How did you verify that H B Walikar is a Vice Chancellor of a University unless you know him? It is written there he is but the link is broken. Help me.
How did you verify that H B Walikar is a Vice Chancellor of a University unless you know him? It is written there he is but the link is broken. Help me.At-Bankikodla (talk) 01:59, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
- @At-Bankikodla: I just added an archived copy to the citation. Now it can be verified. Aithus (talk) 02:14, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
- Not FoundThe requested URL was not found on this server.Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. At-Bankikodla (talk) 02:40, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you, Aithus. @At-Bankikodla: The edit made by Aithus added a link here. You need to click on the "Vice–Chancellor" link in the references. Sdrqaz (talk) 11:54, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
- Not FoundThe requested URL was not found on this server.Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. At-Bankikodla (talk) 02:40, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
Draft:Amirhossein Mahmoodi
Thanks for the response on Draft:Amirhossein Mahmoodi. It's likely the same socks, but since it was posted back in January 2022 and not actively worked on since then, it's just got another month or so before G13 will kick in. AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 16:01, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
- @AngusWOOF: Unfortunately, since we're both humans (though I'm not as sure for you, given your username and signature
) and we both edited the draft, it'll be another six months. Before the two of us, the last human edit was last week. Sdrqaz (talk) 00:07, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
The User (The Bloodhound) Unblock
Dear Sqrqaz, Honestly, i fully agree with the user himself before you accuse him of sockpuppeting you should gather enough evidence like he said (Compare IP Addresses) and stuff like that.
Thank You :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:CB00:264C:CE00:3015:D34F:782A:3F02 (talk) 20:21, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
- Thankfully, someone who can do such comparisons (and another before her) gathered your evidence. Block evasion isn't going to help your case, Bloodhound. Sdrqaz (talk) 00:07, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
Reason for deleting draft: Denis Yip
Hello Sdrqaz, I have receive a message earlier asking me to provide more secondary and reliable sources of draft: Denis Yip. Hence, I changed and added more sources from medias to support the data inside and re-submit the page for review. However, the draft: Denis Yip's content was all deleted earlier today. May I know the reason for that? Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michael Biu (talk • contribs) 04:12, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
- Hi, Michael. Sorry about my accidental reversion of your comment. I deleted Denis Yip on Friday (3 June) because you had added
{{Db-g7}}
to the page. This template, as the link shows, is meant to be added to a page when an author requests its deletion. However, as the template was added with incorrect code, another user helped you fix it. I assume that your addition of the template was an accident, so have restored the page now. Sdrqaz (talk) 14:36, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
redirect confusion
Hi! Thanks for your help with AN/PVS-8's redirect. I was actually in the process of reverting it and adding the RfD when I saw your changes. Thanks, I'm still figuring this stuff out. And thanks for the tip about discussion tools in preferences. Did not know those beta features were there.Jasonkwe (talk) (contribs) 23:45, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
- Sorry for the late response, Jasonkwe, and thanks for letting me know. You may want to install Twinkle to make things easier in the future, since you accidentally added your notification to his userpage instead of his talk page. Discussion Tools is one of the best products by the Foundation in years, I think. Sdrqaz (talk) 14:06, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Sdrqaz: Oops, thanks for pointing that out and thanks for the recommendation! I did see that that editor is likely retired at this point but I wanted to do it correctly. Working with wikitext still feels like when I took a basic class in Java and was trying to write a program in notepad: possible to do? Yeah. Error prone because I'm seeing just bare text? Definitely lol.Jasonkwe (talk) (contribs) 17:26, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Jasonkwe: I saw that too, so I guess the chances of their adding to the discussion is relatively low. I've been there with wikitext too – I need to use the "show preview" button quite often. I noticed that you've discovered VisualEditor. Hopefully that makes things easier, even if it isn't available on talk pages like this (though Discussion Tools does have a visual mode). Sdrqaz (talk) 16:54, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Sdrqaz