounter displays a rough count of keeps and deletes at XFDs, RFCs, etc.
    • WatchlistAFD automatically watchlists the AFDs of any pages you AFC accept or NPP patrol, to help you calibrate your reviewing.
  • P.T.Đ:
  • Qwerfjkl:
    • editRedirect adds a → link after redirects to edit them.
    • RegExTypoFix, a script for fixing typos, is a wrapper for User:Joeytje50/RETF.js.
    • talkback creates links after user talk page links like this: |C|TB (with the first linking to the user's contributions, and the latter giving the option of sending a {{talkback}} notice). It also adds a [copy] link next to section headers.
  • Rublov:
    • diff-link shows "copy" links on history and contributions pages that copy an internal link to the diff (e.g., Special:Diff/1026402230) to your clipboard when clicked.
  • Rummskartoffel:
    • auto-watchlist-expiry automatically watchlists every page you edit for a user-definable duration (you can still pick a different time using the dropdown, though).
    • generate pings generates the wikitext needed to ping all members of a category, up to 50 editors (the limit defined by MediaWiki).
    • share ExpandTemplates url allows for easy sharing of your inputs to Special:ExpandTemplates. It adds a button that, when clicked, copies a shareable URL to your exact invocation of the page, like this. Other editors do not need to have this script installed in order to access the URL generated.
    • show tag names shows the real names of tags next to their display names in places such as page revision histories or the watchlist.
  • Tol:
  • Venkat TL:
    • ColourContrib color-codes the user contributions page so that pages you've edited last are sharply distinguished from pages where another editor was the last to edit the page.
  • Vukky:

All in all, some very neat scripts were written in these last few months. Hoping to see many more in the next issue -- drop us a line on the talk page if you've been writing (or seeing) anything cool and good. Filling in for DannyS712, this has been jp×g. Take care, and merry Christmas! jp×g 07:30, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

A Message

This has been chewing at me all evening, and I have realized it is not going to go away until I share my thoughts more completely. I'll start by saying I don't expect a reply to this as I know you and other admins are extremely busy, and it is fine if you choose not to.

Being scolded for my two speedy delete mistakes caught me way off guard with how much it upset me. So much so that I semi-reactively chose to disengage entirely from participating in wikiprocedures (AfD, PROD, etc.). Given more time to reflect, it is best if I stick with this decision indefinitely. Granted, this is not the only reason. I've run into several prickly situations (one a day prior too) over time that have made my view of wiki under the hood to be a cold and surprisingly aggressive and unforgiving place full of low-accommodating personalities. The latter I have very low tolerance for. This is combined with the fact that Wikiediting is not really helping me grow as a person at all; therefore I should spend time doing other hobbies. I'm also dyslexic (which is more than just reading difficulties) and wikipedia plays to my weaknesses, not my strengths.

Nevertheless, this was a very large straw that broken the camels back for me. In particular, because when I saw your replies on my talk page (which I have since wiped- please see my edit history) you were mid-writing them, and at one point contained a statement saying you were close to telling me to stop adding and removing tags from pages. This was subsequently removed as I assume you decided to recant that statement. But, from that and the messages as a whole I was frankly shocked and dismayed by this because I did not realize - at all - that I had done anything wrong until I was told. I now understand fully where I made my mistakes - and why - and this is because wiki plays to my weaknesses, and I again appologize for that. In particular, I thought the editor I was at odds with was new, as I saw the last message on their talk page was in June of this year, but completely failed to notice the talk page archive above that. Had I noticed, I would have (as you said) known they were experienced and been more cautious. It is obvious to me you were doing your best to curtail your frustration and apply an even and balanced hand to the situation. There's no way I could ever put up with constantly dealing with users out of their depth day after day like you do. I'd rather chew saw dust.

Basically, this has all sent a message to me that you really just cannot make mistakes here without being heavily lectured or receiving some sort of restriction/punishment, and I find this to simply be too corrosive for me to withstand. It very often reads as patronizing and infantializing despite the good intentions, and even when the other party is assuming good intentions towards the receiver. It's unfortunate I saw the threat as I don't think that was intended to be seen, but that is too late at this point.

