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I read this page that you originally authored with interest, as I am the technician that worked behind the scenes with the two Davids. There's quite a lot missing from that article, for example the disk protection systems, all of which represented some 3 years of my life. I am not able to point to an article per se, which makes providing a reference difficult. It's not impossible though, as you'll find "PROTECTED BY SIMON" hidden in many of the games. I rarely edit on Wikipedia because of the seemingly crazy amount of trolling. If you'd be willing to have an out-of-band discussion about this, I'd be willing to provide details. Like not many others would know that one of the Davids was once Steve Winwood's sound engineer, another David grows cactii, and would be able to produce a Speedlock source code disk... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.114.207.21 ( talk) 17:27, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
Hello Ritchie333. How are you? Over a month ago I started a peer review of William B. Jordan, with the subsequent goal of a featured article nomination. As I understand, a good way to get reviews on your PR is to review other PRs and ask for reviews in return. However, a couple of things came up in real life afterwards, and I have been terribly busy since then to actively participate on Wikipedia. And I have been unable to review other PRs (or complete good article reviews that I started — something that I feel very guilty about). Which is why I was wondering if you would be willing to have a look? You have improved a staggering amount of articles to good article status, and I could use your suggestions on things that you may have learned with that experience. If you have some time to spare and would be willing to leave some feedback, I would really appreciate your input. Thank you. — The Most Comfortable Chair 07:52, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
I'd also be fine with the under referenced template. Although I'm spacing right now on what it is. That said, are you seriously going to argue that the existence of television commercials makes something notable? -- Adamant1 ( talk) 17:02, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of
93% Club at the
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15:31, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
On 10 August 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Royal Hibernian Hotel, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Royal Hibernian Hotel is thought to be the oldest hotel in Ireland? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Royal Hibernian Hotel. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Royal Hibernian Hotel), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 00:02, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
Good DAB page, it was needed. I fixed the handful of incoming links. Narky Blert ( talk) 17:18, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi again, Ritchie333. I'm not sure if you saw the most recent request that I posted on the Time's Up (movement) Talk page? I'm hoping to add some new information that explains how the movement and non-profit are organized, as well as their overall aims, similar to sections on pages for other movements such as Black Lives Matter and #MeToo. Although I posted the request at the start of the month and have pinged editors and left a note at WikiProject Women in Red, no-one has commented on the drafted content yet. My request and draft are on the article Talk page Would you be willing to read it and share feedback? I appreciate that you and other editors are busy and thank you for any time you can spare. Hope with Time's Up ( talk) 15:08, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
Shouldn't TRM be listed as a party? Mjroots ( talk) 12:55, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of The Obelisk (magazine). Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Fanofblackened ( talk) 21:37, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
Greetings, long time no see I think.
MAXIMOKAUSCH has been adding information on climbing histories and topographica data to a number of articles. On the one hand, mountaineering history is poorly covered in many Wikipedia pages on mountains so it's in principle welcome. But it's often rather poorly formatted, and sometimes the sourcing is unclear. I don't want to simply remove all of this stuff nor go and drop a pile of ALLCAPSes on their talk page, but I am not sure that I have the patience and skill to carefully explain the problems with some of their additions. Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk) 09:50, 9 August 2021 (UTC)
On 14 August 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Iain Pattinson, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that it was said that BBC scriptwriter Iain Pattinson's "unique brilliance was his ability to combine the absurd with the plausible"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Iain Pattinson. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Iain Pattinson), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 00:03, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
On 15 August 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 93% Club, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 93% Club has been described as "the reverse Bullingdon Club"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/93% Club. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, 93% Club), 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.
— Amakuru ( talk) 00:02, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
Dear Ritchie333: The BrownHairedGirl arbitration case request, to which you were a named party, has been declined. For the Arbitration Committee, KevinL ( alt of L235 · t · c) 07:46, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
You've arranged My Sharona for a nine piece soul band with a full brass section? I'm always intrigued by these little droplets of information that trickle out in various interactions. —valereee ( talk) 09:34, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
Didn't feel like using the books for Hepburn eh? I can't say I blame you. It needs a lot of work. Hope you are well and don't still fully believe what the British media are telling you about COVID.† Encyclopædius 10:38, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi,
I created this page: /info/en/?search=Draft:Aditya_Tiwari with more references. The earlier version of this page was approved. However, it was speedily deleted as a recreation of the article that was up at AFD.
