User talk:Vanderwaalforces/Archives/2024/09 (September)

Orphan article Carson Coma

Greetings, Today I de-orphaned this article by making a Link (at article MTV Europe Music Award for Best Hungarian Act) for this band already listed in a wikitable. Cheers, JoeNMLC (talk) 16:09, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

@JoeNMLC Hi there. That’s great! Vanderwaalforces (talk) 16:13, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Orphan article Lake Kibwera

Greetings, Today I de-orphaned the article by adding a link at Queen Elizabeth National Park article, See also section. In addition, I removed the two (duplicate) Orphan tags. Regards, JoeNMLC (talk) 23:40, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you for reviewing my articles on "Encore" and "Your Three Minutes Are Up." I appreciate your attention to the quality of Wikipedia articles! Jhlechner (talk) 19:23, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Vanderwaalforces (talk) 19:25, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

DCWC September update

The Developing Countries WikiContest has now been running for two months, and we've seen tremendous improvement in the encyclopedic coverage of several underrepresented areas from a wide range of editors! The coordinators would like to highlght some of the newer faces who have been making notable contributions in the contest, including but by no means limited to:

• Arconning (submissions) – 386 points, with several good articles primarily relating to the Olympics
• Vigilantcosmicpenguin (submissions) – 141 points, who created multiple articles about abortion rights and laws in African countries
• TheNuggeteer (submissions) – 126 points, who has contributed to several articles associated with the Phillippines
• Jaguarnik (submissions) – 125 points, with several good article reviews and an appearance in the In the news section of the Main Page
• Averageuntitleduser (submissions) – 119 points, and has written about several Haitian topics and historical figures.

Only one month remains until the end of the contest, so it's time to make your remaining nominations! Please consider answering some review requests, particularly the older entries, as a way of helping out your fellow participants and moving up the leaderboard. Good luck!

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page or ask one of the coordinators: Ixtal (talk · contribs), sawyer777 (talk · contribs), or TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · contribs). (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 22:00, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Contact

@Vanderwaalforces contact me on WhatsApp 105.116.4.65 (talk) 22:37, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello IP, a short answer is No. This is my talk page and I can be contacted here. What do you want? Vanderwaalforces (talk) 05:14, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Ka Esi Le Onye Isi Oche

On 5 September 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ka Esi Le Onye Isi Oche, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that "Ka Esi Le Onye Isi Oche", a 1983 song by Mike Ejeagha, went viral in 2024? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ka Esi Le Onye Isi Oche. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Ka Esi Le Onye Isi Oche), 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) 00:03, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello...

Hello, your comment has been corrected

which can be viewed at Draft:Hossein Simaee Sarraf. Thanks! Ahmadnejad (talk) 04:05, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

@Ahmadnejad Hi there, great job. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 05:13, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

thank you Ahmadnejad (talk) 05:15, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Joshua Hagen notability tag

Hello! You recently added a notability tag to Joshua Hagen, indicating that the subject may not meet the criteria for notability a 'sportsperson'. I think there has been a misunderstanding, however, since the sources already present in the article demonstrate that Hagen is both a provincial and territorial-level director and coach (currently for the province of Saskatchewan, previously for the Northwest Territories), and an official commentator for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation during the past two Olympic Games. Canada is a federal country and Hagen's roles in Saskatchewan and the NWTs are as the chief administrator of those federal units on behalf of Judo Canada, the national regulator. Accordingly, while Hagen's own sporting career does not make him notable, he clearly meets the administrative notability requirements for sport, and also has a public profile as the national broadcaster's official judo commentator for the Olympics. --CanadianJudoka (talk) 15:39, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

@CanadianJudoka I am going to ignore commenting further on this since you already removed the notability tag which I have no problems with. Happy editing, Vanderwaalforces (talk) 16:06, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Great, thanks! Would you mind marking the article as reviewed, then? -- CanadianJudoka (talk) 17:28, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Not exactly, I mean, that would contradict my original stand. I'd allow another eye to look. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 17:30, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

I don't understand, because I took your acceptance of the removal of the tag as agreement with my explanation, but I won't insist. -- CanadianJudoka (talk) 17:47, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Orphan article Travis D. Frain

Greetings, Today I de-orphaned this article by adding a link at Darwen article, Notable people section.

Help to de-orphan articles.

1. WikiProject Orphanage - working to reduce the article backlog.

2. Wikipedia:Orphan - the complete How-to Guide for Orphaned articles.

» De-orphaning articles is an important aspect of building the web.

