User talk:Tarlby

A kitten for you!

Thank you for being part of the fight against vandalism on English Wikipedia, and being one of the top five most active pending changes reviewers in the last 30 days. Your hard work is very much appreciated, please keep it up.

Vanderwaalforces (talk) 15:27, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! TheWikiToby (talk) 15:28, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
	Thank you for being part of the fight against vandalism on English Wikipedia, and being one of the top five most active pending changes reviewers in the last 30 days. Your hard work is very much appreciated, please keep it up. – DreamRimmer (talk) 16:33, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! TheWikiToby (talk) 16:37, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

You're quietly helping me ...?

TheWikiToby, you seem to have done the needful to do archiving of various Talk conversations I've had. Thanks, though it would have been appreciated all the more if you'd called my attention to that, though I know I've been behind the curve in following through on your comment about the need for that.

Congratulations on your Defender of the Wiki barnstar, which I see just above my message here. Augnablik (talk) 07:46, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

@Augnablik I'm not sure what you're really talking about since I haven't been archiving any of your stuff. The Teahouse archiving is taken care of by a bot btw TheWikiToby (talk) 15:47, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

I can't remember now where I saw a notification of my archived material and your name.

Wish I'd taken a screenshot. If ever I see it again. I will. Augnablik (talk) 17:05, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

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Say what …?

Hi, TheWikiToby. I just read your reply in the Teahouse, "FYI for passerbys, OP has put up the retirement banner 10 minutes after the first response for this." Wanted to understand but didn't. Could you translate for me?

BTW, it's passers-by. Augnablik (talk) 03:34, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

You can look at the OP's (Original Poster's) user page User:Caman9899. They put up the template signalling their account's retirement which means they intend to indefinitely pause all editing on that account. TheWikiToby (talk) 03:39, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

Aha. Got it. Augnablik (talk) 03:47, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

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Teahouse talkback: you've got messages!

Hello, Tarlby. Your question has been answered at the Teahouse Q&A board. Feel free to reply there!
Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by TheWikiToby (talk) 18:53, 13 December 2024 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template.

I have replied back to the question I created lol

Kind regards,

Reader of Information (talk) 00:15, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

👌👌👌👌 TheWikiToby (talk) 05:22, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

User:Salah talah/Sample page

Hello, TheWikiToby,

I don't know why you tagged this page for speedy deletion, CSD U1 is only for tagging your own User pages for deletion, not other editors'. You shouldn't have even been editing this page, please do not tag other editors' User pages for deletion unless CSD U5 applies or you want to tag them for an MFD discussion. But neither of those factors applied here. In general, it's best to edit within your own User space and leave other editors' alone. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:14, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

@Liz Hello Liz. The author opened a Teahouse thread asking for their sandbox and that page to be deleted, but did not know how to do so. I tagged it for them with an explanation in the template explaining why.

The custom text in the template is pretty hard to notice though since it's not differentiated from the background or default text in any way, so it's completely understandable to miss it. TheWikiToby (talk) 19:39, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

Link ---> Wikipedia:Teahouse#Deleting my edits TheWikiToby (talk) 19:40, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

Deletion saying I didn't provide a reliable source.

Hey, so you deleted a post in PayPal Honey for not having the correct or reliable sources. Whilst that is fair enough, you are mistaken for I am not the one who added the reference, I merely just edited part of the description, not adding the reference and simply just added a few words. I am not saying to add it back, I'm just saying you accused me of adding the thing without a proper reference, which was the previous user. FreckleTheCat (talk) 21:20, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

Hello @FreckleTheCat. While you didn't add the YouTube source, you still added information from that source, which is deprecated. The boilerplate template is used for both adding unreliable sources and adding content using unreliable sources. Sorry for the confusion! Tarlby ^{(t) (c)} 21:36, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

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