I request you to kindly look into it with more sensitivity and revive the page.
This writer, author, and activist has brought about significant change in the queer space in a country like India, where “queer rights” are a lot more necessary and required. This page qualifies and should be included on Wikipedia because this person has sufficient notability to be here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Plushwiki21 ( talk • contribs) 12:56, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi Ritchie333, I created the page by extracting sources on Tiwari's career from the internet. Since there are other people with the same name. I named the page "Aditya Tiwari (Poet)" for more accuracy. Also, in order to search this entity, you need to put in this or this on your search engine and you might also see that they have a Google knowledge panel to their name as a poet. Do let me know, what can be done. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Plushwiki21 ( talk • contribs) 21:50, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
On 27 August 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Land of Lost Content (museum), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Land of Lost Content contains bluebirds from the Blue Bird Toffee factory gates, the first National Lottery ticket and a Sinclair C5? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Land of Lost Content (museum). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Land of Lost Content (museum)), 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, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
Did you hear? Charlie Watts passed away today @ 80. :( -- TheSandDoctor Talk 17:21, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
On 26 July 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Aerodrums, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that playing Aerodrums will not annoy the neighbours? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Aerodrums. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Aerodrums), 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, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
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Yesterday I had two interesting DYK (I think), and the day before was at a concert with Daniel Barenboim just playing piano, and afterwards he and the orchestra received last year's prize (pictured). -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:04, 8 August 2021 (UTC)
Your friend and mine, Geoff Marshall, released a video today on the Kyle of Lochalsh line, and he actually read an excerpt from the WP article at Duncraig railway station. I wrote most of the Duncraig Castle article, and improved it to GA status, but never got around to doing the corresponding railway station. If only I had done that, Geoff might have read my text and I'd now be famous! Enjoyed the video though, it looks like an amazing line. — Amakuru ( talk) 17:28, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
I've never HAD to experience the misery of a British Rail Pacer(my emphasis) mean you've never ridden on one even if you didn't have to?? Because if so I really feel you should try one, because it is a quintessential experience and, like kippers or black pudding or Marmite, you owe it to yourself to have the experience at least once whether you actually, um, enjoy it or (more likely ... much, much, more likely) not ... cheers DBaK ( talk) 16:49, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi, Why is it that people can create an article and straight away one can google the subject and the article comes up but I created an article on 19 July Martina Evans which is in mainspace ( It comes up if you put it in the search box or click on the link in another article, e.g. Dalston notable people, but you cannot google it and have it come up. It is so frustrating. Aineireland ( talk) 14:58, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
Thank you so much Pawnkingthree Aineireland ( talk) 17:14, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
I recently logged into my account to see a page I created ( /info/en/?search=Robert_Ducat) was speedily deleted in February 2021 without any input from me. Obviously, I will not contest the grounds (and have no standing to do so, despite being the page creator), but I would like to have the text made available for safe keeping in the future. Are you able to send that to my talk page? Thank you for your time.
-- Chris Ducat — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chris Ducat ( talk • contribs) 16:59, 29 August 2021 (UTC) Chris Ducat, The text in full read "Robert Ducat (born 1969) is a Christian music artist. He has released several albums: David's Struggle, Have Mercy, Well, and Shelter." That's probably why it was deleted - there wasn't enough information to show people could make an encyclopaedia article out of it. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 09:15, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello. Help improve and copy edit. Thanks you. Kolpb ( talk) 09:16, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
Thought I'd left you this already, it's been a few days since my email. Cheers, Vanamonde ( Talk) 14:38, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
(snip afd boilerplate)
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Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.
Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.
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There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.
