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Thanks

I just wanted to thank you for all the help you've given me this month. Thanks to you, I was able to bring Elena Gorolová to GA status, being my first GA. I'm also now a regular GAN reviewer, since you gave me the confidence to continue. I am deeply appreciative of your work and hope to continue to see you around! Grumpylawnchair (talk) 23:43, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

Congrats on your first GA! Hopefully the first of many. And I'm glad to see you've caught the reviewing bug. By the way, you may be interested in the Women in Green editathon that's happening in May - see the message directly above this thread. -- asilvering (talk) 04:49, 29 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll keep tabs on that. I'm planning on trying to get as many of the 100 Women (BBC) to GA status as I can. Grumpylawnchair (talk) 15:45, 29 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks

I would like to thank you for unblocking me. Another thing, there is the 'this user is a sockpuppet' template on my user page. Should I remove it or should I let an admin remove it? Also, if I may, can I ask what subject you teach? Rihaan M (talk) 06:31, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

I've removed the template for you - sorry about that, simply forgot to. I teach many things, all broadly in the humanities. -- asilvering (talk) 23:23, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

Speedy deletion tag

Hello,

Today I was trying Wikipedia's Content Translation Feature (I translated the page Grey-crowned goldfinch from English to Hindi), but it made some errors and translated the page incompletely. Now the page is tagged for speedy deletion. What do I do? Mitsingh (talk) 12:04, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

@Mitsingh, it looks like it's been deleted already, but you can ask the admin who deleted it to restore it to your userspace for you if you want to work on it some more. Otherwise, you can just start again - it was deleted because it wasn't translated, so it's fine to recreate it. Did you know that you can set the content translation tool so that it will publish the completed article to your userspace, instead of to articlespace? That's what I do with mine - it means I can fix any weird problems the tool created before moving the article to mainspace, so I don't get hit with speedy deletion or maintenance tags. -- asilvering (talk) 00:09, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from WikiPetiaF (02:17, 3 April 2025)

Hi Asilvering, Thanks for being my mentor.

I am a new editor. I have created my account specifically to add an article about an organisation to which I belong - Australian National Museum of Education (ANME). I am a volunteer for ANME. It has no paid staff. I note the many warnings about creating articles on topics with which I have a conflict of interest. I have declared my COI as per instructions. I am working with text that has been approved by the Director of ANME but I am concerned that there is a degree of self-promotion within it eg. 'nationally significant'. I would prefer not to preemptively redact approved content.

Do I risk a kind of reputational damage by asking for the draft to be reviewed as is or should I try to clean it up first?

I will have other questions I'm sure, but I hope this is a good one to start with.

Cheers, Peter --WikiPetiaF (talk) 02:17, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi @WikiPetiaF, welcome to wikipedia! You've done everything right so far, but don't submit your draft just yet. Right now, it doesn't have any sources at all, so it's certain that it won't be accepted. What you're going to need to find in order to get a reviewer to accept the draft is independent coverage about the museum or its collections, by someone who isn't affiliated with the museum. That might be a tough ask, since I bet most of the writing about this museum is done by museum volunteers or people from the University of Canberra. As far as tone goes, I wouldn't worry about "nationally significant" - the museum has "national" in the name, so that seems pretty obvious. The rest of the text looks pretty neutral too, you've done a good job of that. -- asilvering (talk) 00:14, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from Iindmusician on Draft:Syed Fardeen (07:50, 3 April 2025)

Help me to improve this page --Iindmusician (talk) 07:50, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

Sorry @Iindmusician, there's no way to improve a draft if the subject doesn't meet our notability guidelines. You'll have to give this one up, I'm afraid. -- asilvering (talk) 00:21, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

UTRS

UTRS appeal #101912 and UTRS appeal #101914 might require your thoughtful, nuanced approach. Thanks. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 15:00, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

Always with the best presents... -- asilvering (talk) 02:25, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from Tahar Farah on User:Mohamed Farah2 (18:44, 3 April 2025)

Report image --Tahar Farah (talk) 18:44, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi again @Tahar Farah, I still don't know what you're asking. I've left you some messages on your talk page, in case those help. -- asilvering (talk) 00:28, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from THEkAISERrOLL (17:42, 4 April 2025)

Very new here, how do I replace the "Venom Energy" logo with the most current .svg version? --THEkAISERrOLL (talk) 17:42, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi @THEkAISERrOLL, welcome to wikipedia! Do you mean the logo that's being used on Venom Energy right now? If so, open the article in source editor (click "edit", then find the pencil-shaped icon in the upper right to switch to source editor if you're at the visual editor) and replace what it says after "image =" (5th line) in between the square brackets with the name of the file you want to put in there. If you don't already have the file uploaded, go to Wikipedia:File upload wizard to do that first. -- asilvering (talk) 00:34, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

Clarification

If I understand your response a, each user is allowed only 500 words and 20 diffs for all replies they make, unless the administrators expand their limits, correct? LeónGonsalvesofGoa (talk) 04:58, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

That is indeed my understanding. -- asilvering (talk) 13:46, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

New message from Valorrr

 You are invited to join the discussion at User talk:Valorrr § My Mirror Mirror Edits You Reverted. I believe this user is a troll/is using an IP account to harass myself, can you look at it if possible? Valorrr ^{(lets chat)} 00:15, 6 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Valorrr, it looks like some other folks already talked to you about this one, but I'll add to what they said: I really think you need to slow down, and get used to wikipedia editing before you try to do things like fight vandalism and so on. I can see that you're excited about Wikipedia and really want to help out, which is great, but I'm really worried that you're going to get blocked for making too many mistakes and not taking feedback. Let's find you something else to do. I see you're interested in video games, do you want to try to get to work on the WP:VIDEOGAMES cleanup backlog? It's enormous, there's lots of work to do there. If you're looking for something easy to start with, this category should be pretty simple. Those are all articles that have at least one reference that hasn't got the "title" field filled in correctly. All you have to do to fix those is figure out what the title is supposed to be and add it. Many of them are bare URLs, so you just need to convert that to a full citation (usually the editing software can do that automatically for you). Do you think you could do that? That wikiproject will really appreciate it. -- asilvering (talk) 23:25, 6 April 2025 (UTC)

Hey! Of course, I love Video Games! I'll go fix them! Valorrr ^{(lets chat)} 00:30, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from Iindmusician on Draft:Syed Fardeen (14:10, 6 April 2025)

Please help me to improve this page and move on main space --Iindmusician (talk) 14:10, 6 April 2025 (UTC)

@Iindmusician, you've already asked for help with this one. My answer was, there's no way to improve a draft if the subject doesn't meet our notability guidelines. You'll have to give this one up, I'm afraid. -- asilvering (talk) 23:26, 6 April 2025 (UTC)

Article creation

Sir, at first, please forgive me.

