Taabii, which particular article are you trying to draftify? My guess is that the draft with that name already exists which is why you cannot overwrite it with the article. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 03:48, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think I was right: Looking at Draft:Tanvir Mehedi we can see that both the article and the draft were deleted at the same time, which means that they both existed when you were trying to draftify the article. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 12:07, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Tuhin: I must have missed this message when you sent it, but I merged the two articles yesterday, instigated by a merge discussion started by Tamzin. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 07:26, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Boywholived2029: Welcome to Wikipedia. I've left you a message on your talk page with a bunch of links. Do go through them when you get a chance. To answer your question, you should read and follow H:REF. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:55, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I know you aren't exactly short on barnstars but you pop up so often in my notifications that I just thought I'd have to thank you! Loytra (talk) 12:53, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
And thank you for creating all those redirects (I assume that's why I'm popping up in your notifications).\
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Later this week, Edit Check will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. Edit check is the feature for new editors to help them follow policies and guidelines. This layout change creates space to present people with new Checks that appear while they are typing. The initial results show newcomers encountering Edit Check are 2.2 times more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is not reverted.
The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "All collection" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the <page-collection> </page-collection> tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to the step-by-step guide. [1]
The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has a multiselect filter for namespace selection. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion.
The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements. [2]
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You can propose the page for deletion simce I'm not gonns work on it any more.
You don't respect the {{Being worked on}} on the page and feel the need to add your marks to the page anyway, No respext means no more work on it by me, so you'll have to find another tree to pee against. --Sb008 (talk) 07:53, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Sb008, the {{Being worked on}} template isn't something that you place on a page and walk away from it. Usually for similar templates, there is a leeway of a few hours given to tidy up the page and add a ref or two. In this case, more than 15 hours had passed between your last edit to the page and my maintenance tag edit. Adding those maintenance tags, brings the page to the attention of other folk who might like to help improve it. In any case, all editors on Wikipedia are volunteers, and if you don't feel like continuing to work on a page, you are free to leave it in its current state. If you do want to continue working on that page and you expect it to take some time, then I'd suggest that you move it to draftspace and continue there. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 08:23, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Dear MPGuy2824, I need your help. In my sandbox I created the article Seidor, a Spanish multinational company, from the translation of the article in Spanish. It turns out that 'Seidor' already exists, and it is a redirect to the article 'Seidr', which was some kind of magic from the Nordics. I want to know if I can remove this redirect and move the article from the sandbox to Seidor. In the description of the article 'Seidr' there are different anglicised names like seidhr, seidh, seidr, seithr, seith or seid, and all these names already have their redirection to the Seidr page, but in it there is never the name 'Seidor', so I ask you if we can break this redirection and move the article from my sandbox to 'Seidor'. Thank you very much.
It met WP:NGEO in my opinion, so I've moved it to mainspace. Please add the winners of the two elections prior to that as well (1955 and 1959). Also, if you can find a good source that says that Kuruchikuppam and Couroussoucoupom are the same place it would be nice. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 08:05, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
(talk page stalker) @Ozzie10aaaa, I believe this database report sorts rankings based on the number of article reviews, with very low points given to redirects. For instance, my bot, DreamRimmer bot, is ranked 97th with 220 article reviews and 16544 redirect reviews. Another user, Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars, is ranked 96th with only 220 article reviews and 28 redirect reviews. You currently have 173 article reviews and 2995 redirect reviews that is why you are not on this list, as it only includes the top 100 reviewers for each time period. You can use this quarry query to get your review data. – DreamRimmer (talk) 15:00, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
AFC reviews that are automatically reviewed (because you have the autopatrolled right) aren't counted towards that report, or the NPP annual awards. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 15:17, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
[11] is the query that is used for the annual awards, and according to that you have more than 2000 redirect reviews which qualifies you for a "Redirect Ninja" award.
