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1. Can a lot of users be banned from Wiki, if they violate just by deleting a page?  2. What is the most popular wiki page ever viewed?  3. Is Wikipedia, similar to Google and Bing?  4. Do a lot of people, Look up things on Wiki, just for College and School?  5. Do people use other sources besides Wikipedia, such as Brittanica Encyclopedia, Fandom and of course Girls Ask Guys? 6. Wikipedia isn't so bad, but instead I always used this app, which was made by Escolha Tecnologia, and it's called Narrator Voice, so during my down time, I often write of what comes up to my mind but, type it as a result. So, is it the best decision, besides posting it here?  7. To be honest, why are a lot of articles, doesn't teach us about life, apart to those newer articles?  8. How come some articles, never explain the longest of behind each topic, that added on every newest article? 9. What might happen, if other Creators, took someone else's idea, that they put on their published article?  10. Why does Wikipedia website, always filled with thousands of articles? 11. How come fandom always connect with Wiki?  12. If a lot of people, don't seem to find any interesting articles, are they allowed to leave, and find other articles online, or keep searching?  13. Is it wrong, to add my own topics, on someone else's talk page, instead of mine?  14. Is it also wrong, when people scam, of whatever article that you are posting about them, instead of your interest? 15. Are there any specific wiki apps, for people to find on Play Store, if they don't seem to find anything cool from here?  16. Is there a way to add any random categories, on each talk page right here?  17. What if you can't find your own talk page?  18. If I can't find any other newest articles, am I allowed to come back and request for a new change?  19. Last but not least, do people usually removed other people, only through the case of rudeness and bullying?  Cedric-adedje (talk) 00:51, 23 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

1. No, only admins can delete pages, and they only delete them according to specific protocols (see WP:CSD, WP:PROD, and WP:AFD).
2. The most-viewed page is the front page. The most-viewed article is United States.
3. No, those are search engines, and wikipedia is an encyclopedia. However, google and bing do use wikipedia content, such as in the info panel that shows up when you google a topic.
4. yes.
5. yes.
6. I have no idea what you're talking about, sorry.
7. I don't know what this means either.
8. or this one.
9. That's fine, so long as you use attribution.
10. er, that's the point of wikipedia!
11. I don't know what this means.
12. No one is forcing anyone to stay anywhere or read anything. You're free to read whatever you want.
13. I don't understand this question either. You use Talk pages to communicate with other editors. If you don't intend to communicate with someone else, you shouldn't use their talk page.
14. I'm not sure what you mean, but scamming is obviously wrong in all cases.
15. There is a wikipedia app, but I don't recommend it for editing. Most people who edit on mobile use the desktop version of the website.
16. Why would you want to add categories to a talk page?
17. Your talk page is here: User talk:Cedric-adedje.
18. I don't understand this question.
19. There are many reasons why people get blocked or banned on wikipedia. Incivility is one of them, yes. See WP:CIVIL.

-- asilvering (talk) 16:38, 23 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

For Question #16 - I plan on adding categories, so that way, if most people have a specific topic, that they will like to add or discuss, I can try to create at least 1 or 2 categories. The first one will be about Q7A as for other Discussion chat page. So can you show me how it's done? Cedric-adedje (talk) 17:28, 26 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

(talk page stalker) @Cedric-adedje Talk pages are to discuss improving articles, not discussion forums about the topic (see WP:NOTFORUM). Keep in mind Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a social media site so Wikipedia does not have "chat" pages. For more information about categories, see WP:Categories. S0091 (talk) 21:19, 26 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

For Question #18 - Would I be able to return back, if other articles, doesn't fit my perspective? Cedric-adedje (talk) 20:20, 28 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

