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MARCELIUS MARTIROSIANAS

Hi! About your recent block of 213.159.44.212 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) and 85.206.22.56 (talk · contribs · WHOIS).

This appears to be a long-term vandal who won't be deterred by a short block, see [1] and 193.219.130.163 (talk · contribs · WHOIS). May I suggest a longer block? Sjö (talk) 10:09, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

• @Sjö: OK, I've changed both blocks to a week. There likely isn't much point in blocking for longer than that if the vandal is switching IPs. Hut 8.5 11:49, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Talk page access revocation

Hello Hut 8.5, hope you are well. I saw you blocked ChrisJV08 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) as a vandalism-only account. It looks like they added profanities on their talk page, which I reverted. Just wanted to put it on your radar. Thanks! -- LuK3 (Talk) 17:08, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

• @LuK3: thanks for that, I've revoked talk page access. Hut 8.5 17:11, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

Request

Hi! I can see that Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Rollback has a high backlog, so I wondered to ask if you could review my request. Thanks a lot. Juliette Han (talk) 17:36, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

24.142.75.11

user:24.142.75.11 is abusing her talkpage. CLCStudent (talk) 17:45, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Tu Jaane Na

Hi, hope you are well. I created the page Tu Jaane Na (song) and added all informations and references to it. Recently, you have moved article Tu Jaane Na (song) to Tu Jaane Na. As a result of that, my name has been removed as a page creator and it is replaced by another one. You can check. I created the page, so credit should be given to me, not to others. Empire AS (talk) 04:33, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

• @Empire AS: the edit history is intact, the edits in which you created the current version are still visible to anyone who is interested. I have merely merged it with the history of earlier versions of this page so that interested parties can see the history and so any useful content from those versions can be reused if it's any use. I don't see any reason to delete those versions just to give you credit for something (in any case there's no particular title of "page creator" here). The current title is the correct one per Wikipedia's naming conventions and you should really have written your article at that title anyway. Hut 8.5 09:23, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

Yeah, you're right. But I wanted to become an autopatroller on English Wikipedia and you know that it requires 25 new articles. Because, I didn't know that a page already exists in the form of redirect, I created article for becoming an autopatroller. But now, I would have to create some new article. That's all. Thanks Empire AS (talk) 12:53, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

• @Empire AS: I wouldn't try to become an autopatroller just for the sake of becoming an autopatroller, that's not usually considered a good reason to get a user right. The autopatrolled right is given to trustworthy people who create lots of articles, if you don't create many articles then it isn't going to be much use to you anyway, and they won't hand it out just because you've created 25 articles. But if it counts I'm sure they'd count turning a redirect into an article as a creation and it does show up in your page creation log. Hut 8.5 14:42, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

Page Review help

Dear, You have crossed over this page over a year ago Mohammad_Makhlouf. As a an editor, I went through it to update since recent new are occuring and noticed that a user has nominated it for deletion. I don't want to judge if it's an abuse. I leave you to review and assess. Thank YouRawad00 (talk) 14:11, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

Joon Lee

I'm trying to figure out what is going on. This guy is the singer of a band; why Joh582 wants this deleted is a mystery to me, but I'm even more puzzled by Fastily deleting Solid (band), which a quick Google search suggests was a very, very notable band. Drmies (talk) 00:33, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the ping, not sure how I missed that. I've kicked it over to AfD so the nominator has a chance to explain themselves. -FASTILY 01:08, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

• @Drmies: & @Fastily: I didn't mean to stir such virtual commotion as I am still not familiar with how wikipedia works. I just thought that if author requests deletion that would be it. I was a die hard fan of the band, Solid, and the member and I thought the article deserved a neutral view point since I just felt like the articles were way too promotional. That was all. Joh582 02:49, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

• @Joh582: we do frequently delete articles on the request of the person who wrote them. However this doesn't apply if other people have made nontrivial edits to the page, at which point it's no longer entirely your contributions. Deleting pages on request is only a courtesy, we reserve the right not to (you don't own your contributions). If the page has some promotional content then that can be cleaned up. Hut 8.5 06:44, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Contents are fine since they are just directly sourced from news articles, but the fact that I started the pages felt like promotional if that makes sense. How do we conclude this matter then now that Solid (band) page has been sent over to AfD? Do I retrieve the nomination since I understand that my deletion request is no longer eligible?How does it work? Joh582 (talk) 16:03, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

@Joh582: if you still want the page deleted then you can go to the AfD and argue that it should be deleted and try to get some other people to agree with you. If you don't want it deleted any more than we can close the AfD. Hut 8.5 17:05, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

@Hut 8.5: Let's close the AfD. Let them live. Joh582 (talk) 17:16, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

OK, I've closed it. Hut 8.5 17:28, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

@Hut 8.5: Thank you for concluding this matter when you didn't have to be dragged into this. Only if Drmies directly asked me his/her/their question, your talk page could have been saved from all this. ;) Thanks again! Joh582 19:44, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Moving from Odet-Cascadec-Bolloré to Wikipedia:OCB !

Hi, Hut 8.5 I think Wikipedia:OCB needs to be moved to Odet-Cascadec-Bolloré (as OCB is already a disambiguation page ) because Wikipedia:OCB is an article. Also, Draft:Odet-Cascadec-Bolloré is also present that is a 100% copy of Wikipedia:OCB. To succeed all these the editor User:Ghiowd3 also using IP address User:37.166.181.19. The editing history Special:Contributions/37.166.181.19 creates suspicion. I am clueless what the editor wants to do. I think it may be a mistake. Please have a look. Thank you.

