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Hello, mentor. I am a loyal user and enthusiast of Wikipedia from mainland China. I hope to obtain IP block exemption. I hope the processing staff will grant me IP block exemption. Thank you. I will definitely abide by the community rules and actively create valuable content. leon --Leon sun 90 (talk) 11:31, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241201113100","author":"Leon sun 90","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Leon_sun_90-20241201113100-Question_from_Leon_sun_90_(11:31,_1_December_2024)","replies":["c-Rusty_Cat-20241201143300-Leon_sun_90-20241201113100"]}}-->

@Leon sun 90: Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! The page on IP block exemption is Wikipedia:IP block exemption. Since you were able to post your question, that means you are able to make an edit and don't need it. Rusty 🐈 14:33, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241201143300","author":"Rusty Cat","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Rusty_Cat-20241201143300-Leon_sun_90-20241201113100","replies":[],"displayName":"Rusty"}}-->

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2024).

Administrator changes

• Ahecht
• DoubleGrazing
• Dr vulpes
• FOARP
• Peaceray
• Queen of Hearts
• Rsjaffe
• SD0001
• SilverLocust
• Sohom Datta
• ThadeusOfNazereth
• Voorts

• Ajpolino
• Fathoms Below
• Pppery
• Tamzin
• Worm That Turned

• Aervanath
• Christopher Sundita
• Dank
• Dennis Brown
• Dragons flight
• Fastily
• Graham87
• JaGa
• Kbh3rd
• Marine 69-71
• Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington
• Yamamoto Ichiro

Interface administrator changes

• SD0001
• Sohom Datta

Pppery

CheckUser changes

• Spicy
• TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RFC, the policy on restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
• Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, T5, has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used.

Technical news

• Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Yasuke (formerly titled Backlash to diversity and inclusion) has been closed.
• An arbitration case titled Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 14 December.

Hello I have re edited and added tons of citations from various reputed news outlets as well as reviews but the draft is still awaiting review after almost waiting more than a month. Help please. --Taramayatamang (talk) 17:17, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241206171700","author":"Taramayatamang","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Taramayatamang-20241206171700-Question_from_Taramayatamang_(17:17,_6_December_2024)","replies":["c-Rusty_Cat-20241207161300-Taramayatamang-20241206171700"]}}-->

@Taramayatamang: There's nothing I can do about it, it will just take time. Rusty 🐈 16:13, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241207161300","author":"Rusty Cat","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Rusty_Cat-20241207161300-Taramayatamang-20241206171700","replies":[],"displayName":"Rusty"}}-->

Hello! --WikiLearner73 (talk) 16:26, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241207162600","author":"WikiLearner73","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-WikiLearner73-20241207162600-Question_from_WikiLearner73_(16:26,_7_December_2024)","replies":["c-Rusty_Cat-20241207170300-WikiLearner73-20241207162600"]}}-->

@WikiLearner73: Welcome! Rusty 🐈 17:03, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241207170300","author":"Rusty Cat","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Rusty_Cat-20241207170300-WikiLearner73-20241207162600","replies":[],"displayName":"Rusty"}}-->

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• Technical documentation contributors can find updated resources, and new ways to connect with each other and the Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team, at the Documentation hub on MediaWiki.org. This page links to: resources for writing and improving documentation, a new #wikimedia-techdocs IRC channel on libera.chat, a listing of past and upcoming documentation events, and ways to request a documentation consultation or review. If you have any feedback or ideas for improvements to the documentation ecosystem, please contact the Technical Documentation Team.

