User talk:Toadspike/Archive 3
Hello, Toadspike, In a current discussion on ANI today, you state that Given your low opinion of our current admin crew, I'd like to encourage you to launch an RfA or participate in the next cycle of administrator elections. I'm sure you are not "too scared" to do so and that you have "the guts" to go for administrator status. Then you can make a change in our administrator corps through your personal bravery which we could use more of. I sincerely hope you consider taking the next step and seek becoming an admin. Go for it! Liz Read! Talk! 06:03, 17 June 2025 (UTC)
The DCWC is back!![]() Hey Toadspike, the Developing Countries WikiContest will be returning for a second year, and sign-ups are now open! The contest will run from 1 July to 30 September, and the objective remains the same: improve as many articles relating to developing countries as you can to help fight systemic bias on Wikipedia. In other news, we have a new face on the coordinator team this year: last year's sixth-place finisher, Arconning (talk · contribs)! The coordinators would like to extend a sincere thanks to Ixtal (talk · contribs), who is leaving the team, without whom the contest would not exist. After feedback from contestants last year, the scoring rules are undergoing some modifications; the new rules and a summary of the changes made will be posted to the contest talk page shortly. If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page or contact one of the coordinators: Arconning (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) 09:33, 17 June 2025 (UTC) Would like your expertise for somethingHey @Toadspike, I see you are overall an expert on Chinese related topics. Currently, there is a discussion on Talk:SWAT#Sources and changes where another editor has tried to claim multiple Chinese sources(including, funnily enough, websites of local public security bureaus) are unreliable. May I ask if you could maybe help clear things up for the user, as he seems to be a new editor and not familiar with policies(while doing borderline Wikilawyering). Thehistorianisaac (talk) 11:49, 17 June 2025 (UTC)
Randy CooperHello Toadspike, Could you close the Randy Cooper article? I think that keeping it open for over 3 weeks is an unnecessary embarrassment for the subject. Also, my experience with AFD's is that hardcore deletionists are the personalities most attracted to old AFD's. Thank you. I appreciate your help. Orlando Davis (talk) 22:10, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Question from AshrafSalamin on User:AshrafSalamin (01:17, 24 June 2025)Hello, I want to publish my page --AshrafSalamin (talk) 01:17, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
June Backlog Drive is almost over!![]() Hi! Thanks for participating in the Articles for Creation June Backlog Drive! We've done amazing work so far, dropping the backlog by more than 2000 drafts already. We have around 3000 drafts outstanding, and we need your help to get that down to zero in 5 days. We can do this, but we need all hands on deck to make this happen. A list of the pending drafts can be found at WP:AFCSORT, where you can select submissions in your area of interest. Thank you so much for your work so far, and happy reviewing! – DreamRimmer ■ 01:35, 25 June 2025 (UTC) Guidance on Draft:Ronkay ArslanHi Toadspike, I hope you are doing well. While I was preparing to ask WikiMentor01 about the recent decline of my article Draft:Ronkay_Arslan – I noticed your note on the page and saw that you have considerable experience reviewing drafts. I thought it best to come straight to you for advice. Over the past few weeks I have: •Replaced all primary or self-published references with independent national and international coverage of Ronkay Arslan. •Added inline citations for every factual statement. •Edited the prose to ensure a neutral, encyclopaedic tone and correct English usage. Despite this, the draft was declined for insufficient notability. Could you point me to the passages or sources that still fall short of Wikipedia’s standard? I have invested a great deal of time refining the article and would value any specific guidance you can offer before I resubmit. Thank you for the work you do to keep the encyclopedia reliable, and for any direction you can provide. Best regards, Vikiloger (talk) 06:02, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
How is this a redirect consensus? As a non admin you don't have the ability to delete. LibStar (talk) 10:55, 28 June 2025 (UTC)
Deletion review for Vittorio Mancini (wrestler)An editor has asked for a deletion review of Vittorio Mancini (wrestler). Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. LibStar (talk) 00:48, 30 June 2025 (UTC) June 2025 AfC backlog drive award