Yeahh, I like visual editor for the cleanness it lets me see the text I'm working on but it's not great for interacting with some stuff like infoboxes or citations. I like list defined citations because it keeps most of the citations out of the way but visualeditor doesn't let you use list-defined citations. I know that visual editor kinda does that for you (keeps the citations out of the way) but it just doesn't feel as intuitive as source view *shrug. So, I switch between visualeditor and source as needed and use preview a ton like you. And ever since I lost a bunch of unsaved edits on an article, I just copy paste the entire article over to one of my sandboxes and edit it there where I can save periodically. Not sure if there's a better way but it kinda works. Jasonkwe (talk) (contribs) 18:15, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Jasonkwe: I don't believe I've ever used list-defined references, though I have tried VisualEditor but never really got used to it (my last five edits with it go back six years, to the same month of my registration). Losing work due to the internet is the worst. For copies to sandboxes, you need to attribute such copies ("copied from Example article; see its history for attribution" is fine, I'd say). I tend to copy stuff to a notepad app instead of an on-wiki sandbox, but I see why people do it (especially since you said it's hard visualising the edits). Sdrqaz (talk) 17:42, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Sdrqaz Yeahh, I like visual editor for the cleanness it lets me see the text I'm working on but it's not great for interacting with some stuff like infoboxes or citations. I like list defined citations because it keeps most of the citations out of the way but visualeditor doesn't let you use list-defined citations. I know that visual editor kinda does that for you (keeps the citations out of the way) but it just doesn't feel as intuitive as source view *shrug. So, I switch between visualeditor and source as needed and use preview a ton like you. And ever since I lost a bunch of unsaved edits on an article, I just copy paste the entire article over to one of my sandboxes and edit it there where I can save periodically. Not sure if there's a better way but it kinda works. Jasonkwe (talk) (contribs) 18:15, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Jasonkwe: I saw that too, so I guess the chances of their adding to the discussion is relatively low. I've been there with wikitext too – I need to use the "show preview" button quite often. I noticed that you've discovered VisualEditor. Hopefully that makes things easier, even if it isn't available on talk pages like this (though Discussion Tools does have a visual mode). Sdrqaz (talk) 16:54, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Sdrqaz: Oops, thanks for pointing that out and thanks for the recommendation! I did see that that editor is likely retired at this point but I wanted to do it correctly. Working with wikitext still feels like when I took a basic class in Java and was trying to write a program in notepad: possible to do? Yeah. Error prone because I'm seeing just bare text? Definitely lol.Jasonkwe (talk) (contribs) 17:26, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
Request for assistance at Accenture and Julie Sweet articles
Hello, Sdrqaz! A while back you helped review a request of mine for the Accenture article. If you are still interested in reviewing edit requests for Accenture, I recently posted this request at Talk:Accenture and this request for company CEO Julie Sweet. I'm submitting these requests on behalf of Accenture, and I'm happy to answer any questions you may have on those articles' Talk pages. I appreciate your consideration. Inkian Jason (talk) 13:43, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
- I'll try to get to them, but have not done any COI edit requests in a while. I'm also aware that the 198-request backlog at Category:Wikipedia conflict of interest edit requests stretches back over a month, albeit it is not as bad as it was months ago. Sdrqaz (talk) 14:06, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
Redirect
Hello. It was created by mistake. It's totally wrong, random. If you don't see how redirect may be spam - do you want me to create 5 or 10 more random redirects like given example? Eurohunter (talk) 13:36, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
- Eurohunter, as you're probably aware (you've been editing longer than me), Wikipedia has a different understanding of spam. Pages can only be deleted as spam if they are unambiguously promotional. Given that you and RHaworth have been adding and removing deletion templates to both Party in the house and Fiesta in the house for the last four years, I think it's fair to say that a speedy deletion in this instance would be controversial. As I told you, Redirects for Discussion is probably best if you want them to be deleted. Sdrqaz (talk) 14:06, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Sdrqaz: "do you want me to create 5 or 10 more random redirects like given example?" isn't enough clear? Eurohunter (talk) 16:52, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
