User talk:Czar

I am obsessed by the plain facts:

writing them literally down

is all the poetry I can.

Know that I esteem my editorial independence. Even as

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  an editor professionally connected to Kickstarter

I reject payment to edit or advocate on anyone's behalf.

Declarations

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  · Assisted edits done as user:helsabot
  · My original contribs are dedicated to the public domain.
  · Selected articles

Thanks

Hi Czar,

This is Vicentia Gyau. Thank you for reaching out to me and thank you for informing me about the WikiProject Africa talk page. I will definitely put that page on my watchlist. The links you sent are interesting, thank you for sharing them with me.

Thank you once again for reaching out to me, I appreciate it. Vicentiagyau (talk) 06:40, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi, Czar! Thanks a lot for care.:)) I appreciate it:)) In fact, I am not much of a wikipedista, I just hate seeing grammar mistakes. Again, thanks for your great job!--Marina Melik-Adamyan (talk) 18:39, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	For care to Wiki and wikipedians. Thanks, Czar! Marina Melik-Adamyan (talk) 18:40, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Thank you!

Hi, dear Czar, how nice of you to get in touch. I added the sites you mentioned to my bookmarks here. It's a great feeling to be able to connect and ask questions if neccessary. Right now i'm on my way to write a new article for the german wikipedia - and i'm translating the german article on de:Museum Wiesbaden for the english wikipedia-article, as this has been a stub. But i also added the Cleanup listing for further checking on it. I cannot work many hours a day, but i try to do my best to help! Kind regards, --Gyanda (talk) 21:59, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Question

Hi Czar--could you do a histmerge of Creed II and Draft:Creed II? Thanks! NathanielTheBold (talk) 17:43, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

@NathanielTheBold, done, though in retrospect, might have made more sense to have moved the mainspace stub anywhere else (e.g., Creed II→Creed II (film)) just to make way to mainspace the fuller draft at the proper title (e.g., Draft:Creed II→Creed II) since it's not like the two histories were continuous. Oh well czar 01:18, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Noted. NathanielTheBold (talk) 01:13, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

Malformed AfD

Hi Czar, was wondering if you could figure out what I did wrong. Using the NPP curate tool, I nominated a page for AfD. It had been deleted once before, so there was a former AfD, so it should have come up as a second nom, but instead Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Top Secret (magazine) occurred. Don't know how to fix it. Hopefully you can. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 03:36, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

@Onel5969, very strange. Might want to report it as a bug on the NPP curate tool page. But nonetheless repaired at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Top Secret (magazine) (second nomination) czar 13:31, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Czar. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 13:38, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Artemis Fowl (film)

Hello! Please remove the first three edits from the Artemis Fowl (film) and do a histmerge of Draft:Artemis Fowl (film) into the article. --Captain Assassin! ^{«T ♦ C ♦ G»} 11:42, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

@Captain Assassin!, this wouldn't be a clean histmerge so instead moved second version to a place where its edit history could be preserved or merged as needed (Artemis Fowl (2019 film)). Left a note at Talk:Artemis Fowl (film)#Cut-and-paste move for posterity. czar 13:31, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Getting information out

Hi. I noticed from a comment of yours at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Editor Retention regarding informing new users. You might wish to comment at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Death_knell_sounding_for_Signpost?_Proposals_required. Cheers, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 04:28, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Women in Red's April+Further with Art+Feminism 2018

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Re:Sources for Kinnara

Hello @Czar, i just like to give me an insight about this sources i will show tge references are for the Philippine section of Kinnara. In Philippines, there was a statue of gold kinnara at surigao dated back to 10th-13th century supported by citation from that source. Although it was comr from a valid source the user named N0n3up keeps reverting the article on the version s/he preferred. I dont want to get involve on to an edit war ,so i need some more famillar in wiki policies please treat this as a legal assistance , that n0n3up is the friend of gunkarta which you previously given a warning about edit warring. Also n0n3up is deleting every Philippine sections in India-related articles. I hope your answer will help. Thank you! (Kufarhunter (talk) 03:39, 1 April 2018 (UTC))

( Laszlo Legeza, "Tantric Elements in Pre-Hispanic Gold Art," Arts of Asia, 1988, 4:129-133.) (Kufarhunter (talk) 03:39, 1 April 2018 (UTC))

Ps: i hope Wikipedia cannot be altered by the members in authority to put the aritcles according on their preferred versions. (Kufarhunter (talk) 04:11, 1 April 2018 (UTC))

Your argument may have merit but I won't investigate as long as you continue to create and use multiple accounts. (And if there is a next time, I'd need a scan of the Legeza source.) czar 04:21, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Czar, don't fall for his/her tricks. Me along with Gunkarta and others have had to deal with this troublesome editor. There is no justification for his/her actions. I think there should be serious measures taken for this. (N0n3up (talk) 00:25, 2 April 2018 (UTC))

? I had already brought it to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/JournalmanManila, which I know you saw czar 01:58, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018).

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• The six-month autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) ended on 14 March 2018. The post-trial research report has been published. A request for comment is now underway to determine whether the restrictions from ACTRIAL should be implemented permanently.

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eduprogram

Hello Czar, to follow up on User_talk:Czar/2018_Jan–Apr#Courses_Modules_are_being_deprecated, this has been completed. Happy editing, — xaosflux ^Talk 17:23, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Deeper (film)

Hello czar! Someone deleted the Draft:Deeper (film) a few days ago due to "not edited within six months." But now I have created the draft again as it got some news. Can you please restore it's previous deleted edits? Thanks. --Captain Assassin! ^{«T ♦ C ♦ G»} 13:18, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

@Captain Assassin!, ✓ done czar 02:54, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Kickstarter headquarters

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Question about Dunia engine

I was wondering if your okay with it if I revert your latest edit on Dunia engine (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dunia_Engine&redirect=no). You deleted the previous page and made it redirect to Far Cry, stating that there were no credible sources/annotation (I can agree with that). I would like to add some proper sources and annotation, however, the best way to do that in my opinion is to revert your edit and then add the sources and new information. Hence why I am asking if your okay with me reverting your edit for this reason? Else I would have to restart the whole article, since it currently only has the redirect code. Dragnadh (talk) 15:25, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

@Dragnadh, thanks for the heads up. What sources were you planning to use? I still don't see anything obvious that discusses the engine separately from the Far Cry series. If the article is missing anything major on the engine, I would first shore up those sections or, if absolutely needed, make a dedicated section within that article covering the engine technology. If there is enough content there to warrant a separate article, you could do a summary style split. If you just want the article history, there are a few ways to get it, mainly: (1) copy the wikitext from a previous version in the page history, start a draft in your userspace, and attribute the original authors, or (2) move the article w/ history to userspace for further work czar 02:21, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

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Please comment on Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Shehzad_Poonawalla

Hello, Can you please takeout few minutes to comment on this. Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Shehzad_Poonawalla Regards Sonia89f (talk) 12:12, 20 April 2018 (UTC)