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Macdonald-ross

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End date: 21:25, 6 September 2024 (UTC)


Hello there,

I'm requesting that Macdonald-ross have his adminship removed here, for misusing admin tools – primarily not following quick deletion criteria and not being responsive to previous concerns about the way he is using his tools.

Much of this de-adminship request centres around misuse of the "A4" quick deletion (QD) criterion and notability in particular. A4 is about, quoting from deletion policy, people, groups, companies, products, services or websites that do not claim to be notable. (bolding mine). There is a difference between articles on non-notable topics and articles on non-notable topics that have a claim to notability (or a credible claim of significance on enwiki), yet there have been many cases where claims to notability seemingly have gone unnoticed and even articles for notable topics have been deleted. He has also deleted many articles in cases where QD criteria do not apply, or just used his own reasons with no reasoning in policy instead. I would like to provide a few examples, although this is obviously not an exhaustive list:

  1. On 16 July 2022, Macdonald-ross deleted Priyanka Rani Joshi as A4 but, as was pointed out at Deletion review, she won a national beauty pageant, Miss Nepal, that is a clear claim to notability. No comment was made by him at Deletion review.
  2. On 25 October 2022, he deleted 2022 WhatsApp Outage as a test page. The public log entry indicates it clearly is not a test page. No comment was made at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Archive 5#2022 WhatsApp Outage. The page was later deleted at Requests for deletion (RfD), but it did not meet any QD criteria.
  3. On 12 January 2024, Coat of arms of Bulgaria was deleted as A4 by Macdonald-ross, despite it being the coat of arms for a country. Complex language was also noted in the deletion reason, but the article is not a copy from the English Wikipedia and complex language is not alone a reason for quick deletion. No comment was made at Wikipedia:Deletion review#Coat of Arms of Bulgaria.
  4. On 26 March 2024, X-Men '97 was deleted as G2 but this is clearly not a test page. I restored it following a request on my talk page.
  5. On 28 March 2024, Puppy Bowl was deleted for the reason of "not notable". Sure, there is no claim to notability in that article, but pages are not deleted for failing notability guidelines (or just being "not notable" as the deletion reason says), as this is determined at RfD. Simply reviewing the enwiki equivalent will show plenty of references to prove notability. No comment was made at Wikipedia:Deletion review#Puppy Bowl.
  6. On 9 July 2024, Area code 712 was deleted for the reason of "Area codes not notable in encyclopedia". If this is the case, we have hundreds of articles to get deleting. Area codes are not eligible for A4, as they do not fall under any of the categories listed in A4. No comment was made at Wikipedia:Deletion review#Area code 712.
  7. On 29 July 2024, Lena Katina was randomly deleted for the reason of "Notability scarcely justified". Again, deletion policy is usually referred to if making a quick deletion over it yet this did not happen here. Lena Katina is one half of the duo t.A.T.u. (enwiki link), a group that produced many popular songs, one example being "All The Things She Said" that reached number 1 in 19 countries. I restored it, as it was a long-standing article on a clearly notable topic.
  8. On 28 August 2024, Fourth Sarkar ministry was deleted as A4, despite it previously being the government for an Indian state with 3.67 million people, which I believe is a clear claim of notability. I should note this was an article I created, but I wasn't made aware until I was scrolling through my own logged actions for other reasons.

I believe these deletions show a pattern of not listening to the community's concerns and not following Deletion policy over a long period of time. There are definitely other inappropriate deletions I could probably find, but I don't think it is necessary to find dozens of these deletions and collect them in one place.

