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Budget Cuts moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Budget Cuts, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Majun e Baqi (talk) 06:36, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

Welcome!

Nice work on the draft template. Don't get discouraged if it doesn't get implemented. I look forward to your continuing contributions! –xeno^talk 15:38, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. Despite its niche audience, I think it'd be an improvement to the current infobox. SWinxy (talk) 15:41, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Minecraft Articles Mergers and Deletions

Hi, Recently, you have reviewed some of the articles I have recently created, and nominated them for deletion or merging. I believe that, after some time to work on them (making them encyclopaedic, and passing GNG), they will be fit for Wikipedia. However, I can appreciate that these changes will take time in the mainspace. As such, is it possible that, instead of deletion, they get reverted to drafts? This way I can work on them for as long as needed and they can go through AFC process to ensure they are valid articles. Is this possible? Thanks Squid45 Squid45 (talk) 08:39, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

You are free to move them to the draft namespace and add to the pages as you please. However, it does not mean that the articles will meet the standards for Wikipedia. Sub-articles (the DLC packs for Minecraft: Dungeons) are for when articles are too big or when it is significant enough to create their own pages for. The pages for the Dungeons DLC do not meet this criteria. In the cases of the Iron Golem character and Netherite, as I have said, fall under WP:GAMEGUIDE because they are either concepts or game items. Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia, and I do not want to discourage you from adding to this place. I encourage you to contribute to Creeper (Minecraft), as that meets the WP:GNG for being significant enough to be its own article. I also suggest you to join the Minecraft Wiki and contribute there.

Speedy deletion declined: Alex (Minecraft) and Steve (Minecraft)

Hello SWinxy. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Alex (Minecraft) and Steve (Minecraft), pages you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Does not redirect to a different or incorrect namespace. Thank you. Jackmcbarn (talk) 01:43, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Hi Jack, thank you for letting me know. I should have asked for help in this issue that regarded the pages in question. The pages have been moved to draftspace and presently redirected to Minecraft. The way I did it left the speedy deletion template on by mistake. Thanks again. SWinxy (talk) 14:53, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for your infobox improvements and image logo to article -- InnerSloth. Much appreciated, Right cite (talk) 19:51, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

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Among us non-notable edit

How is it not notable? It is in many sources, like the Faze jarvis ban. How is it not notable? The one and only 4thfile4thrank {talk} 17:34, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

@4thfile4thrank: Wikipedia is not a newspaper. This isn't really notable on it's own, and it doesn't really contribute to the article as a whole. SWinxy (talk) 17:45, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

How do you tell if it is? Many articles cover it, and I see multiple reliable sources showing that it occurred. The one and only 4thfile4thrank {talk} 19:51, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of Steve (Minecraft) for deletion

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Innersloth

There needs to be a innersloth article i feel — Preceding unsigned comment added by TigerScientist (talk • contribs) 20:30, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

@TigerScientist: There was a discussion that took place here, which resulted in a Redirect, and a review here, which failed to gain consensus. I admit this was pretty heated, but it doesn't look like the decision will be overturned anytime soon. The AfD had this to say for why it should be a redirect: Contested PROD. Non-notable video game developer failing WP:GNG with no reliable independent in-depth sources, such as WP:VG/RS. In particular, none are significant coverage of the subject. All the sources in the article are about the company's games and not the company, i.e. WP:NOTINHERITED. The three sources in lead citing the company have only a few sentences about the developer and rely heavily on developer's own words. It is possible to restart the discussion, but as the issues mentioned in the AfD need to be resolved first. SWinxy (talk) 20:52, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Oh ok thanks i never knew about it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TigerScientist (talk • contribs) 20:58, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Request Bihari Rajput

There were repeated image vandalism on the page by user Heba Aisha. Request you to respect the consensus on Bihari Rajput and WP:NPA by selectively targetting me on admin noticeboard. Anony20 (talk) 05:12, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

