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Thanks for the help. Can you sort out the info boxes on the bottom?-- Achim Hering ( talk) 22:09, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
Richard, I saw your request for deletion and the codes WP:GNG and WP:NCORP. I appreciate that you and other volunteers work to keep Wikipedia the great tool and work that it is. I hope to contribute a lot more to Wikipedia after this, my first work. In particular, I aim to do more articles to ensure that the significant current and historical institutions, traditions, and place of New England and New Hampshire are able to be studied and known by people who choose to learn about them. Regarding the WP:NCORP, I read the guideline and it says “The scope of this guideline covers all groups of people organized together for a purpose with the exception of non-profit educational institutions, religions or sects, and sports teams.” The article is about a non-profit educational instituion. Regarding the WP:GNG, the article is about an institution that source says has almost 3000 alumni. It is well known by most people in New Hampshire and many in neighbouring states. It has sporting (sailing) teams that compete in sailing regattas in the entire eastern United States and so is known in sailing circles in much of the United States. I have found television coverage that is viewed across New England in the period 2010-2017. I have found newspaper articles from multiple publications within New Hampshire and national sailing magazine. When I look at many other Wikipedia articles, they seem to be perhaps less notable. “Notable” seems sometimes to equate to “urban” by virtue of the population of urban centers generating more media volume. However, when viewed on a per capita basis, some state-level insitutions in places like New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, Delaware, North Dakota, Wyoming, Rhode Island, etc. I believe that rural institutions also deserve to be treated as notable or the world becomes one in which homogenization of culture and history around urban defintions and examples is the rule. Please therefore help me put this article into shape so that I can learn and improve things in my efforts going forward. - Alf Alphakilohotel ( talk) 21:41, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
You are invited to join the effort to revitalize and improve the Portal system.
The Portals WikiProject was rebooted on April 17th, and is going strong. Sixty-six editors have joined so far, with more joining daily. We're having a blast, and excitement is high...
Our goal is to update, upgrade, and maintain portals.
In addition to working directly on portals, we are developing tools to make portals more dynamic (self-updating), and to make building and maintaining portals easier. We've finished two tools so far, with more to come. They are Template:Transclude lead excerpt and Template:Transclude random excerpt.
Discussions are underway about how to further upgrade portals, and what the portals of the future will be.
There are plenty of tasks (including WikiGnome tasks too).
With more to come.
We may even surprise ourselves and exceed all expectations. Who knows what we will be able to accomplish in what may become the biggest Wikicollaboration in years.
See ya at the WikiProject!
Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 06:49, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
Richard, you restored this content to the Barisan Nasional, and warned the new user Legendary Autism for removing it. Stating that the party's ideology is kleptocracy, corruption and cronyism was obviously vandalism to begin with, and certainly wasn't supported by the sources. Legendary Autism did quite right to remove it, though, being a new user, they failed to understand they should have left the sources, and should have reverted to an earlier version, which somebody else has now done. Did you actually look at the stuff you restored? Bishonen | talk 17:05, 11 May 2018 (UTC).
Since you helped with the Teahouse Talkback template, I need to know how to label a source that is not English. I found nothing under the citation templates that helped with this. Under Toy Symphony I saw a source that appears to be German. The reference needed fixing anyway so I tried fixing the language when I was there, but it didn't show up.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 19:23, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
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Richard
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Hey! Welcome back. Shall I dust off that bot trial you requested? - Jarry1250 Vacation needed 16:58, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
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Thanks for building the new LintError reporter! — xaosflux Talk 02:52, 22 May 2018 (UTC) |
I like your new username! Bishonen | talk 07:44, 25 May 2018 (UTC).
The RfC discussion to eliminate portals was closed May 12, with the statement "There exists a strong consensus against deleting or even deprecating portals at this time." This was made possible because you and others came to the rescue. Thank you for speaking up.
By the way, the current issue of the Signpost features an article with interviews about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.
I'd also like to let you know that the Portals WikiProject is working hard to make sure your support of portals was not in vain. Toward that end, we have been working diligently to innovate portals, while building, updating, upgrading, and maintaining them. The project has grown to 80 members so far, and has become a beehive of activity.
Our two main goals at this time are to automate portals (in terms of refreshing, rotating, and selecting content), and to develop a one-page model in order to make obsolete and eliminate most of the 150,000 subpages from the portal namespace by migrating their functions to the portal base pages, using technologies such as selective transclusion. Please feel free to join in on any of the many threads of development at the WikiProject's talk page, or just stop by to see how we are doing. If you have any questions about portals or portal development, that is the best place to ask them.
If you would like to keep abreast of developments on portals, keep in mind that the project's members receive updates on their talk pages. The updates are also posted here, for your convenience.
Again, we can't thank you enough for your support of portals, and we hope to make you proud of your decision. Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 23:27, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
P.S.: if you reply to this message, please {{ ping}} me. Thank you. -TT
Good idea in that case. Robert McClenon ( talk) 02:44, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi. I declined your CSD request for Draft:BANAN; you nominated it for speedy deletion under the criteria of WP:CSD#G1, but that is for incomprehensible text or gibberish only, and the text written on the draft page is coherent. If you still believe it should be deleted, please select a more appropriate category. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a note on my talk page. Stephen! Coming... 11:33, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
You can find the repo that I've gotten back in sync at https://github.com/hasteur/g13bot_tools_new. All I ask is that the credit for the work remains. CC @ Headbomb: Hasteur ( talk) 02:37, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
G3/A7 - In isolation you're right, in the context of the author's behaviour, pasting the same nonsense all over the wiki, it's vandalism. Cabayi ( talk) 18:54, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
I have noted to the talk page of Windows XP a split of the Windows XP development stuff. I attempted my best to add the Template:Split article template, but I wasn't quite sure how to implement it to the talk page. Qwertyxp2000 ( talk | contribs) 22:49, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for your work with developing a bot to count the number of vital articles in each section. I noticed that the bot does not count articles with no assessment icons on the list, nor does it add WikiProject assessment icons. See South Korean newspapers or canals for example. Can this be fixed? If not, that's fine as well, just that editors would have to add the icons manually to ensure that the articles are counted. feminist ( talk) 05:02, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
Your bot keeps changing the Vital Articles count to be off by 1. [1] Rreagan007 ( talk) 00:19, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
Hmm, the bot doesn't seem to update the counts on Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/5/Arts. feminist ( talk) 16:41, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
Hello Firefly. I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Camden Highline, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The creator moved the article to a user page by mistake, I think. I have moved the article to article space and removed the speedy. Thank you. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 03:29, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
Stop spreading misinformation and fake news on wikipedia
DavidStonePolitics ( talk) 17:19, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
They are from Soros funded Fake News sources DavidStonePolitics ( talk) 17:33, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
The edit you did a rollback on has been edited again by the same IP; looks like they have started an edit war. ImprovedWikiImprovment ( talk) 23:59, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Windows XP 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 Legobot, on behalf of Nova Crystallis -- Nova Crystallis ( talk) 23:40, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
The article Windows XP you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Windows XP for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nova Crystallis -- Nova Crystallis ( talk) 05:20, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
The article Windows XP you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Windows XP for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nova Crystallis -- Nova Crystallis ( talk) 23:01, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for reviewing this. There's an article about the organisation at [2] and an article about one of the organisation's courses (London Conducting Academy) at [3]- should these be counted as multiple independent sources? Wiki-edit-3457 ( talk) 14:02, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
Your recent BRFA ( Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Bot0612 11) has been approved. Happy editing, — xaosflux Talk 23:28, 25 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I removed prod, because this article was proded/deproded back in 2012. Feel free to use AfD instead. Pavlor ( talk) 09:11, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the bot! Unfortunately, I noticed it is not updating the counts for Wikipedia:Vital_articles/Level/5/People/Artists,_musicians,_and_composers correctly, mainly the top levels. I have updated some of the counts manually now and have glanced at the python code. I don't know if this is an issue for other files. I'll try looking at the code later, but maybe you know the answer already. StrayBolt ( talk) 01:27, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
In
[4], the bot fails to update every {{
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Also, the bot should use GA/FA, not Ga/Fa. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 01:05, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
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If you are the Firefly who maintains the Linter count page, I am letting you know that it has not updated for a couple of days. When I reload it, it says "As of 2018-10-04 17:37:53" (I don't know what time zone it uses). Thanks for checking, and thanks for the tool. I have been using it to measure my progress in fixing Linter errors. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 12:13, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
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I'm puzzled why someone with your experience would enter unsourced information into
Archeophone Records. Was this a simple mistake?