Just to clarify, the report only shows the top 100 article reviewers and does not consider the number of redirect reviews to get this. It is technically possible to have a high number of redirect reviews but have little to no article reviews, and so this report will not show that reviewer at all in the 365 day section. Practically this happens only rarely since most redirect reviewers also do a decent amount article reviewing. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:59, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
(talk page stalker) Wikipedia isn't a social networking site like Facebook or Instagram. If you are looking to create an online profile, platforms like LinkedIn might be more suitable. Let me know if you have any questions! – DreamRimmer (talk) 04:08, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Question from Glacial223 (21:58, 21 December 2024)
@Glacial223: Welcome to Wikipedia. I'd agree that it was ungrammatical, since it included both the bible quote and a paraphrased (explanatory) version of it in the same sentence. I think you should start a conversation (on the article's talk page) with the editor who reverted your edit, saying that you'd like the original bible quote included somehow.
Since you are new to Wikipedia, I'd suggest that you start and complete WP:TWA. It would help you to feel a bit less overwhelmed (and a bit more "techy", as you put it). Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 04:47, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, MP. I need your help with this. I have recently edited Emmett/Furla Oasis Films with all the sources I can find to help backup some of what I added.
Somehow, sources I looked up were unreliable; I may have added a portion of them on my edits by accident. Also, because MoviePass and its parent were dissolved due to chapter 7 bankruptcy, does it mean EFO went under too?
I feel like I may have not only made bad edits to this page with bad results, but I also think it wrongfully contributes to my concerning "edit farming".
Please look into this. I would help me out a lot. Thanks.
@DBrown SPS: I don't know what "edit farming" is and I'm not sure what you are expecting of me here. I looked at the diffs that you sent and I can see some recognizable names in the refs added (la times, hollywood reporter, etc) that I would expect to be considered WP:RS. Has someone complained about some of your other references? If you now think some of the sources are unreliable, then you can edit the article to remove them. Not every edit on Wikipedia needs to be perfect, but as long as articles are being improved (even slowly) and mistakes are corrected, then all is good, IMO. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:44, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Wishing you a Merry Christmas filled with love and joy, a Happy Holiday season surrounded by warmth and laughter, and a New Year brimming with hope, happiness, and success! 🎄🎉✨ Baqi:) (talk) 10:37, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello MPGuy2824, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2025. Happy editing, Abishe (talk) 23:29, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello everyone, and welcome to the 26th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 1 August 2024. At press time, over 94% of the world has legally fallen prey to the merry celebrations of "Christmas", and so shall you soon. It's been a quiet 4 months, and we hope to see you with way more new scripts next year. Happy holidays! Aaron Liu (talk) 05:06, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Very useful for changelist patrollers, DiffUndo, by Nardog, is this edition's featured script. Taking inspiration from WP:AutoWikiBrowser's double-click-to-undo feature, it adds an undo button to every line of every diff from "show changes", optimizing partial reverts with your favorite magic spell and nearly fulfilling m:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Partial revert undo.
Doğu/Adiutor, a recent WP:Twinkle/WP:RedWarn-like userscript that follows modern WMF UI design, is now an extension. However, its sole maintainer has left the project, which still awaits WMF mw:code stewardship (among some audits) to be installed on your favorite WMF wikis.
DannyS712, our former chief editor, has ascended to MediaWiki and the greener purpley pastures of PHP with commits creating Special:NamespaceInfo and the __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ magic word to exclude a template from Special:UnusedTemplates! I wonder if Wikipedia has a templaters' newsletter...
BilledMammal/Move+ needs updating to order list of pages handle lists of pages to move correctly regardless of the discussion's page, so that we may avoid repeating fiasco history.
Andrybak/Unsigned helper forks Anomie/unsignedhelper to add support for binary search, automatic edit summaries after generating the {{unsigned}} template, support for {{undated}}, and support for generating while syntax highlighting is on.
Polygnotus/Move+ updates BilledMammal's classic Move+ to add automattic watchlisting of all pages—except the target page(s)—changed while processing a move.
Hey, so, this isn't strictly about editing, but I don't know who else to ask about this. What if I created a new Wikipedia page where anybody can write a snippet of a story? I call it Tales of the Wikipedians. Thanks for your time! HP-48Genius (talk) 07:05, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, Your suggestion would be served well by a wiki, yes, but not Wikipedia, IMO. You might be interested in reading Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. On an unrelated note, I checked out some of your recent edits with adding wikilinks to articles. You might want to look more into fixing typos or general copyediting. See if you are interested in Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors. There are many more Wikiprojects like that, some are limited to a region of the world, while some are limited to a particular theme (e.g. Tropical cyclones). -MPGuy2824 (talk) 09:41, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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