The original version of this page is located at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rfl and makes sense only in the context of Wikipedia.

Rafał Pocztarski

Administrator of the English Wikipedia since 2004 (original nomination)

My Contributions: All · Articles · Talk · User talk · Wiki · Wiki talk · Page Deletions · Current rights

Quick links

Shortcuts

Rules

Simplified ruleset: WP:SIMPLE · Policies and guidelines: WP:PG WP:POLICY WP:GUIDELINE · Five pillars: WP:FIVE WP:5P WP:FIVEPILLARS

Neutral point of view: WP:NPOV WP:NPV · Verifiability: WP:V WP:VERIFY WP:SOURCE · No original research: WP:OR WP:NOR WP:ORIGINAL

What Wikipedia is not: WP:! WP:NOT WP:WWIN

Sources

Primary, secondary and tertiary sources: WP:PSTS WP:PRIMARY WP:SECONDARY Third-party sources: WP:THIRDPARTY WP:3PARTY WP:INDEPENDENT

Identifying reliable sources: WP:IRS WP:RS WP:RELY WP:RELIABLE WP:RELIABLESOURCES · Wikipedia:Notability: WP:N WP:NN WP:NOTE

Abuse

Vandalism: WP:VAN WP:VAND WP:VNDL WP:VANDAL · Warning templates · Administrator intervention against vandalism: WP:AIV WP:AIAV WP:RVAN

Abuse response: WP:ABUSE WP:AbRep · Cleaning up vandalism: WP:CUV · WikiProject Vandalism studies: WP:WPVS

Requests for page protection: WP:RFPP WP:RFP WP:RPP WP:PADLOCK · Protection policy: WP:PP WP:PROTECT

Misc

Special:WhatLinksHere

Picture of the day

Featured pictures · visible · candidates

Picture of the day

Nithya Menen (born 8 April 1988) is an Indian actress and singer who works primarily in Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu films. After appearing in roles in 1998 and 2006 as a child actress, her first lead role was in the Malayalam film Aakasha Gopuram, which was released in 2008. Her debut in leading roles in Telugu and Tamil films were Ala Modalaindi (2011) and Nootrenbadhu (2011). Her Hindi debut was Mission Mangal (2019). As of 2024, Menen has appeared in more than 50 films and has appeared in several lists of top actresses compiled by Rediff.com and Forbes India. This portrait photograph of Menen was taken in 2023.Photograph credit: Augustus Binu

Archive – More featured pictures...

Selected anniversaries

April 8

• 1271 – Crusades: The Knights Hospitaller surrendered the Krak des Chevaliers, a castle in present-day Syria, to the army of the Mamluk sultan Baybars.
• 1904 – France and the United Kingdom signed the Entente Cordiale, agreeing to a peaceful coexistence after centuries of intermittent conflict.
• 1911 – American cartoonist Winsor McCay released the silent short film Little Nemo (featured), one of the earliest animated films.
• 1933 – The Australian state of Western Australia voted to secede from the federation, but efforts to implement the result proved to be unsuccessful.
• 1973 – The Progress Party was founded in a movie theater in Oslo, Norway.

In the news

Current events:

Total eclipse path

• A total solar eclipse (path shown) is visible across North America.
• In NCAA Division I basketball, the South Carolina Gamecocks win the women's championship.
• A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes near Hualien City, Taiwan.
• In Syria, an Israeli airstrike kills 16 people at the Iranian consulate in Damascus, including brigadier general Mohammad Reza Zahedi.
• A bus falls from a bridge in Limpopo, South Africa, killing 45 people.

Wikipedia is written by volunteer editors and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other volunteer projects: