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Question from Williamchan2 (04:51, 5 August 2025)

Williamchan2's mentor Martin Urbanec is away.

Hi Martin, I would like to know what is a semi-protected page and how to know if my account has the privilege to edit that semi-protected page. --Williamchan2 (talk) 04:51, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Williamchan2! Yes, you can edit semi-protected pages because you are autoconfirmed (your account is more than 4 days old and you have made 10 or more edits). Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 09:23, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

hello there i am Phoebe Phoebe24rfbn, (talk) 16:09, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

changes to my wiki page

Hello, there is a Wiki page about me but it is out of date. How can I add have some facts updated? 76.50.103.25 (talk) 20:06, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

my contact info

Hello, I just send a message about updating my Wiki page. Here is my email jamie@jamierosecoaching.com 76.50.103.25 (talk) 20:07, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jamie; thanks for reaching out! We discuss issues about Wikipedia article on talk pages rather than via email in order to be transparent. I'd suggest creating an account for yourself to make it easier to communicate.

Is the article you're looking to update Jamie Rose? In order to help you with it, I need to know what info you're looking to change. Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 20:51, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Nomination for discussion of Template:Less than or equal to

Template:Less than or equal to has been nominated for discussion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. BodhiHarp 15:35, 8 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fred Bendheim

Hi. In June you moved the article Fred Bendheim to mainspace as an approved AFC submission. The IP address who created it seems anxious for it to be indexed by Google.

Looking at it with a mind to patrol it, I couldn't. I can't decide whether it should be moved back to draft or nominated for AFD. The first source is an interview, others are announcements or mentions, one source isn't verifiable, and coverage seems restricted to the artist's two hometowns, Phoenix and Brooklyn, when coverage should be national or even regional for notability purposes.

What do you think? ~Anachronist (talk) 00:45, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reaching out, @Anachronist. When I'm reviewing AfC submissions, I'm looking just at whether they'd be likely to survive a deletion nomination per WP:AFCPURPOSE. I think Bendheim would be likely to survive an AfD because:

The Brooklyn Downtown Star interview contains a substantial biographical introduction before the interview itself, and also contains secondary material in the journalist's queries, so would appear to count toward notability under WP:Interviews#Notability.
The Jewish News profile looks like a standard notability-qualifying source. The outlet focuses on Arizona, so it's regional, but the NBIO standard does not have restrictions on how local sources can be (unlike NORG, which requires at least one regional or national source).
Lastly, the Artdaily coverage of the installation of two of his works also seems like clearly SIGCOV.

Any two of those would be sufficient to pass GNG/NBIO. Doing a WP:BEFORE search now, I found additional notability-qualifying coverage from Bklyner and brief coverage in The New York Times that would be SIGCOV per WP:100WORDS but that personally I'd consider borderline. I've added these to the article.

And lastly, beyond all that, the article appears to indicate that he would pass WP:ARTIST criterion 4 because of the institutions that hold his work, although that info would need to be sourced to confirm.

The article has a bunch of redundant sourcing and other issues that merit cleanup, but neither AfD nor draftication would be appropriate remedies. Given that, I would focus on cleaning it up enough for it to be marked as patrolled by NPP standards.

Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 22:14, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the thoughtful analysis. I will leave the article alone, maybe clean it up a bit if I have time.

As I grow more curmudgeonly in my years on Wikipedia, I am starting to appreciate the policy of print encyclopedias, to have articles only about people who are no longer alive. I feel our bar for living persons is way too low, resulting in articles about truly notable individuals like Nobel Prize winners and inventors of world-changing technology, alongside articles about obscure artists and youtube influencers who happened to get some local coverage in a regional publication that the rest of the world wouldn't care about. But it is what it is, I'm just growing to disagree with our inclusion criteria more as time goes on.

That's certainly a fair perspective on notability! The main question in my mind is whether raising the notability threshold so that people like Bendheim would no longer qualify would actually do anything to make articles on Nobel laureates any better. It's not necessarily clear to me that it'd be possible to redirect that editorial energy as opposed to it just being lost. And from a reader perspective, it's not like the Bendheim article is distracting from articles on Nobel laureates when both are most likely being found via search engines by people looking specifically for them. Sdkb ^talk 22:52, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Question from Motiurbd01 (23:47, 14 September 2025)

How can i start --Motiurbd01 (talk) 23:47, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Motiurbd01, see Help:Introduction. Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 00:03, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from MnemonicaS on Victor A. Lundy (15:36, 20 September 2025)

Hi, this is my first time editing. I read an article in Chron.com today highlighting architect Victor A. Lundy's home in Bellaire, Tx that is set to be demolished. I want to add that residence, a house and studio he designed, to his list of work. I'm operating from my phone, and I am new at this. How do I go about adding this work of architecture to his page?

