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Happy editing! ... discospinster _talk 01:38, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! Lobster from Maine (talk) 01:43, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

AfD discussions

Wikipedia is proud to support editors being WP:BOLD with their edits but there are also policies and guidelines. Just like we have a policy about ordinals not using superscript, we also have convention at AfD to start each statement with Keep, Delete, Merge. It makes it easier for those involved in the discussion and for the editor who ultimately has to close and summarize the consensus of the discussion. Slywriter (talk) 02:20, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

Okay. Is there a page that has all of these conventions listed? It's hard to find information on this through the search bar. Lobster from Maine (talk) 02:24, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

Is there a page that has all of these conventions listed?.

Yes. Wikipedia:Manual of Style is the style guide. The specific relevant section, MOS:ORDINAL, is contained within it.

For conventions at discussions, there are usually instructions on those pages. For example: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion#Contributing to AfD discussions. Hope this helps:)

While I'm here. A minor point and I realize how this can happen. Your edit summary here strongly implies a revert of my previous edit. But as can be seen in the diffs, your edit was not really an "undo" of my changes. Just trying to avoid any confusion. Cheers! DB1729^talk 03:32, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

Ok. I will be more careful. Lobster from Maine (talk) 04:04, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

Other accounts

What other accounts have you used at Wikipedia?--Bbb23 (talk) 03:04, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

I sometimes fix typos on my cell phone when I see an error after googling something, but I have never used any other account or made changes to Wikipedia from my computer until yesterday. Why do you ask? Lobster from Maine (talk) 03:15, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

it is a bit suspicious for your eighth edit to be on wikipedia:administrators' noticeboard. lettherebedarklight晚安 03:21, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

I saw the article for Coffee News, which I see in Bangor grocery stores, and I looked up how to find administrators when I saw the issue I reported. The Wikipedia page on Administrators says there are two noticeboards and I posted on the more general one. Lobster from Maine (talk) 03:26, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

also, finding wikipedia:changing username/Usurpations on your first edit... lettherebedarklight晚安 03:23, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

I looked up how to change my username when I saw that I couldn't register my account as "Maine Lobster" because that is too close to someone else's username. Lobster from Maine (talk) 03:27, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

As Bbb23 said, your behaviours lead to a lot of attractions. Now even I am getting suspicious because you are trying to throw down a sysop although you are a newcomer. Lemonaka (talk) 14:46, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

Signature

Your new signature may be imposible to see for people with red:green color blindness. David notMD (talk) 12:06, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

I don't have any colorblindness, but the signature hurts my eyes. David10244 (talk) 13:14, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

Lobster from Maine; at WP:CUSTOMSIG/P, it notes that "A customised signature should provide an easily identified link to your talk page". Your signature doesn't do that. Instead, the only link is to your userpage. As noted above, it is also effectively impossible for people with red/green color blindness to read it. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines requires a minimum color contrast of 4.5:1 for standard sized text. Your signature has a contrast of only 1.3:1. For a person with red/green color blindness, this is effectively grey on grey text. While you might not have this limitation, 1 in 20 people do. For that reason alone, you should be changing your signature. Please do. Personally, from an aesthetic perspective, I think it's quite awful. This is no comment on you, just the signature. --Hammersoft (talk) 14:49, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

Is this better? Lobster from Maine (talk) 16:54, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

• Better. I'm still no fan of garish signatures. It smacks of "LOOK AT ME! MY POST IS IMPORTANT! READ IT!" and is a bit jarring in the context of other people's posts. But, the sig as you have it now is compliant. That's the best I can say for it :) --Hammersoft (talk) 16:56, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

  Okay. My signature reminds me of Monster, the energy drink, and I'm okay with that. Lobster from Maine (talk) 16:58, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

  You should still link to your talk page, and it does not do that at present. Nick Moyes (talk) 17:23, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

Much better, albeit "Talk" should link to your Talk. David notMD (talk) 17:45, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

User:Jack who built the house/Convenient Discussions saved me Lemonaka (talk) 08:26, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

Does this signature work for my new username? Maine 🦞 02:11, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

No. Nick Moyes (talk) 13:07, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Your XRV

The XRV you opened has been closed as not endorsed. Please note, XRV is not a blame-placing or sanctioning venue, this closure only shows that these specific actions are not endorsed to follow the general expectations. As these actions were content edits, they can be dealt with editorially. As the action was both an "edit" and a "rollback" due to the nature of that tool, only the "rollback" component was evaluated at XRV and reverted content should only be re-reverted if it is of editorial benefit (i.e. the rollbacks should not be reversed simply because they were done server-side using the rollback tool, only if the actual content change should be reintroduced because it makes the article better). This concludes the XRV report. Should there be future areas of dispute, please see Wikipedia:Dispute resolution for possible means to a resolution. — xaosflux ^Talk 18:43, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

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Damar Hamlin

Please stop trying to force content into the article stating that Hamlin wasn't breathing. He was intubated on the field and is most likely still intubated; this implies that he was unable to breath naturally, and being in critical condition implies life support. General Ization ^Talk 05:21, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Please respond on the article talk page, where others can come to consensus. Maine 🦞 05:23, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Controversial Areas

