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IP
I accidentally forgot to log in and edited a page, which now shows my IP. Is there a way to get that removed, as well as the contributions page for the IP? StrawWord298944 (talk) 23:22, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
- Hey @StrawWord298944! From my perceived knowledge I do not believe their is; even for people with actual accounts its hard to cover up a history since it would cause problems if an account was deleted outright, and an IP address probably can't do any of this due to the fact that its shared by anyone in the area. If this is of genuine concern to you, however, I can look into it a bit more for you. Panini! • 🥪 00:12, 25 November 2022 (UTC)
Question from My Encyclopedia (16:16, 26 November 2022)
Back in 2017, for Wikipedia, I created two accounts. I want to know if I can merge the two and have just one username account. My two user name accounts are My Encyclopedia and My Cyclopedia. I just want the My Cyclopedia one. --My Encyclopedia (talk) 16:16, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
- Hello, @My Encyclopedia! This is an intriguing question that I myself do not have the answer to. I've reached out to a user renaming admin I know to see if this is possible, and I'll let you know as soon as I hear back! I'm going to do today's Wordle in the meantime. Panini! • 🥪 16:59, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
- Alright @My Encyclopedia, I've got the answer: According to 331dot, "It is not possible to merge accounts. Best they can do is identify their current account as a successor to their old account("I am User5678, I was previously User1234")". Don't worry though, as long as you declare the old account is yours you wont be in any trouble. Panini! • 🥪 17:44, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
Well, I am meaning that I created My Encyclopedia first from a Sprint LG Tribute Duo smart phone back in 2017. Then, I created another username as My Cyclopedia because I was using an Amazon Fire Tablet and I did not know I could login with the username from the smart phone. It was my first time having small, portable, electronic computers that I knew close to nothing about how to use them. My Encyclopedia (talk) 03:38, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
Question from My Encyclopedia (03:48, 28 November 2022)
Ahoy! When I see a Wikipedia article for any topic, do I necessarily have to edit it in any way if I see something is written wrong? Am I supposed to add or delete words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs for any article that is too short or too long? --My Encyclopedia (talk) 03:48, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
- In short, @My Encyclopedia, yes! There is no wrong way to improve an article. Just make sure you're doing it correctly to avoid any complications.
- Help:Editing may be beneficial for you to begin. Just make sure that your content removal is justified and is not hurting the article's comprehensiveness, and any new details that you add are properly sourced with references. All of that is covered in the article that I linked, and I encourage you browse the other help articles linked there if you are confused about something. Have fun, and let me know if you have any questions! Panini! • 🥪 12:28, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
- To clarify, Editing is not required on wikipedia, but it is encouraged. PerryPerryD Talk To Me 15:56, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
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Trying to edit a restricted page
Mahabharata - Wikipedia We would like to add an image to this page but it is restricted. We have asked on the talk page on 3 Nov '22 but not had a reply yet. Please could you advise, many thanks Helena
- Adding an image of the god Krishna acting as a charioteer to Arjuna in the battle of the Bhagavad Gita[edit]
HelenaB77 (talk) 10:19, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
- @HelenaB77, I apologize that nobody responded to your talk page message you posted a while back. It may just be that nobody is actively watching the page, and therefore nobody was there to look at your message.
- If I'm not mistaken you should be able to edit the page by now. Semi-protection (the type of page protection that is on the article currently) only prohibits IP users and newly registered users from editing the article, and any user that has an account older than four days and has made at least 10 edits should have full access. You registered about 5 months ago and have made a total of 19 edits, meaning you should be in the clear. If not, you may just need to make more edits to article that are in the main space (as in articles, excluding talk pages, user pages, etc.)
- Please let me know if this is not working for you and I can give you some additional information! Panini! • 🥪 15:32, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
Growth team newsletter #23
Welcome to the twenty-third newsletter from the Growth team!
Highlights
- Mentorship: We released the new structured mentor list to all wikis. This change makes mentorship easier to setup, manage and use.
- Positive reinforcement: An improved impact module is available for testing.
Positive reinforcement: an improved impact module to test
The goal of the Growth team is to encourage newcomers to try editing for the first time, and encourage them to keep editing. We want to increase newcomers' motivation by showing them how impactful their edits are.
Newcomers have access to an impact module; you can find yours at Special:Impact. The revised impact module provides new editors with more context about their impact. It will display the number of edits, the number of thanks received, the last time they edited, the number of consecutive days they edited, and the number of views for the articles they edited.
This module will soon be available at our pilot wikis starting December 1. You can already test this new module at Beta Wikipedia. For safety reasons, do not use your regular account and password at Beta wiki. Create a new, specific account for this wiki, with a different password.
Structured tasks: improvements based on patroller feedback
After the deployment of Structured tasks, we received feedback from various communities regarding how patrollers of recent changes were feeling overwhelmed by an increase in edits to check, and how some edits were poor quality or of poor relevance.
We made several improvements based on the feedback we received. Several points of improvement have already been addressed:
- Patroller fatigue:
- By default, newcomers can complete up to 25 "add a link" tasks and 25 "add an image" tasks per day. If patrollers are overburdened, each community can use Special:EditGrowthConfig to lower that limit.