I tried adding the article I read for reference, but I'm not sure it was published. It's a piece by Gwen Howerton from Chron.com titled "He remade modern architecture. His Houston home is about to be demolished." I'm afraid I may have not added that reference to the correct place if I added it at all. Any help or advice is much appreciated. Thanks in advance. --MnemonicaS (talk) 15:36, 20 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Mahsheedalofteh (01:39, 22 September 2025)

hi I have two drafts and can not tell if they will be reviewed. Can you please advise? --Mahsheedalofteh (talk) 01:39, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Doober doob (07:45, 22 September 2025)

Note: Doober doob's mentor Ixtal is away.

Hii can you help me with some basic knowledge about editing because i was planning to create articles about people who are on red link in deaths in 2025, thank you in advance <3 (also would love to know about my mentor as well! Introduction, flexes about how good at editing you are) --Doober doob (talk) 07:45, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for discussion of Template:Accessibility editnotice

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Burnt food

I was wondering what information about burnt food you were looking for? [1] Did you mean flambé or did you mean food that has been ruined by charring due to overcooking? Thanks. --Jameboy (talk) 21:46, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The latter! I once received a mildly burnt sandwich from Mobtown Ballroom and Cafe that I uploaded to Commons and I was looking to represent its burnt-ness in the structured data. That led to the RfD you linked and to the creation of burnt food (Q130681202). Sdkb ^talk 22:09, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I hope they replaced it for you! I was asking because I was about to create the same redirect that had been deleted but I noticed the discussion. It seems like an unusual situation as I agree that the food meaning would be the primary topic, but one that doesn't actually have anywhere to point to. For the episode, I have created the redirect Burnt Food (The Good Doctor) instead. It seems strange to create x (dab) when there is no x, though possibly not unprecedented. Hopefully there will be some burnt food content added to the wiki at some point, and you can add your photo to it. --Jameboy (talk) 23:25, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from StarviewResearch (22:35, 1 October 2025)

Hello Sdkb! I added all the citations to Tiffany Lily Walker's draft page and wanted to ask if there's anything the page needs for a speedy acceptance. Thank you for your time. --StarviewResearch (talk) 22:35, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Davidpinkstonjr (12:10, 3 October 2025)

how do I create a page --Davidpinkstonjr (talk) 12:10, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Davidpinkstonjr, see Help:Your first article. Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 13:48, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Question from Raja Khurram Khan (15:43, 13 October 2025)

hi why are my drafts being deleted for no reason while im trying my best it doesnt sound promotional in any way. --Raja Khurram Khan (talk) 15:43, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Raja Khurram Khan! Thanks for reaching out; I'm conferring with other editors about the deletion.

In the meantime, I'd suggest you look at Wikipedia:Autobiography. Also, regarding our notability standard for publishing an article, please note that trivial mentions, such as the one in Dawn, do not contribute, so it is necessary to have multiple reliable sources covering a topic with significant coverage.

Best, Sdkb ^talk 16:03, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

hey @Sdkb it wasnt really a trival mention to begin with i wanted to put it as an major event that occured, that was led by him second of all they keep saying its promotional on the next draft i removed everything that even had a hint of looking promtional and when we talk about notability isn’t president of supreme court bar association, a person whos incharge of all the lawyers in the region of kashmir notable? its actually pretty saddening as i spend so much time on this and someone keeps deleting it if you could help me fix it or somehow help me get it restored i will be very grateful to you. Raja Khurram Khan (talk) 16:07, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanking You

Hey @Sdkb i just saw that my draft page is back, i was wondering if you could help me improve it a bit or tell me if it requires any improvements, i will be very grateful to you! Raja Khurram Khan (talk) 15:29, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Raja Khurram Khan, it looks like many of the promotional language elements have been fixed; glad to see that.