I would like to note I did not want to start this RfdA. Macdonald-ross is one of our most active administrators, and editors in general, and I have a lot of respect for his work here. All admins make mistakes, but these have been repeated many times without any sign that he is intending to start following policy. The comment at Deletion review in 2021 here particularly concerns me, as it indicates he will continue to delete pages at RfD early in "obvious cases", rather than following the quick deletion criteria. Indeed, as shown by the evidence above, this is what he has continued to do despite criticism from other editors and admins. Finally, there is a fine line between being tough on spammy articles and biting newcomers trying their best to create new articles. I find it the case that that line was crossed long ago and Macdonald-ross' attitude to deletion is hindering constructive articles from being created. --Ferien (talk) 21:25, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support

  1. Support Mistakes can be forgiven, but repeating them after warnings is not acceptable as an admin. --Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 04:58, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I am really sorry @Macdonald-ross but if you had cleaned up your mess after and not let others do or even just responded to peoples comments, this would not have happened. If you improve, I will support your adminship in the future. Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 11:01, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support The biggest error I know is special:redirect/logid/2631723, and this was finally corrected by others. We already lost 3 admins in this year and I don't think we have enough admins to correct others. MathXplore (talk) 09:09, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Support This user has multiple times shown issues with their actions, like the whatsapp outage listed here. While we do understand mistakes, we also understand that continuing to make said mistakes after being told previously is not a good activity. His actions also harm his trustworthiness, and in my opinion, an admin fails when they can no longer be trusted to execute proper policy.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 11:25, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Support Mistakes happen, but this is a repeated pattern of disruptive behaviour with little to no signs of change. Maybe I can support a future admin request in a year or two when they've evidenced change, but right now I don't see any way out of this other than a desysop nom. --SHB2000 (talk) 11:30, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Support - While I acknowledge that our Wikipedia currently has a limited number of administrators and losing one, especially an active one like @Macdonald-ross, is a significant loss, but I share Ferien's concerns, especially regarding the handling of QD and RFD requests. I have seen articles deleted by Macdonald-Ross, perhaps "by mistake", such as the Fourth Sarkar ministry (deleted as A4) and Abdulrahman Abed (Deleted during an ongoing RFD). Mistakes like Special:Diff/9736830 only increase the workload for other admins. Contributions like this removed just because it wasn't very detailed and mistakes like Special:Diff/9705761, Accidental revert, and Indefinite block of an IP are concerning. Everyone makes mistakes, but consistently repeating them is not acceptable behavior for an admin. The diff by MathXplore also concerns me, and I’ve noticed that most comments left on Macdonald-Ross's talk page are left unaddressed or answered by others. In conclusion, I support this de-adminship, but I hope Macdonald-Ross continues to be an active editor. I still appreciate your contributions here, as you are one of the most active editors on this small wiki. – Cyber.Eyes.2005Talk 11:55, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    FYI @Cyber.Eyes.2005 I'm not saying this is the case but the indeffing of the IP may have been a glitch with the system as I recall this also happened with Drmies and a few other admins at the English Wikipedia whom were all unaware until it was pointed out to them, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 16:09, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I understand that it might have been a system glitch, but it's concerning that Mac didn't address the issue when the reason for the block was questioned. I would be willing to support a future admin request if there is evidence of improvement in addressing the concerns raised here. – Cyber.Eyes.2005Talk 16:24, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Cyber.Eyes.2005 I completely agree with you, "Ooops I wasn't aware, I'll fix this now" or any response would've been better than just silence, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 16:35, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Support Many times I have filed an RFD only for the article to be quickly deleted by Mac. In those cases, the RFD in question isn't even closed by Mac. Their application of QD criteria, especially ones that have to do with notability, shows a disregard of the deletion policy. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 14:35, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Support, due to concerns raised above unfortunately. Sometimes, admins who do not attempt to help new administrators after a successful RfA... that can potentially lead to not-so-good errors from said new administrators. Codename Noreste 🤔 Talk 14:41, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Support per everyone above - We certainly need all of the admins we can get so I take no joy in supporting this de-adminship however Macdonald-ross's QD-deletions have been questionable for a very long time but the deletion of Lena Katina was the final nail in the coffin for me, They were told here to stop with the random deletions and yet unfortunately it still continued. Mistakes happen but the random deletions of articles under your own criteria aren't mistakes - they're disruptive and damaging. Unfortunate support. –Davey2010Talk 16:31, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Support per nom; shame. Queen of Hearts (talk) 20:47, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Note to self

Robbie Williams - WPCleaner - check for disam links on all Robbie W albums –Davey2010Talk 14:14, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nominated Under the Radar Volume 1, Under the Radar Volume 2 at EN
Under the Radar Volume 3 was prev closed at AFD as Redirerct back to Robbie W -
Wait for consensus at 1 and 2 - Redirect all 3 to discography page ? (Rw article would be short so would be useless redirecting) –Davey2010Talk 20:12, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Robbie Williams: Live at the O2 - Nominated at EN AFD - wait and see consenus there. –Davey2010Talk 23:45, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Waterloo Road - Create individual series pages, fix Ep list mess (footnotes) –Davey2010Talk 02:41, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Update disco pages –Davey2010Talk 03:05, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Charli XCX discography –Davey2010Talk 18:01, 11 February 2023 (UTC) –Davey2010Talk 03:05, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Merc AClass Fix galleries at some point –Davey2010Talk 19:09, 7 July 2023 (UTC) –Davey2010Talk 03:06, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
VW Caddy - Fourth Gen
VWGolf- Fix article, fix links (ie MK etc) –Davey2010Talk 02:34, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Source: Transit connect
Transit custom
Volkswagen Caddy
Volkswagen Golf –Davey2010Talk 20:16, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted Simple talk

Please do not remove sections from simple talk unless it is vandalism. It will be archived when it is time to be archived. These are kept for historical purposes in the archives for easier finding, even if it does not make sense. Thanks - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 23:38, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"These are kept for historical purposes"- What's worth keeping here as I'm intrigued?, As stated in the editsum if we kept such posts the page would be full of random letters of the alphabet.... –Davey2010Talk 23:41, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I've pasted yours and their comment to the talkpage which I hope resolves this, I just don't see a point or benefit to allowing people to post O, A, M posts to a talkpage but thats my 2p, Have a great day, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 23:46, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Notice

Hello. This message is being sent to tell you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is "Issue with Davey2010". Thank you. Thanks - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 23:47, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi!

Thanks for being patient on the ^^ above stuff. I saw emails this early morning and went through what happened. I would have been much more annoyed by this, but you just dealt with it like a pro. Haha, just wanted to let you know that I appreciate your work here and don't let this bother you. Cheers! BRP ever 01:23, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @BRPever, Thank you so much for your kind words they mean a lot to me, I'll be perfectly honest I'm currently indeffed on Commons for incivility and nearly got indeffed on EN for the same reason - So I'm slowly but gradually trying to change the way I approach and deal with things now, I'm not perfect but I'm trying do a better person than I was,
Meh they don't bother me I've had worse lol,
Anyway thanks so much for your lovely words that really do mean a lot to me, I hope you and yours are well, Take care, Warm Regards, Dave /// –Davey2010Talk 01:50, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies

I wanted to apologize for what I said and did today. It was not right of me to do so. After reading your response to BRP you and I are blocked for the same reason on en wiki. I hope this can be put behind us and we can move forward as a team to build this encyclopaedia. Thanks - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 09:28, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your apology, Without making things worse I feel I should reply to the en block comment - I'm not blocked on en[1], I am blocked on Commons for incivility[2] and unfortunately you're indeffed on en for socking/using an alt[[3] so respectfully not nearly the same reasons,
Anyway I agree we're all here to build an encyclopedia and would much rather we work together than to be at each others throats every time, Have a great day, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 14:39, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It is actually a block for incivility. Very long and drawn out issue that even our sysops could not figure out what was going on and still do not. Agreed! Thank you for expressing and explaining your block comment. But yes it was the same thing. The socks were just me wanting to be on there. 🙃 Thanks - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 14:42, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Side note: You got a few short term blocks for it on en wiki lol. I lost count of my socks and for this account I sent it to them to advise them I lost my password and had to create a new account so they blocked it within minutes of me notifying them, but it is what it is. Thanks - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 14:45, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ah okay fair enough, EN's not known for being relaxed with anything to be fair lol,
No worries thank you for not taking the comment the wrong way - I spent a good 45 minutes trying to word it in a way that didn't come across in a dickish way so thank you for not taking it the wrong way,
Anyway thank you for your apology, Take care, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 14:57, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your Signature