Hi Maine Lobster, I've looked at a few of your edits after seeing your !vote in the recent RFA. I can see your enthusiasm for editing and contributing to Wikipedia and I can't wait to see you become some quite experienced editor sometime in the future. However, I do think most editors would encourage new users to stay slightly away from contentious areas like WP:AFD, WP:XRV, and WP:RFA amongst various others and focus on more uncontroversial tasks (I personally think it would be much more enjoyable too). Please let me know if you have any questions! Justiyaya 07:41, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

This would probably be a better use of my time. I might just write an article instead of dealing with lawyering. Maine 🦞 04:24, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

For new articles, be sure to skim through Help:Your first article, I would recommend going through articles for creation for your first few articles, feel free to message me if you need a review. Justiyaya 05:12, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

January 2023

This is your only warning; if you violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy by inserting unsourced or poorly sourced defamatory content into an article or any other Wikipedia page again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Jax 0677 (talk) 08:37, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

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January 2023

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 48 hours for deliberately adding a person's name to the edit-warring discussion page, despite the fact that the dispute was whether it should be shown on Wikipedia at all. Regardless of the result of the BLPN discussion, you did that deliberately, and it's not acceptable. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

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Sideswipe9th (talk) 16:58, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

• And in regards to this, I have deleted Draft:Soldier F identitification controversy for which there was already consensus not to include the name (this may change in the future, obviously). Let me be quite clear here - if there is a single further example of you deliberately naming people in controversial events simply because you can, I will indefinitely block you. Last warning. Black Kite (talk) 18:45, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

  You deleted an article without any valid reason. You did not even cite a speedy deletion reason. If you are a Brit, I would understand the urge to censor in line with the legal orders of the Crown of the United Kingdom, but Wikipedia is not censored. Administrators should understand this. Maine 🦞 19:48, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

  Hey, ML. There are many policies here on WP which sometimes can seem to come into conflict. We solve them by deciding which is the most important. One of our absolutely most important policies, one that trumps pretty much all others, is WP:BLP. We do not consider removing the names of living people who have not been convicted of a crime to be censorship, and we absolutely do consider inserting the names of those people to be disruptive editing.

  You're pretty new here, and you've shown an interest in editing in very contentious areas. I would recommend you instead edit in areas where there isn't active controversy while you learn more about our policies and how they interact.

I'd also recommend you not speculate on other editors' motivations, per WP:AGF and WP:NPA. It really wouldn't matter whether BK were British. Talk about edits, not editors. Valereee (talk) 22:55, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

ANI

Can you please stop with the drive by piling on on threads on ANI. Your responses are not beneficial, and in many cases are to incidents that have been completed just not closed. It makes it look like you're just trying to game the system by having more edits. Canterbury Tail talk 16:26, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

If it continues, it won't matter if you get 500 edits as one of us can take away your permission. Doug Weller talk 16:40, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

I will stop. Sorry that I came off that way, but I am not doing this to try to have more edits. Maine 🦞 16:40, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Your editing

I'm going to be very blunt, here, ML. You have made 21 edits to articles, 12 of which have been reverted, and have only made one edit to an article in the past 2 1/2 months. Instead you've been spending your time on Wikipedia pages, which you do not have anywhere near the experience to be helpful at. You have been warned multiple times both at the noticeboards and here.

You need to stop editing at Wikipedia pages now. Your editing there is disruptive, and it currently far outweighs the productive edits you've made. Valereee (talk) 14:04, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

I've just created Brennley Brown. The page is very short, but I think she should have a page. I can make it longer when I find more information about her. Maine 🦞 14:26, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. So you can see what I'm talking about, here is a graph of your editing. For new editors, the red section usually is more than 50% and the bright green is usually the second biggest section. Valereee (talk) 14:34, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

I have enforced this with a long overdue p-block from project namespace. You're welcome to continue contributing to the encyclopedia. Star Mississippi 17:45, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Signature

The problem with your signature is that it's difficult to read. Even for me, with normal eyesight, I have to squint. For someone with low vision it's likely impossible. If you aren't sure how to make your signature easily readable, it's best to just set it to the default. Valereee (talk) 14:37, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Ok. Is this one better? I made the "Maine" bold and black. Maine 🦞 14:41, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

No, not really. Go to WP:Teahouse and ask for help, I'm not an expert in this but I'm sure someone there is. Valereee (talk) 14:44, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Ok. I changed it back to be the default with the Maine lobster emote for my talk page link. I want to keep the lobster. Maine 🦞 14:47, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility contains the information you need, specifically MOS:CONTRAST. You can use something like https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ to check how readable your choice of colours is. 163.1.15.238 (talk) 14:53, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, IP! Valereee (talk) 15:02, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

March 2023

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing certain namespaces (Wikipedia and Wikipedia talk) for abuse of editing privileges.

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Mass deletions by admins

Having seen your comments at WP:AN i get the impression that you are misunderstanding certain things. At the time or writing this there are 128 files listed at Category:All Wikipedia files with the same name on Wikimedia Commons. I could, and have on other occasions, checked them and then used WP:Twinkle to delete them all in one go. This is not counted as running a bot and is permitted. However, this does not excuse Explicit's lack of communication. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 18:32, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Search for Twinkle at deletions. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 18:36, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Brennley Brown

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Nomination of David Gerard (author) for deletion

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DYK for David Gerard (author)

On 12 July 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article David Gerard (author), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that David Gerard is the author of Attack of the 50-foot Blockchain, a "'no holds barred' attack" on cryptocurrency? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/David Gerard (author). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, David Gerard (author)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 12 July 2023 (UTC)