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If I sign this with 4 tildes, would I be talking to myself? ;) - Big universe ( talk) 23:48, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
No problem, happy to help. Let me know if you have any questions. And welcome to Wikipedia! Trivialist ( talk) 23:32, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I see you've been changing instances of text like "number nine" to read "#9". This is not correct to do per MOS:NUMBERSIGN and MOS:NUMERAL. Thanks. Ss 112 14:58, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
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Did you put Big Universe because you didn't know what to say or does it have a meaning behind it? It really is a Big Universe. :D ;D DaisyCarpenter7 ( talk) 03:00, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
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Hey there. Can I ask what's going on here? — fox 01:38, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi Big U and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions to the project. There have been some concerns raised that your account may be being used by more than one person and or that it is being used as form of messaging board. At times you seem to be addressing others in some of your edits and it is not clear who. And then there is this page which I am having a hard time understanding. Could you explain this please? We have guidelines that preclude the use of Wikipedia for anything not connected to the Encyclopedia and accounts are strictly limited to one person. To be clear you are not in any trouble right now but I am asking these questions formally in my capacity as an administrator. Your prompt reply is much appreciated. - Ad Orientem ( talk) 23:41, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Ad Orientem, I had blanked these pages, and then later realized I could probably have just put tags on them myself. But it was very late and I had already logged out, so was going to do it later today. Thank you for doing that, and I'm sorry you had to do it instead. Also, the pages are now deleted, so I removed the nomination notices from this page since they sort of take up a lot of space. I hope that's okay; the only info I could find about this is that I'm not supposed to remove the deletion tags (which I didn't)--but there was nothing about removing the notices. In any case, for reference, the notices are still in the page history here. Thanks a lot for your help, and again, sorry about this. Big universe ( talk) 17:21, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
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Hi, the majority of your edits since mid-November 2017 (something like 90% of them) have an edit summary that begins with (NS) - what does that mean? I can't find it in Wikipedia:Edit summary legend. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 15:26, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
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Hello Big universe. Thanks for asking for rollback, which of course I'm considering carefully. I thought I'd offer some comments and get your feedback before doing anything further. You offered two edits as motivation. In reverse order, the second edit was indeed blatant vandalism of a type which is commonly rolled back. The edits were consecutive and made by the same IP address, so rollback would have been appropriate. I have a suggestion here, which is something I think is a useful prerequisite for rollback, and that is 'manual reverting', as described at Help:Reverting. Both rollback and 'undo' can occasionally result in a muddle which it's useful to know how to get out of. Knowing how to detect and revert to the 'last good version' is a useful, or perhaps fundamental, skill to have. I'd like to see that you understand how to do this.
I'm not so sure about the first example edits you provided. I'm not well versed in how we present singles charts, but this doesn't strike me as obvious vandalism. The user claimed to be correcting the format, were applying changes consistent with the rest of the table, and changed a 'chartid' to something which was not obviously wrong. You cited no edit summary as one reason for the revert, which is not really a valid reason for reverting. Instead of using rollback here, an edit summary citing legitimate complaints would have been the proper course of action. Adding a section of the talk page also works, but it's important to get some dialogue going instead of using the bland rollback summary.
Basically, though I think it's possible that you could use rollback properly, I think you'd benefit from practising manual reversions (without using the 'undo' link), and you might even benefit from getting used to WP:TWINKLE which offers a form of rollback. Honestly I don't think you'd really benefit from the rollback tool. However, based on what I've said, if you think you'd still want the rollback tool you're welcome to make the case. -- zzuuzz (talk) 18:11, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
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If I sign this with 4 tildes, would I be talking to myself? ;) - Big universe ( talk) 23:48, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
No problem, happy to help. Let me know if you have any questions. And welcome to Wikipedia! Trivialist ( talk) 23:32, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I see you've been changing instances of text like "number nine" to read "#9". This is not correct to do per MOS:NUMBERSIGN and MOS:NUMERAL. Thanks. Ss 112 14:58, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
Hello, Big universe. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
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Did you put Big Universe because you didn't know what to say or does it have a meaning behind it? It really is a Big Universe. :D ;D DaisyCarpenter7 ( talk) 03:00, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
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Hey there. Can I ask what's going on here? — fox 01:38, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi Big U and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions to the project. There have been some concerns raised that your account may be being used by more than one person and or that it is being used as form of messaging board. At times you seem to be addressing others in some of your edits and it is not clear who. And then there is this page which I am having a hard time understanding. Could you explain this please? We have guidelines that preclude the use of Wikipedia for anything not connected to the Encyclopedia and accounts are strictly limited to one person. To be clear you are not in any trouble right now but I am asking these questions formally in my capacity as an administrator. Your prompt reply is much appreciated. - Ad Orientem ( talk) 23:41, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Ad Orientem, I had blanked these pages, and then later realized I could probably have just put tags on them myself. But it was very late and I had already logged out, so was going to do it later today. Thank you for doing that, and I'm sorry you had to do it instead. Also, the pages are now deleted, so I removed the nomination notices from this page since they sort of take up a lot of space. I hope that's okay; the only info I could find about this is that I'm not supposed to remove the deletion tags (which I didn't)--but there was nothing about removing the notices. In any case, for reference, the notices are still in the page history here. Thanks a lot for your help, and again, sorry about this. Big universe ( talk) 17:21, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello, Big universe. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
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If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi, the majority of your edits since mid-November 2017 (something like 90% of them) have an edit summary that begins with (NS) - what does that mean? I can't find it in Wikipedia:Edit summary legend. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 15:26, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
I have granted your account an exemption from IP blocking. This will allow you to edit through full blocks affecting your IP address when you are logged in.
Please read the page Wikipedia:IP block exemption carefully, especially the section on IP block exemption conditions.
Appropriate usage and compliance with the policy may be checked (through the use of CheckUser) periodically, due to the nature of block exemption, and block exemption will be removed when no longer needed (for example, when the block it is related to expires).
I hope this will enhance your editing, and allow you to edit successfully and without disruption. NinjaRobotPirate ( talk) 03:28, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello Big universe. Thanks for asking for rollback, which of course I'm considering carefully. I thought I'd offer some comments and get your feedback before doing anything further. You offered two edits as motivation. In reverse order, the second edit was indeed blatant vandalism of a type which is commonly rolled back. The edits were consecutive and made by the same IP address, so rollback would have been appropriate. I have a suggestion here, which is something I think is a useful prerequisite for rollback, and that is 'manual reverting', as described at Help:Reverting. Both rollback and 'undo' can occasionally result in a muddle which it's useful to know how to get out of. Knowing how to detect and revert to the 'last good version' is a useful, or perhaps fundamental, skill to have. I'd like to see that you understand how to do this.
I'm not so sure about the first example edits you provided. I'm not well versed in how we present singles charts, but this doesn't strike me as obvious vandalism. The user claimed to be correcting the format, were applying changes consistent with the rest of the table, and changed a 'chartid' to something which was not obviously wrong. You cited no edit summary as one reason for the revert, which is not really a valid reason for reverting. Instead of using rollback here, an edit summary citing legitimate complaints would have been the proper course of action. Adding a section of the talk page also works, but it's important to get some dialogue going instead of using the bland rollback summary.
Basically, though I think it's possible that you could use rollback properly, I think you'd benefit from practising manual reversions (without using the 'undo' link), and you might even benefit from getting used to WP:TWINKLE which offers a form of rollback. Honestly I don't think you'd really benefit from the rollback tool. However, based on what I've said, if you think you'd still want the rollback tool you're welcome to make the case. -- zzuuzz (talk) 18:11, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
On 16 August 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Manhattan blackout of July 2019, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Manhattan blackout of July 2019 occurred exactly 42 years after the New York City blackout of 1977? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Manhattan blackout of July 2019. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Manhattan blackout of July 2019), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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.
valereee ( talk) 00:02, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. -- B-bot ( talk) 17:53, 18 March 2020 (UTC)