Cheers, JoeNMLC (talk) 18:33, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

AFDs

Hello, Vanderwaalforces,

Please do not do mass nominations at AFD. Each one has to be investigated by our volunteer editors, a few of whom participate in AFDs. It can take a couple minutes to nominate an article for an AFD and hours to look for sources for the article to establish notability. We have a limited pool of editors who treat AFDs seriously so it's best not to overburden them with a mass of nominations on the same period of time. I'm not saying that these articles should not be nominated, I'm just encouraging you to pace yourself and maybe just do a few per day rather than a lot all of one day. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:39, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

It would also help if you offered a more substantial deletion nomination than simply saying "Fails WP:SPORTCRIT." It would be better if you could demonstrate that you had done BEFORE for each article and evaluated the sources carefully rather than just providing a generic reason. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:50, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

Okay, noted. I was actually going to say something but I probably won’t because you do not respond to pings and mentions. Happy admining, Vanderwaalforces (talk) 05:06, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

Light Scanning Photomacrography

Thanks for the additional review of this page. I do think we cited all the research correctly, but if there is something that was missed, please let me know and I can see what can be done to improve it. [[User:Audiopraming|Audiopraming]] ([[User talk:Audiopraming|talk]]) (talk) 17:03, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

@Audiopraming Hi there. I see unreferenced statements, this contradicts Wikipedia's verifiability policy, that is why it is treated as original research. Please cite sources, and if you can't find sources (probably because you did a backward writing) you could simply remove the statements that you cannot find sources for, so that even if we're left with a start class article, we'd know that it is of quality. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 17:35, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi again. Let me add some context for the development of this article to see if this resolves the concern. Because the LSP technique was mostly used before sources were digital I did take the time to research and pull together resources both digital and non-digital before beginning to write the page. In cases where I could provide the inline citations linked to digital sources I added them either in a sentence, or paragraph/section where they would be required. In some cases, I had digital copies of print-based primary research articles. For those references I added citations with links for others to request the publications should there be a challenge about the content. There are a couple resources I found that are cited that I could not find an online option for citing them, but it is my understanding that can sometimes happen with Wikipedia pages that cover older historic topics and is allowed. In all cases the citations are inline with the content. Also all statements are tied to a citation. Let me know if that helps clear things up. [[User:Audiopraming|Audiopraming]] ([[User talk:Audiopraming|talk]]) (talk) 23:42, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

@Audiopraming Citations on Wikipeida must not be online, in other words, it must not be available digitally or online. See WP:PUBLISHED for the definition of what "published" sources are on Wikipedia.

You can actually still cite the sources that you have that are not digitally available or online. Also, be bold to remove the template from the top of the article once you fixed the issue which I tagged it for. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 23:48, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. I think I addressed the issues and have now removed the maintenance template. I appreciate your time. [[User:Audiopraming|Audiopraming]] ([[User talk:Audiopraming|talk]]) (talk) 20:59, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

Your help is needed

Hello Vanderwaalforces, based on your professionalism I think your help will be needed in assessing the article Poco Lee if it’s suitable to be on Wikipedia. The creator scope of edit has been unprofessional and I don’t think he or she has in mind in submitting his or her article for review as a newbie. I have already asked him or her an important question here Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paul Oluikpe of which I look forward to an answer. Gabriel (……?) 19:27, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

@Gabriel601 Hi there. The sources in Poco Lee’s article is definitely iffy, a careful look is probably warranted. But your AfD nomination, the one you linked above, the nom statement does not tell us why the article fails ANY notability guideline. I think you need to be lenient especially when writing AfD nom statements as I’ve seen a handful of noms like this one from you. You should go straight to the point, you don’t need to tell us who the author is or is not, whether their editing pattern is suspicious or not, it is irrelevant to say all these in an AfD nom. It could constitute personal attack which you have been told about several times and have just been reminded of by the author at that AfD. Anyway, the subject of the article is probably not notable, but you didn’t tell us why yet. Happy editing, Vanderwaalforces (talk) 15:13, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Understood. Gabriel (……?) 15:48, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3sef_Kami%C5%84ski_(Polish_colonel)

Hello Vanderwaalforces,

I have added a citation (quote box with ref) to the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3sef_Kami%C5%84ski_(Polish_colonel)

Could yopu please review it and put the refimprove off? Ska2023 (talk) 15:05, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

@Ska2023 Hi there. There are several unsourced statements in the article still, there is even an entire “Family” section that is unsourced. Therefore, the refimprove tag is still very much necessary. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 15:08, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, could you please tell me whether I shall add some photos of the family documents or refs to official records? Ska2023 (talk) 15:25, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

I do not know what you mean by family documents, but if it’s what I think then it might fail WP:INDEPENDENT. If you have access to official records or something of the like, then you could cite them as well, this means saying where you read it as opposed to uploading the documents on Wikipedia. I’d recommend you read WP:CITINGSOURCES for a comprehensive guide. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 15:31, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Vanderwaalforces Added the photo of the excerpt from the Josef's autobiography document related to the family.