@Anony20:, there is no consensus on the article's talk page, among the multiple unnecessary discussion topics created. Two other people have commented on this issue on the talk page, but because someone agrees with you doesn't necessarily mean it's a consensus. See WP:CONS and read through it carefully. On the note of reading policies, you clearly haven't even read two sentences in on WP:NPA on what a personal attack even is: Do not make personal attacks anywhere on Wikipedia. Comment on content, not on the contributor... My report was not a personal attack, but instead bringing up an issue which you were a part of, in which I included links to diffs. SWinxy (talk) 05:42, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Have a look at this[1][2] or to the RFC[3]. Read what other editors have to say on the image or read User:Satish/Castelist.Anony20 (talk) 06:33, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

You should have a look at WP:RFC guidelines to know better about the consensus. Anony20 (talk) 06:34, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

My guy, I linked you the policy about, consensus. WP:RFC is about asking for outside input concerning disputes, policies, guidelines or article content, and only after them ending can consensus be gauged. And if you're wondering, I did read the whole talk page on Bihari Rajput, and unless more people join in on the discussion or you two come to a consensus yourselves, there isn't a consensus. SWinxy (talk) 07:02, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)

SWinxy I m not making comments as he is not aware of policies and donot want to read it .WP:CIR issue.Before I started Rfc I reverted the page to the non contested version.And as per rules before we arrive at consensus no edits shud be made to disputed part, but he edited it.Also flooding many platform including my talk page with numerous comment and despite of one active Afc opened yet another on article's talk page.Seems he donot know meaning of consensus and timing of Rfc.Also quoting different policy for different circumstances. (which usually donot applies there)Heba Aisha (talk) 07:16, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

@SWinxy: Then wait for the consensus to end and avoid taking this issue to a new thread.Anony20 (talk) 10:30, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

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Thank you Etremai! Happy new year to you as well. SWinxy (talk) 16:30, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

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Being a busy body

Stay off my talk page. You don't get to decide what gets to stay there and you have no business warning me. My edit sum got cut off last time, but I was going to to say this there. Valeince (talk) 18:36, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

Valeince, you are free to remove things on your own talk page (per WP:OWNTALK), and I should have known that. I would have preferred you to (instead of reverting my edit) either keep it, reply to it to disagree, or delete it manually with an acknowledgement in the edit summary. However, that does not give you free reign to be hostile to me or any other user, though. And you are? Go bother someone who cares, child or Leave me one more warning and I'll report you for harassment is not conducive to a healthy community.

In addition, I retract my warning because I mistakenly believed you had done these edits, and I apologize for that. SWinxy (talk) 19:15, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

Remember this next time you leave a templated warning on a talk page of a user who's been here much longer than you. If you talked to me like a human initially we could have worked this out. I don't normally respond to people whose only purpose here is to police what other people do. Especially if I didn't actually do anything worth warning. I find what you did less conducive to a healthy community than my somewhat emotional response. Valeince (talk) 19:22, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

Seniority ≠ superiority. I could argue that since I have more edits than you, you should automatically listen to me. If you wanted to talk, you should have replied to the warning, or immediately brought the conversation here. SWinxy (talk) 20:05, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

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Mistakenly tagged CSD G13s

Hello, SWinxy,

I've restored almost all of the user pages that you tagged as CSD G13s. It would help, a lot, if you would undo all of the warnings you posted on editors' talk pages about your speedy deletion tagging either today or tomorrow. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:46, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

Phew. I reverted every note I made. I'm really sorry I did this. What should have I done instead? SWinxy (talk) 16:08, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

Hey, Liz, I feel a lot of regret on what I did yesterday, and I was wondering if you could give some clarification onto what I should have been doing in stale userspace drafts. Avoid active users like the plague? Should I only request speedy deletion if it's completely blank or has placeholder text (eg here)? Or do I just not at all attempt deletion and do the other things on the list (ie hist-merge or move-to-draftspace)? Thanks. SWinxy (talk) 00:15, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hi, SWinxy. I'm not Liz, but I stumbled upon the conversation here and was touched by your concern. I'm a regular commentator at MfD, where matters of draft (draftspace or userspace) deletion come up routinely, so I feel I can comment. I'd personally lean to not touching someone else's userspace except in very obvious cases of misuse, and if you do feel there's something you just can't leave be, talk to the user if they're active (possibly even if they aren't -- formerly high-activity users who have since left will sometimes have people watching their talk). I understand both how you feel about this and how Guettarda did; I'd take heed of his last comment, both that he apologises for his response, but that Wikipedia has a lot of people who don't really feel part of it and can be troubled by such things. Vaticidalprophet 07:34, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