All this to say is, I am not mad, you haven't done anything wrong, but this has tipped me over the edge to leaving and I am still (surprisingly) hurt. In order for me to resolve that I must speak my mind. I love Wikipedia and I have since I was in high school over 15 years ago, this website is vitally important for the world and tireless admins like you are offering far more protection to the world than nearly everyone realizes. But, I just can't participate.

Thank you for reading. --Tautomers(T C) 08:17, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2022!!

Hi Liz, Wish you a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year, Thank you for your support and great work on Wikipedia. Happy Holidays. DMySon (talk) 14:44, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Djibouti–Georgia (country) relations

A tag has been placed on Category:Djibouti–Georgia (country) relations indicating that it is currently empty, 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. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Qwerfjkltalk 17:34, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Joyous Season

I wish that you may have a very Happy Holiday! Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Hogmanay, Festivus or your hemisphere's Solstice, this is a special time of year for almost everyone! May the New Year provide you joy and fulfillment! Thanks for everything you do here. Huggums537 (talk) 19:15, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:Coffee/Holidays}} to your fellow editors' talk pages.

About these articles

I was just reminded of these articles I had asked about in our discussion a while ago back in early November. About the ones where I made significant contributions to them and Justlettersandnumbers accidentally G5'ed them, but then restored them when I pointed that out but didn't remove the CSD tag in the restoration and Anthony Bradbury instantly re-deleted them. Could they finally be restored?

Here they are: Ramón Escobar Santiago, Gladys Ejomi, Iñaxi Etxabe, Elisabeth Ebeling, and César Salinas

Thanks for your help! SilverserenC 22:03, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Thank you! SilverserenC 22:48, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
Oh, Silver seren,
You won't believe this but on my crowded laptop screen, I have a window minimized with tabs for all of these pages that I meant to get to a while ago. I guess I can close that window now. I'm glad you remembered though and I'll see if there are any more pages that might not be listed here.
If you look at the page logs for some of these pages, you'll see that some of them were re-deleted ONE MINUTE after they were restored! At that point, I don't see how they were even visible in the speedy deletion folder unless the admin had just opened it that second. Bad timing. Unfortunately, it is not rare for an admin to restore a page and forget to remove the CSD tag that caused it to be deleted in the first place or, for drafts, forget to do an edit to the page and so it is immediately marked for CSD G13 deletion for editor inactivity. And, we'll sometimes restore the page and forget to restore the talk page! Well, we are human and it never hurts to approach an admin directly, like this, rather than going to a noticeboard. I hope you have a good holiday and new year! Liz Read! Talk! 22:50, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
Looks like you posted while I was writing this response! Liz Read! Talk! 22:51, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Hello Liz, Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, ~ ToBeFree (talk) 00:14, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Ikran Tahlil Farah has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Ikran Tahlil Farah. Thanks! Rusalkii (talk) 03:08, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

Season's greetings and Merry Christmas to you and your family. Have a wonderful holiday season. Cheers! RV (talk) 04:25, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Greetings

db-move and drafts

Hi Liz, not sure if you saw the discussion or pings at WT:AFC, but if a reviewer is reviewing a draft and puts a {{db-move}} or similar on an existing redirect so they can accept the draft, please delete it as requested. You do not have to do anything further, as the reviewer will take care of accepting the page (likely very soon after deletion) and cleaning everything up (after all, that's why we have a fancy script for it). Thank you, and if you have any questions feel free to ping me. Primefac (talk) 11:45, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Primefac,
No, I didn't see the pings, I'm not very consistent with checking my ping notifications because they are always at 99+. They pile up fast.
I did decline some move requests because it didn't look like the draft had even been reviewed or it was in the process of being reviewed. I do the draft moves when the page is clearly reviewed and ready to go. Or I didn't do the move because the editor who posted the move request didn't appear to be an AFC reviewer and it looked like they were trying to get around some restriction. I've seen draft move requests where the draft hadn't even been submitted for an AFC review yet!
Maybe I'll just let someone else handle these although the move requests seem to sit around longer in the CSD categories than other speedy deletion requests. Happy holidays! Liz Read! Talk! 15:59, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Competing article