Updates for editors

• Later this week, Edit Check will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. Edit check is the feature for new editors to help them follow policies and guidelines. This layout change creates space to present people with new Checks that appear while they are typing. The initial results show newcomers encountering Edit Check are 2.2 times more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is not reverted.
• The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
• Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "All collection" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the <page-collection> </page-collection> tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to the step-by-step guide. [4]
• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has a multiselect filter for namespace selection. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion.
• The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements. [5]
• The Editing Team is working on making it easier to populate citations from archive.org using the Citoid tool, the auto-filled citation generator. They are asking communities to add two parameters preemptively, archiveUrl and archiveDate, within the TemplateData for each citation template using Citoid. You can see an example of a change in a template, and a list of all relevant templates. [6]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Indonesian (voy:id:) [7]
• Last week, all wikis had problems serving pages to logged-in users and some logged-out users for 30–45 minutes. This was caused by a database problem, and investigation is ongoing. [8]
• View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug in the Add Link feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases. [9][10]

Updates for technical contributors

• Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, now has an early-stage implementation in PHP. It is available for general use in MediaWiki extensions and Toolforge apps through Composer, with use in MediaWiki core coming soon. More information is available in the documentation. Thanks to Doğu for the inspiration and many contributions to the library. [11]
• Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. On December 4, the MediaWiki Interfaces team began rerouting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content endpoints on testwiki from RESTbase to comparable MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The team encourages active users of these endpoints to verify their tool's behavior on testwiki and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket before the end of the year, as they intend to roll out the same change across all Wikimedia projects in early January. These changes are part of the work to replace the outdated RESTBase system.
• The 2024 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 3 January 2025, and has an associated privacy statement.
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [12]

Meetings and events

• The next meeting in the series of Wikimedia Foundation discussions with the Wikimedia Commons community will take place on December 12 at 8:00 UTC and at 16:00 UTC. The topic of this call is new media and new contributors. Contributors from all wikis are welcome to attend.

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Hey, I want to write a wiki article about Vinayak Singh Oberoi. Can I ? --News India Group (talk) 07:51, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241210075100","author":"News India Group","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-News_India_Group-20241210075100-Question_from_News_India_Group_(07:51,_10_December_2024)","replies":["c-Rusty_Cat-20241210155100-News_India_Group-20241210075100"]}}-->

@News India Group If he is on the news, it is possible. However, you must first change your username, as we do not allow "group" accounts. Accounts may be accessed by one person only. Follow the directions on your talk page for more information. Rusty 🐈 15:51, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241210155100","author":"Rusty Cat","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Rusty_Cat-20241210155100-News_India_Group-20241210075100","replies":[],"displayName":"Rusty"}}-->

How to see what rank you are? --WikiLearner73 (talk) 23:49, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241211234900","author":"WikiLearner73","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-WikiLearner73-20241211234900-Question_from_WikiLearner73_(23:49,_11_December_2024)","replies":["c-Rusty_Cat-20241212032100-WikiLearner73-20241211234900"]}}-->

@WikiLearner73: We don't have the concept of "rank", but yes, there are "user groups"/"rights", and you can see them in your preferences. You can get to preferences by a dropdown in the top right. Rusty 🐈 03:21, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241212032100","author":"Rusty Cat","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Rusty_Cat-20241212032100-WikiLearner73-20241211234900","replies":[],"displayName":"Rusty"}}-->

		Citation Barnstar
		This award is given in recognition to Rusty Cat for collecting more than 1.0 point during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's NOV24 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing over 8,000 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – DreamRimmer Alt (talk) 18:18, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241212181800","author":"DreamRimmer Alt","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-DreamRimmer_Alt-20241212181800-November_2024_WikiProject_Unreferenced_articles_backlog_drive_\u2013_award","replies":["c-Rusty_Cat-20241212221200-DreamRimmer_Alt-20241212181800"]}}-->

@DreamRimmer: Thanks! I actually had forgotten I took part in this drive lol. Rusty 🐈 22:12, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241212221200","author":"Rusty Cat","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Rusty_Cat-20241212221200-DreamRimmer_Alt-20241212181800","replies":[],"displayName":"Rusty"}}-->

What should I know about creating and editing pages? --Tjpwheelie (talk) 09:09, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241214090900","author":"Tjpwheelie","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Tjpwheelie-20241214090900-Question_from_Tjpwheelie_(09:09,_14_December_2024)","replies":["c-Rusty_Cat-20241214153800-Tjpwheelie-20241214090900"]}}-->