Could you please tell me whether it's enough? Ska2023 (talk) 08:07, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

NPP copyvio check

Hello! I'm letting you know that after identifying some copyright violations, I found you had patrolled one of the user's articles last month at Jean Bieler. The articles in question were copied and pasted directly from the associated sources. Just wanted to make sure you were informed of this. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 04:32, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

@Thebiguglyalien Snap! I saw this, didn’t know I already marked before seeing. Thanks for notifying me. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 05:48, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors September Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors September Newsletter Hello and welcome to the September newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election news: Project coordinators play an important role in our WikiProject. Following the mid-year Election of Coordinators, we welcomed Mox Eden to the coordinator team. Dhtwiki remains as Lead Coordinator, and Miniapolis and Wracking returned as assistant coordinators. If you'd like to help out behind the scenes, please consider taking part in our December election – watchlist our ombox for updates. Information about the role of coordinators can be found here. Blitz: 13 of the 24 editors who signed up for the June 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 169,404 words comprising 41 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: 38 of the 59 editors who signed up for the July 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 482,133 words comprising 293 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: 10 of the 15 editors who signed up for the August 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 71,294 words comprising 31 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: Sign up here to earn barnstars in our month-long, in-progress September Backlog Elimination Drive. Progress report: As of 05:14, 11 September 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 233 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,824 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we do without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Mox Eden and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

Message sent by Baffle gab1978 (talk) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:55, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Promotion of National symbols of Nigeria

Congratulations, Vanderwaalforces! The list you nominated, National symbols of Nigeria, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Hey man im josh (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:25, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

Request for clarification

Hello. I created a draft sometime ago which I submitted for approval so it could be assessed. You made an allegation which I would love to be clarified. I want to know on what grounds you suspect a ‘COI’. My highest area of interest is with creating pages which I ensure meets the ‘notability’ requirements before creating an article. I am willing to take up this issue before the administrators’ board for ‘false accusation’, but I thought it wiser to first seek clarification.

Also, I would appreciate a further clarification on how ‘notability’ was not met. Is it in terms of references or?

Best regards.

Mevoelo (talk) 13:05, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

@Mevoelo Hi there. Do you really want to take it the administrator’s noticeboard? It might end up being a WP:BOOMERANG. I do not like doing that but if you’re sure of it, please go ahead. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 15:50, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Vanderwaalforces. I have moved the draft to main space (Nelly Agbogu). I asked for clarification on what you meant by ‘utterly fails GNG’ but didn’t get a feedback on that.

Although, I have made some major edits and added more reliable citations (which you can check out); feel free to AfD the article if you’re still convinced that it does not meet GNG. I would love to see the views of other NEUTRAL editors. If it ends as a delete, I will be much more satisfied.

Also, I am going to categorically state that I HAVE NO AFFILIATION NEITHER HAVE I EVER RECEIVED ANY COMPENSATION OR REWARD FOR ANY EDIT(S) ON WIKIPEDIA. I focus more on article creation in line with Wiki editorial guidelines because that is what I can do best and have familiarized myself with. Sometimes, I envy editors like you who have become really vast and technical here within a short time, but I will advise that you still maintain carefulness in your approach. You can do well to check my previous creations. While I do not claim perfection, I have always been open to correction and learning — which is evident in our past discussions. Do not just go ahead and add a ‘COI’ tag without proper check or at least, reaching out.

Best regards. Mevoelo (talk) 03:05, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

@Mevoelo The problem here is that you're refusing to be level-headed. You came to my talk page in the name of requesting for a clarification of a draft rejection I made while stating that you want to go to administrators' noticeboard for false accusation on you. Maybe you don't know the place, it's WP:ANI. I have asked you to go there but you haven't. You're refusing to be patient and wait for a reply and being dramatic. If you HAVE NO AFFILIATION NEITHER HAVE I EVER RECEIVED ANY COMPENSATION OR REWARD FOR ANY EDIT(S) ON WIKIPEDIA then you would not immediately removed the AfC template from the draft, and of course, even though that was reverted, still went ahead to move the page to mainspace. This is only making my suspicion clear about your conflict of interest in the subject (and several other subjects you've written about). I have to be honest with you that a behaviour like this is only going to raise eyebrows.

Perhaps, you can now see the reasons it is not suitable for a standalone page at the AfD. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 11:12, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Vanderwaalforces. Hope you’re fine?

Thanks for the review and the nomination. I am very open to the views of other NEUTRAL editors. Like I said, I am less interested in the article itself staying. I am more interested in seeing the views of other editors because not only did you refuse to give clarifications, but I sense a form of ‘bias’ in your judgments — seeing the articles you’ve also reviewed yourself. I asked for clarification on what ‘aspect’ of GNG you meant, which you refused to respond. About the COI assumption, I think it’s baseless trying to speak further on it.

Kindly reread my messages on your talk page for better understanding. There is no need for further discussions, thank you for your good work.

