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Feel free to remove troll messages from your user talk page. LizRead!Talk! 02:27, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
November 2021
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. You appear to be repeatedly reverting or undoing other editors' contributions at ICBT Campus. Although this may seem necessary to protect your preferred version of a page, on Wikipedia this is known as "edit warring" and is usually seen as obstructing the normal editing process, as it often creates animosity between editors. Instead of reverting, please discuss the situation with the editor(s) involved and try to reach a consensus on the talk page.
If editors continue to revert to their preferred version they are likely to lose their editing privileges on that page. This isn't done to punish an editor, but to prevent the disruption caused by edit warring. In particular, editors should be aware of the three-revert rule, which says that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Edit warring on Wikipedia is not acceptable in any amount, and violating the three-revert rule is very likely to result in loss of your editing privileges. Thank you. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 11:28, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
I have read the message you placed on my talk page. Please do not put messages like that on my talk page. WP:APPNOTE says "The audience must not be selected on the basis of their opinions—for example, if notices are sent to editors who previously supported deleting an article, then identical notices should be sent to those who supported keeping it" and "do not send messages to users who have asked not to receive them". James500 (talk) 14:19, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
Apologies, I must've misread that, or read something somewhere else that suggested only notifying people who might disagree. I was wanting you to weigh in, as I'd nominated that for deletion and was wanting your input to the discussion, since you had asked to keep previously. I wasn't aware that you had asked not to receive them, but I am now, apologies for that. Mako001 (talk) 14:29, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
About case law
A law report normally contains commentary on the case written by the reporter, that is not part of the judgment, and which is not a primary source in relation to the case. Where the same case is reported in more than one series of reports, those multiple reports are not a single source. James500 (talk) 07:07, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
PRODs
Hello, The Alternate Mako,
Could you please space out the articles you PROD over a few days rather than all at once? Admins who review articles and files that have been PROD'd have to inspect them each individually to see if the tag was appropriate. There are typically between 20-50 articles PROD'd each day and today we already have 169! It's a lot for the patrolling admins to look over so if this is some big, new project of yours, please consider PRODding 10-30 articles a day over the course of a few days or a week instead of over 100 articles on one day. Thank you for your consideration. LizRead!Talk! 21:46, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
Sorry Liz, I didn't have much opportunity to do it during the week, and had prodded several before, but I did prod most on Sunday. I had come across a large group of articles by a single editor which mostly had major issues, regarding verifiability, synthesis of primary sources, notability and such, with some or many (such as a the Henry Petowe article) being potentially copyvios. these are all the ones I intend to prod out of this collection, so this won't be an ongoing thing, should I come across another large group of other articles with issues, I shall bear your advice in mind, thank you. Some of their other articles are salvageable, and I will see if I can rescue some. I have already done some work on the ones where deletion isn't appropriate.
Thank you for trying to help with WP:RFPP, but, unfortunately, this is one of strictly admin areas on Wikipedia. Even in fully uncontroversial cases, such as marking a request as done, a bot would only recognize it if the closing is done by an administrator. Declining requests also should be done by admins. Thanks again, and we have plenty of venues where non-admin clerking is highly welcome.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:31, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
Bummer. Mako001 (talk) 12:32, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
Language troll sock
Hi! Thanks for handling the reverts. The editor has already been blocked; just for the record, here are some diffs in case you're interested about the sockmaster: new sock[1], old sock[2], sockmaster[3]. –Austronesier (talk) 15:12, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
List of WarnerMedia television programs
Hello, can you remove Pretty Little Liars and Pretty Dirty Secrets off the Warner Bros. Television Studios section? Because there Warner Horizon shows not Warner Bros. TV shows. 148.252.129.113 (talk) 11:56, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
Nope. Not for you sorry. I'll report you instead. I'm no-ones meatpuppet. Know someone called Nabasile? @Geraldo Perez: See the latest?
UAA
Thanks for the report at WP:UAA but please note that some wikis allow organisation accounts - see Commons policy for an example, the German wiki is another. Please don't report users at WP:UAA if they haven't edited on this wiki. Cabayi (talk) 07:39, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
@Cabayi: Ok, thanks for that. Mako001 (talk) 08:01, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
Abdulah Skaka
Dear Marco,
I read your messages, I'm glad I became part of wikipedia. I read the instructions for use, thank you for the instructions. The content now on wikipedia is maliciously written, and any text additions are deleted. My first project is Abdulah Skaka biography, and i want to learn from this example how to edit so i can make corrections on multiple pages that are also maliciously written. Please inform me why the content I am adding is deleted? Thank you in advance for your help. Best regards. AidaJahic (talk) 17:25, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
Got confused by your two usernames
I pinged the account in your signature when replying to your question here. Perhaps you could at least hint in your signature that the username is different? Since it is blue like any non-fancy signature, it didn't even occur to me that your username is something else. Anyway check my reply there. Hemanthah (talk) 04:34, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
Sorry about that. I'm looking to usurp the Mako001 account, since I had created that some time ago, but was never able to login. I'm still waiting for a bit though, since usurpation requests by new users aren't really looked upon very seriously. I may alter my sig somewhat in the meantime though, since it has now caused confusion. Mako001 (talk) 04:41, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!
Hi The Alternate Mako! Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, ~ ToBeFree (talk) 02:36, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
Edit war accusation
Hello!
I am a regular "Recent changes patroller", and as far as I know, the WP:3RR rule does not apply when reverting clear vandalism. My intent was to revert the instances of blanking only. Can you please explain the warning here after I reported the IP user to the AIV? Thanks! ♥Th78blue (They/Them/Their • talk)♥ 04:28, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
@Th78blue: Users (registered or unregistered) may remove any messages (exceptions apply for declined unblock requests and speedy deletion notices), including warnings, from their own talk pages, I believe that is to be found at WP:NOTWALLOFSHAME. I see that you actually tripped an edit filter designed to remind users about that rule. It isn't really considered an issue, since it is the same as the user acknowledging that they have seen it, and remains in the history anyway.
In short, talk page blanking, except removing declined unblock requests and speedy deletion notices, is not considered vandalism.
I removed the warning I placed on your talk page, since I realised that you seemed to have stopped by then anyway, so it served no purpose. Mako001 (C) (T) (The Alternate Mako) 05:32, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
I Will Add References When I'm Done Editing
Hello! I was editing Faradina Mohd. Nadzir's Wikipedia today and I saw that you left me a message three times regarding unreferenced or poorly sourced information. You even removed the work that I spent hours on three times today and I had to redo it all over again. Please do not worry. I will reference it once I am done with editing (which I am almost done with until you decided to remove them all). I am not vandalising the Wikipedia and I have the sources with me. In fact, I am currently collecting all of the sources so I can reference them all at once. It is my first time editing and referencing on Wikipedia so please don't send me any more warnings and block me from editing, my internship depends on this :') -Aleeyasw (talk) 08:02, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
I'll paste the source of the revision with everything you added into your user sandbox, then you can work on it in your own time, and add it to the article when it is ready. As a bit of advice, it is generally best practice to add references as you go, especially on BLP articles. The other alternative is to put an "under construction" template on the page, that can also help to explain to anyone why there is unreferenced material there. Thanks for getting in touch. 🙂 Mako001 (C) (T) (The Alternate Mako) 08:13, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
@Aleeyasw:No worries, you should find a copy of the article in your sandbox page now at User:Aleeyasw/Sandbox. Let me know if you have any more questions.Mako001 (C) (T) (The Alternate Mako) 08:26, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
Rollback
Hi The Alternate Mako. After reviewing your request, I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when using rollback:
Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into trouble or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! FASTILY 03:37, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
Thanks very much, I noticed the new button when I hit the view changes button on the notification, so it seems to have worked, I may give it a couple of tests in an appropriate venue. Thanks again for all your assistance! Mako001 (C) (T) (The Alternate Mako) 03:44, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
Discussion which unfortunately lead to a de facto IBAN
The events leading to the posting of the notice below. Mako001 (C) (T) (The Alternate Mako)
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
Do meaningful contributions, not just 'delete' and 'revert'
Hi, I just reverting Aji Pangeran Tumenggung Pranoto International Airport to a 'higher quality revision'. If you want to upload highest quality blueprint, please do such (sourced) upload in Commons. If your contribution quality is (very) poor: removing blueprint map on the article, or maybe do another meaningless revert; I think it does not have any positive impact for Wikipedia.--Jellylovers (talk) 08:11, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
@Jellylovers: **Cough** (I will assume that you don't intend that as a personal attack) 🙂
Unfortunately, there are several issues with that image. First of all, it doesn't give any context, so it seems to be just a bunch of different coloured shapes. It also seems like there are some errors in it as well, like placing the runway behind another part of the image instead of in front. It also has probably got accessibility issues, which means that not everyone will be able to understand it. Unfortunately, it doesn't add anything to the article, and if an image doesn't add value to an article, it shod not be in that article. That is why I have removed it. It was nothing personal, I wasn't even aware that you had uploaded it. Mako001 (C) (T) (The Alternate Mako) 09:19, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
I just copy your words on your edit summary:'(very) poor'. The image name is clear, '...development, land', so it compares the previous masterplan's (KM 28, 2002) land and the current masterplan's (2021) land. There is no runway actually, because it is not a layout.
So there is no problem with the image. The problem is nobody upload the airport layout in Commons yet.--Jellylovers (talk) 09:31, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
@Jellylovers: The fact that you have had to explain that to me says quite a bit about how clear that image is. It should at least have some sort of labels on the parts of the image to say what each part of the image represents. Mako001 (C) (T) (The Alternate Mako) 09:41, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
The label description is on the 'Summary' section. If you request for image revision (regarding label (right) on the image), you should not nominate deletion of the blueprint image, just contact me on Commons talk page, I will made a revised image.--Jellylovers (talk) 09:55, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
It seems like you don't understand what I am trying to get at here. The image should be deleted from Commons as it doesn't not have any encyclopedic value. It would be best you if it was deleted, then you can upload another with each part of the image labelled to email what it is, using the same file name. Mako001 (C) (T) (The Alternate Mako) 10:12, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
Once again, no need to delete. It is labelled now.--Jellylovers (talk) 10:45, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
@Jellylovers: No, that's not what I meant, but this isn't going to go anywhere productive. Consider yourself banned from my talk page, per WP:NOBAN, for 24 hours, required notices aside. Mako001 (C) (T) (The Alternate Mako) 11:15, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
You [Jellylovers] can consider yourself permanently banned from my talk page back on en.wiki and anywhere else, including here. I do not want to see another message from you, addressing me, on any wiki, anywhere, unless absolutely necessary. I'm fed up with your cross-wiki incivility, personal attacks and general mudslinging.
I already apologised for the incident you refer to, (if you have bothered to read your talk page back on en.wiki) and so I consider this sort of carry-on from you is totally uncalled for, and if you keep it up, I will escalate the issue. Mako001 (C) (T) (The Alternate Mako) 13:34, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
Ref your edit of Bellaghy GAC wikipage
Hi,
You recently reverted my edits. You stated that I did not provide a summary as to why I made the edits. I did provide a summary but I will expand further here.
The facts are that a "group of people" parked their buses without permission in Bellaghy GAC car park. Uamaol describes this as a "major" event and you apparently agree. The car park is unsecured and deliberately so. On a daily basis the car park is used by many people "without permission". Are these also "events"?
The main event on that day was the (possibly illegal) parade which took place on the public highway and mainly in the centre of Bellaghy town. There was a significant police presence in the town and they established road blocks up to five miles from the town. The police took no action on the day or, as far as I know, since.
Uamaol's edit is biased in that he states that the event took place on club premises. The club facilities were locked and the only event that occurred on club premises was the parking of vehicles. It is not possible to hold an event without access to the facilities from the car park.
To summarise, this event is being associated with Bellaghy GAC for whatever reason. Before the event, Bellaghy GAC issued a statement saying that they had not been asked for permission to use the club facilities.
As a club manned entirely by volunteers, we do not have the resources to "guard" our car park. If the police were unable to prevent the gathering, how could Bellaghy GAC prevent the gathering? The tone of Uamaol's edit suggests that Bellaghy GAC were complicit in this event. The facts are that the car park was hijacked without permission by person or persons unknown, a fact which the club made known in their statement.
Please revert your edit as this "event" should not be associated with Bellaghy GAC. The club did all they could to indicate that they did not approve of the event. To have prevented the use of the car park would have required significant resources which the club (and the police) do not have. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.148.200.201 (talk) 12:12, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
@86.148.200.201: First of all, thank you for taking the time to write such a lengthy message. Second, I have reverted that edit. Since this is a genuine content dispute, I am not going to get involved, especially since it is one that has possible links to Irish Republicanism, The Troubles and such like. I'd rather avoid drama. Anyways, have a nice afternoon. Mako001 (C) (T) 12:48, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for your reply. I am a member of Bellaghy GAC. The club is entirely a sporting organisation and has always tried to avoid getting involved in political matters. In this particular incident, unnamed persons hijacked our car park even though we were never asked for its use (we would have refused). Prior to the parade the club issued a statement making that position perfectly clear. The organisers ignored our statement.
I must apologise for my anonymity and not using my wiki account. Three innocent members of our club have already been murdered as some people are of the opinion that we are involved in political matters. Some of the organisers of the Bellaghy town parade are already facing charges for entirely unrelated "events". Thank you for your understanding.
A question for you
Hi! Thank you so much about the 'thank' you gave me on Khazar University, and I really appreciate that! Anyways, I wanted to ask you a question: Should I report an account that I suspect to be a sockpuppet although it is a new account and only have a few edits? Apparently, I saw Aytajibrahimli was adding information to Khazar University as according to my watchlist, but when I view the diffs, I found out that the editor was adding the same stuff as Politicskhazar, who was blocked earlier due to the username. So should I report to WP:SPI or just wait for more editing to determine if Aytajibrahimli is a sockpuppet?(or they just have the same edits coincidentally?) Jolly1253 (talk) 10:04, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
Apologies for the phrasing of the paragraph as I am not really good at expressing my thoughts with words. Adding on, I am hesitant about reporting to WP:SPI as I'm afraid that the edits that the account made is too stale to be reported(I only reverted the edit about an hour later when it was made). The account had also made a edit on Khazar University Department of Political Science and International Relations about adding the same promotional stuff, and I have also reverted it. Jolly1253 (talk) 10:10, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
@Jolly1253: I've had a look at the article history, those two account's contributions and a few other things. Aytajibrahimli is almost certainly Politicskhazar, but Politicskhazar was "soft"-blocked (blocked, but without blocking the underlying IP address or blocking them from making a new account), and advised to change their username or create a new account with a more suitable username. So they haven't broken any rules by making the second account, since that was one of the options that the blocking admin left for them. Having said that, I'm going to report the new account as promotional only, since their edits and the ones from the old account show that they are definitely not here to build an encyclopedia. Mako001 (C) (T) (The Alternate Mako) 10:44, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
Alright, I guess this situation is settled. Thank you for the reply and hope you have a nice day ahead! Jolly1253 (talk) 10:55, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
@Jolly1253: Well, I'm the UTC+8 timezone, so my day is finishing up, thanks all the same. 😁 Mako001 (C) (T) (The Alternate Mako) 11:01, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
Hey, I am also in the UTC+8 timezone! Pretty nice to find someone that is in the same timezone. Jolly1253 (talk) 11:05, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
However, per Template:Dead_link#Usage, the template should be added before the </ref>. You added it after the </ref>, which means that bots won't rescue the link..
I have fixed this instance, but wanted to point this out to you for the future.
@BrownHairedGirl: thanks for pointing that out, I mustn't have read the template doc correctly. Mako001 (C) (T) (The Alternate Mako) 12:28, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
It's a bit tricky, cos most tags go outside, but deadlink goes inside. So it's easy to get confused. BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (contribs) 13:34, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
Some baklava for you!
Could you please add a section where we could enter HBO Europe's TV Series in the " List of WarnerMedia television programs" since HBO & HBO Europe, both are part of WarnerMedia. That list contains HBO shows, but it doesn't contain HBO Europe shows like Beforeigners & others. Imtiaz.kazi3 (talk) 15:11, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
@Imtiaz.kazi3: I can do, what do you want the title of the section to be exactly? I'm unfamiliar with the specific topic, but I can make a section header and a new, blank table. Alternatively, you can try making it yourself with the instructions here:Help:Introduction to tables with Wiki Markup/1, and here: WP:SECTIONHEAD. Mako001 (C) (T) (The Alternate Mako) 06:22, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
@The Alternate Mako and Mako001: The title can be "HBO Europe", and the sub-title will be "Original Programming", below it in a table we can add all the original HBO Europe Programming TV Shows
@Imtiaz.kazi3: I wasn't able to put the "List of original programming" in, but you should be able to add new rows to the table quite easily with the visual editor. Mako001 (C) (T) 06:31, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
@The Alternate Mako and Mako001: Could you please add a section where we could enter WarnerMedia Direct's TV Series in the " List of WarnerMedia television programs" since WarnerMedia Direct, is a part of WarnerMedia. That list contains WarnerMedia shows, but it doesn't contain WarnerMedia Direct shows like Generation & others. Imtiaz.kazi3
@Imtiaz.kazi3: I can do, but it's getting late for me, so you might get it done quicker if you message one of the other editors who has contributed to that article. Either that or have a go at doing it yourself in your user sandbox, you might learn something very useful? I can still do it if you would like. Mako001 (C) (T) 13:19, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
103.124.226.242
Thank you for reporting this IP address. I suspect that this is long-term abuse from Bangladesh. Please see the edit history for this IP and also for a similar IP address, which I warned several times. Please also see this sockpuppet investigation. This sockpuppetry resulted in the page Shahjalal International Airport (airport serving Dhaka, Bangladesh) being extended-confirmed protected. Johnj1995 (talk) 16:05, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
I've run into a similar situation in the Indonesian airport/ airline articles, there is a sockmaster, Jellywings19, who persistently adds unsourced information to the destinations. Oddly enough, there is also another sockmaster Sarah Carvalho, who seems intent on chasing them down and reverting them. They end up on so many similar pages that User Compare actually makes them seem likely to be the same editor, however their editing behaviour is very, very different. Mako001 (C) (T) 23:14, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
I removed the cartoon depicting of Prophetﷺ.