Vmavanti (
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19:26, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi Firefly, your bot does not update certain vital article pages despite edits to them, e.g. Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/5/People/Religious figures and Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/5/Technology. feminist ( talk) 03:29, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
The file File:Vandalism breakdown.PNG has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
Personal file, no foreseeable encyclopedic use
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https://tools.wmflabs.org/fireflytools/linter/enwiki is 404. It appears to have gone missing during the Tools outage, and it hasn't come back. Is it possible for you or someone else to give it a kick? – Jonesey95 ( talk) 07:24, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello, I was browsing through the Shared IP templates and noticed your WHOIS tool located here is down; are you still actively maintaining it? Kb03 ( talk) 21:12, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
There is a new Linter error: Special:LintErrors/wikilink-in-extlink. Can it be added to the Linter error tracking table? Thanks! Pinging Adithyak1997. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 07:37, 10 March 2019 (UTC) Let me give it a try. Adithyak1997 ( talk) 09:53, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Firely! It appears a bot you operate, Bot0612, may not be working to update symbols for vital articles. See, for instance, that Google Maps has not had its symbol updated, despite being listed as VA5 for a while. There's also no VA notice on the talk page of the article, which is another thing that I thought a bot was supposed to be handling. Do you know what's going on here? - Sdkb ( talk) 18:42, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
Hello Firefly! This message is to inform you that due to editing inactivity, your access to AutoWikiBrowser may be temporarily removed. If you do not resume editing within the next week, your username will be removed from the CheckPage. This is purely for routine maintenance and is not indicative of wrongdoing on your part. You may regain access at any time by simply requesting it at WP:PERM/AWB. Thank you! — MusikBot II talk 17:03, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
https://tools.wmflabs.org/fireflytools/linter/enwiki has not done its hourly update since yesterday. Something might need to be restarted. Thanks. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 18:50, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
I'm guessing it's not your bot? I've blocked it since it is not supposed to edit mainspace without a BRFA, but it's impersonating your bot Bot0612 for some reason, if not yours, good to go, just information. -- qedk ( t 心 c) 14:45, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
I don't know if you will see this, but https://fireflytools.toolforge.org/linter/enwiki is giving a 404 not found error today. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 22:53, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
Template:Hover title has been nominated for merging with Template:Tooltip. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 00:20, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
Some serious accusations were posted by user Justlettersandnumbers. I attempted to remove these but Justlettersandnumbers immediately reposted them. Mr. Ensminger is a highly respected lawyer and emailed me immediately with a request to take his page down rather than have these accusations at the beginning of his web page. Thus I did as he requested. Hopefully something can be done about this as his page has been up for around ten years without any problem but at this time those accusations need to be removed. King.parker3 ( talk) 17:44, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
Hi! I saw your note about book sourcing and put together a quick little guide to judging whether or not a review is usable to establish notability. I hope this helps some! ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (。◕‿◕。) 05:38, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
Hello Firefly. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of User:Tholden28/sandbox, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Experienced user, they seem to be using their sandbox to do exactly what sandboxes are for: draft Wikipedia content. Thank you. CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n! ⚓ 18:21, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for reverting vandalism on my talk page. This is to let you know that I appreciate it very much. Ashley yoursmile! 09:28, 22 February 2021 (UTC) |
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thanks for keeping wiki factual and vandal-free! Alibino ( talk) 14:36, 22 February 2021 (UTC) |
Hello FireFly, you recently turned down my draft and I hope to have rectified it. Draft:Motion_RC. Using the Wiki materials and comparable companies own wiki pages like Horizon Hobby & HobbyKing I believe I have removed any wording in which it would read like an advertisement. Again, I started editing a few Radio-controlled aircraft like pages and was surprised this company wasn't able to be linked to like others. Burlman54 ( talk) 23:01, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
Thank you, firefly, for reviewing my latest version of an article for Shannon Global Energy Solutions. I've been working on this for several months, including with other Wikipedia editors, so I'd very much appreciate your recommendations and/or advice as to how I might get the piece into a shape that merits publication. If I may ask and you have time to reply, what specifically did you find that could be improved upon? I'm happy to keep working on it. Thank you very much. Lakewood66 ( talk) 20:56, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
Here.
Best to leave a summary, no? I mean, I agree, I probably would have at least suggested to it's author to remove such inappropriate grave-dancing, but rollback without a summary should only be used for obvious vandalism. @ Hemiauchenia: Since we talking about you, I hope my point is clear. See Wikipedia:Gravedancing. Cheers, RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 21:41, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
I have just started receiving messages again from User:FireflyBot about drafts that I may have moved five months ago. I was previously receiving similar messages from a different bot, but I think the bot had to be retired from service when the bot author tragically died from coronavirus. So my question is simply: Did you just start operating the bot to give users notice that their drafts have been inactive for five months? If so, okay. I will ignore the messages unless you tell me of a way to turn them off. These seem to be drafts that I moved/renamed in the AFC review process, and I am not the real author of the drafts and have little interest in being told that they are about to go away.
However, thank you for managing a bot that provides a slightly useful service. Robert McClenon ( talk) 18:18, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
Pahunkat ( talk) 10:28, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
Hey there, Firefly 🔥
Any idea what gives with this draft? Surely it's an educational project or something similar as it's been edited by 20 + new editors. 220 of ßorg 12:43, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi Firefly, Thanks for letting me know that Draft:Lucina Kathmann will be deleted. I'm wondering why it has been taken to https://w-i-k-i-t-i-a.com/wiki/Lucina_Kathmann--just being curious. 1001Bookworm ( talk)
@Firefly 🔥 Thanks for your prompt response. I hyphenated the word "w-i-k-i-t-i-a" between the letters. otherwise, the page didn't allow me to post my message.
1001Bookworm (
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@Firefly 🔥 Thanks for checking. I’ve done a few entries for Wikipedia, which aren’t at w-i-k-i-t-i-a but this one even it’s just a draft. I’ve heard that someone at w-i-k-i-t-i-a steals some articles from Wikipedia to sell them for money. Can you guys from Wikipedia ask this draft to be removed at w-i-k-i-t-i-a ? I’ve volunteered for Wikipedia and don’t want my copyright to be violated. Your time and attention are very much appreciated. 1001Bookworm ( talk)
@Firefly 🔥 Thanks so much for your explanation and info. I’ve just learned a little bit about CC-BY-SA. According to CC-BY-SA. “An example notice, for an article that uses the Wikipedia article Metasyntactic variable under CC-BY-SA, might read as follows:
″This article uses material from the Wikipedia article <a href=" /info/en/?search=Metasyntactic_variable">"Metasyntactic_variable"</a>, which is released under the <a href=" https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0</a>.″
I think w-i-k-i-t-i-a should at least let Wikipedia know or acknowledge that they copy the article from Wikipedia. When I looked at “Review History” on the w-i-k-i-t-i-a page, it says "curprev 19:38, 31 August 2020 NicoleOgoff talk contribs." It shows that NicoleOgoff “Created page”. I just hope you could tell your supervisor about this incident.
Thanks again!
1001Bookworm ( talk)
@Firefly 🔥 Thanks for letting me know. 1001Bookworm ( talk)
Hi, I wanted to suggest a change to the automated message generated by the FireflyBot which notifies users that an article they created in draft space is about to be deleted. Right now the bot announces "I just wanted to let you know that..." which to me sounds like it is a message generated by a person, which it isn't. Would you consider changing it to say something like, "This is an automated message generated by a bot to notify you that...."? Thank you for considering the request. A loose necktie ( talk) 12:56, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. ≫ Lil-Unique1 -{ Talk }- 18:54, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi, Firefly,
Thank you so much for Firefly Bot, it's doing exactly what I had hoped for and stepping into the void left by Hasteur Bot last July. I wish I had made my Bot Request months ago!