Hello. Check this, please. [10] PajaBG (talk) 18:35, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for slogging through

Loads of G5s, I'm afraid. Ugbedeg was prolific, and Luciapop was very slippery as a sock and likely UPE, plus being an AFC reviewer!! You might decide to look at their list of articles created to see what has been missed and what might be left legitmately because of significant edits by other editors. FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 23:35, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Timtrent,
I'm trying to work fast but carefully because there is a tendency in these cases for admins to use batch delete to mass delete pages and I think they need to be looked over individually. Oh, Merry Christmas to you! Liz Read! Talk! 23:39, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
I agree that batch delete is inappropriate for these. I have tried hard to interpret the history and am content if you disagree with my interpretation. For me a deletion is always a dual key operation.
Happy Christmas to you as well. Why are we editing on Christmas Day? FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 23:43, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
And, sure enough, that's what happened, another admin batch deleted the remainder before I could go through them. Grrrr.
I'm editing because I spent all Christmas morning with my family but now I'm back home and I'm waiting for the news to come on. Liz Read! Talk! 23:54, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
Unfortunate that they batch deleted. I agree with hindsight with those you chose to decline. I'm torn, though. UPE was very much in evidence, but not evidentially. I hate it when UPE is rewarded by others editing their work all unaware. I understand when we choose not to delete for that reason, though.
This one was good, very hard to spot, and has caused concern.
I'm unwinding after a day with family, too. FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 23:58, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
  • Hi Liz, thanks for checking through these. I was going through at the same time but more slowly and generally agreed with your decisions. I've mentioned you at the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red as many of the subjects were women, if you'd care to comment there on the deleted articles (whether they looked overtly promotional, how notable they were, how much editing you deemed substantive...) Cheers, Espresso Addict (talk) 00:07, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
Hello, Espresso Addict,
Well, I was working quickly so if I "saved" some pages where you don't think the contributions of other editors was significant enough, feel free to delete the pages. I understand why the work of sockpuppets is deleted but it is hard to imagine many of these pages about accomplished African women being recreated so it is with regret that I did the deletions. Liz Read! Talk! 01:08, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi there -- I'm very unhappy about the Luciapop situation. It seems like a lot of notable African bios, including many of women, are being deleted for essentially a meta reason relating to the creator, despite the fact that everyone agrees that the encyclopedia is deficient in this area. Women in Red is generally happy to adopt articles on women if they are drawn to their attention. I was hoping some of them could have been moved to draft so that the WiR editors could comb out any problems, but obviously that is not consensus. Anyway, happy Christmas if you celebrate! Espresso Addict (talk) 01:18, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
@Espresso Addict If it helps, yesterday I nominated only those I felt had insignificant edits by others. By this I mean the addition of tags, the addition or deletion of categories, the use of reFill, etc. I may have made a couple of errors, which is fine. Liz declined those where they disagreed with me. Like Liz I find batch deletion to be inappropriate im this type of situation. There are too many nuances to consider. And I believe that an admin has as much of a duty as nominator to do their very best for Wikipedia, a duty they discharged with a great deal of work.
Luciapop has driven a coach and horses through our defences, or rather Ugbedeg has. We cannot use the apparently valid reason that we are woefully short of articles in an area to reward sock puppetry and likely UPE. Luciapop created 93 articles, mostly formulaic, as if on a production line.
Editors in good standing can and should now look at the Luciapop list with a view to creating wholesomely produced articles on those from that list who have genuine notability. It may be a decent list to start to work from. FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 10:36, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Hood (soft top)

"Liz" remember:

Stay cool,
don't be a jerk,
don't be a drama mama,
and assume good faith.

