Mechanical Elephant

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Hinckley, Leicestershire

A tag has been placed on Category:Hinckley, Leicestershire indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:33, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi Liz, not sure where to say, but I accidentally made the Category:Hinckley, Leicestershire category in good faith, not knowing Category:Hinckley was the one to use. I'm more than happy to support in favour of deletion.

Thanks for notifying me about the proposal of speedy deletion. Much appreciated. Mechanical Elephant (talk) 21:44, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Mechanical Elephant!

Happy New Year!

Mechanical Elephant,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Mann Mann (talk) 04:12, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks and likewise. Happy new year to you too! Mechanical Elephant (talk) 23:52, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

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Please do not edit WWE2K24

Please do not edit WWE 2K24 without source and valid reason as it is not announced. TheProWrestlingFanatic (talk) 03:22, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi @TheProWrestlingFanatic, the game has already been reviewed by a Government body in Brazil, confirming its rating and platforms. This information was cited with a relevant citation from Eurogamer, which passes as credible source per the WP:GAMESOURCES. In addition, the details about the Fiscal year were publicly announced by 2K some years prior, with articles from IGN and PCGamer, who are both reliable.

I can assure you this was a good faith edit.

Best wishes, and happy new year! Mechanical Elephant (talk) 03:34, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Request for comment

See Replacing Current and Currently with As of --Mann Mann (talk) 05:41, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

January 2024

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give a page a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Nick Khan. This is known as a "cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases for registered users, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page (the tab may be hidden in a dropdown menu for you). This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Requests for history merge. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:00, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Ways to improve Adam Pacitti

Hello, Mechanical Elephant,

Thank you for creating Adam Pacitti.

I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:

Some of the sources used do not fulfill the Wikipedia policy of using reliable, third-party WP:INDEPENDENT published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy WP:RELIABLE. Avoid blogs and social media, where we cannot determine author expertise or bias, and opinion pieces as they generally do not count as reliable sources.

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FULBERT (talk) 18:02, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

@FULBERT Hi, thanks for the heads up on some of the citations, much appreciated.

I do my best to try and use generally reliable sources, as listed on WP:RSP (i.e. The Guardian, The Independent, Evening Standard, Telegraph, Mirror). I believe the problem mainly lies in the Tweets being self-sourced by Pacitti's Twitter account. I did try to find some articles in their place, but most are from unreliable dirt sheets (as noted through WP:PW. What to do if I can't find any better citations? P.S. Please may you point out which the offending ones are from your point of view, so I know what to avoid for any future articles in creation.

Thanks again. :) Mechanical Elephant (talk) 20:47, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for March 7

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Thea Hail, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Julia Hart.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:09, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

Replaceable non-free use File:Nick Khan.jpg

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