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18:12, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Hope Memorial Bridge photo date

I assume you don't remember the source that you used to date (1988) the bridge photo way back in 2006, but, in any case, I've changed it to what I think is more accurate (c. 1970s), judging from the fact that I can't see 200 Public Square, assuming it's not behind the bridge support, and the fact that most of the HAER photos of Cleveland that I've seen were taken around then. Good? Mapsax (talk) 03:14, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for catching that. Guessing I pulled that date from the HAER data pages, which were prepared in February 1988. The photo captions in the survey don't include dates, though. The only date we know for certain is that the documentation was compiled after 1968. The Justice Center is visible in the photo, so late '70s/early '80s seems like a reasonable estimate. - Eureka Lott 19:36, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
Only took me 15.5 years to catch it.... Mapsax (talk) 23:51, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy (soundtrack)

Thanks for this. I wasn't sure how to handle the history of the earlier version outside a histmerge to put the article at the correct title. Cheers. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 01:27, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

  Wishing EurekaLott a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Bobherry Talk Edits 04:57, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

Hope Memorial Bridge

Re: this revert, I had no idea that subtopics which serve as redirects should appear in boldface in the lead—I thought that was only for alternate titles for the main subject. Any idea if this was a recent change to MOS:BOLDREDIRECT? Just curious. Thanks. Levdr1lp / talk 03:54, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

I suppose it depends on how you define recent. :) The guidance has been on that page since since 2013. - Eureka Lott 18:04, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 January 27

I don't think it is good practice to change a comment here after multiple people have edited the page. It may, however, be OK to add an additional comment to the post. --Jax 0677 (talk) 17:19, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

My edit was entirely intentional. If I had changed the substance of my comments, I would have handled it differently—but in this case, it was merely an attempt to state the same position a bit more clearly. I will be reinstating the change. - Eureka Lott 18:53, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
Thanks. By the way, the next time you start a discussion about another editor at a noticeboard, it would be polite to let them know. - Eureka Lott 15:14, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

January 2022

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Lark (dinghy)

Ref: Please do not add copyright violations to articles.

We have permission from both photographers to update the page and use their image. Please accept our changes and leave in place. Thank you. Simon j morrris (talk) 09:31, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

If you've received permission to publish the images under a compatible license, please communicate them to the C:Commons:Volunteer Response Team. Follow the instructions on that page so that they can verify the information. Thanks. - Eureka Lott 14:40, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Removal of Draft

I am the same author who also requested deletion on Draft:Alex Breingan. I forgot my dam password and then regained access again. See my user page. User:AyrtonHolloway I declared this. I will also request deletion on this account. I declared this so this was my mistake. AyrtonHolloway (talk) 03:27, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

To restore two articles.

2 days ago 9 articles were deleted by an administrator which were created by Greenarm12 (Talk) which were sockpuppet of User:Ak131001, 2 of them (Arif Mehmood Alam and Sultan Ul Arfeen Siddiqui) had been reviewed but these 2 articles were also deleted. I think these 2 articles needs to remain published and I request to restore these two articles. 119.160.68.165 (talk) 04:52, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

Deletion of Nano Land Kingdom

Hi, I'm wondering why my page was deleted? When there are plenty of other micronations on Wikipedia. How could I change any information to correct this issue so I can recreate this page. I'm new to Wikipedia so any information would be helpful. Thank you. And best wishes. Celestialbeing916 (talk) 03:44, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Hi. Two of Wikipedia's key policies are Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:No original research. That article failed to meet either of those policies. Please remember that Wikipedia is not for things made up one day. - Eureka Lott 03:49, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Happy Eighteenth First Edit Day!

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Have a great day!
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CSD R3 comment

Hello again. I was going to comment about this anyway to whichever admin deleted the erroneous National Prescription Opiate Litigation redirect with the quotation marks, but it's helpful that we've already communicated before on other topics. What happened, and it must've happened before to other editors, is that I searched for the corresponding term in quotes, and then when there were no results, I clicked one of the redlinks to create the redirect, not realizing in my focus toward getting the redirect target correct that the quotes followed the words into the redlink. I have transcribed the generated statement from a dummy search below to illustrate this.

The page ""zxazxa"" does not exist. You can create a draft and submit it for review, or you may create the page ""zxazxa"" directly.

Note that the interior sets of double quotes are red, which is very subtle. I'm mentioning this because it might be considered a bug, though I realize that it's just a direct reiteration so it may not be recognized as one, which is why I haven't reported it as one. I do think that it should be addressed somehow to prevent what happened to me.

Mapsax (talk) 00:03, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

It took some digging, but I think I found the page that generates that message. It's MediaWiki:Searchmenu-new. Since it's in the MediaWiki namespace, only Wikipedia:Interface administrators can edit it. You could try raising the issue at the Wikipedia:Interface administrators' noticeboard and see what they say. - Eureka Lott 01:54, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for your research. I'll read through the noticeboard archive to see if the concern's worth bringing up. (Aside: You may have noticed that my comments above about my not proofreading closely enough weren't proofread closely enough. No surprise there. Fixed. And I do preview frequently before publishing, believe it or not.) Mapsax (talk) 02:05, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

Hush Hush

Hello @EurekaLott, I hope you're doing well. I see you decline my csd request. But is it necessary for a disambiguation in a Article title. I value your effort and time, and appreciate that you chose to action it. Thanks for your consideration, stay safe. C1K98V (💬 ✒️ 📂) 15:40, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

Torsten Haß

Hi! Why did you delete the article? – Doc TaxonTalk 17:14, 12. Nov 2022 (UTC)

Hello. I deleted the article because it was an identical copy of the article that was deleted following a deletion discussion earlier this year. Please see WP:G4. - Eureka Lott 17:19, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

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