And tell me why you have deleted Hood (soft top)

Eddaido (talk) 06:30, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
Hello, Eddaido,
You don't look like a brand new editor but you are acting like one. New comments are put on the bottom of a talk page, not the top. And the deletion summary on Hood (soft top) tells you exactly why it was deleted, it was tagged as a Proposed deletion. If you would like it to be restore, please make a request at WP:REFUND. Liz Read! Talk! 06:47, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Muazzez Bora

Why did you delete Muazzez Bora article Miss Liz--176.234.225.68 (talk) 12:28, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, 176.234.225.68,
Draft:Muazzez Bora which was deleted as a stale, abandoned draft because no one had edited the page in 6 months. If you would like Draft:Muazzez Bora restored, let me know or you can make a request at WP:REFUND. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 02:25, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Moving a page

Hello. I'm ZX2006XZ. I was wondering what you would think about moving this draft to article space. Coverage on the certain topic has been pretty notable for a while now. ZX2006XZ (talk) 23:54, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, ZX2006XZ,
This draft has been declined SIX times and finally rejected. I would not move a draft that has been rejected by multiple AFC reviewers into main space. What they are trying to say by declining and rejecting it is that if it was moved into main space, it would be deleted. And I don't think if a draft has been rejected, that an AFC reviewer will consider it an 8th time. Liz Read! Talk! 02:30, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

So... should I make a new draft or something else? ZX2006XZ (talk) 02:51, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, ZX2006XZ,
That might be the best idea. Some times, it's better to work with a blank slate and build up a new article rather than trying to fix the problems of a rejected one. Also, if you found one of the AFC reviewers more helpful or if they offered some constructive advice, you might approach them on their user talk page and ask them for specifics on why the draft was rejected. I don't review drafts myself, so I don't know if they use a mental checklist or if they go through training to spot common errors (like copyright violations or correct references). But I know sometimes the responses AfC reviewers leave aren't very detailed so if one AFC reviewer gave a more detailed response, they might be some help in crafting a new version. Good luck! Liz Read! Talk! 03:32, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Thanks. ZX2006XZ (talk) 13:11, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Okay. I made a new draft. It's at this link. I'm not asking for a review or anything. I just wanted you to know. Thanks in advance. ZX2006XZ (talk) 16:39, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

The other draft is now a redirect to the new draft. You can view it here. ZX2006XZ (talk) 16:41, 27 December 2021 (UTC) ZX2006XZ, passing by, I want to advise you from my 15 years experience here that this will not conceivably be approved until the film has ben released, and reviews are available. Please don't be impatient. DGG ( talk ) 06:54, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

Deletion of World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships

Hi again -- you deleted this as I was trying to decide what to do with it -- it seems to be intended as a redirect to the two pages linked, but there's duplicate content on the tournament and I hadn't worked out which was primary when it turned red. Cheers, Espresso Addict (talk) 02:09, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Espresso Addict,
I have restored the page, it seemed to fit CSD A3 criteria since it just had two internal links. It's great that you might see some use for it. I also posted a message to the page creator suggesting that they create pages in Draft or User space where they can develop articles over time. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 02:17, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
Espresso Addict, I also removed the CSD tag since I can see one of the other speedy deletion patrollers deleting this before you can get to it! Liz Read! Talk! 02:19, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
Thanks, Liz. I work so slowly that things often get deleted while I'm trying to work out how best to salvage them. I've put another note on the creator's talk page; hopefully they won't get too confused! Cheers, Espresso Addict (talk) 02:38, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
Espresso Addict, if you look further up on this talk page, you'll see a discussion about this matter. I was going through dozens of pages that had been tagged CSD G5, carefully but rapidly, because I was so worried about another admin deleting them all through batch delete. I got to most of them before that exact thing happened! But I got to look at about 90-95% of them before they went poof! I found six articles where I thought the contributions of other editors was significant enough to de-tag them. It is much more difficult to judge this after the pages have been deleted. Liz Read! Talk! 02:48, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
Personally I don't think batch delete should be used at all; it seems contrary to the need to examine carefully the individual circumstances of each page nominated. If there's genuinely no need for that then the page might as well be deleted by a bot with admin permissions. Cheers, Espresso Addict (talk) 03:01, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

