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Question from Sohagcr7 (03:48, 29 June 2024)

I am from Bangladesh --Sohagcr7 (talk) 03:48, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

Cosmic Crusader

I'm writing a comic book series with Ed Annunziata about a time travelling superheroine called Cosmic Crusader. It's going to become more popular than this game, as it is rarely known! --82.18.215.123 (talk) 04:29, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

OK. Until someone writes about the comic book series on Wikipedia, then we shall see. – robertsky (talk) 05:02, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

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Link correction

Regarding (although I would utilise the aid of other editors to help update the links via dabsort tool. In my experience when dealing with similar moves that had thousands of links, there would be a minority portion of them wrongly linked in the first place and this would be an opportunity to correct the links), I think in this case there is a better method than having editors manually review 11,000 links.

Because most of these links are in references, it is trivial to check whether they should go to ABC News (United States) or ABC News (Australia); all we need to do is check whether the reference points to abcnews.go.com or abc.net.au. We can then automatically update them. It will miss those in prose, but I don't consider them enough of an issue to justify the time it would take for editors to review that many links.

Before I create a bot to do that, do you see any issues? Additionally, do you know of any other news sources that might need to be disambiguated?

(I also want to improve Move+ with contextual checks to suggest to notify the user if it is likely that a link might be incorrect, but that's a more difficult problem) BilledMammal (talk) 01:55, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

@BilledMammal, while it is logical to conclude in that manner, I suggest that the bot takes care of the links in references, which is what the bulk of 14,000+ links (yeah.. I counted at the start) are, and only work on the references with the relevant domains names in the url parameter, since these are known determinants. Do note that you may also have to consider the affiliated/regional domains names (i.e. ABC7, etc). Have the links in the prose and other references for manual review. – robertsky (talk) 02:09, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

For the bot I propose here, it will only work on fixing links in references. For Move+, you might be interested in participating in this discussion.

You're right, it would need to consider regional domain names. I'll figure out how to get them.

(FYI, I say 11,000, not 13,000, because 2000 are in namespaces that we typically don't update, such as talk. The real number will actually be slightly less, as it includes articles where the link is in a template, and we don't need to update those)

BilledMammal (talk) 02:26, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Question from QuantumCurator (13:31, 4 July 2024)

Hi Robertsky, I was wondering if I could upload an updated map with new color that I have colored using InkScape to update a country from Visa on Arrival to Visa Free (Timor Leste for Thai Passports).

Please let me know if it would follow the rule of copyright. --QuantumCurator (talk) 13:31, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

@QuantumCurator if the map that you coloured in is free of copyright issues, i.e. File:BlankMap-World.svg, it should be fine. – robertsky (talk) 14:28, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Awesome. Thank you for your reply. QuantumCurator (talk) 15:20, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

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Hi! On 1 July you blocked 67.83.125.225 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) for 31 hours for disruptive editing. I just wanted to let you know that since the block expired, the user has resumed making the same kind of disruptive edits. I think a longer block may be warranted. I also want to mention that yesterday I added this information to the ANI report about this user, suggesting that the user has been making these kinds of disruptive edits for several years on a variety of IP addresses, but that section was archived today. CodeTalker (talk) 17:36, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Revdel feedback

Hey, Robertsky! Thanks for your recent feedback on my revdel request (and, more importantly, thank you for dealing with it). I know it's more convenient to have the link for the Earwig report. However, sometimes I'm really only able to link to the Copypatrol report. I don't know how it does it, but Turnitin often manages to pull from very shady/usurped websites, or websites that themselves are hosting copyright violations. In this particular case, it was pulling from its own archived version of a now-dead URL with an expired SSL certificate that my computer was not happy I tried to open. I can't link to those on Wikipedia, so the Copypatrol report is the best I can do. Sorry, I know it's a bit inconvenient, and I really try to minimize how often I do it. In this case, there was apparently a few years old webarchive version I was too lazy to search for that Earwig actually could actually read from.(Shocker, I know) I'll put a bit more effort to track those down in the future.

But while I'm here(and I've been meaning to do this for a couple days so I promise it's not toadying!):

		The Admin's Barnstar
		For a '24 admin diving straight into copyright, and for being the one to have the courage to revdel Battle of Tetovo. Thank you for all your work so far, and all the work you'll do in the future. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 08:28, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 08:28, 7 July 2024 (UTC)