There is nothing preventing you from reading wikipedia as often as you want to. -- asilvering (talk) 01:41, 29 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello! I'm here to say, I would want to update the Apocalypse Nerd article, but I know nothing else, and I don't have the comics. Any ideas? --RingmasterCaine (talk) 13:05, 23 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@RingmasterCaine, sorry for not answering you earlier (I was on a wikibreak over the holidays). For updating Apocalypse Nerd, you don't need to have the comics handy if you're going to write sections like Reception and so on, for which you'd use things like published reviews as sources. An easy way to check for sources is to search google scholar for articles, which I did here: [1]. The very first source is a PhD thesis, which is great news for you because it isn't paywalled. Normally we want to avoid PhD dissertations in favour of formally published scholarly work, but in this case there aren't a lot of academic sources available so it should be fine to use this. Good luck! -- asilvering (talk) 21:25, 2 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Thanks @robertsky, and I hope you've had a good holiday season as well! -- asilvering (talk) 21:25, 2 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I tried to publish the udpated copy, but I received this message "No stashed content found for 1191221877/e86c1772-a096-11ee-84af-4cd98faf627c" and I couldn't publish the updated draft. What does this message mean and how to fix it? --EmmaNovember (talk) 04:30, 27 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I have published the updated draft. Now I want to resubmit the draft for review. However, after I clicked on the "Resubmit" button, I got a message 'Template Generated from: AFC submission". I coudn't remove this pop up message or submit my draft. Could you please advise how to fix it? Thank you! --EmmaNovember (talk) 05:41, 27 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi @EmmaNovember, it looks like you got this figured out (sorry, was on holidays). Let me know if you're still having problems. -- asilvering (talk) 21:26, 2 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Hi Asilvering, any interest in expanding this draft or know someone who may? I found several reviews of his work on JSTOR which I cited next to the listed publications. Happy New Year!! S0091 (talk) 19:37, 29 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@S0091 I gave it a brief fleshing-out - not much content, but I think this is enough to add a lot of useful context. I'll add a bit on master-slave dialectic too. Cheers! -- asilvering (talk) 21:48, 2 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Perfect! S0091 (talk) 18:39, 3 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello! DerCookieMonster here. If i had information on a fictional character/creature which is little known, would it be fine if i wrote an article on it? --DerCookieMonster (talk) 15:28, 2 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@DerCookieMonster, you can write articles on subjects that are little-known, provided that they meet the standards set out at WP:GNG. That is, it's ok if not many people know about a topic, but at least a few reliable sources need to have discussed the topic. If you're not sure, feel free to ask me about a particular fictional character and I can let you know what I think. Alternatively, if the character/creature is from a book, series, etc that already has a wikipedia article, you can also write about the topic there (and then you don't need to worry about WP:GNG). -- asilvering (talk) 21:31, 2 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello bulasio, I need to meet you --Muyambi Daniel (talk) 15:35, 2 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi @Muyambi Daniel, I can only help you if you have questions about editing wikipedia, I'm afraid. -- asilvering (talk) 21:32, 2 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

thank you 41.75.190.193 (talk) 13:32, 3 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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	This is belated but thanks for your collaboration during the AfC backlog drive. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 22:54, 2 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@WikiOriginal-9 and to you too! (Actually, that reminds me...) -- asilvering (talk) 00:08, 3 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello Asilvering! After many failed uploads, I need your help with the reference source for Articles for creation: Hou Xiaonan. I have no idea what reference source is available for the articles. Coule you give me some examples please? Thanks a lot! JustinYuAu (talk) 02:04, 8 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@JustinYuAu, you have a lot of facts in the article (I assume you mean the one you've written on your userpage), and they will have all come from somewhere, right? Find the URL you got that info from (or book, or whatever), and that's your reference. Pretty easy. It's important that your information comes from reliable sources, so if some of this info is from social media and you can't find it anywhere else, you should probably remove it from the draft. As for putting refs into your draft, the wiki software will handle most of the work for you: put your cursor at the end of the sentence you want to add a reference to, then click "cite" (in the Visual Editor toolbar), then dump the URL into the box that comes up and hit "generate". Double-check to make sure the bot didn't come up with something outrageously wrong, then hit "insert". WP:REFB for more info. -- asilvering (talk) 02:51, 8 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello, I am new to editing a article and all so someone please guide me on how to do this. I am here just to search for my studies and other personal things, thank you. --Ayushman Singha (talk) 17:57, 9 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi @Ayushman Singha, I've left a message on your Talk page with some useful links to get you started. If you have any specific questions or get confused by any of that, let me know! -- asilvering (talk) 20:00, 9 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello!