It is not right to keep that cartoon.
Not only it is against his consent, but the image is also disrespectful.
I hope you understand this. 111.92.117.232 (talk) 12:07, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
No, consensus has been established that those images remain. If you have an issue, take it to the talk page. Revert me again and it's off to WP:ANI. Mako001 (C) (T) 12:17, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
nope
Everything I said was correct Lex was in Superboy so my edit was constructive. You are wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 51.9.96.129 (talk) 21:02, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
First of all, my apologies. Second of of all, don't use edit summaries like that, they are going to result in most editors reverting without even looking at the edit itself. Thirdly, I did look at the edit. Whilst I instinctively considered it to be non-constructive, the main issue is that you should have provided a source for it, and so it wasn't able to add anything to the article, and therefore, wasn't constructive. Unsourced additions fall under the category of non-constructive editing, even if well intended. Please provide a proper source when you add information, even if it's correct. Mako001 (C) (T) 22:37, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
Leilani Dowding article
" I noticed that in this edit to Leilani Dowding, you removed content without adequately explaining why. " - I clearly explained why I removed that content, explaining that according to wikipedia consensus the source given is not reliable. I appreciate the work people do to remove vandalism, but please don't assume that every IP edit is vandalism, and please take a couple of seconds to read edit summaries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources#Daily_Mail136.158.58.88 (talk) 12:40, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
Ah, thanks for spotting that. I'll strike my warning in a second. Mako001 (C) (T) 12:44, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
No worries, I just wanted to make sure I didn't get into an edit war over reliable/unreliable sources. 136.158.58.88 (talk) 12:46, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
@Stephaniemaviles: I'm not familiar with the topic but I'd recommend reading WP:CITE, then adding the information back, along with the sources you've put there, and see if anyone reverts you, if they do, ask them for some pointers, as they will likely know the subject area better than me. Sorry I can't help more, I was just removing something which seemed to be a slightly implausible unsourced addition, but you learn something new every day. "Zombie rum", quite interesting! Mako001 (C) (T) 06:52, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
Airports
So, are you following me around to make a point? This was already discussed, even on AN/I. And there was the conclusion that no action was needed. Where is your discussion? The Bannertalk 10:52, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
And it looks like you are doing bot like edits to make the encyclopedia less reliable. The Bannertalk 10:56, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
Look, I understand that there are issues with the articles, I wont remove any more, but I would really like to see where the discussion was that determined that airports weren't reliable sources? Mako001 (C) (T) 11:06, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
WP:RS... Now you are making a point while using a bot to revert manual edits. The Bannertalk 11:14, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
Note after the fact: All sorted, I wasn't aware that the issue had already been resolved properly. I then reverted my reversions. I think that The Banner and myself are on better terms now, with the whole thing was cleared up. Mako001 (C) (T) 13:56, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
Remove cn
I'd actually remove citation needed on Phuket International Airport since most airlines already operate to and from Phuket in the past few years. Hope you understood! Cornerstone2.0 (talk) 13:12, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
No worries, I'm thinking a big RfC is about due anyway. For more details, see the message I left on User talk:The Banner. Mako001 (C) (T) 13:23, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
I already read! Thanks for the details! And glad you're understand! :)) Cornerstone2.0 (talk) 13:39, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
Need an admin, to check some deleted contribs.
This request for help from administrators has been answered. If you need more help or have additional questions, please reapply the {{admin help}} template, or contact the responding user(s) directly on their own user talk page.
Can I have the usernames who created the deleted articles in the Category:Khazar University? There is good reason to believe that they are all a group of paid editors (or sockpuppets of a single paid editor), and I would like to review their other contributions. No action should be needed against the users themselves, since they seem to have gone quiet some time ago. Mako001 (C) (T) 08:00, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
Assuming you mean articles which were in that category but have now been deleted, there's no way of finding them without further information, as the connection to the category was in the articles themselves, so once they are deleted there is no visible record of their being in that category. However, if you know the titles of the articles then you can provide those, and an administrator will be able to check their deleted history. JBW (talk) 09:56, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
hi. how do i create an article about the walking dead carol and daryl spinoff it has aleady been announced — Preceding unsigned comment added by Year2040 (talk • contribs) 10:41, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
@Year2040: you may want to take a look at Help:Creating your first article, that should give some useful advice, I may drop a list of other helpful places to look for advice on your talk page in a second. Also, remember to sign your posts to talk pages with four tildes like this ~~~~Mako001 (C) (T) 10:44, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
Just a note
While your efforts to deal with vandals are welcome, I thought I'd link the essay WP:DENY and WP:RBI for when they try to interact with you. I'd recommend its advice for future situations like the IP above. Pahunkat (talk) 11:51, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
I was trying to keep them busy off the article whilst waiting for a block. However if it doesn't help, I'll try to avoid interacting in future, thanks for the tip. Mako001 (C) (T) 12:30, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
Messing up on the article about Pittodrie Stadium
Your edits to the article about Pittodrie Stadium have been reverted by me because you have caused vandalism. Please refrain from any further vandalism. 109.249.184.161 (talk) 13:39, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
@109.249.184.161: It would assist greatly if you had used an edit summary to explain your changes there in the first place. All the same, my apologies. Mako001 (C) (T) 13:49, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
Your Content is Offensive and Potentially Libelous
Hello, Mako001. Unfortunately, I see that the edit that you persistently want to publish on the Apollo Quiboloy page is libelous content that unfairly harms a person's reputation. This is against Wikipedia guidelines. The guidelines specifically state: "It is the responsibility of all contributors to ensure that the material posted on Wikipedia is not defamatory."
My edits are definitely not a conflict of interest as you are trying to imply. All information I published on the page is factual — unlike the sources you are trying to cite which clearly are biased information.
Go and raise your concerns with the WMF as I suggested, I'm not going to re add it, someone else might do though. Mako001 (C) (T) 05:31, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
Matahari page
Hi there,
I am replying to your earlier message regarding Matahari Department Store (PLC) page. I am the PIC from the company, and do not know that I have to have a reference. I am just adjusting the facts to the latest update. Kindly advise whether it is a must to put the reference and how to do it. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mir.hads (talk • contribs) 13:56, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
@Mir.hads: Since you have a conflict of interest, please do not edit the article directly. Instead propose changes on the article talk page, I will leave a notice with some useful instructions on your talk page in a moment, and some other links to help with getting started. Mako001 (C) (T) 14:07, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
Unjustified deletion of Talk page edit that you politically oppose
You randomly deleted my comment on the Talk:Welfare State for no reason. I was ANSWERING A QUESTION SOMEONE ASKED. I discussed only facts, not opinions. Stop vandalizing other people's work just because you politically disagree with them. If you have some political axe to grind, deleting other people's work is NOT the way to do it. You do not have a right to censor other Wikipedian's posting of FACTS to grind your political axe. 2601:441:4400:1740:7CBB:F534:DB2F:42BC (talk) 03:21, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
Yes, however it wasn't related to building an encycopaedia, so it didn't belong there. Try Reddit if you want to post that sort of stuff. Mako001 (C) (T) 03:30, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
Your comment about the Inca Empire was fine though, and quite appropriate. Mako001 (C) (T) 03:33, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
I am not aware of any policy that users on Talk Pages are never allowed to reply to each other. I have seen many, many talk pages where people have long threads just asking questions about the topic, especially about updates on theoretical physics theories and technology topics, and none of them had been mass deleted. If there is some rule against discussing anything anywhere you could have politely said "Talk Page isn't the place for forum-type discussions" instead of hostile attacks accusing me of "soapboxing" because I stated some facts that you apparently dislike.
That you used that to threaten to ban me out of nowhere (are you an Admin? what right do you have to ban me for answering somebody's question??) and deleted my discussion of the Inca Empire and the Social Democracy series, without any justification or explanation, shows your excessive hostility. There is no justification for your hostile, aggressive, attacking language towards me, and I have every right to wonder why you are so hostile and angry at me out of absolutely nowhere. If I had actually violated a real policy you could have discussed it CIVILLY with me, and provided a comprehensible link to the relevant policy, instead of making wild, aggressive accusations. 2601:441:4400:1740:7CBB:F534:DB2F:42BC (talk) 04:25, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
I'm not seeing anything productive coming out of this discussion, but if you want to report me to WP:AN3, please type the reason for the report below, and I will repost it on the noticeboard for you. Mako001 (C) (T) 06:12, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
From your comments above though, I am seeing quite a bit of WP:IDHT type behaviour, since your claims there have already been addressed. Mako001 (C) (T) 06:14, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
Actually, I'm just going Archive this now. Mako001 (C) (T) 06:19, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
Follow Historic facts not narrative
Hello User,
With our past interaction, I came to know that you revert my edit without giving me formal notice, also it is a matter of great concern that you not only obstruct the editing of accurate facts on the pages that require improvements but also deliberately thwart the progress of authenticity of the data to be read or otherwise be absorbed by the human intellect.
So whomever it concern, it is my humble request you to is, please keep some rationale and awareness of the historic facts. Kaalyatri (talk) 08:02, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
Changes to one of the edits I made
Hi, I am sorry if i am breaking the rules or anything im new to this site and im just trying to help out my best. Once again I am really sorry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Slothboy78 (talk • contribs) 04:07, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
@Slothboy78: I have left a list of links and such on your talk page, I would recommend that you familiarise yourself with these pages. The main issue here is that the statement is hard to understand, and doesn't really make sense, it was also added in the wrong location. I hope you don't mind me asking, but, is English your first language? Mako001 (C) (T) 04:14, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
@Mako001: No, my first language is Irish English is my 3rd language German being my second.--Slothboy78 (talk) 04:15, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
In that case you may find contributing at the Irish Wikipedia (ga.wikipedia.org), or the German Wikipedia (de.wikipedia.org) a bit easier? I'd recommend that you try there? I can see that you are trying to do to do right thing, but what might make perfect sense to you, may be confusing or unclear to a native English speaker when translated without a deep enough understanding of the language, which takes a long time to establish. However, with you being a native Irish speaker, with some understanding of German and English, I would strongly recommend that you try the Gaeilge Wikipedia. They really need more contributors, and your contributions would be extremely welcome. Mako001 (C) (T) 04:30, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
Judy Banks edit
Hi there,
Writing in response to your deletion of an edit I recently made to Judy Banks' profile. Edit I made removed an incorrect reference to Judy Banks as having served as an assistant director and associate producer for Frontline. While Judy's talents were far-ranging, she did not at any time serve in either director or producer roles, and had no association with Frontline. I have now re-deleted this change in a subsequent edit, and have followed your helpful suggestion of appending an edit note to explain this change.
Best wishes, Andrew (Judy's son) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8003:D9A4:5A00:1F2:A09A:F0D1:D8E6 (talk) 04:17, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
Query from an IP editor about a revert
In Response to your message:
Hello, I'm Mako001. I noticed that you made a change to an article, List of films banned in Canada, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Mako001 (C) (T) 06:36, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I couldn't find a citation, or I would've left one. I know from first hand experience that these films are currently no longer banned in Canada Ontario and are available, albeit cut and rated, in dvd format. I viewed Romeo in Juliet 1968 in highschool in my English class, my mother was also a highschool teacher for English and she had a copy on DVD to show to her class. I also worked at a video store in Ontario in around 2015, and can account for Caligula having been available for rent. I've seen both these movies legally in Canada Ontario. Thanks.
Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 45.72.180.158 (talk) 06:54, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
Sorry, but if you can't find a citation, then it can't be included, per WP:Verifiability. Otherwise it is considered to be original research which is not permitted. Mako001 (C) (T) 07:04, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
@ToBeFree: Hmm, sorry, I'm just getting an error (seems to be something at my end), which page is this from? Mako001 (C) (T) 11:17, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
@ToBeFree: Thanks, I figured it was probably that, but wanted to make sure. Can do. Mako001 (C) (T) 11:27, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
Barnes FC
Hi. The info I added re Barnes FC came from wikipedia itself! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1871%E2%80%9372_FA_Cup (see section on First round). I'm not very good at adding citations, but please reverse the omission as the information I added is relevant and correct. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.32.151.144 (talk) 12:25, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
That's OK. When copying within Wikipedia you just need to say where you got the information from in the edit summary, you may find this link helpful -> Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. If you still aren't sure how to do it, just drop another message here and I'll reinclude it. Mako001 (C) (T) 12:37, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
Thanks - it looks like someone else beat me to it!
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Thanks, you're welcome! I like trophies like this one. Can I keep it? Mako001 (C) (T) 12:13, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
I called you a fascist because you reported me to an WP:AIV, but this is only the tip of the iceberg. The icing on the cake will be me taking legal action.174.216.132.9 (talk) 12:19, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
Excuse me? Your edit summary was "ce" and didn't explain why you deleted the sourced material. I hope this makes it clear? Don't go giving an editor in otherwise good standing a level 3 template for such a pathetic reason again, you will swiftly find yourself blocked. Mako001 (C) (T) 12:34, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
i meant level 2 lmao chill Slashlefty (talk) 12:44, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
You reverted my addition to the page of an election
Your claim was that it appeared to be a test. I was just trying to add the third candidate's picture.
Yes, but it seemed to be a test since you removed the existing image to do so. I will have another look at this. Mako001 (C) (T) 11:08, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
Note: Edit was OK, I have struck the warnings and apologised. Mako001 (C) (T) 11:59, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
Copyright notice on Zane Grey Theatre article
Again, answer the question. What is supposed to be copyrighted? What is being investigated. The user who added it gave no reason as to why they added it and you are merely enforcing it seemingly without knowing what it is about which isn't a good look for a wikipedia editor. _ A (The Mummy). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.90.0.73 (talk) 11:27, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
It was added because the article was created by a user known to be a serial copyright violator, and needs to be checked for copyright violations by a user who has proven experience with such things. The reason why it was added was provided in the template, if you click on the link to the copyvio investigation page, you will see why. Mako001 (C) (T) 11:37, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
Why was this reason not given by the user that added it? Also do you actually have any real evidence of this? It is a bit much to just ask me to believe some random person I do not know on wikipedia. The fact remains that the user who added the notice did not give a reason to why he did; s0rry but the reasons are not clear or obvious when reading the copyright notice at all. _ The Mummy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.90.0.73 (talk) 11:44, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
Yes. WP:IDHT applies quite aptly to your conduct here. Mako001 (C) (T) 11:47, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
So you think it is reasonable to add a copyright reason without specifying why? Strange. Also perhaps you should actually reply to my questions and points? They are perfectly reasonable. _ The Mummy.
Your questions are rhetorical and loaded, hence why I am not answering them. They have also already been answered if you bother to read what I have already written. Mako001 (C) (T) 12:06, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
That is me - I managed to reclaim my account. I had to give away my IP when you started to accuse me of being a sockpuppet of someone I don't know. You seem to be, if I am blunt, pretty paranoid about the user who created the Zane Grey Theatre article so much so that you are ready to just throw these accusations around. I just stumbled upon that article because I was nostalgic for the show only to find a copyright notice replacing the whole article put up by a user who didn't give any reason for doing so and I took it to be a silly act of vandalism masquerading as a legitimate concern; I still stand by my critique that the user who put the copyright notice should have at least given a reason to why they did it in their edit summary; this would have been avoided if they did and I wouldn't have had to reveal my IP (THANKS!).
And, it is pretty impolite to not answer simply questions (which are neither rhetorical or loaded). I simply wanted to know the reason to WHY a whole article is an ugly copyright notice now. I think that is fair. On investigation, which I had to do myself as the notice didn't give a reason either, I gather some of the images might be copyrighted? Instead of adding a notice, it would have been easier to just remove the images. The Mummy (talk) 08:17, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
I have a few points to make:
1. I am not "paranoid" about that user, there is a legitimate concern that this article contains copyvios, as this user created many articles with copyvios. The user has also previously used multiple IP ranges for the purpose of sockpuppetry, even on this very article. Hence why, when an IP appears and removes the copyvio notice repeatedly, it has very good chance of being them.
2. You didn't have to reveal your IP, regardless of what you say. That was your choice and your choice only. I cannot force you to reveal your IP. The suggestion that you may have been a sockpuppet of that user did not force you to reveal your real identity. You could have easily waited until you had recovered your account, before taking action. If you wanted to read the article, it was still there in the history section.
3. You violated 3RR. This is not acceptable. Period. Whether logged in or not.
4. I have given what seems to be the reason for that notice being added, several times over.
5. If you have an issue with that user not leaving a summary, please raise it on their talk page. Mako001 (C) (T) 11:09, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
Reverting changes to history of lindy hop page=
Hi, you reverted changes I made to the history of lindy hop page. I'm not logged in atm, and just forgot to add a reason for the edits.
