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The Technical Barnstar |
Just a barnstar for running https://fireflytools.toolforge.org/linter/enwiki — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 13:53, 15 June 2021 (UTC) |
Looks good, thank you very much. -- Lómelinde ( talk) 15:15, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
The article
Anna Sorokin 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:Anna Sorokin for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by
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The article
Anna Sorokin you nominated as a
good article has passed ; see
Talk:Anna Sorokin 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
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Hi Firefly, I've removed the DM citation that was not a reliable source. Thank you for your help. 77.89.144.66 ( talk) 12:11, 22 July 2021 (UTC)
The Women in Green wikiproject would like to add Anna Sorokin to the listed GA articles here. Would you be alright with this? - Aussie Article Writer ( talk) 10:32, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
Welcome, subscribers, to the sixth 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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After my prior thoughts on GA sweeps and their viability, work is beginning to break down what parts of the backlog can be tackled. Planning is beginning at User:Vaticidalprophet/GA reform and its talk; feel free to give your opinion, participate in current GARs, and assess articles. The current plan is to look at GAs with outstanding cleanup tags as our first priority. Sorry for the delay this time around -- I've been having A Month healthwise. I expect to maintain this at an approximately monthly schedule and will try not to let it slip further. I'm enthused by the work going on at GAR lately and hope to work something excellent out of it. |
I'm not a 'probable LTA' or some sort just because I engaged in maintenance aspects of Wikipedia editing. But however, thanks for reverting it because I was going to after seeing the sock tag on an LTA's userpage which makes tagging in talk pages totally unneeded. 103.130.61.61 ( talk) 08:46, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi Firefly. We have added you to the list of clerks and subscribed you to the mailing list (info:
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New clerks begin as a trainee, are listed as such at WP:AC/C#Personnel, and will remain so until they have learned all the aspects of the job. When you've finished training, then we'll propose to the Committee that you be made a full clerk. As a clerk, you'll need to check your e-mail regularly, as the mailing list is where the clerks co-ordinate ( on-wiki co-ordination page also exists but is not used nearly as much). If you've any questions at any point of your traineeship, simply post to the mailing list. If you choose to join the IRC channel, this is also used for communication but you are free to just communicate via email. Ping me on IRC if you would like to join.
Lastly, if you would like to list your timezone in the clerks list please feel free to add your timezone in by providing it as a parameter. This is to estimate when clerks are available and also gives editors wanting clerk assistance some guidance as to when the clerks will be online to respond. Again, welcome! Regards, Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 22:25, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
I appreciate your support and trust in my recent run for admin. It remains to be seen whether I turn out to be a jerk. I've had an interesting first few weeks and am learning a lot by being able to better watch (through tools) what admins do. Please call on me if you see me in error, or if I can help. Thanks again. BusterD ( talk) 17:30, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
Thank you so much, This whole issue has really wiped me out because right after I was Artist Ron "Bee-Stinger" Savage on the film that just came out on youtube the whole film has almost million views Wiki users took him out of the Hip Hop & Hip Hop Music articles and the Hip Hop Movement Article I dome on him and they went to his Ronald Savage page and started deleting things without looking at the refs i had up evening saying it was not in the daily news and it was - about one of the things they took down, they couldn't say anything after they seen it went i said to read the news paper REF, and I put everything this same user took down I put it back up and he lefted it, now they giving me a hard time with the hip hop movement thats been up 5 years, it's as if they are trying to erase him out of hip hop history the same very next day.
I have started a new Hip Hop Movement page just now but i didn't put nothing on it im wiped out and plus the page they deleted yesterday the content i put on their wasn't saved, I don't even know what I wrote, I am so upset, loke what does this have to do with me if Wikipedia is mad at this artist Ronald Savage that is so wrong. The new page is at: /info/en/?search=User:Street_sting/Hip_Hop_Movement
Do you know if I can get the content that was on there and the refs, it took me 2 days to read all thise things. That you for keeping a watch out on my talk page. Street sting ( talk) 21:10, 8 August 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for the info, oh that 2nd draft only had like four sentences it was in draft mode I was working on it, it was only up for approximately 2 days and one of the people from the previous group is the one that came and deleted the one you're speaking of the very last one, those are the file text that I need, That was so wrong because it started off totally different totally.
No the article is Noble enough it's been up on Wikipedia for five to six years with a number of wiki project scopes that different winky users put on the talk page with no problem with any winky user or anyone at that matter, it all coincides with what I been saying, and it all took place with this YouTube documentary that Ronald Savage is on talking about his abuser after years of not talking about it, that same day in the next day is when that 1 Wikipedia user and administrator came along and started vandalizing everything that Ronald salvage was on including deleting The Hip Hop movement article and started deleting some content that was on the Ronald Savage page that's no coincidence and this YouTube video or documentary whichever you want to call it has over a quarter of a million views making it let to believe that this one user may be a part of the the Zulu Nation, the title of the documentary is called: Zulu Nation the first gay family of Hip Hop, after years of everything thing they delete have been up on Wikipedia for years, the text that the same one guy took off of Ronald Savage page I put back and he added on to after I confronted him that he never even looked at the references at all because he said this information was not in the daily News on the references and I had to correct him that yes indeed that information was there in the paper that's where I got it from, and everything on Ronald Savage page that he took down was put right back up because he could not dispute it. But it's okay cause I have enough proof. Again thank you so I'm going to try to get the text back from the draft hip hop movement that was just took them down days ago, I think I know an administrator that I can go to and ask. Thanks Street sting ( talk) 12:32, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
On 13 August 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Anna Sorokin, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that while convicted fraudster Anna Sorokin was in jail, one of her visitors was Julia Garner, who will play Sorokin in the Netflix miniseries about her? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Anna Sorokin. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Anna Sorokin), 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) 12:03, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
Perhaps also include link to Wikipedia:Introduction_to_deletion_process#How_to_nominate_a_page_for_deletion for situations where the draft is no longer needed and the creator is perhaps not familiar or has forgotten what to do. C-randles ( talk) 14:26, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
Can you please fix the spelling of occurred? Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 05:09, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
At some point you maintained - https://fireflytools.toolforge.org/linter/enwiki#
Was there a reason the various Wikisources were omitted? ShakespeareFan00 ( talk) 12:22, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Ardfern is now complete. Thank you for your assistance in the evaluation of this CCI!
Thank you for your final work on Ardfern, it was appreciated especially as the case winded down. It's always lovely to see your signature on a case page :) Sennecaster ( Chat) 12:19, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
My dear i mean to say that when people search yaduvanshi then its site is linked to yadu legendary king page why? Please fixed this site and real yaduvanshi are ahirs but don't know why wikipedia is being spread false yaduvanshi rajputs have no relation with yaduvanshi then Also some people are forcibly separating the Ahirs from the Yaduvansh and making those who are not Yaduvanshis as Yaduvanshi. Change the Yaduvanshi site from Your connection to this site is secure · https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yadu_(legendary_king) And I'm sorry my English not good and I'm new here
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Thank you for making the CCI case stats. It has helped me find out which cases are almost finished with more up to date statistics. Keep up the great work! :) MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 20:29, 6 September 2021 (UTC) |
Hi. Currently, the bot posts stale-draft notifications only to the user talk page of the creator, which results in missed opportunities in cases where the creator has stopped editing, as other editors have no chance of being notified. If the bot also posted the notice to the draft talk page, this would allow more chance of rescue by interested editors who may be watching the draft or tracking WikiProject-tagged talk pages. The issue was raised at Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion/Archive 81#G13 delay (again), and extending the bot's function was suggested as a solution (see Schwede66's comments). Would this be doable? -- Paul_012 ( talk) 19:53, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
Hi, if we have a letter from Steve (the gentleman who owns the content) granting us permission to use language from the book or website can my edits be added? If not, would he or I be able to create a separate page for himself? Thank you. LanaBannana ( talk) 21:13, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi Firefly, It's Sam SCQF here. Thanks for getting in touch. You didn't approve the edits I made to the relevant entry on the Scottish Credit & Qualifications Framework yesterday. I'm not sure why to be honest - I work for the Scottish Credit & Qualifications Framework Partnership & am authorised to make these changes on the company's behalf. If you want to verify my identity please see the About Us page on the SCQF website at https://scqf.org.uk/the-scqf-partnership/meet-the-team/. I'm the Comms & Marketing Officer for the SCQFP.