"100 Huntley Street"

You delinked 100 Huntley Street. What you are supposed to do is remove it altogether. Only programs with articles are to be listed. Mr. C.C.Hey yo!I didn't do it! 03:41, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Mr. C.C.,
I don't understand your complaint. I deleted 100 Huntley Street as an expired PROD. When we delete articles, we remove links to the page so there won't be a lot of red links on other articles. Then an editor asked for the article to be restored and it was. What are you asking to be done that you can't do as an editor? Liz Read! Talk! 03:53, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
What's hard to understand? You left it listed without a blue link on three lists. You should have removed it altogether. Not sure why I have to repeat this. Mr. C.C.Hey yo!I didn't do it! 03:56, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
I don't keep track of if and when articles I have deleted are restored, no admins do that. After I have deleted a page, my involvement with it has ended unless there is a question about the deletion. You should create the links since you noticed them, you're an experienced editor, you should know how to do that. I have plenty of activities to keep me busy.
And curb the hostility, please. Merry Christmas to you. Liz Read! Talk! 04:14, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

From France

Hello Liz,
This article i.e Guadeloupean and Haitian deportees in Corsica is admissible. Some english contributors haven't see the sources especially the main source Francis Arzalier. You can see on french tv, the "reportage" Slavery in Corsica under Napoleon".
I demand please that this article will be in the Main.
Thank's you and have a good day !
Mike Coppolano (talk) 05:15, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Mike Coppolano,
I'm not sure why you are contacting me, I had nothing to do with moving this article to Draft space (Draft:Guadeloupean and Haitian deportees in Corsica) and I have nothing to do with approving draft articles. You should submit it to Articles for Creation for review.
If you have questions about editing on Wikipedia or its policies, I suggest you should bring them to the Teahouse. But, as a piece of advice, most people don't respond well to random people who come to them "demanding" things. This is a collaborative editing project, we are all volunteers here. Liz Read! Talk! 05:22, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

From France

Hello Liz,
The article Guadeloupean and Haitian deportees in Corsica is avaible. Some english contributors haven't understand the main source Francis Arzalier. It's not possible to delete an article with at once a source. You can see this reportage on french tv [Slavery in Corsica under Napoleon Bonaparte] (see also my talk page response to John B123)
Thank's and have a nice day,
Mike Coppolano (talk) 05:24, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Mike Coppolano,
Why are you leaving me a second message? I just responded to you (above). Good night. Liz Read! Talk! 05:26, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
It was a bug. Day is coming in France, i'm awake and well. I just don't understand why John B123 have /moved my article to Draft. It's not possible to don't give existence to an article who have a source and the main source by Francis Arzalier.I think of all. God bless America ! (my cousin is american) Have a nice day, and thank's Mike Coppolano (talk) 05:37, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
It's not possible that John B123 have moved my article Draft:Guadeloupean and Haitian deportees in Corsica. But you can see in the article you have deleted that there was a source Francis Arzalier « Les déportés guadeloupéens et haïtiens en Corse ;» Annales historiques de la Révolution française Année 1993 293-294 pp. 469-490. It's a misunderstood mistake ! Now I think it's possible that the article about Guadeloupe Haiti and France reintegrate the Main, he dont had to leave. Thank's, Mike Coppolano (talk) 05:46, 27 December 2021 (UTC) Note : Where will go Wikipedia if we delete article with source(s) ?