I've just been doing some tidying up of the grammar and logic of the page so that it makes for clearer reading. Is it possible to have my edits re-instated?
thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:4479:1B01:1B00:65B6:9427:DBF9:C0B9 (talk) 10:50, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
The main issue I have is that you were removing a lot of the references, and then adding other material without sourcing it. You need to citeproper sources when making edits per Wikipedia:Verifiability. As it is at the moment, unfortunately, I cannot reinstate the edits. If you want to make major changes which temporarily break the page in some way, like removing references or adding unsourced content, which is then resolved soon after, you may want to go into "edit source", copy the page to your user sandbox (once you have logged back in), then reinclude it once it is ready, by just replacing the existing material with the edited material. Mako001 (C) (T) 10:59, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for cleaning up the mess
I am sure you know what I'm talking about, really appreciate the boldness to just sweep it all away before the IP was even blocked. You're a legend but I'm sure they'll be back eventually as they have been time and time again, great to have people like you onboard for cases like this. --TylerBurden (talk) 14:45, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
No probs, I had seen a bit about this one before. Mako001 (C) (T) 14:48, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
You are not the topic of the ANI, just notifying you that one of your edits was mentioned. The discussion can be found here. Elijahandskip (talk) 05:49, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
@Elijahandskip: Are some of the diffs a bit mixed up by any chance? The one pointing to my request to stop edit warring points to a diff on the article, not on the IPs talk page. Could you also clarify that my comment to the IP was asking them both (184 included) to stop edit warring, and discuss it properly, not so much telling either particularly to stop? Since as I see it, both are in the wrong by continuing the edit war. Mako001 (C) (T) 06:45, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
@Mako001: Ah thank you for finding that mixed up revision. I corrected that and I also put an amendment note at the bottom noting the warning of 184 + the revision. Again, thank you for catching that revision mix up. Elijahandskip (talk) 06:59, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
No probs, thanks for making the clarification there. Mako001 (C) (T) 07:02, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
Vandalism by another user
Hello, I created an account on here just so I could try communicating with you. The user with the IP address 77.56.17.121 appears to be going around and vandalizing the pages of public holidays in different countries. Most of this user's edits seem to consist of deleting sizeable chunks of pages for public holidays and then going back in and undoing reversions to their vandalism. I was wondering why "Public holidays in North Korea" kept getting shorter and noticed that you undid one of their deletions. The page was fine before this user came on 25 December 2021 and deleted valid information with sources and not all of this information has even been restored at any point since then. Is there anything you can do? I check the page as a reference when doing reading on the DPRK and know that this user's changes are not helpful, I'm not sure about the changes to other pages they have made. Thank you. Nekomantia (talk) 00:16, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
Note:IP in question seems to have long term issues with failing to communicate, unexplained deletion of large amounts of content, and absolutely never using an edit summary, dating back almost four years. Reported to WP:ANI. Mako001 (C) (T) 07:18, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
Further note: IP rangeblocked for 6 months. Mako001 (C) (T) 12:54, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
Incorrect edits of a song performed by Mike Posner labeled “Cooler Than Me”
You removed “Craig Klepto Tucker” as a co writer for the song “Cooler Than Me” please research next time before making incorrect edits. He is indeed a co writer of said song. 2601:589:4101:2FED:2842:FA09:522B:2203 (talk) 20:20, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for alerting me to this, however, if I recall correctly, I reverted it as you did not provide a reliable source. When someone has a middle name of "Klepto" (Kleptos is a Greek word, meaning "to steal" or something like that, and you have likely heard of the term Kleptomaniac) it seems reasonably likely that it is not actually true, and since you hadn't provided a suitably explanatory edit summary I wasn't really able to tell that the edit was constructive. Nevertheless, my apologies. If it is sourced by the sources already provided, feel free to reinclude it, but just explain that it is backed up by the sources provided, otherwise, add a citation to a reliable source when you add it. Cheerio and happy editing! Mako001 (C) (T) 21:59, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
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how are you ,pls if you can help pls help Mstae12 (talk) 11:00, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
@Mstae12: OK will keep it up then. Also, I know you were trying to help but reporting that user to WP:AIV wasn't really necessary, since I had already reported them, at WP:ANI. Their behaviour didn't fall under the types of behaviour that AIV is supposed to deal with. Mako001 (C) (T) 11:42, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
no response,if you can just tell me Mstae12 (talk) 11:46, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
I'll take a look, but I'm not really familiar with the topic area, so I might not be able to help. I'll do my best anyway. 🙂 Mako001 (C) (T) 11:49, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
i will tellwhat neds to be updated Mstae12 (talk) 11:51, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
I might see if @EpicPupper: can help, they responded to an earlier edit request, so might be able to offer more assistance than I can, I'm not really familiar with the film industry from the Indian subcontinent, or the film industry in general, so I can't really determine if the sources meet the needs of that topic area. Mako001 (C) (T) 11:58, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
I can say that tellychakkar may not be a reliable source for this, so you may want to see if you can find sources for this elsewhere. Also, reliable non-english sources are better than unreliable English language ones, so don't worry if your sources aren't in English, so long as they are reliable, that's the main thing. 🙂 Mako001 (C) (T) 12:11, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
but she is seen in the series Mstae12 (talk) 12:37, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
Sorry, I can't really help any further, but you may want to have a look at WP:V, WP:CITE and WP:RS, that might help you to understand why I cannot help much here? Mako001 (C) (T) 12:41, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
@EpicPupper:, sorry for pinging you again, but when you next drop in, can you take a look at the source provided above, and determine if it's OK for the change they want to make as detailed on the article talk page? As I've said above, I'm not too familiar with film industry topics.
@Mstae12 It may take a while before you get a response, so I'd suggest checking back in a few days time? If there's anything else you need help with in the meantime, do t hesitate to ask for help, either here or at the WP:TEAHOUSE. Stay safe and happy editing! Mako001 (C) (T) 13:25, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi @Mako001, thanks for the ping. I've responded to the edit request. 🐶 EpicPupper(he/him | talk) 17:12, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
Thanks, Mako, for taking the trouble to explain why the article is not viable. I'll consider your helpful suggestions. Valetude (talk) 19:10, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
Suggest you look up ‘comments’ on Historic England Enrich the List website re Abbey Tavern and view YouTube film produced by Gary Cunliffe/the Yellow Factory. Bob Pointing 92.25.189.108 (talk) 14:52, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
I was reverting it because you were putting it in the wrong place. Also, comments sections aren't reliable sources. Unfortunately, I cannot reinstate that edit. Mako001 (C) (T) 00:41, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
King Hussein's Funeral
I believe these constitute excessive detail because there's nothing especially notable about lowering flags to half mast or closing government offices. All this is bog standard for the death of a major head of state. Same for the two sections below it: just normal diplomatic tributes, here reproduced verbatim and quoted at length. Just Another Cringy Username (talk) 23:46, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
That is correct. But it is not a good reason to delete all of that section. Instead, you can fix the problem yourself. When something has a maintenance template on it, like that section did, it doesn't usually need to be deleted. Mako001 (C) (T) 23:53, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
GMB
Whatever. IP launches into a massive multilingual rant for no apparent reason. I think that they might just need to go and find something else to do with their afternoon.
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you removed, but it is sourced with the link, really do not understand why you wiki administators do a so bad wiki system, but anyway, who cares --2.203.242.222 (talk) 11:46, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
First of all, wikilinks are not a reliable source. Second, your English skills do not seem to be good enough for you to contribute to the English Wikipedia. How about you try the German Wikipedia, at de.wikipedia.org? Please do not try to use computer translation to contribute to the English Wikipedia as computers are very bad at translating German to English. Also, I am not an administrator. Guten tag. Mako001 (C) (T) 12:01, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
it is ok, it was a further test of mine, but was my last contributions to Wikipedia, system does not work properly at all, because it is made from Amateurs, not really good Professionals, it is bad to work with Amateurs, those are my reasons why abandoned Wikipedia for ever : ( Really Fed Up from this poor System ) IT WILL NEVER IMPROVE
Portuguese
Waste of space. Rant in Portuguese.
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Tentei 15 Anos.. mas Finalmente Me Enchi De Vez. Sempre que via algum erro, ou grande ou pequeno, tentava melhorar o conhecimento lá, e olha que tenho um conhecimento extremamente abrangente, de mais de 40 anos de vida e de indústrias, veículos e outros assuntos observados, de plantas a animais, arquitetura etc, tudo que a mim foi árduo de conseguir e na pêle senti. A última vez foi um caso de mais de 1 mês na Wiki em Inglês. As outras, nas outras línguas nem se considera, pois, ou muito desatualizadas e arcaicas, ou simplesmente bem falhas, assim é a em Português, bem incompleta em todos assuntos, que nada se sabe se ruins brasileiros a modificam, ou um Português ou um Africano sem a mesma boa experiência. Assim foi a gota do veneno de gente sem o mesmo alto nível de conhecimento como o meu sobre assuntos, que roubaram a página que estava abandonada, tratei com o maior cuidado e estragaram. Vem Administradores dúbios de qualquer lugar do mundo e fazem a injustica. Assim foi a minha última palavra lá, no tópico Automotive Industry in Brazil e seu devido Template, mais Spirit Of Ecstasy, Rolls-Royce, General Motors do Brasil Ltda. etc. É claro que só pincelava no que realmente 100 % conhecia. Mas vinha gente sem a mesma experiência se metendo. No caso do Mascote da RR, chegaram a retroceder e nem acreditaram na Imprensa do dono da Patente do Objeto, a própria RR com seus documentos de projetos e descritivo do desenvolvimento no FIZ De München. É demais, nada vale a pena, nem nos navios de cruzeiros, em nada. É gente +- dando pitaco, achando que sabe. Carros pensados eram meu conhecimento, experiências difíceis aprendidas com o ex pai, experiências de rua, até projetos em diversos setores como empregado ou quase de GMB, VWB, BMW & AUDI, Fornecedores e diversas pequenas empresas, observações, leituras de revistas e etc. Assim baseado na boa página da Lexicar Brasil feita de um também Engenheiro Mecânico do Rio de Jeneiro, resgatando quase todas as pequenas manufaturas que existiam e se espalhavam por todo o Brasil, do conhecido ao longe desconhecido, às vezes apenas uma propaganda de jornais, todas as épocas. Mas não, vem um brasileiro dos últimos dias e destrói tudo. Peguei as brigas, fiz e tentei minha palavra vencer a ignorância, Argumentos e Explicações, vem o Administrador e dá a razão parcial ao cara, até eu fazendo tudo com fontes, conhecimento, porque vivi e vi as mesmas coisas de gente muito experimentada, então decidi, nada mais. A Wikipédia é uma referência mais ou menos, mas em tudo o que está escrito lá, não dá para acreditar, não gera confiança na informação, do jeito que o sistema de zé ninguém é. Achei que seria um bom passatempo, hobby, uma ajuda, mas é para esquecer !
English
Garbage, machine translated rant.
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Tried 15 years.. but finally got fed up. Whenever some time, either big or saw an error, tried to look for and making a comprehensive knowledge, of more than >40 years, of life and other subjects observed, everything that was hard for me to achieve and felt in skin. The last time was a 1+ month long case on the English Wiki. Not Like other languages, which be considered very outdated and archaic or simply very flawed, as well as in Portuguese, very incomplete in all topics, which nothing is known, if Brazilian ruins to be modified, or a Portuguese or an African without the same experience. That was the drop of poison from people without the same level of knowledge, on subjects, who stole the one suggested rewriting better, which was abandoned, treated with the greatest care and spoils. Dubious administrators come and do injustice. That was my last word there, on the topic Automotive Industry in Brazil and its Template, plus Spirit Of Ecstasy, Rolls-Royce etc. Of course, just brushed what was really 100% known. But people without the same experience getting involved, coming from nowhere. In the case of the RR Mascot, it has even gone roll back several times and they not even believed in the Press of the owner of the RR Patent, RR itself with its project documents and description of the development at FIZ München. It's too much, nothing is worth it, not even on cruise ships, at all. It's people +- giving a hint, thinking they know. Thought cars were my knowledge, hard experiences learnt from ex father, to street experiences until projects in several industries like GMB, VWB, BMW & AUDI, Suppliers and several small companies, observations, magazines read and so on. So, based in the good Lexicar Brasil page, made from an also Mechanical Engineer of Rio De Jeneiro, rescuing most all small manufactures, who existed and spread in whole Brazil, from the known to the unknown, sometimes just a call from newspapers, all epoques. But no, comes a brazilian from recent days and destroy all. Got into the fights, Arguments and Explanations, comes the Administrators and gives the reason partially to the guy, even me doing all with sources, knowledge, who lived and saw same things, but intrinsic precise better... so decided, no more. Wikipedia is a more or less reference, but in everything what is written there is not to believe, can't be most information be trusted. Thought it would be a good hobby, but it is to forget ! Tried, was stubborn trying, but see how much Vandalism is !
And also fed up from pretending Germans, my family history has more than 600 years of Prussia, you really do not have that, but you cames with the bs 'Woher kommen Sie'? and so on...
So your German Version
Waste of space. Rant in German.
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Ich habe es 15 Jahre lang versucht ... aber ich hatte schließlich die Schnauze voll. Wann immer ich einen Fehler sah, ob groß oder klein, habe ich versucht, das Wissen dort zu verbessern, und ich habe ein äußerst umfassendes Wissen aus mehr als 40 Jahren Leben und von Industrien, Fahrzeugen und anderen beobachteten Themen, von Pflanzen über Tiere, Architektur usw . . , alles was mir schwergefallen ist und ich es in meiner Haut gespürt habe. Das letzte Mal war ein über 1 Monat langer Fall im englischen Wiki. Die anderen, in den anderen Sprachen, gelten daher entweder als sehr veraltet und archaisch, oder einfach als sehr fehlerhaft, so ist die in Portugiesisch, in allen Belangen sehr unvollständig, dass nichts bekannt ist, wenn schlechte Brasilianer sie ändern, oder a Portugiese oder Afrikaner ohne die gleiche gute Erfahrung. Das war der letzte Strohhalm von Leuten ohne die gleiche hohe Sachkenntnis wie ich, die die verlassene Seite gestohlen, mit größter Sorgfalt behandelt und verdorben haben. Dubiose Administratoren kommen von überall auf der Welt und tun Unrecht. Das war mein letztes Wort dort, zum Thema Automobilindustrie in Brasilien und ihre Vorlage, plus Spirit Of Ecstasy, Rolls-Royce, General Motors do Brasil Ltda. etc. Natürlich habe ich nur das angestrichen, was ich wirklich zu 100% wusste. Aber Leute ohne die gleiche Erfahrung mischten sich ein. Im Fall des RR-Maskottchens gingen sie sogar zurück und glaubten nicht einmal der Presse des Inhabers des Objektpatents, RR selbst, mit seinen Projektunterlagen und der Beschreibung der Entwicklung bei FIZ De München. Es ist zu viel, nichts lohnt sich, auch nicht auf Kreuzfahrtschiffen. Es sind Leute +- die einen Hinweis geben und denken, dass sie es wissen. Durchdachte Autos waren mein Wissen, schwierige Erfahrungen von meinem Ex-Vater gelernt, Straßenerfahrungen, sogar Projekte in verschiedenen Branchen als Mitarbeiter oder fast bei GMB, VWB, BMW & AUDI, Zulieferern und diversen Kleinunternehmen, Beobachtungen, Zeitschriftenlesungen und etc. Basierend auf der guten Seite von Lexicar Brasil, die von einem Maschinenbauingenieur aus Rio de Jeneiro erstellt wurde und fast alle kleinen Manufakturen rettete, die existierten und sich in ganz Brasilien verbreiteten, vom Bekannten bis zum Unbekannten, manchmal nur eine Zeitungsanzeige, alle Jahreszeiten. Aber nein, ein Brasilianer der letzten Tage kommt und macht alles kaputt. Ich nahm die Kämpfe, machte und versuchte mein Wort, um Ignoranz, Argumente und Erklärungen zu überwinden, der Administrator kommt und gibt dem Typen einen Teilgrund, sogar ich habe alles mit Quellen, Wissen gemacht, weil ich die gleichen Dinge von sehr erfahrenen Menschen erlebt und gesehen habe , also entschied ich, nichts weiter. Wikipedia ist mehr oder weniger eine Referenz, aber bei allem, was dort geschrieben wird, ist es unglaublich, es erzeugt kein Vertrauen in die Informationen, so wie es niemandes System ist. Ich dachte, es wäre ein gutes Hobby, ein Hobby, eine Hilfe, aber es ist zu vergessen!
YOU ARE RIGHT, Wikipedia is to be put in Trash !!! It is so bad, not worthy for a Knowledge --2.203.242.222 (talk) 12:13, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
Response to the above rant.
Fuck off. Do you understand that? Mako001 (C) (T) 13:40, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Using Youtube asa citations
My last source was from a video about Sea Pie but I don't know the format. I'd appreciate a template for citing videos
Hello User:IndigoCoyote, and welcome! The easiest way to add citations is to paste the URL into the automatic citation generator, which is easiest to access in the visual editor. However, you cannot use YouTube as a source for this information, you can find more information at this list of commonly discussed sources. If you have a look in the video description, they might tell you what their sources were. Then you can go to those sources and use them as a source, if they back up what you want to add.
