Maddy from Celeste

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You have been trouted for: Trying to censor Lady Ballers by deleting the article. 71.121.219.230 (talk) 17:11, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from Eziafakaego-PEN (15:04, 9 April 2024)

Greetings Mentor Maddy, Please I need your support to help review, edit and publish an article written by my daddy on the history or origin of our quarter in town Ezi. He requested that I help publish. I really don't know how to go about it.

Would you mind providing your mobile phone number so we can discuss it.

Many thanks Regards

15:04, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is The Telegraph and trans issues. Thank you. I am informing you because you have commented on a prior RfC on a similar issue. Chess (talk) (please mention me on reply) 02:18, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

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Move review

Hello, thanks for taking the time to review this discussion: [1]. Can you please elaborate on the no consensus closing? Makeandtoss (talk) 12:08, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

I personally happen to agree with both the argument to move in the original RM and with the overturn side in the MRV. However, the discussion did not result in a consensus to overturn. Points that particularly influenced my close were the balance of !votes among uninvolved editors, and the in my opinion irrelevant arguments invoking the closer's non-admin status from the overturn side. -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH) 07:27, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Can you please elaborate why you think it's irrelevant? The arguments cited WP:BADNAC: 2. "The outcome is a close call (especially where there are several valid outcomes) or likely to be controversial." Makeandtoss (talk) 14:16, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

I believe the purpose of Wikipedia:Move review is to discuss closures, not closers. That essay's suggestion may be useful to avoid bad closures being made, but saying a closure should be overturned because it was too contentius for a non-admin closure is, on its own, a not a strong argument. -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH) 21:29, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Even if it weren't a strong argument, it was still stronger than the arguments that supported the closure as they did not cite any guideline or essay in their reasoning, having actually barely elaborated on their responses beyond "endorse". Would you consider at least extending the discussion on the move review page? Makeandtoss (talk) 10:52, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

A little relevant argumentation is better than lots of irrelevant argumentation, and I do not agree that all "endorse" !votes barely elaborated on their responses. I do not think reöpening would be beneficial considering that I closed it a whole week after the last !vote. My overall impression remains that no consensus was achieved during the discussion. -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH) 17:02, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi Mentor :-*

Just finding my feet again here... if you have any time to have a look at my edits/contributions so far and let me know if I'm doing anything particularly heinous i would appreciate it! Equally if you have some tedious/repetitive tasks linked to your goals here which are suitably n00bish then I'm happy to try and help :) Bazzabloodybenson (talk) 13:37, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Welcome back, Bazzabloodybenson! I had a look as you asked me to. I think you are doing great so far! Two notes:

• You use Bare URLs when citing sources. Click that link to find out what that means and to see how to make prettier footnotes :)
• On your Draft:Owen Bates, you cite the British tabloids Daily Express, The Sun and the Daily Mail. These are very unreliable sources. There is an overview of many well-known publications along with how reliable they are considered by Wikipedia editors at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources. There exists a user script that automatically highlights many dubious sources.

Don't hesitate to ask me if you ever have any further questions, and happy editing! -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH) 18:05, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Question from Okuge on SZA (15:04, 5 June 2024)

Hello --Okuge (talk) 15:04, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia, Okuge! If you have any questions about editing, you can ask me on this page. Happy editing! -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH) 17:06, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

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Requesting some article expansion help

Greetings @Maddy from Celeste

Hi, I am User:Bookku, On Wikipedia I engage in, finding information and knowledge gap areas in Wikipedia and promoting expansion of related drafts and articles. Came across your edit at Early Islam, though a small edit, seems to indicates your likely understanding of availability of sources on this topic.

Requesting your visit to Tashabbuh (still a draft in my userspace) and help expand the topic areas if you find topic interesting. Wish you very happy Wikipedia editing.

Thanks and warm regards Bookku (talk) 10:40, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

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