If you feel that I have reverted an edit or issued a warning in error, please click here and let me know. I do make mistakes. Please don't interpret a reversion or warning on my part as a personal attack on you; it's not. Please bring any error to my attention as I am always open to civil discussion. (I will respond here on my talk page unless you request otherwise.) No worries, mate. Geoff
thank you very much for volunteering as a mentor.
I’m currently working on an article draft about *Oahida & Jadid (Nasheed Islamique)* — an international nasheed music project founded by Mounir Akarkach under the independent label Nasheed Islamique.
The article is being improved with reliable sources and external references from platforms such as YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, and others.
Could you please review my sandbox version and let me know what specific improvements are needed to meet Wikipedia’s standards of notability and formatting?
thank you very much for volunteering as a mentor.
I’m currently working on an article draft about *Oahida & Jadid (Nasheed Islamique)* — an international nasheed music project founded by Mounir Akarkach under the independent label Nasheed Islamique.
The article connects traditional Islamic spirituality with modern music aesthetics and features multilingual nasheeds in Arabic, English, French, Spanish, and other languages.
It is being improved with reliable sources and external references from verified platforms such as:
For transparency: I am the founder of the project, but I am trying to write the article neutrally and factually, based on verifiable public sources. --Nadiatun2025 (talk) 19:39, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Question from Nadiatun2025 (19:46, 20 October 2025)
thank you very much for taking the time to support me as a mentor.
For full transparency: I am the founder of the music project *Oahida & Jadid*, released under the independent label *Nasheed Islamique*. I am trying to write the article in a completely neutral and verifiable way, based only on public sources such as Spotify, YouTube, and other streaming platforms where the project is officially present.
My goal is to ensure that the article meets Wikipedia’s notability and reliability standards.
If you could review my sandbox draft and let me know what specific improvements (sources, formatting, neutrality, etc.) I should make before I submit it for review, I would really appreciate your guidance.
@Nadiatun2025: Replying to four messages. The sandbox draft you write about is now Draft:Oahida & Jadid. I appreciate that you have declared a conflict of interest on your user page, User:Nadiatun2025. You should read carefully the article on verifiability and especially the article on reliable sources. Spotify, YouTube, TikTok and other streaming platforms are not reliable sources and may not be used as references in Wikipedia articles. You need independently published, third party stories from publications with a reputation for professional writing, editing and fact-checking. Conflict of interest editing is strongly discouraged because it is extremely difficult to write objectively about yourself, family, friends, clients, employers, or your financial and other relationships. The draft is pending review by the new articles review team, which could take a while due to the backlog mentioned in the review notice. Geoff | Who, me?21:19, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for taking the time to review my submission and for your detailed explanation. I fully understand your concern regarding conflict of interest and the need for independent, third-party sources.
My intention was never promotional; the goal is to document Oahida & Jadid as a cultural and artistic phenomenon within the global nasheed scene. I appreciate your reminder that platforms such as YouTube or Spotify do not qualify as reliable references. I am now in the process of gathering verifiable, third-party materials — including press coverage, interviews, and cultural analyses — from independent media and academic journals.
Once these sources are compiled, I will update the draft accordingly for another review. I truly value Wikipedia’s editorial standards and thank you again for your guidance and patience throughout this process.
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Hello, Glane23. Per your request, your account has been grantedtemporary-account-viewer rights. You are now able to reveal the IP addresses of individuals using temporary accounts that are not visible to the general public. This is very sensitive information that is only to be used to aid in anti-abuse workflows. Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer for more information on this user right. It is important to remember:
Access must not be used for political control, to apply pressure on editors, or as a threat against another editor in a content dispute. There must be a valid reason to investigate a temporary user. Note that using multiple temporary accounts is not forbidden, so long as they are not used in violation of policies (for example, block or ban evasion).
It is also important to note that the following actions are logged for others to see:
When a user accepts the preference that enables or disables IP reveal for their account.
Revealing an IP address of a temporary account.
Listing the temporary accounts that are associated with one or more IP addresses (using the CIDR notation format).
