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Query on your methods

Hello Ser! Per your comment at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Paul Gosling, could you enlighten me how you were able to find so many newspapers.com sources? Does this require a subscription? Thank you! starship.paint (talk / cont) 13:55, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey @Starship.paint, yeah certainly. Most of my research has come from WP:The Wikipedia Library, which has a bunch of brilliant resources with news coverage from years past. The website I usually use is Newspapers.com, which requires a subscription but as part of TWL you can put in a request for database access - check out WP:Newspapers.com for more on that. A lot of sources (particularly on darts players) are available on there that can’t be found online, which helps my research a lot. Best, ser! ^{(chat to me - see my edits)} 14:02, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for the help, Ser! I will have to reevaluate my AfD votes once I have gotten access to this tool. starship.paint (talk / cont) 14:12, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Of course. For what it's worth I've had a look through at a few of the AfDs and found sources for some but not gotten around to voting as I wasn't swayed one way or another, but I'll keep having a look through whenever I get a chance. ser! ^{(chat to me - see my edits)} 14:54, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dear ser! I have now gotten Newspapers.com access and it has definitely improved my judgement at AfDs. Thank you again! starship.paint (talk / cont) 14:55, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paul Gosling

Hello, Ser!,

I guess you decided to close this AFD but you didn't do so correctly. The archived discussion is not correctly formatted, you haven't removed the AFD tag from the article or put the appropriate notice on the article talk page. Please finish this closure. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:39, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My bad @Liz:. I think I've done it right this time. Will leave to the professionals in future. ser! ^{(chat to me - see my edits)} 10:41, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

James Lawless

Hello Ser! Regarding Cuisle In James' personal website he mentions he was editor of Cuisle which was a FF Magazine currently dormant but which may be relaunched. This is a fact he is proud of hence it remains on his website and is also on the FF website too. Cuisle also has its own facebook page also. You may want to verify these facts.Devite (talk) 14:07, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Devite:, thanks for the message. Point taken on it being a magazine rather than a newsletter; I just don't know if writing a now dormant magazine, backed up as information only by the subject's own website, is notable enough to include in the article. ser! ^{(chat to me - see my edits)} 14:17, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fair point. Devite (talk) 14:52, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I like your salamander

Cmrc23 ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ 10:49, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, too kind. This interspecies solidarity is a goal Wikipedia must work valiantly towards. ser! ^{(chat to me - see my edits)} 10:51, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Oxford child sex abuse ring

There's a lot more of these pages, and their view counts have gone from the low tens per day to over a thousand per day over the the couple of days [1] (this is perhaps connected to Elon Musk's X activity?). I've made a post at NPOVN with what I think are a comprehensive list of pages Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/Noticeboard#"Muslim_grooming_gangs"_again, which you may find interesting. Hemiauchenia (talk) 15:39, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Musk mentioning them is what brought the page to my attention in the first place - because whenever he talks about something, you can rest assured there'll be a flood of dreadful edits and talk page messages accusing Wikipedia of "bias", "censorship" or doing the bidding of Bill Gates/Klaus Schwab/whoever else. Where Musk goes, a trail of pain follows... ser! ^{(chat to me - see my edits)} 15:42, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, it's just that the questionable editing has hardly been confined to the Oxford article. Take the activities of this user for example, which you may be interested in taking a look at. Hemiauchenia (talk) 15:47, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Request for comment on future of WikiProject Eurovision

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Draft:Cam Crabtree in development

Good evening Ser! Just wanted to let you know that the Draft:Cam Crabtree is in development, if you’d like to help develop it you are more than welcome and your help would be appreciated.

Kind regards JamesVilla44 (talk) 23:57, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers, will have a look. ser! ^{(chat to me - see my edits)} 00:00, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Jose de Sousa restaurant stuff in lead

I think that was just left there for a while and not paid attention to. JamesVilla44 (talk) 20:24, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

How strange. ser! ^{(chat to me - see my edits)} 20:30, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]