- Quality of edits: what constitutes a "quality edit" is not a well defined concept. We initiated a discussion and summarized our findings. We also worked on the following improvements:
- Add a Link
- Underlinked articles are now prioritized, so it's less likely that newcomers are adding links to articles that are already have a lot of links.
- The confidence score was increased, so suggestions are more likely to be accurate.
- The default number of suggested links per article has been lowered to 3. This can be changed at Special:EditGrowthConfig. Communities can also exclude articles containing certain templates or categories from being suggested.
- Add an Image
- Lists will no longer receive "add an image" suggestions.
- Disambiguation pages will no longer receive "add an image" suggestions.
- We have many further improvements we plan to make to "add an image" in early 2023. [1]
- Add a Link
The Positive Reinforcement project will also address some of the concerns around encouraging newcomers to progress to higher value edits. The Growth team will soon work on strategies geared at "Leveling up" newcomers so they progress from easy to more difficult tasks.
Recent changes
- All Wikipedias now have the same onboarding experience. Previously, at a few wikis, 20% of new accounts didn't get the Growth features when they created their account. These 20% of new accounts were used as a control group, in order to know if the Growth features were changing newcomers' behavior. Experiments have shown that Growth features improve activation and retention, and as we want to provide the same onboarding experience at all Wikipedias, we have decided to remove the control groups. We will utilize control groups when testing new features, and German Wikipedia keeps a control group at their request. [2]
- The quality score for "add a link" suggestions will change. We will suggest less links for each article, but they will be more accurate. We will first deploy it at our pilot wikis, and then to all other wikis where this feature is available. [3][4]
- Growth's features FAQ has been updated and expanded. This page centralizes all the information about Growth features. We invite you to read it, and, if you can, to translate it.
News for mentors
- All Wikipedias can now setup and manage a mentorship program in an easier way.
- We changed the process to make it more reliable, easier to improve and easier to use.
- Wikipedias where mentorship hasn't been enabled yet can turn mentorship on following a new process. When done, mentors can sign-up by visiting
Special:MentorDashboard. - Wikipedias where the list of mentors already existed have been converted to the new system.
- A new special page —
Special:ManageMentors— now displays the list of mentors. This page can be transcluded on any other page. There are also new processes to signup as a mentor or to quit mentorship, and we improved community mentorship management.
- The Mentor dashboard's "Your mentees" module will have a new footer, called "Recent changes by your mentees". This footer will include a link to Recent changes, where mentors can see only edits made by their own mentees. [5]
Deployments
- Add a link has been deployed to a 5th round of wikis. [6]
Improving this newsletter
We plan to have a more regular newsletter, every two months. We also want to know if the current format suits you! Let us know what you like, what you like less and your suggestions of improvements: leave us a comment, in your preferred language.
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Bringing back the VG newsletter
Hello! I'm planning on bringing back the VG newsletter. IF you could help out that would be great but you don't have to if you're too busy. I'm asking you because you are one of the last people to have edited the Draft (I'm planning on including everything from Q2 2021 to now (Q4 2022)). I might also ask some of the people who help out with the signpost since I think the process they use is very similar. ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 15:31, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for reaching out. There definitely is a reason for the newsletter stalling that I'm too short on time to explain at the moment, and because of this I won't be able to help out with the newsletter directly, but I can answer any questions here that you have about the process. Panini! • 🥪 15:25, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
Question from Vashnit (18:12, 1 December 2022)
hi i have just added cover page of my book on GST . how it can be link to my photo or my office address ?
Thanks in advance --Vashnit (talk) 18:12, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
Just FYI, you've listed me at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Video_games#New_Articles_(November_28_to_December_4) as having created the above page, but in fact it's a pre-existing page, all I did was move it to a slightly different title following a previous undiscussed move... I wonder if your bot has found the redirect Half-Life VR but the AI is Self-Aware, which looks like it was created by me even though that's actually just the result of a page move? Cheers — Amakuru (talk) 20:40, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
Question from Ñöütröüs (11:03, 25 December 2022)
Merry Christmas!
Perfect4th (talk) is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!
Spread the cheer by adding {{subst:Xmas2}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
- Merry Christmas, ya filthy Perfect4th. Panini! • 🥪 18:15, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
Happy New Year!
Panini!,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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New Year's Wishes
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Yours truly, 𓃦LunaEatsTuna (💬) 00:19, 1 January 2023 (UTC) (It is now New Year's Day in UTC)
- @LunaEatsTuna, Thanks for the wishes! I will definitely flaunt this record on my userpage. Panini! • 🥪 22:33, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
Welcome to the 2023 WikiCup!
Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2023 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:16, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
Question from Xenamurai (20:49, 2 January 2023)
Hi, I don't understand how to make a numbered item list. Any tips? thanks. --Xenamurai (talk) 20:49, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
- Hey there, @Xenamurai! I'm sorry for the delay, life got busy for a moment (usually I respond within a day or so). Numbered list are as simple as adding a hashtag and a paragraph break, as seen below:
- #Option 1
- #Option 2
- #Option 3
- Gives you:
- Option 1
- Option 2
- Option 3
- Hope this helps! Panini! • 🥪 14:26, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
Adoption request
Hello! I saw that you are accepting adoptees and I'd like to ask if you'd take me under your wing.
