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Nomination of Serhiy Volynskyi for deletion

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False information in edit you reverted

You have replaced an edit with FALSE INFORMATION. (The edit about 'Ukrainians refusing to surrender having caused the destruction of Mariupol' IS NOT FOUND IN THE CITATION SOURCE ARTICLE WITH IT).

This is WP:Vandalism and you could be Blocked from Wikipedia if you persist.

PLEASE NOTE: In your revert comment, you seem to be focused on LINE 1 of what you reverted, but you ALSO THEREFORE REVERTED LINE 4.

On line 4-- there is a FALSE INFORMATION POST (text did not match-- in any way-- the content in the sourced article).

Please pay attention and carefully read everything that you revert.

You can reasonably revert LINE ONE (ONLY) and then discuss it on the Talk Page, if needed. However if you revert Line 4 (along with it) you will be persisting in vandalsm.

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing.

Chesapeake77 ^{>>> ♥ Truth} 14:54, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

Wtf are you on about? The edit I restored after it was deleted for no apparent reason says "due to prolonged fighting", not "due to Ukrainians refusing to surrender". Anyway you can remove it again if you want, don't really care about it. --Potionkin (talk) 19:55, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

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Thank you for creating Maurizio Lazzaro de Castiglioni.

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Good start.

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Thanks --Potionkin (talk) 14:12, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

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Thank you for creating Archimede Mischi.

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Italian biographies

Thank you for your excellent Italian biographical articles. Could you tell me whether these are translations from the equivalent articles on the Italian Wikipedia? Best, Ingratis (talk) 22:56, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, yes, the biographies I usually translate from the Italian Wikipedia. --Potionkin (talk) 06:52, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. Good translations like yours are very welcome and I hope you'll continue with them. I should mention however that for copyright reasons any translations from other Wikis must be attributed as described here: WP:TFOLWP. The prescribed edit summary (for translations from Italian; for other languages change as required) is: Content in this edit is translated from the existing Italian Wikipedia article at [[:it:Exact name of Italian article]]; see its history for attribution.. Thanks and best wishes, Ingratis (talk) 08:27, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Please see Talk:Bortolo Zambon for an example - in no way perfect, but at least a start - to attribute translated articles. In bocca a lupo, Potionkin. Pete AU aka --User:Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 10:58, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

You are right, I've been forgetting about it. Will try to fix. --Potionkin (talk) 11:29, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

Hey you. More of the same problems at Domenico Bartolini. (Thank goodness this is English, so we don't have to have that difficult discussion about whether to call each other Lei o tu/Sei oder du). Pierrot lunaire aka --User:Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 09:51, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

Oops. Sie not Sei. My mistake entirely--User:Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 10:41, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

Fixed --Potionkin (talk) 12:57, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

More of the same at Giovanni Acanfora. Looks like a snail popping up its eyes emoji aka --User:Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 10:03, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

No, in that case (and a few others) I did not put the 'translated' template because as you can see by comparing it to the Italian version, which consisted of two lines, I basically wrote the page myself rather than translating it from the Italian wiki. --Potionkin (talk) 10:07, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

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Thank you for creating Paolo De Maria.

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Thank you. --Potionkin (talk) 06:51, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

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Thank you for creating Amedeo De Cia.

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Thank you. --Potionkin (talk) 13:18, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

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Hello, Potionkin. Thank you for creating Mario Musolesi. User:Scope creep, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

Good article. If you can, instead of putting the references at the end of the block, can put the individual reference on each sentence.

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scope_creepTalk 09:02, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

Pietro De Francisci

Hi thanks for creating this article. When we translate or borrow from other language wikis it’s a requirement to acknowledge the source. The best way to do this is to include it in your edit summary (e.g. “translated from it.wiki”) and there’s also a translation template you can add to the talk page. I’ve added it for you. Happy editing and please leave a message on my talk page if you need any help Mccapra (talk) 12:10, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

Some baklava for you!

Thanks for creating Guido Porzio Giovanola! Mccapra (talk) 10:12, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

Thanks --Potionkin (talk) 10:28, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Writer's Barnstar
	I know it probably wasn't intention, but I still got a good laugh when I saw this[1], which I almost thought was vandalism at first glance. I also wanted to give you a barnstar for some of the awesome contributions to the encyclopedia you've made. Keep up the great work! BlueNoise (talk) 20:44, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! --Potionkin (talk) 06:27, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

Deduplicating references

I saw your work on the article Melchiade Gabba. One thing that stood out to me was the number of references. If you use the same source multiple times, you only need to define the true reference once, and then you can reuse it as much as you'd like by naming it. This is even easier when using the Wikipedia:VisualEditor, which automatically handles the naming for you. You can also use Wikipedia:ReFill (at https://refill.toolforge.org/), which does a combined job of filling in information from websites and deduplicating references.

Finally, if you use information from a source multiple times in a paragraph, you only need to re-specify the reference at the end of a paragraph, or when you mention information that's not from the source. For example, if my first two sentences are from one reference, I will only include the reference at the end of the second sentence. RPI2026F1 (talk) 15:08, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

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MS Orazio

Hi thanks for creating this article. When we translate or borrow from other language wikis it’s a requirement to acknowledge the source. The best way to do this is to include it in your edit summary (e.g. “translated from it.wiki”) and there’s also a translation template you can add to the talk page. I’ve added it for you. Happy editing Mccapra (talk) 20:54, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Actually, I did not translate it from the Italian wiki page. --Potionkin (talk) 06:30, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

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Thank you. --Potionkin (talk) 19:41, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

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Thank you. --Potionkin (talk) 21:30, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

Deer

Hi, please note that the plural of deer is deer. Good work on the "Regional parks" articles. Regards Denisarona (talk) 11:45, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

Thank you, I did not know that. --Potionkin (talk) 15:49, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

Reference formatting

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Ways to improve Monticchio (mountain)

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The same citations are repeated in each paragraph. Instead, they should be named like and reused as

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Pizzo Proman moved to draftspace

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Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. scope_creep^Talk 07:59, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Potionkin: Take a look at WP:REFB which is a small tutorial on how to do references properly. This is really badly formatted. scope_creep^Talk 08:01, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

@Potionkin: Ping me when its done and well get it back to mainspace. Google Gbooks is a good reference. You copy the url in the cite book dialog on the editor and it expands it out to a full reference. Very handy. scope_creep^Talk 08:04, 26 January 2024 (UTC)