@Vaticidalprophet: thanks for your comment. I've definitely come to learn to stay clear of userspace completely for now, and if I do see something, I'll just add a hand-written note on their talk page. I felt really bad about it. And, in a very ironic way, I myself felt troubled from this ordeal. But Guettarda's right--there are so many rules, and we often have to break them to discover some part of them even exists. In the end, things were restored and reverted. Liz seemed neutral about the whole thing, Guettarda apologized for going off on me, I apologized for starting this in the first place, and there was just one other user who responded who seemed OK (but a bit miffed towards Twinkle). Other than that I don't think anyone else noticed or really payed much attention to this. And for new users, I get how this might be for them. SWinxy (talk) 01:10, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Liminal Spaces and Liminal space

Hi, I bit screwed cause I didn't check if redirection like this exists, I started discussion on Talk:Liminality what to do with this. Sorry once again --Robercik101 (talk) 04:03, 23 June 2021 (UTC) Robercik101

What? Adding more redirects is fine, as that helps people find what they're looking for faster. Usually adding categories to redirects are for maintenance purposes, or if the name of the redirect would fall under a category that the target doesn't. See WP:RCAT. SWinxy (talk) 05:49, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

TommyInnit summary

You should have seen those edit summaries by MrMclovin on Cr1TiKaL, they were the best in Wikipedia history. L33tm4n (talk) 21:37, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

LMFAO hold on. I need to read the whole thing. SWinxy (talk) 21:46, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

L33tm4n that was... interesting. I especially love how they were like 'citation needed, guys' and then just removed an entire section instead of adding {{Unsourced section}} or {{cn}}s. SWinxy (talk) 22:08, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

AfC for Vaush

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Awesome! Thanks for letting me know. It was deleted from his lack of notability, and I'm not hopeful it will make it through AfC. But the sources you've found are great though. Sad they didn't exist when I moved the page.

The previous one was also vandalized to hell and back, within hours of it being moved (,y guess is that someone tipped a group off to vandalize it?). I knew that was going to happen so I requested a preventative request, but it was denied. It was protected a few hours later lmao. SWinxy (talk) 21:36, 22 July 2021 (UTC)

You're welcome

YOu're welcome for removing that attack. I just saw it and I was like, "Well that's rather rude." and got rid of it. I didn't even noticed they removed the & nbsp; from part of the message until after i Reverted it. Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) (Stupidity by me) 19:54, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

Yeah that was one of the weirdest things I've seen in a while. Would be even more buttery if they were a regular and got taken to ANI. It's oddly not a high-vis page, either. I'll be curious to see if the editor does anything else... SWinxy (talk) 22:46, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

Minecraft

Unfortunately, those don't really rise to the level of where we would use revision deletion. It's obviously silly vandalism, but it's pretty petty and trivial — we would use revdel for things like explosive legal allegations (e.g. using the talk page to claim that somebody had committed rape or murder) or doxxing (e.g. using the talk page to post somebody's real-life address, phone number, credit card number or e-mail address), but not just for minor vandalism. Bearcat (talk) 19:27, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

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Yooooooo thank you! This made my day! @Blubewwy: <3 SWinxy (talk) 20:43, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

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	Wow! I just love on how you edit DSMP articles! And who is your Fav DSMP member? Lilkitty200 (talk) 23:03, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

@Lilkitty200: Thank you! (PS sorry I've been absent the past month, otherwise I'd've seen it sooner+!) I don't have a fav, but my friend is a moderator for some members. SWinxy (talk) 01:32, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

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re: original research

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"I think it was the right thing to do because it removed original research." So, in order to be able to properly use the (deleted) poem, would it be sufficient to find an online poetry collection that contains it? (That should not be hard.) ...Or would I need to find and cite a document showing Asimov himself explaining the linkage between the story and the poem? (That strikes me as very hard, because (likely) Asimov would not have felt the need to explicate a connection that (IMHO) seems quite plain. Silverhill (talk) 01:22, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

