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Vandalism pt 25

Serge's 25th iteration of his own personal WP:AIV and WP:RFPP. Feel free to report anything you feel may need admin intervention. Sergecross73 msg me 19:21, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I added my first image to Wikipedia artcle

Hey there, so I've just added image to a Wikipedia Article! I feel so proud of myself.

The article is Kenji Yamamoto. He was missing an image for the infobox, so I went to Wikimedia and added the image and put it into the article. Now, I wanted to ask you if you can see if the image was I guess legal enough to put an image there. I just wanted to make sure if I was allowed to do that and wanted to make sure if the photo was appropriate.

I got it from the official Nintendo website. I even credited the author, Nintendo.

So is it okay?

Thanks GeekFreak98 (talk) 14:28, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I dont really deal with images on Wikipedia, so you may want to go to someone else fir help on that one. I don't really think you can just take images off of Nintendo's website though, even if you credit them. I think it's likely it will be removed or deleted. I won't hold that against you though. Sergecross73 msg me 16:54, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I also made an article (with legitimate citations) and I don't know if I haven't publish it yet. My article has now about 80 views.

Don't worry I made my article on my sandbox. My article is about Zelda BOTW 2 called "Untitled Zelda Breath of The Wild sequel"

I added the infobox too! So I was also wondering if you can make sure that if the article is good for review or something like that. GeekFreak98 (talk) 15:03, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  1. If a game doesn't even have a name yet, it's generally too early to publish an article for it. You're welcome to create a WP:DRAFT or keep working on it in your sandbox. But it is far from being ready to be reviewed or made an article.
  2. You have not properly added references to it, as I've instructed you many times. Again, do it as WP:REFB says. Sergecross73 msg me 16:58, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Okay I see, thank you. GeekFreak98 (talk) 17:06, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Just a tip - generally speaking, people don't forget to make super popular articles like this. If something extremely popular doesn't have an article, there's probably a reason. There's a reason why articles like this or Grand Theft Auto 6 or Persona 6 don't have an article yet. We don't make articles when there's virtually nothing to be said about them. Sergecross73 msg me 17:45, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I've been following you guys' exchange for a while. @GeekFreak98:, I think you would definitely benefit from having a mentor who would be available to give you guidance. Would you consider taking part of the Adopt-a-user program? --ThomasO1989 (talk) 18:07, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, sure I would like a mentor. Thank you GeekFreak98 (talk) 18:35, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

On second thought, I think I don't need a mentor right now. I really do appreciate the offer, but I think I can learn this on my own. But if I do need help I'll apply Adopt-a-user program. Thank you. GeekFreak98 (talk) 18:45, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Question

What do we do if a page gets constantly vandalized or falsely edited by a troll or editor?

Do we use Vadalism protection like we do with Super Mario 64 and Sonic The Hedgehog (example). Because someone messed up the entire infobox for Super Mario 64 DS because of one editor that doesn't even have an account. I had to revert it, it was left thier for 2 days!

So do we use the vandalism protection on that article or is it not that important? GeekFreak98 (talk) 16:08, 19 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Generally, you can either put in a request at WP:RFPP or ask an Admin to do it for you. Keep in mind that:
  1. There generally needs to be a pattern of current and recent issues. Let's say, 5 instances of vandalism or disruptive editing in the last 3 days, or 10 incidents over the course of the last month. It'll likely be rejected if there hasn't been many bad edits, or if it's been a few days since the last bad edit.
  2. Per WP:VANDALISM, vandalism is specifically bad-faith edits. That means that if someone may have had good intentions, it's generally not considered vandalism. So let's say someone writes a couple paragraphs about Sonic's red shoes on his article. That's probably not necessary, and should be removed on the grounds of being excessive. But if the info was true and well-written, it probably wouldn't be considered vandalism because they probably had good intentions. On the other hand, let's say someone changes "Sonic the Hedgehog" to "Sonic the Poop". That's going to be considered vandalism every time, because there's no realistic reason to believe that anyone had good intentions or thought that was real. Sergecross73 msg me 14:33, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank for answering my question, I really appreciate it. I've now learned something. GeekFreak98 (talk) 15:28, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

GTA 5 article thingie

Mantr33r (talk) 22:16, 20 January 2021 (UTC) Just tell that guy to cool it, will ya? I beat the game, I know what I'm talkin' bout. Guy is literally trolling, stg.[reply]

So this is your reaction to being told to assume good faith... Sergecross73 msg me 23:10, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I need your help moving a Rise Against page

Someone fucked up all the page history and improperly tried to move things around. It's currently located at Appeal to Reason (band), previously being named simply Appeal to Reason (now a dab). It was incorrectly moved in the first place to Appeal to Reason (band), then someone tried to fix it manually by redirects. What I am requesting specifically is that you delete Appeal to Reason (album), the new article, and then move the current "band" article with the history to the proper disambiguation of "album". I do not know if A10 speedy would work, which is why I'm asking for your help. dannymusiceditor oops 02:26, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It appears someone has fixed this. Sorry to bother you. It was a very odd situation, and the user who moved the page is very new to page moving. dannymusiceditor oops 18:16, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oh shoot, sorry, I saw this last night but I was too tired to try to figure it out, and then forgot to come back to it today. Sorry, didn't mean to ignore you. Sergecross73 msg me 19:31, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
On mobile and not logged in - no personal offense taken. :) Just wanted to drop an update. I don't blame you at all, it was a convuluted mess that I was worried I misexplained anyway. 70.61.148.253 (talk) 23:28, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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