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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:2000 disestablishments in Egypt

 

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Update team rosters for FIBA World Cup in Wikipedia

Please update the other teams wikis. The final 12 lineup is already yet their wikis haven’t been updated. On some team wikis that haven’t been updated. 120.28.240.86 (talk) 13:40, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

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A cup of coffee for you!

  Thanks for your work on the 2023 William Jones Cup page! Great little tournament, so happy to see it return and its wiki so detailed, thanks to you. Mreleganza (talk) 08:13, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

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Motorraces are a thing, Formula One GP another. Hence is not needed to add the wikilink for these races into a Formula One Grand Prix articles. Consistency with the past. Island92 (talk) 21:31, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

@Island92 Just because it's not done in the past, we couldn't do it now. My usage of those hatnotes are still within the WP:HATNOTERULES, I believe more specifically #3 (Mention other topics and articles only if there is a reasonable possibility of a reader arriving at the article either by mistake or with another topic in mind. It aids navigation as most of the race names are plainly "Place + Grand Prix" (British Grand Prix, French GP, etc.) Maybe us here in WP, we would be able to determine which articles are F1 articles and which are MotoGP ones, but for the readers, I believe it's helpful as it greatly aids navigation (per above, They may be seeking an article that uses a more specific, disambiguated title and They may be seeking an article with a similar name to, or that otherwise might be confused with, the article with the hatnote). Also, the hatnotes are still within the guidelines, which I've already mentioned. Engr. Smitty Werben 21:44, 3 September 2023 (UTC)
Why is there this interest only for the current season? Then those links should be added in more than 1,000 Formula One Grand Prix articles page. In any case, a reader can make use of the templates reported below to distinguish F1 GP and Motorraces GP. The initial wikilink belonging to the Motorrace race creates only confusion for the articles itself. And the same can be said for the motorace articles adding the link for the F1 race.--Island92 (talk) 21:51, 3 September 2023 (UTC)
@Island92 I don't know how adding a hatnote would created confusion. In fact, I believe it's helpful as the name of F1 articles ("Grand Prix") is still vague/similar to how MotoGP names their races (most use "Grand Prix", though some use "motorcycle Grand Prix". There's no need for a hatnote in MotoGP articles as the article name itself is specific enough (the motorcycle part). Engr. Smitty Werben 22:11, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

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ENGVAR problem

I see that many Wikipedia articles are tagged with their respective English tags, for example, American English for US topics, and British English for UK topics. Why do the articles for the FIBA World Cups not have any of these? I tried to put up British English, Philippine English, EngvarB, and American English tags on the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup article, but they were reverted since. Both articles about the 2019 and 2023 World Cups contain primarily American spelling, but why do they still not have English tags and only dmy dates? I found out that some American English articles use dmy instead of mdy dates (example: the 2020 Summer Olympics article). But why no English tags for most FIBA World Cup articles? (I placed the American English tag on the 2002 World Cup since it was held in the US, and Canadian for the 1994 event since it was held in Canada.) RMXY (talk) 11:26, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

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List of Formula One driver records rev. 15:26, 16 October 2023

Hello, I'm you made a revert here undoing 2 sets of changes, I'm just wondering why you undid the second revision which linked Verstappen's page to his race wins. Not a big deal so take your time on the response, but I'm curious why it was undone, it seemed like a good change to me. PapaTrotsky (talk) 18:13, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

@PapaTrotsky Is there an existing article for that? None; then why should we add a link to that non-existing article? Engr. Smitty Werben 18:17, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
Ah, I see, my bad. It looked like it had a preview when I looked earlier but I guess I was wrong. Should of tried opening the link before saying something. Thanks for the quick response! PapaTrotsky (talk) 18:21, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

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Mpbl

https://www.mpbl.com.ph/teams/

Upload some logos please 93.138.249.84 (talk) 06:24, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

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Username

Agh! A username change for a longtime editor! This will take some time to get used to. Hope you have a good weekend, Dieter Lloyd Wexler! Liz Read! Talk! 19:04, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

Thanks Liz! I just felt like I'm in a new chapter of my life so I decided to abandon the Smitty phase and have a (kinda) fresh start with a fresh new username. Dieter Lloyd Wexler 21:04, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

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November Articles for creation backlog drive

 

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilipinas_Super_League

some teams need more updates, possible new articles, davao missing logo, emeralds and san juan need second version added...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharlika_Pilipinas_Basketball_League

(3 teams no article) 93.143.71.12 (talk) 02:00, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

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"Also"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball_in_the_Philippines#External_links

As can see all leagues are here, but why this link was moved from league pages? 93.143.125.220 (talk) 08:51, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

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https://m.facebook.com/DavaoOccidentalTigers/photos/a.1792734124120128/6047778435282321/?type=3


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davao_Occidental_Tigers


Why not added? 93.140.31.70 (talk) 02:43, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:2022 in Philippine basketball

 

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F1 Records

Dieter,

Can you please/maybe also do something about the many totally outdated references on this page. I deleted the one on the first table https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Formula_One_driver_records#Total_entries which refers to only Rubens Barichello and his number of entries in 2017, a year that doesn't even appear in the table, but somehow it reappeared. prino (talk) 13:29, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

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Hey mate, thank you for correcting my edit, i didn't fully know how red links were supposed to be used, and i'm sorry for the inconvenience i caused before. Road Atlanta Turn 5 (talk) 18:33, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

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Your obsessive control over motorcycle articles

You are now being silly with the undo button, leaving me messages when I am a 10-year registered veteran trying to prevent the Indonesians from running amok. I expect you will revert your reversions in a few hours time. 82.13.47.210 (talk) 01:52, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Right, I smelled something bad here. Engr. Smitty and babymissfortune. True to past form. Glad I now know, though.--82.13.47.210 (talk) 02:11, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

@82.13.47.210: Did you lose access to your account? Is that why you're editing anonymously? Anyway all I did was to remove the categories (for now) because they haven't competed a single race with their new teams; they're just signed. We only add the categories after they actually raced. But if re-adding the categories (is that what y'all do years ago? add the cat before an official race?) would complete your day, then sure go ahead. I couldn't care less. Dieter Lloyd Wexler 03:54, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

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