User talk:Firefangledfeathers/Archive 4Rosalie EdgeThank you for your note about Rosalie Edge and your ambitions for the article as part of WikiProject Women in Green's July GA drive. I have updated the early sections and worked on the references, which I hope is a help. simongraham (talk) 07:21, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
Question from TewdarHello! Serious question - I just created a page that got autotagged with "disambiguation links added" - but how do I easily find out which of them are links to disambiguation pages? 🤔 Tewdar 13:07, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
Aargh! I fucked up! I pasted my source on the article and published it by accident! Am I going to jail? Tewdar 14:13, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
Say you made a comment, right, and then you later thought it wasn't a good idea, right, and then so you deleted it, right, but then someone else replied to it after you deleted it, but (presumably) without seeing that you deleted it, and then you asked them to delete their reply, right, but they wouldn't, and their comment kind of looks like it might be serious, right, so you ask them to clarify whether they're joking or not, right, but they don't, right, which kind of makes it look like they really mean it, right... what would you do next? Tewdar 20:06, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
On a completely different note... if I, uh, am unable to move my draft to article space (like, say it was up for deletion after 6 months inactivity), would you submit it for AfC or something for me? It's probably good enough for article space now (just about), so I'm not asking you to submit garbage or anything... 🥺 Tewdar 11:37, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
Fox RFCI'm willing to go along with your reasonable request that we wait 48 hours for objections to be substantiated, but instead, this user added a link to the talk page to the noticeboard, saying that I cannot be dissuaded? [1] How is this proper consensus building behavior? And meanwhile the user is ignoring the request for information or the talk page messages. Andrevan@ 18:52, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
Banned editors, who don't take it wellI've found that on some occasions. Highly passionate editors who get banned & don't take it well. Tend to not take it at all & soon begin either editing 'logged-out' or creating socks. I sincerely hope, this won't be the situation, with Lugnuts. GoodDay (talk) 19:38, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
Question from Coolusernamemadeforwikipedia on Draft:IGB International School (20:23, 2 August 2022)Hi, nice to meet you. Considering that this article has been declined a couple of times, do you have any suggestions for it? Do note that I have already attempted to improve the article based on the feedback given --Coolusernamemadeforwikipedia (talk) 20:23, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
ANPKindly sign your comment here. I would also like to know here how Doug Weller is correct? Hope you will re-read my comment, and the evidence I provided and agree that "New Order" is a splinter group of "American Nazi Party" and that not only both of them are operated by different chairmans + staff members but are clearly opposed to each other. Thanks. 103.240.204.158 (talk) 06:09, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
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MOS, so many of themThanks for mentioning MOS:CAPS. Sometimes it's difficult to keep track of all the MOS. Some of them at times, cross over each other :) GoodDay (talk) 19:35, 3 August 2022 (UTC) Question from Qwertyu2244 (17:02, 5 August 2022)Hello, If I am planning on editing several things on a page, should I submit different edits separately or submit all changes as one edit? Thanks --Qwertyu2244 (talk) 17:02, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
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Question from Furaibou45 (00:35, 7 August 2022)Howdy! I'm interested in translating articles on Wikipedia. I noticed there's a tool for translation, but it's only limited to those who have done a certain amount of edits and been on Wikipedia for certain amount of time. Is there a way to get around this or can I translate articles another way? Thanks in advance! --Furaibou45 (talk) 00:35, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
Jack TurbanWhy would you remove the citation to the conflict of interest? It's from the study's own disclosure? Readers should know that his research is funded through a grant from manufacturers of puberty blocker drugs. RaySmall88 (talk) 02:59, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
"Willingness to edit war"There is a very fine line between "willingness to edit war" and a commitment to upholding Wikipedia's policies and guidelines to the letter. Please keep this in mind when engaging in article talk page discussions. ScrumptiousFood (talk) 21:20, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
A belated welcome!![]() ![]() Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, Firefangledfeathers! I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may still benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia: Need some ideas of what kind of things need doing? Try the Task Center. If you don't already know, you should sign your posts on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) to insert your username and the date. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 02:35, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
A Vital barnstar for you!