I tend to edit a little bit of everything; I don't tend to stick to a topic for long and I go wherever my interest (or the random button) takes me. Most of my edits are minor, though sometimes I rewrite pages that have been neglected. My reason for seeking adoption is to better understand Wikipedia's policies, namely NPOV, due weight, and original research, as well as reaching out and get involved in the WP community rather than making my edits and not engaging with anyone.
I've been doing the best with what I can find written on WP, but I think I'd benefit from someone who has experience using these policies "in the wild" rather than my own interpretation of them.
If you can't adopt, could you point me to someone who would be a good fit?
Thank you!
🎜Oktavia Miki🎝talk 20:34, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
- Hello @OktaviaMiki! I can't promise that my activity levels are as high as they used to be, but I would love to adopt! I've set up the declaration.
- To start, if you have any questions feel free to leave them on my talk page! Panini! • 🥪 15:42, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you!
- I'll be busy due to college starting for me, but I'll ask any questions if I have them. 🎜Oktavia Miki🎝talk 16:34, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
Question from FluTrackingTom (22:22, 9 January 2023)
G'day Panini, to say I'm grateful to have a wiki-mentor would be an understatement.
I'm trying to get a page started for FluTracking, a crowdsourced data set that monitors flu like symptoms in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Argentina. It is very similar to Influenzanet which has its own page.
I got some quick fire knock backs on my original draft (all valid) and have done my very best do address them. I am now struggling with finding suitable references for my page.
I intend to spend some time today (10/01/23) searching for more appropriate references and will add any existing references to the FluTracking website under and 'External Links' sub-header.
Do you know of any quick reference (cheat sheet) criteria I can use while assessing a potential reference's suitability? --FluTrackingTom (talk) 22:22, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
- Hello, @FluTrackingTom! Good question.
- For us video game editors, we have it easy. Not only do we get this handy list of every reliable and unreliable video game source so we don't have to worry about it, we also run a search engine that only shows these reliable sources. Other editors, especially medically, don't have this luxury.
- The closest thing you have is this list of commonly used sources, which should hopefully help you out a bit. This list also has its own search engine. Beyond that, it's up to your best judgement; to do so, everything you would need to look out for is documented on Wikipedia:Reliable sources, which does state some obvious facts, but this can be a really helpful tool for determining whether or not your source can be trusted. It's a big page, so please let me know if you have any questions! Panini! • 🥪 15:56, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks for those links, I will definitely check them out! FluTrackingTom (talk) 01:06, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
Question from Wanjuiri (00:43, 10 January 2023)
Hallo, nice to meet you. Would you be interested to have a look at my article and see what it is missing? Also I am unable to add sub titles and titles as I do not know how to go about it. So my article has alot of information in long sections that need to be broken down --Wanjuiri (talk) 00:43, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
- Hello, @Wanjuiri! As far as I can tell, the person you are working on already has his own article. I would recommend taking the work you have done at Draft:George Barasa 2 and use it to improve the article on George Barasa directly. Panini! • 🥪 15:59, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
Request for comments at FA for High School Musical: The Musical: The Series
Hello again. As we have previously collaborated on article nominations, I would like to ask if you are able to leave any comments here at my FA nomination for High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. Any small amount of comments would be appreciated, but I completely understand if you are too busy or uninterested. Thanks in advance. SatDis (talk) 06:32, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
Question from StrawWord298944 (06:09, 16 January 2023)
Hey Panini. I was wondering how to translate my user page into another language. Thanks. --StrawWord298944 (talk) 06:09, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
- Hello @StrawWord298944! This is an unfamiliar topic for me, but I hunted down a page that explains the steps in a simple way. You can learn how to translate articles (including your user page) at Wikipedia:Translate us. Hope this helps! Panini! • 🥪 13:42, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
Concern regarding Draft:Wuhu Island
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Recognition
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The Barnstar of Good Humor | |
| For your tireless contributions around Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games, and for reminding us to stay positive and have fun. Keep doing what you do! Shooterwalker (talk) 19:12, 24 January 2023 (UTC) |
- Thank you! Was it something I said? Panini! • 🥪 19:20, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
- You're very consistent, my friend. Just recognizing a positive pattern across a lot of situations. Shooterwalker (talk) 19:24, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
Question from Barman koushik (12:23, 28 January 2023)
How to link a website while editing any article? --Barman koushik (talk) 12:23, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
- Hello, @Barman koushik! Websites that are the subject of the article are usually placed at the bottom of an article under "External links". Here's how you do them (I'll use Youtube as a placeholder):
- Copy and paste the URL around two sets of brackets: [https://www.youtube.com/]
- This will appear as [7]
- You can make the link say anything by putting a space after the URL, and putting any amount of text: [https://www.youtube.com/ Official website]
- This will appear as Official website
- Hope this helps! Panini! • 🥪 15:44, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
Question from JHchulani (09:40, 29 January 2023)
Which is better- a window air conditioner or a split unit? --JHchulani (talk) 09:40, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
- Good question, @JHchulani, but I'm here to help answer questions about using and editing Wikipedia (not that I trust myself to give good conditioning advice, anyhow). Don't fret, however, as you can instead ask this question at the Wikipedia:Reference desk, where more experienced users in this field can give there advice. Hope this helps! Panini! • 🥪 19:36, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi! I feel there are enough sources to make this article get to good status but was wondering what you think + if you know anyone who might take a crack at this. Aside from the seven sources in the article, there are two more on the talk page plus a couple more I've seen. Timur9008 (talk) 17:19, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
- What a coincidence, @Timur9008! I was just looking at this article a few minutes ago!