Please you give me the consent to prove myself. I humbly request you to allow me to publish an article. I will create articles on Bengali films.

Sir, please allow me, I humbly request you. Don't block me. You please trust me, I will prove myself and you will be satisfied. Sagina M (talk) 17:56, 6 April 2025 (UTC)

@Sagina M, I assume you are saying this because you have already created several accounts and been blocked on all of them. This isn't the way to go about getting unblocked. Please make an unblock request from your original account. You can ping me to your talk page if you like. -- asilvering (talk) 23:33, 6 April 2025 (UTC)

No sir. I will at first show you an example of my articles. You please allow me sir.

Thank you. Sagina M (talk) 11:14, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from Rajatdixit12 (12:06, 7 April 2025)

Hello. How do i find a citation source? --Rajatdixit12 (talk) 12:06, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Rajatdixit12, I'm not sure what you're asking, since it looks like you've already successfully found and added sources to several articles. Can you be more specific? -- asilvering (talk) 21:35, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

There are some articles in here that needs citations to be added. For those articles, from where do I find out their sources of information so that i can add the citation? Rajatdixit12 (talk) 05:49, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

@Rajatdixit12, you just need to find a source for the information, not specifically the source that was originally used, so you find sources to fill in this kind of thing the same way you'd do your research to get that information in the first place. Which is to say, that depends on what you're trying to research, and where the information might be. Once your account is extended confirmed, you'll be able to use WP:LIBRARY, which is very useful for getting around paywalls. Google books and google scholar can be useful. Once you know what you're looking for, archive.org may have a copy. If there's something specific you're stuck on, I might be able to give more targeted suggestions. -- asilvering (talk) 23:55, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

This helps. Thank you. Rajatdixit12 (talk) 04:48, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

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Question from Jason Stephen Lunnon (20:25, 7 April 2025)

I am an fully trained and certified artist and D.j. Amongst other things. I was thinking about entering for this year's Turner Prize but I will need a lot of help. I have had previous Exhibitions in and around Britain. What do I do first!? --Jason Stephen Lunnon (talk) 20:25, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

Sorry @Jason Stephen Lunnon, I'm only here to help you with questions about editing wikipedia. -- asilvering (talk) 21:26, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

Shadia Abu Ghazala School massacre

Hi @Asilvering, hope you're well. I just now saw that the deletion request (link) for Shadia Abu Ghazala School massacre was closed, but with my vote changed back to (my original position of) keep the vote stands at 8 for merge and 7 for keep, and the arguments for keep are, imo, as substantive as the arguments for merge with many merge arguments being simple !votes. This doesn't seem to me like a consensus for merge and it feels like we need to give it more time until either a consensus emerges, or we keep the article. Can you please reopen it? Thank you very much. Smallangryplanet (talk) 10:39, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

@Smallangryplanet, following the relist, 4/5 !votes were for a merge - I'm afraid the consensus did arise, and you simply disagree with it. Your own statement, all the pages we have of attacks on Israelis or in literally any other context that received coverage close to when they happened, much less so than in this case, and then never again (such as all of these ones) would also have to be deleted is, I regret to inform you, an accurate reading of notability guidelines. -- asilvering (talk) 01:47, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Opinion on edit dispute

Hi asilvering,

I and another editor have gotten into a dispute on the page Mami Wata; I’m unsure if an edit war has occurred or if there’s just a lot of miscommunication happening. I don’t want to accidentally make a false edit war report or escalate things unnecessarily if collaboration is possible. It would be nice to have a third party opinion on the whole situation. Thank you in advance if you’re willing to check it out! ForsythiaJo (talk) 05:13, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Yikes. You're doing fine. That editor is being needlessly aggressive and reverting content completely unrelated to the content they disagree with, including a further reading section that, as far as I can tell, is completely unobjectionable. They have not engaged with you in a civil manner, and I'd say that accusing someone of censorship for removing material they believe - rightly or wrongly - to be unsourced is pretty close to "aspersions" territory. You may end up needing to take this to ANI, but first, do your absolute best to work with them. Don't revert them, and don't reinstate any changes they've specifically objected to. Take all of their complaints seriously (so, make sure all your citations from now on have page numbers, and that any changes you make to the lead fulfil WP:LEAD as best you can). Engage with them as though they are a valued collaborator offering helpful suggestions, whether you feel that way about them or not. If they tell you you're wrong, start from the assumption that they're correct. Basically, scrupulously maintain the moral high ground, and don't ever make the same editing mistake twice. You will either eventually win them over by convincing them you're there in good faith and competence, or they will flame out spectacularly (in which case you can take them to ANI and it will be clear to everyone what needs to be done). -- asilvering (talk) 20:13, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for checking this out, and for the feedback/suggestions. It was disheartening to try and add content and then have it removed for basically no reason, but with your comments I may try to keep on keeping on. If I have further questions, would it be okay to bring them to you? Or is there someone else you would suggest reaching out to with this sort of thing? Just want to be respectful of your time/energy. :) ForsythiaJo (talk) 22:17, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

By all means, you're welcome to bring questions here, I'm happy to be a sanity check. I hope you can get this headed somewhere collaborative sooner rather than later. Always a shame when longtime contributors forget that we're here to build an encyclopedia, not to sit on a thesaurus. -- asilvering (talk) 23:48, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Deletion review

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review#8_April_2025, cheers, Huldra (talk) 22:47, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from ExtremeGangster57 (02:30, 10 April 2025)

Hi! I was wondering how to make an article/page? --ExtremeGangster57 (talk) 02:30, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi @ExtremeGangster57, welcome to wikipedia! WP:FIRST explains the process, but I recommend reading WP:BACKWARDS as well. -- asilvering (talk) 05:06, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from Tahar Farah (21:11, 11 April 2025)

Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits. --Tahar Farah (talk) 21:11, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from Jerich kay Nc (22:43, 11 April 2025)

Hello, --Jerich kay Nc (talk) 22:43, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Jerich kay Nc, welcome to wikipedia! -- asilvering (talk) 17:08, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from Guccifer720 (00:48, 12 April 2025)

How do I create a new Wikipedia page --Guccifer720 (talk) 00:48, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Guccifer720, welcome to wikipedia! WP:FIRST explains the process, but I recommend reading WP:BACKWARDS as well. -- asilvering (talk) 17:09, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from TrophyBot999 on Indians in Bangladesh (07:03, 12 April 2025)

Hello --TrophyBot999 (talk) 07:03, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi @TrophyBot999, welcome to wikipedia! -- asilvering (talk) 17:08, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

Canvassing much

@Asilvering, this is what I mean by canvassing [1][2] -- these users do not edit regularly but weekly and jump into discussions which they were never invited to. AlvaKedak (talk) 15:01, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

If they were invited to the discussions, that would be canvassing. -- asilvering (talk) 17:07, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from Wilbers (10:26, 13 April 2025)

Hello, please can you have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_FX_(2023_video_game) and the 3 tags it has at the top. It has progressed and expanded quite a bit in the last 3 months since it became an article. Do you know which bits might need further editing to be able to remove some/all of those tags? --Wilbers (talk) 10:26, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Wilbers, I've removed a few things and one of the tags, but as far as the other two go, I think the problem has gotten worse, not better. I don't see any reason to retain these giant tables, for example. -- asilvering (talk) 10:59, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for that. With the tables, its one way to include links to the other wikipedia pages of the licensed tables as well as release dates. The Pinball FX2 and Pinball FX3 pages also use a table for that. Just that there are more pinball tables in Pinball FX so it makes a longer table. I was trying to think of another game that uses so much licensed IP so I could see what was done on its wikipage, but I can't think of one.

I know it doesn't help the readability of the page. Suppose there are 3 other options

1. make all the tables collapsible

2. make all the tables collapsed by default

3. have a separate page with them all on and link to that

Would one of those work to address that issue? Wilbers (talk) 13:49, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

It's common to split long lists like that out into separate articles. But I don't really see any reason to do that, either. That kind of exhaustive detail isn't terribly encyclopedic. It's the sort of thing I'd expect to see on the Pinball FX Wiki. -- asilvering (talk) 18:28, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

I've just been having a look at some of the pages for Rock Band games as that is probably the most extreme example of all for a game with DLC and how it deals with it - there are several list pages (such as 2022 in downloadable songs for the Rock Band series), and on there they wikilink to the relevant pages about bands/songs which other than being much more complex isn't entirely dissimilar to the list of Pinball FX tables - almost all of the Williams tables have a Wikipedia page, and most of the licensed tables have a suitable page to link to as well. Wilbers (talk) 22:06, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

AnonymousScholar49

You never asked me whether I objected to you unblocking this user. I don't appreciate that.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:34, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Eh? I pinged you to the discussion and asked you to let me know if there was anything I'd missed. In a post after that one, I'd said there didn't seem to be any reason not to unblock. You had plenty of time and space to object, or to add other comments to the discussion. -- asilvering (talk) 17:40, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

You asked me to explain my block, which I did. I don't have to object. The burden is on you to ask me directly, not implicitly. A lot of admins discuss blocks with the blocked user, do they understand what they did wrong, do they understand what would be inappropriate in the future, etc., as a set-up to unblocking but still at the end of that process ask the blocking admin whether they object given that discussion.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:43, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @Bbb23: As the blocking admin cannot veto an unblock, and as you have repeatedly told me that you feel I'll to as I please regardless of your wishes, I fail to see the issue. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 19:03, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from Gora Gosj on User:Gora Gosj (06:55, 15 April 2025)

hello --Gora Gosj (talk) 06:55, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Gora Gosj, welcome to wikipedia! -- asilvering (talk) 17:40, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

Request for XC

Hello! I'm @Senapatiji, I am here to request you to grant my account an extended confirmed user status. The automatic update to this was put on hold by an Admin who considered my contributions using newcomers tasks as gaming. I reassure you that my edits were in good faith [3] and meant to contribute positively on Wikipedia. I was told to request for the same once my account is 30 days old. It is now eligible for XC. I request you to update my user access to extended confirmed user and allow me to contribute further on this platform. I will be more careful while editing and make sure these kind of situations do not arise. Please refer this ANI discussion for details. Senapatiji (talk) 🏴‍☠️ 14:17, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

Admin talk page stalkers, any chance one of you would be able to comment here? I think it was inappropriate to revoke XC in the first place, but as I said so in the original ANI thread that Senapatiji linked, I'd prefer if a third admin could do it, or offer an opinion. -- asilvering (talk) 17:45, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi, any way forward to this? Senapatiji (talk) 02:46, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

Oops, sorry about that @Senapatiji. Okay, I've (privately) asked another admin for their opinion and they were ambivalent about it, so I'm not going to grant XC back to you unilaterally. My suggestion is that you wait until at least May 11 (one month after the initial revoke) and roughly 1000 edits, making sure that most of your edits are pretty substantial ones, and that you then request it back at WP:PERM. -- asilvering (talk) 15:54, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

Okay, Thank you. Senapatiji (talk) 17:19, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

Tenant harassment lawsuits and cases in Santa Monica

I added citations with WP:SIGCOV that were syndicated nationally (see comment on deletion discussion), and yet no one responded to my comment stating this. I gave ample time to continue the discussion, having posted my response on 10 Apr 2025, and as such I believe the discussion should have been relisted instead of outright deleted then. AwkoTaco19 (talk) 19:36, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

@AwkoTaco19, yes, there was ample time to continue the discussion - and no one did. There was no need to relist it for another seven days of comments. You may be interested in WP:HOUSING, by the way, and they may have other suggestions for you. If you come up with a related topic that is likely to survive an AfD and you'd like to recover some of your work from this deleted one, just let me know and I can restore it to userspace for you. -- asilvering (talk) 02:47, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from Solanai on Mandera North Constituency (05:57, 16 April 2025)

Hello how do I protect this page --Solanai (talk) 05:57, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Solanai, welcome to wikipedia! You can request page protection at WP:RFPP. But there's no need to do that for this article. We only protect pages that have been experiencing quite a lot of recent vandalism. -- asilvering (talk) 22:12, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

Kivercik

Can you please take a look at this editor after their return post-block. Its two edits that have now been reverted by different editors. Semsûrî (talk) 17:20, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

@Semsûrî, I'd rather not, unless they're crossing a really bright-line rule like 3RR - I rescinded my original warning in that ANI thread, since it looked like things had calmed down and could be moved back to dispute resolution. My advice would be to do your level best to de-escalate, and head back to ANI if things get truly impossible. -- asilvering (talk) 04:18, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 April 4#Unimon

Hello, I do not think this was clearly the single correct outcome; I was wondering whether it should be retargeted or potentially disambiguated instead. 1234qwer1234qwer4 20:05, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

I went with the no-quorum default of "delete" since it didn't seem like there was any strong reason not to do so (a regular search will get readers to the various "unimon" mentions without trouble), but I can restore it if you like? I don't think it's really worth the bother, but happy to do so if you disagree. -- asilvering (talk) 04:23, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

I would appreciate if you did; maybe some other editor could voice another opinion on the redirect. 1234qwer1234qwer4 12:45, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

Done. -- asilvering (talk) 16:53, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from RobLawrencium (15:20, 17 April 2025)

I finished creating my first wikipedia article ("Paligenosis"), which I have moved from my sandbox to the main page. It now appears there, but it has this message at the bottom: "This sandbox is in the article namespace. Either move this page into your userspace, or remove the {{User sandbox}} template." I've removed the redirect message from my user page, and this message still appears at the bottom of the wikipedia article in public view. It seems I wouldn't want to move the page from the main page to my userspace though, right? What else should I do here to complete this page and get rid of that message? Thanks for any input! --RobLawrencium (talk) 15:20, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi @RobLawrencium, welcome to wikipedia! Looks like you've already sorted this one out. By the way, you might be interested in WP:MEDICINE. -- asilvering (talk) 19:41, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

Yes, I think I'm good now. That's a great suggestion, I'll look into it, thanks! RobLawrencium (talk) 13:11, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from Paul Petrecz Jr (09:57, 19 April 2025)

Hello --Paul Petrecz Jr (talk) 09:57, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Paul Petrecz Jr, welcome to wikipedia! I've left you some helpful links on your talk page. -- asilvering (talk) 19:09, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

Draft:Joy Laking

Hello again, asilvering. I've been working on this article about a Nova Scotian artist. So far it's the longest article I've written, and the first BLP I've created. That being said, the article ended up delving into some pretty heavy stuff, and I really wanted to get another opinion about how I approached the death of her mother and the impact of the 2020 Nova Scotia attacks on her career, before I send the article to the mainspace at some point soon. If you might have the time to take a quick look and let me know what you think I'd appreciate it. Thanks, MediaKyle (talk) 14:35, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

@MediaKyle, looks great to me! The only thing I'd change regarding the attacks - I'd take out the heading, so that it's just part of the career section. When it's the only subheading under "Career", I think it attributes a really outsized importance to them. I think that change might mean you want to redo the first sentence of that paragraph so it's not such a sudden shift in topic. -- asilvering (talk) 21:27, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

Though, come to think about it, you may want to mention http://www.invisibleprisons.com/ somewhere in that article. -- asilvering (talk) 21:30, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your input, and the link. I had seen mentions of her writing plays, but I hadn't found that website. Looking into it further led me to this news article amongst some other coverage about the play that I hadn't seen before. Much appreciated! Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 21:47, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

I had my guesses there might be something unmentioned when I read what she said in the Global article about the attacks. Surprised to immediately turn up some evidence. Historian spidey senses don't normally resolve that easily. -- asilvering (talk) 21:52, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

Good afternoon, @Asilvering! I think I'm just about satisfied enough with the article to publish it now, but I've ran into one other complication. I'm not sure if my sourcing for such details as her date of birth and spouse comply with WP:BLPSOURCES, in particular WP:BLPPRIMARY. I only managed to find a specific year of birth from The National Gallery of Canada, and her own CV which is linked on her official website. She mentions her husband by name in her book The Painted Province in the introduction, however, including this information may contravene section 2 of WP:BLPSELFPUB. What is your interpretation of the policy in this instance? Thanks a lot for your help, MediaKyle (talk) 15:43, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

@MediaKyle, for her DOB, you're in the clear - the National Gallery is presumably reliable on this, and if she's linking her CV with birthdate on her webpage, it's clear enough to me that she's not trying to hide it. If you had similar sources for her exact date of birth, I might hesitate a bit, but just for the year, nbd. The year will also probably be on page ii of every book she's ever published. If her husband is alive, I'd leave his name out if it isn't mentioned in something obviously very accessible and public, like a national news article or something. He's not himself notable, right? -- asilvering (talk) 16:38, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

Much appreciated. The only time I've seen her husband's name published is in the introduction of the book, so I reckon it would be best to omit it then. He's not notable as far as I'm aware, so in that sense I guess there's really no encyclopedic value to naming him anyways. Thanks again! MediaKyle (talk) 16:43, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from Chezetat (16:13, 19 April 2025)

I see it now thank you! Also I wanted to make a article on a game I like but I don't know where to start, it doesn't have a page on here. --Chezetat (talk) 16:13, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

Glad it's working, @Chezetat! Before you start writing any new article, you should have a look at WP:FIRST and WP:BACKWARDS. In order for the game to qualify for its own standalone article, you'll need to find some good sources about the game (see WP:42). So before you start writing anything, you'll need to find some good sources. What's the game? -- asilvering (talk) 19:05, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

The game is theinnerworld and it's sequel theinnerworld the last wind monk. Chezetat (talk) 22:01, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