To answer your question about a template directly, visit Template:Cite web and follow the instructions there on how to use the template. For more details on barnstars, see this page here. I have also left a useful list of links on your talk page. Cheerio and happy editing! Mako001 (C) (T) 12:32, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
Schon page edit
I removed it because that guy was clearly just plugging his book, which didnt add any substance to the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.6.22.251 (talk) 20:04, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
Following this explanation, I have struck the warning. The content they removed was a sneaky bit of promo masquerading as a valid attribution to a particular source. Mako001 (C) (T) 04:28, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
Deletion of new section heading 2/14
Why did you delete this before I could even compose it? Are you going to arbitrarily delete a section on his participation in a 1965 Boeing 707 record-flight RTW over BOTH Poles because you are allergic to added, sourced facts? Please reply immediately. 2600:1004:B11E:328D:F561:6CBC:62AC:3D69 (talk) 19:42, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
Which page are you referring to? I don't see anything from the IP you are currently on. Mako001 (C) (T) 21:35, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
First, the heading you added was in the wrong format. It's title wasn't particularly encyclopedic either. Since you added nothing else with that edit it seemed to be a test of something (like formatting), so I removed it. By the way, I am in UTC+8, so it was about 3:30am local time when you asked me to respond immediately. I will also suggest that you read WP:AGF, as you do not seem to be doing so at the moment. Thank you. Mako001 (C) (T) 22:31, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
Québec Legal Name
[://www.justice.gouv.qc.ca/couple-et-famille/mariage-union-civile-ou-union-de-fait/mariage/nom-des-epoux] This is the reference from the Ministry of Justice webpage that confirms my addition to the article. It was in the part you deleted. I presume you will undo your delete.
70.80.20.70 (talk) 22:36, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
If that source backs up the whole addition, then you need to add it at the end of the statement you added, not in the middle. If it does not back up the whole addition, you need to find a source that does. Does this help? Mako001 (C) (T) 04:06, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.
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Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
How is pointing out that the Hippie counterculture started in America not neutral?
There’s a link to the hippie counterculture and freak scene pages in the sentence I edited, and it identifies San Francisco and the US as the originators of the Hippie counterculture.
It’s frustrating that anti-American cultural protectionism means that America is listed last when a cultural movement that came from the US is being described. 2601:243:100:5E0:DD61:C22D:6F85:D0DA (talk) 13:31, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
Whatever. I can't be bothered getting in your way. Bye. Mako001 (C) (T) 22:42, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
Pls don't revert back the changes
Kashmir is a disputed territory under UN. It is not Pakistani Kashmir but Pakistan Occupied Kashmir or Pakistan Administered Kashmir. That's how it is internationally recognised. Kindly do kot use Pakistani Kashmir. Its not correct and the status is disputed 103.245.12.246 (talk) 13:20, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
Fine, if you say so. I won't get in your way then. I can't be bothered with an argument of any sort right now anyway. Cheerio and happy editing. Mako001 (C) (T) 13:26, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
Suggested addition to the list of regular contributors of Diecast Collector Magazine
Hi, I am struggling with how to do all of this - I regularly contribute to the magazine as can be verified through my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/stephenpaulhardyautomotivehistorian.
the only non Facebook source / citation I can give you is that I am profiled in the second person profile on this website which I contribute to http://sebeetles.com/who-we-are/
By throwing in Stephen Paul Hardy Automotive Historian and Journalists an image search on Google my photo, Facebook Page and a newspaper article is thrown up.
I haven't got a clue how to format all of this despite trying to read the guidance notes. I simply tried to update the Diecast Collector entry to keep it current.If you can help and add in citation/proof of my being a contributor that would be great.Southlands Lad (talk) 22:24, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
@Southlands Lad: I'll see what I can do, it might be a few hours before I can do anything on it though. Mako001 (C) (T) 22:43, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
@Southlands Lad: Done, added with source to the sebeetles page. Cheerio and happy editing! Mako001 (C) (T) 05:46, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi thank you ever so much for your help and support. I appreciate it very much :-)Southlands Lad (talk) 09:21, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
It's already passed PROD once and had a previous AfD discussion closed w/o consensus back in 2013. Worth nominating again? Just Another Cringy Username (talk) 06:56, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
@Just Another Cringy Username: It seems like it probably is notable, and I've cleaned up the advertyness of it. It looked pretty rubbish I'll admit, but this is a case where deletion probably isn't appropriate.
If I was closing that AfD, I'd have closed it as Keep based on the arguments presented, and the fact that an editor did manage to dig up 3 independent and reliable sources.
Basically, the topic warrants an article, and it isn't in such bad shape that it should be WP:TNT'd.
Keep up the good work, and if you are ever unsure if an article should be deleted, you can always ask another editor to look it over, like you have done here. Cheerio and happy editing! 😀 Mako001 (C) (T) 11:30, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
@Just Another Cringy Username: I did a Google search and it seems to be a notable topic. I wouldn't really think that deletion is appropriate. It could also be expanded (and with encyclopedic content, not promo fluff), which would probably be worthwhile. Mako001 (C) (T) 05:31, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
No need to take a rude tone. My edit to the Jimmy Dore page was done in good faith. It's not my fault that the sourcing is so weak that it almost rises to the level of libel. I feel like the only reason that page exists is to smear him. Thanks at least for responding. Have a nice day. Oknevermind. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oknevermind (talk • contribs) 13:37, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
Note, the above message was moved from my userpage, and regards them being given a level 3 warning. I have added the section heading and a couple of wikilinks which were not in the original to provide easier access to the context of the message.
@Oknevermind: Sorry, I didn't see this for a while, as you posted it to my userpage instead of my talkpage. The sourcing is to several sources which are reliable for the purpose of sourcing that statement. Even if they are known to have some bias, it doesn't materially affect the facts of what they are reporting. I hope that this makes sense? Mako001 (C) (T) 02:43, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
Of course it makes sense. The issue is that the bias DOES in fact materially affect the facts. Anyway, no hard feelings, my friend. Take care. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oknevermind (talk • contribs) 10:23, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
Brent Balchen
You arbitrarily delete my pending addition without even giving me a chance to write it. Tell me if you are going to do the same thing AFTER I write it. If so, I will not waste my time and readers will not know of a key flight made in his honor in 1965. 2600:1004:B12A:B818:48C4:F240:4EB1:942B (talk) 20:26, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
If you don't stop posting on my talkpage for no reason besides berating me for an edit I made several days ago, (which you had already berated me for at the time) I will have to ask you to stay off my talk page for a while, as this discussion is hardly going anywhere productive.
And no, if you add a full section with sources, that wouldn't be deleted by me. Mako001 (C) (T) 01:35, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
Important
@Mako001, you reverted my edits, as they were having no source, I agree, and the the things I have added need no source, as I belong to that village, and I have added history of village which i had asked my grandmother. that is a folk tale popular in our area. also social and political life i have added are after my observation, my village friends observation, so i think i does not need a source. As these thing don't have source.
Think you would consider this, and undo the things you've done. Deshmukh561 (talk) 12:35, 19 February 2022 (UTC)Deshmukh561
Unfortunately, that is known as "Original Research" which isn't permitted, so you will need to find a source for that. Mako001 (C) (T) 11:08, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
hey about baju kurung, what do you mean less than neutral to you? i just stated a fact about baju kurung,indonesian isn’t founder of baju kurung, baju kurung was founded by tun mutahir during malacca sultanate Kangkungkap (talk) 09:08, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
You will need to find a reliable source that contradicts what the existing sources say. Mako001 (C) (T) 11:59, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
Added new Balchen paragraph
And after I did, someone else deleted my “false heading”!! Also new footnote 29 when clicked does not pull up the entire source URL shown. Please fix this. Thank you. 174.212.64.121 (talk) 22:29, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
I'll take a look at it. Mako001 (C) (T) 01:38, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
I can see why they did. It was set as a level 2 heading, which would place this event at the same level as his entire flying career, and would have caused issues further down the section too. Don't worry it's an easy mistake to make! I am not too sure that it actually needs a heading though, since most sources I have found on the flight don't really even mention that he was a passenger, even if he was quite an important one. I have found some other sources for this flight, and I will add them in. Mako001 (C) (T) 02:12, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
I've done some expansion and added a couple of extra sources. I also found the spurce you used and fixed the link to that. Mako001 (C) (T) 02:41, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
Igorot
Igorot is 80%- 90 % protoaustronesians mongoloid and 10 % - 20% negriro melanesians from australoid dna. 93.109.121.174 (talk) 22:52, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
Does a Dead Link Still Count as a "Reliable Source?"
Terence Dickinson has only one sourced claim and the source link has been marked as permanently dead. Would that still count as a source for purposes of passing PRD:BLP? Just Another Cringy Username (talk) 06:58, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
@Just Another Cringy Username: As I have found out the hard way, BLPPROD is only valid for recently created BLPs, so BLPPROD doesn't apply anyway. But still, to answer your question directly, yes it does count. A permanently dead link is still a valid source, especially where it seems fairly reasonable to assume that it did back up the content sourced to it. However, it is best to try to find a replacement. As a recipient of the Order of Canada however, this would suggest that he is probably notable, combined with his work in amateur astronomy, and his related writing, it seems to be a valid article topic, and doesn't need to be deleted, as there doesn't seem to be anything particularly contentious here. Further sources seem to exist as well, including ones which could replace the dead link. I hope this helps? Mako001 (C) (T) 08:03, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
Whovians
Whovians
"On December 30, 2020, Rove McManus hinted on Twitter that Whovians would be returning for a fourth season in 2021."
It is now 2022 and there was no Whovians on TV in 2021.
You are essentially asking me to provide evidence for something that didn't happen.
I would have thought the purpose of evidence is to proof something that did happen.49.3.72.79 (talk) 00:01, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
Fine go ahead, but do try to find somewhere that can show that there wasn't. Or just a mention somewhere where that this didn't happen. Mako001 (C) (T) 07:16, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
Heat Waves
Hi, first of all, Heat Waves was not blocked by Easy on Me, it was We Don’t Talk About Bruno, and second, I don’t think it needs to be sourced as this is clearly wrong. Thank you and leave me alone. 68.199.113.193 (talk) 05:27, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
@Praiawart: We usually don't remove dead links, instead we tag them as dead, and a bot will often fix them by finding an archive link. I hope this helps? Mako001 (C) (T) 04:16, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
@Mako001: My apologies, I am a noob. How would I go about making the link an archive? Praiawart (C) (T) 03:33:20, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.
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I changed your error because I have a 2 Swiss banknotes from 1994 and 1995 with Arthur Honegger and Le Corbusier 10 and 20 Swiss Francs. The years are in the back of banknote it is the first 2 numbers following by the letter and serial number it only shows the last 2 numbers from the year for example (1995) only (95) will show (2012) only (12) will show then follow by a letter and then the serial number heres a website of numista Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page).
en.numista.com/catalogue/note203300.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bunniez2012 (talk • contribs) 05:56, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for the explanation, carry on, I personally don't see any issues with this. I was somewhat concerned, as is it is quite a common form of vandalism to subtly alter a date without any explanation, however your explanation is satisfactory as far as I am concerned. Cheerio and happy editing. 🙂 Mako001 (C) (T) 13:25, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
Hello MakoOO1, I'm Herravondure, and I am pretty new to wikipedia editing, so I'm sorry if I made a mistake. You recently reverted the edit I made to the Yap state article and said it was a test. I'm not sure what you meant by a test, but I updated the governor of Yap in the infobox. Henry Falan was replaced on December 29, 2021 by Jesse Salalu.
Could you let me know what I did to make you want to revert the change?
Kimberley Guilfoyle
You ask for a source to my header change. The sources (multiple) are all within the paragraph below the header. A large section of this part concerns the events surrounding her departure from TV and are all cited with credible sources. 150.143.178.15 (talk) 11:49, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know. However, your intention and reasoning would have been clearer if you had used an edit summary to explain your changes. Cheerio and happy editing. 🙂 Mako001 (C) (T) 11:54, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
Why are you reverting my edits. It does not make any sense. --SlideintomyDMs (talk) 10:13, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
@SlideintomyDMs: Why are you even making those changes? I can't see any reason for making that link more specific, as there is not a source to say that it is a specific yew species. Mako001 (C) (T) 10:30, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
Because its more accurate. You really shouldn't been tagging perfectly good edits as Disruptive. The name Newry comes from the Yew Tree and I've linked to the article about the only type of yew trees that grew in Ireland. It's not really controversial is it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by SlideintomyDMs (talk • contribs) 10:41, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
That's fine then, your intent would be been clearer if you had used an edit summary though. Mako001 (C) (T) 11:40, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
Comment by IP user
Sorry for any inconvenience — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.49.64.200 (talk) 02:55, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
Please Do Not Shut Down Dispute Resolution
Mako001, I feel like I'm under attack. I am attempting Dispute Resolution with you, clumsily but to the best of my ability. Your response was to delete everything I wrote here and refuse to discuss it. This is not justified. Dispute Resolution is encouraged by Wikipedia Policy IIRC. I edited the Talk page in good faith, trying my best to remain within the limits of the other edits on that page and on other article Talk pages. I was honestly unaware of making a mistake and I am sorry for continuing a forum-style discussion without knowing it was not allowed. You first responded to my edits with what feels like a personal attack (accusing me with the politically charged, very hurtful attack word "soapboxing"), starting this interaction from the beginning by assuming bad faith. That personal attack was the only thing you put in the edit summary when you reverted everything I wrote, which is why I initially thought it was vandalism. The template you used also made it look like you might be a bot, because the templates are so generic and uninformative. When I complained that you're attacking me and tried to start Dispute Resolution, you accused me of deliberately not understanding you, which is not true and even more hurtful.
I have only just now seen your new comment to my Talk page that explains the policy I broke with one of my 3 Talk page comments (my Talk page is mostly a mess of confusing templates). Thank you for clarifying. I did not understand before because at first you didn't tell me what policy my 3 Talk posts violated. I also didn't understand your previous templates and comments because my developmental disability makes it especially hard for me to understand vague sentences. Accusations that I "deliberately don't understand" are extremely painful and triggering to me because of my disability and trauma history of being attacked and punished by others when I honestly don't understand them. I'm angry and deeply hurt because of your politically charged personal attack and the way you have been triggering me, but I'm trying to engage in good faith Dispute Resolution instead of reporting. I'm trying to stay calm as best I can; I recognize I was triggered and very upset yesterday.
I'm only a very occasional editor and I haven't memorized all the Wikipedia Policies. I actually have trouble reading and understanding the Policy pages because they're written in difficult-to-understand language. I evidently misunderstand the edit warring definition. I still don't know why you deleted my Talk comment on the position of the article in the Social Democracy Series. It wasn't a forum discussion.
I feel like I'm under attack. Not being able to understand why yesterday made your conduct more painful and triggering. Please discuss this with me and engage in Dispute Resolution instead of just deleting everything I post.
At the very least please just tell me, without a confusing template or personal attack, what policy/policies my (Social Democracy Series) Talk comment violated that led you to delete it as well.
This post has been edited since I found your most recent comment on my Talk page.2601:441:4400:1740:7CBB:F534:DB2F:42BC (talk) 16:22, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
Look, if you are having trouble understanding the policy pages, that would suggest to me that you may, whilst your actions are in good faith, lack the competence required to edit Wikipedia. I do not mean this as a personal attack, just as an honest assessment of your editing ability. There are other wikipedias such as simple.wikipedia.org which you may find easier to understand, if English is not your first language, you may be able to find a Wikipedia in your first language. If you still don't know why I deleted your comment I will try to explain. The comment you made on the talk page to reply to Kghose was not appropriate for a talk page, as it was not related to building an encyclopedia, if you don't understand that, I don't know what else I can say to make it clearer. You have already been made aware of WP:NOTFORUM which is why I removed the comment that you made in reply to Kghose's original comment. I also deleted another comment when I removed that one, as I removed all of your edits to the talk page up to that point, which wasn't actually what I intended. As I recall, I did not refer to your edit as soapboxing at any point, however I did refer to Kghoses original comment as borderline soapboxing on two occasions, but one of those cases, on your talk page, it wasn't exactly clear that I wasn't referring to your comment. I did genuinely offer to report myself to AN3 if you believed that I had edit warred, since you were having trouble doing so. I don't see this discussion getting any closer to resolving the dispute, since anything I am saying seems to get misunderstood anyway, and so further discussion only gets further away from resolving the dispute. Therefore, per WP:NOBAN, I firmly request that you do not post anything further on my talk page for at least 30 days, which should allow time to cool off. I removed the earlier comments here for the same reason, that the resolution seemed to be getting further away, not closer. Mako001 (C) (T) 22:04, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
I already said very clearly that after I found your last message on my Talk page that I already understand your explanation for why you deleted one of my edits. All I wanted was a coherent explanation for why you deleted my other edit, without personal attacks. It's very unfortunate that you've decided to accuse me of deliberately being counterproductive just because I made a reasonable request. Wikipedia policy encourages all editors to provide a coherent explanation for reverts. You should have done so from the beginning, instead of blaming your mistakes on me and accusing me of acting in bad faith just because I'm disabled. Your behavior is inappropriate and unreasonable. 2601:441:4400:1740:7955:D5A3:8B41:F067 (talk) 20:30, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
And I already provided that explanation, one was removed because of WP:NOTFORUM and the other was removed by accident when removing the first one. Is there some other edit that I am missing that was also removed? If there is, it was removed for one of the two reasons I provided, it was either removed per NOTFORUM or removed by accident. I did not at any point accuse you of being deliberately counterproductive, I said that the discussion was becoming counterproductive, it was a comment on the direction of the discussion itself, not a comment on you. I did not "accuse [you] of acting in bad faith just because [you are] disabled". Can you please stop accusing me of making personal attacks, as I never did so. (I also clerked your response by moving it to the end of the discussion) Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 23:44, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
Saudi user
hi, see talk page of article and talk page of user. i am explaind for him but this user Insists on adding nonsense content to the article. Look at his edits. He is not neutral. Biasedly removes content and adds content. It seems to have taken money from Saudi Arabia.