Best regards. Mevoelo (talk) 11:20, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Mevoelo, can you link such page for the sake of clarity? Best, Reading Beans 16:08, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello. Here it is @Reading Beans

Draft:Nelly Agbogu

I submitted a draft cause I wanted it to be assessed. Surprisingly, a COI tag was added, I believe without proper checks. I have asked for clarification so I can understand how in any case to improve the article, especially on the basis which @Vanderwaalforces gave which is not meeting GNG. From my own experience and knowledge, the subject is really notable — which prompted me to create an article. It’s not an do or die affair BUT I believe asking for clarification and explanation especially is not out of place.

Best. Mevoelo (talk) 19:23, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

Ovia River Article

Hi there. What do you think about the idea of moving the Ovia River article to a title of 'Osse River'. From quick research, the later name seems to be more popular/dominant throughout Nigeria (Including within Edo state). The name Ovia seems to be geographically limited in scope to a subsection of the Bini (Benins). The other groups along its course; The Oras, Yorubas, Some Binis, Afenmais groups do not know this name but call it Osse. On the other hand, the Benin people know both names for the river. There also seem to be more primary sources as well as various previous research listing the river as Osse/Ose than Ovia. A subsection can be included in the Osse river article about its role in the history of the Edo groups found along its lower course.

Kind regards. Oramfe (talk) 18:52, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

@Oramfe Hi there. If you ask me to be honest with you, I was surprise to see that the Ovia river that I know is the same river called Osse. The day that alternate name was added to the article was the day I knew it was also called Osse. So right now, I can’t be so sure of what the common name is. Literally nobody (based on my personal research) was able to tell when I mentioned Osse river, until I mentioned Ovia. I of course checked sources too but found Ovia to be popular. But the fact that Osse River currently have a hatnote pointing to Ovia River, then things seems fine to me, also especially when we indicated the aka in the article itself. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 18:59, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Well, I think then that it is a matter of our differing points of reference, you coming from the Benin side and myself from the side outside the Benin cultural area. Literally no one I know is aware this river is also called Ovia. (Although I did know). It is similar to how the Yoruba people know the Siluko river as Owena.

We can both keep an eye out.

Regards. Oramfe (talk) 19:14, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

@Oramfe Hehehe, that is very true. It’s okay though. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 19:22, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

NPP Copyright checks part 2

Hey, I noticed you recently reviewed the page Boris Vishnevskiy. It, as shown by the article history and source access dates, was an incorrectly attributed translation of an ruWiki page. When you see these in the queue, please let the translator know how to correctly attribute translations (I often use the Template:Uw-translation), and please fix the attribution yourself by following the instructions at WP:RIA. Copyright checks are very important. Please don't skimp on them!

Courtesy ping to @Clovermoss to keep you in the loop, seeing as you granted the right most recently. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 19:00, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

@GreenLipstickLesbian Hi there, thank you for notifying me. I see clearly that you have notified the user who translated this page from ruwiki, and I have also seen that you have attributed correctly to the ruwiki article. Thank you again for notifying me. I will keep an eye for translated pages like this.

But I do not get your point of pinging Clovermoss because it seems pointless to me as she is not the who have done over 1500 patrols in the past two weeks, neither is she the one who reviewed this very page. She’s not the user who has collected praises for the reviews and should not be the one to be pinged in this case. Again, thank you for bringing this minor attribution check to my notice, but pinging Clovermoss is pointless. Happy editing, Vanderwaalforces (talk) 19:31, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

I think she just wanted me to be aware of any possible issues just in case. A ping isn't the end of the world and I don't mind it. I'm not going come here to yell at you because you didn't do everything perfectly every time. Just take feedback to heart whenever someone has any, especially given your rate of reviewing. Sometimes errors can pile up when you're doing that much (not saying that's what happening here, this is probably a one-off situation). Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 20:28, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi, Vanderwaalforces - thank you for responding so quickly! It's not a minor attribution check, however - without the attribution, it is a copyright violation of the original ru Wiki article. Fortunately, it's often the easier type of violation to fix. The more severe copyright violations in the article, which I have also just fixed, can be a bit more difficult. (Especially because I don't speak Russian.)

And the reason I pinged Clovermoss was, really, for the exact reasons she said - she can see a lot more than I can when it comes to the above G12, and I thought she might like to be kept in the loop. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 20:35, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

@GreenLipstickLesbian Acknowledge. I guess it would have not been easy for me since I do not understand the Russian language. Either ways, thank you again, this is very much appreciated. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 20:43, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Don't worry, I find it difficult too! I actually don't review articles primarily based on languages I don't understand for that reason. Doing copyvio and verification checks via Google Translate is hardly my idea of fun. I don't know how people like you do it! GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 21:47, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Okay, I've done a spot check of reviews you've done in the past 12 hours.

• You reviewed Ministry of Finance (East Germany) (300 words) twenty-two seconds after your previous review. The article contained an unattributed translation.
• Battle of Ofakim (1200 words) twenty-five seconds after after your previous review. The page contained an unattributed translation.
• 2024 state visit by Kais Saied to China(360 words) eighty-two seconds after your previous review. The page contained copyright violations of the Chinese-language news articles.
• List of Justiça episodes (10k words) fifteen seconds after your previous review. This was an unattributed split.
• Poova Thalaya (TV series) (260 words) thirty-six seconds after your previous review. This article contained an advertisement copy-pasted in from the subject's website.
• Prostokvashino (animated series) eighteen seconds after your previous review. This article contained an unattributed translation.
• Yitzhak Shamir Road (450 words) ten seconds after your previous review. This article contained an unattributed translation.

While it's great that you've been so enthusiastic, this is a high error rate. And, while we all make mistakes (goodness knows what a methodical examination of my own editing history might uncover), there's a reason I highlighted seconds between reviews. You're consistently reviewing two or three article per minute, often article that are entirely dependent on sources in languages you don't speak. Given that the number of words the average adult can read per minute is 238, I don't think you can even be reading the articles before you approve them, let alone opening, translating, and skimming the non-English language sources.

@Clovermoss Sorry it's looking like a pattern, not a one off. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 02:07, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

Okay, thanks for letting me know. It is concerning that you've been able to find all of these in the past 12 hours. I would've hoped that they slowed down a little since the feedback you provided earlier today. I think it's useful to have a growth mindset – I haven't given up on you yet, Vanderwaalforces! I understand that it sucks to be under a spotlight like this. While I'm incredibly forgiving of mistakes, please slow down to ensure accuracy and address GreenLipstickLesbian's concerns. I'm not trying to get you in trouble but I am going to ping Novem Linguae and Hey man im josh for their thoughts here. They are more experienced at NPP than even I am and hopefully they'll be able to offer some helpful advice. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 02:17, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

@GreenLipstickLesbian Thank you for spotting these issues, again. I would like to know the best practices in spotting Interwiki copyvios, because the regular copy bio checker we have did not make provisions for that. There are two perspectives here, firstly, let’s say a page is not correctly attributing its translation source but at least mentions in the edit summary that it’s from xxwiki, can we rely on machine translation to check Interwiki copyvio?

Secondly and most importantly, let’s say the page author did not mention at all what the source of the translation is (not in the edit summary, not later added), how am I going to spot that, I mean is that supposed to be an actual problem with me? This is concerning for me because most of the issues you’ve pointed out where translations where it was not mentioned at all whether it was a translation.

I need to know the proper processes so that situations like this don’t happen in the future.

Courtesy ping to @Hey man im josh and @Novem Linguae who could of course help, because I really need help on this :) --Vanderwaalforces (talk) 07:58, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello all. Interwiki copyvios are very hard to spot. For Boris Vishnevskiy, I would have probably missed it myself as it would require reading every edit summary in the history in order to find the edit summary "translation from ru wiki", and that is not a normal part of my NPP workflow.

I may actually put in a request for a user script to help detect unattributed translations at WP:US/R. I'd write the script myself, but I am pretty busy this month.

As for missing regular copyvios, I've found the best way to not miss copyvios is to run the Earwig copyvio tool on every single NPP/AFC review I do. This can be tough sometimes when the tool runs out of daily credits, but I tested it right now and it's working right now, so that's a good sign.

While it may be a bit "annoying" that the person letting you know about this concern pinged Clovermoss, I think it'd be good to let that slide in the future. When one is confronted with a clear mistake in their reviewing, the response should really be an apology with no pushback. Pushing back is not a great look.

Of course, please be careful of reviewing too fast. That can lead to mistakes. Any article that isn't an auto-SNG pass should probably take a few minutes to review, because one has to click open sources and read them and evaluate them for GNG.

Also, please be careful of high volume reviewing. High volume reviewing means that if your internal mental reviewing flowchart isn't perfect, one may review a lot of articles wrong before it's pointed out and corrected.