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Thank you for closing the JPL discussion. I see you quoted me. :) When I was reading it, I saw I have a mistake in my writing. I have bolded it here: "if John finds out a topic he thought had no religious involvement is not religiously involved, he could play it very safe and revert his edits." Perhaps I meant "now"? I don't know. It was a few days ago. Anyway, do you think it would be helpful to follow that with [sic] or strike it or something, or trust that the community will get it from the context of the rest of the statement? Again, thank you. Have a great day! -- DiamondRemley39 ( talk) 16:41, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
I've fixed the typo; the closing statement of the ANI thread is the only place that it is directly mentioned, so that's easy to fix. I did see a notice that somebody needed to close the thread, and reading through the comments, I found a consensus for a topic ban, but wanted to include something that tried to distance this from being a "pile on", and DiamondRemley39's comment seemed to be the best one to go for. As I think you're aware, I just closed the thread based on the consensus I saw, I have previously commented that JPL's AfD comments are not helpful for a closing admin, but that is not a sanctionable offence and played no part in how I closed the thread - I don't believe I've ever clashed with him on any religious topic. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 13:23, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello Ritchie333:
WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long
Good Article Editathon event in October 2021!
Running from 1 through 31 October 2021, WikiProject Women in Green is hosting a Good Article (GA) editathon event focused on the topic of women's rights. Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing women's rights-related GA submissions during the event period, with resources and one-on-one support provided by experienced Women in Green GA reviewers. Participants have the opportunity to receive a barnstar.
We hope to see you there!
Alanna the Brave ( talk) 00:26, 24 September 2021 (UTC)Hi, regarding the deletion of the article Harry Partridge which you closed, I feel the fact that a WP:RS published new and obviously non-trivial in-depth coverage of the subject matter towards the end of the deletion process (which in my opinion made the article easily pass WP:3REFS/ WP:GNG) means the process shouldn't have been closed so early, before the previous voters had had a chance to look at the new source and re-assess their votes based on that new information. This is the source I'm talking about, for your reference. Additionally, the only vote cast after I brought that new coverage up was an unfortunate case of WP:WIKIHOUNDING. I pointed this out in the discussion, but the vote was nonetheless not stricken, instead, another user felt motivated to post a " WP:AGF Level 2 warning" on my talk page [1] and falsely claim there was "no reason" to assume Wikihounding [2], which is very weird considering that if they had actually looked at the evidence as they claimed it's very clear:
User:MrsSnoozyTurtle posted her deletion vote [3] a mere minute (!) after posting this on my talk page: [4] where she even references another discussion ("the exchange below") I was having with another user about the Harry Partridge deletion article. She wasn't "patrolling" AfD's and found the article that way - her most recent edit at an AfD had happened several days earlier: [5] (incidentally this is where our spat originated). It's obvious how she found her way there, that her vote was only motivated by malice, and that she spent no time whatsoever actually looking at the article/sources in question. It seems like a very bold-faced case of Wikihounding and I think it does deserve at least a warning of some kind, if nothing to make it clear to that user that it won't be OK to repeat that behavior.