@Tjpwheelie: Help:Introduction, our introduction page, has what you need to know! Rusty 🐈 15:38, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241214153800","author":"Rusty Cat","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Rusty_Cat-20241214153800-Tjpwheelie-20241214090900","replies":[],"displayName":"Rusty"}}-->

Hello, how to create new article. --Foxyworn (talk) 14:22, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241214142200","author":"Foxyworn","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Foxyworn-20241214142200-Question_from_Foxyworn_(14:22,_14_December_2024)","replies":["c-Rusty_Cat-20241214142500-Foxyworn-20241214142200"]}}-->

@Foxyworn: Hello and welcome! If you want to create a new article, there is a guide available at the page Help: Your first article. Rusty 🐈 14:25, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241214142500","author":"Rusty Cat","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Rusty_Cat-20241214142500-Foxyworn-20241214142200","replies":[],"displayName":"Rusty"}}-->

Hello, how can I create user page on Wikipedia? --NELLYPOP (talk) 02:10, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241215021000","author":"NELLYPOP","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-NELLYPOP-20241215021000-Question_from_NELLYPOP_on_User:NELLYPOP_(02:10,_15_December_2024)","replies":[]}}-->

Hello, how can I create my own users page on Wikipedia? --NELLYPOP (talk) 02:13, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241215021300","author":"NELLYPOP","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-NELLYPOP-20241215021300-Question_from_NELLYPOP_(02:13,_15_December_2024)","replies":["c-Rusty_Cat-20241217000400-NELLYPOP-20241215021300"]}}-->

@NELLYPOP: I believe you successfully did that. Rusty 🐈 00:04, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241217000400","author":"Rusty Cat","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Rusty_Cat-20241217000400-NELLYPOP-20241215021300","replies":[],"displayName":"Rusty"}}-->

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Hi, I was reading the page on Fred Emery (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Emery) and it appears that the suggested edits, disclaimers, and “if you are looking for” banner is under the name/photo/profile. This is inconsistent with how I’ve seen it done so far. How do I fix this? --ThatWolfDog (talk) 20:27, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241219202700","author":"ThatWolfDog","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-ThatWolfDog-20241219202700-Question_from_ThatWolfDog_(20:27,_19_December_2024)","replies":["c-Rusty_Cat-20241220003700-ThatWolfDog-20241219202700"]}}-->

@ThatWolfDog: Not sure, but you probably want to make sure that the code for the infobox ({{infobox person|...}} is below all the other templates (such as short description, more citations needed, etc) at the top and directly above the lead section.

This might sound confusing, so feel free to ask if you need further clarification. Rusty 🐈 00:37, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241220003700","author":"Rusty Cat","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Rusty_Cat-20241220003700-ThatWolfDog-20241219202700","replies":["c-ThatWolfDog-20241220033800-Rusty_Cat-20241220003700"],"displayName":"Rusty"}}-->

Found it and fixed it. Thanks ThatWolfDog (talk) 03:38, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241220033800","author":"ThatWolfDog","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-ThatWolfDog-20241220033800-Rusty_Cat-20241220003700","replies":[]}}-->

What is the impact of LLMs on Wikipedia content? --Leha243312 (talk) 11:36, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241222113600","author":"Leha243312","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Leha243312-20241222113600-Question_from_Leha243312_(11:36,_22_December_2024)","replies":["c-Rusty_Cat-20241222145400-Leha243312-20241222113600"]}}-->

@Leha243312: Using text from a large language model without verification or disclosure is strongly discouraged on Wikipedia (there's a whole project page on this; Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2024-06-08/Recent research). I don't know much about how LLMs have impacted Wikipedia's content directly, but the advent of LLMs could have been limiting Wikipedia's growth as more people turn to AI for information. Rusty 🐈 14:54, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241222145400","author":"Rusty Cat","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Rusty_Cat-20241222145400-Leha243312-20241222113600","replies":[],"displayName":"Rusty"}}-->

Hello.