I'd be OK with taking no action on these concerns as long as all these issues are fixed from all reviews starting now. I hope this helps. Thank you for your efforts Vanderwaalforces. Happy editing everyone. –Novem Linguae (talk) 08:26, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

P.S. I have put in a user script creation request at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests#Warn the user about unattributed translations for a tool to help spot unattributed translations. –Novem Linguae (talk) 08:35, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

@Novem Linguae Thank you very much :) I came up with this, by the way, User:Vanderwaalforces/checkTranslationAttribution.js. I have tested on some pages and it works for me, mind trying? GreenLipstickLesbian also, mind trying? Vanderwaalforces (talk) 10:00, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

Wow, very nice. I tested it a little and it works great at detecting Boris Vishnevskiy translation copyvio issues. I'm on Vector 2010 and the warning bar is overlapping my p-personal though. You can see the issue here. If you get a minute, feel free to fix that :) –Novem Linguae (talk) 10:32, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

@Novem Linguae Ah, thanks for that. I was blind with the skin. Will debug and fix. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 10:49, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

@Novem Linguae I guess I did a very lazy fix, lmao, but the "p-personal" does not seem to work for me, that is, I could not place it there without overlapping the bar. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 12:49, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

If you want, try placing it a bit lower on the page using $( '#contentSub' ).before(. This should make it work on every skin, without needing to check mw.config.get( 'wgSkin' ) or use special logic for each skin. –Novem Linguae (talk) 17:37, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

@Novem Linguae does that script work on drafts? Asking from an AfC perspective. (Hey Vanderwaalforces! Been a while.). S0091 (talk) 17:42, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

Yes, it should work on drafts :) –Novem Linguae (talk) 17:46, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

@S0091 Indeed, been a while. It is programmed to work on drafts too even though I have not tested it on draft, do let me know if it works on drafts please :) thank you! Vanderwaalforces (talk) 21:18, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

@Novem Linguae Okay, looks like I'd try that contentSub thingy then. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 21:19, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

@Novem Linguae Okay, it is now displaying in the contentSub area :) Vanderwaalforces (talk) 22:50, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

Hey Vanderwaalforces. Any interest in adding the following capability to your new script? I decided to check the source access dates. And I'm seeing "Retrieved 2017" "Retrieved 2022" "Retrieved 2014". For an article created in September 2024, that's awfully suspicious. We'd need to add an API query to get the main article wikitext, then regex search it for something like \|\s*access-date\s*=\s*(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}), then check if that date is older than the first revision date. We can get the first revision date from our existing 10 revisions API query. It'll be either revision 1 or revision 10 depending on what the default sort is for that API query. I'd recommend the warning itself display a 2nd, separate bar that says something like "Warning: There are citations in this article that have access dates from before the article was created. This suggests the article may have been copy pasted from somewhere." –Novem Linguae (talk) 16:28, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

@Novem Linguae That looks like something I could do :) Will give it a try. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 16:37, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

@Novem Linguae I did this now, weirdly?? lol Vanderwaalforces (talk) 22:48, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Possible false positive from an article created in 2001: Hezbollah –Novem Linguae (talk) 23:32, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

@Novem Linguae Fixed. I think I fixed all these, I am just messing around my various versions. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 23:37, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

(Massive wall of text incoming)

I'm content with you keeping access to your NPR rights as long as from now on, you slow down, take reviews seriously, and do copyvio spot-checks. Which is what you're meant to be doing, so I think that's a fair ask. Everybody makes mistakes and lets through stuff they shouldn't - I was just really concerned to see you'd been told a week ago about letting through blatant copyvios, and when I told you again yesterday, the fact that your first response was to get mad and point to the fact that you'd done a lot of patrols. But I know it's probably been stressful- thank you for going slower in the past 24 hours, for spreading awareness of the issue, and for all the effort you've put in on that user script. I'm not a huge user script person (Took me 6 years to install Twinkle lol) but, as long as you're not using it as a substitute for checking the work yourself, I think it could be a useful addition to the NPP scripts! I've also had lots of people use "import" or "transfer" as keywords, if that's something you think you could filter for.

If you like, I can explain why I immediately flagged all those articles as problematic. It took reading them first, of course - but even without the edit summary, there were a lot of tells that should have been picked up by somebody reading the article. I'll just do the first one for now, because it's late for me, but I can walk through the other seven with you sometime this week (either here or on Discord) and show you what I spotted that made me suspicious. And, sorry, it took me more than 77 seconds!

At the time Boris Vishnevskiy was reviewed, there were only about 3 edit summaries to check? And while I get that not every NPP-er thinks to check edit summaries (despite it being part of the instructions on WP:NPP- look @Novem Linguae, I found a rule you've been ignoring!) it's a really good idea, and it's nowhere near as time consuming as any other stage in the NPP check. However, I didn't figure it out because of the edit summary. I picked that article out as a copyvio just by reading the lead.

As you noticed, the article itself is in need of a good copyedit. Whoever wrote it does not appear to speak English as a first language. There's also a lot of information without citations. However, it's unsourced in a way that makes it seem like a bunch of IPs and hit-and-run accounts added something they saw in the news, but didn't bother to cite. A strange mix of well-developed and researched, with obvious errors in writing and sourcing. It didn't read like a new draft to me, is basically what I'm saying. It reads like an older Wikipedia article. You know, the sort of one you'd find languishing with a "This article needs more sources for verification (July 2016)" tag on.