OK, I've deleted Wikipedia:OCB and Odet-Cascadec-Bolloré as they're copies of the draft version of redirects to it. Hut 8.5 07:35, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Hut 8.5, Thank you for the help. ~ Amkgp ✉ 07:36, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Asking a question

Hi, Hope that you will be fine. I'm here to ask 2 questions from you. 1st is I'm going to create an article named "List of most-viewed Atif Aslam's music videos on YouTube"(Atif is a singer). Can such an article be created? My 2nd question is that if I am granted the autopatroller or rollbacker or any other right, what if I don't use any right for 2 months. Would that right be taken away? Waiting for answer... Thank you Empire AS (talk) 06:45 31 May 2020 UTC

@Empire AS:

• I'd be surprised if a list like that was found to be acceptable. It's perfectly normal to have a list of songs by a musician but I think a list of music videos by one musician sorted by number of YouTube views is likely to be seen as trivia. Here are the only YouTube-related lists in Wikipedia. A good test you can apply is whether the topic has been covered in external sources, if it hasn't then you'll have a hard time arguing that Wikipedia should cover it as well.
• Some user rights do get taken away if you don't use them, e.g. adminship is removed if you're inactive for a year, but rollback and autopatrolled aren't amongst them and you should be able to keep those rights indefinitely as long as you can still be trusted with them. Again I'd advise against applying for user rights unless you actually have some sort of need or interest in those areas, applying for a user right just for the sake of having the user right is called hat collecting and is looked on negatively. If you aren't likely to use the right then there's probably not much reason to give it to you. I should also point out that creating articles which get deleted (as that YouTube list probably would be) will count against you if you apply for autopatrolled. Hut 8.5 08:55, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for your help. Empire AS (talk) 14:46 31 May 2020 Empire AS (talk) 09:46, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Sock speedies

Thanks for handling that batch of deletes from Suja Satish 77 / Satish Raman Nair. My apologies on the couple that I somehow totally missed they weren't the main editor, I was trying to filter those out and blew it on a couple. Appreciate your time on those! Ravensfire (talk) 19:37, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Mind blocking?

At the moment, AIV's backlogged, and it doesn't look like the situation will improve anytime soon. Can you block this user for repeatedly triggering the edit filter and vandalizing articles? Thanks. --Stay safe, ◊PRAHLAD^balaji (M•T•A•C) This message was left at 16:53, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

• @Prahlad balaji: looks like I blocked them while you were writing that! Hut 8.5 16:54, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Paul Jesson (cyclist)

Hello, I see you deleted this page Paul Jesson (cyclist) back in March of 2018 due to copyright material. I was wondering whether there are any special procedures for me to follow to create this article or do I just start it like a normal article? Thanks Paulpat99 (talk) 22:32, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

@Paulpat99: no, as a rule there isn't anything stopping you from rewriting a page which has been deleted before. Obviously if the rewritten version also qualifies for deletion for some reason then it can be deleted again, but the previous version doesn't make any difference to this. Hut 8.5 22:53, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Derek Chauvin

Can you please restore this version with AfD intact, since this is undergoing AfD is would be more fair to have the article intact. Valoem ^{talk contrib} 20:25, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

• @Valoem: sorry, I don't think that would be appropriate. This was fully protected because of an edit war about whether it should be a redirect of an article. When that happens people are suppposed to discuss the dispute, as is happening at the AfD. Admins aren't supposed to carry on the edit war afterwards using admin tools. Anyone who wants to see the article can look at the history. Hut 8.5 21:11, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

Jackie Jocko Page Deletion

Can you please restore deleted page "Jackie Jocko" from October 17, 2019 (G12). It's not a copyright violation of SUNY Buffalo State College, Archives & Special Collections. I am an archivist at the institution and created the content specifically for posting to Wikipedia. My name is Hope Dunbar and I can be found on the institution's list of employees and can be emailed directly at dunbarhm@buffalostate.edu (talk) 11:17, 10 June 2020 (EST)

Thanks for your message. I read through the link you sent regarding copyright owners submitting their own work to Wikipedia and inserted the appropriate text into the collection page. The revision can be found at (Jackie Jocko Collection) under the biographical note. Let me know if you need any other information to restore the page. Hmdunbar (talk) 17:16, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. I've resubmitted and I appreciate your help. Hmdunbar (talk) 18:38, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

Problem at Wikipedia

Hi, Hut 8.5, Hope that you would be fine and safe from COVID-19. I'm here to report 2 problems and seeking your help. First is, I'm not able to change my password. I've tried twice or thrice but it doesn't changes and remains the old one. Is it due to that I have no email address or any other reason? Second is, I uses visual editor to edit Wikipedia, but it loads very slower. Nearly a month ago, it was finely working. But now, it is time consuming to use visual editor. What has happened to it? Thank you. Waiting for your answer. Empire AS (talk) 18:38, 27 June 2020 UTC

• @Empire AS: sorry, I can't really help you with those. Whether you have an email address should have no effect on changing your password. Try the help desk or the technical Village Pump. Hut 8.5 13:45, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

If you use visual editor then you would know wether it loads slower or finely. Thank you Empire AS (talk) 14:17, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

• I don't use visual editor, and even if I did that wouldn't mean I knew why it was slow. Hut 8.5 14:23, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for your help. Empire AS (talk) 08:34, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Required help

Hi, Hut 8.5, I'm here to seek your help. I want to create 2 pages on Wikipedia. 1st is "List of most-liked Facebook pages". But a page List of most-followed Facebook pages already exists, which contains most-followed pages alongwith their likes. Can I create such a page? 2nd question is that I want to create a page named "List of Bandbudh aur Budbak episodes", which would contain all episodes' titles and their short description of 3 or 4 lines. Page Bandbudh and Budbak exists in mainspace. Can I create this article too or not. Thank you. Empire AS (talk) 13:14, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

@Empire AS: I'm not the arbiter of whether a page is acceptable or not, all I can do is give you my opinion. Other people may disagree.

• List of most-liked Facebook pages: probably acceptable assuming you can find external sources which discuss it, so news articles or something similar which discuss which Facebook pages have the most likes. If you can't then it's likely to be deleted. Try to take the entries from external sources instead of doing your own research.
• List of Bandbudh aur Budbak episodes: I've never heard of Bandbudh aur Budbak but lists of TV series episodes are often OK (Category:Lists of television series episodes). It might depend on how prominent the TV series is. If you write this then put all the plot summaries in your own words, don't copy them from somewhere else. Hut 8.5 13:35, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for your help. Empire AS (talk) 13:40, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Problem

I created a category Category:Facebook-related lists and Category:Instagram-related lists and added aricles in these categories. But, some irrelevant articles are also added in this category not by anyone but automatically. I saw that articles, no one added these categories, but the articles are presen in these category. Please help. Empire AS (talk) 14:35, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

@Empire AS: you added it to Template:Most popular social media accounts outside the <noinclude> tag, which means the category was included on every page which had the template on it. "noinclude" means "don't display this bit on any page this is transcluded on". I've fixed it. Hut 8.5 14:45, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. As I'm a new user, I didn't understand that problem. Thank you very much. Empire AS (talk) 16:09, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Reporting

Hi, Hut 8.5, There's a user on Wikipedia that removes major contents from articles without any good explanation. He has removed a lot of content from many articles. I think that he is sock puppet of another account. Thank you. Empire AS (talk) 16:15, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

@Empire AS: they do seem to be providing reasons which if valid would be good reasons for removing materials from articles. I suggest you discuss it with them (WP:DR). Hut 8.5 16:48, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Help required

Hi, @Hut 8.5, From where can I get complete guideline about Wikipedia and its editing including instructions for articles, redirects, categories, templates, drafts, copyrights and photos? Thank you. Empire AS (talk) 10:49, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

@Empire AS: er, well there's no single place which will tell you all that.

• Actual rules about Wikipedia are known as policies and guidelines, you can find a complete list here. You absolutely do not need to know all of these (I'm not sure anybody knows them all) but if there's a specific area you're interested in then it's worth checking to see if there is one which is relevant.
• The five pillars are the most important principles. It is definitely worth reading these.
• There are also various help pages which give you advice or show you how to do things.
• For things like redirects, categories etc there are top level pages such as Wikipedia:Redirect which give you guidance and link to others. Similarly Help:Template, Wikipedia:Drafts, Wikipedia:Images etc.
• For articles the most important policies are WP:V, WP:NOR, WP:NPOV and WP:BLP - these are definitely worth reading. There is also the manual of style, which contains guidance about how to write and format articles. (It's huge and you don't need to read it all.)
• Copyright - there are several pages on this, the top level one is Wikipedia:Copyrights. See also Wikipedia:Copyright assistance for a directory of other copyright related pages.
• There is also the help desk if you have a specific question you'd like an answer to.

Hut 8.5 12:24, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for answering in explanation. Empire AS (talk) 12:31, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Princess Maria Isabella of Savoy-Genoa

Hi, you recently declined deletion of this page with the reason "being a princess is an assertion of significance, even if it's only titular". However, this person is not a princess according to the WP definition--she is not a male-line descendant of a sovereign of the Kingdom of Italy. The article doesn't even contain a source that ascribes the title erroneously (it doesn't have any sources at all); as it stands this is just an unreferenced BLP where the only claim for notability is having ancestors who belonged to a now-defunct noble family. I think it's especially problematic that it lists the full names of several children--surely this violates privacy guidelines, at least? Thank you, JoelleJay (talk) 06:46, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

@JoelleJay: from the definition of A7, which is what you tagged this for: The criterion does not apply to any article that makes any credible claim of significance or importance even if the claim is not supported by a reliable source or does not qualify on Wikipedia's notability guidelines. The statement that she's a princess is a credible claim of significance, even if it isn't sourced and even if she isn't notable. (I suspect she's supposed to be in Category:Princesses of Savoy instead of Category:Italian princesses.) Speedy deletion is also supposed to apply in obvious or clear-cut cases, so if there's any doubt then speedy deletion isn't appropriate.

This doesn't mean the subject is notable and it doesn't mean the article can't be deleted. You can still nominate it for deletion using the WP:PROD, WP:BLPPROD or WP:AFD processes, and it may well be deleted if you do. It just means the page isn't going to be deleted on sight by an admin. PROD and AfD allow deletion rationales to be reviewed and examined by other editors and are better suited to notability questions. 07:05, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Help

Hello Hut!I have contacted deletion team and you just answered me thank you for that! Considering the Natali Thanou page that has been deleted I would love to send you many relevant links Can you help me with this process. I am new in this and I would really appreciate your help! Thanks a lot! LoveWins30 (talk) 17:56, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

• @LoveWins30: I suggest you contact the deleting admin, if you aren't satisfied with the response then you can go to WP:DRV. Bear in mind that you aren't likely to get anywhere unless you can show convincingly that the subject meets the notability guidelines, which was the reason for deletion. Hut 8.5 18:05, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Please ..

I have too many relevant links that i can send to you about notability of the “Natali Thanou”. Should i send it to you- cause from this point i dont know where to send the “notable “ links that proves so many of her career achievements, cover pages and her music. LoveWins30 (talk) 18:31, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

• @LoveWins30: again you need to contact the deleting administrator or use deletion review. And I'd suggest not going overboard with the links, if she does meet the general notability guideline it should be possible to show this with a small number of links, and if you post a large number then they won't all be read. Hut 8.5 18:40, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Thank u! The deleting administrator - i suppose is the person who finaly deleted the article, right? (Sorry if the question sounds silly- i am new here!) LoveWins30 (talk) 18:47, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

And how do i contact him? On the small “talk” button- next to his name- the same as i did with you? (I guess yes 🙂) sorry again for bothering LoveWins30 (talk) 18:48, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Yes, that's it. Hut 8.5 19:45, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Signature