When the reviewer comes by, they will be looking to see whether the sources in the article establish notability under the WP:NBIO standard. Particularly, they will be looking to see that there are at least two sources that each meet all of the following criteria:

Are from a reliable source
Are secondary and independent from Khan
Provide significant coverage beyond a trivial mention

Are there two sources in the article that you think meet that standard? (It's alright if they're in Urdu.)

One concrete suggestion I'd make is, if the newspapers used as sources have their own articles, link to them within the references. (If they only have an article in Urdu, you can use the {{ill}} template or ask me for help by providing a link to the Urdu Wikipedia article.)

Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 17:44, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Sdkb, Thank you so much i have applied the necessary changes,if you could take a moment to view them it woild be very nice. again thank you so much you have helped me improve alot. Raja Khurram Khan (talk) 17:59, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:OOUI icon userAdd-ltr.svg

As long as the change in license sticks at Commons, that's fine with me. If they revert, we'll have to figure out something else. But I note you didn't remove the c:Template:MIT license template, so now the image there claims to be both public domain and MIT-licensed. Anomie ⚔ 19:28, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good, although I think someone would be very hard-pressed to argue that File:OOUI icon userAdd-ltr.svg rises above commons:COM:TOO.

Regarding the MIT license, I recently encountered a situation where there was an argument for keeping redundant licenses, so I've been a little more cautious about removing them. But I think you're right that, in this case, if it's PD it's PD and there's no need for any backup license. Sdkb ^talk 19:42, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for fixing it. I wish the WMF people making all these new icons would look for when they're PD from the start, or just CC0 them all instead of MIT, so we don't have to run into this sort of thing. But I'm not going to try to argue it out with them. 🤷 Anomie ⚔ 19:52, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I just noticed that c:Template:PD-ineligible allows you to do something like {{PD-ineligible|MIT}} to specify what license it would be if not PD-ineligible. Other templates such as c:Template:PD-shape and c:Template:PD-textlogo don't seem to have that functionality though. Anomie ⚔ 14:32, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed you also noticed the issue with the Commons logo licensing. That came up recently here, and I've been meaning to follow up off-wiki with some WMF folks about that.

Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 19:46, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah (re the bit you deleted in Special:Diff/1316838030), I don't want to get involved with possible licensing discussions on Commons, I got tired of people there years ago. I'm happy for you to do it if you want. 🙂 What's behind all those edits is that I recently rediscovered that the Commons license templates, and most of ours too, have metadata licensetpl_attr_req and licensetpl_link_req that indicate whether the license needs the link-back. And with fresh eyes I realized I could fix my old User:Anomie/unattributed-image-finder script to actually work reliably by reading that metadata directly, so I did it. Anomie ⚔ 19:52, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to ping me if there are any other licenses that should be PD; I'm happy to help with that at Commons.

Overall, glad we're coming into compliance with licensing, but also this is such an annoying thing to have to comply with, since links to icon file pages are firmly detrimental to usability. Hopefully this is a chance for us to identify overly restrictive licensing on Commons that should be commons:template:PD-simple (and for us to update any outdated iconography to modern flat design that's less likely to be above the TOO). Appreciate your diligence!

Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 20:11, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'll do that. Thanks!

Personally I'm not a fan of the flat style, I find it ugly, brutalist, and too reminiscent of Corporate Memphis and other corporatese design. Anomie ⚔ 20:20, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm somewhere in the middle — I think it can work for very simple applications (such as icons like in {{please ping}}) but don't like it for anything more complex. For better or worse, we seem to be reentering a gradient era. Sdkb ^talk 20:29, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, tiny icons you can't do much else with and still be recognizable. When we have people pushing for flat style on 40×40px message box icons though, ugh. Personally what I think it comes down to is that design in general attracts the kind of people who like to follow fashion trends, they're always looking for how they can be trendy and different at the same time. I, on the other hand, have been using the same desktop environment with the same wallpaper and such since 1999. 😀 Anomie ⚔ 20:42, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Here's one for you for today 🙂: c:File:Disambig.svg has GFDL, two versions of CC BY-SA, and a public domain claim all on it. Anomie ⚔ 21:02, 15 October 2025 (UTC) Also File:Ionicons_duplicate-sharp.svg looks like it might be PD. Anomie ⚔ 21:05, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed both! Sdkb ^talk 21:17, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Flag of Cameroon.svg, File:Europe (orthographic projection).svg, File:Complex-adaptive-system.jpg, and File:Flag of Togo.svg have both PD and non-PD licenses where the PD claims seem possible. File:Flag of Queensland.svg is iffy, depends on whether the October 2018 update (or an earlier change by that user) really did add copyrightable SVG code. Same for File:Flag of Victoria (Australia).svg and the December 2018 update. As for File:Coat of arms of San Antonio.svg, the PD tag there is probably wrong as the SVG certainly wasn't published before 1977. Anomie ⚔ 16:18, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg could use the same treatment as File:OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg. Anomie ⚔ 15:19, 18 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The various colors of File:Codex icon check color-success.svg and File:Codex icon close color-error.svg should probably be marked as PD too. Anomie ⚔ 22:54, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