Hm, I'm not sure you're going to be able to find enough sources for that. I didn't find anything good on a quick look. You might want to ask at WP:VIDEOGAMES for help. The publisher, Headup Games, has an article, and you could write a sentence or two about the game in there maybe, but it looks like we don't have an article on Studio Fizbin, the developer, either. It looks like there might be sources for this in German? -- asilvering (talk) 22:14, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

Maybe I should do an article on Studio Fizbin then? Would that work better? Chezetat (talk) 22:16, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

Probably not - at least not now, when you're new to Wikipedia. Articles on companies are really difficult to write, and we have particularly strict rules about the kinds of sources you can use to write them (see WP:NCORP), because we have so many companies that try to promote themselves on here. You will probably have a better time if you start out by working on improving articles that already exist. Then, once you've learned the ropes, it'll be easier for you to start writing articles from scratch. If you look at this list, you can find a huge amount of video game related stuff to do. If you want to start with writing, this category is a good one. Anything in there has a maintenance tag asking an editor to expand part of the article somehow. There are over 2000 entries! You won't run out of things to do any time soon. -- asilvering (talk) 22:28, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

The thing holding me back is doing something wrong, I just don't want to mess up you know? Chezetat (talk) 22:31, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

Yep! That's why it's better to start small, doing this kind of thing, rather than starting with a brand new article. Don't worry too much about screwing up - there's nothing you can possibly do that can't be easily undone. -- asilvering (talk) 04:16, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

Frontier Justice Article

Hi, I saw that you deleted the article I had created on Frontier Justice. Can you please help me find the article so that I can edit it and can you help me publish it to the main space? Thank! Mike & Bren Brown (talk) 21:00, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

No, @Mike & Bren Brown, you can't publish that article to mainspace. It is unambiguously promotional, and was deleted via WP:G11. It's an oversight that I didn't block you from editing when I did that. Please read the messages on your talk page very carefully before trying again. -- asilvering (talk) 21:03, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

As you were leaving a message on their talk page I was also leaving a different one, which you may like to take note of. At this stage it is a simple request. 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 21:08, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from Seanking1 on Draft:London Conference on Sudan (April2025) (03:33, 20 April 2025)

I just wanted to edit something. How would I do it? --Seanking1 (talk) 03:33, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

HI @Seanking1, welcome to wikipedia! All you have to do is press the "edit" button. It's not any more complicated than that. -- asilvering (talk) 04:10, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

Okay so

i found out the game I wanted to make an article on has one on the German Wikipedia does translating it here help or something or would that be stealing, I mean how do you translate it? Chezetat (talk) 03:42, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

There's a translation tool at Special:ContentTranslation that makes the translation process easier, and some instructions at WP:HOWTRANS. I'm not sure that's a great candidate for translation, though, since it's almost entirely plot summary. The sources in the footnotes are useful, though. -- asilvering (talk) 04:15, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

Sorry I meant translating the article in English to help, can you do that? Chezetat (talk) 20:42, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

@Chezetat, can you rephrase your question? I'm not sure what you're asking. -- asilvering (talk) 22:08, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Sorry for the late response, but what i meant is translating it to English, we have a language thing and how many languages it's in and I'm wondering if I can translate it to English? Chezetat (talk) 18:40, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

Yes, you can translate it to English. But I don't think it would be a good idea, for the reason I already described. -- asilvering (talk) 21:43, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

I'm sorry I'm not the brightest sometimes but what were they reasons I shouldn't? Chezetat (talk) 21:58, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

The article on de-wiki is almost entirely plot summary, so there isn't really much worth translating from there. If you wrote an article on the game that was almost entirely plot summary (translated or from your own head, doesn't matter), it would be tagged for having an overlong summary and you'd be encouraged to condense it. -- asilvering (talk) 22:09, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Deletion reason for Quintessential (company)

Regarding Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Quintessential (company) that you closed, the article was changed substantially throughout the discussion. The nominated version that I worked on was COI-bombed. I was looking to see if it met significant coverage in reliable secondary sources but never got an answer. Commander Keane (talk) 00:12, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Sorry, I'm not sure what you're asking? -- asilvering (talk) 00:42, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Ahh ok, I should have provided diffs. I was asking for your deletion reason, to see how you evaluated consensus. Instead of doing that here, I just posted a deletion review. Commander Keane (talk) 05:14, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

@Commander Keane, I don't think you opened the DRV correctly - shouldn't there be a link to it at the top of the AfD page as well? -- asilvering (talk) 17:31, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

Fixed, thanks. Commander Keane (talk) 23:13, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from Idris7006 on User talk:Idris7006 (08:19, 21 April 2025)

A project proposal to investigate the effect of Papain and cholecalciferol on the cerebellum of wistar rats following ischemic stroke (bilateral common carotid artery ) --Idris7006 (talk) 08:19, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

AfC Reviewing

Hello, asilvering. Thank you for accepting my request for AfC reviewer permissions. I believe I may have already made a small mistake in my reviewing with Draft:List of private vocational institutions in Manitoba, Canada. I included "not" as a decline rationale along with verifiability, because I felt that it was kind of a fringe case for WP:NOTDIRECTORY, but the way the tags are worded makes the two rationales contradict each other. Upon further review, though, I'm not seeing any other list like this, and it probably does unequivocally fail WP:NOTDIRECTORY. Should I adjust the rationale so it only refers to "not", or is it too late now? Thanks, MediaKyle (talk) 18:17, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

I'd just leave it, but you can add an additional comment if you think that would be helpful. The script lets you add comments at any time. You can also use it to resubmit the draft (in the name of the original submitter), if you think you've messed up - that's probably better most of the time than editing what you already wrote. Most people going through AfC are newbies who will be easily confused by reversions.