I've noticed an article that I don't think meets the Notability Guideline. I can't find any sources which do NOT use Wikipedia as a source. For this reason, I believe that I have reason to start a deletion discussion on Kent, Kansas (apologies if this is broken, I'm not great at source editing). How would I do that, I can't find it on the articles relating to deletion. --The2gingerman (talk) 16:19, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241224161900","author":"The2gingerman","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-The2gingerman-20241224161900-Question_from_The2gingerman_(16:19,_24_December_2024)","replies":["c-Rusty_Cat-20241224165900-The2gingerman-20241224161900"]}}-->

@The2gingerman: The instructions for the Articles for Deletion process can be found at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion § Nominating article(s) for deletion. By the way, the notability guideline for towns is at Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features) § Settlements and administrative regions. Rusty 🐈 16:59, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241224165900","author":"Rusty Cat","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Rusty_Cat-20241224165900-The2gingerman-20241224161900","replies":["c-The2gingerman-20241224170900-Rusty_Cat-20241224165900"],"displayName":"Rusty"}}-->

Thank you! The2gingerman (talk) 17:09, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241224170900","author":"The2gingerman","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-The2gingerman-20241224170900-Rusty_Cat-20241224165900","replies":[]}}-->

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Hello everyone, and welcome to the 26th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 1 August 2024. At press time, over 94% of the world has legally fallen prey to the merry celebrations of "Christmas", and so shall you soon. It's been a quiet 4 months, and we hope to see you with way more new scripts next year. Happy holidays! Aaron Liu (talk) 05:06, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241225050600","author":"Aaron Liu","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Aaron_Liu-20241225050600-Scripts++_Newsletter_\u2013_Issue_26","replies":[]}}-->

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Featured script

Very useful for changelist patrollers, DiffUndo, by Nardog, is this edition's featured script. Taking inspiration from WP:AutoWikiBrowser's double-click-to-undo feature, it adds an undo button to every line of every diff from "show changes", optimizing partial reverts with your favorite magic spell and nearly fulfilling m:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Partial revert undo.

Miscellaneous

• Doğu/Adiutor, a recent WP:Twinkle/WP:RedWarn-like userscript that follows modern WMF UI design, is now an extension. However, its sole maintainer has left the project, which still awaits WMF mw:code stewardship (among some audits) to be installed on your favorite WMF wikis.
• DannyS712, our former chief editor, has ascended to MediaWiki and the greener purpley pastures of PHP with commits creating Special:NamespaceInfo and the __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ magic word to exclude a template from Special:UnusedTemplates! I wonder if Wikipedia has a templaters' newsletter...

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• Many of our favorite scripts such as Fred Gandt/userResourceManager, Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts, and Bradv/Superlinks haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
• Elominius/media timer and PrimeHunter/Search sort work, yet have alien user interface design. Someone could improve them...
• BilledMammal/Move+ needs updating to order list of pages handle lists of pages to move correctly regardless of the discussion's page, so that we may avoid repeating fiasco history.

Requested scripts

We need scripts that...

• allow you to edit {{sfn}} references graphically a la Ingenuity/ReferenceEditor
• copy specific named references from other pages to help with splitting and whatnot
• make adding icons/links to the top toolbar (or other portlets) much easier
• graphically generate a {{source assess table}}
• award a Four Award
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests. Thanks to the editors at US/R—including Nardog, User:Novem Linguae, User:Jeeputer, and many more!—for their work in processing userscript requests this past year.

Updated scripts

• Andrybak/Unsigned helper forks Anomie/unsignedhelper to add support for binary search, automatic edit summaries after generating the {{unsigned}} template, support for {{undated}}, and support for generating while syntax highlighting is on.
• Pour one out: DreamRimmer/User not around forks Andrybak/Not around to allow configuration precise to a number of days (from the original precision of years).
• Red-tailed hawk/cv revdel forks Enterprisey/cv-revdel to automatically add CopyPatrol reports.
• Polygnotus/Move+ updates BilledMammal's classic Move+ to add automattic watchlisting of all pages—except the target page(s)—changed while processing a move.

Newly maintained scripts

• Administrators only! Novem Linguae/UnblockReview forks the now-broken Enterprisey/unblock-review to review unblock requests with a graphical interface.