- As far as I can tell, there aren't source amount requirements for good articles; if an article has enough reference to exist in general, it can become a GA with them too.
- The article is a bit weak where it currently stands but it shouldn't be too difficult to get it to GA. I'll take some time in the future to expand the development section a bit to get things going. Panini! • 🥪 17:29, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
Growth team newsletter #24
Welcome to the twenty-fourth newsletter from the Growth team!
Newcomer experience projects
The Growth team partnered with other WMF teams to conduct several experiments around increasing account creation and new editor retention. Results from four of these experiments are now available:
- Thank you pages & banners - Encourage donors to create accounts through thank you pages and banners.
- Marketing experiment - Run ads on-wiki and off-wiki to see how this impacts account activation.
- "Add an image" GLAM events - Host GLAM events that focus on using the "Add an image" tool.
- Welcome emails - Experiment sending welcome emails to newly created accounts.
Newcomer tasks
- Several communities suggested improving "add a link", by suggesting underlinked articles first. We released this change to Growth pilot wikis. We will review the data and collect feedback before considering releasing it to more wikis. [8]
- The deployment of the "add a link" to all Wikipedias is still in progress. Suggested links use a prediction model, which has to be trained. The deployments will resume after we finish training all models. [9]
Mentorship
- When someone wants to signup as a mentor, they are now informed if they don't meet the defined criteria. [10]
- Workshop hosts asked us to have workshop attendees assigned to them. They can soon use a custom URL parameter. This way, workshop hosts will continue mentoring the event's attendees after the workshop. It will be available in February. [11]
- Have you considered to help new editors on your wiki, by signing up to be a Mentor?
- Please visit Special:MentorDashboard to check on the conditions to be a mentor, and sign up.
- If your wiki does not have Mentorship enabled, consider setting it up. The Growth team can provide advice and assist as needed. Please ping Trizek (WMF) for assistance.
Other news
- In Special:SpecialPages, Growth experiments now have their own section. [12]
- This newsletter will have a new publication period, 6 times a year: January, March, May, July, September, November.
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That green clothed guy and his big house with the dim satelite
Heya, I noticed that there hasn't been a ton of activity on Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon in a while, Im curious on what your current plans on this article are. Cheers. PerryPerryD Talk To Me 17:18, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
- @PerryPerryD It's weird that from the title alone I knew exactly what you were talking about.
- Even with free time available I've been stalling on it. It's mainly Reception that needs overhauling at this point, but I really don't like overhauling those. I guess it's just a mix of sifting through opinions, and the massive amounts of brainpower it takes to generalize critical statements. I'll get to it at some point. Panini! • 🥪 14:17, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
Question from Muhiyadin abdi on Wikipedia talk:Biography of living persons (00:53, 5 February 2023)
Heĺlo Hi --Muhiyadin abdi (talk) 00:53, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
- Hello, @Muhiyadin abdi, and welcome to Wikipedia! I'm here if you have any questions. Panini! • 🥪 02:43, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
Self-requested block
Per your request, I have blocked you for one month. If you wish to be unblocked prior to this, please ask any administrator (who should not feel obligated to consult me prior to removing the block). Kindest regards — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 20:35, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
Britannica Micropaedia Aphasia Article
From a Britannica Micropaedia entry called Aphasia, I learned that I have it. I think I remember reading it as being a form of Dyslexia. I don't remember which Britannica Micropaedia version or edition has that article, but it could be in any Britannica Micropaedia. It would be a good source to use if someone wants to edit or add an article about it to Wikipedia. My Encyclopedia (talk) 16:57, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
WikiCup 2023 March newsletter
So ends the first round of the 2023 WikiCup. Everyone with a positive score moved on to Round 2, with 54 contestants qualifying. The top scorers in Round 1 were:
Unlimitedlead with 1205 points, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with two featured articles on historical figures and several featured article candidate reviews.
Epicgenius was in second place with 789 points; a seasoned WikiCup competitor he specialises in buildings and locations in New York.
FrB.TG was in third place with 625 points, garnered from a featured article on a filmmaker which qualified for an impressive number of bonus points.
TheJoebro64, another WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points gained from two featured articles on video games.
Iazyges was in fifth place with 532 points, from two featured articles on classical history.
The top sixteen contestants at the end of Round 1 had all scored over 300 points; these included 
LunaEatsTuna, 
Thebiguglyalien, 
Sammi Brie, 
Trainsandotherthings, 
Lee Vilenski, 
Juxlos, 
Unexpectedlydian, 
SounderBruce, 
Kosack, 
BennyOnTheLoose and 
PCN02WPS. It was a high-scoring start to the competition.
These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. The first round finished on February 26. Remember that any content promoted after that date but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Some contestants made claims before the new submissions pages were set up, and they will need to resubmit them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.