Some of the information contained in this entry is out of date, including the logo - this version has been replaced by another logo. So, if I am unable to upload the current logo, can you please advise how I can at the very least delete the out of date one on Wikipedia as this creates brand confusion? We, as an organisation, own the copyright for the new logo, so how do I upload it without any issues?
Logo aside, can you confirm if I am able to amend the text relating to the SCQF on this page? It's a bit misleading, so needs updated.
Thanks in advance, Sam SCQF Sam SCQF ( talk) 11:49, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, discussion pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments, as you did at
User talk:TheresNoTime, is considered
bad practice, even if you meant well. Even making spelling and grammatical corrections in others' comments is generally frowned upon, as it tends to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. Take a look at the
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Hello,
I have reapplied this redirect and left a message on the User's page. Just an FYI. -- Whiteguru ( talk) 22:46, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
Dear Firefly,
I am writing on behalf of my associate Gary Hickling (user 2603:800C:743:3100:ADB1:51A7:B31D:1125), regarding recent reverted changes he made on the Lotte Lehmann Wikipedia page which you administer. Gary has asked me to assist him in contacting you regarding these changes. I am new to WP, so please bear with my lack of knowledge on how it works.
Mr. Hickling is considered an expert historian on Lotte Lehmann. He has devoted much of his life to chronicling every aspect or her personal and professional life, including a biographical book collection, a CD collection, and a website ( https://lottelehmannleague.org/). He is referenced on the WP Lehmann page in Notes 1, 4, and 12 as well as “Further Reading” and “External Links.”
Changes he made on October 1 are no longer visible on the page. As best I can make out, it appears that you did not approve the additions of sections on Lehmann’s “Firsts” and “Honors” because they are “an indiscriminate collection of information.” Would a shorter list of Firsts and Honors be acceptable, or are you opposed to the Firsts and Honors information altogether?
You also cited changes for Copyright violations, but we are unable to determine what those are. Are you able to provide more specific information so that he can provide sources?
Mr. Hickling made changes and additions which he genuinely believes were oversights, and would be valuable additions to the page. He hopes you will reconsider your decision on some or all of these things; he can provide sources where needed.
I hope this was the appropriate way to contact you and to learn what to do. Thank you for your consideration of these matters. Where do we go from here?
-- SP-lava ( talk) 22:13, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
@ SQL: @ Firefly: Thank you Firefly and SQL. I will move part of this discussion to the article's discussion page. Gary can provide references for all the items on the list. To Firefly: The copyright violation you refer to is actually Gary's own content that he wrote for his Lotte Lehmann website. I looked at the link you provided (thank you) but it was hard to interpret what we are supposed to do in a situation when it is the person's own work. Is Gary supposed to make content on his website public domain?
Again, thank you to both of you for your patience while I learn the ropes here. ("A lot to unpack..." LOL.) Also -- how am I supposed to properly respond to your replies? I clicked on "edit source" and used ping with your usernames, but is there an easier way? SP-lava ( talk) 19:19, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
@ Firefly: Thank you Firefly. I will give the information to Gary and he can decide how he wants to proceed regarding allowing free use of information on his Lotte Lehmann website. As for the above list of additions he would like to make, I added them to the Talk:Lotte Lehmann page, but no one has commented. How long does he wait before he can go ahead and add them? Can je just go ahead and start making additions, providing citations for any change he makes? The other question he has for you is this: Can he use his own website as a citation source? The website is already used in Notes #4 and #12. Thanks again -- SP-lava ( talk) 21:43, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
[s]elf-published expert sources may be considered reliable when produced by an established subject-matter expert, whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable, independent publications.(emphasis as in original). firefly ( t · c ) 12:03, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
@ SQL: Hello SQL - I looked at the links you provided, thank you. Mr. Hickling (Gary) is my neighbor and longtime friend. Technology does not come easy for him. For example, there is no way on earth he could navigate this part of WP (the talk pages). He did not understand the message he got from Firefly, and needed clarification. So although I am a WP novice, I am better than Gary technically, and I am helping him navigate. I did not add content to the Lotte Lehmann page for him, but he could not get his lists to format properly, so I did that for him. So we don't see a conflict of interest, and I am not being paid to add content on Lotte Lehmann. I am the go between helping Gary communicate. We are not trying to hide anything; Gary truly just wants the Lotte Lehmann article to reflect his 50 years of research. Does it sound to you that we are in violation, or that we need to disclose something? I hope that doesn't sound sarcastic - Asked in earnest, please let me know. -- SP-lava ( talk) 19:51, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello, Firefly,
I'm a little hesitant to complain about Firefly Bot as I am so grateful that you have it posting notices to draft creators about expiring drafts. Its activity has really improved the situation for draft creators and the list of expiring drafts is shorter now than in Fall 2020, now that editors are alerted and go work on their drafts to give them some recent editing activity. But I have found something that is puzzling, so consider this a query rather than a complaint.
I delete a lot of expiring drafts and I often go to draft creators' talk pages to see if they are active editors and to see if they need help or a welcome message. Infrequently, I'd say 1 time out of ~15, Firefly Bot hasn't posted a notice about an expiring draft and honestly, I can not figure out any pattern to its behavior. The latest incident was Draft:1626 influenza pandemic and you can go to the draft creator's talk page, User talk:DondeEstaElBurro?, and see that Firefly Bot has posted other notices to this editor. There didn't seem to be anything unusual about this particular draft.
The only thing I can think of is that the list of drafts that Firefly Bot works with is different than the list that SDZeroBot has put together which is the predominant list that admins & editors work with. This is not a huge problem since things work out excellently 93% of the time. I was just curious if you had any idea why it might skip some notices. Thanks again for setting this all up, it's really been invaluable. Liz Read! Talk! 22:10, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
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The Technical Barnstar |
Thank you for reviewing my User page DeLilGwashoper. Kindly leave a cup of coffee with advice or tips or a reference to a standard User page I can have and any other rules I should follow to avoid breaking community guidelines =^.^=
Sorry I ate the trout I was supposed to use for an emergency (ref your User page stub) DeLilGwashoper ( talk) 16:26, 7 October 2021 (UTC) |
Hi Firefly, the tool hast stopped working since 08:55 in the morning Outstanding linter errors on dewiki As of 2021-10-21 08:55:17 today. Could you please take a look on it? -- Lómelinde ( talk) 14:57, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
You reverted edits and stated "Not sure this is an improvement - seems to be non-neutral". "Not sure" and "seems" are not good reasons for reverting.
The purpose of the edits you reverted were to put a more neutral tone on the content. Previously, the content had prefaced quotes with a non-neutral statement. The content had used juxtaposition of statements and innuendo that suggested the witness accounts were false rather than just wrong. The section's final reference makes it clear, the BBC had to defend its report questioning the witnesses but the content had been written in such a POV way as to leave-off and suggest the reference questioned the witness accounts. The most that can be said from the facts is that the witnesses were most likely wrong which could possibly be accounted for by mistake or false memory which could be the result of trauma from the incident. The suggestion that the reports were false is merely suggestion. The article should state facts not make suggestions.
I question if the whole section is notable enough to be included in the article.