Aleksandr DuginHey FFF, I would like to restore the longstanding consensus text pending a new consensus but cannot do so without running afoul of 3RR. If you agree that such an edit makes sense here, I'd encourage you to revert my last self-revert: [2]. But of course, as always, I expect you to fly free. Cheers, Generalrelative (talk) 21:39, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
Question from Franvoy (16:01, 23 August 2022)Hi, I want to create an article about our company. Can you please help me? --Franvoy (talk) 16:01, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
Goodman![]() Hi FFF, thank you again for your peer review of Paul Goodman. I'm planning to wrap up the review and move any remaining discussion to the talk page so wanted to check if you had any oustanding thoughts/replies before I did so. czar 21:51, 27 August 2022 (UTC) Update: Phase II of DS reform now open for commentYou were either a participant in WP:DS2021 (the Arbitration Committee's Discretionary Sanctions reform process) or requested to be notified about future developments regarding DS reform. The Committee now presents Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Discretionary_sanctions/2021-22_review/Phase_II_consultation, and invites your feedback. Your patience has been appreciated. For the Arbitration Committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:01, 3 September 2022 (UTC) Question from BENARDX (23:37, 3 September 2022)How do i become autoconfirm --BENARDX (talk) 23:37, 3 September 2022 (UTC) English Wikipedia user accounts that are at least 4 days old and have made at least 10 edits (including deleted edits) are considered autoconfirmed. Cheers, Fettlemap (talk) 00:40, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
Wow, does that mean I'm already auto confirmed?.... How do i know... BENARDX (talk) 23:05, 4 September 2022 (UTC) Wow thank you, now i understand ❤️ BENARDX (talk) 23:05, 4 September 2022 (UTC) Question from WMO1234 (02:41, 5 September 2022)Hello, I signed up for a Wikipedia account because I'm concerned about an "edit war" (an admin called it that) going on with a page I'm interested in. My primary concern is that this admin pushing for the edit seems to be biased towards one side of this conflict (it's very niche and related to micro internet personalities) due to outside of Wikipedia activities. I didn't know this ask your mentor option was even a thing or I would have reached out to you first. What I did do was find a neutral Admin to address my concerns to. I probably made a fool of myself, but you can see my posts here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Sergecross73#Mary_Sue. Reasonably, the admin in question showed up to defend herself. Her response was reasonable, and then another admin showed up to vouch for her edits. Everything seemed on the up and up, but then I got curious about the other admin so I took a quick look at their edit history. Low and behold, this other admin has also been heavily involved in edits related to this micro internet personality. What the heck are the chances? So I guess my primary question to you is, is there a better way I can address my conflict of interest concerns on Wikipedia that ensure neutral feedback? Also, feel free to provide any suggestions or feedback for me. Thank you! --WMO1234 (talk) 02:41, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
Keffals with an s! Good evidence, I think, that you're not particularly involved in the topic area. WMO1234, when I said other, I meant ones that aren't related to the Keffals/Destiny. I see you've already started doing so, and the edits looks good. That vandalism you removed had been in the article for more than a year, and it was blatant stuff. For steps that resolve your concern, the relevant policy is WP:CONDUCTDISPUTE. As I read your concerns, they seem more focused on conduct than article content. You're already at the second step, seeking admin attention to the issue. In the future, it's best to start with polite inquiry at the relevant user's talk page. I wouldn't recommend doing so here, as other admins have already chimed in on the matter. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 14:48, 5 September 2022 (UTC) Your GA nomination of Rosalie EdgeHi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Rosalie Edge you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. Your GA nomination of Rosalie EdgeThe article Rosalie Edge you nominated as a good article has passed
Wow. [4] really hates PRRI. See Talk:Public Religion Research Institute#Bad source. I see that PRRI is used quite a bit in mainstream media. Their edits look like massive edit warring with a very weak case. I've just given them a gender DS alert and hope this behaviour stops. I did ask about it at Talk:LGBT rights in Wyoming but that was before I discovered they've been going to all or most of the articles using PRRI and deleting. Doug Weller talk 16:08, 12 September 2022 (UTC) Accidental revert on RSNGah - I hit the wrong link and reverted your edit on RSN. My revert has been reverted and the appropriate people have been sacked. Ravensfire (talk) 15:05, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
Edit warringNotice of edit warring noticeboard discussion
I mentioned you in an existing edit warring complaint, for your violation of this Arbcom ruling. Michael.C.Wright (Talk/Edits) 15:37, 20 September 2022 (UTC) October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive
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Article that may be of interest to youhttps://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/03/jameela-jamil-pronouns-non-binary-twitter/ Uakari (talk) 18:17, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