If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:36, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
Latest (and most likely final) issue of the WP:VG newsletter
The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 14, No. 1 — 1st Quarter, 2023
Previous issue | Index
Project At a Glance
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Question from CREATOR34566 (18:03, 11 March 2023)
Hi, I hope you're doing well! I wanted to ask you a question that what kind of references should I add to my article. I have some published news articles, will they work. You know, my article has been declined, I'm thinking to resubmit my article with valid news articles. --CREATOR34566 (talk) 18:03, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
- Hello @CREATOR34566! The type of reference doesn't necessarily matter, so you don't necessarily need to use news articles if they aren't as helpful. What matters most is if the source is reliable. To understand what makes a reference a reliable, high quality one, check out Wikipedia:Reliable sources. Panini! • 🥪 07:15, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
References Help
Hello. Can you give me an example with how to cite references on a Wiki page? StrawWord298944 (talk) 19:09, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
- Welcome to Wikipedia, @StrawWord298944! There are a variety of different types of references, and it depends what it is you're citing (A website? A book? A newspaper? etc.). I gave step-by-step instructions on how to reference a website in this old discussion. However, if you are trying to create a reference for something other than a website, I can give you different instructions. Just let me know! Panini! • 🥪 07:19, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
Help with notes
On this page I am working on creating about the changes to royal titles after the death of Elizabeth II, I can not get the note on the bottom box to leave after publishing my changes. Can you fix that for me? StrawWord298944 (talk) 20:05, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
- @StrawWord298944 Removed. My assumption is that you were trying to remove the note by editing the Notes subheader, only to find it wasn't there; to remove notes, you have to delete the note where it lies within the article (as in, deleting the {{efn}} template from "Later changes"). Panini! • 🥪 23:17, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
Awards
Hey again. Sorry for bothering you a lot. I'm becoming more invested into the Wikipedia lore. I notice that some people, including you have awards on their pages. How do you get awards and stuff? StrawWord298944 (talk) 22:46, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
- These award, @StrawWord298944, are handed out by other users who want to recognize the works of others. They mean a lot to a user, which is why I like to store all of mine here for happy safekeeping.
- These awards come in various types, like barnstars, food, kind seasonal and holiday wishes, recognizing Wikipedia milestones, etc. The lot of these awards you can learn more about/use on Wikipedia:Awards and Wikipedia:WikiLove. Panini! • 🥪 01:50, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Purple Barnstar | |
| Even though you've been through a lot lately regarding your surgery, you've still made tons of constructive contributions to Wikipedia and I admire you for that. =) -- Shadow of the Starlit Sky 13:50, 30 March 2023 (UTC) |
- Not recently, but I appreciate the barnstar! I didn't know they came in purple. Panini! • 🥪 20:56, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
- You're welcome, anyways. The world deserves more barnstars. -- Shadow of the Starlit Sky 20:59, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
Growth team newsletter #25
Welcome to the twenty-fifth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations
Celebrations
Leveling up release
- We released Leveling up features to our pilot wikis on March 22 for an initial A/B test.
- In this test, we use post-edit dialogs (pop-ups shown after publishing an edit) and notifications to encourage new editors to try new types of newcomer-friendly suggested edits.
- We are closely monitoring the short term impact of this feature as well as the longer term effect on newcomer productivity and retention. If the experiment shows positive results, we will release this feature to more wikis.
5,000+ images added via the newcomer task in February
- In February 2023, 5,035 images were added via the newcomer “add an image” feature (on all wikis where available); 155 were reverted.
- Since the feature “add an image” was launched: 36,803 images have been added; 2,957 images were reverted.
Recent changes
- Add a link
- Community Ambassadors completed an initial evaluation that confirmed that prioritizing underlinked articles resulted in better article suggestions. We then evaluated the change on Growth pilot wikis, and results suggest that more newcomers are successfully completing the task and experiencing fewer reverts. We have now deployed the new prioritization model to all wikis with "add a link" enabled. [13][14]
- We continue the deployment of "add a link" to more wikis. These changes are regularly announced in Tech News. To know if newcomers at your wiki have access to this feature, please visit your Homepage.
- The Impact module was deployed on our pilot wikis, where we conducted an A/B test. We published initial findings, and a data scientist is now completing experiment analysis. [15]
- Donor Thank you page experiment – Donors land on a “thank you” page after donation, and that landing page now includes a call to action to try editing: Example Thank you page in French. This promising feature is tested at several Wikipedias (French Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia).
- Growth features are now the default experience on both test.wikipedia.org and test2.wikipedia.org. You can test our features there.
Upcoming work
- Add an image – We plan to offer section-level image suggestions as a structured task for newcomers.
- IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation – We will support this project for all Growth Team maintained products and extensions that may be affected by IP Masking. [19]
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Just thought you would want to know
Hi Panini! - saw you commented several times over at Thibbs’ talk page and thought you’d want to know that he’s died. -- Whereizben - Chat with me - My Contributions 01:04, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
Question from StrawWord298944 (18:46, 21 April 2023)
Hey, Panini. How do you italicize an article title before/while creating it? Thanks. --StrawWord298944 (talk) 18:46, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
- @StrawWord298944 There isn't a way to italicize the title before creating it because wiki markup isn't allowed, but you can immediately after. To do so, all you need to do is put {{Italic title}} at the top of the article. Panini! • 🥪 18:54, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks. StrawWord298944 (talk) 19:04, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
The Italics
I couldn't get the italics to work, can you do it on this new article I created?