Hi, @Hut 8.5, I've a problem regarding my signature. This is my signature but I'm not able to change its colour. Empire AS ^Talk!. I've tried many times but to no avail. It remains old one. Thank you. Empire AS ^Talk! 08:03, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Another thing is that I think that there are 3 accounts which are sock puppets of each other. I may tell you, if you want. Thank you. Empire AS ^Talk! 08:08, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

@Empire AS: I think that for colours you have to wrap the HTML with the wiki syntax rather than vice versa: Empire AS ^Talk!. If you want to report sockpuppetry try WP:SPI. Hut 8.5 11:53, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for your signature help. I'm not sure about sock puppets, I've doubts that they may be sock puppets and I've a little proof too. Thank you.Empire AS ^Talk! 12:08, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Season 18 Hell's Kitchen - citation needed

Hello, in this article is a template that we need citation for the ages of the contestants. These ages are provided every time during interviews with the contestants in the episodes, like in the previous seasons. Can I delete that template then? If not, then I think it should be added in the previous seasons as well. --2A00:1028:96D4:5042:CA3:D121:B78D:D1AA (talk) 18:14, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Template help

Hi, @Hut 8.5, I created a template named User alternative user page, which could tell the link and wiki name of where the user has another user page. But it is not working. Perhaps due to false parameters or any other reason. Can you please fix it.? Thank you. Empire AS ^Talk! 06:18, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

• @Empire AS: I know next to nothing about writing templates, try the help desk. Hut 8.5 09:09, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

Autopatrolled

Hi, @Hut 8.5, hope that you would be fine. I have a question that I have autopatrolled rights, but I don't see any option to 'mark the page as patrolled'. When I see edit history, I don't see any option of 'Mark as patrolled'. How can I mark a page as patrolled. I can't wait to patroll pages. Thank you. Empire AS ^Talk! 03:14, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

• @Empire AS: you don't seem to understand what autopatrolled is: it doesn't let you patrol pages. That's the new page reviewer right. Autopatrolled just means that when you create a page it's automatically marked as patrolled without someone else having to review it. Hut 8.5 06:33, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

I thought that it would also help me in reviewing others' pages. Thank you. Empire AS ^Talk! 06:36, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

Template:Autopatrolled topicon

Hi, Hut 8.5, I'm here to seek your help. I'm an now an autopatroller and I want to display the topicon of autopatrolled on my user page. But it doesn't displays. Can you help by editing my user page here? Thank you. Empire AS ^Talk! 07:25, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

@Empire AS: the "tl" prefix in front of a template is used when you want to link to a template without actually displaying it (as in "template link"). If you want to actually display the template then you should leave this out (or equivalently copy the syntax as it's displayed instead of the markup). Hut 8.5 12:04, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

How can I enlarge its size? Thank you. Empire AS ^Talk! 12:09, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

You could try {{Autopatrolled topicon|width=50|height=50}}. Or use the userbox instead. Hut 8.5 12:15, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. Empire AS ^Talk! 12:24, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Asking a question

Hi, Hut 8.5, hope you are fine. I'm here to ask two questions from you. First is, I've uploaded some photos on commons, but they are deleted. See my commons user page here. The photos I upload, aren't my work, but are cover photos of songs, albums, films and photos of artists. I don't know why they are deleted. I know it's my mistake, but not know where I made mistake due to which the photos were deleted. Second question is, when a case is reported at sock puppet investigations, then there are options to request a checkuser or not. What's the difference between checkuser investigations and ordinary investigations? Thank you. Best wishes. Empire AS ^Talk! 14:09, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

@Empire AS:

• Commons expects that images which you upload are available under an appropriate licence under copyright law. This means they have to be in the public domain or available under a free licence. They won't accept an image unless you can show it falls under one of these. The vast, vast majority of images on the internet do not qualify, somebody has copyrighted them and they cannot be reused. Don't find a random image on the internet and upload it to Commons unless you know what you are doing and know its copyright status. Wikipedia also has strict limitations on which images can be used, we also only accept images which are in the public domain or are available under a free licence apart from a small number of situations.
• Checkuser is a highly restricted user right which allows you to see the IP address and other details of edits made by a logged in user. This means that checkusers can see non-public evidence that two different accounts belong to the same person (e.g. because they have the same IP address). In a checkuser sockpuppet investigation a checkuser will perform this type of check to see if the sockpuppet accounts belong to the same person and to see if that person has any more accounts. A non-checkuser investigation doesn't include this. Hut 8.5 17:09, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

Fourteen Years on Wikipedia!

Hey, Hut 8.5. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Chris Troutman (talk) 21:13, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

Regarding Political Animal Lobby

Dear Hut 8.5 thank you for the feedback regarding the copyright violation of the Political Animal Lobby page. I contacted the organization to get their approval to use their material. Since I am new at editing Wikipedia I still don't fully understand how to go about things. I just wanted to know from you will the page still be deleted since I now have copyright permission. I will have to change it to fix the tone as well. But, I just wanted to know if there is a way to save the page from being totally deleted. Please let me know. Thank you again for your detailed feedback. It allowed me to learn more about how Wikipedia works. Kind regards and I hope you have a good day. Nikkidiscovers (talk) 09:36, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Help!

Hi @Hut 8.5:, hoping you fine, I'm again here for your help. Recently, I created article List of Bandbudh Aur Budbak episodes, but there's a problem that the last episode's description lies under 'References' section. It should be above the references. Don't know how did it happen? Can you fix it? Second is that I want to use this script. But, I'm not sure about its security. It may also cause account compromising. How can I test its security? Thank you. Waiting for your reply. Best wishes. Empire AS ^Talk! 14:12, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

@Empire AS: I think I've fixed it, I'm not sure what you were trying to do but the page wasn't using the episode list template in the way it was intended. It should be OK now. I might have erased some of the data but you should be able to readd it as a parameter of the episode list template.