New scripts

• 1AmNobody24: Find Link provides a shortcut to its namesake tool, Edward/Find link, which helps de-WP:ORPHAN articles.

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  Andrybak: Contribs ranger (pictured) generates links to a limited range of user contributions, log items, or page history. You see, it's not just contribs!
• CanonNi/VoteVisualizer is a rewrite of Pythoncoder/voteSymbols that makes everything saner to configure.
• When viewing Category:Articles missing coordinates with coordinates on Wikidata, Jeeputer/coordInserter adds links to automatically insert coordinates into the article selected.
• To satiate archaeology and curiosity (the same thing, perhaps?), JJPMaster/AfC time logger logs the time it takes for a user to review each submission to Wikipedia:Articles for creation.
• Natdog/InsertAnyChar adds a searchable list of all Unicode characters to the 2010 source editor.

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Hello, mentor I would like to know About Darnell Lamar, UnitedMasters, select artist. --Darnelllamar2 (talk) 21:37, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241225213700","author":"Darnelllamar2","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Darnelllamar2-20241225213700-Question_from_Darnelllamar2_(21:37,_25_December_2024)","replies":["c-Rusty_Cat-20241226002200-Darnelllamar2-20241225213700"]}}-->

@Darnelllamar2 We do not have an article "Darnell Lamar" on Wikipedia. Did you want to start the article instead? Rusty 🐈 00:22, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241226002200","author":"Rusty Cat","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Rusty_Cat-20241226002200-Darnelllamar2-20241225213700","replies":[],"displayName":"Rusty"}}-->

Is my article (autobiography) published? I can't find it in search results. --Denzel Early (talk) 00:09, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241226000900","author":"Mister.Early","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Mister.Early-20241226000900-Question_from_Mister.Early_(00:09,_26_December_2024)","replies":["c-Rusty_Cat-20241226002800-Mister.Early-20241226000900"],"displayName":"Denzel Early"}}-->

@Mister.Early: It seems you have published your "article" to your user page, which is a space to provide information about yourself to other editors. It is not meant to be a profile page like on Facebook or other social media.

In addition, creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. Rusty 🐈 00:28, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241226002800","author":"Rusty Cat","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Rusty_Cat-20241226002800-Mister.Early-20241226000900","replies":["c-Mister.Early-20241226003000-Rusty_Cat-20241226002800"],"displayName":"Rusty"}}-->

I am trying to publish my article to Wikipedia. Denzel Early (talk) 00:30, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241226003000","author":"Mister.Early","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Mister.Early-20241226003000-Rusty_Cat-20241226002800","replies":["c-Rusty_Cat-20241226003300-Mister.Early-20241226003000"],"displayName":"Denzel Early"}}-->

@Mister.Early: Please see Wikipedia:Articles for creation. Rusty 🐈 00:33, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241226003300","author":"Rusty Cat","type":"comment","level":4,"id":"c-Rusty_Cat-20241226003300-Mister.Early-20241226003000","replies":["c-Mister.Early-20241226003600-Rusty_Cat-20241226003300"],"displayName":"Rusty"}}-->

I followed the steps. It still hasn't been published. Denzel Early (talk) 00:36, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241226003600","author":"Mister.Early","type":"comment","level":5,"id":"c-Mister.Early-20241226003600-Rusty_Cat-20241226003300","replies":["c-Rusty_Cat-20241226004300-Mister.Early-20241226003600"],"displayName":"Denzel Early"}}-->

@Mister.Early: You put {{subst:submit}} in the edit summary. Instead place it at the top of the page by switching to "source" mode (using the pencil icon in the top right). Rusty 🐈 00:43, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241226004300","author":"Rusty Cat","type":"comment","level":6,"id":"c-Rusty_Cat-20241226004300-Mister.Early-20241226003600","replies":[],"displayName":"Rusty"}}-->