The article: Edward on Edward StrawWord298944 (talk) 19:21, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
- Whoops, @StrawWord298944, I thought I wrote here, but I guess it slipped my mind; I've made the edit to the article. Panini! • 🥪 12:36, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
WikiCup 2023 May newsletter
The second round of the 2023 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to have scored 60 points to advance into round 3. Our top five scorers in round 2 all included a featured article among their submissions and each scored over 500 points. They were:
- Iazyges (1040) with three FAs on Byzantine emperors, and lots of bonus points.
- Unlimitedlead (847), with three FAs on ancient history, one GA and nine reviews.
- Epicgenius (636), a WikiCup veteran, with one FA on the New Amsterdam Theatre, four GAs and eleven DYKs
BennyOnTheLoose (553), a seasoned competitor, with one FA on snooker, six GAs and seven reviews.- FrB.TG (525), with one FA, a Lady Gaga song and a mass of bonus points.
Other notable performances were put in by Sammi Brie, Thebiguglyalien, 
MyCatIsAChonk, PCN02WPS, and 
AirshipJungleman29.
So far contestants have achieved thirteen featured articles between them, one being a joint effort, and forty-nine good articles. The judges are pleased with the thorough reviews that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:15, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
Growth team newsletter #26
Welcome to the twenty-sixth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations
One million Suggested Edits
We passed the 1 million Suggested edits milestone in late April!
- The Suggested edits feature (AKA Newcomer tasks) increase newcomer activation by ~12%, which flows on through to increased retention. (source)
- Suggested edits increase the number of edits newcomers complete in their first two weeks and have a relatively low revert rate. (source)
- Suggested edits are available on all Wikipedia language editions.
- Newer Suggested edits, like Add a link and Add an image, aren’t yet deployed to all wikis, but these structured tasks further increase the probability that newcomers will make their first edit. (source)
Positive reinforcement
Positive reinforcement aims to encourage newcomers who have visited our homepage and tried Growth features to keep editing.
- The new Impact module was released to Growth pilot wikis in December 2022, and we are now scaling the feature to another ten wikis. [20]
- The Leveling up features are deployed at our pilot wikis.
- The Personalized praise features were deployed at our pilot wikis on May 24. Mentors at pilot wikis will start to receive notifications weekly when they have “praise-worthy” mentees. Mentors can configure their notification preferences or disable these notifications.
Add an image
- We are creating a new section-level variation of the “add an image” task. We have tested the accuracy of suggestions, and the development of this new task is well-underway. [21]
Other updates
- We are progressively releasing Add a link to more wikis. [22]
- After adding Thanks to Recent Changes, Watchlist and Special:Contributions, we investigated Thanks usage on the wikis. There is no evidence that thanks increased after the feature was added on more pages.
- We helped with code review for the 2023 Community Wish to add Notifications for user page edits. [23]
- We have been attending several community events, that we documented in our Growth’s Community events report.
What's next for Growth?
- We shared an overview of Growth annual planning ideas, and have started community discussion about these potential projects. We would love to hear your feedback on these ideas!
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Concern regarding Draft:Michael Koulianos
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Question from Metalicoo (23:46, 3 June 2023)
hi help me --Metalicoo (talk) 23:46, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
- Hey there @Metalicoo! What can I help you out with? Panini! • 🥪 20:18, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
- help me,
- how do i add the biography of this link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Metalicoo
- nesse link https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Olokomane&action=edit&redlink=1 ?? (in the second link, there is no option to create an article) Metalicoo (talk) 01:14, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Metalicoo Creating an article directly is restricted to users with more experience (mainly from editing milestones), but an article can be submitted for review through the Article Wizard process. However, I must inform you that if you submit your article it will be declined for the reasons I brought up in the email I sent you, so be wary that there are other fields of Wikipedia that you can have more luck in, such as basic editing. Panini! • 🥪 01:18, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Nintendo Barnstar |
| For all of the GA and FA articles you have made on Nintendo games, especially Kirby Star Allies. I'd say keep up the good work, but it looks like you already have. QuicoleJR (talk) 00:09, 12 June 2023 (UTC) |
- Thanks @QuicoleJR! It's always great to be recognized. Star Allies is a very old project of mine and looking back I think it could be much better. I think I see myself doing another Kirby game in the future to shake things up. Panini! • 🥪 00:20, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
- You're welcome. Also, I definitely support the idea of you making another GA on my favorite series of all time! QuicoleJR (talk) 00:34, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
- Yeah, sure why not? I'll get to Kirby and the Rainbow Curse in the near future. Panini! • 🥪 04:24, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
- You're welcome. Also, I definitely support the idea of you making another GA on my favorite series of all time! QuicoleJR (talk) 00:34, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. 