Remember, even if a user is violating policy, avoid revealing personal information if possible. Use temporary account usernames rather than disclosing IP addresses directly, or give information such as same network/not same network or similar. If you do not want the user right anymore then please ask me or another administrator and it will be removed for you. You may also voluntarily give up access at any time by visiting Special:Preferences. Happy editing! Extraordinary Writ (talk) 01:26, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
hello, why is my username: JulianRHIFIL, showing this user does not exist, after i have done some edit and contributed article to wikipedia --JulianRHIFIL (talk) 07:10, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I am the subject of this bio and have updated info to keep current, and added a few lines about my employment history. The new number of peer reviewed lit citations is documented at ResearchGate which has been referenced. As for my former employers, I don't know how this can be documented as I have been retired for more than a decade. 2601:1C2:C182:24D3:C80B:D52B:DF04:4D33 (talk) 23:50, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@2601:1C2:C182:24D3:C80B:D52B:DF04:4D33: You shouldn't be editing an article about yourself as you have a conflict of interest. You can, however, propose changes to the article by editing its Talk page while identifying your conflict of interest as the article subject. There is an edit tool you can use to do this.
You can request edits be made to the article by going to the edit request wizard and following its instructions. For the first step, you'd be clicking the button appropriate to your relationship to the article subject, which in your case is the second button due to your conflict of interest as the article subject. Fill in your proposals for the article in the blanks presented, and be sure to press the Publish changes button when done. This will post a request on the article's Talk page and flag it for the attention of any interested volunteer. (On the mobile app, the link to the Talk page is found at the end of the article.) Your comment will be signed with your username, if logged in, or your IP address, if not.
It will be essential that, along with your suggested changes, you provide links to independently published, third-party reliable sources as references. Reliable sources are described here: Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources. This is so that Wikipedia's readers can verify facts in the article for themselves by reviewing the references cited: Wikipedia:Verifiability.
Also, your proposed changes should be in the form of "x should be Y," "add w to z," "remove b," and so forth. In other words, as specific as possible. Avoid long passages of text which the volunteers may find hard to follow.
Check back on the article Talk page periodically to see any responses to your proposed changes. It might take a while to get a response, so be patient. Do keep in mind that there are over 7 million articles on the English Wikipedia alone and, as of today, only 114,111 active editors, defined as logged on volunteers who have made at least one edit in the past 30 days. Geoff | Who, me?00:07, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Eduard Khomiak: Do you mean to ask how to create a different draft article than the one yet to be submitted for review: Draft:Eclectic Lodge No: 1201? Are you asking how that existing draft might be submitted for review to become a new Wikipedia article upon acceptance? That draft contains the same language as your user page, User:Eduard_Khomiak, which I recommended earlier, and still recommend, that you blank as not proper content for a user page. Geoff | Who, me?16:53, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Eduard Khomiak: You can create a draft and submit it for review by other editors as a part of the "Articles for Creation" project (WP:AFC). The members of this project are experienced editors, though there is much greater demand for their services than there is supply, so you may need to wait a while before your draft is reviewed.
Once you submit your draft, it will be placed into a category where it will be open for review by anyone who reviews submissions. If your submission is approved (which may take more than 3 months because of the current backlog) then an editor will accept it, and you will be notified of the article's creation. If your submission is not accepted, a note will be left on the page describing what can be improved, and you will be notified of this via a message on your "Talk" page.
Note that if you are interested in the publication of an article to which you are very close (e.g., an article about a member of your family, your business, your club/organization/school, or yourself) you probably have a conflict of interest: if so, it will be absolutely critical that you disclose this when you create the article. Please see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest for information about doing so properly. If you do not do this, your user account may become permanently blocked and the article may be deleted. Geoff | Who, me?17:40, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@JosephAnseron04: Start here: Help:Your_first_article, which will help you decide whether the topic you want to write about is suitable for a Wikipedia article. If your subject is suitable for Wikipedia, you can choose the option to create a draft and submit it for review by other editors as a part of the "Articles for Creation" project (WP:AFC). The members of this project are experienced editors, though there is much greater demand for their services than there is supply, so you may need to wait a while before your draft is reviewed.
Once you submit your draft, it will be placed into a category where it will be open for review by anyone who reviews submissions. If your submission is approved (which may take more than 3 months because of the current backlog) then an editor will accept it, and you will be notified of the article's creation. If your submission is not accepted, a note will be left on the page describing what can be improved, and you will be notified of this via a message on your "Talk" page.
Note that if you are interested in the publication of an article to which you are very close (e.g., an article about a member of your family, your business, your club/organization/school, or yourself) you probably have a conflict of interest: if so, it will be absolutely critical that you disclose this when you create the article. Please see Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest for information about doing so properly. If you do not do this, your user account may become permanently blocked and the article may be deleted.
