User talk:~delta/Archives/2023/December

Re: Draken, Korea Job World

You're welcome. In fact, thank you for starting the English articles. And your Spanish is very good, keep it up! EdgarCabreraFariña (talk) 10:18, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Herky and Timmy's Racing Coaster

On 1 December 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Herky and Timmy's Racing Coaster, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Herky and Timmy's Racing Coaster is the first roller coaster in South Korea to go backwards? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Herky and Timmy's Racing Coaster. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Herky and Timmy's Racing Coaster), 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.

theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 00:02, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Mimboa (15:37, 1 December 2023)

Can you please tell me what is extended confirm user? --Mimboa (talk) 15:37, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Mimboa and welcome to Wikipedia! Extended confirmed users are users who have more than 30 days of account age and 500 edits on the English Wikipedia. They have the ability to edit extended confirmed protected pages, use the content translation tool and use the index template on their user pages to make search engines index their user pages. I am an extended confirmed user, as I have been editing for 8.5 months and have 6000+ edits. Best, #prodraxis ^connect 15:47, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. Mimboa (talk) 15:48, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Coi remove

can you please look at this article BAF Shaheen College Dhaka and remove its coi and advertising materials. 2400:C600:451E:CF11:9817:C576:A679:AAA1 (talk) 07:42, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

I don't think I can do it at this moment because I am afraid I may be helping you evade your block which is related to this page. #prodraxis ^connect 02:55, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from 49ers 42-20 (23:59, 3 December 2023)

The water at the bottom of the horses' buckets is murky and has oats floating in it. But it's water all the same, so I carry the buckets outside, remove my shirt and dump what's left over my arms, head, and chest. "Feeling a little less than fresh, Doc?" says August. --49ers 42-20 (talk) 23:59, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! I think that you wanted to test out editing; if you want to do so please use the Sandbox to do so. If you have any other questions about editing feel free to send me a message here on my Talk page. Thanks, #prodraxis ^connect 00:09, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 December 2023

• News and notes: Beeblebrox ejected from Arbitration Committee following posts on Wikipediocracy

• In the media: Turmoil on Hebrew Wikipedia, grave dancing, Olga's impact and inspiring Bhutanese nuns

• Disinformation report: "Wikipedia and the assault on history"

• In focus: Tens of thousands of freely available sources flagged

• Comix: Bold comics for a new age

• Essay: I am going to die

• Featured content: Real gangsters move in silence

• Traffic report: And it's hard to watch some cricket, in the cold November Rain

• Humour: Mandy Rice-Davies Applies

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:10, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Sha.Aradia (16:48, 5 December 2023)

Hi how can I get a wiki article created? --Sha.Aradia (talk) 16:48, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi, @Sha.Aradia and welcome to Wikipedia! To create your own article please refer to this page which will help you guide through the steps of article creation. If you have any other questions about editing feel free to send me a message on this page anytime. Regards, #prodraxis ^connect 17:00, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Greengroup123 (10:07, 6 December 2023)

how to make an article??? --Greengroup123 (talk) 10:07, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi, @Greengroup123, and welcome to Wikipedia! To create an article, you could take a look at this page which will walk you through the steps of article creation for new users. If you have any questions about editing, feel free to ask me anytime here on my Talk page! Again, welcome and happy editing! Regards, #prodraxis ^connect 12:34, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Sahagunjoelrey on Wikipedia:Shortcut (18:19, 7 December 2023)

Hi pls can you help me to activate my account safety. --Sahagunjoelrey (talk) 18:19, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi, @Sahagunjoelrey, and welcome to Wikipedia! I am not quite sure what you are asking about here. Do you mean creating your own user page, setting up two factor authentication, getting autoconfirmed or something else? Best, #prodraxis ^connect 18:48, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

Request for approval of Ali Ejali's article

Hi Prodraxis؛ The article has been edited, please remove the No index bot if approved Ali Ejlali Thank you حسام نیکخواه (talk) 09:13, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I do not review pages on request. Please be patient; your article will be reviewed from one of the other patrollers soon. #prodraxis ^connect 14:46, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

thank you حسام نیکخواه (talk) 15:28, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Rfowler1967 on The Black Panther (newspaper) (02:48, 10 December 2023)

Why are blacks accepting the facts to do what the white people wants done that we doing it ourselves.? Gums was by the white's for us to kill ourselves. Can you explain that to me,why don't we see that? --Rfowler1967 (talk) 02:48, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Notsayingmyname (03:30, 10 December 2023)

Hi I am glad to have a fellow member to talk to bye --Notsayingmyname (talk) 03:30, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi, welcome! I have seen a couple of your edits so far - please make sure to cite reliable sources for edits at all times. If you have any questions about editing ask me anytime! #prodraxis ^connect 04:20, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Ok