So... a few days ago I saw your user page and followed the link for "lead too short". But is there any way to see articles by our interest? Like, how to sort them to find the articles of actor/actress? Miracle for0110 (talk) 02:26, 11 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Miracle for0110 There are two ways I can think of to do this. The way I usually work is by getting the maintenance list for the relevant wikiproject and working from there. There's a WP:FILMBIO that will have the kinds of articles you're looking for. The maintenance list for that project is here [2]. That's nearly every tagged article in the wikiproject, so you'll be faced with a gigantic list, most of which you can ignore. It's sorted by category, so you can click on the tag you want to work through and it will jump the page down to that section. If you want to look for some other topic, the big list of all the wikiprojects with maintenance tag listings is here [3]. Unfortunately, I can't get any specific lists to load right now... hopefully that's just a temporary problem and they'll be working again soon.

The other way is to do a category search. I've done one for you here with the search term "actor", which I think will pick up most of the people you're interested in. But that's going to search by article text, so you'll get some things that aren't relevant just because the article says "actor" in it somewhere. [4] -- asilvering (talk) 06:15, 11 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hey, my account O Combatente Dourado has globally locked by Elton, please delete my User Page, Thanks 177.73.9.164 (talk) 00:31, 12 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi, I can't delete user pages, only admins can do that. I don't know if it's normal to give courtesy deletes to globally blocked editors, but in any case the person you should ask is the admin who blocked you. -- asilvering (talk) 00:36, 12 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank you again for guiding me through the script installation in the Teahouse. If I understand correctly, this script will enable me to mark particular edits in the page history for review by the administrators? LeónGonsalvesofGoa (talk) 05:44, 13 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@LeónGonsalvesofGoa yep! Basically, if you find a copyright violation, you have three options. One is to use WP:CSD - this is for when the copyright violation exists from the very beginning of the article history, or for when basically the entire article is a copyright violation and removing the plagiarised bits would leave us with effectively no article at all. The second is to do what you did in that previous article, and tag the page for possible copyvio (which means someone else has to come along and check and deal with it). But if you can identify the particular edits in the page history where copyvio was introduced, that saves the admins some work, so it's best to take this option when you can. First, remove the copyvio from the article yourself, so there's a clean edit on top. Then, you want to find the edit where the copyvio was introduced, and mark every edit including that one and up to your clean one as copyvio. An admin will come along, check your work, and then apply WP:REVDEL if they agree that it's appropriate. More info, links, etc at WP:CP. -- asilvering (talk) 18:02, 13 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

My mistake, it seems the page hasn't been reviewed yet (Zainuddin Makhdoom I). Is there a way to undo what I did? I'm aware that at least one paragraph was plagiarised. Additionally, it seems the author of the page has been blocked (User:D climacus). LeónGonsalvesofGoa (talk) 04:45, 23 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@LeónGonsalvesofGoa it looks like you tagged the article for attention, but didn't post it onto the copyright investigations page, so no one noticed. Not to worry - I've put a revdel request on it. Here are the steps I took, so you know how to do this yourself if you need to in the future:

1. I went back into the page history to the last edit before you put the cv notice on it: [5]
2. I clicked (top right corner) Page --> Analysis --> Copyright vio detector. If you're using the default UI this will look a bit different for you, but the outcome is the same.
3. Yep, obvious copyvio. I didn't even have to ask you what blog post it was copying from. It's such an obvious case that we can immediately ask for deletion.
4. I tagged it for WP:CSD (I use WP:TWINKLE to make this easy).
5. I changed my mind. It looks like the very top part of the article might be fine. So I went back into the history and restored the edit from before you got to it, where there is still obvious copyvio.
6. I deleted the copyvio from the article and left the URL of the page it was copied from in the edit summary.
7. I added the "unreliable sources" tag because the rest of it doesn't look great and someone should verify it.
8. I used User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel to tag the edits that need deleting - everything from the first edit where the text is added, up to the edit where I restored it.