I can't make a direct connection but I look at the daily G13 list and it's gone from about 200+ drafts a day to around 150 drafts a day which I think is due to messages left for draft creators alerting them to the fact that their drafts are going stale. Since the goal here is not to delete lots of old drafts but to get more drafts into better shape to be submitted to AFC, I think this is a win-win for everyone. Reminding editors of drafts they might have forgotten about means fewer drafts deleted, fewer requests for admins at WP:REFUND to restore deleted drafts and, hopefully, more quality articles. Thanks again for stepping up and creating this bot. It has made things better on the project. Liz Read! Talk! 01:16, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
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Can you implement {{ nobots}} recognition for Fireflybot please. I'm retired and could do without notification. Also in an ideal world, Kojo Shaddy would have received the notification instead, but i can see and understand the constraints with identifying that. Zindor ( talk) 10:50, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
Please note I have now taken the discussion at RuPaul's Drag Race UK (series 2) to Dispute resolution. Spa-Franks ( talk) 01:04, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
You gave me some help at the village pump earlier [5]. Is there any way I could filter this SQL query to include only articles with the Company infobox? Megabot ( talk) 17:41, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
So you recently notified me that my draft, Draft:Ghang Lhamo, hadn't been edited in five months and was going to be deleted soon, but the problem is, I'm still waiting for someone to review it like my other drafts. I genuinely don't really know what to do in this case so could you help me? ~~Omir Laa~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Omir Laa ( talk • contribs) 04:09, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
You don't seem to understand, I don't want to edit the draft, I want to submit it for review.
~~Omir Laa~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Omir Laa ( talk • contribs) 14:29, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
Please do search for Yudhishthira (Huna king) on the internet and you will find a existing Wikipedia article on the subject. I created it because I was impatient. That was because the Draft had been declined. I was kinda inexperienced on Wikipedia, even though I had created some 5 articles by that time. I couldn't wait for some Wikipedia user to review it, so I didn't edit it. Instead, I created a separate article on the subject which did not include the problems the draft did. So I have deleted all the text in the draft now when I received your message. But I am experienced now and I don't make such silly mistakes anymore.
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Thank you for helping out at CCI. Keep up the great work :) MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 19:39, 28 March 2021 (UTC) |
Hi
I am writing in for a clarification about the message I received on 02:05, 29 March 2021 (UTC) from the User @Fireflybot
I submitted my article for submission around five months back and it was showing as pending for review since then. In the mean while the number of total drafts in queue for review kept going up. I just received a response to my draft by User @Kashmorwiki dated 04:55, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
My question was that will the deadline for auto deletion of the draft be counted from the date of submission of the draft or from the time when the first review of the draft was received?
Ksonrexa ( talk) 14:02, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Kalman Sultanik. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review.
Hi Firefly, the page has been revised in accordance with earlier concerns. Much appreciation if you could review again. Thank you.
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This English arming sword is presented to firefly for his efforts at Copypatrol, shutting down, investigating, and prosecuting copyright problems. Please accept this extension of your arm, and wield it in the name of the Encyclopedia against copyright problems and their authors. ♠Vami _IV†♠ 11:04, 9 April 2021 (UTC) |
I have replied to you at Village Pump Technical to say that the operator of the bot that isn't doing my task didn't response, so, as we discussed, I am requesting that you add it to your bot if possible. Thank you. Robert McClenon ( talk) 03:56, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
Welcome, subscribers, to the inaugural Discontent Content newsletter! Discontent Content is a newsletter aiming to collate and improve Wikipedia articles in need of more eyes and hands to get them in shape. Its unique trimodal structure allows editors to work where they feel comfortable -- with stubs and starts needing to be brought to standard, mid-quality articles with Good or Featured potential, or quality-assessed articles needing help to maintain their status. Articles in this category are those that need to be brought up to a minimum quality standard. Some will be stubs; others will be longer articles that nonetheless have significant concerns putting them far below B- or C-class adequacy. This issue's Category 1 articles are:
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Hello, wonderful people, and welcome to the very first Discontent Content! I'm glad you're here, and I'm looking forward to seeing what you can do. In future issues, I hope to use this section to brag about the achievements of subscribers -- so why not go do something worth bragging about? Article improvement initiatives have a long and storied history on this project, and I'm honoured to add myself to the list of people trying to find one that works. My perhaps quixotic goal here is to unify a few different issues -- the maintenance of old quality-assessed articles (GAs in particular) and the sheer length of the long left tail -- in one fell swoop. I'd be happy if this ended in something like another GA sweep; I'd be happier if it ended in another GA sweep where those GAs got kept. I'd be even happier than that if this resulted in the improvement of our worst articles, not just our best. I believe in the project, and I believe in what we can be. Most of all, I believe in you. Let's get out there and make this thing better. |
Hi, you know what? I'll let the page of Draft:Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge be deleted. Someone already finished it. NoobMiester96 ( talk) 01:08, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
Draft:EC1 Science and Technology Center in Łódź I would like to someone check a draft I have prepared and accept it or tell what to do to publish it Wikol86 ( talk) 10:50, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
Thank you Wikol86 ( talk) 21:25, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi Firefly,
We have just updated the draft. Please take a look and let us know what you think.
Best regards,
I saw you just reverted my comment at the help desk without an edit summary. [ [6]] Any reason? TimTempleton (talk) (cont) 19:03, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
I saw that you added a BLP Prod tag to this page. I examined the history and saw that it had recently been substantially rewritten and all the references had been removed. I simply restored the version that included references. Generally, BLP Prod should only be used for recently created articles; articles with substantial history are more likely to simply be victims of vandalism. Best wishes. pburka ( talk) 22:04, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Pentium FDIV bug 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 Legobot, on behalf of David Eppstein -- David Eppstein ( talk) 05:40, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
The article Pentium FDIV bug you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Pentium FDIV bug for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of David Eppstein -- David Eppstein ( talk) 06:00, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you. Robert McClenon ( talk) 02:32, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
It doesn't seem to have run since April 22. * Pppery * it has begun... 14:07, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi Firefly, I just wanted to let you know that FireflyBot II ( talk · contribs) might be down, as it hasn't reviewed pending changes since April 22, see [7]. The underlying bug with pending changes seems to still be present. Thanks, Mz7 ( talk) 22:04, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
I recently got a notification from FireflyBot about a draft article that I didn't create. This is probably a bug: it should have been sent to the person who created the draft article. Jarble ( talk) 15:44, 28 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi Firefly,
If I'm not mistaken, the Constitution of the International Arab Trade Union is within the public domain, as it was written originally in 1953. https://arabtradeunion.org/upload/constitution%20_eng.pdf
Is it still violating Wikipedia's copyright policy to post something in the public domain?
Thank you!
Jananteeni ( talk) 09:39, 25 April 2021 (UTC) Jananteeni
Thank you for your clarification. Jananteeni ( talk) 22:32, 28 April 2021 (UTC)Jananteeni
Hello, Firefly,
For some reason, every time I check User:SD0001/Bot activity monitor/Report, it says that Firefly Bot hasn't been active even though I see evidence every day of it posting G13 notices to user talk pages. Do you know why it doesn't appear active on the bot report? Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 04:12, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
The article Pentium FDIV bug you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Pentium FDIV bug for comments about the article. 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 Legobot, on behalf of David Eppstein -- David Eppstein ( talk) 07:21, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi Firelfly. I would like to request userfication for my writeup, because it has tremendous worthwhile value to society. I need to improve it more, but it's just not easy because university libraries are closed due to the COVID-19 epidemic. I read up on userfication, and I think the article is prime for it. However, I don't know if notifying you is all I have to do. This is basic material, without salacious comments, and with straight up links to academic sources. Thanks for all your help. Lord Milner ( talk) 16:35, 28 April 2021 (UTC)
This draft: /info/en/?search=Draft:Public_Oversight_(United_States) Lord Milner ( talk) 16:16, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
The Linter report appears to need a cookie. It hasn't refreshed in a day or so. Thanks! – Jonesey95 ( talk) 15:19, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
i just want to add some link of their page at the whosampled. Benjamin imo ( talk) 18:35, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
I think that FireflyBot has stopped updating the DRN case status. It says that the last updates to the Pavol Hnilica dispute were made 5 and 6 days ago. Both I and one of the parties have taken part in the case within the past 24 hours. I see that the bot is running, and is warning about drafts that are about to expire, so it has only stopped some of its work. Is there something on the noticeboard that is confusing the bot? Robert McClenon ( talk) 04:42, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
Hey, could you please check 2018 Pacific hurricane season, Hurricane Bud, Tropical Storm Ileana, Tropical Depression Nineteen-E, Hurricane Walaka, Timeline of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season, Tropical Storm Carlotta, Hurricane Lane, Hurricane Rosa, Tropical Storm Vicente, Hurricane Hector, Hurricane Olivia, Hurricane Sergio, and Hurricane Willa to see if they have any kind of issues in relation to the CCI? Noah Talk 10:11, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
Welcome, subscribers, to the third Discontent Content newsletter! Discontent Content is a newsletter aiming to collate and improve Wikipedia articles in need of more eyes and hands to get them in shape. Its unique trimodal structure allows editors to work where they feel comfortable -- with stubs and starts needing to be brought to standard, mid-quality articles with Good or Featured potential, or quality-assessed articles needing help to maintain their status. Articles in this category are those that need to be brought up to a minimum quality standard. Some will be stubs; others will be longer articles that nonetheless have significant concerns putting them far below B- or C-class adequacy. This issue's Category 1 articles are:
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This is ridiculously late, and I apologise -- I've been writing articles :) I've also, excitingly, landed a couple 'real publishing' writing gigs, which I'll be plenty excited to talk about when they're published. Due to the current increased amount of writing I have to do on a regular basis both on- and off-wiki, I'm planning to drop this down to monthly so I can spread out my responsibilities a bit. |
On 20 May 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Pentium FDIV bug, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a hardware bug in early versions of the Intel Pentium CPU led to the affected processors being recalled, in what was the first full recall of a computer chip? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Pentium FDIV bug. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Pentium FDIV bug), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 00:02, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Chicken gun 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 Legobot, on behalf of Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap ( talk) 18:21, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
The article Chicken gun you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Chicken gun for comments about the article. 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 Legobot, on behalf of Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap ( talk) 12:21, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi there, Just wondering why you removed sections of my article? Was it in breach of copyright? Sorry I'm only new here and am just learning! Many Thanks!!!