Mike Coppolano, passing by,I noticed this. The article will not be approved in the enWP without some considerable amount of material to put it into context for the general reader . DGG ( talk ) 06:50, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi Liz and DGG happy new year ("Bonne Année et Bonne Santé" comme l'on dit en France) !
It's a terrible mistake. The article is admissible on wp:en. You just have to translate from french to english. I had given the material (i.e bibliography) in the article. Think. Bonne journée à vous deux ! Mike Coppolano (talk) 05:59, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
I;ve taken a look at the draft. It's apparently intended as a translation of the very satisfactory article fr:Déportés guadeloupéens et haïtiens en Corse at the French WP. But you can't have an article here by just copying the sources over; you have to either translate the article, or find someone to do it, or write a similar one in English. I know enough French to do this, but I do not have the time. I have listed it for you at Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English. Whether anyone will prove interested, I cannot say. DGG ( talk ) 06:51, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
Thank you DGG Mike Coppolano (talk) 05:19, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

Rail transport in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

I know this is a silly article, but I would like to challenge the prod of Rail transport in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It was deleted on the grounds that there is no rail transport in this territory. This is not true. The book The Island of South Geogia makes it clear that there is, or at least was several light railways on the island. SpinningSpark 14:29, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Spinningspark,
 Done For me, a contested PROD is a restored PROD. Good luck with it! Liz Read! Talk! 21:36, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for that. I notice that someone else quite independently has noticed there is scope for an article here and made an addition. SpinningSpark 12:43, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

Marie-Thérèse Bocoum

Hiya I see you recently deleted Marie-Thérèse Bocoum and was wondering if you could put the former article in my draft space so I can look at it as I assess making a new page for her. Thanks for any help! Mujinga (talk) 19:28, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Mujinga,
I should let you know that admins' opinions vary about doing this (and most would say "No") but I decided to restore the page and move it to your User space at User:Mujinga/Marie-Thérèse Bocoum. Good luck with your new page. Liz Read! Talk! 21:58, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

In need of HELP

@Liz This article is nominated for speedy deletion although I indicated that it is yet to be improved and it is also a stub, can you please lead me to the right path on how to save it and legally eliminate the speedy deletion tag? Motlatlaneo (talk) 21:31, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Motlatlaneo,
What article? Is it in main space or Draft space? The fastest thing to do is to move it to Draft or User space but it would help if I knew the article so I could see why it's been tagged for deletion. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 21:34, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

@Liz The article is B Major (record producer) I mentioned you on the article's talk page. Motlatlaneo (talk) 21:36, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Motlatlaneo,
There are a variety of different deletion processes on Wikipedia and different ways to handle them. In this case, a discussion has been opened at Articles for Deletion. This can not be stopped unless the nominator withdraws the nomination or this is a Speedy Keep or Speedy Delete which I don't think will happen here.
What you need to do is to go to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/B Major (record producer) and argue why the article should be kept. Read over why other editors believe it should be deleted and address those concerns. If it is because they don't believe he is notable, find references that support that he is important. An AFD discussion normally lasts 7 days so there is time to improve the article. What you don't want to do is to contact other editors and ask them to vote to keep your article. That is called canvassing and will backfire upon you. Don't panic and work on improving the article. I'll read it over when I have more time. Liz Read! Talk! 21:42, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Thank you ma'am Motlatlaneo (talk) 21:47, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

No problem. It can take years to understand how Wikipedia works. Also, the Teahouse is always there if you have questions about Wikipedia's policies and practices. Good luck. Liz Read! Talk! 21:54, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

A mess of socks

Hello, I've found a suspicious article (Link) that I think was made by a sockpuppeteer familiar to you, but since the first edit is recreating a draft by a user (that i suspect is a sock of this user due to similar naming) and then moved to mainspace by a sock of elshadiman. I have tagged it for G4 since it has a previous AfD to delete it (since I didn't know if G5 would be accepted here), but still I wanted to show this to you because you're more experienced than me in these issues and would know what to do. - Kevo327 (talk) 23:40, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

do you think that G5 cirteria may apply to this article? - Kevo327 (talk) 23:50, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
Hello, Kevo327,
I'd have to look at the page again. I'm kind of in the middle of doing something else.
If you found a new sockpuppet, or one you suspect is, I find it most helpful to approach the checkuser in the existing SPI who last identified a sock. They have more information than we do and are more familiar with the case specifics. You could either reopen the SPI with a new entry (see instructions on WP:SPI and use the name of the sockpuppeteer) or just put a note on the checkuser's talk page. But don't expect a speedy response at this time of year. It might seem urgent to you but unless there is ongoing vandalism, there is no immediate need to act, especially if the sockpuppet has already been blocked. Liz Read! Talk! 23:57, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for your quick response, It's fully natural for thing to be slower these days. I'll do as advised. Have a nice last-couple-of-days-of-the-year. - Kevo327 (talk) 00:02, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

your speedy delete

Hey Liz,

while you're obviously technically correct to delete my talk entry on the non-existant template for Hugo award for best series, it would've been much more helpful to create said template and let others flesh it out. That would've actually improved the wiki a tiny little bit.

