User talk:GoingBatty

This user prefers to receive notifications. Please use {{ping}} or {{reply to}} when you reply to him on other pages. No talkback messages are needed.

Christmas greetings

Maria Gloriosa

May the bells of Christmas ring for freedom!

May peace be upon us.

And have a happy and prosperous New Year. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 18:42, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

References

Happy Holidays Batty

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2024!

Hello GoingBatty, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2024. Happy editing, ★Trekker (talk) 19:29, 24 December 2023 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

★Trekker (talk) 19:29, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Nomination of Talk:Steven Stalinsky for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Talk:Steven Stalinsky is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Talk:Steven Stalinsky until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

yaguzi (talk) 23:10, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Natdog21 on Eddie Phillips (quarterback) (00:58, 25 December 2023)

Hello, Eddie Phillips is my cousin. Is he still alive, and where does he live. --Natdog21 (talk) 00:58, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

@Natdog21: Hi there! I don't know if he is alive or where he lives, and I don't know why you asked me. You could try asking at Talk:Eddie Phillips (quarterback) to see if anyone has published reliable sources to add information to the article. GoingBatty (talk) 01:18, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Madness (band)

Madness (band) has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Hog Farm _Talk 01:14, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Kimicarson (04:10, 27 December 2023)

Can I write an autobiography or article about my nonprofit? --Kimicarson (talk) 04:10, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi there! WP:AUTO explains that Wikipedia strongly discourages autobiographies, WP:NOTPROMO explains that Wikipedia isn't a place to promote your organization. Creating a new Wikipedia article can be quite challenging, especially when you have a conflict of interest (COI). To learn how to edit, I suggest you start at Help:Introduction, and then spend a significant amount of time editing existing articles to hone your skills. When you're ready to create an article, you would gather multiple published independent reliable sources that have provided significant coverage of you or your nonprofit, and determine whether they demonstrate that you or it meets Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, called "notability". There are separate notability criteria for people and notability criteria for organizations. If so, you would declare your COI on your user page, and then follow the instructions at Help:Your first article and summarize what the sources have published. Be prepared for a process that may include months of waiting for review, declines, and rewrites, before an article is accepted. If you are successful, then you could never edit the article directly due to your COI, but could submit edit requests on the article talk page. Hope this helps. GoingBatty (talk) 14:16, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

CS1 error on Lil Mabu

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Lil Mabu, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

• A "bare URL and missing title" error. References show this error when they do not have a title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 20:38, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

Happy New Year, GoingBatty

BabbaQ (talk) — is wishing you a Happy New Year! Welcome the 2024. Wishing you a happy and fruitful 2024 with good health and your wishes come true! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year! May the 2024 go well for you.

@BabbaQ: Hi there! Hope you're doing well, and have a happy 2024 on Wikipedia (and in real life too)! GoingBatty (talk) 17:14, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Miafly07 on Wikipedia:Writing better articles (11:07, 31 December 2023)

How do I create an article on a famous artist? --Miafly07 (talk) 11:07, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

@Miafly07: Hi there! Creating a new Wikipedia article can be quite challenging, especially if you do not have a lot of experience editing existing Wikipedia articles. To learn how to edit, I suggest you start at Help:Introduction. I suggest spending a significant amount of time editing existing articles to hone your skills. Once you're ready to create an article, you would gather multiple independent reliable sources that have provided significant coverage of the subject, and determine whether it meets Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, called "notability". If so, you could follow the instructions at Help:Your first article and summarize what the sources have published, and be prepared for a process that may include waiting for review, declines, and rewrites before an article is accepted. Hope this helps, and happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 18:01, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

Did you change Draft:Legend Airlines (Romania)?

Did you change it so it would be okay for approval or is it just to remove "excess / not needed" info? Poyeker (talk) 12:28, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

@Poyeker: When you go to Draft:Legend Airlines (Romania) and click "View history", you can see that the edits I made in these edits were the following:

• Bolded the article title
• Removed spaces before the <ref> tag
• Changed "varying" to "various"
• Changed "Human Trafficking" to "human trafficking"
• Added a "References" section

I did not remove any information from the draft. In these edits today, I added citation templates to the bare URLs.

The reformatting I've done to the draft will help it to look pretty and help you understand how an article should be formatted. However, the submission declined notice at the top of the draft states "the draft needs multiple published sources that are: in-depth (not just brief mentions about the subject or routine announcements), reliable, secondary, strictly independent of the subject. Make sure you add references that meet all four of these criteria before resubmitting." Good luck with your draft! GoingBatty (talk) 14:54, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Question from CapehistoricalSociety (13:28, 4 January 2024)

The original wikipedia post on Parow has a couple of inaccuracies, as well as the references to the information is mostly broken links or it pertains to something other than historical fact.

I have information that Johann Heinrich Ferdinand Parow did not arrive in Table Bay with a ship named the Kehrwieder, but with the Gem, and the article makes it seemed as if he was shipwrecked here, while in fact his ship was berthed during the great storm of 1865... He had been here a week before the storm, yet the author shows that he felt the storm.

Furthermore, Johann and Johannah Parow bore a boy child, yet the author does not mention this... instead says the couple was childless.

Captain Parow could have founded Parow if the well known Starke and Duminy families had been farming the area as well as his family in law the Timmermans that assisted him.

This is the second account I have created. In that first account I received a lot of pushback from the editing committee when I tried to highlight some of the FAKE history in articles, so I hope I can be of assistance...I have collected over a thousand inaccuracies of wikipedia and re-posted them as #joumasepaedia on my own fb group; Cape Historical Society. --CapehistoricalSociety (talk) 13:28, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

@CapehistoricalSociety: Hi there! The best place to provide feedback (along with published reliable sources) is the article's talk page (e.g. Talk:Parow, South Africa). I don't know why you created a second account instead of continuing to use your first account. I'll leave a note on your talk page about the name of this account. There is no "editing committee" - everyone is a volunteer editor, and you can be one too! If you'd like to start editing, I suggest reviewing Help:Introduction. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 15:03, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Question from Mamasaurus34 (16:18, 4 January 2024)

HI, I've written an article in my User page section and pressed publish. Please advise how I can get this reviewed and published so that it goes live. Thanks. --Mamasaurus34 (talk) 16:18, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

@Mamasaurus34: Hi there! I have moved your page to Draft:John Cameron (TV presenter) and added the {{AfC submission}} template to the top. Please read it carefully and ensure you have enough published reliable sources that provide significant coverage of Cameron before you submit it for review. I'll make some more tweaks to your draft so it better conforms with Wikipedia's Manual of Style. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 17:08, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I've also cleaned up the article a bit and removed some extraneous detail. I think my principal concern is that article gave me the impression he was a presenter of Bargain Hunt (whatever happened to David Dickinson?) but he's actually just one of several experts who is called on. As an analogy, Jay Blades has an article, but most of The Repair Shop experts and restorers don't. So, all that said, I've put the draft up for review, as I suspect there will be a decision to either keep the article or turn it into a redirect to Bargain Hunt. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 10:37, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Page Revise !

Dear @GoingBatty,Hope your doing good!

I'm Requesting you again to review this page Draft:Dwaraka Creations

please do the needful, thankyou! Mr.shaikmeer (talk) 13:22, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

@Mr.shaikmeer: I made a couple more tweaks for you. As stated at the top of the draft, you'll need to find better sources before resubmitting. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 15:14, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Thankyou @GoingBatty! Mr.shaikmeer (talk) 05:11, 6 January 2024 (UTC)