Please revert your reversion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.42.5.143 ( talk) 23:02, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
I don't know when it happened, but a bunch of Special:LintErrors categories have gone missing from the automated table. There are five high-priority errors listed at the top of the table, but there are ten total high-priority errors. One medium-priority error is missing. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 03:48, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
I think that your bot lists a case at DRN as new if its status is shown as "Closed" rather than "closed". Could you please, at your convenience, check whether the bot is doing a case-sensitive comparison against values of strings? If so, could the bot be tweaked to fold case? Thank you. Robert McClenon ( talk) 04:14, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
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The Technical Barnstar |
For your CCI tracker and your help with the Inuit clothing regex <3 ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 09:13, 12 November 2021 (UTC) |
Hi Firefly, I think the definition of "Neutral point of view" is not proper on wiki. If saying a good people good from the point view of other people is not neutral, the ones with a lot of citation from someone's autobiography is not neutral as well. It can not be justified by whether there is a source or not. I can create a source and cite it. But I do not want to do that. As trained mathematician who have been following the axiom system and judge everything from definition, I will not argue here. However, it does not mean that axioms and definitions are impeccable. Hope my comments can get some attention. In case you revise the definition of "neutral point of view", please let me know. Thanks. Qian — Preceding unsigned comment added by Qianzhangnu ( talk • contribs) 14:33, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
Good morning, I need this entry to be supervised to know if it already meets the necessary requirements to be accepted from the encyclopedic criteria. I hope it can be posible. Thank you.-- SVC74 ( talk) 19:09, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
Hello maintainer(s), Thankyou for your contributions. I am here as the bot posted a message on my talk page. It was a notice about a draft Draft:Behrouz Barani. The bot took me as the creator of the draft and posted a message about its possible deletion per WP:G13. I am not he original creator of the draft. However, I have moved the draft from userspace to draftspace in past. I thought it would be better to let you know about this issue. Thankyou signed, Iflaq (talk) 16:16, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
I'm sorry but I've exhausted all avenues I can see to meet the English Wikipedia's critique of this article. Without help from someone, I do not think it is possible.
I have written a lot of articles in quite a few languages on Wikipedia in the last 10 years and something that is very clear is that there is a very different culture, not least about what is a correct source.
I have assumed that factor when this article (but none else has been criticized for), eg the lack of sources. But that has only resulted in me getting a bunch of new reviews that have been just as unspecified and sweeping. Zero sources are simply not something I agree with. What to do about the comment "not famous enough" (it was higly classified military secret activities).
I have written in Swedish, German and English, creating new and upgrades existing in a series of articles about Swedish and German aircraft constructors and the aviation technology they were pushing the front line aviation technology of 1938-1970, like delta wing and supersonic flight (more need in Europe where the time for USSR nuclear bombers were much shorter to reach us, than the US). They were in the same generation as the US Kelly Johnson (engineer) and the theme of persons and technology is of general aviation history interest.
The articles are about what the people did, what technologies they worked out, the political threats and decisions (such as the Defence Act of 1958 (Sweden) that are the basis for giving them resources and opportunities to create what they did. It is a process of technological development during the Cold War that has no parallels during other eras and I think it is important that it is documented.
The incentive to write the series of articles came when I scanned the photo archive of my father on behalf of the family and found his documentation of his professional life stuck among the photos. This made me seek contact with relatives to his former professional colleagues who together formed a unique team that created unique technology. This is because all of a sudden we had sources and a material to start from. Something to be supplemented and searched further for to create interesting reading. Death runes of people in Wikipedia are so tiring to read, as it says nothing in them, this is about what they did (that is of general interest) and not who they were.
I think the problem is that Einar Bergström is my father and nothing else and therefore it is the only article about them around Erik Bratt that has been rejected, despite it actually having the best sources of them all. Personally, it is not my father but what they did that interests me and is worth reading.
I would be glad if the critics would be more supportive. I think it would be nice if someone took the material and wrote an article from those basics so I do not have to be the author. Can't you write a new article on Einar Bergström and feel free to ask me if there is any information I can try to find for the article? You can read the German and Swedish articles as well (right-click in Chrome for translation)? But so far I have not received any support to finalize.
So what should I do, more than wait for it to be deleted? -- Zzalpha ( talk) 04:00, 23 November 2021 (UTC)
It appears that the status bot isn't working, and is only listing two cases when there are six that should be listed. This is not urgent, but is a case of not doing what it should do. Please take a technical look at the bot. Robert McClenon ( talk) 14:06, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
The status bot isn't working, again. It is listing only one case. I thought that it was fixed when you said it was fixed, and I think that the case problem is fixed. However, either the problem of cases being missed has recurred in the same form, or has come in a different form. Thank you for working on the bot. Robert McClenon ( talk) 01:19, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
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08:44, 24 November 2021 (UTC)Please don't tag articles with WP:A3 (or WP:A1) unless at least 10 minutes have elapsed since the article creation.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 14:09, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
Hello, Firefly,
Sorry to revisit an old subject but I'm noticing Firefly Bot skipping more notifications that usual. I'll give you one example I was looking into, Draft:Bhutanese name. The page creator didn't receive a notice and I don't see evidence that they had received a notice in the past. Any ideas why the bot wouldn't inform them? They hadn't submitted the draft to AFC, would that cause the bot to skip the notification? Because many draft pages on the SDZeroBot list were never submitted to AFC. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 01:22, 23 November 2021 (UTC)
On a tangent, could I bump the request raised at /Archive 7#Extension of FireflyBot notification to also post to draft talk pages? Have you found the time to look into this? -- Paul_012 ( talk) 10:32, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi, Thank you for your excellent work here. I was granted the admin rights on tw.wikipedia.org not long, and I've been cleaning up pages, trying to add/create templates, and doing my best to maintain the tw wiki, which is my local wiki. I would be glad if you could assist me in creating a bot to do stuff that was tedious to do manually and help us create templates. I would also appreciate it if you took a look at my local wiki and share any recommendations on how to improve it. Thank you -- Robertjamal12 (talk) 13:25, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
What do you think of Bruno Cianci ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)? It appears to be a vanity page. The primary editor has taken a number of photos of Cianci, only edited Bruno Cianci, suggesting a coi. That author has been templated with a coi notice, but hasn't responded to it. Bruno Cianci himself appears to be the anon editor per one of his ES. The primary editor has removed maintenance template (COI & resume) w/o resolving the issues. Cheers Adakiko ( talk) 11:54, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Black Women Radicals, to which you have significantly contributed, is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or if it should be deleted.
The discussion will take place at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Black Women Radicals until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.
To customise your preferences for automated AfD notifications for articles to which you've significantly contributed (or to opt-out entirely), please visit the configuration page. Delivered by SDZeroBot ( talk) 01:03, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
I have deleted tags that are incorrect in the current version of Ken R. Harewood, where I made the necessary changes yesterday. Removing the history of edits of an article is impossible, and this is what another editor ( User: Asukite) demanded I do. If you know how to do it, feel free. If you see any plagarism in the current version, please show it to me. -- Zeamays ( talk) 15:23, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
Hello Firefly: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 21:10, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
-- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 21:10, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
I wish you an enjoyable and safe season, and health, happiness, and success in the year ahead. Have a fantastic time!
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Hi this is rashid zirak i want to make my wikipedia page and currently I am strength and conditioning specialist for UPCA Men's Senior Cricket Team plz guide and advice 116.72.43.223 ( talk) 10:23, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
They've done again, I'm not familiar with this sort of vandalism, can you fix it? They've been AIV'd as clearly a VOA. Mako001 (C) (T) (The Alternate Mako) 15:21, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
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Thanks!
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Happy
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Hello Firefly and thank you very much for your message.I would very much like to be able to keep the article, but it is a list (list of the State Public Libraries in Spain), and I added when I created it the references of the state web pages where they can be consulted. I don't know what more references I could put or what else to do.I have seen other similar pages in Wikipedia (lists) and they don't have more references... What I can do? Thanks and see you soon.-- MJSB73MP ( talk) 18:25, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
Thank you very much! -- MJSB73MP ( talk) 18:31, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
Could you please add the new category to the toll? See special:LintErrors/inline-media-caption it is live since the last update an is flodding the lists and the Lint error total results. Happy new Year -- Lómelinde ( talk) 07:25, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
Can you please review the article on Royal Indian Air Force for any errors. Cookersweet ( talk) 15:47, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article
Murders of William and Patricia Wycherley you nominated for
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Hello. I received your bot-generated message about the potential deletion of Draft:TrudiJ/sandbox/Colcha embroidery. It is fine if this is deleted. I have made edits within the existing article. Thank you, and happy new year! TrudiJ ( talk) 12:42, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
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The Half Million Award |
For your contributions to bring Anna Sorokin (estimated annual readership: 560,000) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Half Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! Reidgreg ( talk) 15:26, 23 January 2022 (UTC) |
The article
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For all your hard work in accessibility related areas, most recently at the SPI colors-- Asartea Talk | Contribs 14:06, 23 January 2022 (UTC) |
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For clearing out Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Crowded. Well done! ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 20:12, 10 February 2022 (UTC) |
why are you cancelling the work of other editors when they're editing? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Morefactswiki ( talk • contribs) 14:25, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
someone said they deleted the page history, I said that I deleted some revisions from the page history, not all of it, just those revisions that contained copyrighted content.
i just got a few rude ppl instead because of all this, what specifically do you mean? I can't see that anyone has been rude to you at any point.
if it's 'Blatant violations', then that means the person shouldnt have deleted the page historyThe text in question was (apart from swapping out one word here and there) a direct copy of the website text, that qualifies as a blatant copyright violation unfortunately. firefly ( t · c ) 15:34, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.
Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
Since today morning the tool only updates the time but not the numbers of errors
example from german wiki:
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Project talk | 498 | 1,592 | 2,090 | ||||||
should be at 07:22, 13 February 2022 (UTC) | |||||||||
Project talk | 492 | 1,495 | 1,987 | ||||||
should be at 13:44, 13 February 2022 (UTC) | |||||||||
Project talk | 468 | 1,378 | 1,846 |
I have fixed some of the bugs today but the number is still the same. but if you look here the number should be lower than 1,592. It would be nice if you can take a look on it. -- Lómelinde ( talk) 07:22, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
Hello, hope you're doing good. I saw the message you left on my talk section about the upcoming She-Ra live-action series but there's no information yet so that's why I don't edit it; so if there's something new, I'll update the draft. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chucheraya20 ( talk • contribs) 03:15, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi! Student applicants are starting to submit drafts for their microtasks (see phab:T300454), so if you wanted to take a look at them as well, let me know and I can update the instructions. Right now, they just say to PM drafts to me for feedback, but I could update them to say PM them to both of us. There aren't a lot right now but I suspect we'll be getting a lot more as it gets closer to the applicant deadline on April 19. You definitely don't have to say yes to this if you're busy. Thanks! Enterprisey ( talk!) 23:12, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
Really enjoyed reading your article on Ms Sorokin. Great prose. No Swan So Fine ( talk) 18:49, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
Regarding Euro/US Dollar conversion: In the US, you are wrong. Most people don't know what a Euro is. You may not like it, but it is true. Please don't delete my addition of conversions again. -- Zeamays ( talk) 14:46, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
I have retrieved your concerns and as per request will create a new page. Thanking you in advance . Prosper M9 ( talk) 08:45, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
I supported your RFA, and I think you'd be interested in this song... NYC Guru ( talk) 22:45, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
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The Three-Quarter Million Award |
For your contributions to bring Windows XP (estimated annual readership: 828,731) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Three-Quarter Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! theleekycauldron ( talk • contribs) (she/ they) 07:21, 6 March 2022 (UTC) |
seems like that one was overlooked! Granted, this might be me slipping up, but it seems to check out. That number is from 2017 readership, since you got the article to GA in 2018—nice work! :) theleekycauldron ( talk • contribs) (she/ they) 07:21, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
Congratulations on your successful RFA! Carrying on a tradition, allow me to impart the words of wisdom I received from Katie after my RFA passed almost seven long, exhausting, and questionable years ago: |
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16:38, 11 March 2022 (UTC)Hello Firefly,
I'm just congratulating you on your recent appointment. Keep up the good work. Cheers!! 🥂 Volten001 talk 06:26, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
So except you literally have a skeleton in your cupboard, there is no Jupiter stopping what’s about to happen, which is you becoming the “latest sysop in town” thus allow me be the first to congratulate you in advance. Please I voted for you because you promised to counter undisclosed paid editing and spam in general. Please do not let me down. Oh well you do owe me a pack of fine Marlboro cigarettes when you officially get the mop.
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A token of thanks
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20:23, 12 March 2022 (UTC)Congratulations on passing your RfA, and breaking the record for largest unanimous RfA! May you enjoy your service with the mop. — 3PPYB6 — TALK — CONTRIBS — 12:57, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
Hello! I wanted to try to explain to you about why the page of Bigg Boss Ultimate 1's protection level should be decreased. You know like if you take a look even for 30 seconds, you'll see that there's a lot to edit about and most of the extended confirmed users like me don't watch the episodes as we have to pay for that. But there are several auto-confirmed users who pay to watch the episodes. And there are a lot of things to edit like the tasks have to be mentioned and the nominations like if you check the page, you'll see that for the 6th week, the nomination hasn't been edited. Like at least the nominations (Who nominated who) have to be edited. I hope you understand me and comprehend how this is going to be a pain to edit after like a month. Just try to think in the place of the editors who have to do that and sometimes re-watch the episodes so as to write everything down in the page. If there're are sock-puppets, I will definitely report them to you or an another administrator. Just please think about the troubles that we're going to face to edit the page if we don't at least start now. Thank you and take care! Nikita Bhamidipati ( talk) 17:14, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
I've never seen anyone pass an RFA with 200+ supports, 0 oppositions and 0 neutral votes. Congratulations! I.hate.spam.mail.here ( talk | contributions) 03:44, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
I almost forgot about your RFA. Hearty congratulations. I always knew you would pass with flying colours. Wish I could someday become like you. Anyway, lots of love and support. May your journey as an administrator be great. Regards. Itcouldbepossible Talk 09:18, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
Seems we have a duck. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 15:16, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
Could you please close the discussion Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Weather#Infobox_&_Template_colors? It is an extension of the previous RfC which was closed already. The initial discussion was put up on the talkpage on February 6, with a continuous RfC notification since February 12. The nature of the second discussion is mostly to clarify the scope of the first, which may have been a bit ambiguous. All participants of the first discussion were pinged in case of any confusion. Noah Talk 13:48, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
support
Thank you for quality articles about topics readers read, such as Windows XP and Anna Sorokin, for Pentium FDIV bug and Christ Church, Turnham Green, for making bots work for us, for doing the dirty work of admins also, for "it is a great feeling to see such a volume of support", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
You are recipient no. 2717 of Precious, a prize of QAI. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 18:11, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
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Editor of the Week for the week beginning March 20, 2022 |
Outstanding technical editor with versatile mainspace and behind-the-scenes work. Part of BAG and is a template editor and bot-operator to a host of highly valuable jobs, including G13 draft notices and DRN statuses. Fixes messes caused by MediaWiki bugs. Filled the void after the loss of HasteurBot so that editors receive "return to work" reminder notices from Firefly Bot after 5 months of inactivity. Helps out at copyright cleanup, helping close cases at CCI, and is a trainee arbclerk. Still has time for writing GA articles such as Anna Sorokin and Chicken gun. An extremely well-rounded editor that helps make the project run smoothly with a friendly attitude |
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17:24, 19 March 2022 (UTC)Hi - when you redirected most of the episodes to the main article, I'm just wondering what your rationale was for keeping only Waldorf Salad out of all the series 2 articles. The Germans I can understand, but if you ask me WS is not one of the most highly rated episodes - it's one of only two S2 episodes that have less than 9/10 on IMDb, if that's any guide. MFlet1 ( talk) 13:42, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
OK, I think I'll leave it - if anything it would be good to bring back the other episode articles if we could get more/better sources for them - but thanks for the explanation. MFlet1 ( talk) 13:49, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
Very useful tool which I've just installed. Two suggestions for when you have time:
Good luck with the RfA, and fingers crossed that
I can give you the coveted admin t-shirt
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Hi, Firefly,
I was curious about a recent G13 of a draft I created, and after looking at FireflyBot's contributions, it looks like something happened to the notification task of the bot. The task is still listed as Active on its user page. Prior to 26 February, the bot sent numerous notifications with an edit summary of Notification of potential CSD G13 nomination of ...
pretty regularly. After that, the notifications almost stopped entirely. There were eight on 5 March, and then twelve on 21 March, but the edit summary changed to simply read Pywikibot 7.0.0
. I'm guessing something changed with an unintended side effect, so I figured I should report this. Thanks for the bot in the first place! -
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Hey Firefly,
You have been
successfully nominated to receive a free t-shirt from the Wikimedia Foundation through our
Merchandise Giveaway program. Congratulations and thank you for your hard work! Please email us at merchandisewikimedia.org and we will send you full details on how to accept your free shirt. Thanks!