Hey! Just wanted to swing by and let you know that I stumbled upon your signature, and I couldn't resist taking some inspiration from it (basically just copy/pasted it T.T)! Hope you don't mind the imitation. Cheers! – Cyber.Eyes2005Talk 14:20, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Cyber.Eyes.2005, I'll be honest I don't mind people taking inspiration from it but I'd much rather they change the colours than just reusing the entire thing, there's no creativity or uniqueness that makes you stand out :), Not only that most people associate those colours with this idiot ... surely you don't want to be associated with this idiot lol,
Your signature atm doesn't really match your username, i guess for some reason i expected more of a horror feel so black and red etc, But of course it's what you're happy with and if you're happy with it then cool :), Obviously I can't make you change the colours but anyway thanks for your message, Have a great day :), Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 14:38, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, it doesn't really match, but the thing is, I didn't really know much about how this formatting works, lol. I've changed it a bit, and yeah, it does really confuse people when two people have the same signature (including myself). Thanks, and have a great day as well. :) – Cyber.Eyes2005Talk 15:15, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Cyber.Eyes.2005, Ah okay fair enough - to be fair I took my signatures from other people but had changed the colours lol, Haha don't worry it HAD confused me too :) Thanks so much for updating it I greatly appreciate that :), I have to say yours actually looks a lot better than mine haha, Many thanks again, –Davey2010Talk 15:34, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Subpage transcluding

Hi there. Your subpage User:Davey2010/Dashboard is calling a protection template from somewhere. This is putting it in the category of Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates. Can you fix it so it does not transclude into there please? There is a bot from Ferien that does this, however, that page does not have the code on it so the bot cannot remove it because it is being called from something else you have pulled. See User:FerienBot2. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 08:05, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @PotsdamLamb, Many thanks for making me aware of this, It doesn't look like there's nothing my end I can do but I'll have a look around and see if I can remove it, The page was supposed to be on my userpage but for some reason it's not and truth be told I've obviously never looked at it since like 2017 so I'll have a look around and if there's nothing I can do then I'll blank it by the end of the day,
Many thanks for making me aware of this, I'll see what I can do. Many thanks, Warm regards. –Davey2010Talk 11:48, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
No worries. I am going through them to find my next cat to work on for the project and that happened to pop-out. So you know, I am working on something similar if you would like to view it and maybe help out where I am stuck at. It is at Template:Admin dashboard Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 12:37, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Okie dokie I'll take a look at that and see if I can help :), Happy editing, Many thanks, Warm regards, –Davey2010Talk 12:53, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @PotsdamLamb, I've added "<noinclude></noinclude>" to the protection template at WP:Request for permissions which has removed my page from the category,
Given how easy it was, something tells me you're going to come here later and tell me I've inadvertently introduced a new error somewhere else now :P, Anyway thanks again for making me aware, Many Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 13:20, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Naw I think it should be ok. I did not see any issues when I tested it out on other pages and a lot of pages of the include/noinclude on them. Thanks for taking care of that. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 13:33, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ah okay I didn't realise that lol - I searched on EN and didn't get far, tested other things but they didn't remove the cat, Seen someone suggest noinclude, Gave up and decided to assume en:WP:ROLLBACK must be transcluded everywhere and checked out the protection on that page and yeah it was wrapped in that code so thought I'd try it and wish for the best lol.
Anyway no worries, I'm rather amazed it's been there for 7 years and no one's ever mentioned it (I'm guessing you're the only person that's viewed that page in a very long time!), Anyway I'm glad I've fixed it instead of going with my original thought "Well it's on WPs page so it's a WP problem", Thanks again, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 13:45, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yup. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 13:48, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
and again, if you want to help on that board I am creating, you are more than welcome to. I see Peterdownunder is using it, so my goal is for it to be a whole one stop shop. I am working with the CU team about changing the way they do things so it can pop up for them but for now, I am not gaining much ground. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 13:49, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2024/Dana Tanamachi