hi firefly, i'm new on wikipedia as contributer but i wanna add some more articles but i have no right idea how to do, like few famous books of indian novelists i wanna add in wikipedia but i don't know what are minimum conditions to add them... is there is any telegram group or facebook group... where i can discuss with wikipedia contributers who are doing great and they can give me suggestions about it because i don't wanna get deleted my articles just after publishing, because of lack of info. if it happend all the time then my account will be blocked.
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05:58, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
Hello, i think this edit was a mistake.
https://www.daily-bangladesh.com/english/Birshrestha-Hamidur-Rahmans-birthday-today/36381 was published on 2 February 2020. This is a version from 14 December 2019. There is no way editor can go to future and copy that part. It's other way around, they copied from wikipedia. Please revert your edit unless there is any other problem. -- আফতাবুজ্জামান ( talk) 15:05, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
Welcome, subscribers, to the fourth Discontent Content newsletter! Discontent Content is a newsletter aiming to collate and improve Wikipedia articles in need of more eyes and hands to get them in shape. Its unique trimodal structure allows editors to work where they feel comfortable -- with stubs and starts needing to be brought to standard, mid-quality articles with Good or Featured potential, or quality-assessed articles needing help to maintain their status. Articles in this category are those that need to be brought up to a minimum quality standard. Some will be stubs; others will be longer articles that nonetheless have significant concerns putting them far below B- or C-class adequacy. This issue's Category 1 articles are:
Articles in this category, while in better current shape than Category 1, are still missing something. They have the potential to be truly high-quality content, and may have been at one point. With work, they can be brought up to dizzying heights. This issue's Category 2 articles are:
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Yes, I know I said I was going to switch to monthly. Let's just go "Vat doesn't really Get Time" and run with it.
The Core Contest is on its last day of entries, and I've picked articles here with an eye to that. It's the first time it's running since 2017, and I for one am looking forward to overhauling
Prehistoric religion. If you feel inspired by anything here, get in there quick! |
The bot left me a message that a draft I created, Draft:Creating List of unarmed African Americans killed by law enforcement officers in the United States, had not been edited for five months and was about to be deleted.
I did not create this draft. Some other user created the draft at this title. I moved it to Draft:List of unarmed African Americans killed by law enforcement officers in the United States, where it was later moved to main article namespace. The only thing I have to do with the draft is this one move.
Can the bot somehow differentiate between creations of redirects from moves and creations of real drafts? JIP | Talk 23:50, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
On 9 June 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Chicken gun, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that as part of the type certification process, aircraft manufacturers routinely fire dead chickens at windshields with a chicken gun in order to simulate bird strikes? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Chicken gun. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Chicken gun), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Maile ( talk) 01:33, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
--- You reverted my change back to 350 mph. Please read up on typical landing and takeoff speeds for for any aircraft, 747, 737, even an f-18. They are nowhere near 350 mph. Cruising speed at altitude,yes, but not with the flaps down during takeoff and landing. I do not cite any source because any aircraft buff knows this as common knowledge. Besides, aircraft tires would disintegrate at that speed. You may revert your reversion at your leisure. Have a great day and stay healthy. --- 206.45.14.232 ( talk) — Preceding undated comment added 13:37, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
I guess the person who created the article for CFCH-FM in North Bay, Ontario spoke to soon! Vista launched the new radio station on Tuesday, June 15, 2021 with a country music format branded as Country 90.5, so I updated the CFCH-FM draft. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:CFCH-FM
66.102.89.105 · Special:Contributions/66.102.89.105 15:00, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
Hello Firefly, My name is Eleonu - I am new to Wikipedia. I am sorry if I am once again doing the wrong thing. I posted my Autobiography on my Wikipedia and it was deleted by Firefly a few days ago. I didn't know one wasn't allowed to write about themselves. I am sorry for that.
I wasn't able to save my article before it was deleted. Please kindly send me a copy of the deleted content to my registered email address.
Thank you. Eme Eleonu Eleonu ( talk) 16:20, 15 June 2021 (UTC).
Hello, please take a look at my response to you on the Sneed talk page, I believe I outlined sufficient reason to include a link to E-I-E-I-(Annoyed_Grunt) within the "See Also" section of the article, which I would appreciate if you add as I don't have editor permission for that article. 2601:405:4400:9420:3914:6D2D:6247:2258 ( talk) 21:23, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/London Buses route 123. Thank you. Thryduulf ( talk) 22:17, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
Welcome, subscribers, to the fifth Discontent Content newsletter! Discontent Content is a newsletter aiming to collate and improve Wikipedia articles in need of more eyes and hands to get them in shape. Its unique trimodal structure allows editors to work where they feel comfortable -- with stubs and starts needing to be brought to standard, mid-quality articles with Good or Featured potential, or quality-assessed articles needing help to maintain their status. Articles in this category are those that need to be brought up to a minimum quality standard. Some will be stubs; others will be longer articles that nonetheless have significant concerns putting them far below B- or C-class adequacy. This issue's Category 1 articles are:
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One topic I've been broadly thinking about lately is the concept of GA sweeps. There hasn't been one in well over a decade; discussion of a new one is traditionally stymied by the sheer number of GAs that would need sweeping, considering there are over ten times as many as there were at the last sweep. Nonetheless, there's no dispute that many GAs don't really count as 99.5th percentile articles, or even decent-quality articles (whether one's own personal reading of WIAGA is closer to the former or the latter, and how different those things are, is an exercise for the reader). I've been brainstorming ideas, and I've been wondering if we can tackle the problem with limited-scope sweeps. One idea would be sweeping popular or vital articles -- those that get enough views to make up a significant proportion of the "GA experience" to readers. Another would be focusing on shorter GAs, which might trend towards a less in-depth treatment of the topic than could really justify the rating. There may very well be a path here to maintaining GA standards, and either of those would have the benefit that they might be more likely to encourage people to work on rather than simply delist articles -- popular topics with lots of interested parties willing to help, or smaller topics that don't seem like too big a challenge to pick up.
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Is there any way that FireflyBot can distinguish between the person who created a draft, and the person who moved it into draftspace? I'm guessing not, but it wouldn't hurt to ask. I ask because of this. I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 16:35, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
Great that you're considering investing some time in this. Thanks!
The instructions for nominating can be found here: Wikipedia:Featured article review. What I'd hope for with a bot:
A user would do something like:
A bot might help with:
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For your help with Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ZestyLemonz, thank you. I'm really glad that you caught this. KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 06:20, 27 June 2021 (UTC) |
Hello firefly, thank you for your feedback regarding my edits to the page, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. /info/en/?search=Institute_of_Chartered_Accountants_in_England_and_Wales
I work for the organisation in question, and my associated work email address has been registered to my Wikipedia profile for several years.