Cheers, 165.1.194.41 (talk) 08:21, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, 165.1.194.41,
If I remember correctly, you left a message on a template talk page where there wasn't any template so it was deleted as an orphaned talk page. Who would have even have seen your message? If you want a template created, it would be better to request this at a relevant WikiProject or contact an editor who made similar templates and request it of them. No one would see an orphaned talk page because they wouldn't know it's even there. Liz Read! Talk! 04:47, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Tom McCabe (Rugby League player)

Hi Liz. I see you've prodded Tom McCabe (Rugby League player) and, for what it's worth, I did try to explain to the creator at WP:THQ#Pictures that are owned by the person who has asked it to be uploaded? what tag do I use to say it's got no copyright? that BLPPROD was a possibility. I also did do a little searching for sources on my own but came up empty, and I also posted about this at WT:RL#Tom McCabe (Rugby League player). It seems possible that this person might meet WP:NRU, but I know next to zero about rugby. Maybe WP:DRAFTIFY would be a better option here? I can't do anything about the images because their copyright status is not clear and most likely they won't be able to be kept without someone's WP:CONSENT, but the subject might be notable for his rugby achievements. -- Marchjuly (talk) 08:33, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

Out of curiosity, I decided to look for old archived versions of the Rugby League Ireland and found McCabe mentioned on a January 20, 2002 archived version, but he's also listed as a contributor to the page as well. McCabe is also listed as an "executive member" of the RLI in the "Moving forward" section of an October 2001 archived version, but I can't find any mention of him as being president. Anyway, these might be OK for certain bits of article content to remove the BLPPROD, but the RLI's website is a primary source at the very best and I've been unable to find anything from any newspapers or other secondary publications which might help establish notability. I thought https://peoplepill.com/people/tom-mccabe-2 might possibly be OK as an EL because it's not what I would consider to be a reliable source, but it's on WP:BLACKLIST which means it has zero value to Wikipedia. -- Marchjuly (talk) 11:41, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
Well, you are putting a lot of effort into this, Marchjuly. I just came upon a list of BLP bios without any references and I was going to nominate a few every day over a week. Most of them are sports figures so I know that those editors who work with articles in these subject areas are knowledgeable about what sources might exist for football players or snooker players where I don't. I see the BLP PROD tag as a reminder to article creators that they are unfinished and they need to find a reference for their bios. Almost all of the articles I have tagged with a BLP PROD are de-tagged before the waiting period is up. Liz Read! Talk! 04:44, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
I actually have no interest in rugby at all, but just thought I'd give it a try. Anyway, some citationss were added to the article by it's creator, but the only one really relevant to the subject was to a YouTube video that was most likely a copyvio. FWIW, the creator responded to the BLPPROD notification you left on their user talk page and I left a post for them on the article's talk page, but I'm not sure what else I can do here. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:53, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi again Liz. This person tried to ping you on their user talk page, but it might've not gone through because it was malformed. In addition, perhaps you can take a look at what they posted on the article's talk page when you've got a little time. They seem to mean well, but they also have a plan of creating more articles (perhaps even as many as 300 more) like the McCabe one as part of their efforts to document these players' achievements. I gave some general advice, but perhaps you could add something more. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:15, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Draft : Survivor Corps

Hi Liz {{Help me}} Hello, Merry Christmas and happy healthy holidays You recently did a speecy delete on an older version of this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Survivor_Corps_(COVID-19)

