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Hello

a user with an account called is consistently vandalizing pages, these edits are without a shadow of a doubt not in a good faith as they are deleting enormous amounts of pages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_equipment_of_the_Ukrainian_Ground_Forces&diff=1084441789&oldid=1084433118

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_equipment_of_the_Ukrainian_Ground_Forces&diff=1084441853&oldid=1084441789

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_equipment_of_the_Ukrainian_Ground_Forces&diff=1084441986&oldid=1084441929

Many thanks,

CCB :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Conservative cheese ball (talk • contribs) 20:19, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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DYK for Carrie Jenkins Harris (American writer and editor)

On 6 May 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Carrie Jenkins Harris (American writer and editor), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Carrie Jenkins Harris, the North American writer who died in 1903, should not be confused with Carrie Jenkins Harris, the North American writer and editor who died in 1903? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Carrie Jenkins Harris (American writer and editor). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Carrie Jenkins Harris (American writer and editor)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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DYK for Carrie Jenkins Harris (Canadian novelist)

On 6 May 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Carrie Jenkins Harris (Canadian novelist), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Carrie Jenkins Harris, the North American writer who died in 1903, should not be confused with Carrie Jenkins Harris, the North American writer and editor who died in 1903? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Carrie Jenkins Harris (American writer and editor). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Carrie Jenkins Harris (Canadian novelist)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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DYK for Southern Magazine

On 16 May 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Southern Magazine, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that The Land We Love, a little magazine that merged into Southern Magazine (cover pictured), printed Civil War recollections, poetry, agricultural material, and many works by female authors? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Southern Magazine. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Southern Magazine), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 16 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Little magazine

On 16 May 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Little magazine, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that The Land We Love, a little magazine that merged into Southern Magazine (cover pictured), printed Civil War recollections, poetry, agricultural material, and many works by female authors? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Southern Magazine. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Little magazine), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 16 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Caleb George Cash

On 19 May 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Caleb George Cash, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that mountaineer and geographer Caleb George Cash was instrumental in preserving essential documents pertaining to the first known atlas of Scotland? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Caleb George Cash. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Caleb George Cash), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Amakuru (talk) 12:02, 19 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Blaeu Atlas of Scotland

On 19 May 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that mountaineer and geographer Caleb George Cash was instrumental in preserving essential documents pertaining to the first known atlas of Scotland? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Caleb George Cash. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Blaeu Atlas of Scotland), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Amakuru (talk) 12:02, 19 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ulf Mark Schneider - Request

Hi Uncle G. It looked like you have an interest in BLP pages and I was hoping you might have a minute to review 3-4 sentences I've proposed at the bottom of Talk:Ulf_Mark_Schneider to expand on the career section (see COI disclosure). It's based primarily on a Financial Times article I can provide a PDF of. Someone tagged it with "request edit", but my understanding is that using Request Edit is for after consensus for the change already appears evident. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Buckeye16505 (talk • contribs) 13:47, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Meant to ping you

And I always forget to add a space in your username. Just in case you felt like writing about this: Supernatural being (redirect I made into a disambig, and added a source). _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:12, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy deletion nomination of I Should Have Died

Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, introducing hoaxes, such as I Should Have Died, is considered to be vandalism and is prohibited. If you are interested in how accurate Wikipedia is, a more constructive test method would be to try to find inaccurate statements that are already in Wikipedia—and then to correct them if possible. If you would like to make test edits, please use the sandbox. Under section G3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, the page has been nominated for deletion. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges.

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I am sorry, the redirect has been vandalised, I have restored it and demanded semiprotection. Xx236 (talk) 08:47, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) I have semi'd the redirect for 3 months and of course removed Uncle G's editing privileges. Bishonen | tålk 09:11, 6 March 2023 (UTC).[reply]

Long break?

My post above was a joke, but I noticed Uncle G last edited 5 months ago. Long break or goodbye? Good luck in the future in any case! Bishonen | tålk 09:16, 6 March 2023 (UTC).[reply]

I haven't cheered up Drmies in that long? I am being remiss. Uncle G (talk) 09:32, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

As I've just quoted you on my user page, I'd like to say I miss you and your bouts of zen like brilliance, Uncle G. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 10:56, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nice seeing you around, Uncle G! Bishonen | tålk 07:38, 24 October 2023 (UTC).[reply]

Is there potential for use of the edit filter?

I have no idea how to request it, and wonder whether doing so in public is wise. I think you know of the pair of articles of which I speak. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 14:55, 28 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The prior creation protection expired. I've left this one at indefinite and at administrator level, like the prior one was. I hope that this will be enough to prevent further disruption in the article namespace without resorting to further measures. (If someone wants to come along and create a decent article in the years to come, I have no objection to the creation protection being lifted.) I've left the draft namespace alone, with all of those piled up rejection notices, although I expect that people are pretty tired of this there. ☺ Uncle G (talk) 15:05, 28 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
What you say makes good sense, though I doubt this chap will attain notability 😈. What on earth makes folk try so hard on behalf of a nonentity, do you suppose? That is probably rhetorical! 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 15:19, 28 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note to self

I wonder whether the 1972 Philadelphia teachers' strike is notable. Do we think that perhaps someone hasn't realized that it began in 1972 and called it the 1973 Philadelphia teachers strike without the apostrophe? ☺

Uncle G (talk) 16:01, 5 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please tone it down

This comment is filled with personal attacks ("tripe", "bunkum", "utter drivel"). You might want to tone it down a bit. FOARP (talk) 20:27, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No it isn't at all. There's not one single thing about you as a person, there. It's not you that is bunkum. People cannot be bunkum. It is your argument. The only person who has tried to make this about you is, in fact, you, trying to make it about your credentials for one thing. This is all about you repeatedly presenting the same false assertion over and over, which is so egregiously and prima facie erroneous, taking the authorship of something from its acknowledgements page rather than from the title page, and very carefully choosing to focus on an acknowledgement of some schoolchildren, instead of (say) the county assessor's office or the two historical magazines who were thanked above them (which doesn't make nearly as good a false narrative), it boggles the mind how one can do it. So stop the bogus mis-representation of sources over and over, please. And stop trying to claim that pointing out that your repeated assertions about a source are complete codswallop, and repeated even in the face of being told days ago exactly who its authors are, along with false claims that you aren't doing it alongside doing it again — and again! — is some form of personal attack. That's clearly an attempt to distract. Uncle G (talk) 21:34, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- I have no idea why you are responding here like this to the evidently true statement that this book is a self-published work. I hope you will reflect on your uncivil language here. FOARP (talk) 08:06, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  - That you have no idea, including clearly of what self-publication actually looks like, is the problem. As is your repeated attempts to distract, ducking and weaving. Now you duck and weave with the the above, which is the classic "Oh, it's uncivil!" response to being told that one is wrong. FOARP, you are wrong. You are egregiously and blatantly wrong to anyone who actually opened the work to its title page, or looked at the WWW page where things are published and saw that it wasn't run or owned by the work's authors, or read the work and seen a perfectly normal historical work done to historian standards with primary sources cited and everything. And in the face of that you have squirmed and ducked and wriggled, with all sorts of things; from patronizingly disparaging real named people by claiming "kids" and "their teach", through "not historians" and "I have an M.A.", and distraction fallacies with "personal attacks" after being told that you're wholly and wildly misrepresenting something over and over in 4 AFD discussions, and now the all-too-often-abused "uncivil" when told you that you're doing this over and over and ascribing things to people who didn't assert them (when in fact you yourself did, earlier), and badgering with underlining.
    No, FOARP, you reflect on all this shifting and tapdancing, and why your goal of getting rid of the wretched GNIS stuff has so blinded you that you'll outright resort to all of these tactics and what has now become (since you've had it explained four times over to several utterly fundamental levels) wilful repetition of falsehoods in the face of what's right under your nose, including things that are easy to read right from the title page of a source. This is a poor show for people who are expected to be writing an encyclopaedia. Reflect that you're now being lauded by the "I Googled it and got no hits." ("I looked in Google Earth") camp. Counting Google hits is of course not research, but your methodology is being defended by the people who put zero research effort in, whose own approach is also shameful. That's a big red flag that you're going very astray.
    Uncle G (talk) 04:10, 8 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

PROD'd articles

Hello, Uncle G,

I was looking at our PROD list and I think there might be a problem with the PROD tagging you did today. I don't know whether you use Twinkle or paste in a template on to the target article but you have a lot of tagged articles that showed up on the error list (see User:DumbBOT/ProdSummary#Failed to parse). I'm not tech savvy enough to diagnose the problem but since you went to the trouble of evaluating and tagging these articles, it's important they show up on the list that admins review when they come due next week. It might be a problem with the time stamp, that sometimes causes errors. Thanks. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:22, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It was just {{subst:prod}} as always. So nothing should have gone wrong. And the substituted result looks correct as far as I can tell. The only commonality that I see — and some of those nominations aren't mine — is the use of a template within the concern parameter, in this case {{user}}. I'd say that's a problem with the 'bot. Uncle G (talk) 07:59, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Brilliant Idea Barnstar
	i love this page and i'm gonna keep it as a note for future potential articles, thanks! XanderK09 (talk) 19:12, 20 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

this was for the page you posted on the afd discussion, apparently that didn't show up on the barnstar LOL XanderK09 (talk) 19:17, 20 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]