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:11, 9 July 2025 (UTC) Feedback request: All RFCs request for comment![]() Your feedback is requested at Talk:Remigration on a "All RFCs" request for comment. Thank you for helping out! (trialing replacing Yapperbot) SodiumBot (talk|botop) 16:31, 14 July 2025 (UTC) Question from 789e (20:06, 15 July 2025)hi my username is 789e but im einstinium_99_252 not a user dont get confused --turtle (talk) 20:06, 15 July 2025 (UTC) Chinese Military History task force International involvement in the Battle of YangxiaHi Toadspike I noticed you are a part of the Chinese Military History task force. I am doing research on October 9th 1911 in Hankou during the the Battle of Yangxia. Some Chinese rebels were going to bomb the Russian concession there, but were caught and ran away. When they realized they were caught they started the 1911 Revolution. But this first battle was the Battle of Yangxia. The Russians, Americans, Japanese, British, Austro-Hungarians, Italians, French, and Germans all supported each other in defending the concessions. Mainly the rebels seemed to fight the Qing dynasty forces though. It seems to me almost a mini Boxer Rebellion as far as the allies were concerned. I want to know about European, Russian, and especially American involvement in the battle. I have a book that in 2 pages briefly goes over the battle and the foreign involvement in it, but not in much details. I am wondering if you know of any books or articles that go over the international involvement in this battle. Also if you know of any good books on the War Lord period of China I would appreciate that too. Thanks (: ~~~~ Historyguy1138 (talk) 15:59, 18 July 2025 (UTC)
Translation queryHello Toadspike! I found your name on a list of users at Wikipedia:Translators available, and your userpage says you're able to do translations. I recently came across a German source for a draft I'm working on, and I ran it through a quick Google Translate (I am not familiar with how well machine translation works German to English, I know it varies a lot by language but I needed a spotcheck for usability). I was hoping if you had a moment, you could verify the veracity of the translation for these two quotes, or provide a correction if the translations do not match the source (both from Wissen in der Fantastik ISBN 9783658177898).
This is not a time sensitive request, and if you're unable to help, I completely understand. I apologize for coming to you directly, but I couldn't find any centralized place to make this kind of request, so my apologies as well if this is not the right way to go about it. Thank you for your time! NovaHyperion (talk) 04:47, 19 July 2025 (UTC)
Question from The Indian Update (19:19, 22 July 2025)Hello Sir, today I made a wikipedia page on my village. It is showing in the user page. Can you please tell me if it is in public view or not. Thank you --The Indian Update (talk) 19:19, 22 July 2025 (UTC)
Closing the RfCPlease reconsider. The majority were in favor of adding "interim". We are not in a position that allows us to interpret what the editors intended. Hauskasic (talk) 14:57, 26 July 2025 (UTC)
DYK for Kamla JaanOn 27 July 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Kamla Jaan, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Kamla Jaan, a hijra and mayor, was removed from office because the electoral rolls listed her as male? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kamla Jaan. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Kamla Jaan), 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. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 00:03, 27 July 2025 (UTC) Article for Creation - request for review before submittingHello Toadspike, I recently joined Wikipedia and you were assigned as my mentor. I would like to submit an Article for Creation and would kindly request if you might have a look at my Sandbox and offer your input first? Please be advised I am disclosing upfront that I have authored this draft biography page about myself and my career as an artist. I am here to advance Wikipedia's aims of building a neutral, well-sourced free encyclopedia and welcome your suggestions, comments and edits. Thank you. GuerroArtist (talk) 05:34, 28 July 2025 (UTC)
List of U.S. states and territories by median wage and mean wageDid you merge List of U.S. states and territories by median wage and mean wage when you closed this AfD? It looks like the TalkPage was not merged. Since I have not yet closed a discussion, I wasn't sure who was responsible for taking care of that. Rublamb (talk) 22:53, 28 July 2025 (UTC)
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Princess Changde@Toadspike I see there's a conflict over voting to delete the Princess Changde article, kind of like SongRuyi is saying we're heavily biased against China here, for example, the sentence I find it difficult to defend articles related to China because English Wikipedia tends to be dominated by Western viewpoints, some of which hold anti-China biases. This makes defending Chinese topics quite challenging. (It's not on the main discussion page, but on another member's talk page) Min968 (talk) 17:24, 1 August 2025 (UTC)
