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Please take care not to add {{ stub}} to an article which already has a specific stub tag, as you did in this edit - it only wastes other editors' time. Thanks. Pam D 12:52, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
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@ Ignaciouy: Thanks! Tymon.r Do you have any questions? 01:03, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
Hey Tymon!
I am testing something :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hickland ( talk • contribs) 23:41, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
We now have 803 New Page Reviewers!
Most of us requested the user right at
PERM, expressing a wish to be able to do something about the huge backlog, but the chart on the right does not demonstrate any changes to the pre-user-right levels of October.
The backlog is still steadily growing at a rate of 150 a day or 4,650 a month. Only 20 reviews a day by each reviewer over the next few days would bring the backlog down to a managable level and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
It didn't work in time to relax for the Xmas/New Year holidays. Let's see if we can achieve our goal before Easter, otherwise by Thanksgiving it will be closer to 70,000.
Remember that we are the only guardians of quality of new articles, we alone have to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged by non-Reviewer patrollers and that new authors are not being bitten.
This is even more important and extra vigilance is required considering Orangemoody, and
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Since rolling out the right in November, just 6 months ago, we now have 803 reviewers, but the backlog is still mysteriously growing fast. If every reviewer did just 55 reviews, the 22,000 backlog would be gone, in a flash, schwoop, just like that!
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This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to Onel5969. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554 reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285 edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.
See also the list of top 100 reviewers.
The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640 holders of the NPR flag, most of whom appear to be inactive. The 10% of the reviewers who do 90% of the work could do with some support especially as some of them are now taking a well deserved break.
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Hello Tymon. Thank you for all you do on Wikipedia. The PC Week page was originally intended to be a redirect. Someone deleted the redirect. If you review the history of eWeek you will see that it was formerly called PC Week. BuffaloBob ( talk) 13:56, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
I feel like my edit to Jace Alexander is constructive. His wife has a one-woman show discussing her experience which was written up in the NYT. Please revert your reversion of my edit. Thanks! 98.14.96.85 ( talk) 00:07, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello Tymon, thanks for all you do. Novice editor with a problem with (likely) one or two disgruntled ex employees of Clarke Broadcasting. Also means there were problems with KZSQ, KVML and myMotherlode.com wiki pages. [ [2]] can you set up pending changes protection for a bit? These were not logged changes, but I have no experience with this. I will check back before I got home at 5pm and tomorrow morning. Hope you can help us out. Sabrala Sabrala ( talk) 22:34, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for the update @Tymon.r, I really didn't understand how to see what happened. I thought about asking again because there was another 3,000+ byte update from an IP but a bot reverted it immediately. Later a logged in person added a paragraph and then one more. I removed those but my main concern is how can I monitor it? I am hoping the ways wiki usually deals with this stuff are working. I checked the box to get updates but I never got an email (I checked my junk mail folder too and approved wikipedia as a safe sender) I did get an email when you mentioned my name directly. I reviewed the wikietiquette and I see how you end your comment but I don't know how to use that question feature? Sabrala Sabrala ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 19:33, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi Tymon, I noticed the user IcsSer has received two vandalism warning templates on their talk page one of which was from you. Looking at the edits I believe they were correct typo fixes 1 2 and the warnings unwarranted. As an inexperienced user myself I was unsure whether it would be appropriate for me to remove the templates from their talk page so I thought it would be best to contact one of the editors involved. Thanks, The Skeptical Ham ( talk) 04:32, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
Just a heads up about your relist of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Star Awards for Young Talent. The usual procedure is to only do two relists. It's generally not useful to relist it a third time. Not a big deal, just for future reference. -- RoySmith (talk) 02:41, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi Tymon! Thanks for your work at AfD. However, per WP:RELIST, please refrain from relisting AfD discussions that have already been relisted twice and haven't seen any significant contributions (for example Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ansar Channel, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Star Awards for Young Talent, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brighter AI, and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jack Be). Instead, consider leaving those discussions for admins to close; or, if appropriate, you could close them yourself. For more information, please see WP:NOQUORUM and WP:Relist bias. Thanks! ansh 666 08:10, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