@Silverhill: So in this case you would want some source to describe the connection to the poem. It doesn't have to be anything much, just an explicit connection. SWinxy (talk) 04:02, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

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A small question regarding Vaush

Hello! You reverted my changes in Vaush's article, saying "YouTube videos are unsuitable". I can't help but wonder why my use of Youtube links as sources is considered unsuitable, when there are multiple other Youtube links used as sources in the article. Thanks! Santiago Arderíus (talk) 10:20, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

This must have been a while ago, so I don't remember which diff it was. In general, self-published sources are disallowed unless some criteria is met. I've not seen the page in a while so I can't speak for it's current state, but other links were removed afterwards for violating the policy. I'm not a fan of the 'everything I've been canceled for' link, and I consider it self-serving. Lmk if you have any other questions. SWinxy (talk) 17:06, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

All right! I'll delete everything that doesn't pass the threshold, is that okay with you? Santiago Arderíus (talk) 19:37, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Uh, I dunno. Create a new discussion on the talk page listing the current SPSs and ask for input? SWinxy (talk) 19:54, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

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Ted Stamm edit request

Can you review this request? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ted_Stamm#Extended-confirmed-protected_edit_request_on_5_July_2022 69.206.171.142 (talk) 22:01, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Your email

Check your sandbox page history for that. – Athaenara ✉ 22:54, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

lmaooooo thanks. I find it really funny, too, that the image license was "own work"... on a selfie. SWinxy (talk) 23:23, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

Changes to the image borked something

Hi SWinxy. Would you please be more specific and clarify what you mean when you say, in this edit, that: "Changes to the image borked something". The image changes display without any problems at my end, so I have no idea what you are referring to. Thanks. — Epipelagic (talk) 18:47, 30 July 2022 (UTC)

Ah yeah. For some reason the [[File:]] was missing the remaining ]], which oddly didn't cause issues in the article, but did on the image preview. Should've said that, my bad. SWinxy (talk) 19:03, 30 July 2022 (UTC)

TFDH

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Oh shoot. I've been clearing the backlog with the assumption that it was "merge and delete". I'll make a mental note for this from now on. Thanks for telling me. SWinxy (talk) 15:20, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

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Programs list of Hum TV

Move Ibn-e-Hawwa to the list of former programming. 111.88.86.114 (talk) 11:25, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

Module:Taxobox

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The whole taxobox system, manual and automated, is highly complex and integrated. Please discuss what you are attempting to do before releasing anything, even the sandbox versions. Peter coxhead (talk) 16:33, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

Hey there. I've gotten a similar caution from someone else. At the moment, I'm looking to make a functioning draft before I go ahead and start a discussion. The whole problem I have with taxoboxes is that they are wikitables masquerading as an infobox. I understand that it is an intricate system, and my attempt would be to make it less so. SWinxy (talk) 17:46, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

{{Taxobox/core}} is what produces the display for all kinds of taxobox, manual or automated. It uses a table with class="infobox biota". Infoboxes are tables, whether produced via wikitext syntax or via constructed HTML. Anyway, absolutely do not attempt to change one of the drivers of {{Taxobox/core}} in a way that bypasses it. This would be very, very undesirable, since consistency is vital and all taxobox-wide changes are made by changing {{Taxobox/core}}. It could doubtless be altered to use Module:Infobox, but {{Taxobox/core}} has many special cases and checks – what would actually be gained? Peter coxhead (talk) 08:16, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

I think you should either use Draft space pages, pages in your own user space or create "sandbox2" pages to make drastic changes to such key templates. Otherwise you block other users from testing minor changes in the sandboxes. Peter coxhead (talk) 13:11, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Hey Peter. In case you haven't noticed, {{Taxobox}} has two sandboxes (/sandbox and /sanxbox2). I am using the sandbox for it's intended purpose, and I am not blocking anyone from using the other sandbox. Sandboxes are for experimentation, big or small. You reverting my testing is disruptive to that experimentation, so I have to ask you to please stop. In short, my effort is to make a module that will encompass manual and automated taxoboxes so it's more contained and less spaghetti monster. I will explain further the issues and such on the taxobox talk page, but that is for later. Getting me to explain everything now when it's not done is like demanding an airplane designer to give over early prototype sketches to use for the flight manual, then getting upset when dozens of planes crash. SWinxy (talk) 18:24, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Infoboxes are also Wikitables so that difference isn't particularly important. The reason the taxoboxes don't use the infobox infrastructure is that taxoboxes were created earlier.