As for a script you are ultimately going to have to either examine the source code or trust that the script isn't going to do any damage (which is very unlikely if it's widely used). I work with javascript professionally and in this case I can tell you that the script isn't going to compromise your account. It just looks to see if your URL matches "https://[language code].m." or "http://[language code].m." and if it does then it gets the URL for the desktop version (from the "Desktop" link at the bottom of the mobile page) and redirects you to the target of that link. Javascript pages on Wikipedia are heavily locked down, the only people who can edit that script are Þjarkur and interface administrators, which is a highly restricted user right only given to a small group of highly trusted people. Hut 8.5 17:07, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

@Hut 8.5:, Thank you for fixing the issue. But the problem now is that how can I add 'Duration' or 'Episode length' to that article, as there's no parameter of 'Duration'?

That script isn't used by a lot of people, because if it was used, then there were questions on its talk page. My URL matches the above first. Should I create another JavaScript with any new title (like User:Empire AS/NewScripts.js) to avoid any problem. But would this also be protected like that original JavaScripts? Thank you. Empire AS ^Talk! 03:09, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

I don't know about the template. Possibly you could ask at Template talk:Episode list. Possibly the duration isn't interesting to most readers or there's no point in including it because it's always about the same. I wouldn't bother creating your own javascript with that title, the only way that would help is if Þjarkur decided to try and hack your account retrospectively. The protection status I explained applies to all javascript pages. Hut 8.5 06:50, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Þjarkur isn't interface administrator, how can he/she edit my js. And if I created new js, then he should not be able to edit it, although I'm using his script. I didn't understand your statement of 'the only way that would help is if Þjarkur decided to try and hack your account retrospectively'. Can you explain? Thank you. Empire AS ^Talk! 08:40, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Þjarkur can edit User:Þjarkur/NeverUseMobileVersion.js because it's in their userspace. If you add that javascript to your account then they could theoretically change it to do something else, in which case it would be executed on your account. Hut 8.5 12:12, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

I've found a solution. First, I'll create a js named "User:Empire AS/NoDesktop.js", will add that source code there and then paste the js with my name in my common.js. I think it's good. What do you think about it? Is it better to protect my account? Thank you. Empire AS ^Talk! 13:38, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Well you can do that if you like, but I think it's being excessively paranoid. You would also miss any updates to the original script. Hut 8.5 16:52, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Nireekshana (film)

Kindly accept my speedily deletion. I created this page under my old username of DragoMynaa. See Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive320#TamilMirchi. TamilMirchi (talk) 21:51, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

Help required!

Hi, @Hut 8.5:, again I'm here to seek help from you. Till now, you would have understand that everytime I come here means I need your help. First is, I've added duration to the article"List of Bandbudh Aur Budbak episodes" but I don't know how to add duration title there. Can you fix it? Second is that, I want to include this text in my article Pachtaoge "Originally, the song was sung by Atif Aslam but due to the ban on Pakistani artists, it was replaced by Arijit Singh. But later, Atif version was also released on public demand." I've no source for this except this one. However, the content is 100% true that I want to add but I'm unable to find further references. What should I do? Add it or not? Thank you. Tears. Empire AS ^Talk! 14:08, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

• @Empire AS: I've fixed the title of your column. Regarding sourcing, information is only supposed to be included in Wikipedia if it is verifiable to a reliable published source. This means we shouldn't include information which is unverifiable, even if it is true. See Wikipedia:Verifiability, not truth. Hut 8.5 08:44, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

  Hut 8.5, I understand. But is the source not enough to support my statement? However, I may prove the correctness of this statement by arguments. Thank you. Empire AS ^Talk! 09:00, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

  Well if it's a reliable source then it can be used to support the statement. I'm not familiar with this particular website but from a quick glance it doesn't seem to qualify, blogs are very rarely considered reliable sources. Hut 8.5 09:04, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

  Hut 8.5, Is there any way to discuss it with others where all users may give their opinions to keep or oppose this statement and source? Thank you. Empire AS ^Talk! 09:16, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

  If you want to ask about the reliability of that source you can post at WP:RS/N. Hut 8.5 09:17, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

Notoriusthugs

Hello, regarding your recent block, I think that the deletion of Notoriousthugs contributions might be necessary as they spammed images of lynching across several pages in an act of hate. Also please revoke talk page access. Thanks. ɴᴋᴏɴ21 ❯❯❯ talk 18:15, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

• @Nkon21: OK, done. Hut 8.5 18:21, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

Unknown problem

Hi, Hut 8.5, I'm facing a problem. Nearly a month ago, I checked my stats on Xtools, then it showed 96% live edits and 4% deleted edits. Nearly, ten days ago, it was 95% live and 5% deleted. But now, it's 89% live and 11% deleted.😱 When I clicked on deleted edits, then that was limited to admins and others. I've turned on the 'edit revert' notifications since account creation and I'm not receiving any revert edit notification. But, the deleted edits level is increasing day by day. I'm really astonished. What's happening? It's not good at all as it will definitely decrease the trust level of other users on me. Tears. Empire AS ^Talk! 08:27, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

@Empire AS: first of all nobody cares about your deleted edit percentage and it doesn't mean anything. Being involved in some tasks invariably gives you a large number of deleted edits e.g. nominating pages for deletion, or working on poor quality pages which have a higher chance of being deleted. If you care I have 7,325 deleted edits which is about 13% of my total. Deleted doesn't mean reverted, it refers to cases where administrators get rid of a page entirely (or at least hide it from public view). As an admin I can see your deleted edits and almost all of them are to user sandboxes which you subsequently asked to be deleted. The only exceptions are three edits to List of awards and nominations received by Atif Aslam which was deleted because you nominated it for deletion. Hut 8.5 17:25, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

Hut 8.5, 😨, Now I finally understood my mistake. It's good that deleted edits don't effect anything. The mistake that I was making is that "I don't move sandboxes to mainspace rather; I copy the all text from it and paste it into target article and request sandboxes deletion." Now, I'm realising that I was doing false. But when a sandbox is moved to mainspace, then deletion request will still cause increase in deleted edits or not after moving? Tears. Empire AS ^Talk! 02:43, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