But I hadn't gotten very far yet - I still needed to check the sources, as part of the NPP process. So I did - or, because I know my stuff with copyvio, I decided to check the source access dates. And I'm seeing "Retrieved 2017" "Retrieved 2022" "Retrieved 2014". For an article created in September 2024, that's awfully suspicious. (Novem Linguae, if you're reading this far, I'm surprised you didn't flag that yourself. It's a real useful trick, and it seems unlikely that I'm the first person to have found it. And, because it's only a screening tool, something you could probably automate? Is that possible?)

At this point, I'm pretty confident that the article has been taken from somewhere - and, given that I'm not seeing any duplicates on enWiki, it's probably taken from another language Wikipedia. You noticed the article was about a Russian speaker, right? So what happens if I paste his name in Cyrillic into the ru.wikipedia.org search bar? Or, because the link was right there, what if I check the Wikidata links? And look, there's an article. And look, it's word-for-word identical. After checking the enWikipedia article's history to confirm there hadn't been weird draft shenanigans (I'm currently 48 hours into reviewing a different article, trying to sort out what I should do with a 2014 article that got draftified a week ago, and then immediately cut and paste moved back into main space by a different user with an attribution that will die in 6 months until I figure out what to do), confirm the absence of draft shenanigans & finally see the attempt at attribution. Which, if I was being efficient, I would have looked for first- but I work mostly at CCI and copypatrol. People rarely ever announce they're going to commit copyright violations, and I had a bad experience with an autopatrolled user who claimed they translated a caWiki page while just straight copy-and-pasting from a subject's website.

By this time, it was midnight or something for me. I wasn't going to repair the attribution without being fully alert, and I still hadn't spot-checked the sources themselves for copyvio, so I left the window open and went to sleep.

I can run over the others with you soon, if that's something you feel would help you. And I'm sorry you had to deal with me on this - I'm not the most diplomatic person to exist (part of the reason, though I didn't say at the time, that I pinged Clovermoss- I wasn't sure how far I'd have to escalate, and she's much better at telling people they did something wrong and diffusing tense situations than I feel like I can ever hope to be). And I'm sorry I'm the first person to really press the issue with you - I have a lot of issues with the culture of NPP: the focus on reducing the backlog by any means necessary, the way people are praised and not warned for doing impractically high numbers of reviews in unreasonably short periods of time, the over-reliance on some SNG guides and Earwig instead of their own two eyes and brain, the way that some NPP-ers tend to protect prolific reviewers at the expense of newbies and those of us working to clean up copyright issues. Actually, as far as NPP-ers I've met, you're not half bad. I've had to call out two very experienced NPP-ers for adding their own copyright violations to articles, and I've had to come up with a polite response to somebody who cleared an article that I had unreviewed due to it being part of a CCI, because Earwig's scan (of several bookseller's listings and a JSTOR link for a Hebrew-language PDF, none of which Earwig can read) came up clear. You're not doing any of that. You're just enthusiastic, and a bit over-excited by topping the NPP backlog drive. That's overcomable if you quit focusing on points and focus on the quality of your reviews. And while I can't promise I'm a great teacher, I'd be willing to help you learn how to search for copyright violations in articles. Let me know if that's something you'd be interested in. We could go over your old reviews together and see if we can spot anything. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 07:06, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

@GreenLipstickLesbian Guess what, I’m a fast reader and have read your “wall of text”, lol. But how can we do this together? I mean, when will you be able to assist me? I don’t want a situation like this to happen in the future, hence why I had to create that script. And of course, I’d like to know how you easily spot them too, in detail. Anticipating your response. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 08:12, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Hey GreenLipstickLesbian. So we meet again :) Thanks to your idea, I've suggested adding the |access-date= trick to the user script in a post a little higher up on this page. It sounds like you're pretty good at copyright and CCI, which is awesome. But also please keep in mind that most NPPs are not going to be as good at copyright as you. Feel free to share your tips, but also I think we should all be careful of coming down on NPPs too hard for missing translation copyvio, which is overall hard to spot. –Novem Linguae (talk) 16:39, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Nigeria Barnster of National Merit

I award this barnstar to you for your exceptional work on the National symbols of Nigeria page. By achieving Featured List status, you’ve not only elevated the quality of Wikipedia content but have also made a significant contribution to the Nigerian Wikipedia community. This is a historic milestone, as it marks the first time a Nigerian-related topic has reached Featured List status on English Wikipedia. Your dedication, research, and writing skills have been instrumental in creating a comprehensive, informative, and visually appealing article. Your achievement serves as an inspiration to other editors and contributors. Thank you for your hard work and commitment to Wikipedia. Best, Reading Beans 21:01, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

@Reading Beans It is quite surprising to see that this is the first FL on a Nigerian topic. Thank you so much for the commendation, and for your works here too. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 09:29, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

List of cryptocurrency regulators by country

Hi @Vanderwaalforces,

I’ve resubmitted the list with more regulators filled in, but my intention is for this to be a collaborative effort by the community. I’ve started the foundation, and I’m hoping other editors can help expand and improve it over time. Thanks for reviewing, and I appreciate your understanding! Lamia-Scale (talk) 08:08, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

@Lamia-Scale Hi there, that’s fair enough. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 08:10, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks @Vanderwaalforces !