I will try though I don’t know how to do it but I will figure it out 👋 Notsayingmyname (talk) 19:48, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors December 2023 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2023 Newsletter Hello, and welcome to the December 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since September. Don't forget that you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election news: The Guild needs coordinators! If you'd like to help out, you may nominate yourself or any suitable editor—with their permission—for the Election of Coordinators for the first half of 2024. Nominations will close at 23:59 on 15 December (UTC). Voting begins immediately after the close of nominations and closes at 23:59 on 31 December. All editors in good standing (not under current sanctions) are eligible, and self-nominations are welcome. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term that ends at 23:59 on 30 June. Drive: Of the 69 editors who signed up for the September Backlog Elimination Drive, 40 copy-edited at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 661,214 words in 290 articles. Barnstars awarded are listed here. Blitz: Of the 22 editors who signed up for the October Copy Editing Blitz, 13 copy-edited at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 109,327 words in 52 articles. Barnstars awarded are listed here. Drive: During the November Backlog Elimination Drive, 38 of the 58 editors who signed up copy-edited at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 458,620 words in 234 articles. Barnstars awarded are listed here. Blitz: Our December Copy Editing Blitz will run from 10 to 16 December. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 20:33, 10 December 2023 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 344 requests since 1 January, and the backlog stands at 2,191 articles. Other news: Our Annual Report for 2023 is planned for release in the new year. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

Message sent by Baffle gab1978 using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:54, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Not that bad

Re this. I wouldn't call it vandalism, just some poor editing by I expect some new editor. The song likely has some relevance here (I assume it may mention her, but I could not confirm it). It's a poor edit, of course, and thanks for removing it. But I just don't feel it is "vandalism". _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 09:44, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

@Piotrus: Whoops, sorry for calling that vandalism. I was just shocked to see that laying around for 8 1/2 months in a GA of all things. ~ Prodraxis (Merry Christmas!) 13:48, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Happens... it is on my watchlist but I guess the see also heading made me not double check this. Thanks for cleaning that up. I am just a stickler for being precise. Ex. a ton of stuff folks call hoaxes are just not intentional errors, even stuff that is listed at WP:LOH. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:38, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Vinayraonimmala (15:33, 11 December 2023)

Good Morning Can You Publish a Wikipedia page on Songs as on News and Youtube. --Vinayraonimmala (talk) 15:33, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Vinayraonimmala, welcome! If you want to write an article, see this page which will help you walk through the steps. Happy editing! ~ Prodraxis (Merry Christmas!) 15:34, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Ihavesomething2say (22:47, 8 December 2023)

Hi! I'm just wondering if I'm on the right track with making minor edits to these articles so far. Please let me know how I can better contribute/edit. Thank you! --Ihavesomething2say (talk) 22:47, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi, @Ihavesomething2say, and welcome. I have seen a couple of your edits and noticed that they have been reverted. As for Astrid of Sweden, for instance, per the guideline on date orders, please do not change the date orders around - the article has a {{use DMY dates}} template on top which states that dates in this article must be in day-month-year format. (e.g. 8 December 2023). If you have any other questions ask me anytime. Thanks, #prodraxis ^connect 23:41, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Noted, thank you for the help! Ihavesomething2say (talk) 14:12, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

DYK for War Against Smallpox

On 13 December 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article War Against Smallpox, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that War Against Smallpox describes how Edward Jenner's vaccination technique spread across Europe during the Napoleonic Wars? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/War Against Smallpox. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, War Against Smallpox), 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.

Z1720 (talk) 00:03, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

Help me

I appear to have accidentally pressed mass rollback "all" and all of my edits were reverted by accident and I can't undo them cause I think I hit the API limit. Can someone please help me revert those edits? Oops.... and a huge  Self-trout for myself I guess. ~ Prodraxis (Merry Christmas!) 16:44, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Unfortunately those edits cannot be mass-rolled-back, because your rollback is included in those so it wouldn't actually do anything. I think you're stuck manually undoing your reverts. You can always try asking for help elsewhere. If you want more help, change the {{help me-helped}} back into a {{help me}}, stop by the Teahouse, or Wikipedia's live help channel, or the help desk to ask someone for assistance. Primefac (talk) 16:57, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Ok. Can you please temporarily grant rollback on my alt, User:Prodraxisock so my alt can mass rollback my edits? ~ Prodraxis (Merry Christmas!) 16:59, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

No, that's exactly my point. For each page you made (at least) two edits, A (the first/legit edit) and B (the rollback edit). If I (or your alt, or anyone else) went to use Rollback on your edits, it would attempt to undo both B and A (because they are sequential edits). One cannot use rollback to only undo a single edit. Primefac (talk) 17:00, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Understood. Again, I am so sorry for causing such disruption. What I did was in no way intentional at all but frankly it was a stupid mistake. I will manually undo my edits over the next few minutes I guess. ~ Prodraxis (Merry Christmas!) 17:08, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

@Primefac: I've self reverted and restored the good versions. Sorry for all disruption caused, courtesy ping @Ferret ~ Prodraxis (Merry Christmas!) 18:10, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

I think this deserves an entry at WP:STOCKS 78.150.239.161 (talk) 18:59, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Sure, IP, go ahead and put an entry there if you wish to :) (or should I?) ~ Prodraxis (Merry Christmas!) 19:04, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

What are you doing?

