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Hi Red-tailed hawk, if you have time I'd be grateful for your opinion on what the threshold is for an article getting a copyvio revdel tag. For the record here are my rewrites to a new article take care of some copying/minor paraphrasing from sources. (There were also a few things off about some of the text that were also included in the rewrites.) Best, CMD (talk) 02:58, 4 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi! I'll try to get you a proper response over the next couple of days. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 03:32, 4 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Chipmunkdavis: Did I follow up on this at a different venue, or did I forget to reply altogether? — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 18:18, 6 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Don't think this was looked at. The later edit here runs close as well. CMD (talk) 10:35, 7 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

[1] the last two articles made me wonder. You've posted to their talk page, so contacting you. Doug Weller talk 11:42, 6 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I'd have to do a deeper dive. I'll note that the ViWiki block appears to be for machine translation issues; if the contributions over there were spammy in nature and used machine translation, then I'd be inclined towards thinking yes. If it seems to be random cultural stuff, my inclination would be no. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 14:47, 6 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Makes sense. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 15:05, 6 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello, Red-tailed hawk. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Babatunde Akinboboye".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:45, 6 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello, I just wanted to thank you for your comments at the stewards confirmation. I know there's nothing personal in them, we've never interacted before (if I'm not mistaken) and so they were made solely for the good of the project, but I want you to know that I'm grateful for your public spirit and commitment to the encyclopaedia. Your comments were based on the notion that stewards should know when to step back from activities that involve only their home wikis. I agree with this, but I wanted to assure you that my sanction was completely unfounded also on the merits: thankfully I can prove (and did prove to the stewards) that I've never doxed, threatened or intimidated anyone. If you're interested I'm happy to provide details and evidence privately. So this really was a very unfortunate incident, and I hope that your and other editors' efforts to ensure that stewards don't use their global tools to handle local matters will bear fruit in the near future. Thanks, Gitz (talk) (contribs) 15:03, 7 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The redirect Glen Rock (boulder 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/2024 February 11 § Glen Rock (boulder until a consensus is reached. Utopes _{(talk / cont)} 04:38, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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On 12 February 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Cam McCormick, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Cam McCormick is thought to be the first college football player to be granted a ninth year of NCAA eligibility? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cam McCormick. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Cam McCormick), 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.

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On 13 February 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Super Bowl LVIII, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. —Bagumba (talk) 03:01, 13 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello! I just had a quick question i was hoping you could help me with. If a user account has multiple edits that need to be reverted, each on different articles, should we be warning after each individual revert that we impose? Elvisisalive95 (talk) 03:24, 16 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi! Depends on the context. If it's obvious vandalism being repeated everywhere, it might just be best to give a higher-level-than-1 warning to start out with (particularly if it's bad faith). If it's someone not understanding the MoS, and that person making the same good faith mistake in a ton of places, then I'd advise to drop them a single handwritten note on their talk page that explains what they're doing and points them towards the relevant guidance.

Is this a specific question regarding a specific case, or is this just a general question for the future? — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 03:36, 16 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank you for the reply & advice. I recently applied for Rollback rights and was told to do more patrolling of recent changes as well as warn each and every user. Today there was an instance with a user whom edited 3 separate pages, 2 of which did not seem to be constructive and 1 of which was introducing unsourced material. I played it safe and warned for each instance Here, as i made 3 separate reverts but it seemed to me 1 single warning discussing everything would better suffice. I thought i’d ask for future cases! Thank you very much for your reply and help. Elvisisalive95 (talk) 04:07, 16 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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