(If you should feel that I also deserve a warning for incivility I'd accept it, I understand I might have been too "frank" in some cases in the heat of the moment, but I do feel I wasn't worse than the people I was having the spats with, which might be a shitty excuse but there it is)
If the vote can not be re-opened, I'm wondering if you could help me by pointing out what the best way forward for me would be if I want to give the article at least a chance to be undeleted because I'm somewhat confused by the policy on this. I would be perfectly happy with a completely new vote because I think the last pre-redirect version of the article stood on its own two legs, but it's not clear to me whether this would be allowed. Per WP:RENOM it seems you should go through WP:UND, and I don't have an issue waiting a month or whatever time would be recommended to do it, but on that page they actually make it clear it's for "restoring pages or files that were uncontroversially deleted via proposed deletion". Would having the article draftified and then (eventually) submitted through the draft process be a good way forward? Or would it just be considered "out-of-process recreation" and deleted again even if the draft was only let into "articlespace" after being approved by another editor? 101.50.250.88 ( talk) 06:00, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
Omas gegen Rechts - enjoy strong women! I thought of Yoninah on the first day of Rosh Hashanah. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:52, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
Rich Main page today: the first TFA by a promising author, the pictured DYK by my friend LouisAlain who is discouraged by an AN discussion, and one of the Recent deaths. Enjoy! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 18:05, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
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I read this page that you originally authored with interest, as I am the technician that worked behind the scenes with the two Davids. There's quite a lot missing from that article, for example the disk protection systems, all of which represented some 3 years of my life. I am not able to point to an article per se, which makes providing a reference difficult. It's not impossible though, as you'll find "PROTECTED BY SIMON" hidden in many of the games. I rarely edit on Wikipedia because of the seemingly crazy amount of trolling. If you'd be willing to have an out-of-band discussion about this, I'd be willing to provide details. Like not many others would know that one of the Davids was once Steve Winwood's sound engineer, another David grows cactii, and would be able to produce a Speedlock source code disk... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.114.207.21 ( talk) 17:27, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
Hello Ritchie333. How are you? Over a month ago I started a peer review of William B. Jordan, with the subsequent goal of a featured article nomination. As I understand, a good way to get reviews on your PR is to review other PRs and ask for reviews in return. However, a couple of things came up in real life afterwards, and I have been terribly busy since then to actively participate on Wikipedia. And I have been unable to review other PRs (or complete good article reviews that I started — something that I feel very guilty about). Which is why I was wondering if you would be willing to have a look? You have improved a staggering amount of articles to good article status, and I could use your suggestions on things that you may have learned with that experience. If you have some time to spare and would be willing to leave some feedback, I would really appreciate your input. Thank you. — The Most Comfortable Chair 07:52, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
I'd also be fine with the under referenced template. Although I'm spacing right now on what it is. That said, are you seriously going to argue that the existence of television commercials makes something notable? -- Adamant1 ( talk) 17:02, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of
93% Club at the
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your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know!
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15:31, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
On 10 August 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Royal Hibernian Hotel, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Royal Hibernian Hotel is thought to be the oldest hotel in Ireland? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Royal Hibernian Hotel. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Royal Hibernian Hotel), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 00:02, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
Good DAB page, it was needed. I fixed the handful of incoming links. Narky Blert ( talk) 17:18, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi again, Ritchie333. I'm not sure if you saw the most recent request that I posted on the Time's Up (movement) Talk page? I'm hoping to add some new information that explains how the movement and non-profit are organized, as well as their overall aims, similar to sections on pages for other movements such as Black Lives Matter and #MeToo. Although I posted the request at the start of the month and have pinged editors and left a note at WikiProject Women in Red, no-one has commented on the drafted content yet. My request and draft are on the article Talk page Would you be willing to read it and share feedback? I appreciate that you and other editors are busy and thank you for any time you can spare. Hope with Time's Up ( talk) 15:08, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
Shouldn't TRM be listed as a party? Mjroots ( talk) 12:55, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of The Obelisk (magazine). Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Fanofblackened ( talk) 21:37, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
Greetings, long time no see I think.
MAXIMOKAUSCH has been adding information on climbing histories and topographica data to a number of articles. On the one hand, mountaineering history is poorly covered in many Wikipedia pages on mountains so it's in principle welcome. But it's often rather poorly formatted, and sometimes the sourcing is unclear. I don't want to simply remove all of this stuff nor go and drop a pile of ALLCAPSes on their talk page, but I am not sure that I have the patience and skill to carefully explain the problems with some of their additions. Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk) 09:50, 9 August 2021 (UTC)
On 14 August 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Iain Pattinson, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that it was said that BBC scriptwriter Iain Pattinson's "unique brilliance was his ability to combine the absurd with the plausible"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Iain Pattinson. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Iain Pattinson), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 00:03, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
On 15 August 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 93% Club, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 93% Club has been described as "the reverse Bullingdon Club"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/93% Club. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, 93% Club), 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.