He removes all content related to Saudi Arabia and writes articles against the countries with which he is involved (Iran and Yemen). I explained to him that the movements he had added were inactive and that the resources were from the personal sites of several multi-member groups. But he insists on sabotaging himself. He has repeatedly deleted Saudi content. See its edit history. I looked carefully and realized. (added by User:Alsocome a short time ago) Mako001 (C) (T) 12:57, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
Robert Meyer Burnett
I provided five sources. Please restore the sources and revision. Avisopine (talk) 04:22, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
@Avisopine: of the sources you provided, only one was anything like a reliable source. You will find the others are all considered user-generated content, and cannot be used for an article on a living person. I cannot restore the information. You can restore it, if you can find a reliable source. You may also find this page useful. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 11:06, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
Help needed
Forgive me if I am not doing this correctly, but I am sending this message to Mako001.
Someone ([removed please do not reinclude per WP:OUTING]) deleted sections of my profile page on Wikipedia (Bill Lichtenstein) and left editing notes regarding why they made the change. It looks like you addressed her comments including making a chance to one issue that was raised, and then reinstated the editorial material.
Since then, the party who had deleted the profile material about me has since deleted their notes explaining why -- and replaced them with a note simply saying that the notes had been deleted. (Currently the notes read "Took editing notes out and will leave it there.")
How can I get a copy of the original editing notes that were then apparently deleted by the commenting party. My understanding is everything posted to Wikipedia can be resurrected. Is that the case? Can you help me get a copy of the original editing notes? Also, if there is a way to communicate outside of this page let me know -- including I can send you my email address. Thank you very much for your kind assistance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BLBoston (talk • contribs) 01:03, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
Unfortunately, I will not be communicating off-wiki.
Please do not post your email here, or it will have to be oversighted. You may also have noted that the identity of the IP user had to be oversighted as well, please do not reinclude that. I do understand that you probably aren't familiar with the policies around that sort of thing, which is fine, since you have to find out somehow! 🙂 Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 02:40, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for your prompt response and for sharing the posting rules you did.
There was initially a paragraph in the editing notes section that went on, naming me by name and making false assertions and allegations about me and my work as a journalist by someone for personal reasons. If I recall correctly, that paragraph, which is gone now, was replaced by the first posting you offered above, which now reads instead: "Revision as of 19:02, 17 February 2022 (edit) (undo) 118.111.53.123 (talk) (Took editing notes out and will leave it there.)" Is the original language that was there accessible? Thank you. BLBoston (talk) 02:57, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
It should be in the [2] link? However it doesn't seem to have included what you describe above. Are you thinking of another, much older edit? If you haven't already, you may want to take a look at the edit history of the article. To see how a particular edit altered the article, click on the "prev" button, which is located to the left, but after the bullet point, in the list of edits and looks like this (cur | prev). I also noticed that there don't seem to have been any edits which have been revision deleted or oversighted. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 03:42, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
@BLBoston: You can view the full history of the article here. By clicking on the timestamps, you can view past revisions of the article. I can also confirm that nothing has been deleted from public view from the article since 2007 (and they were simple routine deletions). Thanks, Anarchyte (talk) 04:17, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for your response. I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing. At 19:02 on February 17th there were editing notes that are no longer there. I am not referring to text from the article but editing notes or comments from the author. Their subsequent removal seems to be marked with the comments "editing notes removed." The notes explained why the entire section had been deleted, and made specific reference to me and my alleged motivation for writing the newspaper article that was the focus of their complaint, among other things. I can't find the original editing notes that were posted. Can you or someone *please* assist me in locating that paragraph? It's very important. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BLBoston (talk • contribs) 06:00, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
Ah, now I get what you are looking at. The summary that the IP editor used there on 19:02 is the original summary, and hasn't had anything removed from it, and it isn't actually technically possible with the MediaWiki software (that Wikipedia runs on) to alter an edit or the summary/notes after it is made, only to revision delete or oversight it. The summary you are referring to it refers to the "notes" that they left in the article, which they shouldn't actually have done (it is called "talking in article"), as that is what the edit summary is for. Basically, what you are seeing is all there is to see, there isn't actually anything more.
To make it clear, the "notes" they left said this: "DELETED REFERENCE TO HIS DAUGHTER AS WP:COI (the possibility of harm to living subjects must always be considered when exercising editorial judgment.)WP:AVOIDVICTIM (When in doubt, biographies should be pared back to a version that is completely sourced, neutral, and on-topic. This is of particular importance when dealing with living individuals whose notability stems largely or entirely from being victims of another's actions. Wikipedia editors must not act, intentionally or otherwise, in a way that amounts to participating in or prolonging the victimization.)"
I can assure you, that there is no way that any notes, content or anything could have been changed to remove those notes, besides revision deleting or oversighting (which shows up in the edit history), as the MediaWiki software simply can't do that. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 11:44, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for your note. If the material I read is there, can you please help me find it? However reacted to the initial change in the material had to have read it since they responded to the deletion of the material in the article, as well as the comments, notes, or whatever you want to call them, by the poster. They in effect said that the person written about in the article should not be named and then made false assertions about me and my work as a journalist -- and then said something like I needed to be "reeled in..." It was probably about 75-100 words in length. And now it is not there -- or at least I can not find it. Based on what you are saying that the material was inappropriately inserted into the article, rather than in a notes section, can you possibly look and see if you can find it? Possibly I am just not looking in the right places to find it. It's very important and I would appreciate your help. Thank you. BLBoston (talk) 15:15, 12 March 2022 (UTC) PS The notes that were left also said that the poster had contacted the newspaper involved. Perhaps you recall reading that. I don't see that anywhere here. Thank you.
Maybe it was somewhere else, I'll take a look? Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 02:12, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
If that is what they said, then they have clearly violated the no legal threats policy. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 02:14, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
Special:Contributions/118.111.53.123 lists all the edits that the IP user made, and I hadn't actually looked at it since reverting their massive deletion.
After reading what they wrote, I am greatly concerned by what is going on here though and consider it to be well outside my area. I suggest that you escalate this to the Wikimedia Foundation, you can find the details you need to contact them here.Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 02:51, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi Makooo1, thanks for taking a look at my article here !
I saw the comment you left there and I am replying in regard to that, informing you that I have made some editing and cleaning so you can again take a look...
I have taken a look at it, I may do some copyediting myself, since I am in the mood for it. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 11:22, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
You might wanna check..
.. this article, made by the same user who made some of the Khazar university articles, he seems non-notable to me, If you decide to take this to AfD I'll vote as a co-nom. - Kevo327 (talk) 00:09, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
I've actually made a subpage to help me to keep track of the handiwork of these paid editors, User:Mako001/Azerbaijan paid editing cleanup, I'll take a look, I had run out of further leads, so this may be very useful, thanks. I'll probably have to hold off AfDing it for a bit, as there several others I've opened in the last few days. Mako001 (C) (T) 07:32, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
Well there is no need to rush to AfDs I guess, I will add other similar Khazar-related articles in this section if I find new ones not listed im the subpage, Thank you for taking the lead in cleaning up these paid articles. - Kevo327 (talk) 09:30, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
The imaginary Latin-English hybrid "Juris Doctorate"
I have merely changed Juris Doctorate to Juris Doctor. The actual name of the degree in Latin is Juris Doctor.
Juris is Latin (with no exact English equivalent, Jurisprudence being an inexact translation of Juris). Doctor is both Latin and English, and Doctorate is English.
There is no therefore such degree as the Juris Doctorate. Using this term is like referring to an Artium Baccalaurens or Bachelor of Arts as a Baccalaureus of Arts or as a Bachelor of Artium. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:205:3:dee2:a8bd:2121:9cd0:c4e0 (talk) 04:26, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
Ah, OK, I understand. It would have made your intent clearer if you had used an edit summary. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 11:41, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
Comment left after accidental reversion
Hi Mak, all edits I made for King Edward VI School for Girls were relevant and appropriate. I burnt good few hours of my precious time to update information on the page, May I know why all my edits have been reverted? thanks for your reply.
Regards Uk kehandsworth (talk) 12:39, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
My apologies, it seems to have been a misclick. Carry on! 😀 Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 12:46, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
I was removing a lie and trying to encourage people who know the answer to the problem to fix it. Obscuring the issue by lying is not helpful to anyone. 149.224.83.200 (talk) 08:30, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
I'm sure Nick Levine has told you what the issue was but, what you did is known as "talking in article". Basically, what you were saying belonged on the article Talk page, not the article itself. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 10:04, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
Please don't restore sockpuppet edits
At least until you have checked all the sources and confirmed that they are reliable and back the text. Restored text made by block evaders becomes your responsibility. Doug Wellertalk 15:39, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
@Doug Weller: I'm not too sure what edit you are referencing, but I am quite familiar with this policy. If it is the one I think it might be, then the editor who reverted the sock didn't leave a summary the first time, so I had reverted as it seemed to be a substantial deletion without any explanation. They then reverted again, and referenced WP:BANREVERT in their summary, I then made amends on their talkpage. Or did I miss something? Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 08:38, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
Sorry, no. I missed your post to the editor's talk page. All is well, sorry to bother you. Doug Wellertalk 14:01, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I've seen your recent comment about my draft copy of the Draft:Glaxo Smith Kline Carbon Neutral Laboratory for Sustainable Chemistry. I have added some additional information about the opening and who heads up the building, however I couldn't find any more information about the fire other than anecdotally in a YouTube video on periodic videos. I wasn't sure if YouTube videos are suitable for wikipedia so I left it out. Please let me know what else I can change in the article
@Tom hutchison4: Usually YouTube isn't usable, however, the Periodic Videos channel does interview Peter License and so should be usable, but only for things he has directly said, and it would need to be attributed to him as well. I'm particularly thinking of what he has said about the reason why the fire risk isn't as much of an issue for the completed building as it was for the partly finished one. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 07:49, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
Also, you may want to move the GSK wikilink out of the bold font at the start, as this is best avoided where possible. Also, is there any other, (shorter?) name for this place? It just seems a crazily long title. I'm also thinking of a few redirects which would be appropriate, Wooden laboratory (Nottingham) would be one. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 07:54, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
Sorry I'm just writing this as I think of it, but could the "for Sustainable Chemistry" part be dropped? Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 07:56, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
Yes, I will drop the "for Sustainable Chemistry" but I could also abbreviate GSK in the title. What are your thoughts? I'm not sure how to set up redirects before a page is approved as you cannot link to draft articles. I will do this once it is approved. Tom hutchison4 (talk) 15:00, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
I have just added some more citations , and made a few copy edits. I think it maybe finished now? Thanks for your help if you agree?
Also, I agree with your comment that it is amazing that the article hasn't been created yet. All buildings on campus don't have wikipedia pages, but probably should have. They often link to Campuses of the University of Nottingham, so if you think any of the buildings in this list are particularly note worthy, let me know and I would love to create an article for them. Tom hutchison4 (talk) 15:30, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
@Tom hutchison4: The University of Nottingham is a notable university, but this building does have a special claim to notability, due to its design, which other buildings on the campus may not have. However, if they satisfy the General Notability Guidelines then they can have an article.
I would think that each campus could have its own article though, but of course, you would need to confirm that it meets the GNG.
Redirects can't be set up before a page is created (well, they can, but will be swiftly R2'd, but it isn't exactly uncommon to make a list of redlinks, so that as soon as it is created, you go to all the redlinks and create the redirects there.
Abbreviating GSK may be a good idea, as it seems to be referred to as just that in many sources. I'll look into it.
I'm going to create the article fairly shortly (in a few hours), well done. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 02:58, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for your help and guidance, as my first successful article! Tom hutchison4 (talk) 22:28, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
As I said above, the individual campuses (at least the Nottingham ones) are notable enough for standalone articles, and it should be possible to have enough content to make it necessary to split them off from the main "Campuses" article. Having said that, doing so may need to be raised as a proposed split, something I am not particularly familiar with doing myself.
I note though that Kings Meadow's Campus already has its own article, and Sutton Bonington Campus' section is getting a bit large and may need splitting, even without substantial expansion. I'm sure that more content and sources could be found for the Jubilee and University Park Campuses as well, which don't yet have enough content for a split, yet are almost certainly more notable than both of the others. There is a good deal of unsourced content as well, which sources would need to be found for before making any sort of split, and ideally before making any major expansion.
In terms of expanding the content on the campuses, I would recommend "anchoring" the article with some reliable, independent sources, using those as much as possible, and then filling in any gaps using more closely associated sources, but only for purely factual content that no-one is likely to seriously dispute (such as who designed a particular building, or the year it opened to students).
Regarding individual buildings, there do seem to be a few which may be able to have standalone articles on them as well, I'm particularly thinking of the Trent Building, but others may deserve articles as well.
I don't know if this monologue makes any sense, but I hope it gives you some idea of what to do next if you are going to have a go at more University of Nottingham content. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 02:10, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
Request on 16:05:38, 18 March 2022 for assistance on AfC submission by Angyts
There are several places where the wording is what is known as Peacock wording. I would recommend familiarising yourself with the policies and guidelines before continuing to write this draft, otherwise you will have trouble getting it accepted.
I am not seeing a lot of evidence that this is something which is notable outside of the Ethereum (community?). By which I mean that I am not seeing that this is meeting the notability guidelines, which is needed to qualify a topic to be included in Wikipedia. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 05:15, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
Ok got it. Thanks for the detailed reply. Appreciate your time. Angyts (talk) 14:09, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
Yo, apologies if this isn't the right palce to say this, but [edit] to Turkey removed a ton of content about human rights. I dont think I'm able to revert it myself since im not autoconfirmed. Again, I apologize if this isnt the right way to report this kinda thing. Thanks! the rat goblin (talk) 13:02, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
@the rat goblinActually, even if you were autoconfirmed you still wouldn't be able to make changes to that article, as you need to have at least 500 edits and an account age of at least 30 days to edit that page. The removal was partially reverted by another editor, generally such a high profile page is kept fairly tidy, especially one on a somewhat controversial nation as Turkey tends to be. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 13:11, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
Alright, thanks for the info! the rat goblin (talk) 13:13, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
Ferrari 612
Hi, I am very sorry to say but you reverting my edit and asking for a source is very stupid. If you doubt the content, please find a commercial brochure from Ferrari, ask a dealer, an expert on Ferrari chat, and if you have a specific question about the 612 you could as well ask me because I know the car inside out. Now if it makes you feel better, I can log in to make the changes... But you can't ask me to quote every fact because you don't know a topic personally. It's ridiculous, senseless and do not worry, I didn't take it personally. Now if you are done wasting my time, I will keep on polishing my edit because there are a couple of things I want to modify... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 14.0.227.113 (talk) 13:29, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
On the contrary, yes, you are expected to provide a source for that, and even if you know the car inside out, you still have to comply with Wikipedia policies. Particularly, WP:CITE, WP:RS and WP:NOR. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 13:35, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
Sources provided, and please consider removing that flag from your pseudonym, I feel it's an insult to my family there. Ecarca (talk) 14:22, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
Eat a [insert inedible object here]. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 02:02, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
Madeline Albright
Yes. Why did you revert me? You say "less than neutral". All I did was two things. A) Create a new heading "illness and death" as exist on many articles. and B) Add "Sir" before Tony Blair, and he is Sir Tony Blair even if many don't agree with it. --Thelostranger (talk) 12:02, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
You also reworded the section to a tone which is not suitable for an an encyclopaedia, which is what the main issue is. Also, on Wikipedia, it isn't usually considered suitable to put "Sir" or any other honorific or title with a person's name. He might be Sir Tony Blair, but he is usually just known as Tony Blair, same as David Attenborough. I don't disagree that he is "Sir", it's not something I have any opinion on actually. So long as no-one tries to knight Richard Spencer I don't really mind who gets knighted. You may want to read WP:NAMES, which may help you understand the whole "Sir" thing. Cheerio and happy editing! 🙂 Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 12:14, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
All right. I wish you said. Are you fine with the new heading just for illness and death? --Thelostranger (talk) 12:57, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
As it is at the moment, there isn't really enough content to split it out of the "Personal life and death" section. However, as more content becomes available, it may become necessary in the near future. I hope this helps? Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 13:50, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
accidental rv
sorry I was trying to revert vandalism, but accidentally added some. thanks for the revert anyways :)
All good, I noticed that they had been using multiple accounts to thwart rollback efforts, so I just did the "restore revision" thing to make sure that nothing had been missed. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 04:01, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
I deleted Hoffenheim from the Beyer Speed Figure list of top Beyer Speed Figures because the source cited states Hoffenheim ran a 121 "EQUIBASE" Speed Figure, NOT a 121 Beyer Speed Figure. Equibase speed figures have nothing at all to do with Beyer Speed Figures (the article is on Beyer Speed Figure), and both use completely different scales and methodology. Thank you.68.161.210.235 (talk) 04:31, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
OK, thanks for the explanation, feel free to reinstate the edit, since as far as I am concerned, it's fine, as you have now explained why you removed the content. Just remember to provide an edit summary, and you shouldn't have any more issues. I can't rule out someone else reverting you for a different reason though, but it should be OK. Cheerio and happy editing! 🙂 Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 04:35, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
You reverted my edit to the Owl House Wikipedia page for alleged disruptive editing. However, the information I added regarding the "Light Novel" section (and the status of the aforementioned light novel) is both relevant and accurate as confirmed by verifiable sources (the personal twitter feed of the shows creator) that I have linked below. I was in the process of trying to properly format the citation when my work was removed and I was told that my editing was "disruptive", which is untrue.