Does this not provide me with the authority to make updates to the page?
Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MrsThompsonSays ( talk • contribs) 16:01, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
I added new sources and expanded an article about malocas that was marked as lacking sources and a stub. These changes were undone by you on June 18th. It is now lacking sources and once again a stub. Can you explain why these changes were undone? It made the article better, more trustworthy and more informative. Thanks, l.
Not sure if I’m doing this right but in reference to your edit July 7:
Hello, I'm Firefly. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Absolute pitch, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. firefly ( t · c ) 11:28, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
You can reference their channel, the fact that Eddy has perfect pitch is well known among the violin community.
Quote from website -
https://theviolinchannel.com/vc-vox-pop-do-you-have-perfect-pitch-born-with-it-question/
Australian Funster, TwoSet Violinist, Eddy ‘Shreddy’ Chen: [PICTURED] “Perfect ... yes ... developed it ..."
Here is another site with interviews referencing Eddys perfect pitch
https://maimislang.medium.com/these-music-nerds-are-what-the-world-needs-now-a81d3f5bd70d
Here is a link to one their videos including the reference to Eddys perfect pitch. They have 3 million people watching them that all know this to be fact. They’ve proven it many times. This is just one video referencing it.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kw397ZIZcqA&feature=share
Please fix this.
Hello Firefly:
WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long
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The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running until 31 July 2021.
Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
There is currently a backlog of over 2500 articles, so start reviewing articles. We're looking forward to your help!
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Hello, I'm Firefly. I wanted to let you know that one or more external links you added to Gary Michael Berman have been removed because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. firefly ( t · c ) 14:31, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for the message. I thought the links were helpful as they describe a fuller picture of this person, very helpful to those considering going into business or other dealings with him. Would it be acceptable if there were fewer links, such as two rather than four? ReadMoreAboutIt (talk) 15:20, 9 July 2021 (UTC) ReadMoreAboutIt ( talk) 02:18, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi Firefly Can you give me an answer to the question in the discussion ‘deleted content question’? I would like to have two of the deleted links put back into the Wikipedia page in question Thanks ReadMoreAboutIt ( talk) 12:04, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Anna Sorokin 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 Legobot, on behalf of Aussie Article Writer -- Aussie Article Writer ( talk) 07:21, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
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Thanks for the help. Can you sort out the info boxes on the bottom?-- Achim Hering ( talk) 22:09, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
Richard, I saw your request for deletion and the codes WP:GNG and WP:NCORP. I appreciate that you and other volunteers work to keep Wikipedia the great tool and work that it is. I hope to contribute a lot more to Wikipedia after this, my first work. In particular, I aim to do more articles to ensure that the significant current and historical institutions, traditions, and place of New England and New Hampshire are able to be studied and known by people who choose to learn about them. Regarding the WP:NCORP, I read the guideline and it says “The scope of this guideline covers all groups of people organized together for a purpose with the exception of non-profit educational institutions, religions or sects, and sports teams.” The article is about a non-profit educational instituion. Regarding the WP:GNG, the article is about an institution that source says has almost 3000 alumni. It is well known by most people in New Hampshire and many in neighbouring states. It has sporting (sailing) teams that compete in sailing regattas in the entire eastern United States and so is known in sailing circles in much of the United States. I have found television coverage that is viewed across New England in the period 2010-2017. I have found newspaper articles from multiple publications within New Hampshire and national sailing magazine. When I look at many other Wikipedia articles, they seem to be perhaps less notable. “Notable” seems sometimes to equate to “urban” by virtue of the population of urban centers generating more media volume. However, when viewed on a per capita basis, some state-level insitutions in places like New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, Delaware, North Dakota, Wyoming, Rhode Island, etc. I believe that rural institutions also deserve to be treated as notable or the world becomes one in which homogenization of culture and history around urban defintions and examples is the rule. Please therefore help me put this article into shape so that I can learn and improve things in my efforts going forward. - Alf Alphakilohotel ( talk) 21:41, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
You are invited to join the effort to revitalize and improve the Portal system.
The Portals WikiProject was rebooted on April 17th, and is going strong. Sixty-six editors have joined so far, with more joining daily. We're having a blast, and excitement is high...
Our goal is to update, upgrade, and maintain portals.
In addition to working directly on portals, we are developing tools to make portals more dynamic (self-updating), and to make building and maintaining portals easier. We've finished two tools so far, with more to come. They are Template:Transclude lead excerpt and Template:Transclude random excerpt.
Discussions are underway about how to further upgrade portals, and what the portals of the future will be.
There are plenty of tasks (including WikiGnome tasks too).
With more to come.
We may even surprise ourselves and exceed all expectations. Who knows what we will be able to accomplish in what may become the biggest Wikicollaboration in years.
See ya at the WikiProject!
Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 06:49, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
Richard, you restored this content to the Barisan Nasional, and warned the new user Legendary Autism for removing it. Stating that the party's ideology is kleptocracy, corruption and cronyism was obviously vandalism to begin with, and certainly wasn't supported by the sources. Legendary Autism did quite right to remove it, though, being a new user, they failed to understand they should have left the sources, and should have reverted to an earlier version, which somebody else has now done. Did you actually look at the stuff you restored? Bishonen | talk 17:05, 11 May 2018 (UTC).
Since you helped with the Teahouse Talkback template, I need to know how to label a source that is not English. I found nothing under the citation templates that helped with this. Under Toy Symphony I saw a source that appears to be German. The reference needed fixing anyway so I tried fixing the language when I was there, but it didn't show up.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 19:23, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
|language=
parameter to the cite template, putting the
language code as the parameter value.
Richard
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Hey! Welcome back. Shall I dust off that bot trial you requested? - Jarry1250 Vacation needed 16:58, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
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Thanks for building the new LintError reporter! — xaosflux Talk 02:52, 22 May 2018 (UTC) |
I like your new username! Bishonen | talk 07:44, 25 May 2018 (UTC).
The RfC discussion to eliminate portals was closed May 12, with the statement "There exists a strong consensus against deleting or even deprecating portals at this time." This was made possible because you and others came to the rescue. Thank you for speaking up.
By the way, the current issue of the Signpost features an article with interviews about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.
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Good idea in that case. Robert McClenon ( talk) 02:44, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi. I declined your CSD request for Draft:BANAN; you nominated it for speedy deletion under the criteria of WP:CSD#G1, but that is for incomprehensible text or gibberish only, and the text written on the draft page is coherent. If you still believe it should be deleted, please select a more appropriate category. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a note on my talk page. Stephen! Coming... 11:33, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
You can find the repo that I've gotten back in sync at https://github.com/hasteur/g13bot_tools_new. All I ask is that the credit for the work remains. CC @ Headbomb: Hasteur ( talk) 02:37, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
G3/A7 - In isolation you're right, in the context of the author's behaviour, pasting the same nonsense all over the wiki, it's vandalism. Cabayi ( talk) 18:54, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
I have noted to the talk page of Windows XP a split of the Windows XP development stuff. I attempted my best to add the Template:Split article template, but I wasn't quite sure how to implement it to the talk page. Qwertyxp2000 ( talk | contribs) 22:49, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for your work with developing a bot to count the number of vital articles in each section. I noticed that the bot does not count articles with no assessment icons on the list, nor does it add WikiProject assessment icons. See South Korean newspapers or canals for example. Can this be fixed? If not, that's fine as well, just that editors would have to add the icons manually to ensure that the articles are counted. feminist ( talk) 05:02, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
Your bot keeps changing the Vital Articles count to be off by 1. [1] Rreagan007 ( talk) 00:19, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
Hmm, the bot doesn't seem to update the counts on Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/5/Arts. feminist ( talk) 16:41, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
Hello Firefly. I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Camden Highline, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The creator moved the article to a user page by mistake, I think. I have moved the article to article space and removed the speedy. Thank you. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 03:29, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
Stop spreading misinformation and fake news on wikipedia
DavidStonePolitics ( talk) 17:19, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
They are from Soros funded Fake News sources DavidStonePolitics ( talk) 17:33, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
The edit you did a rollback on has been edited again by the same IP; looks like they have started an edit war. ImprovedWikiImprovment ( talk) 23:59, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Windows XP 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 Legobot, on behalf of Nova Crystallis -- Nova Crystallis ( talk) 23:40, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
The article Windows XP you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Windows XP for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nova Crystallis -- Nova Crystallis ( talk) 05:20, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
The article Windows XP you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Windows XP for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nova Crystallis -- Nova Crystallis ( talk) 23:01, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for reviewing this. There's an article about the organisation at [2] and an article about one of the organisation's courses (London Conducting Academy) at [3]- should these be counted as multiple independent sources? Wiki-edit-3457 ( talk) 14:02, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
Your recent BRFA ( Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Bot0612 11) has been approved. Happy editing, — xaosflux Talk 23:28, 25 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I removed prod, because this article was proded/deproded back in 2012. Feel free to use AfD instead. Pavlor ( talk) 09:11, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the bot! Unfortunately, I noticed it is not updating the counts for Wikipedia:Vital_articles/Level/5/People/Artists,_musicians,_and_composers correctly, mainly the top levels. I have updated some of the counts manually now and have glanced at the python code. I don't know if this is an issue for other files. I'll try looking at the code later, but maybe you know the answer already. StrayBolt ( talk) 01:27, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
In
[4], the bot fails to update every {{
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Also, the bot should use GA/FA, not Ga/Fa. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 01:05, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
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If you are the Firefly who maintains the Linter count page, I am letting you know that it has not updated for a couple of days. When I reload it, it says "As of 2018-10-04 17:37:53" (I don't know what time zone it uses). Thanks for checking, and thanks for the tool. I have been using it to measure my progress in fixing Linter errors. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 12:13, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
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I'm puzzled why someone with your experience would enter unsourced information into
Archeophone Records. Was this a simple mistake?