Regarding WP:NOTDIRECTORY, I think this would be a valid navigational list, if all or most of the entries were notable. That's not the case here, and we don't have any sourcing evidence for notability either. So I think you're fine to use both declines, since you left a comment. They can ask you or the help desk if they don't understand it. -- asilvering (talk) 21:50, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Understood, thank you for clarifying. MediaKyle (talk) 22:10, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from Education411 (22:53, 22 April 2025)

Mr. Graystorm,

I am wanting to learn Wikipedia and how to write articles. I already have an article prepared. I want to know if it is possible I can share with you and you can mentor me regarding that. Please kindly advise. Thank you. --Education411 (talk) 22:53, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Education411, welcome to wikipedia! Happy to answer any questions you may have. You can start your article at WP:WIZARD. Normally I recommend reading WP:FIRST and WP:BACKWARDS before starting, but if you already have an article written, well, may as well turn what you've got into a draft and work from there. -- asilvering (talk) 02:15, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from Lisa19882 (02:59, 23 April 2025)

Hello, i would like to add a new article,directly to my homepage. how can it be done? --Lisa19882 (talk) 02:59, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Lisa19882, I see you have already put the draft on your userpage. But it exists at Draft:Mitsogo, so I'm going to delete the userpage one. That page is supposed to be for a little bit of information about yourself and your editing. See WP:USERPAGE for more info. -- asilvering (talk) 15:45, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

RE: Margriet Nienke de Schutter

Hello - a close friend of mine has been trying to get her page published for quite sometime. I've participated on Wikipedia sporadically years ago so I told her I would look at it. After she made the requested edits, she resubmitted the page and it was rejected again!

I've looked multiple times and can not see what you are saying she is doing wrong. So I looked at the samples you provided to better understand how 'you' view things which really confused me as her style/ format appears to be in order. I realize this has subjectivity, so if you do not mind, please revisit the page that is waiting to be re-reviewed for publishing located under the title: Margriet Nienke de Schutter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:YellowGreen17/sandbox) and provide additional guidance so I can assist her in completing this task. As you can see, she is an international athlete that has gone into journalism and hosting events, so this page is critical to her carrer internationally. Thank you so much! Guaynabo1969 (talk) 12:32, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

@Guaynabo1969, I'm truly not sure what you're talking about. After she made the requested edits, she resubmitted the page and it was rejected again! is not the case. She's made the requested edits - very significant ones, it looks like, which is good - and resubmitted the draft. But no one has declined it since. It's still in the queue. We're pretty backlogged right now (sorry about that) but it's one of our oldest drafts at the moment, so it should be reviewed (relatively) soon. -- asilvering (talk) 14:04, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

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April 2025:NikeCage68

Hi asilvering, prior to my last message a couple of days ago. If you can set up a bot application to archive old messages, I would appreciate that a lot. If I follow the recommendations you are saying about editing such as Draftspace, Userspace and edit requests for least a week, will my next unblock request be accepted after making changes and new approaches? Thank you. NikeCage68 (talk) 10:07, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Replied on your talk. -- asilvering (talk) 21:12, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

File:Logo Aerosucre Cargo (Colombia).png

@Asilvering:Hi,why you added the tag {{Maybe free media}} to this image (File:Logo Aerosucre Cargo (Colombia).png) this logo is non-free ,is the same logo deleted in Commons due to above TOO (File:Logo Aerosucre has deleted (screenshot).jpg) is a copyright violation. (Google translator) AbchyZa22 (talk) 16:16, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi @AbchyZa22, I tagged that with "maybe free media" because it is a simple, mostly text logo, that I thought might be below "threshold of originality". I was clearing our revision deletion backlog and don't have the standards for Columbia memorized, so I left it for someone else. Which, apparently, is you, so thank you! If you don't mind, next time you can resolve this yourself like I did in Special:Diff/1287380461. -- asilvering (talk) 21:20, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Could I have some advice please?

This edit [4] is adding a painting by the artist themselves, or a relative looking at the editors name, GalleriadelleFerreira-Corsi.

The reason I am questioning its addition is, it is a surrealist represention (per photo summary). I also think it smacks of POV with that photo summary.

Piripkura was the sixth official work signed by Marcos Vinicius Ferreira-Corsi, an Italian-Brazilian surrealist artist, presented at the Galleria delle Ferreira-Corsi on April 23, 2025. With striking features of indigenous surrealism, the painting pays homage to the Brazilian Piripkura ethnic group, which in the early 2020s was on the brink of extinction, reduced to just three individuals — victims of illegal cattle ranching and deforestation on their ancestral land. Touching on this open wound, Ferreira-Corsi transforms the work into a visual cry of protest and denunciation, seeking to awaken public commotion and awareness in the face of the urgency of the indigenous cause in Brazil.

I'm not sure what to do with it? Knitsey (talk) 16:25, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

The dog is pestering for a walk but I will be back. (Best terminator voice). Knitsey (talk) 16:28, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

I... wow. I've reverted. I'll swing by their talk page. -- asilvering (talk) 21:25, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for taking a look. I really didn't think it was suitable for the article but I'm not a great judge on that type of thing. Knitsey (talk) 22:11, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Immediate TBAN breach by Diademchild

Hi, Can I politely draw your attention to the following edits by User:Diademchild: [5], [6], [7] and [8], [9] and [10], all of which clearly breach the WP:BLP topic ban? These edits [11], [12] and [13] also appears to be to WP:BLP articles. I noted this on their talk page, but they deleted it. Thank you, Opolito (talk) 23:16, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

Hiya @asilvering, sorry to have @Opolito alert you, but I believe s/he is deliberately trying to stir up things here. My edits in each of the links s/he provided were unmalicious and in good faith, and I actually followed through with your advice in the first link s/he gave. In the other citations s/he provided, I have not added any new or uncontroversial birthdates to any articles, I have simply tidied or updated the relevant information already given as a WikiGnome. Since the topic ban I have also made edits on my user page and on other non-WP:BLP articles more so. I remain committed in/to not substantially breaching any WP:BLP topic ban, and more so in cultivating a good reputation as an editor on this platform. Regards. -- Diademchild (talk) 23:48, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

@Diademchild, no one is questioning your good faith about your BLP edits. It is clear that you want to improve the encyclopedia. However, edits can be disruptive even when done in good faith, and this is very obviously a tban violation. There is no "WikiGnome exception" to tbans. Ordinarily I'd say you should take this as your first and warning and be more careful henceforth. But edit warring to keep this off my talk page is... well, I'm not sure what to say. You know I get a notification for every edit on this page, right? Do you think I'm going to get nine notifications, look at these two comments, and think "yes, everything is fine, no funny business going on here"?