This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Cukie Gherkin -- Cukie Gherkin (talk) 17:01, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Wii Sports Club
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Wii Sports Club you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Cukie Gherkin -- Cukie Gherkin (talk) 17:03, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Game & Wario
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Your GA nomination of Mario Party 10
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Mario Party 10 you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Cukie Gherkin -- Cukie Gherkin (talk) 17:04, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Amiibo Tap: Nintendo's Greatest Bits
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Amiibo Tap: Nintendo's Greatest Bits you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Cukie Gherkin -- Cukie Gherkin (talk) 17:23, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Lego City Undercover
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Question from Metalicoo (06:36, 17 June 2023)
Hello good morning, I published the article, but it automatically created a draft page, is that right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olokomane Metalicoo (talk) 06:36, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
Hello there. It seems like you were second author after the IP. I think Mr. Game and Watch is weird and interesting to work. Do you think theres more add before sending it to GAN? (Only if you want to collab). GreenishPickle! (🔔) 12:12, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
- Hello! I'm currently on vacation so I am unable to help with the project at this time, although I can give advice as needed.
- I feel you should do two things before you follow through with GAN: First, see if you cam find some more critic commentary on the character (the only explicit mention right now is from ScreenRant, an unreliable source). I also suggest you send the article through WP:GOCE, as last I checked the article a while back the prose was a bit sloppy.
- While you are at you should see if there is any other information you can add to the article. I made a development section because I liked the character and there wasnt one prior, and although I did add some other information i dont belive I hit all of it because I wasnt trying to. Although I cant help directly Im here on my talk page if you have any questions! Panini! • 🥪 16:17, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
Buying Wikipedia
Is the thing with Danny a full-on ARG or just an off joke? QuicoleJR (talk) 03:54, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
GANs
Hi, I assume you're still on vacation? I'm still going through the articles you've nominated, and I don't plan to fail any due to inactivity (within reason of course). Enjoy your vacation and come back to them once you're ready. - Cukie Gherkin (talk) 21:29, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
- Hello Cukie Gherkin! Yep, although I had this vacation planned for a while I didn't plan to go so hard on GANs in the meantime. I should be back to address your comments on all of them in about a week or two.
- I cannot stress enough how thankful I am for all of your simultaneous reviews! That's extremely kind of you to do a selfless burden that big in scale. Panini! • 🥪 22:27, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
- Ain't no thing, I enjoy reviewing/editing. - Cukie Gherkin (talk) 17:18, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
- @Cukie Gherkin, I shall start picking away at these tomorrow. My flight was cancelled and had to stick around upstate a few days longer. Panini! • 🥪 01:36, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
- Ah, that's unfortunate! - Cukie Gherkin (talk) 02:13, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
- @Cukie Gherkin, I shall start picking away at these tomorrow. My flight was cancelled and had to stick around upstate a few days longer. Panini! • 🥪 01:36, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
- Ain't no thing, I enjoy reviewing/editing. - Cukie Gherkin (talk) 17:18, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
Question from Mahmoud.Refaat.Mahmoud (14:36, 1 July 2023)
how to write an article about a famous person? --Mahmoud.Refaat.Mahmoud (talk) 14:36, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
- Hello @Mahmoud.Refaat.Mahmoud! I recommend using the Article Wizard tool to write an article about a famous person. Make sure you follow along with the information and guidelines relating to biographies about living people, as Wikipedia takes this matter very esriously in order to not present false information. Panini! • 🥪 01:52, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
Question from 30MarB on User:Courcelles (12:56, 4 July 2023)
Hi Panini... I see you have been activated as my mentor, thank you. It seems I missed a lot of emails from wikipedia. I have been blocked on someones one sided wrongful allegation that somehow they believe I have a sense of ownership to editing a page I have been for years, I reverted page changes a couple of times and had mentioned there's false information added, though I was invited for a discussion via email but I was unable to respond so I was blocked wrongfully. How can I be unblocked? --30MarB (talk) 12:56, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
- Good evening @30MarB, and my apologies for the very late reply. To request an unblock, please follow the steps mentioned to you on your talk page, which I have copy and pasted below for reference:
- If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text at the bottom of your talk page:
{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.
- If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text at the bottom of your talk page:
- Let me know if you have any questions about the process! The administrator who has blocked might also be willing to elaborate on your block further if you ask and as long as you remain civil and respectful. Panini! • 🥪 01:34, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
WikiCup 2023 July newsletter
The third round of the 2023 WikiCup has come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 175 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:
Thebiguglyalien, with 919 points from a featured article on Frances Cleveland as well as five good articles and many reviews,- Unlimitedlead, with 862 points from a high-scoring featured articles on Henry II of England and numerous reviews,
- Iazyges, with 560 points from a high-scoring featured article on Tiberius III.
Contestants achieved 11 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 47 good articles, 72 featured or good article reviews, over 100 DYKs and 40 ITN appearances. As always, any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:18, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Amiibo Tap: Nintendo's Greatest Bits
The article Amiibo Tap: Nintendo's Greatest Bits you nominated as a good article has passed 
; see Talk:Amiibo Tap: Nintendo's Greatest Bits for comments about the article, and Talk:Amiibo Tap: Nintendo's Greatest Bits/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Cukie Gherkin -- Cukie Gherkin (talk) 23:23, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
Question from Prohealthsol (06:57, 29 July 2023)
Hello, I'm interested in entering a short article about a word an concept I created, how do I do that? --Prohealthsol (talk) 06:57, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Prohealthsol The answer is that you don't! See Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not for things made up one day. Theroadislong (talk) 07:12, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
August 2023 Good Article Nominations backlog drive
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Growth team newsletter #27
Welcome to the twenty-seventh newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations
Annual plan for Growth
We shared our annual plan, for the period July 2023 - June 2024.