Vmavanti (
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Hi Firefly, your bot does not update certain vital article pages despite edits to them, e.g. Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/5/People/Religious figures and Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/5/Technology. feminist ( talk) 03:29, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
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https://tools.wmflabs.org/fireflytools/linter/enwiki is 404. It appears to have gone missing during the Tools outage, and it hasn't come back. Is it possible for you or someone else to give it a kick? – Jonesey95 ( talk) 07:24, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello, I was browsing through the Shared IP templates and noticed your WHOIS tool located here is down; are you still actively maintaining it? Kb03 ( talk) 21:12, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
There is a new Linter error: Special:LintErrors/wikilink-in-extlink. Can it be added to the Linter error tracking table? Thanks! Pinging Adithyak1997. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 07:37, 10 March 2019 (UTC) Let me give it a try. Adithyak1997 ( talk) 09:53, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Firely! It appears a bot you operate, Bot0612, may not be working to update symbols for vital articles. See, for instance, that Google Maps has not had its symbol updated, despite being listed as VA5 for a while. There's also no VA notice on the talk page of the article, which is another thing that I thought a bot was supposed to be handling. Do you know what's going on here? - Sdkb ( talk) 18:42, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
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https://tools.wmflabs.org/fireflytools/linter/enwiki has not done its hourly update since yesterday. Something might need to be restarted. Thanks. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 18:50, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
I'm guessing it's not your bot? I've blocked it since it is not supposed to edit mainspace without a BRFA, but it's impersonating your bot Bot0612 for some reason, if not yours, good to go, just information. -- qedk ( t 心 c) 14:45, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
I don't know if you will see this, but https://fireflytools.toolforge.org/linter/enwiki is giving a 404 not found error today. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 22:53, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
Template:Hover title has been nominated for merging with Template:Tooltip. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 00:20, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
Some serious accusations were posted by user Justlettersandnumbers. I attempted to remove these but Justlettersandnumbers immediately reposted them. Mr. Ensminger is a highly respected lawyer and emailed me immediately with a request to take his page down rather than have these accusations at the beginning of his web page. Thus I did as he requested. Hopefully something can be done about this as his page has been up for around ten years without any problem but at this time those accusations need to be removed. King.parker3 ( talk) 17:44, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
Hi! I saw your note about book sourcing and put together a quick little guide to judging whether or not a review is usable to establish notability. I hope this helps some! ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (。◕‿◕。) 05:38, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
Hello Firefly. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of User:Tholden28/sandbox, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Experienced user, they seem to be using their sandbox to do exactly what sandboxes are for: draft Wikipedia content. Thank you. CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n! ⚓ 18:21, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for reverting vandalism on my talk page. This is to let you know that I appreciate it very much. Ashley yoursmile! 09:28, 22 February 2021 (UTC) |
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thanks for keeping wiki factual and vandal-free! Alibino ( talk) 14:36, 22 February 2021 (UTC) |
Hello FireFly, you recently turned down my draft and I hope to have rectified it. Draft:Motion_RC. Using the Wiki materials and comparable companies own wiki pages like Horizon Hobby & HobbyKing I believe I have removed any wording in which it would read like an advertisement. Again, I started editing a few Radio-controlled aircraft like pages and was surprised this company wasn't able to be linked to like others. Burlman54 ( talk) 23:01, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
Thank you, firefly, for reviewing my latest version of an article for Shannon Global Energy Solutions. I've been working on this for several months, including with other Wikipedia editors, so I'd very much appreciate your recommendations and/or advice as to how I might get the piece into a shape that merits publication. If I may ask and you have time to reply, what specifically did you find that could be improved upon? I'm happy to keep working on it. Thank you very much. Lakewood66 ( talk) 20:56, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
Here.
Best to leave a summary, no? I mean, I agree, I probably would have at least suggested to it's author to remove such inappropriate grave-dancing, but rollback without a summary should only be used for obvious vandalism. @ Hemiauchenia: Since we talking about you, I hope my point is clear. See Wikipedia:Gravedancing. Cheers, RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 21:41, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
I have just started receiving messages again from User:FireflyBot about drafts that I may have moved five months ago. I was previously receiving similar messages from a different bot, but I think the bot had to be retired from service when the bot author tragically died from coronavirus. So my question is simply: Did you just start operating the bot to give users notice that their drafts have been inactive for five months? If so, okay. I will ignore the messages unless you tell me of a way to turn them off. These seem to be drafts that I moved/renamed in the AFC review process, and I am not the real author of the drafts and have little interest in being told that they are about to go away.
However, thank you for managing a bot that provides a slightly useful service. Robert McClenon ( talk) 18:18, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
Pahunkat ( talk) 10:28, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
Hey there, Firefly 🔥
Any idea what gives with this draft? Surely it's an educational project or something similar as it's been edited by 20 + new editors. 220 of ßorg 12:43, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi Firefly, Thanks for letting me know that Draft:Lucina Kathmann will be deleted. I'm wondering why it has been taken to https://w-i-k-i-t-i-a.com/wiki/Lucina_Kathmann--just being curious. 1001Bookworm ( talk)
@Firefly 🔥 Thanks for your prompt response. I hyphenated the word "w-i-k-i-t-i-a" between the letters. otherwise, the page didn't allow me to post my message.
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@Firefly 🔥 Thanks for checking. I’ve done a few entries for Wikipedia, which aren’t at w-i-k-i-t-i-a but this one even it’s just a draft. I’ve heard that someone at w-i-k-i-t-i-a steals some articles from Wikipedia to sell them for money. Can you guys from Wikipedia ask this draft to be removed at w-i-k-i-t-i-a ? I’ve volunteered for Wikipedia and don’t want my copyright to be violated. Your time and attention are very much appreciated. 1001Bookworm ( talk)
@Firefly 🔥 Thanks so much for your explanation and info. I’ve just learned a little bit about CC-BY-SA. According to CC-BY-SA. “An example notice, for an article that uses the Wikipedia article Metasyntactic variable under CC-BY-SA, might read as follows:
″This article uses material from the Wikipedia article <a href=" /info/en/?search=Metasyntactic_variable">"Metasyntactic_variable"</a>, which is released under the <a href=" https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0</a>.″
I think w-i-k-i-t-i-a should at least let Wikipedia know or acknowledge that they copy the article from Wikipedia. When I looked at “Review History” on the w-i-k-i-t-i-a page, it says "curprev 19:38, 31 August 2020 NicoleOgoff talk contribs." It shows that NicoleOgoff “Created page”. I just hope you could tell your supervisor about this incident.
Thanks again!