@ Ansh666: @ RoySmith: Hey! Thank you for messaging me and pointing it out. As I have been already aware of this rule, not to relist something for 3rd time, I still believed more in giving an additional chance for reaching a consensus on a subject than closing a discussion without a clear result. My mistake, I should not have put my personal opinion over our well-established policies. Please accept my apologize. Best, Tymon.r Do you have any questions? 23:09, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi Tymon.r , I just noticed you suggested the Habiba Djilani article for deletion. I would love to know what is wrong with the article, apart the fact that it contained a photo that didn't respect commons policy and that was deleted already? Habiba Djilani is an important woman in the history of medicine not only in Tunisia but also in Africa and the arab world. The article was written by a participant during a WikiGap workshop yesterday. Looking forward to hearing from you. Houssem Abida ( talk) 11:56, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
Please revert your inappropriate closure of that AFD here. The nominator (one delete !vote) retracting their own !vote after others have already supported deletion is not a valid speedy keep rationale. I'd revert you myself, but I am not sure if I'd need to do anything other than simply reverting your edit to the AFD so as not to have to "renominate" the page. Note that I am aware that you appear to have closed the AFD without giving it any more than a quick glance, since you relisted a different AFD only two minutes earlier, relisted another immediately after, and two minutes later closed another as keep. [3] Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 10:04, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
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This in part. was a horrible closure. I have no clue about why TheSandDoctor relisted it for the 3rd time despite the single !vote in my support but at any case, it was at the last day of the 3rd relist span, when Rebecca chimed in with sources. A sock !voted in agreement and another followed. FWIW; socks are always discounted and given that I had no opportunity to rebut the sources; I am amazed at your keep closure. I have thus reverted you under the purview of IAR but feel free to reinstate the closure shall you wish so, pending which I will seek a DRV. ∯WBG converse 05:31, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
However, WBG: that was an exceedingly inappropriate use of IAR. When sources are added to a discussion does not matter in regards to closing, and it's not obligatory to allow the other side to respond. The appropriate course of action for you would have been to come here and discuss with Tymon first, as was done in the section immediately above, and if they did not give a satisfactory response or refused to revert, then take it to an uninvolved administrator or DRV. Please do not revert a good-faith closure of any deletion discussion that you have participated in, let alone nominated. Thanks, ansh 666 06:50, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
How often? Diffs please. Get off with this wiki-lawyering before you get T-Banned. ∯WBG converse 17:51, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
@ RebeccaGreen, @ Nosebagbear: Hello. I am pinging you as you might be possibly interested in a discussion which is taking place above. Best, Tymon.r Do you have any questions? 19:57, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi Tymon.r, I noticed that you recently made a non-admin closure at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Harald Tveit Alvestrand. While I do not disagree with the decision/result, I just wanted to let you know that this was a potentially controversial AfD since the subject of the article commented on the Afd immediately followed by four users who are new / inactive, giving rise to potential COI and canvassing considerations. I am not accusing you or anyone else of wrongdoing but just letting you know to be aware. Thanks! — MarkH21 ( talk) 00:23, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
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Request reason:
I am more than surprised with the block of my legitimate alternative account, JATMBot, in contrary to what's stated in the block notice (I'm not blocked). Although, it's username in truth contain the "-bot" suffix, it was not and is not used for any edits except to account's own user-page and so it doesn't violate username policy. Account had to be created to reserve a username and start the proceedings for bot's approval. It's a standard procedure. Therefore I expect the block to be lifted. Thanks. Tymon.r Do you have any questions? 16:18, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
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This looks like an honest mistake, and I'll go ahead and revert the block on the account. I did read the discussion on the proceedings for your bot's approval, so this would be a legit account. RickinBaltimore ( talk) 15:20, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
Sorry, I'm a technological dunce and have no idea how to solve this. The other user is insisting on something that I feel is incorrect. I feel that I have provided evidence from Wikipedia's own pages to back up my point and he/she has disregarded it, choosing to revert my edit. How do I fix this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:83:8000:7100:5456:7268:4956:9C3E ( talk) 16:53, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
I've noticed you relisting many AfD discussions lately. Today I specifically noticed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mike Sharman, which is a 2nd relist of a low participation AfD. Since another non-admin editor was recently topic banned at ANI for similar activity, I thought I'd drop a friendly heads-up that those sorts of AfDs (and in fact most AfDs) should not be relisted by non-admins. Admins have the full range of options in WP:NOQUORUM available to them, including deletion. You do not have the full range of options available to you, so relisting those leads to WP:RELISTBIAS, which unnecessarily consumes time and attention of AfD participants. Particularly given the recent discussion at ANI, I encourage you to participate in AfD discussions rather than relisting them. Bakazaka ( talk) 22:37, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
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keeps changing back my edits to the paisley grammar page when i am actually a pupil there and have the correct information, for example the head teacher is Janice Leavens not Zoe Madden who is on fact a pupil in my class who was having a joke. literally just google it and find something better to do AnDvjakNabsja ( talk) 00:47, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
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@ GorillaWarfare: Thanks a lot for your appreciation and thanks for being vigilant today too ;) Best, Tymon.r Do you have any questions? 01:09, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
Can you stop reverting my constructive edit and read my edit summary where I explain my rationale? Thanks. - 14.203.38.101 ( talk) 00:08, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
The article page about me on Wikipedia is not showing on Google or any search engine, why? I'm little bit confuse, please help me I am new here. Sturdyankit ( talk) 21:18, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
@ Sturdyankit: Hey! Thanks for messaging me. By "article page about you" you probably mean your user page - User:Sturdyankit, right? Technically, it is not a main space article. Per our policy, user pages are implicitly not indexed by search engines to i.a. avoid users' self-promotion. I am sorry to say that, but probably, as for now, you are not notable enough to have an article about you published on Wikipedia. Tymon.r Do you have any questions? 09:59, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
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Sir, I just add some citations and references on my first article inspite of that there's showing "This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policy" on top of the article. Help me sir, I don't want to be deleted. Sturdyankit ( talk) 04:02, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
@ Sturdyankit: Hey, again thanks for messaging me. I have no power to decide whether an article is kept or deleted. On Wikipedia such decisions are usually made in the course of discussion. Please take a part in a discussion regarding a proposed deletion of your article - it is right there. Explain in your own words why you believe it should not be deleted. And don't give up – many of Wikipedians know the beginnings can be difficult. Best, Tymon.r Do you have any questions? 10:16, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for your help reverting that vandal on my talk page, sorry I wasn't on to help you out though. N0nsensical.system (err0r?) (.log) 10:29, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
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Please take care not to add {{ stub}} to an article which already has a specific stub tag, as you did in this edit - it only wastes other editors' time. Thanks. Pam D 12:52, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
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@ Ignaciouy: Thanks! Tymon.r Do you have any questions? 01:03, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
Hey Tymon!
I am testing something :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hickland ( talk • contribs) 23:41, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
We now have 803 New Page Reviewers!
Most of us requested the user right at
PERM, expressing a wish to be able to do something about the huge backlog, but the chart on the right does not demonstrate any changes to the pre-user-right levels of October.
The backlog is still steadily growing at a rate of 150 a day or 4,650 a month. Only 20 reviews a day by each reviewer over the next few days would bring the backlog down to a managable level and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
It didn't work in time to relax for the Xmas/New Year holidays. Let's see if we can achieve our goal before Easter, otherwise by Thanksgiving it will be closer to 70,000.
Remember that we are the only guardians of quality of new articles, we alone have to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged by non-Reviewer patrollers and that new authors are not being bitten.
This is even more important and extra vigilance is required considering Orangemoody, and
Kudpung is stepping down after 6 years as unofficial coordinator of New Page Patrolling/Reviewing. There is enough work for two people and two coords are now required. Details are at NPR Coordinators; nominate someone or nominate yourself. Date for the actual suffrage will be published later.
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We now have 803 New Page Reviewers but despite numerous appeals for help, the backlog has NOT been significantly reduced.
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Since rolling out the right in November, just 6 months ago, we now have 803 reviewers, but the backlog is still mysteriously growing fast. If every reviewer did just 55 reviews, the 22,000 backlog would be gone, in a flash, schwoop, just like that!
But do remember: Rather than speed, quality and depth of patrolling and the use of correct CSD criteria are essential to good reviewing. Do not over-tag. Make use of the message feature to let the creator know about your maintenance tags. See the tutorial again HERE. Get help HERE.
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Hello Tymon. Thank you for all you do on Wikipedia. The PC Week page was originally intended to be a redirect. Someone deleted the redirect. If you review the history of eWeek you will see that it was formerly called PC Week. BuffaloBob ( talk) 13:56, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
I feel like my edit to Jace Alexander is constructive. His wife has a one-woman show discussing her experience which was written up in the NYT. Please revert your reversion of my edit. Thanks! 98.14.96.85 ( talk) 00:07, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello Tymon, thanks for all you do. Novice editor with a problem with (likely) one or two disgruntled ex employees of Clarke Broadcasting. Also means there were problems with KZSQ, KVML and myMotherlode.com wiki pages. [ [2]] can you set up pending changes protection for a bit? These were not logged changes, but I have no experience with this. I will check back before I got home at 5pm and tomorrow morning. Hope you can help us out. Sabrala Sabrala ( talk) 22:34, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for the update @Tymon.r, I really didn't understand how to see what happened. I thought about asking again because there was another 3,000+ byte update from an IP but a bot reverted it immediately. Later a logged in person added a paragraph and then one more. I removed those but my main concern is how can I monitor it? I am hoping the ways wiki usually deals with this stuff are working. I checked the box to get updates but I never got an email (I checked my junk mail folder too and approved wikipedia as a safe sender) I did get an email when you mentioned my name directly. I reviewed the wikietiquette and I see how you end your comment but I don't know how to use that question feature? Sabrala Sabrala ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 19:33, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi Tymon, I noticed the user IcsSer has received two vandalism warning templates on their talk page one of which was from you. Looking at the edits I believe they were correct typo fixes 1 2 and the warnings unwarranted. As an inexperienced user myself I was unsure whether it would be appropriate for me to remove the templates from their talk page so I thought it would be best to contact one of the editors involved. Thanks, The Skeptical Ham ( talk) 04:32, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
Just a heads up about your relist of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Star Awards for Young Talent. The usual procedure is to only do two relists. It's generally not useful to relist it a third time. Not a big deal, just for future reference. -- RoySmith (talk) 02:41, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi Tymon! Thanks for your work at AfD. However, per WP:RELIST, please refrain from relisting AfD discussions that have already been relisted twice and haven't seen any significant contributions (for example Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ansar Channel, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Star Awards for Young Talent, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brighter AI, and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jack Be). Instead, consider leaving those discussions for admins to close; or, if appropriate, you could close them yourself. For more information, please see WP:NOQUORUM and WP:Relist bias. Thanks! ansh 666 08:10, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
@ Ansh666: @ RoySmith: Hey! Thank you for messaging me and pointing it out. As I have been already aware of this rule, not to relist something for 3rd time, I still believed more in giving an additional chance for reaching a consensus on a subject than closing a discussion without a clear result. My mistake, I should not have put my personal opinion over our well-established policies. Please accept my apologize. Best, Tymon.r Do you have any questions? 23:09, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi Tymon.r , I just noticed you suggested the Habiba Djilani article for deletion. I would love to know what is wrong with the article, apart the fact that it contained a photo that didn't respect commons policy and that was deleted already? Habiba Djilani is an important woman in the history of medicine not only in Tunisia but also in Africa and the arab world. The article was written by a participant during a WikiGap workshop yesterday. Looking forward to hearing from you. Houssem Abida ( talk) 11:56, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
Please revert your inappropriate closure of that AFD here. The nominator (one delete !vote) retracting their own !vote after others have already supported deletion is not a valid speedy keep rationale. I'd revert you myself, but I am not sure if I'd need to do anything other than simply reverting your edit to the AFD so as not to have to "renominate" the page. Note that I am aware that you appear to have closed the AFD without giving it any more than a quick glance, since you relisted a different AFD only two minutes earlier, relisted another immediately after, and two minutes later closed another as keep. [3] Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 10:04, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
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This in part. was a horrible closure. I have no clue about why TheSandDoctor relisted it for the 3rd time despite the single !vote in my support but at any case, it was at the last day of the 3rd relist span, when Rebecca chimed in with sources. A sock !voted in agreement and another followed. FWIW; socks are always discounted and given that I had no opportunity to rebut the sources; I am amazed at your keep closure. I have thus reverted you under the purview of IAR but feel free to reinstate the closure shall you wish so, pending which I will seek a DRV. ∯WBG converse 05:31, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
However, WBG: that was an exceedingly inappropriate use of IAR. When sources are added to a discussion does not matter in regards to closing, and it's not obligatory to allow the other side to respond. The appropriate course of action for you would have been to come here and discuss with Tymon first, as was done in the section immediately above, and if they did not give a satisfactory response or refused to revert, then take it to an uninvolved administrator or DRV. Please do not revert a good-faith closure of any deletion discussion that you have participated in, let alone nominated. Thanks, ansh 666 06:50, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
How often? Diffs please. Get off with this wiki-lawyering before you get T-Banned. ∯WBG converse 17:51, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
@ RebeccaGreen, @ Nosebagbear: Hello. I am pinging you as you might be possibly interested in a discussion which is taking place above. Best, Tymon.r Do you have any questions? 19:57, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi Tymon.r, I noticed that you recently made a non-admin closure at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Harald Tveit Alvestrand. While I do not disagree with the decision/result, I just wanted to let you know that this was a potentially controversial AfD since the subject of the article commented on the Afd immediately followed by four users who are new / inactive, giving rise to potential COI and canvassing considerations. I am not accusing you or anyone else of wrongdoing but just letting you know to be aware. Thanks! — MarkH21 ( talk) 00:23, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
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Request reason:
I am more than surprised with the block of my legitimate alternative account, JATMBot, in contrary to what's stated in the block notice (I'm not blocked). Although, it's username in truth contain the "-bot" suffix, it was not and is not used for any edits except to account's own user-page and so it doesn't violate username policy. Account had to be created to reserve a username and start the proceedings for bot's approval. It's a standard procedure. Therefore I expect the block to be lifted. Thanks. Tymon.r Do you have any questions? 16:18, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
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This looks like an honest mistake, and I'll go ahead and revert the block on the account. I did read the discussion on the proceedings for your bot's approval, so this would be a legit account. RickinBaltimore ( talk) 15:20, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
Sorry, I'm a technological dunce and have no idea how to solve this. The other user is insisting on something that I feel is incorrect. I feel that I have provided evidence from Wikipedia's own pages to back up my point and he/she has disregarded it, choosing to revert my edit. How do I fix this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:83:8000:7100:5456:7268:4956:9C3E ( talk) 16:53, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
I've noticed you relisting many AfD discussions lately. Today I specifically noticed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mike Sharman, which is a 2nd relist of a low participation AfD. Since another non-admin editor was recently topic banned at ANI for similar activity, I thought I'd drop a friendly heads-up that those sorts of AfDs (and in fact most AfDs) should not be relisted by non-admins. Admins have the full range of options in WP:NOQUORUM available to them, including deletion. You do not have the full range of options available to you, so relisting those leads to WP:RELISTBIAS, which unnecessarily consumes time and attention of AfD participants. Particularly given the recent discussion at ANI, I encourage you to participate in AfD discussions rather than relisting them. Bakazaka ( talk) 22:37, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
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keeps changing back my edits to the paisley grammar page when i am actually a pupil there and have the correct information, for example the head teacher is Janice Leavens not Zoe Madden who is on fact a pupil in my class who was having a joke. literally just google it and find something better to do AnDvjakNabsja ( talk) 00:47, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
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@ GorillaWarfare: Thanks a lot for your appreciation and thanks for being vigilant today too ;) Best, Tymon.r Do you have any questions? 01:09, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
Can you stop reverting my constructive edit and read my edit summary where I explain my rationale? Thanks. - 14.203.38.101 ( talk) 00:08, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
The article page about me on Wikipedia is not showing on Google or any search engine, why? I'm little bit confuse, please help me I am new here. Sturdyankit ( talk) 21:18, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
@ Sturdyankit: Hey! Thanks for messaging me. By "article page about you" you probably mean your user page - User:Sturdyankit, right? Technically, it is not a main space article. Per our policy, user pages are implicitly not indexed by search engines to i.a. avoid users' self-promotion. I am sorry to say that, but probably, as for now, you are not notable enough to have an article about you published on Wikipedia. Tymon.r Do you have any questions? 09:59, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
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Sir, I just add some citations and references on my first article inspite of that there's showing "This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policy" on top of the article. Help me sir, I don't want to be deleted. Sturdyankit ( talk) 04:02, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
@ Sturdyankit: Hey, again thanks for messaging me. I have no power to decide whether an article is kept or deleted. On Wikipedia such decisions are usually made in the course of discussion. Please take a part in a discussion regarding a proposed deletion of your article - it is right there. Explain in your own words why you believe it should not be deleted. And don't give up – many of Wikipedians know the beginnings can be difficult. Best, Tymon.r Do you have any questions? 10:16, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for your help reverting that vandal on my talk page, sorry I wasn't on to help you out though. N0nsensical.system (err0r?) (.log) 10:29, 19 February 2020 (UTC)