- Please don't disrupt Wikipedia to make a point. I'm constrained by policy in what I can delete. I advise you to make your case at RfD. Sdrqaz (talk) 16:54, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Sdrqaz: "do you want me to create 5 or 10 more random redirects like given example?" isn't enough clear? Eurohunter (talk) 16:52, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
Page disappear from search engine
Dear Sdrqaz
I have amended the page Denis Yip according your instruction, adding reliable secondary source for the content. The page was able to search in Google last week. However, when I search it again this week, the page disappear from the search engine. May I know the reason? Thank you so much~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michael Biu (talk • contribs) 03:20, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
- Michael, I didn't give you any instructions: it was someone else. Denis Yip has disappeared from search engines because it was marked as unreviewed by GeoffreyT2000; you will have to ask him why that happened. I believe it will become eligible for search engine indexing at the end of the month. Sdrqaz (talk) 14:06, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
Should REVDEL be mentioned as a possible remedy for DEADNAMING?
Your feedback would be appreciated at this discussion regarding WP:DEADNAMING and WP:REVDEL at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Biography. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 16:42, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
Regarding the A1 CSD nomination I made
Oh hi, I see you reverted my edit on Durgeshwar Lal. I see that I made a mistake in adding a CSD for that article, but in my defense, the article was very illegible to even understand before you made it (thankfully) more understandable. The guy just put the words 'durgeshwar lal currently sitting MLA of purola vidhansabha uttrakhand' and thought that was good enough. In retrospect, I should have put a 'needs copyediting' tag before deciding to delete it. Thank you. SpodleTalk 01:02, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
- Spodle, A1 should only be used when you cannot figure out what the subject is. It certainly wasn't amazing writing and had issues with capitalisation (I know it's frustrating), but the version at creation certainly had enough for me to figure out what was going on. A1 is written so that it can rarely be used (even the title comes into consideration for context). Thank you for the message, Sdrqaz (talk) 17:42, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022
Hello Sdrqaz,
- Backlog status
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Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.[b]
In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).
While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).
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IP getting spicy after block
Hello there! You blocked User talk:2601:248:8200:D240:359B:D99:8C85:3866 earlier this evening, and they've been getting pretty unwound on their talk page. Any chance you could please remove access for the duration of their block? Thanks! Tony Fox (arf!) 04:21, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Tony Fox: You left that just as I was reblocking them
. Given their block log, I should've blocked them without talk page access pre-emptively, but you live and learn. Sdrqaz (talk) 04:25, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
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Betty White
Hello, Sdrqaz,
I see you have encountered our vandal from Louisville, Kentucky. He has been traveling over June throughout the Southern states but posting the same vandalism during his trip. For female celebrities, he talks about their genitals and rape, for male celebrities, he talks about what monsters they are and how they ravish young women. It's the same content over and over again now for at least two years. It's typically targeting Hollywood actors and actresses but for a while, he was going after 19th century U.S. Presidents, posting the same content that has to be revision deleted. He/She watches protection and I've seen him return the day after page protection expired. It's really exhausting as he both goes back to older targets, like Betty White or John Travolata, as well as targets new, unlikely personalities. I wish there was a way to do a range block but it would be a lot of different ranges and I think we would take out much of the city of Louisville. At least, we have very vigilant page patrollers who revert the edits pretty quickly after they are made but it can go on quite a while before an admin gets around to protecting the article. The longer the protection, the better, if it is imposed for 3 days, he'll just start up again on day 4.
We also have a similar vandal who targets Bollywood actresses, says terrible things and their IP always geolocates to Bhubaneswar, but, luckily, I haven't seen them around lately. Liz Read! Talk! 00:00, 2 July 2022 (UTC)