1001Bookworm ( talk)
@Firefly 🔥 Thanks for letting me know. 1001Bookworm ( talk)
Hi, I wanted to suggest a change to the automated message generated by the FireflyBot which notifies users that an article they created in draft space is about to be deleted. Right now the bot announces "I just wanted to let you know that..." which to me sounds like it is a message generated by a person, which it isn't. Would you consider changing it to say something like, "This is an automated message generated by a bot to notify you that...."? Thank you for considering the request. A loose necktie ( talk) 12:56, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. ≫ Lil-Unique1 -{ Talk }- 18:54, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi, Firefly,
Thank you so much for Firefly Bot, it's doing exactly what I had hoped for and stepping into the void left by Hasteur Bot last July. I wish I had made my Bot Request months ago!
I can't make a direct connection but I look at the daily G13 list and it's gone from about 200+ drafts a day to around 150 drafts a day which I think is due to messages left for draft creators alerting them to the fact that their drafts are going stale. Since the goal here is not to delete lots of old drafts but to get more drafts into better shape to be submitted to AFC, I think this is a win-win for everyone. Reminding editors of drafts they might have forgotten about means fewer drafts deleted, fewer requests for admins at WP:REFUND to restore deleted drafts and, hopefully, more quality articles. Thanks again for stepping up and creating this bot. It has made things better on the project. Liz Read! Talk! 01:16, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
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Can you implement {{ nobots}} recognition for Fireflybot please. I'm retired and could do without notification. Also in an ideal world, Kojo Shaddy would have received the notification instead, but i can see and understand the constraints with identifying that. Zindor ( talk) 10:50, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
Please note I have now taken the discussion at RuPaul's Drag Race UK (series 2) to Dispute resolution. Spa-Franks ( talk) 01:04, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
You gave me some help at the village pump earlier [5]. Is there any way I could filter this SQL query to include only articles with the Company infobox? Megabot ( talk) 17:41, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
So you recently notified me that my draft, Draft:Ghang Lhamo, hadn't been edited in five months and was going to be deleted soon, but the problem is, I'm still waiting for someone to review it like my other drafts. I genuinely don't really know what to do in this case so could you help me? ~~Omir Laa~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Omir Laa ( talk • contribs) 04:09, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
You don't seem to understand, I don't want to edit the draft, I want to submit it for review.
~~Omir Laa~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Omir Laa ( talk • contribs) 14:29, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
Please do search for Yudhishthira (Huna king) on the internet and you will find a existing Wikipedia article on the subject. I created it because I was impatient. That was because the Draft had been declined. I was kinda inexperienced on Wikipedia, even though I had created some 5 articles by that time. I couldn't wait for some Wikipedia user to review it, so I didn't edit it. Instead, I created a separate article on the subject which did not include the problems the draft did. So I have deleted all the text in the draft now when I received your message. But I am experienced now and I don't make such silly mistakes anymore.
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Hi
I am writing in for a clarification about the message I received on 02:05, 29 March 2021 (UTC) from the User @Fireflybot
I submitted my article for submission around five months back and it was showing as pending for review since then. In the mean while the number of total drafts in queue for review kept going up. I just received a response to my draft by User @Kashmorwiki dated 04:55, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
My question was that will the deadline for auto deletion of the draft be counted from the date of submission of the draft or from the time when the first review of the draft was received?
Ksonrexa ( talk) 14:02, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Kalman Sultanik. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review.
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I have replied to you at Village Pump Technical to say that the operator of the bot that isn't doing my task didn't response, so, as we discussed, I am requesting that you add it to your bot if possible. Thank you. Robert McClenon ( talk) 03:56, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
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Hi, you know what? I'll let the page of Draft:Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge be deleted. Someone already finished it. NoobMiester96 ( talk) 01:08, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
Draft:EC1 Science and Technology Center in Łódź I would like to someone check a draft I have prepared and accept it or tell what to do to publish it Wikol86 ( talk) 10:50, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
Thank you Wikol86 ( talk) 21:25, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi Firefly,
We have just updated the draft. Please take a look and let us know what you think.
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I saw you just reverted my comment at the help desk without an edit summary. [ [6]] Any reason? TimTempleton (talk) (cont) 19:03, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
I saw that you added a BLP Prod tag to this page. I examined the history and saw that it had recently been substantially rewritten and all the references had been removed. I simply restored the version that included references. Generally, BLP Prod should only be used for recently created articles; articles with substantial history are more likely to simply be victims of vandalism. Best wishes. pburka ( talk) 22:04, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Pentium FDIV bug 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 Legobot, on behalf of David Eppstein -- David Eppstein ( talk) 05:40, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
The article Pentium FDIV bug you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Pentium FDIV bug for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of David Eppstein -- David Eppstein ( talk) 06:00, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you. Robert McClenon ( talk) 02:32, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
It doesn't seem to have run since April 22. * Pppery * it has begun... 14:07, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi Firefly, I just wanted to let you know that FireflyBot II ( talk · contribs) might be down, as it hasn't reviewed pending changes since April 22, see [7]. The underlying bug with pending changes seems to still be present. Thanks, Mz7 ( talk) 22:04, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
I recently got a notification from FireflyBot about a draft article that I didn't create. This is probably a bug: it should have been sent to the person who created the draft article. Jarble ( talk) 15:44, 28 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi Firefly,
If I'm not mistaken, the Constitution of the International Arab Trade Union is within the public domain, as it was written originally in 1953. https://arabtradeunion.org/upload/constitution%20_eng.pdf
Is it still violating Wikipedia's copyright policy to post something in the public domain?
Thank you!
Jananteeni ( talk) 09:39, 25 April 2021 (UTC) Jananteeni
Thank you for your clarification. Jananteeni ( talk) 22:32, 28 April 2021 (UTC)Jananteeni
Hello, Firefly,
For some reason, every time I check User:SD0001/Bot activity monitor/Report, it says that Firefly Bot hasn't been active even though I see evidence every day of it posting G13 notices to user talk pages. Do you know why it doesn't appear active on the bot report? Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 04:12, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
The article Pentium FDIV bug you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Pentium FDIV bug for comments about the article. 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 Legobot, on behalf of David Eppstein -- David Eppstein ( talk) 07:21, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi Firelfly. I would like to request userfication for my writeup, because it has tremendous worthwhile value to society. I need to improve it more, but it's just not easy because university libraries are closed due to the COVID-19 epidemic. I read up on userfication, and I think the article is prime for it. However, I don't know if notifying you is all I have to do. This is basic material, without salacious comments, and with straight up links to academic sources. Thanks for all your help. Lord Milner ( talk) 16:35, 28 April 2021 (UTC)
This draft: /info/en/?search=Draft:Public_Oversight_(United_States) Lord Milner ( talk) 16:16, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
The Linter report appears to need a cookie. It hasn't refreshed in a day or so. Thanks! – Jonesey95 ( talk) 15:19, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
i just want to add some link of their page at the whosampled. Benjamin imo ( talk) 18:35, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
I think that FireflyBot has stopped updating the DRN case status. It says that the last updates to the Pavol Hnilica dispute were made 5 and 6 days ago. Both I and one of the parties have taken part in the case within the past 24 hours. I see that the bot is running, and is warning about drafts that are about to expire, so it has only stopped some of its work. Is there something on the noticeboard that is confusing the bot? Robert McClenon ( talk) 04:42, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
Hey, could you please check 2018 Pacific hurricane season, Hurricane Bud, Tropical Storm Ileana, Tropical Depression Nineteen-E, Hurricane Walaka, Timeline of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season, Tropical Storm Carlotta, Hurricane Lane, Hurricane Rosa, Tropical Storm Vicente, Hurricane Hector, Hurricane Olivia, Hurricane Sergio, and Hurricane Willa to see if they have any kind of issues in relation to the CCI? Noah Talk 10:11, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
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This is ridiculously late, and I apologise -- I've been writing articles :) I've also, excitingly, landed a couple 'real publishing' writing gigs, which I'll be plenty excited to talk about when they're published. Due to the current increased amount of writing I have to do on a regular basis both on- and off-wiki, I'm planning to drop this down to monthly so I can spread out my responsibilities a bit. |
On 20 May 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Pentium FDIV bug, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a hardware bug in early versions of the Intel Pentium CPU led to the affected processors being recalled, in what was the first full recall of a computer chip? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Pentium FDIV bug. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Pentium FDIV bug), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 00:02, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Chicken gun 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 Legobot, on behalf of Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap ( talk) 18:21, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
The article Chicken gun you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Chicken gun for comments about the article. 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 Legobot, on behalf of Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap ( talk) 12:21, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi there, Just wondering why you removed sections of my article? Was it in breach of copyright? Sorry I'm only new here and am just learning! Many Thanks!!!
hi firefly, i'm new on wikipedia as contributer but i wanna add some more articles but i have no right idea how to do, like few famous books of indian novelists i wanna add in wikipedia but i don't know what are minimum conditions to add them... is there is any telegram group or facebook group... where i can discuss with wikipedia contributers who are doing great and they can give me suggestions about it because i don't wanna get deleted my articles just after publishing, because of lack of info. if it happend all the time then my account will be blocked.