More that seem simple enough they might be PD, as they're basic symbols on a pretty basic colored oval: File:Symbol rename vote.svg, File:Symbol possible vote.svg, File:Cancelled process mini.svg, File:Symbol Translate.svg. Anomie ⚔ 03:30, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also File:Not facebook not like thumbs down.png has conflicting licenses, both a PD-simple and a CC BY-SA. Anomie ⚔ 03:30, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Information icon dark green.svg could probably be PD to match File:Information icon4.svg. Also, are you regretting offering for me to ping you with all of these yet? 😅 Anomie ⚔ 04:19, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not regretting it, just busy recently! Will get to it, likely after this weekend. Sdkb ^talk 05:23, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Came across File:Puppeter template.svg which is labeled both CC BY-SA and public domain. Unclear what the real deal should be: back in February 2007 one source image was (apparently incorrectly) labeled CC BY-SA, so it may be that this inherited the license from that. But maybe the uploader really did intend CC BY-SA. Anomie ⚔ 18:25, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:OOjs UI icon caretDown.svg is another basic symbol. Also all the icons at Template:Rfd top#Context awareness (except which is already CC0). Anomie ⚔ 17:12, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Some more that can probably be PD: File:VisualEditor citoid Cite button-en-gb.png, File:Transparent bar.svg, File:Journal Icon.svg. Anomie ⚔ 19:23, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Echo chat icon.svg has both PD-ineligible and MIT tags. Seems likely the PD one is correct. Anomie ⚔ 19:23, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

OTOH, File:NoCommons.svg seems to have an incorrect PD template, as it's derived from a non-PD source image. Anomie ⚔ 19:23, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Standard Model of Elementary Particles.svg is confusing. Apparently the current versions (since 2013?) are PD, but the earlier ones are CC BY? Anomie ⚔ 23:21, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, also, you might be interested in Template talk:Taxobox#Linking to CC-BY images and Wikipedia talk:Reliable sources/Perennial sources#Icon image licensing. Anomie ⚔ 23:25, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Out of all the images on Template:Color classifications, I have no idea why File:CyanIcon.png / File:Color icon cyan.svg, File:MagentaIcon.png, File:Shades of spring green.svg, and File:Shades of azure.svg aren't PD while the rest are. Anomie ⚔ 14:22, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also, all of the little icons on Template:Metabolic metro/caption. Unless the overcomplicated SVG code qualifies? Maybe File:interactive icon.svg too. Anomie ⚔ 14:40, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Star half.svg somehow is not, even though File:Star full.svg is. Anomie ⚔ 23:40, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Need A Little Help.

Hi @Sdkb my draft still hasnt been reviewed by anyone, as its my first time im not sure how much time it takes, if you could tell me how much time it would take so i could get started on writing some other drafts too, i would be really grateful to you. Raja Khurram Khan (talk) 13:58, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Raja Khurram Khan, as the notice says, there isn't any defined timeline, since it depends on when a reviewer takes it up. But it's fairly normal for it to take a few weeks or longer, so patience is helpful! Feel free to start other drafts in the meantime, though. The more news coverage a topic has about it, the easier it'll be to get the article published. Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 16:26, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Felixmgx (06:21, 20 October 2025)

Hello, do you know about editing --Felixmgx (talk) 06:21, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Felixmgx, I do! Feel free to ask questions. Sdkb ^talk 13:39, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Tetrameles (05:24, 22 October 2025)

Hi Sdkb! I really happy to have someone like you to ask questions! So I signed up in July and announced that I'm a paid contributor.