ApologiesSorry, I made a mess for the Copyrights in the Shroud of Turin page. I got it. My first modification. Can I send another attempt (better written) after you clean-up? Am I blacklisted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prismak (talk • contribs) 21:17, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
YogaThank you, for sharing your comments. Hope it helps. I am not an expert in this topic, but I know enough to see the issues. For now this is all I think I can do. Is there a Wikiproject pseudosceince? I cant find it if it exits. Any other suggestions you have for me to raise this or my headsup note on WP:MED is enough? Venkat TL (talk) 17:00, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
September drive bling
DYK for Rosalie EdgeOn 7 October 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Rosalie Edge, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that American environmentalist Rosalie Edge (pictured) was called "the only honest, unselfish, indomitable hellcat in the history of conservation"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Rosalie Edge. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Rosalie Edge), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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. — Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 06:24, 9 October 2022 (UTC) A kitten for you!![]() One picture speaks a thousand words, mostly obscene & over most millennials' heads Smg85051 (talk) 00:27, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
QuestionHey Firefangledfeathers, how are you doing? I got an email saying you are my new mentor. I don’t know what a mentor is or that I even had a mentor before this. Can you tell me what a mentor is and how having one affects me? Thanks. -Aliooopqq Aliooopqq (talk) 12:53, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
Thank you so much for clearing things up! Aliooopqq (talk) 13:23, 9 October 2022 (UTC) Gratuitously...![]() ...attempting to pile on by brightening your day with some Cheez Whiz :P Generalrelative (talk) 18:13, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
Just noticed this was kept!! :) Absolutely great work, and apologies I left you with so much heavy lifting. Best Ceoil (talk) 16:16, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022Hello Firefangledfeathers, ![]() Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section. Awards: Barnstars were given for the past several years (thanks to MPGuy2824), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to John B123 for leading with 26,525 article reviews during 2021. To encourage moderate activity, a new "Iron" level barnstar is awarded annually for reviewing 360 articles ("one-a-day"), and 100 reviews earns the "Standard" NPP barnstar. About 90 reviewers received barnstars for each of the years 2018 to 2021 (including the new awards that were given retroactively). All awards issued for every year are listed on the Awards page. Check out the new Hall of Fame also. Software news: Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have connected with WMF developers who can review and approve patches, so they have been able to fix some bugs, and make other improvements to the Page Curation software. You can see everything that has been fixed recently here. The reviewer report has also been improved. ![]() Suggestions:
Backlog: ![]() Saving the best for last: From a July low of 8,500, the backlog climbed back to 11,000 in August and then reversed in September dropping to below 6,000 and continued falling with the October backlog drive to under 1,000, a level not seen in over four years. Keep in mind that there are 2,000 new articles every week, so the number of reviews is far higher than the backlog reduction. To keep the backlog under a thousand, we have to keep reviewing at about half the recent rate!
re your reversion of chevalier d'eon articlefirstly the "consensus" you refer to decided to violate the wikipedia guidelines regarding correct gendering of trans women with absolutely no justification besides some lazy transphobic stereotypes, secondly when I tried to start a disscussion on the talk page everything I posted was deleted. given this is the case how am I supposed to remove the trasphobia from this article so that it conforms with wikipedia guidelines? 65.92.127.4 (talk) 14:53, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
I hope you decide that you do still care and come back with some content-focused points. It wouldn't surprise me if there were quite a few reliable sources published since 2014 that use, or even advocate for, she/her pronouns. FYI, your comments are still visible in the talk page history. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 15:21, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
October blitz bling
Early end of the backlog driveA few days ago, new page patrollers got the backlog to zero. Due to the unprecedented success of the backlog drive, it will be ending early—at the end of 24 October, or in approximately two hours. Barnstars will be awarded as soon as the coords can tally the results. Streak awards will be allocated based on the first three weeks of the drive, with the last three days being counted as part of week three. Great work everyone! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:50, 24 October 2022 (UTC) Question from TradukasKlare (13:45, 26 October 2022)Hello! I'm a mentee of yours with a question for you— I've been working on finding sources for a few different articles, and I've been having some difficulty developing certain inline citations. When I find a .pdf attached to a website (like a company's budget report, for example), I often have to download the .pdf to view it. Because it's not a webpage, citations need to be manually generated. However, there is no listed template for this type of document on the citation generation tab. Have you run into this before? So far, I have been listing these items as Journals and have been adding as much information as I can provide. Do you have any advice on how to cite these documents or any resources I could check out? Thank you for your help!! -T.K. --TradukasKlare (talk) 13:45, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
