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Proposed change to Special:Watchlist

If you take a look at your watchlist on species: at species:Special:Watchlist, you'll see that there's a line at the top that gives visibility to a handful of tracking categories that require attention and in the case that a certain category has more than x pages in it, it gets a hi-lite. Would the community here be in favor of a similar change for categories such as Category:Candidates for speedy deletion, Category:Pages with reference errors, and Category:Possible copyright violations? I imagine about a half-dozen of the more important maintenance categories. I think this would be helpful in providing visibility for admins and other users to fix more acute problems. Thoughts? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:25, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

User conflict at The Godfather

On 15 Feb. 2024 I, from an IP address, edited The Godfather to trim narration from dialogue from the film's Moe Greene scene. The narrations included e.g. noting that someone puffs a cigarette, suggesting someone's mood, details that I think the dialogue stands just fine without. Wikiquote is for quotations; if someone wants to see the entire audiovisual context of those quotations, they are welcome to watch the film. A few days later User:Eaglestorm reverted the change without explanation. I restored the changes in May; Eaglestorm reverted again and called me "obsessed" and an "single-purpose account" (untrue; I edit plenty of other articles). This has continued sporadically since. I make changes, Eaglestorm notices similarity with prior changes and reverts them entirely and without explanation. Eaglestorm is not the boss of who can and can't edit a particular article and I ask that they be advised of this. ~2025-50662-4 (talk) 17:33, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

First, you are correct - no user "owns" any page and should not act that way. I agree that User:Eaglestorm appears to be a bit aggressive and denigrating in reverting your edits. This should stop and not continue ( I will keep an eye out for this). Second, as to the content of the changes, I would propose a compromise: I believe your contextual cuts are good ones to make (as you say, the quotes stand on their own) - sometimes some contextual information is good to have, but these trims look appropriate to me. As for adding the full names of characters, I am more ambivalent - many pages use simple, one word names for characters and others use the full names. That being said, I don't really believe it is necessary to have full names, since the cast listing shows them already. I would recommend not making that change. That way, both of you get something from this: you get to trim the contextual notes and they get to trim the full names. Make sense? ~ UDScott (talk) 18:02, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

It makes sense to me, but apparently Eaglestorm is not on board with it. ~2025-50662-4 (talk) 01:49, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

How to add a song verses without double spacing in between those verses?

hi, I tried to correct the quotation of a song, but I can't figure out how to include the song's verses on different lines without Wikiquotes automatically double spacing all the lines? It either bunches together each stanza into a single block, or the verses are too far apart and double spaced. Please help, I would appreciate it Misa-Misa Yagami-Amane (talk) 16:52, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Use <br> between each line (while keeping them together in a single paragraph). For example:
line1<br>line2<br>line3. As an example, look at the The Beatles page, where you'll find examples like the following:

• Oh yeah, I´ll tell you something
  I think you´ll understand
  When I say that something
  I wanna hold your hand.
  • I Want to Hold Your Hand ~ UDScott (talk) 17:12, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you so much! Misa-Misa Yagami-Amane (talk) 10:48, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

interwiki error

Good evening, please let you have a look at this.

Thr wrong interwiki (in the quotes) created automatically an interwiki link (at the right side of the top of the page) between q:en:Stefano Lorenzetto and q:fr:Adrien Candiard, a WQ article which does not exist. ~2025-57140-7 (talk) 20:05, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

It doesn't exist an entry on "Wikiquote in French" about "Adrien Candiard".

It does exist an article about him on "Wikipedia in French" but not on "Wikipedia in English".

The mistake was corrected , now there are an interlink to the article in French language. Anatole-berthe (talk) 01:25, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

Policy Change proposal

There is currently a discussion in WQ:WQ talk page on the change the notability policy. You may visit the talk page, join the discussion and vote. NorthernWinds (talk) 14:40, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

Server switch - Your wiki will be read-only for a short time soon

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Upcoming Dark Mode user interface rollout for anonymous Wikimedia sites users

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Current adminship rights request.

A discussion is now open at Wikiquote:Requests for adminship#Requests for interface administrator, where longtime admin User:Saroj is seeking interface administrator rights. Cheers! BD2412 T 04:30, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

User:Jni vote of confidence?

• Jni (talk • contribs • global edits • page moves • block user • block log)

This was brought up in 2022 at the Village Pump. It does not appear that they replied either at the VP discussion or on their talk page. At the time, they had no edits in about a year and no logged actions in more than two. Currently they have no logged actions since 5 December 2021 and have made only four edits following that date.

While Jni does seem to contribute elsewhere, it's not clear that they have an interest in participating on WQ.

We do not have a local inactivity policy at this time and Jni does not qualify under the the global policy, having made three edits in the past two years. However, a !vote of confidence as permitted by WQ:ADMIN may be appropriate and requires the consent of three users. GMG^talk 18:19, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Remove Thanks for all your work, Jni. No prejudice against re-applying in the future. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:34, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

I'm not an administrator so I'm not sure if I'm allowed to vote in this but I think I would concur with removal. PARAKANYAA (talk) 20:04, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Support - seems like Jni is no longer active. ~ UDScott (talk) 01:09, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Remove – Thanks for their service, but inactive and unresponsive. Support VoC. --Saroj (talk) 03:39, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Self-removal requested. I have indeed been absent for too long and don't need the admin permissions here anymore. I have requested stewards to remove my sysop access at m:Steward_requests/Permissions#Removal_of_access page, to save others' time with this process. Thanks all! jni (talk) 09:46, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for the time you've invested in the project and I hope to see you back when you can. GMG^talk 13:05, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

Wikiquote:Votes for deletion

Thanks to @Saroj: for helping clear the backlog. We're now down to only 10 open.

Just noting that we don't just need administrators there. Things would greatly benefit from more interaction from everyone. It doesn't work very well when lots of discussions are just one or two !votes from a small group of users. And admins can only contribute to VfD so much really, because there still has to be someone around to close. GMG^talk 14:52, 5 October 2025 (UTC)