On behalf of the Merchandise Giveaway program,
-- janbery ( talk) 16:39, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
It's been at least–well, at least 10 days since your success, and I wish you a belated congratulations. You're already doing great as an admin, per your contributions. Severe storm 28 12:58, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
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Just a barnstar for running https://fireflytools.toolforge.org/linter/enwiki — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 13:53, 15 June 2021 (UTC) |
Looks good, thank you very much. -- Lómelinde ( talk) 15:15, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
The article
Anna Sorokin 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:Anna Sorokin for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by
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The article
Anna Sorokin you nominated as a
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Talk:Anna Sorokin 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
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Hi Firefly, I've removed the DM citation that was not a reliable source. Thank you for your help. 77.89.144.66 ( talk) 12:11, 22 July 2021 (UTC)
The Women in Green wikiproject would like to add Anna Sorokin to the listed GA articles here. Would you be alright with this? - Aussie Article Writer ( talk) 10:32, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
Welcome, subscribers, to the sixth 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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After my prior thoughts on GA sweeps and their viability, work is beginning to break down what parts of the backlog can be tackled. Planning is beginning at User:Vaticidalprophet/GA reform and its talk; feel free to give your opinion, participate in current GARs, and assess articles. The current plan is to look at GAs with outstanding cleanup tags as our first priority. Sorry for the delay this time around -- I've been having A Month healthwise. I expect to maintain this at an approximately monthly schedule and will try not to let it slip further. I'm enthused by the work going on at GAR lately and hope to work something excellent out of it. |
I'm not a 'probable LTA' or some sort just because I engaged in maintenance aspects of Wikipedia editing. But however, thanks for reverting it because I was going to after seeing the sock tag on an LTA's userpage which makes tagging in talk pages totally unneeded. 103.130.61.61 ( talk) 08:46, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi Firefly. We have added you to the list of clerks and subscribed you to the mailing list (info:
WP:AC/C#clerks-l). Welcome, and I look forward to working with you! To adjust your subscription options for the mailing list, see the link at
mail:clerks-l. The mailing list works in the usual way, and the address to which new mailing list threads can be sent is clerks-llists.wikimedia.org. You have been subscribed with the email address you sent your application in with. Useful reading for new clerks is the procedures page,
WP:AC/C/P, but you will learn all the basic components of clerking
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New clerks begin as a trainee, are listed as such at WP:AC/C#Personnel, and will remain so until they have learned all the aspects of the job. When you've finished training, then we'll propose to the Committee that you be made a full clerk. As a clerk, you'll need to check your e-mail regularly, as the mailing list is where the clerks co-ordinate ( on-wiki co-ordination page also exists but is not used nearly as much). If you've any questions at any point of your traineeship, simply post to the mailing list. If you choose to join the IRC channel, this is also used for communication but you are free to just communicate via email. Ping me on IRC if you would like to join.
Lastly, if you would like to list your timezone in the clerks list please feel free to add your timezone in by providing it as a parameter. This is to estimate when clerks are available and also gives editors wanting clerk assistance some guidance as to when the clerks will be online to respond. Again, welcome! Regards, Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 22:25, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
I appreciate your support and trust in my recent run for admin. It remains to be seen whether I turn out to be a jerk. I've had an interesting first few weeks and am learning a lot by being able to better watch (through tools) what admins do. Please call on me if you see me in error, or if I can help. Thanks again. BusterD ( talk) 17:30, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
Thank you so much, This whole issue has really wiped me out because right after I was Artist Ron "Bee-Stinger" Savage on the film that just came out on youtube the whole film has almost million views Wiki users took him out of the Hip Hop & Hip Hop Music articles and the Hip Hop Movement Article I dome on him and they went to his Ronald Savage page and started deleting things without looking at the refs i had up evening saying it was not in the daily news and it was - about one of the things they took down, they couldn't say anything after they seen it went i said to read the news paper REF, and I put everything this same user took down I put it back up and he lefted it, now they giving me a hard time with the hip hop movement thats been up 5 years, it's as if they are trying to erase him out of hip hop history the same very next day.
I have started a new Hip Hop Movement page just now but i didn't put nothing on it im wiped out and plus the page they deleted yesterday the content i put on their wasn't saved, I don't even know what I wrote, I am so upset, loke what does this have to do with me if Wikipedia is mad at this artist Ronald Savage that is so wrong. The new page is at: /info/en/?search=User:Street_sting/Hip_Hop_Movement
Do you know if I can get the content that was on there and the refs, it took me 2 days to read all thise things. That you for keeping a watch out on my talk page. Street sting ( talk) 21:10, 8 August 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for the info, oh that 2nd draft only had like four sentences it was in draft mode I was working on it, it was only up for approximately 2 days and one of the people from the previous group is the one that came and deleted the one you're speaking of the very last one, those are the file text that I need, That was so wrong because it started off totally different totally.
No the article is Noble enough it's been up on Wikipedia for five to six years with a number of wiki project scopes that different winky users put on the talk page with no problem with any winky user or anyone at that matter, it all coincides with what I been saying, and it all took place with this YouTube documentary that Ronald Savage is on talking about his abuser after years of not talking about it, that same day in the next day is when that 1 Wikipedia user and administrator came along and started vandalizing everything that Ronald salvage was on including deleting The Hip Hop movement article and started deleting some content that was on the Ronald Savage page that's no coincidence and this YouTube video or documentary whichever you want to call it has over a quarter of a million views making it let to believe that this one user may be a part of the the Zulu Nation, the title of the documentary is called: Zulu Nation the first gay family of Hip Hop, after years of everything thing they delete have been up on Wikipedia for years, the text that the same one guy took off of Ronald Savage page I put back and he added on to after I confronted him that he never even looked at the references at all because he said this information was not in the daily News on the references and I had to correct him that yes indeed that information was there in the paper that's where I got it from, and everything on Ronald Savage page that he took down was put right back up because he could not dispute it. But it's okay cause I have enough proof. Again thank you so I'm going to try to get the text back from the draft hip hop movement that was just took them down days ago, I think I know an administrator that I can go to and ask. Thanks Street sting ( talk) 12:32, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
On 13 August 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Anna Sorokin, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that while convicted fraudster Anna Sorokin was in jail, one of her visitors was Julia Garner, who will play Sorokin in the Netflix miniseries about her? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Anna Sorokin. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Anna Sorokin), 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) 12:03, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
Perhaps also include link to Wikipedia:Introduction_to_deletion_process#How_to_nominate_a_page_for_deletion for situations where the draft is no longer needed and the creator is perhaps not familiar or has forgotten what to do. C-randles ( talk) 14:26, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
Can you please fix the spelling of occurred? Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 05:09, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
At some point you maintained - https://fireflytools.toolforge.org/linter/enwiki#
Was there a reason the various Wikisources were omitted? ShakespeareFan00 ( talk) 12:22, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Ardfern is now complete. Thank you for your assistance in the evaluation of this CCI!
Thank you for your final work on Ardfern, it was appreciated especially as the case winded down. It's always lovely to see your signature on a case page :) Sennecaster ( Chat) 12:19, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
My dear i mean to say that when people search yaduvanshi then its site is linked to yadu legendary king page why? Please fixed this site and real yaduvanshi are ahirs but don't know why wikipedia is being spread false yaduvanshi rajputs have no relation with yaduvanshi then Also some people are forcibly separating the Ahirs from the Yaduvansh and making those who are not Yaduvanshis as Yaduvanshi. Change the Yaduvanshi site from Your connection to this site is secure · https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yadu_(legendary_king) And I'm sorry my English not good and I'm new here
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Thank you for making the CCI case stats. It has helped me find out which cases are almost finished with more up to date statistics. Keep up the great work! :) MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 20:29, 6 September 2021 (UTC) |
Hi. Currently, the bot posts stale-draft notifications only to the user talk page of the creator, which results in missed opportunities in cases where the creator has stopped editing, as other editors have no chance of being notified. If the bot also posted the notice to the draft talk page, this would allow more chance of rescue by interested editors who may be watching the draft or tracking WikiProject-tagged talk pages. The issue was raised at Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion/Archive 81#G13 delay (again), and extending the bot's function was suggested as a solution (see Schwede66's comments). Would this be doable? -- Paul_012 ( talk) 19:53, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
Hi, if we have a letter from Steve (the gentleman who owns the content) granting us permission to use language from the book or website can my edits be added? If not, would he or I be able to create a separate page for himself? Thank you. LanaBannana ( talk) 21:13, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi Firefly, It's Sam SCQF here. Thanks for getting in touch. You didn't approve the edits I made to the relevant entry on the Scottish Credit & Qualifications Framework yesterday. I'm not sure why to be honest - I work for the Scottish Credit & Qualifications Framework Partnership & am authorised to make these changes on the company's behalf. If you want to verify my identity please see the About Us page on the SCQF website at https://scqf.org.uk/the-scqf-partnership/meet-the-team/. I'm the Comms & Marketing Officer for the SCQFP.