Since then, I've been able to get one page updated on behalf of my employer. (Yay!) However, one edit request has been pending since 24 September — I've seen the request number drop during that time and now it's higher than what it was when I first submitted it. (I took a screenshot then and it said 199, now it's 200.) It follows the same COI template I used for the page that got approval, except duplicated for 5 requested changes.

This is the request: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Alien:_Earth#Five_edit_requests:_Producers,_Production_Company,_Filming,_Design,_Production

Is it a thing for editors to pick and choose which request they respond to? If so, is there something I can do to get them to read my (admittedly very long) request? I did my best to be straightforward and organized about what was needed for approval.

Thanks so much! --Tetrameles (talk) 05:24, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Tetrameles! The requested edit backlog is unfortunately often, as you're experiencing, quite high; it's a result of there just not being enough of us editors able to handle it all. Larger requests do tend to take longer.

But the good news is that the things you can do to increase the odds of a quick review — namely being specific about the X to Y changes you're requesting and providing concise rationales for each — are things you've already done. All requests do eventually get reviewed, so if you continue to be patient you will eventually get a response. Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 05:56, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for the quick response! I figured as much, but I had to ask :) Cheers! Tetrameles (talk) 05:59, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Temporary account IP viewer user right

How to enable IP Reveal

Administrators may grant the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right to non-administrators who meet the criteria for granting. Importantly, an editor must make an explicit request for the permission (e.g. at WP:PERM/TAIV)—administrators are not permitted to assign the right without a request.
Administrators will automatically be able to see temporary account IP information once they have accepted the Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy via Special:Preferences or via the onboarding dialog which comes up after temporary accounts are deployed.

Impact for administrators

It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects the autoblock option.
It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this (see a video about IPContributions in a gallery below).

Rules about IP information disclosure

Publicizing an IP address gained through TAIV access is generally not allowed (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 previously edited as 192.0.2.1 or ~2025-12345-67's IP address is 192.0.2.1).
Publicly linking a TA to another TA is allowed if "reasonably believed to be necessary". (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 and ~2025-12345-68 are likely the same person, so I am counting their reverts together toward 3RR, but not Hey ~2025-12345-68, you did some good editing as ~2025-12345-67)
See Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer § What can and can't be said for more detailed guidelines.

Useful tools for patrollers

It is possible to view if a user has opted-in to view temporary account IPs via the User Info card, available in Preferences → Appearance → Advanced options → Enable the user info card
- This feature also makes it possible for anyone to see the approximate count of temporary accounts active on the same IP address range.
Special:IPContributions allows viewing all edits and temporary accounts connected to a specific IP address or IP range.
Similarly, Special:GlobalContributions supports global search for a given temporary account's activity.
The auto-reveal feature (see video below) allows users with the right permissions to automatically reveal all IP addresses for a limited time window.

Videos

How to use Special:IPContributions
How automatic IP reveal works
How to use IP Info
How to use User Info

Further information and discussion

For more information and discussion regarding this change, please see the announcement from the Wikimedia Foundation at Wikipedia:Village pump (WMF) § Temporary accounts rollout.

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Nomination for discussion of Template:British barrelled name

Template:British barrelled name has been nominated for discussion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. U-Mos (talk) 12:47, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @U-Mos! Is there a reason you're notifying me about this? I don't appear to have ever edited that template. Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 15:28, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Sdkb, as you created Template:Family name footnote and were instrumental in establishing that and Template:Family name hatnote as wrappers of Template:Family name explanation, which overlap the usage of the template in question, I thought you may wish to have an input into the discussion. U-Mos (talk) 15:50, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, that makes sense; thanks! Sdkb ^talk 16:06, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Page for Gibbons Ruark needs to be updated.

Hello. The page for Gibbons Ruark (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbons_Ruark) needs to be updated. Ruark, my father, died on October 19. I tried to submit a request via the Talk page that his date of death be added, but that was nearly a month ago. (Here is his obituary: https://www.delawareonline.com/obituaries/pdov1311590.)

It would also be appropriate to change verb tenses as follows in the first section:

WAS a contemporary American poet. Known for his deeply personal, often elegiac lyrics about his native North Carolina and beloved Ireland, Ruark HAD poetry in such publications as The New Yorker, The New Republic, and Poetry. His collections include Rescue the Perishing, Small Rain, Keeping Company, Reeds, A Program for Survival, Passing Through Customs: New and Selected Poems, Staying Blue, and, most recently, The Road to Ballyvaughan. He WON numerous awards including three Poetry Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland and a Pushcart Prize.