Wanted to reach out again as we have grown and evolved and get a 2nd look. Please advise - happy for any further support, guidance and assistance in getting this (new) article ready for prime time, With thanks, Skiman514

Hello, Skiman514,
Can you provide a link to the deleted page? Then I can see the reason for the deletion. I don't review article drafts but I suggest you submit it to Articles for Creation for review. The reviewer can offer you their opinion. Their goal is to get your article in good enough condition so that it won't be deleted when it is moved to the main space.
Also, could you sign your talk page messages with your signature? Just use four tildes (~~~~) and it will put your name and time and date of the talk page message. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 04:36, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Skiman514 (talk) 22:51, 29 December 2021 (UTC) Thanks - will look for page link (I did not write it)

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RFA 2021 Completed

The 2021 re-examination of RFA has been completed. 23 (plus 2 variants) ideas were proposed. Over 200 editors participated in this final phase. Three changes gained consensus and two proposals were identified by the closers as having the potential to gain consensus with some further discussion and iteration. Thanks to all who helped to close the discussion, and in particular Primefac, Lee Vilenski, and Ymblanter for closing the most difficult conversations and for TonyBallioni for closing the review of one of the closes.

The following proposals gained consensus and have all been implemented:

  1. Revision of standard question 1 to Why are you interested in becoming an administrator? Special thanks to xaosflux for help with implementation.
  2. A new process, Administrative Action Review (XRV) designed to review if an editor's specific use of an advanced permission, including the admin tools, is consistent with policy in a process similar to that of deletion review and move review. Thanks to all the editors who contributed (and are continuing to contribute) to the discussion of how to implement this proposal.
  3. Removal of autopatrol from the administrator's toolkit. Special thanks to Wugapodes and Seddon for their help with implementation.

The following proposals were identified by the closers as having the potential to gain consensus with some further discussion and iteration:

  1. An option for people to run for temporary adminship (proposal, discussion, & close)
  2. An optional election process (proposal & discussion and close review & re-close)

Editors who wish to discuss these ideas or other ideas on how to try to address any of the six issues identified during phase 1 for which no proposal gained are encouraged to do so at RFA's talk page or an appropriate village pump.

A final and huge thanks all those who participated in this effort to improve our RFA process over the last 4 months.

This is the final update with no further talk page messages planned.

01:46, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Disappearance of Ikran Tahlil Farah has been accepted

Disappearance of Ikran Tahlil Farah, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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

The article has been assessed as C-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. This is a great rating for a new article, and places it among the top 21% of accepted submissions — kudos to you! You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.

If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider leaving us some feedback.

Thanks again, and happy editing!

— Bilorv (talk) 20:34, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Deletion

I would not create a page and then ask for deletion. I believe Wikipedia is the one that requested it? JohnDawson3888 (talk) 05:43, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

You made one edit to the page and it included a deletion tag. Did you cut and paste this content from elsewhere? Liz Read! Talk! 05:44, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Please remove items altogether from lists like these, when closing deletions. Index of Telangana-related articles is a list of articles, not a list of topics that no longer have Wikipedia articles. Geschichte (talk) 08:56, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Liz!

Happy New Year!

Liz,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Abishe (talk) 12:31, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

   Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

Module:Test module

Can you expound upon this unexplained reversion where you remove {{db-g2}}? That clearly qualifies as a test page and the reason to keep it around is related to phab:T268867 which was closed invalid after the submitting user was schooled on how Module:Module wikitext works. I would have subst'ed Template:Db-test-notice on the talk page of @Huji: but apparently that is protected so an anonymous IP cannot modify it (which sort of defeats the purpose of a talk page in my opinion but apparently there was WP:RD3 and WP:RD2 material posted there). I also notice you were involved in User talk:Huji/Archive 1#Module:Test module. 50.53.12.84 (talk) 14:17, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

FYI: Huji subsequently replaced the content with {{db-self}} and I helped retag it as such (since modules do not get tagged such by default) and it was subsequently deleted but I would still like to know why you reverted my tagging of that with {{db-g2}}. Thanks. 50.53.12.84 (talk) 14:46, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
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