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The redirect Javad Safaee (Cricketer) has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 May 27 § Javad Safaee (Cricketer) until a consensus is reached. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:56, 27 May 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello, Dl2000,

You didn't mean to create this redirect, you were just correcting a bad page move from an attempt to hijack an article. But Twinkle sees you as the page creator, hence you receive this message. Thanks. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:57, 27 May 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Regarding your hasty revert on my edit to the article in question and your subsequent warning on my talk page:

Please refrain from hijacking pages as you did with Kevin Cooney.

You can hardly describe this as a 'hijacking' when most of the current wikilinks to [[Kevin Cooney]] are already intended for the American actor: [1]. I was fixing a mistake across multiple articles, but now you've put the problem back to as it was before. Farolif (talk) 23:04, 2 June 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

You have restored a page with outdated and incorrect information that conflicts with other Wikipedia pages. Bob Webster (talk) 21:06, 16 June 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Umm... ^{[a big citation needed here]}. Making an unexplained degradation of the article is not best practice here. There could have at least been a category or two and a proper, coherent lede, for starters. Dl2000 (talk) 02:34, 17 June 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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I turned Nevan into a redirect because it was a name page with only one notable person, while the anthroponymy guidelines state that a name is only notable if there are two or more people with Wikipedia articles who have the name. It wasn't vandalism. AllTheUsernamesAreInUse (talk) 23:56, 25 June 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Hello DI000, I made structural changes to the article without removing any previous content. My aim was to enhance readability by organizing it into two sections: "Early Life and Education" and "Awards." I have provided evidence of the edits made for your reference. CGGCA201 (talk) 01:57, 3 July 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@CGGCA201: Thank you for this. One issue was that your previous edit did delete a template, and did not explain the other changes with an edit summary so was probably interpreted as a test edit. Upon reconsideration I have restored the section structure, especially since the article is at stub status. Dl2000 (talk) 03:24, 3 July 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Dl2000 I appreciate your kindness and support. Moving forward, I will exercise caution when editing stub pages. CGGCA201 (talk) 08:02, 3 July 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello DI2000,

As you may have noticed, I updated the talk page of Manav Gupta on my efforts to work upon the structure and the overall article according to standards practiced and accepted in Wikipedia. My effort and hope is towards creating a featured article someday and I sincerely look forward to collaborating with users like yourself. I'd like to ask for your help and guidance on removing the following template that was posted on May 2014:

As one can note, the article has had significant improvements following and adhering to Wikipedia: Manual of Style/Biography and Wikipedia: Biography dos and don'ts in the edit of 2023.

In adherence to Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, I have done no original research on this subject. This is simply my contribution towards doing justice to topics such as biographies of living persons and adding to Wikipedia: WikiProject Visual arts. I'd like to believe that I have been thorough in citing notable references to any text placed in the article. The text used in the article does use facts and attribution to demonstrate it's existence.

As you may notice, the banner still remains, post my work on the article. I'd like your help to address it and would sincerely appreciate any feedback on how to proceed.

Looking forward!

Thank you,
Max roosevelt (talk) 13:16, 19 July 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi Dl2000! When you come across usernames that match up with a notable person like you did at User talk:Alison Krauss, please just report straight to WP:UAA vs tagging. Things reported to WP:UAA get actioned much faster. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 18:59, 5 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi user, how come you removed a lot of my information on the Foyleside page? Curious as I think it has value. Let me know so I can either add sources or fix how it was presented. similar info is on other shopping centre Wikipedia pages therefore I consider it relevant to be on this one too (albeit, so long as it follows the rules) SABunting (talk) 13:32, 9 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Sources are needed per WP:V, WP:RS, but caution should be taken since details information on the mall could easily become promotional. Dl2000 (talk) 02:18, 10 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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		Thanks for the hard work!(I know I am new.) Seawolf35 (talk) 22:38, 24 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi. Regarding my edits on the Macif pages, I agree with your comments about the need of a disambiguation page. I discussed this topic here. And the conclusion was to make the edits I did today: primary topic = insurance company, with description of sailing sponsoring + disambiguation page. After your revert, there is no more page for the insurance company called Macif. And the page Macif only covers the Macif (trimaran) which is one of the several boats sponsored by the Macif company. simon (talk) 15:52, 26 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This was in a mess but I have unpicked the incorrect attempts to move pages by copy and paste and made a formal move request. See User_talk:Simon.letort#August_2023. PamD 16:31, 26 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@PamD:, @Simon.letort: Just back from a break, but now see the plan here. After trying to make some sense of the discussion and pages, seems best indeed to sort this out by having MACIF insurance company as a prominent topic, with the ship page moved to Macif (trimaran). Perhaps my revert was abrupt, but we should be avoiding WP:CUTPASTE page moves. Dl2000 (talk) 17:08, 26 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@PamD did a great job requesting a "move request" and explained why cut/paste should be avoided. simon (talk) 04:23, 27 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

What? It's not a promotion. Sun Direct really launching an OTT platform called Sun Direct Go. First, go and search on Google. I don't get any profit or benefits by adding Promotion. I know Wikipedia is not a place for adding Promotion. I am on Wikipedia since 1 year. TruxtVerified (talk) 05:28, 29 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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A tag has been placed on Category:Albums recorded in Brazil indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

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WP:DTR. The merge was not necessary. We can argue in detail if you want. Hekerui (talk) 11:49, 18 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Hi DI2000. I made certain significant edits to the page yesterday as the previous one was outdated and referred to now-non-existent URLs. My intention was to provide an updated information to the readers. I did not end up explaining the changes which may have caused the edits to be reverted. However, it once again is back to reading like its outdated version. Please help to restore the changes made with permission from the person, whose information it is, themselves. Wikiplath (talk) 04:03, 11 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:FC_Steaua_Bucure%C8%99ti

that page claiming third club is completely wrong, please try to redirect at least. neither history link nor 2 clubs above ever had a word of third existing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSA_Steaua_Bucure%C8%99ti_(football)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCSB 93.143.89.189 (talk) 11:41, 20 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Block evasion, canvassing and POV-pushing. The Banner talk 11:56, 20 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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January 13 2024 Avishai11 (talk) 14:36, 13 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi, it is regarding this edit. Was the MDY date format causing errors? I am unable to see any. It was the format before 2021. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 11:18, 18 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Should have made it clearer that the template was applied by mistake, rather than causing a mistake. Also, it was definitely not "the format before 2021" e.g. [2]. Dl2000 (talk) 00:35, 19 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

That time it didn't even have a 'American English' template. The MDY dateformat was used in conjunction with the EngVar template updated in 2021 in the article and the talk page. And it stayed as a stable version for sometime. That being said, I'm going to run the script again in MDY-format if it isn't causing any errors. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 10:53, 19 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

FYI: 2001:1388:A45:0:0:0:0:0/48 (t c) anon from Lima, Peru has been adding unsourced content to Nine (singer). Also disruption to other articles. I've been told that much of it is factually in error as well. LTA? I undid your edit to Nine as well as the anon's. Cheers Adakiko (talk) 00:53, 21 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]