Hello! I would like to create my page, and also to add a picture. Can you please, help? --Sandu Oprea (talk) 17:29, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241226172900","author":"Sandu Oprea","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Sandu_Oprea-20241226172900-Question_from_Sandu_Oprea_(17:29,_26_December_2024)","replies":["c-Rusty_Cat-20241226204200-Sandu_Oprea-20241226172900"]}}-->

@Sandu Oprea: To add a picture, upload it to Wikimedia Commons. To start a page, see Wikipedia: Articles for creation. Rusty 🐈 20:42, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241226204200","author":"Rusty Cat","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Rusty_Cat-20241226204200-Sandu_Oprea-20241226172900","replies":[],"displayName":"Rusty"}}-->

Hi Rusty I'm Pam from Australia. I am planning to participate in an event to learn more about wikipedia and how to edit etc. It's not for another month or so what do you suggest Ai do in tge meantime to prepare? --PamjMeson (talk) 10:28, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241227102800","author":"PamjMeson","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-PamjMeson-20241227102800-Question_from_PamjMeson_(10:28,_27_December_2024)","replies":["c-Rusty_Cat-20241231205400-PamjMeson-20241227102800"]}}-->

@PamjMeson: You could look at the Help:Introduction to begin to learn how to edit Wikipedia. Happy editing! Rusty 🐈 20:54, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241231205400","author":"Rusty Cat","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Rusty_Cat-20241231205400-PamjMeson-20241227102800","replies":[],"displayName":"Rusty"}}-->

Hello. I saw a link where, first of all, The link did not exist in the source. When purged, the link stayed. When deleted via visual editor, it stayed after publishing. When null-edited, it stayed. When clearing my browser cookies, it stayed. What should I do? --The2gingerman (talk) 11:09, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241227110900","author":"The2gingerman","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-The2gingerman-20241227110900-Question_from_The2gingerman_(11:09,_27_December_2024)","replies":["c-Rusty_Cat-20241230153100-The2gingerman-20241227110900"]}}-->

@The2gingerman: What article is this on? Rusty 🐈 15:31, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241230153100","author":"Rusty Cat","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Rusty_Cat-20241230153100-The2gingerman-20241227110900","replies":["c-The2gingerman-20241231100000-Rusty_Cat-20241230153100"],"displayName":"Rusty"}}-->

Someone else fixed it anyways, nevermind.

Thank you however! The2gingerman (talk) 10:00, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241231100000","author":"The2gingerman","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-The2gingerman-20241231100000-Rusty_Cat-20241230153100","replies":[]}}-->

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Hello Rusty Cat (and Ixtal) - thank you for kindly mentoring me. I have wanted to serve as a Wikipedia editor for quite some time - tonight I've finally started the process. The proximal cause is that I want to undo an edit which I think violates BLP and NPOV policy. I've read these policies carefully, and I think I can do this properly - if there are pitfalls to this kind of thing that a beginner like me should avoid, though, please let me know. Thank you! I hope to become an increasingly active editor in the coming year. --31nyou851r (talk) 08:46, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241231084600","author":"31nyou851r","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-31nyou851r-20241231084600-Question_from_31nyou851r_(08:46,_31_December_2024)","replies":[]}}-->

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Afternoon, I was wondering is it possible to get back my article page that was deleted/removed from Wikipedia? My name is Carlton Ubaezuonu and I’m a professional football player but I noticed my article with my history etc has been deleted? I’ve tried to contact who I believe may be responsible but I haven’t heard back. I’m not sure what steps to take? Thanks --Carltonuba38 (talk) 12:37, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20250101123700","author":"Carltonuba38","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Carltonuba38-20250101123700-Question_from_Carltonuba38_(12:37,_1_January_2025)","replies":["c-Rusty_Cat-20250102011800-Carltonuba38-20250101123700"]}}-->

@Carltonuba38: Well, looks like you made a request for undeletion which it was accepted and the article was restored into a "Draft" article. To get the article accepted you must make sure that you can get the article to meet our policies, most importantly the general notability guideline. Rusty 🐈 01:18, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20250102011800","author":"Rusty Cat","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Rusty_Cat-20250102011800-Carltonuba38-20250101123700","replies":[],"displayName":"Rusty"}}-->

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