Hi, Davey. Just a note: when an RFD is closed, the RFD template needs to be removed from the page. Someone else has removed it for you. We don't usually encourage non-admin closures, but I think this one was OK. Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 00:20, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Auntof6, Slap on the wrist for me!, My apologies, I was closing 2 AFDs at the same time and completely forgot about the main article page, I'll be honest I've spent 3 weeks on an article and I guess I just wanted a change of scenery for a bit or to do something completely different for a while,
I'm surprised you didn't come here about clogging up recent changes - apologies for that too - I did ask at ANI but understandably everyone was busy so after an hour of waiting I just cracked on with it, Anyway thanks for the heads up about the AFD notice I wont multitask in future :P, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 00:45, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't usually look at recent changes, so I wouldn't have noticed unless someone brought it up! I figure if your changes aren't bothering anyone, then it's not a big deal. -- Auntof6 (talk) 00:48, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Golf Article

Since it’s in your user space are you ok if I try to fix that cite error? If I can’t it’ll be reverted to prior to me touching it. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 00:23, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @PotsdamLamb, Of course you can, I should also add in case you try it - I've tried linking from the page nearest to the page cited (357) as well as used Wayback Machine and Archive.Is and nothing's worked (and using old Google books for linking/wayback/archive.is hasn't worked either) so my plan was to just leave it as it is,
I just felt an old black and white image and some background info on it sort of made it more verifiable than say a 2022 news article on it if that makes sense,
I don't pay for books etc so I don't know why it allows me to view it without issue but doesn't let anyone else view it, Anyway good luck hope you can fix it, Many thanks, –Davey2010Talk 00:51, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
No worries. You can also apply to the Wikipedia library which gives you access to some more resources as well. That’s if you don’t already have it.
Library front page Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 01:07, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@PotsdamLamb, I had no idea that even existed thanks so much!, Could I ask though are you a member of that ?,
One criteria is no active blocks but I'm indeffed on Commons ? I mean Commons is images though .... if I've survived for 10 years on the English Wikipedia without being indeffed then surely that must say something right ?,
Didn't know if it was worth signing up for if I could potentially be declined because of the indef?, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 01:27, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I’m indeffed on ENWP and I have access. If it doesn’t grant you access automatically I believe it allows you the option to request and you can mention it. I’m not sure what the implications of commons blocked would be. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 01:29, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@PotsdamLamb oh okay fantastic, I'll give a go and see then, Brilliant thank you for that I appreciate that a lot, Many thanks, Warm regards, –Davey2010Talk 01:31, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Very welcome! Yeah all you do is log in with your account. If it doesn’t like you it will tell you so. The work would be if you get denied. It is a great resource to find old works and a lot of open source information that may be subscription only otherwise. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 01:36, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ah okay, I'll check it out properly tomorrow and see how it all goes lol, Yeah they reckon theyve partnered with a good load of paywalled companies etc so I bet there is valuable and useful stuff there, I'll check it out properly tomorrow, Many thanks again for telling me about that, Have a great day, Many Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 01:41, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Did you have a chance to check this out? Let me know what happens. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 01:40, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't as I completely forgot!, Will try tomorrow if I don't forget again!, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 01:50, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ok so I found the issues.
First, I ran the citation bot against it, which removed some unneeded parameters from the citations. There was still one issue which I had to manually fix. That was you had url-access=subscription twice in one citation. When I removed that, all the issues were gone and it reflects that all of your citations are good to go.
Two other minor things I did was changed the circa to about (simpler english, as c. is not really a simple word or meaning in most cases) and I rephrased that same sentence for ease of reading. You are more than welcome to revert those back.
If you need anything else, please let me know. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 02:10, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure how I ended up adding that twice but many thanks for fixing those, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 16:07, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah something’s are hard to spot but during a preview it told me url= was used twice and only the last parameter would be used. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 19:17, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey

I cannot remember the name off the bat, but I am sure someone may realize who it is. I have seen this before. This is in regard to Special:Diff/9478011 on VIP. If I remember correctly, they were doing this to music articles in late February/early March. They were so random so it is hard to pinpoint it. Might have to look through all the check users and changes to VIP.