Done. An admin should swing by and remove the relevant page history soon. -- asilvering (talk) 03:51, 24 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Impressive, I will have to look into Twinkle. To address #7, I actually found this article through a book I'm reading about Portuguese colonialism. Let me see what I can gather from it. LeónGonsalvesofGoa (talk) 04:46, 25 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Did you message me in order to gloat? I imagine you call that neutral and respectful, hey?. Shows what you know. And. I already responded to the other fella's note.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:AntiDionysius#Reversions

Our world cannot evolve if we must praise con artists. Wikipedia pedantically leads the way into a new dark ages touting banal formalism.

Offering contrary evidence is not a neutral point of view and cannot be made to sound neutral. If you can improve something, then do so. Deleting reference to valid commentary is a poor response, especially on a website claiming to be devoted to information and knowledge. Shame on the lot of you.

Ronald Blake (talk) 08:20, 15 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I messaged you to help, under the assumption that you cared to learn. I see I was in error. -- asilvering (talk) 11:04, 15 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I learn every day. And I have more sense and etiquette than to repeatedly insult those I deal with. Insulting me only betrays your pettiness. You disqualify as unreliable a reference you obviously know nothing about. Talk about not wanting to learn - look in the mirror, mate. Your reversion was unethical and wrong, and certainly helps no one. Your effort here, at least in this case, devalues wikipedia and undermines any claim wikipedia makes for credibility. -- Ronald Blake (talk) 08:06, 16 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

For anyone reading this who does care to learn about why self-published sources are generally unacceptable on Wikipedia, see WP:SPS. This is part of the Verifiability policy. -- asilvering (talk) 08:29, 16 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi, I saw you had a detailed comment on the draft. I edited it and would appreciate any feedback that you may have, including how good is it to pass the editorial review process? Thank you! Wikstarrin89 (talk) 06:32, 18 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi @Wikstarrin89, I prefer not to re-review drafts when I was the last decline (I don't want to be keeping an article out of mainspace in the event that my opinion is out of sync with general consensus). Your best bet is just to resubmit it and see what happens. If you'd like some additional new eyes on it, I suggest asking for thoughts at WP:TEA. -- asilvering (talk) 14:29, 18 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

thank you for the review and comment on my draft, and sorry for the inconvenience tho!

Pitocuev42 (talk) 16:40, 18 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Pitocuev42 It's no inconvenience! Good luck with the article. -- asilvering (talk) 20:14, 18 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Animal Flim se By : Prottoy Wajid --Prottoy77 (talk) 12:38, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Prottoy77 sorry, no idea what you're asking. -- asilvering (talk) 17:45, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

How do you put a recording on Wikipedia --Dead76 (talk) 23:26, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

HI @Dead76, what kind of recording are you talking about? If you mean you want to upload a recording from the album you've linked here, you can't do that, for copyright reasons. -- asilvering (talk) 23:28, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi. Need to cite external web links as reference AND upload certification documents as evidence of record from aerospace authority. Not sure how to do that? Any help/guide would be greatly appreciated! --Stefandavidkraus (talk) 06:14, 26 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi @Stefandavidkraus, I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, but WP:REFB might help? For your second question, assuming you're talking about references, in general Wikipedia prefers WP:SECONDARY sources, and primary documents like what you're talking about tend to be a sign that you're about to do some original research, which is generally discouraged. You might want to check with the folks at WP:AVIATION. -- asilvering (talk) 07:14, 26 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

wtf do i do --Croissantbish (talk) 15:53, 26 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Croissantbish If you have a specific question about editing wikipedia, feel free to ask. -- asilvering (talk) 22:51, 26 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello, I want to change my account and username if possible. thanks --Anthony Bjbr (talk) 18:26, 27 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi @Anthony Bjbr, you haven't made any edits yet, so just abandon this account and start with a new one. -- asilvering (talk) 19:39, 27 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]