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Hello, I'm a total novice on this matter so how can you help me fit in this job? -- Automatic heir ( talk) 15:54, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello, I'm a total novice on this matter so how can you help me fit in this job? -- Automatic heir ( talk) 15:55, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

@ Automatic heir: Hey there! What specifically do you need help with? — PerfectSoundWhatever ( t; c) 15:57, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

I have created a new page about Preeti Rai, a notable football player of Nepalese women football team. A raising star, could you assist me on getting this page created? -- Omlaksham ( talk) 21:48, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

@ Omlaksham: Hello, it seems that the draft has been deleted. I would suggest that you read through your talk page and ask me if you have any questions about what is posted there. Thanks. — PerfectSoundWhatever ( t; c) 23:03, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

How do I create a citation ? Thanks -- Ajaysingh1925 ( talk) 09:59, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

@ Ajaysingh1925: Hi there, thanks for the question! Here is a good guide on creating citations: Help:Referencing for beginners. In summary, the easiest way is to add a citation is to be using the visual editor mode and click the "Cite" button. This automatically creates a citation from a url, a book ISBN, a journal DOI, etc, and is really useful! — PerfectSoundWhatever ( t; c) 23:04, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Xfgbjyf -- Durkadevi ( talk) 16:00, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

I am accomplished in the education and music industries, and would like to create a biography on Wikipedia. I entered a preliminary version as a sandbox document which I seem to have lost and simply cannot find. Now I'm having difficulty even finding the initial creation of an article page. Can you help? Thanks. —Ken Richards -- Kenhrichards ( talk) 22:28, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

@ Kenhrichards: Hi, do you think the sandbox page was located on another Wikipedia account? Or, did you ever edit while not logged in? (from an IP address). You can try Wikipedia's search tool and type the title of the article in. You can only search within the User namespace, which is where sandboxes are usually located.

If what you meant is that you didn't save the draft, the best place to start to create a new article is the Article wizard. Please also read Help:Your first article. Let me know if you have any other questions, thanks! — PerfectSoundWhatever ( t; c) 23:10, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

		Citation Barnstar
		This award is given in recognition to PerfectSoundWhatever/Archives/2024 for collecting more than 50 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's FEB24 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing 14,300 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – – DreamRimmer ( talk) 18:38, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Hello, how do I create an article of a musician, yet know -- Snowboy Blues ( talk) 00:03, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

@ Snowboy Blues: Hi, it is highly encouraged that you do NOT write an article about yourself. If you decide to anyways, make sure it is created through the Articles for Creation process, the article is neutral, and that you properly declare your conflict of interest. Let me know if you have any questions, thanks. — PerfectSoundWhatever ( t; c) 01:09, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi, I'm currently editing a page that another editor began editing as well. In and of itself, of course, that's fine: this is supposed to be collaborative effort.

However, I have since discovered (by looking at their 'Talk' page) that this other editor has engaged in multiple 'edit wars' over the years:

/info/en/?search=User_talk:Augmented_Seventh

Looking at the comments they made to the page I was editing, it appears that they may be gearing up for another one.

As a relatively new user of Wikipedia, I don't really know what to do if another editor engages in this sort of disruptive and combative bad faith behaviour. I could definitely use some advice.

Thanks! -- TheScholemaster ( talk) 21:00, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Hey @ TheScholemaster:, thanks for your question. The only page I can see that you've both edited is Opera Atelier. That is nothing close to edit warring and I find it strange that you would preemptively think that they are "gearing up" for one. The bold edit then revert cycle is very common on Wikipedia— not everyone will always agree with your edits, and you will have to get used to people reverting your edits.

My main problem with your edit to that page is that you didn't add a citation for adding people as artistic directors, and I would have also thought about reverting the edits.

Anyways, in the case of an edit war, you would generally follow Wikipedia's policy for dispute resolution. First, don't keep reverting/ edit warring as it solves nothing. Remember, edit warring is a two-way street. Next, discuss with the editor on the talk page. If you don't reach an agreement, you can either drop it, or request for other editors to weigh in. Worst case scenario, you could start an WP:RfC and get opinions from a wide range of editors on the issue.

Thanks — PerfectSoundWhatever ( t; c) 01:20, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I appreciate your taking the time.

To clarify:

Yes, that is the page in question. I am certainly not suggesting there is currently 'edit warring' on that page.

I expressed concern about the possibility that it might happen, given the other editor's not inconsiderable history of doing exactly that (and making things quite personal). If anything, my question was more general: what should I do in a case like that, should it happen?

Second, for clarity, I didn't add anyone as artist directors. They were already listed separately as 'Co-Artistic Directors' in the infobox, and red-linked there, before I edited that page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Opera_Atelier&oldid=1152195526

I amalgamated them into a single 'leader' entry in the infobox -- which seemed a little cleaner visually -- and added the Music Director to the 'key people' entry (for an opera company, fairly reasonable) as well as requested image from Wikimedia, which was already on the Italian version of the page. The founders were also already red-linked in the infobox as artistic directors; I did follow that lead, but I also don't object to that particular change in delinking them. (After all, they don't have their own entries.) The directorships weren't reverted or undone; they were deleted by the other editor.

With respect to your concern about citations, my current unsubmitted draft adds 14 citations to the New York Times, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the CBC, a scholarly journal, etc. These support both the attribution of artistic direction and music direction, and the activity and history of the company generally. The founders are consistently described as "Co-Artistic Directors", as a direct quote, not only on the company's own pages but in almost every print source I've found. (I accidentally submitted this draft in an incomplete state, including broken formatting and a partial 'edit summary'; I then undid it myself, and am still revising it.)

Again, I'm not suggesting anything untoward has already happened. I was merely expressing concern that it might -- not without reason, given the other editor's rather truculent history -- and asking what to do in that event.

My hope is that adding more than a dozen solid citations will be well received.

Thank you especially for those links, which I will use for reference in following up. It would seem that I've indirectly, through the mentorship mechanism, stumbled into the third opinion (3O phase.

I'm quite happy to take your encouraging suggestion that nothing is or will be amiss, and all that's missing is some citations. Happily, those are not in short supply.

Cheers, TheScholemaster ( talk) 03:11, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

@ TheScholemaster: If you had citations to support that claim, you must add them to the article when you add the information. It doesn't matter if you've found them but didn't add them. Hopefully you see that, due to this, it wasn't unreasonable for the other editor to revert.

Glad those links helped. Let me know if you have any other questions! — PerfectSoundWhatever ( t; c) 17:06, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Hello, I have participated in some AfDs, but in the AfD stats, it says that my vote is “undiscernible”. However, I clearly voted in 3 out of the 4 ones that it said I had no vote in. How do I get this fixed? -- Antny08 ( talk) 14:55, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

@ Antny08: Hey, thanks for the question.

• In Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oskar von dem Hagen, Special:Diff/1211422759 my guess is that it did not register because your signature was on a separate line from the comment.
• I would guess it would be the same case as Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Online book and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elizabeth Hamilton Guarino
• I think you already know why it didn't for Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Battle for Belgrade, you didn't specify a vote.

Thanks — PerfectSoundWhatever ( t; c) 17:14, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, I realize I did not include my signature. Is there any way to get them counted as votes still? Antny08 ( talk) 18:55, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Not sure, sorry. I wouldn't worry about it too much. — PerfectSoundWhatever ( t; c) 17:18, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is now no longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:

• Proposal 2, initiated by HouseBlaster, provides for the addition of a text box at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship reminding all editors of our policies and enforcement mechanisms around decorum.
• Proposals 3 and 3b, initiated by Barkeep49 and Usedtobecool, respectively, provide for trials of discussion-only periods at RfA. The first would add three extra discussion-only days to the beginning, while the second would convert the first two days to discussion-only.
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• Proposals 6c and 6d, initiated by BilledMammal, provide for allowing users to be selected as provisional admins for a limited time through various concrete selection criteria and smaller-scale vetting.
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• Proposal 9b, initiated by Reaper Eternal, provides for the requirement that allegations of policy violation be substantiated with appropriate links to where the alleged misconduct occured.
• Proposals 12c, 21, and 21b, initiated by City of Silver, Ritchie333, and HouseBlaster, respectively, provide for reducing the discretionary zone, which currently extends from 65% to 75%. The first would reduce it 65%–70%, the second would reduce it to 50%–66%, and the third would reduce it to 60%–70%.
• Proposal 13, initiated by Novem Lingaue, provides for periodic, privately balloted admin elections.
• Proposal 14, initiated by Kusma, provides for the creation of some minimum suffrage requirements to cast a vote.
• Proposals 16 and 16c, initiated by Thebiguglyalien and Soni, respectively, provide for community-based admin desysop procedures. 16 would desysop where consensus is established in favor at the administrators' noticeboard; 16c would allow a petition to force reconfirmation.
• Proposal 16e, initiated by BilledMammal, would extend the recall procedures of 16 to bureaucrats.
• Proposal 17, initiated by SchroCat, provides for "on-call" admins and 'crats to monitor RfAs for decorum.
• Proposal 18, initiated by theleekycauldron, provides for lowering the RfB target from 85% to 75%.
• Proposal 24, initiated by SportingFlyer, provides for a more robust alternate version of the optional candidate poll.
• Proposal 25, initiated by Femke, provides for the requirement that nominees be extended-confirmed in addition to their nominators.
• Proposal 27, initiated by WereSpielChequers, provides for the creation of a training course for admin hopefuls, as well as periodic retraining to keep admins from drifting out of sync with community norms.
• Proposal 28, initiated by HouseBlaster, tightens restrictions on multi-part questions.

To read proposals that were closed as unsuccessful, please see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I/Closed proposals. You are cordially invited once again to participate in the open discussions; when phase I ends, phase II will review the outcomes of trial proposals and refine the implementation details of other proposals. Another notification will be sent out when this phase begins, likely with the first successful close of a major proposal. Happy editing! theleekycauldron ( talk • she/her), via:

MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 10:53, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Hello, I have tried to change the grade on the article Battle of Port Said from Start to C class, because I believe it meets the requirements. However, although I changed the ranking on the talk page like the guide said, it stills says that it is only Start class. Do you know why? -- Antny08 ( talk) 16:58, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Hey @ Antny08:, I had to research this myself as I wasn't sure. It turns out that WP:WikiProject Military history "has opted out of project-independent quality assessments". Basically, they have their own whole system for assessing articles. If you check here, for an article to be "C-class" it must meet specific criteria: B1 or B2 as well as B3 and B4 and B5. You can say that the article passed those criteria by looking in the template parameters. Thanks — PerfectSoundWhatever ( t; c) 17:24, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Hello -- Tahir Isman 1970 ( talk) 09:46, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

@ Tahir Isman 1970: Hey, do you have any questions about editing Wikipedia? — PerfectSoundWhatever ( t; c) 15:40, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

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Hi, how to insert a picture in the table? -- Dave1337 ( talk) 12:40, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

@ Dave1337: Hey, you can enter the article in visual editor, click on a table cell, and enter an image: Insert → Images and Media — PerfectSoundWhatever ( t; c) 17:05, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

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Hello! 

I kindly request you to unblock my IP address because there are no reasons to block my access; I have never made any edits to any Wikipedia articles, and my current Wikipedia profile is the only one registered about a week ago. If it takes much time, tell me, please, can I create articles using this account from another IP address, or will access be limited in any case? -- Lily Arami ( talk) 10:02, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

@ Lily Arami: Hi, I am not an administrator, so I cannot block/unblock anyone. If just the IP is blocked, you should be able to edit just fine using your logged in account. Is there any reason you need the IP to be unblocked? — PerfectSoundWhatever ( t; c) 15:55, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Yes, of course, I want to create new page, but can’t do it because of blocked IP :( Lily Arami ( talk) 15:57, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

@ Lily Arami: Only autoconfirmed users can create pages. To be autoconfirmed, your account must be at least 4 days old and have made at least 10 edits. Non-autoconfirmed users should create their pages through Wikipedia's review process, Articles for Creation, which I highly recommend. Start writing your article here — PerfectSoundWhatever ( t; c) 16:19, 29 March 2024 (UTC)