Side note, I am going to look at your article now too (I have had a busy couple of days). I also hope we can get little DYK out of it :). I will let you know what I find. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 01:36, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @PotsdamLamb, Yeah now I think of it I'm sure this happens or used to happen on EN too and I'm sure it was @Binksternet who I always saw revert them?, I remember the name ZestyLemons or something like that but I dont know if this is them either,
Either way this definitely isn't a new user I know that much! :), Haha I'll be honest I thought you already did check the page or that preview source and gave up lol, I'll be honest I've never done DYK stuff before as my creativity in that department is nil lol, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 01:48, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The vandal case may be seen at Long-term abuse/Date-changing vandal from Poland. They used IPs from Poland such as Special:Contributions/31.0.37.29, Special:Contributions/31.0.41.56 and Special:Contributions/176.221.120.24, then they created the username Agnieszka1235. All of these should be blocked. Binksternet (talk) 06:46, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Binksternet Fantastic many thanks for replying, Happy editing, Many thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 16:05, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Binksternet Thanks, I have relayed this post on to our admins. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 07:02, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Binksternet All were blocked. Thanks for the valuable feedback. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 21:33, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It is easy. If you can get the article fully developed to at least (I believe, but may be wrong) a GA status, it can be used for a DYK. (Ok so easy for me to say, maybe not easy to do lol). Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 01:51, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ah okay if that's the case that's us screwed lol, Meh to be honest I'm quite happy with the way it is (as in non-DYK or GA), Thanks, Happy editing, –Davey2010Talk 01:58, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey

Are you on IRC or Discord? If so, hit me up. Username is the same on both. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 21:32, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately not, Happy editing, Thanks –Davey2010Talk 23:43, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Katie Hill (actress)

Hi, do you know where this might be copied from? I can't seem to find it anywhere on enwiki. Thanks, --Ferien (talk) 19:48, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Ferien, Oops my apologies, As the other creations were copy/pastes I just blindly assumed this was too, Many thanks for making me aware of this, Many thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 20:24, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That's alright. It does look a bit like a copy tho. I might try and look at it more at some point. Thanks :) --Ferien (talk) 20:50, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ferien, It does it looks way too perfect to be a brand new newb article, I've also come across Yksnamu who's uploaded images of subjects that Eceerp has created which seems slightly weird, Unfortunately over at en:Sarah Sugden (2005 character) her name's never been linked as far as I can see so I can't find anything to say this ever existed but for sure this definitely isn't a new article, If the article layout is different from the deleted articles and things like "Ref" (in table) aren't present in the deleted articles then that would confirm it's been copied/pasted from somewhere but without evidence I guess there's not a lot one can do, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 22:03, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Zat Knight

About this edit: special:diff/9503130, the only visible difference is his height (6 ft 7 vs. 6 ft 6). I'm not sure which is correct but enwiki says 6 ft 6. The removal of spaces probably wasn't the purpose of the edit - it may be done automaticaly by the visual editor. Kk.urban (talk) 17:55, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Kk.urban, Many thanks for making me aware I didn't realise they had changed the height, Indeed EN lists it as 6ft 6in so I've reinstated their edit, Thanks again it's much appreciated, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 18:10, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Chichester buses

I changed busses to buses in the Chichester article because the plural in the article "Bus" is spelled that way. T. Tony Holkham (talk) 21:07, 27 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Tony Holkham, Not quite sure how I came to miss that but you did indeed so my apologies for reverting you, I've reverted back to your edits, Many thanks. Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 06:45, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

April 2024

hello, @Davey2010. please look at Rajput and Rajputization Chandel and restore old version. An editor has added copy content from English wiki. Hcsrctu (talk) 15:12, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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