Some of the information contained in this entry is out of date, including the logo - this version has been replaced by another logo. So, if I am unable to upload the current logo, can you please advise how I can at the very least delete the out of date one on Wikipedia as this creates brand confusion? We, as an organisation, own the copyright for the new logo, so how do I upload it without any issues?
Logo aside, can you confirm if I am able to amend the text relating to the SCQF on this page? It's a bit misleading, so needs updated.
Thanks in advance, Sam SCQF Sam SCQF ( talk) 11:49, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, discussion pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments, as you did at
User talk:TheresNoTime, is considered
bad practice, even if you meant well. Even making spelling and grammatical corrections in others' comments is generally frowned upon, as it tends to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. Take a look at the
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Hello,
I have reapplied this redirect and left a message on the User's page. Just an FYI. -- Whiteguru ( talk) 22:46, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
Dear Firefly,
I am writing on behalf of my associate Gary Hickling (user 2603:800C:743:3100:ADB1:51A7:B31D:1125), regarding recent reverted changes he made on the Lotte Lehmann Wikipedia page which you administer. Gary has asked me to assist him in contacting you regarding these changes. I am new to WP, so please bear with my lack of knowledge on how it works.
Mr. Hickling is considered an expert historian on Lotte Lehmann. He has devoted much of his life to chronicling every aspect or her personal and professional life, including a biographical book collection, a CD collection, and a website ( https://lottelehmannleague.org/). He is referenced on the WP Lehmann page in Notes 1, 4, and 12 as well as “Further Reading” and “External Links.”
Changes he made on October 1 are no longer visible on the page. As best I can make out, it appears that you did not approve the additions of sections on Lehmann’s “Firsts” and “Honors” because they are “an indiscriminate collection of information.” Would a shorter list of Firsts and Honors be acceptable, or are you opposed to the Firsts and Honors information altogether?
You also cited changes for Copyright violations, but we are unable to determine what those are. Are you able to provide more specific information so that he can provide sources?
Mr. Hickling made changes and additions which he genuinely believes were oversights, and would be valuable additions to the page. He hopes you will reconsider your decision on some or all of these things; he can provide sources where needed.
I hope this was the appropriate way to contact you and to learn what to do. Thank you for your consideration of these matters. Where do we go from here?
-- SP-lava ( talk) 22:13, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
@ SQL: @ Firefly: Thank you Firefly and SQL. I will move part of this discussion to the article's discussion page. Gary can provide references for all the items on the list. To Firefly: The copyright violation you refer to is actually Gary's own content that he wrote for his Lotte Lehmann website. I looked at the link you provided (thank you) but it was hard to interpret what we are supposed to do in a situation when it is the person's own work. Is Gary supposed to make content on his website public domain?
Again, thank you to both of you for your patience while I learn the ropes here. ("A lot to unpack..." LOL.) Also -- how am I supposed to properly respond to your replies? I clicked on "edit source" and used ping with your usernames, but is there an easier way? SP-lava ( talk) 19:19, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
@ Firefly: Thank you Firefly. I will give the information to Gary and he can decide how he wants to proceed regarding allowing free use of information on his Lotte Lehmann website. As for the above list of additions he would like to make, I added them to the Talk:Lotte Lehmann page, but no one has commented. How long does he wait before he can go ahead and add them? Can je just go ahead and start making additions, providing citations for any change he makes? The other question he has for you is this: Can he use his own website as a citation source? The website is already used in Notes #4 and #12. Thanks again -- SP-lava ( talk) 21:43, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
[s]elf-published expert sources may be considered reliable when produced by an established subject-matter expert, whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable, independent publications.(emphasis as in original). firefly ( t · c ) 12:03, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
@ SQL: Hello SQL - I looked at the links you provided, thank you. Mr. Hickling (Gary) is my neighbor and longtime friend. Technology does not come easy for him. For example, there is no way on earth he could navigate this part of WP (the talk pages). He did not understand the message he got from Firefly, and needed clarification. So although I am a WP novice, I am better than Gary technically, and I am helping him navigate. I did not add content to the Lotte Lehmann page for him, but he could not get his lists to format properly, so I did that for him. So we don't see a conflict of interest, and I am not being paid to add content on Lotte Lehmann. I am the go between helping Gary communicate. We are not trying to hide anything; Gary truly just wants the Lotte Lehmann article to reflect his 50 years of research. Does it sound to you that we are in violation, or that we need to disclose something? I hope that doesn't sound sarcastic - Asked in earnest, please let me know. -- SP-lava ( talk) 19:51, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello, Firefly,
I'm a little hesitant to complain about Firefly Bot as I am so grateful that you have it posting notices to draft creators about expiring drafts. Its activity has really improved the situation for draft creators and the list of expiring drafts is shorter now than in Fall 2020, now that editors are alerted and go work on their drafts to give them some recent editing activity. But I have found something that is puzzling, so consider this a query rather than a complaint.
I delete a lot of expiring drafts and I often go to draft creators' talk pages to see if they are active editors and to see if they need help or a welcome message. Infrequently, I'd say 1 time out of ~15, Firefly Bot hasn't posted a notice about an expiring draft and honestly, I can not figure out any pattern to its behavior. The latest incident was Draft:1626 influenza pandemic and you can go to the draft creator's talk page, User talk:DondeEstaElBurro?, and see that Firefly Bot has posted other notices to this editor. There didn't seem to be anything unusual about this particular draft.
The only thing I can think of is that the list of drafts that Firefly Bot works with is different than the list that SDZeroBot has put together which is the predominant list that admins & editors work with. This is not a huge problem since things work out excellently 93% of the time. I was just curious if you had any idea why it might skip some notices. Thanks again for setting this all up, it's really been invaluable. Liz Read! Talk! 22:10, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
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Sorry I ate the trout I was supposed to use for an emergency (ref your User page stub) DeLilGwashoper ( talk) 16:26, 7 October 2021 (UTC) |
Hi Firefly, the tool hast stopped working since 08:55 in the morning Outstanding linter errors on dewiki As of 2021-10-21 08:55:17 today. Could you please take a look on it? -- Lómelinde ( talk) 14:57, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
You reverted edits and stated "Not sure this is an improvement - seems to be non-neutral". "Not sure" and "seems" are not good reasons for reverting.
The purpose of the edits you reverted were to put a more neutral tone on the content. Previously, the content had prefaced quotes with a non-neutral statement. The content had used juxtaposition of statements and innuendo that suggested the witness accounts were false rather than just wrong. The section's final reference makes it clear, the BBC had to defend its report questioning the witnesses but the content had been written in such a POV way as to leave-off and suggest the reference questioned the witness accounts. The most that can be said from the facts is that the witnesses were most likely wrong which could possibly be accounted for by mistake or false memory which could be the result of trauma from the incident. The suggestion that the reports were false is merely suggestion. The article should state facts not make suggestions.
I question if the whole section is notable enough to be included in the article.
