User talk:Girth Summit

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Apology

Hi, I'm Anuran, and I've been looking on my chat. it seems that I've made a mistake. I can't edit articles without a source meaning that even if I am true, I must bring a reference for my edit no matter what like Arthropleura is a herbivore... (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08912963.2019.1675055) for my backup. So yes, I see my mistake and I hope it eases you. Have a good day.

I don't like cricket

Oh no! I love it! Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 20:28, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Speaking as a Scot, I'd say that I'm aware of cricket. In the same way I know that some people, in certain parts of the world, play ice hockey, or petanque, or Aussie rules football. I live in York now of course, but YCC don't seem to be flavour of the month. Maybe not a good time to try to get into it... Girth Summit _(blether) 22:17, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Enjoy this trip down memory lane! Don't let the recent unpleasant actions of a few individuals put you off. Heads are starting to roll. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 08:41, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

Wow - I didn't know that had happened. I'd have watched that! Girth Summit _(blether) 09:24, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

Two of my offspring, the twins, are eligible to play for the county, by the only rules worth anything. I think I'll spend the day re-watching the Botham/Willis test. -Roxy the sceptical dog. wooF 10:45, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

I'm confused about something

So there was a user talk page created by an IP editor at User talk:The vandalism account. They substituted an indef-block template with the page creation. At first, seeing this I thought it was a new account that was registered for vandalism and that they put the indef block notice to prevent the vandalism from being noticed or something. But then I realized the account didn't exist and that an IP added the notice. So I was nominated the page for CSD because it's the talk page of a user that doesn't exist, but rereading the CSD for vandalism it doesn't look like it nessecarily fits the criteria (so I removed my CSD nomination). So should I do anything moving forward? I'm a bit tired from work and I'm wondering if I'm missing something obvious and also feeling like I might have been a bit impulsive here in regards to how I acted. I'd appreciate any advice you have to offer. Clovermoss (talk) 01:10, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

I wouldn't worry about it - it was probably someone just messing around. The page has been deleted now, as vandalism, so your tag couldn't have been too far from the mark. Girth Summit _(blether) 10:41, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

DRV: Stephen Hogan

Dear Sir, hope you have been well. A titan here has nominated the Stephen Hogan page we diligently put together for nomination to delete. And it's been deleted. Maybe I am a poor writer that I didn't bring in Dublin actor stars in fascinating new Amazon Prime film about Indian revolutionary - Dublin Live properly into the article to further demo notability. I know you are extremely busy, but could you please participate? Many thanks for your time and consideration. Have a great weekend. Supermann (talk) 03:57, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

If I remember correctly, I said that I thought the notability was marginal, and that it might go either way if it was nominated for deletion. That process has happened now, and I'd advise you to accept that and go do sonething else. Your deletion review won't be successful - deletion reviews aren't places to discuss whether or not a subject is notable, you have to establish that the deletion procedure wasn't done properly - like, if the closer was involved, or the consensus wasn't followed, or something. As far as I can see there weren't any procedural failings, so the DRV is likely to uphold the outcome of the AfD. Girth Summit _(blether) 10:45, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi there, hope you have been well. The DRV is closed with relist per Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2021 November 6. It's a wall of texts that I think you may not want to read, esp those questioning your wisdom of citing the Times article on his audiobook narrator contributions. So people are chiming in again at the AfD. Your weak keep might just help swing it into survival. Please feel free to join us at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stephen Hogan. Appreciate it!!!! Supermann (talk) 16:12, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

request for counter-vandalism training

Hello, I've been editing for a few months and counter-vandalism has become my main area of focus, it'd be great to receive some training on how to do it better. DirkJandeGeer (talk) 11:30, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi Dirk, thanks for reaching out. I'm afraid I'm pretty busy at the moment, both in real life and on Wiki - I'm afraid I'm not taking on new students at the moment. You might want to reach out to one of the other trainers listed at WP:CVUA - they're all very experienced. Don't worry too much about the time zone thing - the training can be done asynchronously. Best Girth Summit _(blether) 15:34, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

No problem, thanks for the response DirkJandeGeer (talk) 17:07, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

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Hi,

Please look into Arjuna page. There seems to be a user who is sockpuppetting with different user ids.

Thanks.

(Panchalidraupadi (talk) 15:54, 27 November 2021 (UTC))

Recently, this user had a similar profile named ViratYuddha24. Panchalidraupadi (talk) 15:55, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

 Done. For future reference, WP:SPI is the best place to report this kind of thing (I'd strongly recommend using WP:TWINKLE to raise reports there, it makes it much easier). There was already a case open for this account, so that speeded things up - they're blocked, feel free to revert anything they did per WP:SOCKSTRIKE. Best Girth Summit _(blether) 16:04, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

Thanks. :) Panchalidraupadi (talk) 16:19, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

One more help. I am unable to revert to a version which has been edited many times, not aware of the process. Could you please revert it back to the version by Kailash29792 on 18th Nov? Thanks Panchalidraupadi (talk) 16:25, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

Sorry, I've been away. It looks like you managed to do it already, so I won't make any changes to the page. Girth Summit _(blether) 16:16, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

A bit odd

Hi.

I am looking at doing a GA reassessment and the nominee has been blocked (that's fine, ferret sorted this, along with the IP request for WP:SO.) Fine. I went looking for another editor to be responsible for the nomination (and the article) and looked to the top editor. I find something odd here. I'm looking at their contributions - contributions cease in 2019. How is it that this editor with a previous SI is getting category deletion notices in 2021, if there have been no contributions since December 2019? A bit odd --Whiteguru (talk) 21:44, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

Those notices get sent automatically when a category the account created is nominated for deletion. Whoever creates the nomination would have to manually disable the 'notify creator' option to stop them being sent. It looks like the account has been abandoned, and the SPI didn't find conclusive evidence, so I don't think there's anything more to be done unless the account suddenly starts editing again. Cheers Girth Summit _(blether) 16:23, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Help

I have made a paper HAL TEDBF in hindi 3-4 months ago. So much time have passed but it is not linked with the language section mean that I cannot get on the English page of I am on Hindi. Please help me. I need this feature/function to link other pages also. I ame Shears (talk) 09:46, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi - I'm afraid I don't really understand what you're asking me to do. Are you talking about linking to an article on Hindi Wikipedia from English Wikipedia? Please explain exactly what it is you want to do, ideally providing links to the relevant articles. Thanks Girth Summit _(blether) 09:59, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

• [1] this is the page which I want to link from Hindi wikipedia to English Wikipedia. Thanks I ame Shears (talk) 08:51, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

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