What you're doing is not a mistake. It's absolutely fine to delete sandboxes when you don't need them any more, plenty of people do that. Again nobody here cares how many deleted edits you have. You seem to be extremely paranoid about what other people think of you, I suggest you dial that back a bit. Hut 8.5 09:02, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Okay, now I'm going to forget that all. However, I've learnt something from it. Tears. Empire AS ^Talk! 11:32, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Need second opinion about copyright issues

Hey Hut, I saw that you'd posted recently on one of the copyright boards, so that's why I'm bothering you. I could use a second opinion--I'm not terribly knowledgeable about copyright stuff. That said, here, I redacted the full text of a suicide note on the basis that it was a potential copyright violation to print the whole thing. I would assume that the person who wrote the note would technically hold the copyright by default. (Similar to how a person who takes a photo is usually the copyright holder.) The editor who posted it restored it. Since I could potentially conceive of a fair use argument for criticism/educational purposes, I was hoping someone experienced in this area could give me a second opinion. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 18:49, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

• @Cyphoidbomb: you did the right thing there, it is almost certainly copyrighted and if it isn't then the onus is on the editor who added it to show that. There is no fair use argument, for text quotations the fair use guidelines say Brief quotations of copyrighted text may be used to illustrate a point, establish context, or attribute a point of view or idea...Extensive quotation of copyrighted text is prohibited. This definitely isn't brief. I'll remove it again. Hut 8.5 19:48, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

I figured, but wanted to be sure I wasn't acting rash. I mean obviously he also deleted my comment, which wouldn't be cool per talk page norms. Thanks for the second opinion. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 19:50, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Username

Hi, Hut 8.5, I'm here for an opinion. My username is 'Empire AS', you know. But I think many users think that it's name of any organization, company, state or any other project, and I'm not an individual. However, I also don't want to change my username. Would it cause any problem for me? Tears. Empire AS ^Talk! 04:02, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

• @Empire AS: yes you can change your username, see Wikipedia:Changing username for instructions. No I don't think it will cause you any problems. I also suggest you stop signing every post with "tears", it makes it look like everythign you write is making you cry. Hut 8.5 06:34, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Hut 8.5, I don't want to change my username at all, I was worried that whether it would cause problems like block or not but now it's fine to keep the username. Next to now, I wouldn't use the word 'tears'. However, here these words stand for tears of happiness as it has 2 types. Thanx. Empire AS ^Talk! 08:39, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Talk page stuff

Hey Hut, this is kind of related to a discussion we had a few days ago about Sooraj Pancholi. Indian actor Sushant Singh Rajput died, and the early medical reports determined it to be by suicide by hanging. A large contingent of fans and conspiracy theorists believe in something more sinister, so the talks page related to this subject have been peppered with SPAs trying to do "justice for SSR" to either change the death cause to murder or "undetermined" or to have it deleted entirely What's the best approach, do you suppose with these? I tried page protection at Talk:Sushant Singh Rajput and Talk:Death of Sushant Singh Rajput. (PP has expired on one of the talk pages, but I'm not seeking renewal, since another editor feels that page protection might suppress legitimate edit requests.) Should editors be responding to these obvious socio-political "queries" or should they just be deleted?

And tangential to that this comment at Talk:Rhea Chakraborty starts off with an overview of the case, but then devolves to potentially defamatory claims that the article subject is a co-conspirator to what people think was a murder. Granted, that particular comment isn't as defamatory-laden as others have been, since the anon is claiming that Rajput's family thinks she is a co-conspirator. Should something like that be answered/ignored or deleted outright? I appreciate your opinion. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 01:19, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

• @Cyphoidbomb: hmm. I'd suggest removing comments which make libellous accusations or which don't have something to do with improving the article (WP:NOTFORUM). Anything else can be answered. If there's a lot of them then it might be worth putting up a notice at the start of the page explaining why Wikipedia won't include this stuff, which is pretty common on talk pages on contentious topics. Page protection seems a little overkill unless there's a very high volume of these as it would shut new editors out of the article entirely. This stuff is a lot less damaging on talk pages than it would be in an article. Hut 8.5 12:44, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks much! Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:09, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Archiving

Hi, Hut 8.5, Can you tell me how to archive a talk page? I've read it, but here for some extra questions. As of now, I'm not archiving my talk page but for the future help. Thank you. Empire AS ^Talk! 07:00, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

• @Empire AS: see Help:Archiving a talk page. There are a couple of bots which can do it for you automatically, it might be easiest to set one of those up. Hut 8.5 07:11, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

  Hut 8.5, I've read. But can a talk page be archived by simply moving it to archive? Empire AS ^Talk! 07:15, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

  @Empire AS: you can do it that way but few people do these days, usually you people just copy the contents of the page to an archive page. Hut 8.5 07:23, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

  Hut 8.5, but why and how bot help is better than moving the page to the archive? Empire AS ^Talk! 07:28, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

  The bot will do it for you automatically, if you set the bot up then you don't have to do anything else at all. Hut 8.5 07:30, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Draft: Pan American School of Bahia

Hey, my article was recently deleted due to the "Unambiguous article". A moderator, or article reviewer, then proceeded to write a recommendation message of what to do. The article was not written by a person with a conflict of interest. The article was written by me. A citizen of the same city, with knowledge of the school. I request the undeletion or copying and paste the whole article into my Talk Page so I re-submit the article. I am a student at another school, in the same city. The last time I ever visited the school was in 2016, and I did it once. You can ask me for evidence that I do not go to school. In addition, you can definitely look me up anywhere. Reminder: It is not disallowed to write an article about an organization in the same city as you, as long as you are not biased or affiliated, and I am not.