As for why discussion first is worthwhile, it can avoid wasted effort. Converting templates used on hundreds of thousands of pages must done with caution and needs to allow for all variants. There is already a prototype module for taxoboxes (Module:Biota infobox) and it is currently used for a small subset of taxoboxes (e.g. {{paraphyletic group}}, {{population taxobox}}, {{hybridbox}}). —  Jts1882 | talk  10:09, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

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help me to improve my work

Hello Mr SWinxy. Thanks for your clarification. I'm new here, trying to do something , according to my media experience in my area, to highlight the sports community here. I was very surprised that there are questionable sources and good sources. Can you point to me the good sources for this? I would like to write about the sports teams in my area since they are just starting out i tried to add these sources because the article in english, could arabic sources work on english articles?

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Keffals#Online career (2020–present)

Was there something wrong with my edit to Keffals' page? It says Intentional target on your reversion; what does that mean? - Toast for Teddy (talk) 19:41, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

The ratio (Twitter) is a redirect to that section. See WP:NOTBROKEN for why it is purposeful to use a redirect instead of bypassing it. SWinxy (talk) 21:19, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

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Casey Newton

Thanks for starting this article! I enjoyed learning about Newton.

Have you considered nominating the article for Wikipedia:Did you know? I would be happy to help or nominate it for you, if you would like. = paul2520 💬 22:59, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

AGK! I should! It'd be my first. Thinking of '...that Casey Newton's reporting informed at least two Twitter staff of their unemployment.' SWinxy (talk) 01:38, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

@SWinxy: that would be great! Let me know if you want any help. = paul2520 💬 02:08, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

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Follow-up on Hypixel edit

Hey SWinxy. I recently added some additional sections to the Hypixel article using sportskeeda and wikihow as sources. Afterwards, you deleted those sections mentioning how those two aren't reliable as sources. I can agree on wikihow, but would you mind to kindly explain why you think sportskeeda isn't reliable? I'm new to wikipedia just as an fyi. Sataybfaridi (talk) 22:23, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

Hey Satay, Sportskeeda was deemed an unreliable source from this discussion last year. SWinxy (talk) 22:54, 11 December 2022 (UTC)

Oh I see. Thanks! Sataybfaridi (talk) 00:32, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

DXVK

DXVK is an open source project and there are not that many authoritative sources about it if any. BTW, Valve's own github profile is not "reliable"? A multibillion corporation after all? Never mind. I've done my job, you've done your "We don't need your work". Thanks. Not going to submit anything ever again. Artem S. Tashkinov (talk) 22:30, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

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SVB oopsie

Sorry. I got distracted and forgot to preview my edit to make sure it was copacetic. I was scaling the image up a little, since it is a lead image. Thought frameless might look better up there, but forgot to check it. Upright is a scaling tool. Sorry. Cheers! {{u|WikiWikiWayne}} {Talk} 04:33, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

@WikiWikiWayne ah! :) SWinxy (talk) 20:03, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for removing that trash citation. 67.180.143.89 (talk) 21:06, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

np! my eyes roll into the back of my skull when reading stuff in that vein. SWinxy (talk) 20:10, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Hey CowHasIceCream Here

I'm wondering why you removed my edit I worked hard on it and you could have made it better instead of removing it full on. (minecraft mods) CowHasIceCream (talk) 03:09, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

Sorry Just Saw The Reason I will add in a WP:RS. CowHasIceCream (talk) 03:16, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

sharemap.org

Sure looks usurped to me. It's redirecting to travegeo.com. Where is this being discussed at meta? GA-RT-22 (talk) 23:42, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

Ok I think I'm starting to understand. Thanks for chasing this down. GA-RT-22 (talk) 23:45, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