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05:58, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
Hello, i think this edit was a mistake.
https://www.daily-bangladesh.com/english/Birshrestha-Hamidur-Rahmans-birthday-today/36381 was published on 2 February 2020. This is a version from 14 December 2019. There is no way editor can go to future and copy that part. It's other way around, they copied from wikipedia. Please revert your edit unless there is any other problem. -- আফতাবুজ্জামান ( talk) 15:05, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
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Yes, I know I said I was going to switch to monthly. Let's just go "Vat doesn't really Get Time" and run with it.
The Core Contest is on its last day of entries, and I've picked articles here with an eye to that. It's the first time it's running since 2017, and I for one am looking forward to overhauling
Prehistoric religion. If you feel inspired by anything here, get in there quick! |
The bot left me a message that a draft I created, Draft:Creating List of unarmed African Americans killed by law enforcement officers in the United States, had not been edited for five months and was about to be deleted.
I did not create this draft. Some other user created the draft at this title. I moved it to Draft:List of unarmed African Americans killed by law enforcement officers in the United States, where it was later moved to main article namespace. The only thing I have to do with the draft is this one move.
Can the bot somehow differentiate between creations of redirects from moves and creations of real drafts? JIP | Talk 23:50, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
On 9 June 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Chicken gun, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that as part of the type certification process, aircraft manufacturers routinely fire dead chickens at windshields with a chicken gun in order to simulate bird strikes? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Chicken gun. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Chicken gun), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Maile ( talk) 01:33, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
--- You reverted my change back to 350 mph. Please read up on typical landing and takeoff speeds for for any aircraft, 747, 737, even an f-18. They are nowhere near 350 mph. Cruising speed at altitude,yes, but not with the flaps down during takeoff and landing. I do not cite any source because any aircraft buff knows this as common knowledge. Besides, aircraft tires would disintegrate at that speed. You may revert your reversion at your leisure. Have a great day and stay healthy. --- 206.45.14.232 ( talk) — Preceding undated comment added 13:37, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
I guess the person who created the article for CFCH-FM in North Bay, Ontario spoke to soon! Vista launched the new radio station on Tuesday, June 15, 2021 with a country music format branded as Country 90.5, so I updated the CFCH-FM draft. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:CFCH-FM
66.102.89.105 · Special:Contributions/66.102.89.105 15:00, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
Hello Firefly, My name is Eleonu - I am new to Wikipedia. I am sorry if I am once again doing the wrong thing. I posted my Autobiography on my Wikipedia and it was deleted by Firefly a few days ago. I didn't know one wasn't allowed to write about themselves. I am sorry for that.
I wasn't able to save my article before it was deleted. Please kindly send me a copy of the deleted content to my registered email address.
Thank you. Eme Eleonu Eleonu ( talk) 16:20, 15 June 2021 (UTC).
Hello, please take a look at my response to you on the Sneed talk page, I believe I outlined sufficient reason to include a link to E-I-E-I-(Annoyed_Grunt) within the "See Also" section of the article, which I would appreciate if you add as I don't have editor permission for that article. 2601:405:4400:9420:3914:6D2D:6247:2258 ( talk) 21:23, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/London Buses route 123. Thank you. Thryduulf ( talk) 22:17, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
Welcome, subscribers, to the fifth Discontent Content newsletter! Discontent Content is a newsletter aiming to collate and improve Wikipedia articles in need of more eyes and hands to get them in shape. Its unique trimodal structure allows editors to work where they feel comfortable -- with stubs and starts needing to be brought to standard, mid-quality articles with Good or Featured potential, or quality-assessed articles needing help to maintain their status. Articles in this category are those that need to be brought up to a minimum quality standard. Some will be stubs; others will be longer articles that nonetheless have significant concerns putting them far below B- or C-class adequacy. This issue's Category 1 articles are:
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One topic I've been broadly thinking about lately is the concept of GA sweeps. There hasn't been one in well over a decade; discussion of a new one is traditionally stymied by the sheer number of GAs that would need sweeping, considering there are over ten times as many as there were at the last sweep. Nonetheless, there's no dispute that many GAs don't really count as 99.5th percentile articles, or even decent-quality articles (whether one's own personal reading of WIAGA is closer to the former or the latter, and how different those things are, is an exercise for the reader). I've been brainstorming ideas, and I've been wondering if we can tackle the problem with limited-scope sweeps. One idea would be sweeping popular or vital articles -- those that get enough views to make up a significant proportion of the "GA experience" to readers. Another would be focusing on shorter GAs, which might trend towards a less in-depth treatment of the topic than could really justify the rating. There may very well be a path here to maintaining GA standards, and either of those would have the benefit that they might be more likely to encourage people to work on rather than simply delist articles -- popular topics with lots of interested parties willing to help, or smaller topics that don't seem like too big a challenge to pick up.
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Is there any way that FireflyBot can distinguish between the person who created a draft, and the person who moved it into draftspace? I'm guessing not, but it wouldn't hurt to ask. I ask because of this. I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 16:35, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
Great that you're considering investing some time in this. Thanks!
The instructions for nominating can be found here: Wikipedia:Featured article review. What I'd hope for with a bot:
A user would do something like:
A bot might help with:
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For your help with Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ZestyLemonz, thank you. I'm really glad that you caught this. KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 06:20, 27 June 2021 (UTC) |
Hello firefly, thank you for your feedback regarding my edits to the page, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. /info/en/?search=Institute_of_Chartered_Accountants_in_England_and_Wales
I work for the organisation in question, and my associated work email address has been registered to my Wikipedia profile for several years.
Does this not provide me with the authority to make updates to the page?
Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MrsThompsonSays ( talk • contribs) 16:01, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
I added new sources and expanded an article about malocas that was marked as lacking sources and a stub. These changes were undone by you on June 18th. It is now lacking sources and once again a stub. Can you explain why these changes were undone? It made the article better, more trustworthy and more informative. Thanks, l.
Not sure if I’m doing this right but in reference to your edit July 7:
Hello, I'm Firefly. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Absolute pitch, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. firefly ( t · c ) 11:28, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
You can reference their channel, the fact that Eddy has perfect pitch is well known among the violin community.
Quote from website -
https://theviolinchannel.com/vc-vox-pop-do-you-have-perfect-pitch-born-with-it-question/
Australian Funster, TwoSet Violinist, Eddy ‘Shreddy’ Chen: [PICTURED] “Perfect ... yes ... developed it ..."
Here is another site with interviews referencing Eddys perfect pitch
https://maimislang.medium.com/these-music-nerds-are-what-the-world-needs-now-a81d3f5bd70d
Here is a link to one their videos including the reference to Eddys perfect pitch. They have 3 million people watching them that all know this to be fact. They’ve proven it many times. This is just one video referencing it.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kw397ZIZcqA&feature=share
Please fix this.
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Hello, I'm Firefly. I wanted to let you know that one or more external links you added to Gary Michael Berman have been removed because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. firefly ( t · c ) 14:31, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for the message. I thought the links were helpful as they describe a fuller picture of this person, very helpful to those considering going into business or other dealings with him. Would it be acceptable if there were fewer links, such as two rather than four? ReadMoreAboutIt (talk) 15:20, 9 July 2021 (UTC) ReadMoreAboutIt ( talk) 02:18, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi Firefly Can you give me an answer to the question in the discussion ‘deleted content question’? I would like to have two of the deleted links put back into the Wikipedia page in question Thanks ReadMoreAboutIt ( talk) 12:04, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Anna Sorokin 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 Legobot, on behalf of Aussie Article Writer -- Aussie Article Writer ( talk) 07:21, 17 July 2021 (UTC)