@Toadspike, @Min968 - Sorry for butting into this thread, and a second sorry Toadspike because I already pinged you from Princess Changde's talk page about this! Anyway, I would be very grateful for more opinions on Talk:Princess Changde § Religious endowments - failed verification? where basically I can't find the Ming Shi source quote at all! I am quite unwilling to believe that a fellow editor would make up something like this, and wonder if there's a chance I have been looking in the wrong place for the original text. Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 15:47, 4 August 2025 (UTC)
DCWC August updateWe're a month into the 2025 Developing Countries WikiContest, with stiff competition at the top of the leaderboard already! Our current top five contestants are:
Looking for ways to climb up the leaderboard yourself? Help out your fellow participants by answering a few review requests, particularly the older entries. Several more nominations needing attention are listed at eligible reviews, and highlighed entries receive a 1.5× multiplier! On behalf of the coordinators, we'd like to thank all the participants for helping to combat systemic bias on Wikipedia! If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page or ask one of the coordinators: Arconning (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) 03:36, 4 August 2025 (UTC) Question from Dimitry565 (01:11, 7 August 2025)Hello, i made a publication about Sergey Khrabrykh,it was declined the first time, and now im re-making it but this time adding more links and more information, its been several weeks, but the article has not been published still, could you tell me how to further improve and refine it --Dimitry565 (talk) 01:11, 7 August 2025 (UTC)
Question from Dr Andrew McGregor at Park Orthodontics (09:32, 8 August 2025)Hello Mentor, my name is Andrew. I wanted to ask a question about editing. When I select the topic Medicine & Health, it says no topics are available. Yes, my friend who is also an editor sent me a screenshot where it says 480 articles found. Have I done something wrong? I am a newbie! Also --Dr Andrew McGregor at Park Orthodontics (talk) 09:32, 8 August 2025 (UTC)
Question from Dr Andrew McGregor at Park Orthodontics (09:34, 8 August 2025)Hello again. How do I turn on or use Machine suggestions under easy tasks (add links between articles)? I don't seem to have this yet, but I have seen it in action, and it's very good. --Dr Andrew McGregor at Park Orthodontics (talk) 09:34, 8 August 2025 (UTC) Question from Siyamhossainllc (15:38, 8 August 2025)Hello --Siyamhossainllc (talk) 15:38, 8 August 2025 (UTC)
Feedback request: All RFCs request for comment![]() Your feedback is requested at Talk:Western Sahara on a "All RFCs" request for comment. Thank you for helping out! (trialing replacing Yapperbot) SodiumBot (botop|talk) 13:39, 12 August 2025 (UTC) DYK for Uterine hypoplasiaOn 13 August 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Uterine hypoplasia, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the withdrawn medication diethylstilbestrol caused uterine hypoplasia? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Uterine hypoplasia. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Uterine hypoplasia), 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. — Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 13 August 2025 (UTC) DYK for The Wandering VillageOn 16 August 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Wandering Village, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a community vote allowed players of the "wholesome" city-building game The Wandering Village to feed their villagers to a giant beast? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Wandering Village. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, The Wandering Village), 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. — Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 16 August 2025 (UTC) Concern regarding Draft:Syed Ahmed Hadi
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:32, 23 August 2025 (UTC) Clarification request closedHi Toadspike. Your request for clarification has been closed and is archived at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment/Archive 133 § Clarification request: Indian military history with a consensus of participating arbitrators to endorse Tamzin's explanation. ~ Jenson (SilverLocust 💬) 03:40, 24 August 2025 (UTC) WikiCup 2025 September newsletterThe fourth round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 29 August. The penultimate round saw three contestants score more than 800 points:
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