On meta:Talk:Interwiki#Usurped domains. I made an error in my trawling of interwikilinks, and now they all point to meta:Interwiki map/discontinued#Sharemap. Some URLs work, while others don't, and that is something that would be easier to find out when they point back to sharemap.org. SWinxy (talk) 23:51, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

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Draft:Gather (metaverse platform)

Hello SWinxy, I have resubmitted my draft article Draft:Gather (metaverse platform) for review. As I said on the talk page, though, I realized that "metaverse platform" in the title is hammy. Maybe "Gather (collaboration software)" is better - it needs to be distinguished from the defunct social media website Gather.com. What do you think? Qzekrom (she/her • talk) 05:21, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

Hi hi. DABing with "collaboration software" seems more accurate, yes. The title is not ambiguous, so a hatnote isn't necessary. I may or may not be the one to review the submission again, but the new source looks good. SWinxy (talk) 15:24, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

V Programming Language draft

Hi SWinxy! Have resubmitted Draft:V_(programming_language). Per your comment, rewrote sections. Removed YouTube links and any GitHub or links to the site of the language, which could reasonably be considered superfluous.

Yes, you are correct about the 2008 reference to a different V language, which is incorrectly linked to this one from 2019. This linking seems to remain, though referring to different languages. Also, when referencing articles of other programming languages (like Zig, Red, Crystal...), the draft of V appears to be under tighter constraints. Hoping that the changes are acceptable. Your time and service is greatly appreciated.Wukuendo (talk) 10:29, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Template:Infobox artwork

While there are a large number that use it incorrectly, there are a *lot* of infoboxes that do have left or right as their argument for painting_alignment. For starters (found at random): Lilith (painting), Lime Green Icicle Tower, Mogao Christian painting. Could you please revert and start a discussion on the talk page for the infobox?Naraht (talk) 22:46, 26 August 2023 (UTC)

Hey, Naraht. Here's a little more info on why I made the change. The only thing |painting_alignment= changed was to the CSS float: value of the infobox div. The valid values for it in CSS are left (used only twice), right (infoboxes already have this), none (makes the div a part of the body), and inherit (what the parent's float value is). Setting it to right has no effect. Only Self-Portrait with a Sunflower and Peasant Girl, spinning made use of the parameter. Lilith (painting), Lime Green Icicle Tower, etc. set it to no effect. SWinxy (talk) 00:02, 27 August 2023 (UTC)

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It has been done. Thanks for the reminder, Dream! SWinxy (talk) 16:55, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

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Draft:DXVK

DXVK is a truly massive project enabling Linux users to run thousands of Windows games, it's used by Intel (!), it's used by Valve (!!) to make Steam handheld possible and I'm sorry for not finding the "right" sources for WP because not a single outlet has bothered to give it enough light. You may as well delete the bloody draft because I give up. I cannot invent sources which you'll like. Artem S. Tashkinov (talk) 08:48, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

I'm sorry the declining wasn't something you'd expected, but that was 10 months ago. If you would like a second opinion, you're free to resubmit the draft. SWinxy (talk) 16:09, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

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Awww, thank you! <3 SWinxy (talk) 17:39, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Trump 2024 state ballot eligibility map

Hello. Just wanted to let you know I started a discussion at the Commons talk page for your Trump eligibility map. I am not autopatrolled, so I was unable to make changes to the map. Prcc27 (talk) 15:54, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

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1898 French legislative election

Apologies to remove your edit, but unfortunately the fr.wiki article is deeply flawed (its results table doesn't match the source, nor is it consistent with the infobox), so while there may be some useful content there, I would be a bit wary of pointing people to it as a resource for expansion given the issues (see this comment from a French editor).

As an aside, thank you for being one of the few people to point out that I was *not* ruining the articles :) Cheers, Number 57 01:14, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

I'd been following this saga a bit since I saw the outrageous Twitter thread. I had assumed the French Wikipedia would have excellent sourcing for French history wide enough to include that topic. The WMF may need to do more outreach for that area of expertise in France to get editors working on improving it. Thanks for your rigorous work in upholding WP:V. SWinxy (talk) 05:10, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Information is incorrect 212.107.150.82 (talk) 23:40, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

what SWinxy (talk) 02:49, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

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Editnotice moves

Thank you for the fix! I totally forgot that they've got different locations/formats depending on what namespace they're in.⇒SWATJester ^{Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!} 20:50, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

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Great minds think alike!