For something like that, twitter is not a reliable source. I also noted that there was a message inside the citation which didnt seem to be particularly neutral, and seemed to be a disruptive addition to the citation. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 05:27, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
Then why was that same section already using another tweet from the same account as a citation? And the message inside the citation was simply the text from the cited source. Is confirmation of the information by the person in charge of the project suitable evidence or not? 68.163.105.166 (talk) 05:38, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
OK, go ahead then, if you are using it for a permitted use, I won't interfere any further. I make no guarantees that no-one else will revert you though. Cheerio and happy editing! 🙂 Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 05:45, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
I cant seem to get the formatting right on the citation itself, so Im not sure I should bother 68.163.105.166 (talk) 05:53, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
Fixed it, there were a couple of errors, the number was still from the earlier script, the date format wasn't one of the ones that the cite template accepts, and the two "}}" were missing at the end. It's working now. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 06:13, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
Furly Mac (Actor)
I am New to this. Furly Mac does not have a Wikipedia at this time. I'm updating all of his film and TV show work. Buriedlemon (talk) 05:38, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
@Buriedlemon: The reason I reverted it was because you had added a duplicate section, if my edit summary said anything different, I'm sorry about that, it would have been a mistake. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 05:43, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
Intercompany crossover reverted edit
Why did you revert my edit? The comics that I added to the list were official intercompany crossovers. --58.105.78.220 (talk) 13:46, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
Some seemed a little too bizarre to believe without being given some sort of verifiable source for it. It would help if you had given a reliable source to allow that to be verified. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 13:59, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
Comic Vine is a good website to look up comic books if you aren't sure if they're real. That's where I discovered the Justice League/NBA comics. 58.105.78.220 (talk) 09:41, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
OK, thanks for that, since it seems like these comic book crossovers can be more bizarre than I thought, I will raise my standard of what it has to be before it is unbelievable to something closer to "Ur Mom vs Deez Nuts". Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 10:49, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
Hello and thank you for reviewing my draft article. Could you please tell me which specific sources were unreliable?. Naib Raman Singha the gr8 (talk) 03:48, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
@Naib Raman Singha the gr8: I didn't reject it because the sources were unreliable, but because there are large parts of the article which are lacking any sort of citations. I didn't really look at the sources that were there, so I can't comment on their reliability. However, since large parts of the text are lacking citations, this can't be accepted as it is currently. Does this help Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 03:53, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
G10s
Hello, Mako. Please note that I have declined three of your G10 CSD nominations in quick succession: Draft:Aaron Smit, Draft:Ana Greene, and Draft:Andh bhakt. Please note that according to policy, where a CSD nomination has already been declined, that is an indication that it should not be renominated. As for the first two, someone claiming that they are vegan and not liking restaurants is not enough to be an attack page. Sdrqaz (talk) 04:21, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
@Sdrqaz:Sorry, I didn't notice that I had already been declined. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 04:22, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
CSD
Just a courtesy note that I declined the CSD of Draft:National Distributist Party to allow the author a little more time to work on the issues—the author of the draft joined Discord a moment ago, and now understands the copyright issue. We'll see how it goes and evaluate the draft proper when/if its resubmitted. Does that sound okay? :) ~TNT (talk • she/her) 13:07, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
@TheresNoTime: Sounds fine, they will need to totally rewrite it however, as it is definitely sitting squarely in G11 territory at the moment. The copyright issue is just one of many things they'll need to understand before the article will be ready to go. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 13:12, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
Agreed, thank you for your diligence with these articles! ~TNT (talk • she/her) 13:13, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
Question about edits to North-West Rebellion
Hi, I see that you've reversed my edits to the page. I understand why you did it, but the characterization of the movement as a rebellion is problematic as the land where this occurred (now Saskatchewan and Alberta) was not a part of Canada in 1885. That didn't happen until 1905. North-West Resistance (like the Red River Resistance) is an accepted and now preferred name of the movement.
I apologise for not using a citation, as I have only just made an account and am not sure how to do so. TheRightHonourableMelon (talk) 08:45, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
@TheRightHonourableMelon:I've left you some helpful links on your talk page to get started with, if you need an more help than what you can find on those pages and the pages they lead to, please don't hesitate to ask, either on my talk page, or at the Teahouse. I will assume that your edit to the towns name in the lead section was just a mistake, or maybe the keyboard slipped, or autocorrect malfunctioned. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 08:52, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
No source for Lenin quote in the article Antisemitism in the Soviet Union
With V. I. Lenin's works publicly available online, this quote should be verifiable. Which, exactly, of Lenin's writings does this quote appear in? Britshevik (talk) 09:34, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
So whose sockpuppet are you? Showing up and immediately making pro-bolshevik changes with a username like yours? Considering how widespread antisemetism was at that time, you should really be proving that Lenin was an exception to the rule. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 09:45, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
How can anyone prove someone *didn't* say something? That's not how the burden of proof works. Britshevik (talk) 05:10, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
Would you prefer I used this older account? Would that somehow validate my edit? EnglishWoodsman (talk) 05:15, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
You reverted this edit, citing the rather short explanation in the summary. I think the section should be deleted since the Supersymmetric theory of stochastic dynamics is an extremely niche subject with no need to be mentioned in an article about SDEs. The mention of Ito/Stratonovich is also inaccurate, since there is no dilemma: they are merely two approaches. The section is also overly technical, with much physics jargon, and is very hard to understand (while adding almost nothing to the article in question). 2604:3D09:797D:3500:70C3:F3BF:986B:D416 (talk) 22:58, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
OK, that's enough explanation for me, I won't stop you from removing it again. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 05:02, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
you delete my updated info on jassa dhillon
hi Makooo1
i have entered the information about the jassa dhillon you reject them without check that they are real or fake. please check them and sure that they are real.
you reject my many edits , you don't want to update any information . what are you doing . first you should talk to anyone who edit the page and then take a acion
please contact me my insta id :- sudeepsharmatalu ,,my no. 935045001 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sudeep Sharma Talu (talk • contribs)
@Sudeep Sharma Talu: Per WP:ONUS, I do not need to check that they are real or fake. Instead you need to provide a reliable source to prove that they are real. Also, English does not seem to be your first language, and whilst you are able to communicate effectively in it, it is much harder to write in an encyclopaedic tone than to communicate. Writing in an encyclopedix tone requires a near-native or native (EN-4 or EN-N) level of English, whilst you seem to have either EN-2 or EN-3. You may want to look at Wikipedias in other languages to see if there is one in a language you are more familiar with, such as Hindi. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 22:18, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
I DID NOT USE copyright! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.152.18.158 (talk) 06:56, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
I need help
There is a user called Dumdumfumlum and he vandalized my talk page. Please revert edits and fix this problem. Thank you. Ohokguy4078 (talk) 06:38, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
@Ohokguy4078: I'm sorry you had to deal with that, I can see no reason why they did that as they had not interacted with you (or even edited the same pages as you, until then) but I think it has something to do with a user who likes to post abusive stuff on my talk page, a heavily censored version is above under the heading "many much angrys" above. They basically curse and swear, and make ridiculous threats in all caps. I think they targeted you because they either searched "Mako001" and your userpage came up, or because I had recently edited your talk page. Most of their edits have to be deleted due to their highly abusive nature. I've reported both users, who are now permanently blocked. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 08:36, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
Forget it, you time-wasting twit. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 09:57, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
(Note, they are globally locked as well now) Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 12:44, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
Question about rejection of Draft:Decision Education Foundation
Hello and thank you for taking the time to review my Wikipedia page.
Since seeing your comments, I have deleted all peacock terms and put the text into a more encyclopedic tone as you advised. Thanks for that!
In the guidelines for notability, there is a specific exception for the notability requirements for non-profit educational institutions, which is the case for the Decision Education Foundation. Unfortunately, there are no specific guidelines for what is required for a non-profit educational institution. Are the notability requirements higher than for any other type of organization or are there specific items not needed?
I've also shown scholarly articles (studies of the impacts of our curriculum) and book passages about DEF and its courses from several books which are themselves notable enough for Wikipedia entries. Can you please suggest any other notability requirements that would help tip the balance?
Hello Mak001, I received an email notification about my Draft: Decision Education Foundation submission but it appears to me that your response is actually directed to the Ferrari 612 author. I definitely don't want my article associated with anyone else's work in your mind. You originally provided me with several excellent suggestions regarding tone and notability. I've since made edits that added more appropriate citations, removed extraneous citations, and improved the point of view. If possible, I'd like to ask your help in any further needed rewrites since I may be too close to the subject to get the proper encyclopedic tone.
Any other improvements are always welcome. Thank you for your continued guidance.
Tonypray (talk) 17:50, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
I'm not sure why you got an email notification for that. Apologies if my words directed at them in response to their oblique insults caused you any concern or confusion. I don't associate your work with the Ferrari 612 author at all. I'll take a look at that draft again. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 01:53, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
@Tonypray: First of all, thank you for correctly disclosing your paid contributions. It is greatly appreciated.
OK, after looking it over again, I still have a few issues. If you don't mind, I may make some changes to highlight some issues with the content that is in the draft.
However the main issue is what isn't there, as I am not really seeing evidence that this organisation meets the notability guidelines for corporations and organisations. Essentially, I need to see that it receives significant coverage in reliable, independent sources. This means that any coverage which is just repeating a media statement isn't suitable, and it needs to be coverage of more than just routine events like mergers and acquisitions.
If there isn't more coverage than what is already there, this organisation doesn't meet the notability guidelines. If you don't already have some sort of record of every time your organisation has received media coverage, you will need to try to hunt for coverage. Google is a good start, but sometimes the organisation might not be mentioned by name (instead referring to a founder or a spokesperson), or might be mentioned by the wrong name or a "technically-OK-but-not-the-name-we-actually-use" name.
You can also just try to trawl the archives of a publisher who is likely to have given coverage at some point. For instance, if I was trying to establish notability of a climate action group, my first stop would be The Gaurdian as it is reputable, reliable, factual publication, which tends to give groups like that more coverage than other publications with a similarly good reputation. I'm not sure where I'd look for coverage of your organisation though, but you may have some idea? Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 02:40, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
Thanks once again for your thoughtful and helpful responses and I welcome any editorial changes that you think are still needed to get the tone right. Thanks also for your offer to do that.
I'll need to go back to my colleagues to find instances of more coverage, but am I missing your point on that account? Most of our press coverage has been comings and goings of board members, but I didn't refer to those sorts of stories even though our board members have included several Wikipedia notable people like Ronald A. Howard, Annie Duke and Carl Spetzler. because they are routine business.
I've cited several books from notable authors like Sam Harris which reference DEF programs and two independent studies conducted by Rice University and Stanford, respectively. I've captured international references in respected journals. Am I missing the point entirely with notability? Should I include that sort of reference? As an educational institution, we're not flashy but we're doing important work that supports educators and students.
"We don't bleed so we don't get the lede". *Feel free to quote that since I'm a bit proud of the phrase... :-)*
Your guidance and thoughts are most welcome and, as you point out, we may not in fact be notable enough for Wikipedia. If that finally proves to be the case, we'll need to make ourselves more notable.
Finally, THANK YOU once again for using your most valuable asset, your time, to make Wikipedia better.
Well, the standard for a corporation is that they must meet the General notability guidelines, or the special notability guidelines for corporations and organisations. As you have mentioned, board members coming and going usually isn't notable, (unless it is in "notable" circumstances, which you would rather not have, if you know what I mean). I should point out that you can still use those sources, but they just won't help to establish notability.
No, you don't seem to have missed my point about finding coverage. I'm sure that your colleagues will probably have a good idea of what coverage your organisation has received.
Also, this is going to seem highly unpalatable, but negative coverage also helps to establish notability, and for many organisations, that is all they have to establish notability, as, unfortunately, no-one notices what you do, until you stuff up. A bit like how government departments never really get any coverage, until something goes wrong, or some accusation of misconduct within or by the organisation is made, then it is front page news for several days. If negative coverage is all you have, (don't worry, many decent organisations get rather unfairly portrayed by the media, so you're in good company) then just go ahead and write the article anyway if the coverage establishes notability. That way, you can avoid having someone else write it, and basically make it an article which esstially attacks your organisation, without also covering what your organisation actually does, and how it may have responded. (To make it clear, I am not aware of any negative coverage of your organisation, this is all a case of "If")
It is quite common for an article to be "anchored" by a handful of reliable, independent sources giving significant coverage to the topic, and then the gaps are filled in using sources which may not establish notability, but can still be used for general content.
I guess the question about the books is, do they focus particularly on these programs, or do they mention it whilst discussing another topic? If it is the latter, then it won't really improve the notability. If it is the former, then they may help establish notability.
For the journals, the main thing is to ensure that there is no connection between your organisation and the researchers, it must be entirely independent, and simply being conducted by an external organisation doesn't necessarily make it independent. If it was conducted because it had been sponsored by your organisation or one of the authors was a member of your organisation, it won't help to establish notability, as it must be entirely independent.
You reverted one of this guy's contribution. Looking through his contribution, most of them seem either wrong grammatically or unnecessary. Please take a look.
Your recent closure at ANI - when my eyes skimmed it, the first bit that clicked was 'general NOTHERE behaviour by Uncle G' - bit harsh, I thought! Gave me a chuckle when I eventually worked it out, thought I'd share. GirthSummit (blether) 12:15, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
That was sweet, but you may or may not know who you were dealing with. --Deepfriedokra(talk) 12:16, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
Hmm, it looked like a rather *cough* interesting edit, I was going to go back and have a closer look at what was going on. Did I just poke a stick into a hornet nest? Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 12:26, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
LOL. Maybe she'll fixate on you now instead of me! --Deepfriedokra(talk) 12:32, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
@Deepfriedokra Sounds like fun. (I have a very broad definition of fun). Are you able to give a username so I know what to look out for? Are they a "All caps profanity-filled edit summary ending with (PUNCHES YOU IN THE FACE)" sort of level, "posts giant Jimbo's on your talk page until it gets protected" sort of level, or something entirely different? Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 12:41, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
Wait until you start getting the e-mails... GirthSummit (blether) 12:47, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
Oh, ok. I have them turned off anyway. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 13:07, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
As you just saw, I seem to have got some special attention of my own from that one, as they seem to be making a point of stopping off at my talkpage first to grace it with their delightful presence, before launching into other editors talk pages. But since I have neither email enabled, not UTRS access, I will not be able experience the full joys of dealing with Skiyomi. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 13:18, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
I hadn't realised who it was actually, I just thought of them as the 'punches you in the face' person. My username doesn't show up anywhere in that SPI archive, so I don't know why they want to punch me in the face - I must have blocked some of their socks without knowing who they were or something. Oh well. GirthSummit (blether) 13:41, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
@Girth Summit: Just to clarify, 'punches' is "Maria Alexander Voicu". Do they have some relation to Skiyomi? Or is that not what you meant? I think my comment may have also been a bit unclear. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 01:50, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
Ah yes - Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Glam-girlz, that makes more sense, I see both you and I have been involved there before. I'm not familiar with the Skiyomi case - Deepfriedokra seemed to be suggesting it was them? There's also a comment on the latest batch suggesting that it looks a lot like Nate Speed... GirthSummit (blether) 06:01, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
Who knows who is who anymore. Anyway, @Mako001:-- with all this traffic, you should consider getting a light or something. --Deepfriedokra(talk) 09:04, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
Hmm, interesting idea. 🤔 Whilst this seems to be a recurring issue, I'm not greatly concerned by it, and, say, protecting this page would probably not be an ideal solution. I'd sooner be able to communicate effectively with non-autoconfimred users than not have my talk page occasionally graced with our friend 'punches' presence (dunno where Judy went though). Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 12:54, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
I got notified about an edit on my talk page that had the hallmark traits I'd seen many times before, and after backtracking through a few IPs, saw that they'd been here on your talk page. Some of the IPs and accounts being attributed to Glam-girls / Alexandra Voicu / any number of accounts with "Soby", "Sobell" and/or "Sobea" in them are more likely to be Nate Speed.
He started impersonating Alexandra Voicu over on the Fandom wikis about two weeks ago, but it's been obvious from the get-go from all the loud quacking that it's him. It matches his attempts to impersonate Warner Bros. employees last summer. He's been punching people through the internet, making threats and showing he knows what an exclamation mark is for years.
I became aware of Alexandra about a year ago. She likes exclamation marks but not as much as him. In general, she's a bit more polite than Nate and the type of edits she makes seems to be different. He's capable of being polite, but each attempt has a shorter lifespan than a mayfly. Showing up on the same pages that she's edited could be either he developed an interest in the same subjects or simply part of the impersonation attempt.
Nate just passed his sixth anniversary of being angry at random things. He'll be around for quite a while longer. It's a little early for me to assess how long Alexandra's likely to be a problem. —RRabbit42 (talk) 17:29, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
@RRabbit42: Thanks for the insight there. They were doing the "oh, please don't fling me in that briar patch" thing earlier, begging (in all caps obviosly) for us "not" (hint, hint) to make an LTA page for either Glam/Alexandra or for Sobea, on pain of stabbing. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 01:54, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
I thought for sure that Alexandra was Nate Speed, it's the same exact message, the same phrases, the content, the threats, the punctuation, the "punches in the throat", the "asswipe", it's all language he has been using for years. Why he is editing articles about Romanian TV networks, I have no clue.