Please revert your reversion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.42.5.143 ( talk) 23:02, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
I don't know when it happened, but a bunch of Special:LintErrors categories have gone missing from the automated table. There are five high-priority errors listed at the top of the table, but there are ten total high-priority errors. One medium-priority error is missing. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 03:48, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
I think that your bot lists a case at DRN as new if its status is shown as "Closed" rather than "closed". Could you please, at your convenience, check whether the bot is doing a case-sensitive comparison against values of strings? If so, could the bot be tweaked to fold case? Thank you. Robert McClenon ( talk) 04:14, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Firefly, I think the definition of "Neutral point of view" is not proper on wiki. If saying a good people good from the point view of other people is not neutral, the ones with a lot of citation from someone's autobiography is not neutral as well. It can not be justified by whether there is a source or not. I can create a source and cite it. But I do not want to do that. As trained mathematician who have been following the axiom system and judge everything from definition, I will not argue here. However, it does not mean that axioms and definitions are impeccable. Hope my comments can get some attention. In case you revise the definition of "neutral point of view", please let me know. Thanks. Qian — Preceding unsigned comment added by Qianzhangnu ( talk • contribs) 14:33, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
Good morning, I need this entry to be supervised to know if it already meets the necessary requirements to be accepted from the encyclopedic criteria. I hope it can be posible. Thank you.-- SVC74 ( talk) 19:09, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
Hello maintainer(s), Thankyou for your contributions. I am here as the bot posted a message on my talk page. It was a notice about a draft Draft:Behrouz Barani. The bot took me as the creator of the draft and posted a message about its possible deletion per WP:G13. I am not he original creator of the draft. However, I have moved the draft from userspace to draftspace in past. I thought it would be better to let you know about this issue. Thankyou signed, Iflaq (talk) 16:16, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
I'm sorry but I've exhausted all avenues I can see to meet the English Wikipedia's critique of this article. Without help from someone, I do not think it is possible.
I have written a lot of articles in quite a few languages on Wikipedia in the last 10 years and something that is very clear is that there is a very different culture, not least about what is a correct source.
I have assumed that factor when this article (but none else has been criticized for), eg the lack of sources. But that has only resulted in me getting a bunch of new reviews that have been just as unspecified and sweeping. Zero sources are simply not something I agree with. What to do about the comment "not famous enough" (it was higly classified military secret activities).
I have written in Swedish, German and English, creating new and upgrades existing in a series of articles about Swedish and German aircraft constructors and the aviation technology they were pushing the front line aviation technology of 1938-1970, like delta wing and supersonic flight (more need in Europe where the time for USSR nuclear bombers were much shorter to reach us, than the US). They were in the same generation as the US Kelly Johnson (engineer) and the theme of persons and technology is of general aviation history interest.
The articles are about what the people did, what technologies they worked out, the political threats and decisions (such as the Defence Act of 1958 (Sweden) that are the basis for giving them resources and opportunities to create what they did. It is a process of technological development during the Cold War that has no parallels during other eras and I think it is important that it is documented.
The incentive to write the series of articles came when I scanned the photo archive of my father on behalf of the family and found his documentation of his professional life stuck among the photos. This made me seek contact with relatives to his former professional colleagues who together formed a unique team that created unique technology. This is because all of a sudden we had sources and a material to start from. Something to be supplemented and searched further for to create interesting reading. Death runes of people in Wikipedia are so tiring to read, as it says nothing in them, this is about what they did (that is of general interest) and not who they were.
I think the problem is that Einar Bergström is my father and nothing else and therefore it is the only article about them around Erik Bratt that has been rejected, despite it actually having the best sources of them all. Personally, it is not my father but what they did that interests me and is worth reading.
I would be glad if the critics would be more supportive. I think it would be nice if someone took the material and wrote an article from those basics so I do not have to be the author. Can't you write a new article on Einar Bergström and feel free to ask me if there is any information I can try to find for the article? You can read the German and Swedish articles as well (right-click in Chrome for translation)? But so far I have not received any support to finalize.
So what should I do, more than wait for it to be deleted? -- Zzalpha ( talk) 04:00, 23 November 2021 (UTC)
It appears that the status bot isn't working, and is only listing two cases when there are six that should be listed. This is not urgent, but is a case of not doing what it should do. Please take a technical look at the bot. Robert McClenon ( talk) 14:06, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
The status bot isn't working, again. It is listing only one case. I thought that it was fixed when you said it was fixed, and I think that the case problem is fixed. However, either the problem of cases being missed has recurred in the same form, or has come in a different form. Thank you for working on the bot. Robert McClenon ( talk) 01:19, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
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08:44, 24 November 2021 (UTC)Please don't tag articles with WP:A3 (or WP:A1) unless at least 10 minutes have elapsed since the article creation.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 14:09, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
Hello, Firefly,
Sorry to revisit an old subject but I'm noticing Firefly Bot skipping more notifications that usual. I'll give you one example I was looking into, Draft:Bhutanese name. The page creator didn't receive a notice and I don't see evidence that they had received a notice in the past. Any ideas why the bot wouldn't inform them? They hadn't submitted the draft to AFC, would that cause the bot to skip the notification? Because many draft pages on the SDZeroBot list were never submitted to AFC. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 01:22, 23 November 2021 (UTC)
On a tangent, could I bump the request raised at /Archive 7#Extension of FireflyBot notification to also post to draft talk pages? Have you found the time to look into this? -- Paul_012 ( talk) 10:32, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi, Thank you for your excellent work here. I was granted the admin rights on tw.wikipedia.org not long, and I've been cleaning up pages, trying to add/create templates, and doing my best to maintain the tw wiki, which is my local wiki. I would be glad if you could assist me in creating a bot to do stuff that was tedious to do manually and help us create templates. I would also appreciate it if you took a look at my local wiki and share any recommendations on how to improve it. Thank you -- Robertjamal12 (talk) 13:25, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
What do you think of Bruno Cianci ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)? It appears to be a vanity page. The primary editor has taken a number of photos of Cianci, only edited Bruno Cianci, suggesting a coi. That author has been templated with a coi notice, but hasn't responded to it. Bruno Cianci himself appears to be the anon editor per one of his ES. The primary editor has removed maintenance template (COI & resume) w/o resolving the issues. Cheers Adakiko ( talk) 11:54, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Black Women Radicals, to which you have significantly contributed, is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or if it should be deleted.
The discussion will take place at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Black Women Radicals until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.
To customise your preferences for automated AfD notifications for articles to which you've significantly contributed (or to opt-out entirely), please visit the configuration page. Delivered by SDZeroBot ( talk) 01:03, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
I have deleted tags that are incorrect in the current version of Ken R. Harewood, where I made the necessary changes yesterday. Removing the history of edits of an article is impossible, and this is what another editor ( User: Asukite) demanded I do. If you know how to do it, feel free. If you see any plagarism in the current version, please show it to me. -- Zeamays ( talk) 15:23, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
Hello Firefly: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 21:10, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
-- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 21:10, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
I wish you an enjoyable and safe season, and health, happiness, and success in the year ahead. Have a fantastic time!
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Hi this is rashid zirak i want to make my wikipedia page and currently I am strength and conditioning specialist for UPCA Men's Senior Cricket Team plz guide and advice 116.72.43.223 ( talk) 10:23, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
They've done again, I'm not familiar with this sort of vandalism, can you fix it? They've been AIV'd as clearly a VOA. Mako001 (C) (T) (The Alternate Mako) 15:21, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
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Happy
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Send New Year cheer by adding {{
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Hello Firefly and thank you very much for your message.I would very much like to be able to keep the article, but it is a list (list of the State Public Libraries in Spain), and I added when I created it the references of the state web pages where they can be consulted. I don't know what more references I could put or what else to do.I have seen other similar pages in Wikipedia (lists) and they don't have more references... What I can do? Thanks and see you soon.-- MJSB73MP ( talk) 18:25, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
Thank you very much! -- MJSB73MP ( talk) 18:31, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
Could you please add the new category to the toll? See special:LintErrors/inline-media-caption it is live since the last update an is flodding the lists and the Lint error total results. Happy new Year -- Lómelinde ( talk) 07:25, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
Can you please review the article on Royal Indian Air Force for any errors. Cookersweet ( talk) 15:47, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article
Murders of William and Patricia Wycherley you nominated for
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Hello. I received your bot-generated message about the potential deletion of Draft:TrudiJ/sandbox/Colcha embroidery. It is fine if this is deleted. I have made edits within the existing article. Thank you, and happy new year! TrudiJ ( talk) 12:42, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
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For your contributions to bring Anna Sorokin (estimated annual readership: 560,000) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Half Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! Reidgreg ( talk) 15:26, 23 January 2022 (UTC) |
The article
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For all your hard work in accessibility related areas, most recently at the SPI colors-- Asartea Talk | Contribs 14:06, 23 January 2022 (UTC) |
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For clearing out Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Crowded. Well done! ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 20:12, 10 February 2022 (UTC) |
why are you cancelling the work of other editors when they're editing? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Morefactswiki ( talk • contribs) 14:25, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
someone said they deleted the page history, I said that I deleted some revisions from the page history, not all of it, just those revisions that contained copyrighted content.
i just got a few rude ppl instead because of all this, what specifically do you mean? I can't see that anyone has been rude to you at any point.
if it's 'Blatant violations', then that means the person shouldnt have deleted the page historyThe text in question was (apart from swapping out one word here and there) a direct copy of the website text, that qualifies as a blatant copyright violation unfortunately. firefly ( t · c ) 15:34, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.
Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
Since today morning the tool only updates the time but not the numbers of errors
example from german wiki:
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I have fixed some of the bugs today but the number is still the same. but if you look here the number should be lower than 1,592. It would be nice if you can take a look on it. -- Lómelinde ( talk) 07:22, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
Hello, hope you're doing good. I saw the message you left on my talk section about the upcoming She-Ra live-action series but there's no information yet so that's why I don't edit it; so if there's something new, I'll update the draft. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chucheraya20 ( talk • contribs) 03:15, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi! Student applicants are starting to submit drafts for their microtasks (see phab:T300454), so if you wanted to take a look at them as well, let me know and I can update the instructions. Right now, they just say to PM drafts to me for feedback, but I could update them to say PM them to both of us. There aren't a lot right now but I suspect we'll be getting a lot more as it gets closer to the applicant deadline on April 19. You definitely don't have to say yes to this if you're busy. Thanks! Enterprisey ( talk!) 23:12, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
Really enjoyed reading your article on Ms Sorokin. Great prose. No Swan So Fine ( talk) 18:49, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
Regarding Euro/US Dollar conversion: In the US, you are wrong. Most people don't know what a Euro is. You may not like it, but it is true. Please don't delete my addition of conversions again. -- Zeamays ( talk) 14:46, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
I have retrieved your concerns and as per request will create a new page. Thanking you in advance . Prosper M9 ( talk) 08:45, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
I supported your RFA, and I think you'd be interested in this song... NYC Guru ( talk) 22:45, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
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The Three-Quarter Million Award |
For your contributions to bring Windows XP (estimated annual readership: 828,731) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Three-Quarter Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! theleekycauldron ( talk • contribs) (she/ they) 07:21, 6 March 2022 (UTC) |
seems like that one was overlooked! Granted, this might be me slipping up, but it seems to check out. That number is from 2017 readership, since you got the article to GA in 2018—nice work! :) theleekycauldron ( talk • contribs) (she/ they) 07:21, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
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16:38, 11 March 2022 (UTC)Hello Firefly,
I'm just congratulating you on your recent appointment. Keep up the good work. Cheers!! 🥂 Volten001 talk 06:26, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
So except you literally have a skeleton in your cupboard, there is no Jupiter stopping what’s about to happen, which is you becoming the “latest sysop in town” thus allow me be the first to congratulate you in advance. Please I voted for you because you promised to counter undisclosed paid editing and spam in general. Please do not let me down. Oh well you do owe me a pack of fine Marlboro cigarettes when you officially get the mop.
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20:23, 12 March 2022 (UTC)Congratulations on passing your RfA, and breaking the record for largest unanimous RfA! May you enjoy your service with the mop. — 3PPYB6 — TALK — CONTRIBS — 12:57, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
Hello! I wanted to try to explain to you about why the page of Bigg Boss Ultimate 1's protection level should be decreased. You know like if you take a look even for 30 seconds, you'll see that there's a lot to edit about and most of the extended confirmed users like me don't watch the episodes as we have to pay for that. But there are several auto-confirmed users who pay to watch the episodes. And there are a lot of things to edit like the tasks have to be mentioned and the nominations like if you check the page, you'll see that for the 6th week, the nomination hasn't been edited. Like at least the nominations (Who nominated who) have to be edited. I hope you understand me and comprehend how this is going to be a pain to edit after like a month. Just try to think in the place of the editors who have to do that and sometimes re-watch the episodes so as to write everything down in the page. If there're are sock-puppets, I will definitely report them to you or an another administrator. Just please think about the troubles that we're going to face to edit the page if we don't at least start now. Thank you and take care! Nikita Bhamidipati ( talk) 17:14, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
I've never seen anyone pass an RFA with 200+ supports, 0 oppositions and 0 neutral votes. Congratulations! I.hate.spam.mail.here ( talk | contributions) 03:44, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
I almost forgot about your RFA. Hearty congratulations. I always knew you would pass with flying colours. Wish I could someday become like you. Anyway, lots of love and support. May your journey as an administrator be great. Regards. Itcouldbepossible Talk 09:18, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
Seems we have a duck. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 15:16, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
Could you please close the discussion Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Weather#Infobox_&_Template_colors? It is an extension of the previous RfC which was closed already. The initial discussion was put up on the talkpage on February 6, with a continuous RfC notification since February 12. The nature of the second discussion is mostly to clarify the scope of the first, which may have been a bit ambiguous. All participants of the first discussion were pinged in case of any confusion. Noah Talk 13:48, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
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Thank you for quality articles about topics readers read, such as Windows XP and Anna Sorokin, for Pentium FDIV bug and Christ Church, Turnham Green, for making bots work for us, for doing the dirty work of admins also, for "it is a great feeling to see such a volume of support", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
You are recipient no. 2717 of Precious, a prize of QAI. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 18:11, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
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Firefly |
Editor of the Week for the week beginning March 20, 2022 |
Outstanding technical editor with versatile mainspace and behind-the-scenes work. Part of BAG and is a template editor and bot-operator to a host of highly valuable jobs, including G13 draft notices and DRN statuses. Fixes messes caused by MediaWiki bugs. Filled the void after the loss of HasteurBot so that editors receive "return to work" reminder notices from Firefly Bot after 5 months of inactivity. Helps out at copyright cleanup, helping close cases at CCI, and is a trainee arbclerk. Still has time for writing GA articles such as Anna Sorokin and Chicken gun. An extremely well-rounded editor that helps make the project run smoothly with a friendly attitude |
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record setting RFA |
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Anna Sorokin |
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Thanks again for your efforts! ― Buster7 ☎ 17:03, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
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17:24, 19 March 2022 (UTC)Hi - when you redirected most of the episodes to the main article, I'm just wondering what your rationale was for keeping only Waldorf Salad out of all the series 2 articles. The Germans I can understand, but if you ask me WS is not one of the most highly rated episodes - it's one of only two S2 episodes that have less than 9/10 on IMDb, if that's any guide. MFlet1 ( talk) 13:42, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
OK, I think I'll leave it - if anything it would be good to bring back the other episode articles if we could get more/better sources for them - but thanks for the explanation. MFlet1 ( talk) 13:49, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
Very useful tool which I've just installed. Two suggestions for when you have time:
Good luck with the RfA, and fingers crossed that
I can give you the coveted admin t-shirt
.
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01:26, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi, Firefly,
I was curious about a recent G13 of a draft I created, and after looking at FireflyBot's contributions, it looks like something happened to the notification task of the bot. The task is still listed as Active on its user page. Prior to 26 February, the bot sent numerous notifications with an edit summary of Notification of potential CSD G13 nomination of ...
pretty regularly. After that, the notifications almost stopped entirely. There were eight on 5 March, and then twelve on 21 March, but the edit summary changed to simply read Pywikibot 7.0.0
. I'm guessing something changed with an unintended side effect, so I figured I should report this. Thanks for the bot in the first place! -
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17:17, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
Hey Firefly,
You have been
successfully nominated to receive a free t-shirt from the Wikimedia Foundation through our
Merchandise Giveaway program. Congratulations and thank you for your hard work! Please email us at merchandisewikimedia.org and we will send you full details on how to accept your free shirt. Thanks!
On behalf of the Merchandise Giveaway program,
-- janbery ( talk) 16:39, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
It's been at least–well, at least 10 days since your success, and I wish you a belated congratulations. You're already doing great as an admin, per your contributions. Severe storm 28 12:58, 28 March 2022 (UTC)