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Hello! Could you please edit your older talk page archives (specifically, archives 1, 3, 4, 9, 19, 24, 30, 31, 32 and 33) so that they don't transclude {{Archive navigation}}? This template is deprecated and we're trying to clean up all uses of it before it gets deleted. Thanks! – 🌻 Hilst (talk | contribs) 12:42, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068
Hello! As you could probably tell, I'm here to add the One Piece franchise to the list of highest-grossing franchises, but I wasn't really sure how. In 2024, there are plenty of sources that suggest One Piece should be somewhere on this list (most notably in the top 30 somewhere), and I tried to do it but I don't think my html skills are up to snuff anymore sadly. I was wondering if someone with more experience could either help me do it or add it themselves? Here are some of the sources that suggest One Piece should be here:
https://www.33rdsquare.com/one-pieces-total-franchise-value-is-estimated-at-20-5-billion-as-of-2023/
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The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.
Administrators can now nuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. T380846
A 'Recreated' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. T56145
Hi Fish and karate, I found tha the DOB has a source, and has been in the page since 2009 at least - I think removing it at the subject's request is reasonable, but deleting it seems hard to justify - thoughts? Vanamonde93 (talk) 16:58, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @Vanamonde93: - if it’s sourced then no objections. I was emailed asking to remove that edit for a different (privacy-related) reason due to the edit summary, not because it was an unsourced DOB. Cheers, Fish+Karate20:01, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. T378488
Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Special:Nuke tool. T376378
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Thanks. It makes me sad that it’ll probably get delisted, but the standards these days are such I doubt it would be possible to retain its status. Fish+Karate12:41, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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If Fish and karate does not agree to undelete the userbox, you will be able to start a deletion review. I think that editors might still want to delete this userbox, even in 2025. —Alalch E.18:21, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Trilletrollet: Hi, it was tagged for speedy deletion in line with a previous deletion discussion and seemed uncontroversial. As you aren’t happy with it being deleted, and I appreciate the original discussion was a long time ago, I’ve restored it and the original tagger can nominate it for deletion formally if they so wish. Pinging @Alalch E.: accordingly. Cheers, Fish+Karate13:11, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi Fish and karate, almost seven years ago, you semi-protected three articles (Lipa, Batangas, Dalton Pass and Dynasty Warriors 6) due to apparent sockpuppetry. While the protection requests for all these articles (here, here and here) show that you intended to protect them for only one month, they were somehow never set to expire (see your overall protection log on 11 September 2018). Now that almost seven years have past, do you think you can unprotect them to see whether the problems return? It's an issue I've been noticing where some articles intended to be protected temporarily were accidently set to indefinite (see this discussion I made about two months ago). BriDash9000 (talk) 10:40, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, yes no problem. I’ve removed the protection from all three articles. Apologies for the delay, I’ve been on holiday. Cheers, Fish+Karate20:10, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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