I'm so flabbergasted by this I don't think I have the compos mentis to block you. Please know that you are on the thinnest possible ice. Do not breach your BLP topic ban. Do not accuse Opolito of deliberately trying to stir up things for observing your breach of said topic ban. And, for the love of all that is right and good in this world, do not edit war on my talk page. -- asilvering (talk) 01:48, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

(talk page watcher)You have the patience of a saint. The edit warring to avoid consequences would have pushed me right over. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 01:58, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

@Asilvering my sincerest apologies. An instance of edit warring by me, won't ever happen again on any editor's/user's talk page, for that matter. Indeed, I agree with @Deepfriedokra, so thanks for your mature patience and understanding. Regards -- Diademchild (talk) 02:11, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

Also, I marble at your eloquence. 😜 -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 07:41, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

Poop emoji

Hello again, asilvering. Sorry to bother you again so soon, but I've been working on a particularly challenging good article review over at Talk:Poop emoji/GA2 and I was hoping you might be able to take a quick look at the article and let me know if you see anything that would preclude it from passing GA. The article has come a long way and I think it's pretty well good, but seeing as no other emoji has GA, I feel like it's particularly important to get this one right so it can be used as a "template" for the others. I wouldn't ask you to get too deep into it, mostly just want to know if you would oppose promotion in the article's current state. Best regards, MediaKyle (talk) 12:04, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

@MediaKyle, I gave it a read and checked the images, and I would say there's nothing outright preventing it from being promoted right now, since your source check came out okay. But I have some reservations about it and wouldn't pass it yet if I were reviewing it. I'll come by the review and drop some comments. -- asilvering (talk) 18:21, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from I AM A VERY PERSONY PERSON (21:19, 28 April 2025)

hi --I AM A VERY PERSONY PERSON (talk) 21:19, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Hello @I AM A VERY PERSONY PERSON, and welcome to Wikipedia! I'll stop by your talk page shortly with some helpful links to help you get started. Grumpylawnchair (talk) 21:22, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

ok ty I AM A VERY PERSONY PERSON (talk) 22:10, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from I AM A VERY PERSONY PERSON (21:24, 28 April 2025)

im happy --I AM A VERY PERSONY PERSON (talk) 21:24, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

Glad to hear it. -- asilvering (talk) 22:06, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

same! I AM A VERY PERSONY PERSON (talk) 22:11, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

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Nomination of SuperTuxKart for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article SuperTuxKart is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SuperTuxKart (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

TzarN64 (talk) 17:11, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

@TzarN64, I'm not sure why you've sent me this message? I don't have any involvement with this article. -- asilvering (talk) 23:54, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from I AM A VERY PERSONY PERSON (20:37, 29 April 2025)

im kinda bored. what should i do????? --I AM A VERY PERSONY PERSON (talk) 20:37, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

i dont know what to do!!!!!!!!!!!

ROAR! im a tiger

just kidding but im really bored I AM A VERY PERSONY PERSON (talk) 20:44, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

This is not a playground. Please go find another website, and stop pestering Asilvering. Protip: I am not volunteering to be pestered instead. Floquenbeam (talk) 20:47, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

but they are my mentor I AM A VERY PERSONY PERSON (talk) 20:49, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

also your profile is really cool I AM A VERY PERSONY PERSON (talk) 20:50, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Doesn't mean they have to put up with you acting like an idiot. Floquenbeam (talk) 20:50, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

thats really mean I AM A VERY PERSONY PERSON (talk) 20:52, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

why do you have to be like that? are you the wikipedia police or somthing????? I AM A VERY PERSONY PERSON (talk) 20:52, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Asilvering, I won't engage further in case I'm stepping on your toes. Floquenbeam (talk) 20:54, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

sorry for annoying you i didn't mean it that way

i am really sorry I AM A VERY PERSONY PERSON (talk) 20:55, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

just because i was been annoying doesn't mean you can call me an idiot though I AM A VERY PERSONY PERSON (talk) 21:00, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Well, @I AM A VERY PERSONY PERSON, I suppose Floq kind of is the wikipedia police. (Though, judging by his userboxes, he probably won't appreciate me saying so.) He's an administrator, which means he can do things like delete pages and block people from editing. We block people from editing when they're damaging the encyclopedia, but also sometimes when it's obvious that they aren't here to build it, either. So far, you've been spending more time chatting on talk pages than editing, so I'm worried that someone will decide that you aren't here to build the encyclopedia and block you. Let's find you something to do instead. Do you see an "Add a link" task at Special:Homepage? That one's a good task to start out with, but it's new and might not be on your homepage yet. -- asilvering (talk) 00:25, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from I AM A VERY PERSONY PERSON (21:24, 29 April 2025)

hi asilvering thank you for being very nice to me. i really appreciate it. please tell me if there is anything i can do to help/support you! --I AM A VERY PERSONY PERSON (talk) 21:24, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Don't worry about me. :) -- asilvering (talk) 00:26, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

Sorry

On reflection, I do regret posting on your talk page, not because I was too mean, but because you are more than capable of handling this yourself, and it wasn't my place to insert my judgment for yours on your own talk page. Kind of a dick move on my part. (To be clear, you are the only person I'm apologizing to.)