Thanks for the redirect to the page, Hell Gate (website) hadn't occurred to me! Computer-ergonomics (he/him; talk; please ping me in replies ) 14:20, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

Computer-ergonomics your article is great! Totally not jealous or anything. SWinxy (talk) 15:57, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

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Any RS supported text?

Hi, I made an OR-free NPOV caption for your photo and left the original at Wikimedia alone, though I encourage you to fix that up too. What would really be a help is if you can find RS sources that report on the alleged protest on April 4 at Collect Pond, and write a sentence or two of text for the article.

NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 18:40, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

There might be some source confirming this, but it's a fact so bland and mundane to mention how people were sorted that I'm not confident there is one. The pro-Trump protesters were on the south side of the park, which was bisected east-to-west with barriers, and the anti-Trump protesters were on the north side. Is your concern more so that you don't want to label everyone pictured in the image as pro-Trump? That there were pro-Trump flags and MAGA hats makes me feel like we should point that out in the caption. SWinxy (talk) 19:12, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

If you can't find RSs reporting on the event then your original photos and your original opinion about what they represent do not belong anywhere in the project, sorry. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 19:52, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

It's not an opinion to say there are pro-Trump flags and supporters in this photo. Does the photo in this section of Trumpism require a citation that those photographed are pro-Trump supporters? What's the line here? Do I need a citation to say that people are present here, or that this is even at Collect Pond Park? This line you're drawing for the caption, applied to all images on the project, would do away with thousands of captions that neutrally describe what the contents of photos are by requiring a citation for any statement. SWinxy (talk) 20:56, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

That's why we have some editors dedicated to clean up tasks. But there's a huge backlog of junk to be dealt with. Meanwhile, see WP:IMAGEOR.... If you want to constructively try to form a consensus for acceptable use, suggest you try the WP:ORN. If you can win a consensus there, I won't stand int he way, though I'll offer my comments in any such discussion. please ping me if you try out that or other WP:Dispute resolution venue. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 21:11, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

	The Photographer's Barnstar
	Great work with the on-the-scene photos from the trial these past weeks! — Rhododendrites talk \\ 04:06, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank u!!! I had such a great time talking with people, too! SWinxy (talk) 18:39, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Technoblade voice clip embed

I just saw the new voice clip you added to the article. From what I understand, its purpose for the article seems to be something close to the Wikipedia Voice Intro Project, but is there a reason you selected a recording of a Discord voice conversation as the audio file? Curious to learn more; the edit summary didn't give me many hints. Cheers, u|RayDeeUx (contribs | talk page) 04:07, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

RayDeeUx Yeah, it's kinda like that project. Ideally we would have a recording that is in line with the other audio introductions, but since he passed away we can't produce a freely-licensed clip ourselves. A freely-licensed clip of him speaking may aid the reader like an image would. Since I recorded some games with him, that's what I have and what I can give away. I don't think we can get an audio clip of him speaking with a fair use argument; there are already two images with them and I've never seen fair use audio files not used for song samples. I could be wrong, and there could be better freely-licensed audio clips out there.

Since you've been an active contributor to his article, what do you think of it? Yay? Nay? SWinxy (talk) 18:39, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

I was originally going to suggest clipping any given YouTube video of his, but given the whole ambiguity around fair use policies on Wikipedia, what's there right now is the next best thing. I'm also in favor of replacing it with a shorter clip *only* if a fair use rationale can be made anytime in the future—similar to a past approach with waiting for a reliable source rationale before including The Daily Iowan as a citation in the article.

TL;DR: Yay, and also welcoming shorter options if it can fall under fair use. Cheers, u|RayDeeUx (contribs | talk page) 20:55, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Editor experience invitation

Hi SWinxy :) I'm looking for experienced editors to interview here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 04:58, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi Clovermoss! I'll be out of the country and won't get to this immediately. Looking to doing it :) SWinxy (talk) 02:18, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Wild Party

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In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:48, 19 August 2024 (UTC)