Persian GulfPlease use Google Translate and translate Persian gulf into Turkish. Some Ottoman mapmakers indeed called it "Gulf of Basra" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gym Gordon (talk • contribs) 22:46, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
3O errorIf I manage to get this to you before you submit the 3O, one of the two permalinks had an error. The two comparable revisions should be: x and y. A 3O page seemed to be linked in x by mistake. Regards 17:08, 28 October 2022 (UTC) by James Lewis Bedford (talk) 17:08, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
Reverts and revdels on Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)Thank you for reverting to remove the slurs from that page, but who do I contact about having some more revisions hidden on the abovementioned page? 120.21.22.48's uses of a slur have been revdeled, but subsequent posts that incorporate them haven't been. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 14:42, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
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RfC pingFeatherperson, I think that ping did not work at Republican Party RfC. At least I didn't get any. SPECIFICO talk 17:21, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
Question from Tmattoo (18:49, 1 November 2022)helllo i want to know how to write an article --Tmattoo (talk) 18:49, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
WiG Editathon Barnstar
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Help with categoryHello again, You helped me with Cardano categories recently. I'm now working on a new page about the royal photographer Hay Wrightson. There are several photographers who've worked with royalty who do have pages (eg Adams, Beaton, Park), so I'd like to start a new category. The question is, what to call it? - I started with 'Royal photographers', but that would bring in all royalty, and I want to focus on British royals. - Also, it could be that the photographer is royal (eg Snowdon and the present Princess of Wales has had photographs of her son published). - 'British royal photographers' could mean the photographer is British, as does 'British royalty photographers'. So I've ended up with 'Photographers of British royalty'. It does the job but is a bit long. Then I'm thinking, go for 'Photographers of royalty' and not worry about other royal families or the nationality of the photographer (that would let in Canadian Yousuf Karsh). And I suppose international is better. Would you have any advice? There are lots of subcategories for photography, eg on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevonde_Middleton: 20th-century British photographers - Hay, yes 20th-century English women artists 20th-century women photographers English women photographers Photographers from London - Hay, yes (if the page means worked in London; not sure where he was born) GreyStar456 (talk) 13:10, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
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Thank youThanks again for you help on Resource Exchange. Here's the new Shengtai article. Best wishes, Keahapana (talk) 21:12, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
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How can you say there has not been discussion? Stub was creating in english after seeing clozee in french using independent sources. Was denied by user MurielMary on September 11 because in users opinion "IMO her achievements" are not notable. Now same user comes back months later to remove page? Artedm (talk) 02:04, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
Times Machine volume and issue informationHey, Many thanks for the Tanahey searches. Would you happen to know whether the articles could easily be associated with their issues' volume and issue numbers, for a more complete citation, especially given the offline/paywall nature of the sources? No worries if that's unfeasible, but it would be greatly appreciated. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 05:00, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
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Constant unsourced DOB Edits by 24.219.36.2Hi, you have restricted this user before and same IP is still posting unsourced DOB on this page. Can you please assist? Thank you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:History/Leila_Rahimi 205.178.18.180 (talk) 15:36, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
Happy Holidays!![]() ![]() Hello Firefangledfeathers! I hope you enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world. Thanks for your work to maintain, improve, and expand Wikipedia. ––FormalDude (talk) 08:34, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
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Happy holidaysBeccaynr (talk) 23:25, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
Happy holidays!![]() Happy Holidays and Happy New Year, Firefangledfeathers! The other day, I was having a conversation with someone about holiday cards and social media. It occurred to me that, in the years since I left Facebook, the site I use most to communicate with people I like isn't actually a social media site at all. If you're receiving this, it's pretty likely I've talked with you more recently than I have my distant relatives and college friends on FB, at very least, and we may have even collaborated on something useful. So here's a holiday "card", Wikipedia friend. :) Hope the next couple weeks bring some fun and/or rest. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 18:43, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
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