I believe this list will be a valuable resource, providing a clear overview of which countries have established comprehensive regulations for the cryptocurrency sector and which have not. Lamia-Scale (talk) 08:16, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Orphan article Herman Chadwick Piñera

Greetings, Today I de-orphaned this article by adding a link at List of Chileans article. Also, I removed Three orphan tags, with different dates.

Help to de-orphan articles.

1. WikiProject Orphanage - working to reduce the article backlog.

2. Wikipedia:Orphan - the complete How-to Guide for Orphaned articles.

» De-orphaning articles is an important aspect of building the web.

Cheers, JoeNMLC (talk) 15:38, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

TFL notification

Hi, Vanderwaalforces. I'm just posting to let you know that National symbols of Nigeria – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for September 30. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 00:17, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, Giants2008! Vanderwaalforces (talk) 09:05, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

What! I am happy you did this, @Vanderwaalforces. Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 12:35, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Battle of Ekiokpagha

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A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you for your contributions to Wikimedia community, you are doing a good job, please keep it up! Youknow? (talk) 14:46, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

trying to create my bio page

I am confused how to create my author bio page like other authors. Please help. Thanks DavidBrownP53 (talk) 16:21, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello there, and welcome to Wikipedia. Creating your "author bio page" (in other words, writing about yourself) can lead to a conflict of interest, and it is generally advised against. See here for what Wikipedia defines as conflict of interest and here for why you are strongly advised against writing about yourself on Wikipedia.

Do let me know if you have further questions.

In fact, I can help you dissect it that writing about yourself (autobiographies) is generally discouraged because it presents challenges in maintaining objectivity and providing verifiable information, often leading to potential issues in achieving a neutral and balanced perspective. You can see more problems about writing about yourself here. I really hope this helps you. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 16:35, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

How are others on wiki allowed to have a Bio? Example the other author David W. Brown? 2601:1C2:4F00:D2B0:D905:5850:A598:1A98 (talk) 22:18, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Are you talking about David W. Brown? The subject of the article did not come by themselves to create an article. It was created by someone random because Brown was clearly notable as of the time of writing the article.

What this means is that you should not worry about creating an article about yourself. If you are notable as an author (what this means is that you have made significant contributions to your field as an author, then someone random who you don't even know would come up with something for you.

But if you're so sure that you meet any of the criteria listed at this page, then you can try using the article wizard to create a draft of the article, there at Articles for creation, several people will have to look at it (review it) to make sure it is of standard before deciding to publish it from draftspace to mainspace or not. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 22:27, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Please send me the defined legal criteria guidelines for the review process also please list the individuals that are responsible for the review, please. 73.96.65.221 (talk) 22:40, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

I really want to help you understand this whole thing. But first, you have to read that page I linked above and tell me which of the criteria you think you meet as an author? From there I’d know if you should proceed to articles for creation at all. You don’t need the list of individuals per se. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 22:44, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

WP Oral tradition

Hi, hope you're well, how're you getting on with the userbox? Finally getting round to tagging lol Kowal2701 (talk) 16:59, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

@Kowal2701 Oh Hi Kowal, thank God you're here. I got stocked at the choice of image that could be in the userbox, lol, what image do you think we could use? Vanderwaalforces (talk) 17:01, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Good question. Personally I think something like this would be good, since this is English wikipedia, the characters being Native American might be most appropriate, although ideally we'd have a universal one. Some more: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], what do you think? Kowal2701 (talk) 17:12, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Don't forget that we need to be able to upload the image, right? So, we need to choose an image that we could upload or something? Vanderwaalforces (talk) 17:24, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

@Kowal2701 I put something here, by the way. Anything about the image? Vanderwaalforces (talk) 17:44, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

That's a bit eerie but still very good. I think I prefer this, although it's copyrighted. I can't find anything in the public domain Kowal2701 (talk) 19:09, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

@Kowal2701 That looks really cool, I really wish we're able to get it on wiki? I couldn't find much from the public domain either. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 22:27, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Yeah agreed, I can use fiver and give it to an African artist for inspiration? Kowal2701 (talk) 22:39, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Ah, that sounds like a good idea! Vanderwaalforces (talk) 22:44, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Cool, I’ll upload it and let you know when it’s done, I can’t post links to fiver here so can’t show you peoples profiles Kowal2701 (talk) 22:46, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Okay, sounds good. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 08:51, 28 September 2024 (UTC)