Hello, Glane23. This message is being sent to remind you of significant upcoming changes regarding logged-out editing.
Starting 4 November, logged-out editors will no longer have their IP address publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account (TA) associated with their edits. Users with some extended rights like administrators and CheckUsers, as well as users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will still be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range.
How do temporary accounts work?
Editing from a temporary account
When a logged-out user completes an edit or a logged action for the first time, a cookie will be set in this user's browser and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created for them. This account's name will follow the pattern: ~2025-12345-67 (a tilde, year of creation, a number split into units of 5).
All subsequent actions by the temporary account user will be attributed to this username. The cookie will expire 90 days after its creation. As long as it exists, all edits made from this device will be attributed to this temporary account. It will be the same account even if the IP address changes, unless the user clears their cookies or uses a different device or web browser.
A record of the IP address used at the time of each edit will be stored for 90 days after the edit. Users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will be able to see the underlying IP addresses.
As a measure against vandalism, there are two limitations on the creation of temporary accounts:
There has to be a minimum of 10 minutes between subsequent temporary account creations from the same IP (or /64 range in case of IPv6).
There can be a maximum of 6 temporary accounts created from an IP (or /64 range) within a period of 24 hours.
Temporary account IP viewer user right
How to enable IP Reveal
Administrators may grant the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right to non-administrators who meet the criteria for granting. Importantly, an editor must make an explicit request for the permission (e.g. at WP:PERM/TAIV)—administrators are not permitted to assign the right without a request.
Administrators will automatically be able to see temporary account IP information once they have accepted the Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy via Special:Preferences or via the onboarding dialog which comes up after temporary accounts are deployed.
Impact for administrators
It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects the autoblock option.
It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this (see a video about IPContributions in a gallery below).
Rules about IP information disclosure
Publicizing an IP address gained through TAIV access is generally not allowed (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 previously edited as 192.0.2.1 or ~2025-12345-67's IP address is 192.0.2.1).
Publicly linking a TA to another TA is allowed if "reasonably believed to be necessary". (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 and ~2025-12345-68 are likely the same person, so I am counting their reverts together toward 3RR, but not Hey ~2025-12345-68, you did some good editing as ~2025-12345-67)
Hi I am actually just starting out, and I am helping out as a volunteer to edit someone's profile. I did however made a mistake in creating an initial account that matches her actual person (IreneNgAuthor). My thought process was actually to create it on-behalf for her and proceed to update the Wikipedia page and when the process is completed, handover the account to herself for ownership.
After reading her Wikipedia draft, I understand her intent (shifting her focus as an ex-politician to her current active role as a writer) and I started to (carelessly, using ChatGPT and her reference links which may have outdated) I have wasted the people's time reviewing information that has not been carefully vetted. For this I do feel ashamed and sorry for that.
Hence I will like to ask for your advise how can I proceed to continue this update and also what should I do with the account IreneNgAuthor ? --Dancris7 (talk) 14:09, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Dancris7: Accounts cannot be shared and, as you learned, accounts created by someone else in the name of another person will quickly be blocked. Accounts cannot be deleted, so you can simply abandon the other account. For the new account, since you are editing on behalf of Ms. Ng, you must declare a conflict of interest per WP:COI. The requested move (retitling of the article) has been denied, per the Talk page discussion: Talk:Irene_Ng_(politician)#Requested_move_3_November_2025. Going forward, once you have declared your conflict of interest, you should not edit the article but instead propose changes on the article's Talk page. You should disclose your conflict of interest on the article's Talk page, as well as on your new account user page, so that the other volunteers are aware of the conflict as they review your proposed changes. Also, you know now that using an LLM like ChatGPT to edit Wikipedia is very highly discouraged. Geoff | Who, me?14:46, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, how can I delete a draft? I realized I accidentally created a translation community draft for a page, and another draft for the same page was already in the works. --Foreverwillbeokay (talk) 20:35, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Umar Choudhary8: Sorry, no. New articles are not reviewed on request. You could have left the article as a draft and submitted it for review through the Articles for Creation process instead of moving it to mainspace. As it is, the article is in the unreviewed queue as created today, and it will eventually be reviewed. There is a backlog of over 13,000 new articles waiting to be reviewed, so I cannot predict when that might occur. Geoff | Who, me?20:04, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@JoelTheEditor: There are clues in 3 messages about your edits