I am not the school; This is obvious, I am not the school, I am a person. I do not work for the school; I have never worked for this school, or for anyone for the matter. I have never had any projects with the school, paid or unpaid. I do not represent the school; I am 16 years old. I do not represent the school, have never represented the school and I have never represented anyone. I am not related or directly or indirectly affiliated to any faculty or school representative; I am not related as a friend or a family member of any faculty of the school. If I was, I would be a student at that school by now, but I never attended that school. In addition, my username does not imply that I am from that school. In fact, when I created this Wikipedia account in 2014 I did not know that the school existed. My name is my real-life name.

It was deleted under G11 and G12. The G12 reasoning is incorrect because the "copyright infringement" was related to the article having the sections Mission, Vision Statement, and Core Values. The sections were deleted, therefore there was no copyright infringement at the time of deletion

The article was not biased. I added sections such as Mission, Vision, Core Values, but then I deleted it and added "Activities". All information I added received its corresponding reference/source. All added information sections were inspired by existing articles such as The American School of London, Graded School/Associação Graduada (São Paulo), Pan American School of Porto Alegre and Pan American Christian Academy. All schools located in this country, with exception of The American School of London

I request you to un-do the page deletion or copy and paste the article so I can re-submit it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ThiagoWinters (talk • contribs) 16:56, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

• @ThiagoWinters: you'll need to talk to the admin who deleted the page. That wasn't me, it was User:Jimfbleak. Hut 8.5 17:32, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

Daruka

Hi. Thanks for doing the copyvio check. Here's a question, since I do a little bit of NPP work, I come across apparent copyvios all the time. At one time, another editor had pointed me to a program, Carbon Dating, which allowed me to see when that other page had been created. But that is no longer available. I hate making work for other editors, is there a program you use to see when info was added on other sites? Taking this page as an example, you state that the site is filled with stuff copied from WP. How did you discern that?Onel5969 ^{TT me} 18:54, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

• @Onel5969: nothing very clever I'm afraid, I just used the navigation menu to find another page on the site about a different place, did a Google search for some of the text in that page and the first hit was a Wikipedia article. You can try the internet archive or another similar site to see what a page looked like at different points in the past, although its coverage is far from perfect. In some cases you can also look up the domain registration for the website, which does give you an earliest possible date for anything on it. Trying to find out this sort of thing isn't easy though. Hut 8.5 19:02, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Can the page "Marijuana Justice Act" be restored?

Hi Hut 8.5. I noticed today that you deleted the page Marijuana Justice Act a few days ago and I was wondering if it could be restored. I noticed it as a redlink on the page Political positions of Kamala Harris; other pages that link to it are Political positions of Tulsi Gabbard, Political positions of Elizabeth Warren, Jared Polis, Cory Booker, Steve Cohen, Barbara Lee, and Removal of cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. So that is a decent amount of redlinks that have been created and I think it also helps demonstrate the significance of the page to some degree. Thanks for any help you can provide.--Jamesy0627144 (talk) 03:26, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

• @Jamesy0627144: the page wasn't deleted because of a perceived lack of significance or anything like that, it was deleted because the person who wrote it isn't allowed to edit Wikipedia. There is nothing stopping you or anybody else from writing an article about the subject though. Hut 8.5 07:34, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

OK. Then I'm just going to recreate the page as it previously existed for the most part, based on a version of the page that is saved at archive.org, since it seems accurately written. I thought it would be good to contact you first though, since there is a message at the blank page that says "If you are recreating a page similar to the previously deleted page, or are unsure, please first contact the user(s) who performed the action(s) listed below." It would make the task a little bit easier if you could restore it, and it would be nice to have the history intact, but if you can't do it then you can't do it... no problem.--Jamesy0627144 (talk) 08:08, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

@Jamesy0627144: please don't recreate the page based on copying and pasting the deleted version because that would infringe the copyright of the people who edited the deleted version (as they wouldn't be named in the edit history). Banned users frequently try to game the system by posting legitimate content to "prove" they can't be banned, tolerating their contributions only encourages this. I'm happy for you to write a new article at this title but it needs to be your content and not just the same as the deleted version. Hut 8.5 13:27, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Creating Kingston Stadium

I'd like to recreate the Kingston Stadium page. There's a warning there saying you previously deleted it for the reason, "G7: One author who has requested deletion or blanked the page". Do you have any objection to my recreating it with the content at User:Pemilligan/sandbox/Kingston Stadium? -- Pemilligan (talk) 22:47, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

• @Pemilligan: the only reason I deleted the previous version was because you asked for it to be deleted. Specifically you replaced the content with {{db-userreq}} with an edit summary of "Sorry, that was meant to be in my sandbox". I have no objection to it being recreated. Hut 8.5 07:39, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Wow, I'd completely forgotten that. Thank you. -- Pemilligan (talk) 14:07, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

your opinion please...

You closed Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Gun debates in article space, as userify, in 2012. When you userified the page you left Wikipedia:Gun debates in article space as a redirect to User:Canoe1967/Gun debates in article space. The page remains in Category:Wikipedia essays identifying problems and/or solutions

It's my interpretation of our policies and guidelines that only essays in the wikipedia namespace belong in categories that begin with "wikipedia", and that all user essays should be in a set of parallel categories that begin user. So, that would put this essay in Category:User essays identifying problems and/or solutions

It's my interpretation of our policies and guidelines that user essays should not have a cross namespace link to the wikipedia namespace. I am not suggesting bad faith on the part of any of the authors, but there seem to be a couple of dozen user essays, that are cited with a redirected link from the wikipedia namespace, that are actively used and maintained. I think this is a mistake because policies and guidelines imply that wikipedia space essays are subjected to greater scrutiny and enjoy greater support than userspace essays, as per this example - a wikipedia space essay that was demoted to userspace. Further, it is a mistake for those essays that have never been in the wikipedia namespace, so the author gets to enjoy WP:OWNership, without their essay being subjected to the same level of scrutiny as a wikipedia space essay, yet enjoys having it as linkable as a wikipedia space essay.