I came here offering to protect your talk page but I see from the discussion that you would prefer it to remain open despite the heavy traffic, not just from Alexandra and company but other trolls and blocked editors. It's amazing how much attention you are getting when you're a relatively new editor. It usually the old-timers that have these persistent, never give up, pests that post abusive messages for years. You seem to have a healthy attitude about it and don't let it bother you but if it ever does, I'm sure there are a number of admins who would give you a little relief for a few days. LizRead!Talk! 05:13, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
many much angrys
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(PUNCHES YOU IN THE FACE) 154.236.162.45 (talk) 12:57, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
You rejected the AFC submission Draft:Kyushu dynasty theory and cited too much detail as one of the reasons behind it. Can you elaborate on how it should be trimmed of this excessive detail? MaitreyaVaruna (talk) 18:54, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
I'll take a look and give some advice, but that was only one reason that I rejected it, and it's "companion" article, which was on a closely related topic. There were also some issues with the writing style used as well. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 00:57, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
@MaitreyaVaruna: There are fundamental issues with the article, and it would need to be entirely rewritten from scratch. Instead of detailing the entire theory, it needs to be be condensed and summarised, with about as much space given to the theory as is given to commentary on the theory by other academics. I suggest you read other articles on academic theories on Wikipedia. I also suggest that you look at some of the guidelines on article writing; "Wikipedia:Your first article" is a good place to start. Also, there were concerns raised that the ja.wiki article (that this is translated from) contains original research, and this concern still applies. I would also recommend that you read: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 04:14, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
I'm working on removing a lot of the article, including all of the arguments for it. I hope it will be satisfactory soon MaitreyaVaruna (talk) 07:27, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
You deleted my ROH update on Swerve
You said I didn't have a source? I said the show it's on. You can go watch the show, you dildo.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:b011:5c0e:3f56:a535:d87f:412:1bcf (talk) 07:09, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
First, I don't think I am one of those, as those things usually aren't sentient to the best of my knowledge. (And read this if you want to avoid being blocked)
Second, that wasn't enough detail for a citation, you need to at least give the season and episode, and better yet, a specific time. Please read Wikipedia:Citing sources. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 07:41, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
It says the show and the year. It's a yearly PPV and doesn't have a season and episode. Since you don't know anything about the business I'm not sure how you can moderate it.
Wikipedia is gayer than aids at this point. Almost literally impossible to add anything to any article because of homos like you. You're welcome to block me for personal attacks, since I know wiki editors live for their mod status and are very sensitive about being challenged in any way. Why not just become a police officer? You could lord your power over people a lot better that way, and you'd even get a gun! Dildo. Well, maybe that's too much power. Mall security. That's more your speed. I typically never even bother trying to edit anything on wikipedia since no-lifers like you will show up in seconds to revert ANYTHING, so ban away, I don't give a shit. 2001:B011:5C0E:343A:8006:7CD1:82D7:EA6E (talk) 06:18, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for the constructive part of your criticism, I will bear that in mind. As for the rest of it, ignoring the stuff that doesn't have any value for either lampooning or criticism:
2. Yes, I know it seems frustrating to need citations, but if you would prefer to avoid needing to provide citations, why not try Uncyclopedia?
3. If I was sensitive about being challenged in any way, wouldn't I have already called in a block on you by now? I don't intend to, and I won't even delete your comments, since, as explained in my talk page header, "personal attacks with critical value will be archived as usual."
4. I dunno how it works where you live, but where I live, cops aren't generally interested in lording their power over people. Nor are shopping centre security for that matter.
Thank you and now you can piss off, if you want to. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 09:59, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
Bishzilla sends regards
Bishzilla sends her regards. Welcome in pocket, little user! bishzillaROARR!!pocket 16:36, 2 April 2022 (UTC).
I may not have much opportunity to hang out there, but thanks all the same!
I hear that there is a well stocked fridge though, so I will definitely have to visit at some time. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 17:05, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
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@AlabanJustatribute: Oh for pity's sake, if you are going to copy and paste a template onto my talk page, at least remove my signature from it entirely. My assumptions of good faith are now all assumed, and it's still not looking great. I'd recommend that you stop your unexplained deletion of references and editing against the hidden notes which clearly direct you to the talk page, which, when combined, are very definitely disruptive. The deletion is in fact bordering on vandalism. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 16:47, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
Cricket in Iceland deletions
I'm the statistician and archivist for the Icelandic Cricket Association. I've just spent an hour (at least) updating Cricket in Iceland, with a list of all the domestic competitions and their previous winners. However, you've just reverted all the changes I've made (seemingly without looking at any of the references that justify them), on the basis that adding a list of a national sporting organisation's competitions and champions is a "needless attempt to be funny". Please could you restore the changes you've deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kitharr15 (talk • contribs) 16:55, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
Sorry about that, I didn't read the diff correctly, I will resotr it in a second. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 16:57, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
Thank you. Just FYI, I'm going to be developing this page in more detail over the coming weeks. Kitharr15 (talk) 16:59, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
@Kitharr15: You are welcome to do so, your contributions will be greatly valued! Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 17:03, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
Sources
Here is the source you requested for the Gloria Huntley Award for Bill Lichtenstein. I am not familiar enough with Wikipedia to replace it myself. Thank you.
I have added that source. If you have an account, please remember to use it whenever you can. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 07:22, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
Путін повинен засунути їжака собі в дупу. Путін, іди нахуй. Sorry, it still doesn't have enough reliable sources
Путін повинен засунути їжака собі в дупу. Путін, іди нахуй. Sorry, it still doesn't have enough reliable sources
Marco, I agreed with you - it's not enough :). Can you just explain where you find out this comment? DmytroKov (talk) 18:13, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
You will need to prove that it passes the neologisms notability guidelines especially, since that is why this article was deleted back in 2014. However things have changed somewhat since then, and many editors who had been pushing "delete" are gone. The editor who nominated the article for deletion has been indefinitely blocked for copyright violations, and another (an apologist for the current Russian regime) hasn't edited in 6 years (just as well, their comments from 2014 would be likely to attract an indefinite WP:NOTHERE block if made today). Another delete pusher was indefinitely blocked for sockpuppetry.
You will also need to make sure that the article complies with WP:NPOV as well.
I'm getting so sick of the fact that 3 separate LTAs hate me enough to impersonate me that I've asked on meta to put my username on the title blacklist. Fucking hell. I've had enough. wizzito | say hello! 04:50, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
@Wizzito: This one was a Nate Speed sock. They were previously impersonating Glam Girlz, but they seem to have switched personas. While you're requesting additions to the username blacklist, would you be able to get "AlexandraVoicu" added too? I have also previously pre-emptively created accounts with usernames they seem likely to use to prevent them from using them. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 06:32, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
I suppose it's possible that some of these Glam-girlz sox have been Nate Speed impersonating her, but most have been her mimicking him. One of the sox emailed me something that makes me quite confident they're really Glam-girlz. As to blacklisting "AlexandraVoicu", why blacklist the easiest way to spot her? -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she/they) 22:02, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
Good point I guess, about the blacklist thing. Interesting that we basically have two LTAs copying each other. Maybe Nate should take a trip to Romania, I'm sure the two of them would get along very well. They could punch each other in the face all day and swap stories about how Tamzin/Wizzito/WXDS/RRabbit42/Mako001 (and whoever else) is an "asswipe" (with a liberal serving of exclamation marks to go with that). Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 15:49, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
The Teamwork Barnstar
I didn't know I could give barnstars, but I want to show my appreciation for your having helped me out with the Kyushu dynasty theory and suggesting going about translating articles seen in higher regard on their native wikipedias. MaitreyaVaruna (talk) 06:28, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
@MaitreyaVaruna: No worries, you may want to take a look at Wp:Translate and the list of pages at the end of that page, which may help answer any questions you might have about translation. If not let me know and I'll try to help out as best I can, or ask over at the WP: TeahouseMako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 06:38, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
I also wanted to say I saw a ton of revisions being removed from this page due to harassment or something. That's unfortunate it's happening to you because you seem to be a very reasonable contributor. MaitreyaVaruna (talk) 07:02, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
I seem to have annoyed a long term abuser, who has since taken to dropping in every so often to post some delightful messages. I don't really mind too much, it'll take a lot more than calling me an "asswipe" or any other name, or throwing any insult (however many exclamation marks may follow it) to upset me! Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 10:56, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
Comment formatting
I suppose you were talking about the IP editor here but others would deem as if you were replying me. Hope you fix this. Thanks. Aman Kumar Goel(Talk) 15:11, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
Not really, I'm not sure how they would see that, but I'll just remove that comment entirely. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 15:36, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
Account creations
Please stop creating accounts like [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. I think I understand what you are trying to do, but the unfortunate reality is that if someone wants to create usernames like that, they will – the sheer number of possible combinations makes it a pointless effort to try and create all of them, and even then, people will get around it. It also wastes patroller time; I was very close to blocking some of these a few minutes ago, which would have likely led to you hitting autoblock and having an awkward conversation in an unblock request. These usernames are in and of themselves disruptive, no matter who creates them. I'm truly sorry that you're exposed to harassment, but this is more likely to incentivise trolls to try harder than it is to prevent abuse from happening. --Blablubbs (talk) 10:52, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
@Blablubbs: OK, thanks for that, I'll avoid that in future. My apologies for any issues that doing that caused. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 10:55, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
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It is best to make article have the same look. 121.98.204.148 (talk) 22:27, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
It is also best to provide an edit summary so that other users are aware of why you are making the changes. Thank you for doing so with the third change to that page. Until then, it was unclear why you were making that change. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 22:32, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
It should have been obviuous. 22:39, 7 April 2022 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.98.204.148 (talk)
I think I can tell why you don't use an account anymore. Cheerio. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 22:43, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
And what reason would that be? 121.98.204.148 (talk) 00:41, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
Slow down and look at what you are reverting. Not all anon edits are bad. You are giving edoitors a bad name. I gavce up editing WP as a logged in user because of all the issues. 121.98.204.148 (talk) 22:30, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
Please use an edit summary. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 22:33, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
Have a look at my contribs. You will see that I often do that. I don't bother if it is an obvious change. 121.98.204.148 (talk) 22:41, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
Please read Wp:edit summary. Obvious changes aren't an exception to the requirement. Unless you are reverting blatant vandalism, you need to use an edit summary. Thank you for using one for some of your edits though. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 22:46, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
(talk page watcher) Edit summaries are strongly encouraged, but they are not mandatory, and omission is not grounds for reverting if there is no substantive reason to do so. --Blablubbs (talk) 19:54, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
Hello, you can see detailed explanation in talk section of the article (Tbilisi). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.221.214.11 (talk) 22:37, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
Please provide a reliable source for the changes per WP:CITE and WP:RS. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 22:47, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
I have already provided reliable source - Historical Dictionary of Georgia. Alexander Mikaberidze. The Scarecrow Press, Inc.Lanham, Maryland • Toronto • Plymouth, UK 2007 p.605 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.221.214.11 (talk) 22:52, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
I checked the page in Mikaberidze's book, this is what it states:
"TBILISI. Capital of Georgia; the city is known as Tiflis in Persian/Arabic and pre-1936 Russian sources."
Seems someone's not adhering to WP:VER. - LouisAragon (talk) 23:50, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
Nice try, whoops. I guess they'll be taking a bit of time out. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 06:03, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
Huber
Hi, you revised what I posted under Huber. I posted things on my father and mother to add them to Wikipedia. They nor the 7 other original Huber’s plus any of their offspring are represented on the site. I wrote the descriptions that I wrote about my dying parents which gave them happiness to know that something so light and silly were out there to represent them forever. They and I are Huber’s and we would like our legacy as we would like it. I am truly unsure of who you are with the screen name of mako001 to tell others, who are literally at the end of their lives, just trying to put their own definition on ourselves are to just erase it? I am actually a world renowned pianist, but I don’t want myself featured.. just my parents Dean Huber and Rita Huber. If you could help me figure out how I can get their names highlighted blue I would really appreciate it! I don’t want to start a back and forth.. I just wanted my parents to see their names on Wikipedia with a little something silly behind their names to help them and others chuckle a little and that’s it.. they are literally the best humans in the world, devoting their lives to helping others more than I can legally tell you! Please help me honor them by not tearing down whatever we put up! Please!! Karahuber13 (talk) 06:48, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
I understand that you are upset that I removed your additions to that page, however, any other editor who saw that would have removed it as well. I would suggest that you read Wikipedia:Content policies, particularly WP:N, WP:V and WP:NOT. You should also read WP:OTHERSTUFF as well. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 07:30, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
1857 rebellion
The same reason was given for deleting Haryana for the page 🙃🙃🙃 Jaideep thakur (talk) 11:21, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
Nope its, fine after all I do not own it. Slatersteven (talk) 10:03, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
@Slatersteven: Of course not, but I did want to make sure that my changes were still along the lines of why you had added that section in the first place. I felt that it would seem impolite if I had altered your original meaning without so much as letting you know, since it would be essentially removing your text and replacing it with mine if I did alter the meaning.
In related news, I will keep an eye on that talk page though, as I suspect that the CU blocks won't be the end of it. I'm rather impressed that you didn't lose your cool there, despite the endless badgering. I don't think I'd have done quite as well. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 10:36, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
We don need no stikin Badgers! Slatersteven (talk) 10:38, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
Colombian Music
I'm a Colombian with a rich family history in music. The mis-labeling of genres is quite offensive. First off, actual origination (outside of nationality) is quite difficult to trace *accurately*, secondly most of the available evidence shows these styles of music to be Indigenous Latino in nature. Get back to me at your earliest convenience :)
Please remember to sign your comments on talk pages using four tildes like this:~~~~
"Most of the available evidence": If that's what most of the available evidence shows, find that evidence, and add it to the article. Please read WP:CITEWP:V and WP:RS.
"Difficult to trace accurately": Well, how are the origins of other music styles elsewhere in the world known as well as they are? Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 10:41, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
Mahratta manual of style or biting?
I don't think I've done any kind bad faith edits to Mahratta Empire. The "MOS" revision favoured by you has WP:Overlinking, i had removed two of them. You reverted my edit and now the page less MOS compliant again. 157.45.230.6 (talk) 12:35, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
Fix the overlinking then, but why change every instance of Mughul? Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 12:45, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
GSK Carbon Neutural Lab
@Mako001 we made it to the wiki front page with DYK submission from the above article!! You smashed it thanks. Tom hutchison4 (talk) 00:52, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
Well done, you really take all the credit though, you did a lot more work than I did, and you nominated it! (Plus, I didn't even get past the short description without spelling laboratory as "labpratory". 🤣) Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 13:29, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
Reverted edit on "Floral Shoppe" - why?
Not sure why you reverted this edit on this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floral_Shoppe - article, her name pretty clearly seems to be Ramona Andra Langley, not Ramona Andra Xavier. Can't be assed to log in right now because I don't remember my details, but I will if I have to, thanks 2600:1700:A1C0:5280:5400:B326:1313:242D (talk) 10:06, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
OK, go ahead then (I'm not feeling like arguing or following up on this right now anyway). If someone else reverts you (quite possible), you'll need to take it up with them. Cheerio. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 10:12, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
P.S. I hate wikipedia's fake markdown, sorry for the multiedit
So wikipedia has the right to allow a particular cult to designate derogatory names to philospohies?
Next I'll add Roman Catholicism (Also called Romish by Protestants) 117.209.136.22 (talk) 11:38, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
And I would be offended by that because? Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 11:46, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
New Elmin
Thanks for your message at User talk:New Elmin. You suggested an indefinite block, and unfortunately that may turn out to be necessary. However, for now I've blocked for three days, in the hope that the editor is capable of getting the message and changing their ways. Please feel welcome to contact me again if you see continuing problems. JBW (talk) 08:55, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
@JBW: Cheers, I was rather frustrated to see that, despite your warning to them about copying, they had continued to do so. I had to revert most of their contributions, since many were not sourced, or duplicated existing material. In addition, failing to translate the cite template parameters has caused problems as well. I'm rather glad that they didn't get any further with their "helping" as the mess could have been quite large. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 10:21, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
In this edit, you reverted an edit to the plot summary of the book, noting that it did not provide a reliable source. In general, when referring to plot summaries, it is presumed that the work itself is the source. Plot summaries are rarely sourced, except in the case where direct quotes of the work are involved, which can require sourcing to the specific edition that the Wikipedia editor used to gather the quote. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 12:11, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
Cheers thanks, I'll remember that. It's likely that this is an editor, User:New Elmin, evading a block on their account. The behaviour is identical. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 12:14, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
It's unlikely to be worth the trouble of an SPI. I've notified the admin who blocked New Elmin to take a look at it. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 14:19, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
Hello, is it possible to move Julian Kurzmann's draft before the article ? (There is a link to an article in another language ) Dzambik07 (talk) 18:59, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
and rename the article to "Juliann Kurtzmann" Dzambik07 (talk) 19:16, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
I can move it to that title. I'll get to it sometime this afternoon (in UTC time, not my local time). Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 11:46, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
Sock?
On Talk:Ehelepola Nilame, a newly registered user, Marston007 suddenly appeared and left this comment supporting Maha kalu sinhalaya. They seem rather sockish to me. Should I file a sock report? I keep getting the run around about sources and ad hominem attacks... Thank you! Adakiko (talk) 10:49, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
Hmm, I've got another sock I'm about to get dealt with, a new one from Ms Alex Re/New Elmin. I'm keeping it quiet for now though, as they switched accounts within 15 minutes of me saying that all doubt had evaporated. I'll take a look at it once I've filed an SPI of my own. If it's particularly urgent, I can drop this for now though. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 11:43, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
Wow, you have been quite busy! Thanks for all your time and effort. No rush on the sock check. Just wanted your opinion. Should be a fairly easy report that I could do. The former registered and the comment was left a few minutes later. I suspect I won't hear from them again. Thanks again for your time and effort! Best wishes Adakiko (talk) 17:50, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
@Adakiko: Whilst I think that the Marston007 account is a bit of a duck, I don't think that they will be using it again. I'd let it drop for now, I think your response made it clear that you (and anyone else who knows how to find the "contribs" button) would be able to tell that Marston007 was an obvious SPA and possible sock. Unless Marston007 returns, or they seem to make "helpers" again, I'd let it go, but definitely don't forget about it. If their combative attitude continues, they are likely to try it again, with marston or another account, and then the pattern will become clearer. I'll be monitoring Maha Kalu Sinhalaya's conduct, and their adherence to WP:RS, since they showed no evidence of understanding that Facebook is not a reliable source, and self-published sources aren't either. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 22:39, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
Agree. It's gotten very quiet for some reason... The article's creator hasn't edited since before I pinged. Thanks again. Cheers Adakiko (talk) 23:08, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
Can I get your insight?