You are mass reverting a bunch of edits with an apology that you should have been more careful about mass reverting.... Except you don't seem to be only reverting whatever you intended. You're reverting your own legitimate edits across numerous articles and user talk pages. -- ferret (talk) 16:51, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Sorry..... I accidentally pressed the wrong buttons while using mass rollback and I hit the API limit. #prodraxisock ^connect 16:52, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

New pages patrol January 2024 Backlog drive

New Page Patrol | January 2024 Articles Backlog Drive
On 1 January 2024, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Each review will earn 1 point. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
You're receiving this message because you are a new page patroller. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:10, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Happy Holiday's

I wish for you a very safe and merry holiday season. May your new year be filled with peace and lots of color. Continue to sing your Song and Dance along life's journey. --ARoseWolf 11:12, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

@ARoseWolf, happy holidays to you too and I wish the best of luck for the new year. ~ Prodraxis (Merry Christmas!) 14:39, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from SportsHistories (09:17, 23 December 2023)

Hello, I want to ask if it's okay if i create a new page on Wikipedia. We have a Business (Sports History Group) which have 3 websites in it. How do we create it's page which goes within the Wikipedia conditions. --SportsHistories (talk) 09:17, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

@SportsHistories: Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. To create your first article please see this guide for help. Furthermore, you refer to yourself as "we" in this post. Are you sharing this account? Shared accounts are not allowed on Wikipedia. Regards, ~ Prodraxis (Merry Christmas!) 16:26, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from ALxove (03:40, 24 December 2023)

heyo

I'm thinking of tackling the encyclopedic tone of the Biological neuron model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Biological_neuron_model), but I'm unsure how extensively I can delete the overly technical material. I think the material would benefit from being 20-50% shorter, but I'm worried about the etiquette around removing the painstakingly typeset LaTeX and citations.

Thanks in advance for any advice --ALxove (talk) 03:40, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

@ALxove: Hi, welcome to Wikipedia! Feel free to remove some phrasing that sounds unencyclopedic - go ahead, fix it yourself! Ultimately, some sections will have to be removed if they sound too much like a personal essay, but try to rephrase some of the sections that sound like they could be of encyclopedic merit to make it more encyclopedic rather than delete those sections. If someone reverts, you can discuss your changes on the Talk page to try to reach a consensus on how much to delete. Thanks, ~ Prodraxis (Merry Christmas!) 03:48, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 December 2023

• Special report: Did the Chinese Communist Party send astroturfers to sabotage a hacktivist's Wikipedia article?

• News and notes: The Italian Public Domain wars continue, Wikimedia RU set to dissolve, and a recap of WLM 2023

• In the media: Consider the humble fork

• Discussion report: Arabic Wikipedia blackout; Wikimedians discuss SpongeBob, copyrights, and AI

• In focus: Liquidation of Wikimedia RU

• Technology report: Dark mode is coming

• Recent research: "LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less" with Wikidata

• Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols

• Comix: Lollus lmaois 200C tincture

• Crossword: when the crossword is sus

• Traffic report: What's the big deal? I'm an animal!

• From the editor: A piccy iz worth OVAR 9000!!!11oneone! wordz ^_^

• Apocrypha: Local editor discovered 1,380 lost subheadings in ancient Signpost scrolls. And what he found was shocking.

• Humour: Guess the joke contest

• BJAODN: Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:59, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Merry Christmas :)

Hello Prodraxis: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Jerium (talk) 17:07, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

Jerium (talk) 17:07, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

@Jerium: Thanks and Merry Christmas to you too. :) ~ Prodraxis (Merry Christmas!) 17:29, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

メリークリスマス！ (Merry Christmas)

🛧Midori No Sora♪🛪 ( ☁＝☁＝✈) is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!

Spread the cheer by adding {{subst:Xmas2}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

🛧Midori No Sora♪🛪 ( ☁＝☁＝✈) 01:26, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

@Midori No Sora: Thanks and Merry Christmas to you too :) ~ Prodraxis (Merry Christmas!) 02:13, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

Merry Christmas back at ya!

Hello Prodraxis: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, sawyer * he/they * talk 06:04, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

@Sawyer-mcdonell: Thank you :) ~ Prodraxis (Merry Christmas!) 15:23, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, Prodraxis. Thank you for your work on Haewoojae. SunDawn, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

Hello my friend! Good day to you. Thanks for creating the article, I have marked it as reviewed. Have a blessed day and Merry Christmas!

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|SunDawn}}. Please remember to sign your reply with ~~~~. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

✠ SunDawn ✠ (contact) 18:53, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

@SunDawn: Thanks, and Merry Christmas to you too :) 🎄🎁 ~ Prodraxis (Merry Christmas!) 18:55, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

Hi, Wishing you a joyous Christmas and a prosperous New Year. حسام نیکخواه (talk) 22:54, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

@حسام نیکخواه: Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you too :) ~ Prodraxis (Merry Christmas!) 23:52, 25 December 2023 (UTC)