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From the Birthday Committee, RPE ✍️ 📚 05:54, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

April blitz bling

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		This barnstar is awarded to Dhtwiki for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE April 2025 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 13:19, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Precious anniversary

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:31, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, can you help add Oben Electric in relevant Wikipedia articles?

Hi, my name's Atul. I work as Deputy Marketing Manager at Oben Electric. I noticed that Oben Electric is nowhere mentioned in the Wikipedia. We are based out of Bangalore and our stores are located more than 30 cities in India. But still, we are nowhere in Wikipedia while our competitors like Ola Electric & Ather have a lot of mentions. I saw that you have written a lot of articles on Wikipedia, by any chance would you be open to helping us?

Thanks, Atul 49.249.95.222 (talk) 11:35, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I see that both Ola Electric and Ather Energy (if that is the company you mean) have Wikipedia articles, and that is due to their being mentioned by independent journalists and scholars, as the articles' references sections attest. If you can point to similar coverage of your company, you shouldn't have trouble establishing its notability and its having a Wikipedia article. I have not started that many articles myself and have little expertise in your field. You yourself should announce your possible conflict of interest, before starting such an article on your own (you should also think about getting an account here, so you can edit as other than as an IP address). See pages such as Wikipedia:Requested articles and Wikipedia:Articles for creation for pointers how how to begin articles here. Dhtwiki (talk) 06:09, 26 April 2025 (UTC) (edited 22:04, 28 April 2025 (UTC))[reply]

Thank You! 49.249.95.222 (talk) 11:10, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

		The Guild of Copy Editors' Award
		The Guild of Copy Editors' Gold Star Award* is given to members as well as non-members of the Guild of Copy Editors, in recognition of exceptional work done in the area of copy editing.* For your excellent work copyediting. Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 08:36, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

Hi. I just wanna ask if this reads fine (If not I am wondering if you can copy edit it) "Despite writing that the shape contributes to its popularity, Abel finds this insufficient to explain the universality of the emoji's popularity. Instead, he proposes that people use the emoji as a way to engage with the act of defecation, evidencing this with the fact that toilets are frequently where phones are used. Abel takes this fact as an opportunity to engage in social commentary. First, he notes that because phones are frequently used on toilets, some evidence suggests that they are often contaminated with fecal matter and harmful bacteria, permitting "poo on phones" to have a dual meaning of physical feces and the poop emoji. From this, he suggests that the poop emoji may be popular as it simultaneously signifies media being consumed (phone use on the toilet) as it signifies the harms of its consumption (seen through the fecal contamination resultant from phone use)". Many thanks. 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) 10:16, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The "shape" is a "swirling" one, according to the previous paragraph at the article; and that attribute might be brought down. Although fairly grammatical, other parts need further explication. "Engage with the act of defecation", but how? And phones are not especially used in the bathroom. The famously fastidious Japanese allow their phones to "often" become fecally contaminated (since Abel is a Japanese scholar)? That deserves further explanation. The rest of the paragraph has too much vague analysis or speculation. If it's more specific in the paper that's being summarized, more of that specificity belongs in the article. Dhtwiki (talk) 06:47, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Dhtwiki for the response. I wrote the section and have clarified the act of defecation portion a bit. If it's okay, I'm just going to paste the relevant text below, it's pretty short:

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What could explain the emoji's popularity beyond its culture of origination? I suggest that it is likely a kind of ‘reverse mimesis’: The remediation of the ‘poop mark’ into digital environments betrays a truth some of us might rather not admit but that Katy Perry is happy to concede: globally, a primary site of cell phone use is the toilet. What do we make out of this fertile mess? The poop character in our phones helps us to engage with our actual world, not simply to represent a universal condition; rather, it helps us to think about the poop on our phones. Emoji eloquently reaffi rms the toilet not just as a site of texting but also as a site of reading. The pile of poo suggests something we probably already know about our new media—too many of us are spending far too long on the toilet with our new media gadgets. According to one study, as many as one-sixth of all cell phones today are covered with fecal matter and dangerous bacteria such as E. coli (see Song 2011 ). This reversal of mimesis might show us the true reason why the poop emoji is so popular globally, which is to say that the ‘poop’ emoji is both a sign of our contemporary media consumption and a manifestation of its waste.

As you can see, it indeed seems to be Abel's contention that phones are especially used in bathrooms, that this extends to the Japanese (he only affords "globally", not permitting further explanation).

Frankly, I believe Abel's argument is that everyone uses their phones on the toilet, we all know on some level we're contaminating it or that it's otherwise something we shouldn't be doing, and by using the poop emoji we are trying to navigate the internal dissonance in some way. I don't feel comfortable rendering it like that without outside confirmation that my reading is accurate.

Rollinginhisgrave (talk | contributions) 11:18, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]