— Amakuru ( talk) 00:02, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
Dear Ritchie333: The BrownHairedGirl arbitration case request, to which you were a named party, has been declined. For the Arbitration Committee, KevinL ( alt of L235 · t · c) 07:46, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
You've arranged My Sharona for a nine piece soul band with a full brass section? I'm always intrigued by these little droplets of information that trickle out in various interactions. —valereee ( talk) 09:34, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
Didn't feel like using the books for Hepburn eh? I can't say I blame you. It needs a lot of work. Hope you are well and don't still fully believe what the British media are telling you about COVID.† Encyclopædius 10:38, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi,
I created this page: /info/en/?search=Draft:Aditya_Tiwari with more references. The earlier version of this page was approved. However, it was speedily deleted as a recreation of the article that was up at AFD.
I request you to kindly look into it with more sensitivity and revive the page.
This writer, author, and activist has brought about significant change in the queer space in a country like India, where “queer rights” are a lot more necessary and required. This page qualifies and should be included on Wikipedia because this person has sufficient notability to be here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Plushwiki21 ( talk • contribs) 12:56, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi Ritchie333, I created the page by extracting sources on Tiwari's career from the internet. Since there are other people with the same name. I named the page "Aditya Tiwari (Poet)" for more accuracy. Also, in order to search this entity, you need to put in this or this on your search engine and you might also see that they have a Google knowledge panel to their name as a poet. Do let me know, what can be done. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Plushwiki21 ( talk • contribs) 21:50, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
On 27 August 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Land of Lost Content (museum), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Land of Lost Content contains bluebirds from the Blue Bird Toffee factory gates, the first National Lottery ticket and a Sinclair C5? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Land of Lost Content (museum). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Land of Lost Content (museum)), 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, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
Did you hear? Charlie Watts passed away today @ 80. :( -- TheSandDoctor Talk 17:21, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
On 26 July 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Aerodrums, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that playing Aerodrums will not annoy the neighbours? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Aerodrums. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Aerodrums), 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, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
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Yesterday I had two interesting DYK (I think), and the day before was at a concert with Daniel Barenboim just playing piano, and afterwards he and the orchestra received last year's prize (pictured). -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:04, 8 August 2021 (UTC)
Your friend and mine, Geoff Marshall, released a video today on the Kyle of Lochalsh line, and he actually read an excerpt from the WP article at Duncraig railway station. I wrote most of the Duncraig Castle article, and improved it to GA status, but never got around to doing the corresponding railway station. If only I had done that, Geoff might have read my text and I'd now be famous! Enjoyed the video though, it looks like an amazing line. — Amakuru ( talk) 17:28, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
I've never HAD to experience the misery of a British Rail Pacer(my emphasis) mean you've never ridden on one even if you didn't have to?? Because if so I really feel you should try one, because it is a quintessential experience and, like kippers or black pudding or Marmite, you owe it to yourself to have the experience at least once whether you actually, um, enjoy it or (more likely ... much, much, more likely) not ... cheers DBaK ( talk) 16:49, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi, Why is it that people can create an article and straight away one can google the subject and the article comes up but I created an article on 19 July Martina Evans which is in mainspace ( It comes up if you put it in the search box or click on the link in another article, e.g. Dalston notable people, but you cannot google it and have it come up. It is so frustrating. Aineireland ( talk) 14:58, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
Thank you so much Pawnkingthree Aineireland ( talk) 17:14, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
I recently logged into my account to see a page I created ( /info/en/?search=Robert_Ducat) was speedily deleted in February 2021 without any input from me. Obviously, I will not contest the grounds (and have no standing to do so, despite being the page creator), but I would like to have the text made available for safe keeping in the future. Are you able to send that to my talk page? Thank you for your time.