I have no idea how one becomes a "mentor", nor what that actually entails, but I guarantee it is not in my skill set. Perhaps I need an edit notice on my own talk page, warning that if anyone posts "ROAR! im a tiger" there, they'll be insta-blocked? Or at least "warning; this user is most definitely not a mentor". Floquenbeam (talk) 22:21, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

I'll have you know that I wear extremely clonky boots and you can do no damage to my toes by stepping on them, so no worries there. As for mentorship, if you desire to learn more about it so you can more effectively avoid it, details are at WP:GTF. A man's got to know his limitations, after all. -- asilvering (talk) 00:35, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from Cesar Restrepo 11 (19:00, 30 April 2025)

Hi! How do you decide which page to optimize and build backlinks for? I love this process — it makes me feel like a real researcher. --Cesar Restrepo 11 (talk) 19:00, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Cesar Restrepo 11, welcome to Wikipedia! I admit you had me worried for a moment, since "optimize and build backlinks" sounds like you're here to spam the place. But I see from your edits so far that you've been adding new information to articles from a variety of sources, so I think you're probably interested in the kinds of problems that end up in Category:All articles lacking sources. We have a wikiproject that deals with those that you might want to join: WP:URA. If you go there, you'll find some detailed guides on how to do this, too. Good luck! -- asilvering (talk) 23:42, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the warm welcome! I appreciate your feedback. I'll check out WP:URA and the guides to improve my contributions. Thanks again! Cesar Restrepo 11 (talk) 19:55, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Question from Aregademassiet2014 (19:35, 1 May 2025)

Hello, Now do I Create a citation ? --Aregademassiet2014 (talk) 19:35, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Hello @Aregademassiet2014, and welcome to Wikipedia! See here for a short-tutorial on how to create citations. Grumpylawnchair (talk) 19:37, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Change of plans

I have decided to write about some of the asteroids in space but I don't know where to start any suggestions? Chezetat (talk) 02:36, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

Absolutely no clue, I'm afraid. The folks to ask would be at WP:SPACE. -- asilvering (talk) 04:05, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

Ah okay, any formating ideas?" Chezetat (talk) 04:20, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

You mean how to format an article on an asteroid? What I'd do is go find some extant articles on asteroids and see how they tend to be done. You'll want to read at least a handful of different ones, just in case you happened to pick up something really useless on your first look. WP:SPACE might have some helpful guides, as well. You'd also want to read WP:NASTRO before you start, to make sure the asteroid you want to write about is likely to be notable. Again, though, I strongly suggest working on articles that already exist rather than starting new ones. -- asilvering (talk) 04:29, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

Your right I'm getting ahead of myself, any articles you recommend me editing? Chezetat (talk) 04:32, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

Earlier ([14]) I suggested going through maintenance tags for WP:VIDEOGAMES, and I still think that's a pretty good way in. If you want something that's more like writing new articles, head to WP:SST, scroll down to the bottom, and click your way through the category tree until you find a category of articles you're interested in. You can also go to WP:WSS to learn about stub sorting and help out that way, if you're nervous about directly editing any articles. I did something kind of similar to that when I started out. -- asilvering (talk) 16:14, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

		The Helping Hand Barnstar
		helping me with getting started on Wikipedia thank you :)Chezetat (talk) 04:26, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

an extra thank you note Chezetat (talk) 04:26, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. :) -- asilvering (talk) 04:30, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

Hello Asilvering

@Asilvering I wanted to ask you about something. Does English Wikipedia accept Turkish history books and TDV Islamic Encyclopedia as references? Kartal1071 (talk) 07:15, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

Yep! -- asilvering (talk) 09:19, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

Thank you @Asilvering. If I send you the articles I will write for you to review, can you review them? Kartal1071 (talk) 10:10, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

I won't pre-review anything, but if you've submitted a draft to AfC and no one gets to it in the first week, I can have a look, sure. I can't promise I'll be quick about it, especially for long drafts with lots of sources, but I can have a look. -- asilvering (talk) 16:08, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

Thank you @Asilvering Kartal1071 (talk) 04:30, 3 May 2025 (UTC)

Question from Nexergy on User:Nexergy/sandbox (08:51, 2 May 2025)

Hello,

We are working on a project to write a Wikipedia page for our company Nexergy. I have never written a Wikipedia page before.

Do you have any tips? Would we do it in the Sandbox? Would we upload a photo? Is their review process long? We would like to do something a little longer, but we want to be complaint, and have it uploaded correctly.

How do the sources work? Is it bad if the Wikipedia page is shorter with a few sources? Something basic with a good start, that we can maybe edit and update later? Just if you can give some feedback it would be good. Thank you, - David =) --Nexergy (talk) 08:51, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi David, the first thing you'll want to do is abandon the @Nexergy account and start a new one. "David at Nexergy" is fine, but you can't have a username that is just the name of your company. Once you've done that, you'll need to create a userpage that explains your connection to the company. If you don't do both of these things, it is highly likely that you will be blocked from editing. The next thing you'll need to do is read WP:COI, particularly WP:PAID, very carefully.

There are some good general tips about writing a new wikipedia article at WP:FIRST and WP:BACKWARDS. Regarding your other questions, it's actually good if the page is shorter with a few sources. The review process is, I'm afraid, very backlogged, so it's in your interest to make your article as easy as possible to review. So short is good. Make sure all information in your draft clearly has a footnote to the source of that information. What reviewers are assessing is primarily whether the sources shown in the article meet the guidelines at WP:NCORP. This is not easy. I would say that writing an article on a company from scratch is probably one of the hardest tasks on wikipedia. If you have any interest in editing more broadly, I would strongly suggest not writing about your company for now, and learning the ropes while editing other topics. It will be much easier to write an article on a company once you've had more practice.

Regarding the photo, that's up to you. Please remember that you're releasing anything you upload to a CC BY-SA license, which means that, provided that you are given attribution, anyone else can use that image however they like, even commercially. -- asilvering (talk) 09:10, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

Question from RSHW142 on Draft:Parbie (13:41, 2 May 2025)

Create a Wikipedia Japanese Anime Fashion Doll Named Parbie From Japan --RSHW142 (talk) 13:41, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

Sorry @RSHW142, I'm going to have to delete that as a hoax. -- asilvering (talk) 15:54, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

Administration request

Good day asilvering. I've come across an account which has been ferociously edit warring over some obscure television shows and books for quite some time, I was hoping you might be able to take a look and leave them a more sternly worded message. I'd prefer to avoid going to ANI if I can, but let me know if that would be more appropriate. The account in question is "KL3985U$" on the articles List of Theodore Tugboat episodes, List of Are You Afraid of the Dark? episodes, and some others. It seems like there's also some badgering going on against the user TheMaxM1, I feel kind of bad for them. I really don't have the will to go through all the back and forth over Theodore Tugboat, as much as I loved to ride on Theodore Too back when he was still around. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 11:41, 3 May 2025 (UTC)