Our first project of the year will be Community configuration 2.0, which helps editors with extended rights transparently and easily configure important on-wiki functionality.
After we finish work on Community configuration 2.0, we will hope to fit in one of the following projects:
- Article creation: This project aims to provide new editors with better guidance and guardrails in the article creation process, with the intention of lightening the load of new page reviewers.
- Non-editing participation: This project aims to create low-risk ways for readers to participate in Wikipedia with the intention of funneling more readers into contributing to the Wikimedia movement.
Please let us know what you think about these projects on the related talk page, or Growth's annual plan talk page.
Suggested edits
We released a new Section-level “add an image” structured task to Growth pilot wikis (Arabic, Bengali, Czech, and Spanish). This task was part of the Structured Data Across Wikipedia project. We are monitoring the edits made, and we look for community feedback as well.
Suggested Edits are now receiving topic predictions via the new Language-Agnostic Topic Classification. This change affects non-English Wikipedia wikis. It will ensure newcomers receive a greater diversity of task recommendations. Before, as this feature was a test, English Wikipedia was used to select topics. The change is gradual as lists of topics are refreshed when they become empty. The Research team will evaluate the impact in a few months. [24]
Starting on August 1, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link": Georgian Wikipedia, Kara-Kalpak Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Kabardian Wikipedia, Kabiyè Wikipedia, Kikuyu Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Khmer Wikipedia, Kannada Wikipedia, Kashmiri Wikipedia, Colognian Wikipedia, Kurdish Wikipedia, Cornish Wikipedia, Cornish Wikipedia.
Mentorship
The Growth team provides dedicated features to establish a mentorship program for newcomers. Every newcomer gets a volunteer mentor who provides encouragement and answers questions. Communities can set up or join this mentorship system by visiting Special:ManageMentors. This mentorship system is configurable by the community at Special:EditGrowthConfig.
More communities have implemented mentorship. A Wikimedia Foundation data scientist will be looking at the impact of Mentorship. We will look at the impact on Spanish and English Wikipedia. [25]
The Growth team will also host a Mentoring new editors on Wikipedia session at Wikimania 2023 in Singapore. Workshop attendees will help brainstorm improvements to Growth’s mentorship features.
Positive reinforcement
We will share more complete experiment analysis for all the three parts of the Positive reinforcement project soon. At the moment, the new Impact module, Leveling up, and Personalized praise are still being A/B tested on the Growth team's pilot wikis.
In the meantime, initial leading indicators for the Personalized praise project have been published. Although this is still a relatively small sample, results seem healthy. They show that Mentors are indeed receiving notifications and clicking through to view their praise-worthy mentees.
Growth contributes to IP Editing migration
The Growth team is currently focusing on IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation. It is a project that touches many different Wikimedia Foundation teams. The Growth team will focus on temporary accounts through two main points:
- the user experience of a logged-out user, that switches to a temporary account,
- change Growth-owned extensions and features, so that they work as expected with temporary accounts. [26]
Community Configuration 2.0
We are still in the early planning stage of the Community Configuration 2.0 project:
- We are gathering internal Wikimedia Foundation teams' needs, so as community feedback. [27]
- We have started to investigate design improvements. [28]
- We are also reviewing similar tools that are part of other products. [29]
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Your GA nomination of Wii Sports Club
The article Wii Sports Club you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Wii Sports Club for comments about the article, and Talk:Wii Sports Club/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has never appeared on the Main Page as a "Did you know" item, and has not appeared within the last year either as "Today's featured article", or as a bold link under "In the news" or in the "On this day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear at DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On this day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Cukie Gherkin -- Cukie Gherkin (talk) 13:00, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Game & Wario
The article Game & Wario you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Game & Wario for comments about the article, and Talk:Game & Wario/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has never appeared on the Main Page as a "Did you know" item, and has not appeared within the last year either as "Today's featured article", or as a bold link under "In the news" or in the "On this day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear at DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On this day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Cukie Gherkin -- Cukie Gherkin (talk) 13:02, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
The article Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker for comments about the article, and Talk:Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has never appeared on the Main Page as a "Did you know" item, and has not appeared within the last year either as "Today's featured article", or as a bold link under "In the news" or in the "On this day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear at DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On this day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Cukie Gherkin -- Cukie Gherkin (talk) 22:00, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
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Congratulations to that and others! - Thank you for coming over to my talk! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:14, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
A message from The Table
I have to say that I am highly offended by your proposed ban of me! Googleguy007 only stubbed their toe on my because they tripped over The carpet. You absolutely should not be slinging these incivil accusations around. Your accusation of harmful intent is completely misguided. Yes, I have been problematic at times, but I have seen the error of my ways; and I don't need small grilled sandwiches coming along and WP:BITING me! Sincerely, The Table [talk] 14:50, 17 August 2023 (SFT)