It would also be helpful to relabel the "Currently" section "Later Years," and revise the verb tenses like so:

Ruark's poetry WAS selected to appear in a number of anthologies. His poem "A Vacant Lot" appeared in The Pushcart Book of Poetry: The Best Poems from 30 Years of the Pushcart Prize. Five of his poems appeared in The Book of Irish American Poetry, From the 18th Century to the Present and two appeared in From the Other World: Poems in Memory of James Wright. Ruark retired from the University of Delaware in 2006, returning to Raleigh, North Carolina WITH his wife, Kay.

(It seems to me that section could end there, as all his publications are listed below that.)

I would deeply appreciate any help you can offer. ~2025-34636-42 (talk) 17:34, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Condolences on your loss and thanks for reaching out, @~2025-34636-42. I have updated the article and begun adding a few references to it to aid with verifiability. Myself or other editors may improve it further by adding/incorporating additional sources in the future (my subscription is currently lapsed but it looks like there are some articles in Newspapers.com's archives about him). Best, Sdkb ^talk 20:44, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from JanetLByars84 (05:19, 19 November 2025)

Hey. I had a situation earlier today. I have first hand information about a person in an article. I edited it, added proper citation and everything, and the AI flagged it and removed it. --JanetLByars84 (talk) 05:19, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @JanetLByars84, and thanks for your contributions! First-hand info is (perhaps counterintuitively) considered original research here and is not allowed because it cannot be independently verified. Are there also external sources that could be used to cite the info you're trying to add? If so, I'd try again and include those (the AI is much less likely to revert edits with citations, although lmk if you still have any trouble). I don't see citations in your prior edits — info about how to include those is here. Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 00:46, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Question from Camkeoke (01:05, 1 December 2025)

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Hello, I have added a section to an axolotl page that could be questioned about why I put it there. I explained pretty when I published my change, but would there be any way I could make another comment on the section I changed. --Camkeoke (talk) 01:05, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Camkeoke! If the change you make isn't reverted, there's no strong need to make any additional comment on it. But if you wanted to, you could do so either by dropping a note at the talk page or by making a dummy edit and adding the explanation to the summary of it. You could also add a hidden comment to the article explaining whatever you think needs explaining. Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 03:12, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Julia Dobkine (09:47, 1 December 2025)

Thanks sir I am trying to create this page but i cannot --Julia Dobkine (talk) 09:47, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Julia Dobkine, see Help: Your first article Sdkb ^talk 14:40, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

December 2025

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your recent edits to Cleo Abram when you modified the page, you introduced unknown parameters. Just because you specify |some_param=some_variable does not always mean that variable will display. The |some_param= must be defined in the template. You can look at the documentation for the template you are using but it is also helpful to use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and ensure that the values you have added are displaying correctly. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the page will look like without actually saving it. It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. Note I have likely fixed the error by now so check the history of the page to see how it was fixed. If you have any questions, contact the help desk for assistance. Thank you. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 20:51, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Zackmann08, that article was sitting in draft state for quite a while; the only recent change I made was publishing it to mainspace after it acquired NBIO-requisite sourcing. Some of the parameters that were present when it was initially created may have since changed, which may have been what you noticed.

Without going all DTTR on you, I might posit that the notice you delivered above wasn't really tailored to the situation at hand (there hadn't been new parameters introduced, and I'm not a new editor who would be unaware that parameters must be defined). It might be helpful for you to do a bit of an audit of recent times you've delivered this notice to ensure that it's reaching its intended audience. Ideally an educational notice like this should be designed so that it does not go to extended-confirmed-plus editors, although I'm not sure if Twinkle is capable yet of that sort of restriction. Sdkb ^talk 21:05, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for not going off on me regarding DTTR... I am usually better about this. I looked at the page history and saw you had created it and extensively edited it so I felt that it was a fair reminder to send. If you were in fact not the one to add the unknown params I do appologize! If it was you, know I meant no offense and certainly didn't mean it as hey dumba$$ you effed up but instead as a genuinely friendly reminder. In any case, hope you can take it in the spirit I intended it. Keep up the good work! Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 21:10, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Fixed Sdkb ^talk 13:39, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]