-- Chris Ducat — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chris Ducat ( talk • contribs) 16:59, 29 August 2021 (UTC) Chris Ducat, The text in full read "Robert Ducat (born 1969) is a Christian music artist. He has released several albums: David's Struggle, Have Mercy, Well, and Shelter." That's probably why it was deleted - there wasn't enough information to show people could make an encyclopaedia article out of it. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 09:15, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello. Help improve and copy edit. Thanks you. Kolpb ( talk) 09:16, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for closing the JPL discussion. I see you quoted me. :) When I was reading it, I saw I have a mistake in my writing. I have bolded it here: "if John finds out a topic he thought had no religious involvement is not religiously involved, he could play it very safe and revert his edits." Perhaps I meant "now"? I don't know. It was a few days ago. Anyway, do you think it would be helpful to follow that with [sic] or strike it or something, or trust that the community will get it from the context of the rest of the statement? Again, thank you. Have a great day! -- DiamondRemley39 ( talk) 16:41, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
I've fixed the typo; the closing statement of the ANI thread is the only place that it is directly mentioned, so that's easy to fix. I did see a notice that somebody needed to close the thread, and reading through the comments, I found a consensus for a topic ban, but wanted to include something that tried to distance this from being a "pile on", and DiamondRemley39's comment seemed to be the best one to go for. As I think you're aware, I just closed the thread based on the consensus I saw, I have previously commented that JPL's AfD comments are not helpful for a closing admin, but that is not a sanctionable offence and played no part in how I closed the thread - I don't believe I've ever clashed with him on any religious topic. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 13:23, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
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Alanna the Brave ( talk) 00:26, 24 September 2021 (UTC)Hi, regarding the deletion of the article Harry Partridge which you closed, I feel the fact that a WP:RS published new and obviously non-trivial in-depth coverage of the subject matter towards the end of the deletion process (which in my opinion made the article easily pass WP:3REFS/ WP:GNG) means the process shouldn't have been closed so early, before the previous voters had had a chance to look at the new source and re-assess their votes based on that new information. This is the source I'm talking about, for your reference. Additionally, the only vote cast after I brought that new coverage up was an unfortunate case of WP:WIKIHOUNDING. I pointed this out in the discussion, but the vote was nonetheless not stricken, instead, another user felt motivated to post a " WP:AGF Level 2 warning" on my talk page [1] and falsely claim there was "no reason" to assume Wikihounding [2], which is very weird considering that if they had actually looked at the evidence as they claimed it's very clear:
User:MrsSnoozyTurtle posted her deletion vote [3] a mere minute (!) after posting this on my talk page: [4] where she even references another discussion ("the exchange below") I was having with another user about the Harry Partridge deletion article. She wasn't "patrolling" AfD's and found the article that way - her most recent edit at an AfD had happened several days earlier: [5] (incidentally this is where our spat originated). It's obvious how she found her way there, that her vote was only motivated by malice, and that she spent no time whatsoever actually looking at the article/sources in question. It seems like a very bold-faced case of Wikihounding and I think it does deserve at least a warning of some kind, if nothing to make it clear to that user that it won't be OK to repeat that behavior.
(If you should feel that I also deserve a warning for incivility I'd accept it, I understand I might have been too "frank" in some cases in the heat of the moment, but I do feel I wasn't worse than the people I was having the spats with, which might be a shitty excuse but there it is)
If the vote can not be re-opened, I'm wondering if you could help me by pointing out what the best way forward for me would be if I want to give the article at least a chance to be undeleted because I'm somewhat confused by the policy on this. I would be perfectly happy with a completely new vote because I think the last pre-redirect version of the article stood on its own two legs, but it's not clear to me whether this would be allowed. Per WP:RENOM it seems you should go through WP:UND, and I don't have an issue waiting a month or whatever time would be recommended to do it, but on that page they actually make it clear it's for "restoring pages or files that were uncontroversially deleted via proposed deletion". Would having the article draftified and then (eventually) submitted through the draft process be a good way forward? Or would it just be considered "out-of-process recreation" and deleted again even if the draft was only let into "articlespace" after being approved by another editor? 101.50.250.88 ( talk) 06:00, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
Omas gegen Rechts - enjoy strong women! I thought of Yoninah on the first day of Rosh Hashanah. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:52, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
Rich Main page today: the first TFA by a promising author, the pictured DYK by my friend LouisAlain who is discouraged by an AN discussion, and one of the Recent deaths. Enjoy! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 18:05, 9 September 2021 (UTC)