It is my impression that most of the authors of userspace essays that were never in wikipedia namespace, but which enjoy cross namespace redirects from the wikipedia namespace, never thought through the unfair implications of these misleading links, because they had come across other instances of cross namespace links - like this one you left.

I've recently suggested, elsewhere, that the authors of actively maintained userspace essays that are cross namespace linked through wikipedia space redirections should actually bite the bullet and move their essays into the wikipedia namespace.

I've suggested that wikipedia space essays that get userified should no longer have a wikipedia space redirection. The issue that userification without redirection leave broken links can be dealt with by adding each userified essay to something like WP:Wikipedia essays demoted to userspace.

I'd be interested in your opinion, if you have given these issues any consideration. Thanks. Geo Swan (talk) 15:01, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

• @Geo Swan: not something I've thought about before, or have a strong opinion on, but I'm not sure having a Wikipedia-space redirect is likely to mislead people into thinking the essay has any sort of widespread acceptance, because it's obvious to anyone who clicks on the link that it's not in Wikipedia-space. I suppose you could try nominating one of those redirects at RfD and see if anyone agrees with you. It does look like that page shouldn't really be in that category though, the description at Category:Wikipedia essays does say that it's for project-space essays only, and I assume this applies equally to subcategories with the same name. Hut 8.5 18:17, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

185.69.144.238

TPA revoke might be necessary... User talk:185.69.144.238 (See the history for what I mean). Magitroopa (talk) 18:35, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

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Permission for recreating Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs (West Bengal)

Sir you had deleted this page for copy-paste violations. Can I recreate this page? Next Time it won't be happen again.🇮🇳DRCNSINDIA (talk) 08:09, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Some bubble tea for you!

Thank you for deleting page Something missing! Hayta= 23:31, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

Requesting updating of Women related laws in Pakistan with new text

Greetings,

As per Wikipedia's expected due process I have updated Talk:Women related laws in Pakistan/Temp building it from scratch with proper close paraphrasing. I suppose it would be acceptable at least as a stub.

Since updating of Talk:Women related laws in Pakistan/Temp we will not be depending on previous text of the article, I requesting to shift the text from Talk:Women related laws in Pakistan/Temp to Women related laws in Pakistan.

Thanks and warm regards

Bookku (talk) 02:53, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

draft Draft:Rakesh Kumar Sinha restoration

dear User:Hut 8.5 ; please convey the message to User:RickinBaltimore for undeleting my draft Draft:Rakesh Kumar Sinha and resore it. should i talk to your founders and owners User:Jimbo_Wales and User:Larry_Sanger. User:RickinBaltimore is not available on his talk page and do it fast. my pages generally maintained by government of india, asia, world. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rockyrocks48 (talk • contribs) 12:09, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

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Happy New Year, Hut 8.5!

Happy New Year!

Hut 8.5,
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The rumba kings

Per your advice, I have now allowed users to email me. Is there any further action necessary on my behalf? Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Juliusbear007 (talk • contribs) 20:12, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion of SuperAnnotate

Hi Hut 8.5! Hope you are well! You have recently deleted my page SuperAnnotate tagging it as an ambiguous advertising or promotion (G11). I am writing to kindly ask if you can reverse the deletion for me to improve the page.

I have reread the policy on Speedy Deletion

"Pages and media in all namespaces that satisfy certain criteria are speedy deletion candidates, which means that administrators can delete them immediately and without discussion. The criteria include, among others, test pages, vandalism and hoaxes, nonsense, blatant copyright violations, empty pages or ones lacking sufficient context, articles in defined areas that do not credibly assert the importance of the topic, and pages on topics already covered under another title. Administrators often leave short codes in the deletion summary instead of typing out a full reason, such as "A7" or "CSD A7" for articles that do not assert importance; "G1" for patent nonsense and so on. These codes are explained at Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion."

I do believe the page did not meet the criteria for speedy deletion. No vandalism, no nonsense and word-by-word original text. However, I'm the rookie here so I need your help to perfect what can help a number of people interested to learn about SuperAnnotate. I have included references for all the information included in the article which if you tracked back, you would see were noteworthy. No internal references were included. Please, take into consideration that when a new software is released, not much is available about it in books or journals, and to provide information about how it works and who it is designed for, any contributor on the subject turns to the software creators and users. A lot of information describing the tool usually comes from the website the creators put together to raise awareness about it. If I were to exclude all the information I got from interviewing the users and the creators of SuperAnnotate, my Wiki page on it would be blank. I understand, once someone talks about a subject passionately, it comes out biased and ad-like, however, who would you hear about the subject from if not someone who knows how it works?

Please, tell me where you disagree with this and let's pinpoint what made my page on Superannotate so promotional that you were forced to delete it without having me improve it first. It is interesting considering the number of pages on a number of tools floating on wikipedia with more potential catching your attention yet still running strong. Not throwing anyone under the bus, just asking to have the same chance on improving the page.

Thanks in advance! Hope to hear from you soon! SAtrainsAI (talk) 13:46, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

@SAtrainsAI: first of all, if you are in any way affiliated with the company which makes this software, or if someone has paid you to write about it, then you need to read the advice on paid editing and conflicts of interest before making any further edits to this topic area. Making paid edits without disclosure is in violation of Wikipedia's terms of use.

As you can see from the deletion log I deleted the page under WP:CSD#G11, which means blatant advertising - not for lack of references, plagiarism or the other criteria you mentioned. The article read like a sales brochure, and almost every sentence was written so as to present the subject in a glowing, promotional light. Wikipedia is a neutral encyclopedia and our articles can't advertise the subject. Hut 8.5 18:20, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

Change in age required

Hi, In Shamsheer Vayalil article the age needs to be changed. He turned 44 on 11 Jan yet in the bio infobox 43 is shown. Thanks.