on your user Talk page: User_talk:JoelTheEditor. For one example, in this edit you removed a reference from the article. The bottom line is that all edits by all editors are subject to review and revision by all other editors. Read this essay: Wikipedia:BOLD,_revert,_discuss_cycle. If your edits are reverted, start a discussion about it on the article's Talk page. Your user account is 17 hours old, and you might well have a bit to learn about how Wikipedia works. Geoff | Who, me?14:53, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@YourLocalZakkFromSomewhere: A citation is a reference in an article to a source which verifies a fact stated in the article. I recommend you read about how Wikipedia defines sources in this article: WP:RS. Sources (also known as "references") are used in articles as citations for facts stated. You can read an outline of how citations work on Wikipedia here: Help:Referencing_for_beginners. Reading both of those will help you understand the difference. Geoff | Who, me?19:09, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Dancris7: Looks OK to me. You might also add a notice to the article's Talk page, Talk:Irene_Ng_(politician). You can use the connected contributor template: {{Connected contributor|User1=Dancris7|U1-declared=yes|U1-otherlinks=(Optional) - you can leave this field blank}} Put the template right below the "old move" notice and above the first section, ==File:Irene Ng Phek Hoong.jpg Nominated for Deletion==. See the COI article section for more: WP:DISCLOSE. Geoff | Who, me?14:01, 14 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Yvrpunk: Well, you have an issue writing about your own band. As Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia written by its readers, the subjects for our articles are generally chosen by the editing community rather than by request. There is a venue where you can request articles at WP:REQ, or if you wish, to write your own.
Please note that although Wikipedia has many articles on companies and products, our website is not a business or web directory. For more information about why this is so, please see WP:NOTDIR. You may also find it helpful to view our notability requirements at Wikipedia:Notability (for the general guidelines) and WP:MUSIC (for guidelines about music, musicians, albums, songs, etc.).
You should also be aware that the Wikipedia community strongly discourages articles written by individuals close to a subject because of the inherent problem of "conflict of interest"— this is the difficulty in writing objectively about your organization, your family, your work, or yourself. You can read more about the issues around conflict-of-interest editing here: WP:COI, and about autobiography rules here: WP:AUTO.
If you decide to proceed, and after you have declared your conflict of interest as outlined in the article, start here: Help:Your_first_article, which will help you decide whether the topic you want to write about is suitable for a Wikipedia article. If your subject is suitable for Wikipedia, you can choose the option to create a draft and submit it for review by other editors as a part of the "Articles for Creation" project (WP:AFC). The members of this project are experienced editors, though there is much greater demand for their services than there is supply, so you may need to wait a while before your draft is reviewed.
Once you submit your draft, it will be placed into a category where it will be open for review by anyone who reviews submissions. If your submission is approved (which may take more than 3 months because of the current backlog) then an editor will accept it, and you will be notified of the article's creation. If your submission is not accepted, a note will be left on the page describing what can be improved, and you will be notified of this via a message on your "Talk" page.
And once again, since you are interested in the publication of an article to which you are very close (e.g., an article about a member of your family, your business, your club/organization/school, or yourself) you have a conflict of interest: it will be absolutely critical that you disclose this when you create the article. Please see the conflict of interest article I wrote about earlier for information about doing so properly. If you do not do this, your user account may become permanently blocked and the article may be deleted.
Hi! I made an edit to the Hurst, Berkshire page, changing its parliamentary constituency from Maidenhead to Wokingham, due to the constituency boundary changes in the 2024 general election. This change was reverted by your account, and I was wondering why. Thanks DoctorDisco12 (talk) 13:54, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Safiel Athumani Msuya: As you may already know, Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia written by its readers. The subjects for our articles are generally chosen by the editing community rather than by request. While there is a venue where you can request articles, a request for an article creation on oneself is likely to be declined. You can visit our 'requests for articles' page at Wikipedia:Requested_articles.
It's also important to realise that Wikipedia strongly discourages articles written by the subjects themselves or by others close to a subject because of the difficulty in writing objectively about yourself, your family, or your work. Please see Wikipedia:Autobiography for our guidelines on writing about yourself or topics you are personally involved with. While keeping in mind conflict of interest issues, please note that if someone does create an article about you, you should feel more than welcome to edit the article's Talk page to ensure that each piece of information is factual and complying with our "Biography of Living Persons" policy. This policy can be viewed at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons.
Hello! Voting in the 2025 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 1 December 2025. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