Is <this> just a reskinned duck? I know it's older than the other ducks and the sound produced doesn't match 1-to-1 to the sound produced in other language versions like it did with previous ducks and it's quite different at times, but also a lot of things match.
Honestly this whole thing at times has me highly questioning if we're even dealing with real ducks, at times there's signs of life, but at times there's these mistakes(1, 2) that happen that it's hard to imagine a real living being wouldn't notice even if they need machine-aid to read English.
Given, maybe this isn't the same one, but even before there was still the complete inability to adapt or respond, this time it's just... how did these mistakes even happen from a living being just feeding lines into the machine and putting it back together on the other side? Where did the text for the mistake even come from though? Because it had to have come from somewhere, and while everything else matches, that part doesn't.
If you don't think it's a duck, then at least tell me it's not a simulacrum of a duck(this one and the previous ones)😶. Thanks for your time.–2804:F14:C060:8A01:BDA1:954:77D5:ED04 (talk) 11:17, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
Some rather interesting similarities, but, indeed, also some key differences. I presume you are wondering if this is related to "Nouvelle Elmine" , which does have some merit. However, they have little interest in European topics, whereas NE is solely interested in those. They aren't quite as "well travelled" across wikis as the NE socks are. However their editing times seem consistent, as is their editing speed, and their total failure to ever use an edit summary. But, on the other hand, I haven't seen any warning blanking. Have you seen any additions of refs without any actual content added associated with that ref? Also, have they added any "worldcat" refs? That's another tone of quack. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 11:43, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
All I noticed was the rate(slightly slower, maybe), the change pattern, the multiple edits per article, the other language refs, the "get automatically assigned more language accounts as they go", the (this time almost) match to google translating that section, the no edit summary, the always different articles(did you ever notice how nouvelle found the next articles to do it to? I didn't).
It really is different enough to not just put in the same bucket, but besides my conspiracy theory about it being someone's A.I. experiment, it kinda could be an attempt at doing just that slightest bit more/different.
But meh, all I did was notice the first one being a content machine and just having a eureka moment that the content had to be coming from somewhere and checking and then reporting it at AIV (which resulted in the warning), if you hadn't followed up on it and afterwards noticed the pattern in the others I wouldn't have noticed (certainly didn't notice the attached accounts thing before you did), so I will bow to your expertise.
But really though, any idea where they got those references? I thought maybe using /wiki/Special:LinkSearch in other wikis for those links would have worked, but it didn't. I'm out of ideas of even what article they could have come from. – 2804:F14:C060:8A01:BDA1:954:77D5:ED04 (talk) 12:01, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
Interesting that you think it might be a unauthorised bot, I hadn't considered that, but it would make some sort of sense. Then again, it could just be yet another editor who thinks that machine translated English is perfect and totally understandable English. "Yet how much did the town grow, by 1000 residents alone in 1889" sort of thing. (That's just an example of how it ends up coming out) Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 13:00, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
I'll take a closer look at their contributions. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 13:00, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
I ended up reverting everything, I can't trust anything from that user, with so many refs having nothing to do with the content that they support. That is what makes me think it isn't NE. Their refs were actually relevant to the content that they supported. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 10:40, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
Economy of Andhra Pradesh
Thanks for your notice, removed marketing words to follow WP:NOVPkraja1234 (talk) 11:37, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
Yep, and it got G5'd anyway. Toodlepip and cheerio. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 15:15, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
A kitten for you!
Hey Mako001 i got your message and thanks for the advice 🙂🙂🙂
"Reverting good faith edits, did not fix the issues, also have numerous grammar issues and general problems of style, cohesion and flow."
I saw you did a rollback on the edits I made. I am happy to fix grammar issues if you could point them out for me; I did proofread my edit a couple of times and I'm sure that I still missed some things.
These parts I would appreciate more information:
style, cohesion and flow: I am confident that the edits I made improved cohesion and flow, in part by removing factually incorrect and/or irrelevant information on the page. I tried to clearly support of the topic from its criticisms, consolidated and corrected relevant information in the ToM section, rewrote tone specifically not to presume the external validity of research and added a criticism sentence to the lead section which was missing one. I have read the WikiProject Psychology Article Guide and tried to conform to all the standards there. An inconsistency among other psychology articles I found was the frequent use of author names across the article, and I was trying to "be bold" with that edit with the understanding it may be appropriate to leave author names in considering the paucity of research on the topic. I still made sure to leave in what I could determine by publication counts, key authors in the field. That being said, I am not yet familiar with all the details of the MoS; different title headings and organisation, and very possibly other changes may be appropriate. Can you give me more information on why you think I made the style, cohesion and flow worse than in the version without my edit?
did not fix the issues: I was considering not removing the template due to potential COI, although it did seem appropriate to me and I was concerned due to the lack of activity on the talk page that it may not get noticed. (This is the first time I since joining wikipedia I have seen a meaningful change on one of my edits.) I had to change and move a lot of the citations after reading them, due to them either being used to make factually incorrect and/or irrelevant references to the topic, or the wrong citation (sometimes none at all) being used for a claim.. I made effort to maintain neutral tone and represent all the perspectives from reliable sources that I could find, which did include adding many citations from independent sources. The original article had few independent sources in my opinion.
I politely ask if you could check my edit history for if you have any further advice for my writing style. I got really frightened when my first rollback happened three minutes after publishing, especially considering I spent my entire day fact checking and rewriting this article.
@Darcyisverycute: I have restored your edits, I think that the grammar issues I was seeing were probably correct in the context.
Why did you remove the "expert attention needed" template? Can I ask if you are indeed a topic matter expert? If you say you are, I'll take that at face value.
Also, the article remains somewhat confusing, with two different definitions given for the topic. One describes it as a lack of empathy and a symptom of autism, whilst the other describes it as a cause of autism, and it isn't clear which definition is used in which areas of the article. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 11:49, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
@Mako001: I don't think I am what wikipedia would consider a topic matter expert in psychology or autism. I have no formal psychology qualifications. I am a phd student in a different field, probably my most experienced area in psychology academically speaking is in personality disorders.
I removed the template thinking, "the template is really saying that this article needs a proper review", and I'm not sure I understand why it must be an "expert" per se that reviews it (especially since I am not really sure what constitutes an expert), so long as all of the claims are validated. I would much appreciate your thoughts on that, and I will keep this in mind in future to be more hesitant in removing templates from my own edits. I have found it difficult with using my judgement on whether to remove the templates in general. My thought process is: if I never remove templates for my edits, they might stick around a lot longer than they need to and mislead/distract editors. If I do remove them after my edits, then there is possible COI and/or bias.
I will make edits to clarify the definitions, I think I missed a couple of citations in the lead section and I will try to fix it. The key citation for that is below [1], which argues the equivalence of the claims "unable to attribute mental states to others" and "empathy" --- I consider these things equivalent in the context of mind-blindness and I can also recognise confusion arising from that. Actually, I renamed "empathetic cognitive" to "cognitive empathy" because that phrase is more consistent with general literature usage, but I missed the exact definition in the relevant citation [1] which is referring to the more general type of empathy:
"Such writing enables us to further redefine the practice of empathy as a form of engagement that seeks, both cognitively and affectively, to make sense of another’s experience while preserving and respecting difference" [1]
About autism as a symptom versus a cause, I think you are referring to this sentence:
"This has also been described as a lack or developmental delay of theory of mind (ToM)"
What I intend to say in this part of the lead section is like this:
sentence 1: autism -> unable to attribute mental states to others
sentence 2: lack of empathy === unable to attribute mental states to others
sentence 3: unable to attribute mental states to others === theory of mind
sentence 4: lack of OR slower development of theory of mind -> autism
These are each paraphrasing from the first paper on the topic.[2] (Which I just realise is earlier than the previous "first developed in 1995" claim. Oops. I've got a few more edits to do.)
(I am kind of thinking out loud while writing edits on the wikipedia article.)
No problems. Personally I would consider that if you have a PhD in any psychology or psychiatry related field, then that would probably be enough to be an "expert" in this context. Mind you, as a bit of semi-off-topic trivia, the original iteration of Wikipedia was to be edited solely by experts. However, that didn't get very far.Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 12:59, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
A kitten for you!
Hey im Jayden1200 can we be friends if never
Had a friend at Wiki😋😋😋☺
I am not surprised that you are now indefinitely blocked. I think I've met you before anyway. And you were a lot less friendly then. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 05:55, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
AN3
Thanks for the heads up and your comment. All but one was bad, and I thought I had diff/diff2 figured out... Cheers Adakiko (talk) 06:53, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
Palekates
Greetings.!
Thank you for helping me, I have made changes, Do you consider the recent improvements on Draft:Rachit Yadav to be sufficient to make it encyclopedic in tone?
Palekates — Preceding undated comment added 05:34, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
@Palekates: Hmm, sorry, I'm not really experienced enough yet to be totally sure, and I'm not sure if he passes the general notability guidelines. Sorry I can't be of more assistance, musicians and artists of any other kind aren't really a topic I have much knowledge of. I'd recommend resubmitting it and seeing what the next reviewer has to say. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 13:43, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
You irreverent braggart. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 14:29, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
Go and get lost on your /122 subnet. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 14:30, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
Thank you and have a nice day. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 14:34, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
Four more shots please!
I've reported the IP to AIV and requested page protection. Elemimele (talk) 13:16, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
I think that they may have already been blocked by the time you got here, it was quite quick! I went to report them after I finally stopped hitting edit conflicts and managed to revert them, however when Twinkle loaded it came up with "already blocked". So yeah. Thanks. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 13:33, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
Death Eaters
Hi, sorry, me again; thanks, and also thanks 3PPYB6, i've flagged the situation at Death Eaters at ANI because those comments, in my view, need revdel or possibly even oversight. Elemimele (talk) 12:44, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
@Elemimele: I'm guessing revdel will probably be applied, given the whole "advocating genocide" thing. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 12:49, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
Time
There is sunshine protection act probably next year 184.144.174.44 (talk) 02:33, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
I am not block evading, please compare my contributions to the 2021 ones made by the other user. 98.207.252.129 (talk) 04:43, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
Why mention that you weren't? It is a sure-fire way to attract suspicion. I'll take a look in a few hours. If I was wrong, I'll let you know, but if I was right, then the admins will let you know. Cheerio for now. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 04:48, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
I am not. I come from another wiki-project that relates to public transportation around the bay area. It inspired me to come to Wikipedia and document information about public transportation around the bay area, I starting editing the 67 Bernal Heights draft, and at this time, I realized that someone from 2021 used this IP address to evade their block. That's why I wrote in my edits summaries to clarify to others users that I'm not that person. So please, don't block me. 98.207.252.129 (talk) 05:02, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
Wow, what a coincidence! (I see you have already been blocked, so I'll leave it at that). Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 10:21, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
Abaut Hungry ghost edition
Hi, I edited it in the editing but the changes made by one person from 2019, he added them without sources and destroyed the original sources referenced studies of Chinese culture. The sites had only told information about the tradition in China and he only added to the barrier in Vietnam, which was not mentioned in the studies. Vietnamese traditions should add their own page like Japanese and Tibet. That is why it is of Chinese origin because although it has the effects of Buddhism, it is also original in Taoism. If lis only Vietnam then should put all the other countries like Japan, Korea that were affected. Maybe I’ll have a hard time explaining this, but so they need to write about their diversity and uniqueness in what you’ve evolved over time, and not put them in the same way as others. 81.0.251.162 (talk) 12:08, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
As I understand, you are asking that the article be separated into two articles. You are welcome to do that, but please don't remove the material from the existing article until it has somewhere to go to. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 13:31, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
Brian Howe reversal
Thanks. The citations are yet to come, as per the talk page of this article. I note a large number of other assertions in this article have no reference, should they be tagged? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Redabyss1 (talk • contribs) 01:11, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
OK, it is best to add citations as you go, but I'll hold off any reverts on that page until you are done. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 06:32, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
Your edit summary.
If you cannot read properly and think that I have put "attacked" as a noun, then you are part of the problem. You are the incompetent one and you need to also assume good faith (AGF).49.178.100.15 (talk) 12:02, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
I've totally rewritten the caption. Previously it was too long anyway for an image caption. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 12:24, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
Legit
Which comment did I edit or delete over at McGarry from another editor?
Please do not edit other editors comments on my talk page.
@MsMisinformation: Not so much tildes as "Log in". You got the tildes part correct. Anyway, I didn't edit any comments on your talk page. All I did was notify you that it is discouraged to edit others talkpage comments, even to correct typos and such.
While you are here, can I ask what your connection to Abysshark is? If that is an alternate account of yours, you need to declare it, ideally on your userpage. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 13:18, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
Not that it is any of your business, I admire Abysshark contributions .
I did not do any editing or deleting of another editors work. I corrected my own freaking typo!!!
Is it not redundant to say (copy andn pasted) "Larder Lake is an incorporated municipal township[1] and
And you are a hypocrite for leaving me a message on my talk page telling me not to do what you did to me on McGarry talk page!! DO NOT ACCUSE ME OF THINGS I HAVE NOT DONE! AND THEN Turn AROUND AND EDIT AND DELETE MY WORK!!! WHICH IS WHAT TOU ACXUSED ME OF DOING!!!
Sorry for yelling, maybe I needed to make my point clear. Anyway,💕, here is my apology and one last thing, have a nice day. 💛 MsMisinformation (talk) 13:27, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
Thank you. Noted as well. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 13:30, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
Finger puppet
Get who I am straight. I am not a sock puppet, I am your dad's finger puppet. MsMisinformation (talk) 14:41, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
If you have anything serious to say, say it. If you don't, get lost, and don't post anything else here. Good night. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 14:55, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
Rescinded, may post here, even if not (entirely) serious. 🙂
Biographies of living persons and official Facebook page as source
Why you refuse to accept official Facebook page of living person as source? Moreover this information was posted in media before. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.96.71.166 (talk) 16:11, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
I refuse to accept it because WP:FACEBOOK is not a reliable source. Does that answer your question? Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 23:25, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
No, if you check your link you will find
As a reliable source:Sometimes. The official page of a subject may be used as a self-published, primary source, but only if it can be authenticated as belonging to the subject.
So why are you ignoring this? 195.96.71.166 (talk) 07:15, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
You are using it to remove content without replacing it. That is not how it works here. If you want to make some mention that he has left, you need to do so by adding content and modifying existing content to suit. Not by just deleting sourced content and giving a reference in an edit summary. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 10:31, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
I was just deleting irrelevant information. If you're talking about better formatting, can you show some example? 195.96.71.166 (talk) 14:15, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
I will repeat this, as I am not sure I was clear enough the first time: The content that was there is not irrelevant just because he no longer is part of the organisation or whatever. Instead of removing all mention that he was part of the organisation, you need to add that he left the organisation. If you want to see the instructions for citation formatting, WP:CITE will probably have what you are looking for. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 14:40, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
WCR Edits :(
Hello! I would like to address the edit(s) I made to the WCR page.
I know that 124 was sold off- I actually volunteer on the WCR- but I've been having a hard time actually finding any (official) sources- other than the fact that the engine is no longer on the Waterloo Central Railway Website. the only website I could find about 124 being sold off is this one- http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/tourist/Waterloo_Central.htm, which is the one i had originally linked- most likely in the wrong spot, hoping someone would fix it.
I'm not sure if any of the very limited sources could be used properly in this case- or that just my word could be used. but it is very obvious- just by looking at up-to-date pictures of the railway, that the little steam engine (124) isn't in service- hence why I had edited the article. I do wonder if ANYTHING could be done about it? I already tried editing the actual article, but we both know how that turned out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:FEA8:1BA1:8500:2871:F39D:51ED:943A (talk) 20:23, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
Often for that stuff, finding sources can be very difficult, or even impossible. Sometimes you have to end up resorting to less desirable sources, like official YouTube channels or the railway's website, so long as their use is limited. Does that help? If not I can see what else could be done in a few hours time. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 23:28, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
It seems like that site might be a blog or something similar, is that correct? Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 04:36, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
Regarding the recent edit of Apollodorus of Damascus.
Commuted to Change the origin of apollodorus from Syria Roman to Arab Syrian of the Roman era , based on the fact that he was an Arab Nabbatian, who were born and lived part of his life in Damascus.
kindly, correct this information to be more accurate. ArSpirit (talk) 14:46, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
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The editing seemed rather promo, three IPs editing Remilk had not edited any other articles, so I added a COI hat tag. I got an interesting response. Appears 85.65.164.218 (talk·contribs) and 2a02:6680:1100:1247:a58b:813c:48c2:8c41 (talk·contribs) communicating externally. Remilk is located in Israel as are the four IPs who have edited Remilk per geolocate. They are not in the same city(s). The two seem rather concerned about that COI tag. The two IPv6 are in the same city.
13:33, 9 May 2022 85.65.164.218 "Tags: Reverted Visual edit: Switched COI template removed"
19:18, 9 May 2022 Adakiko "Undid revision 1086963962 by 85.65.164.218 (talk) unexplained removal"
21:21, 9 May 2022 2a02:6680:1100:1247:a58b:813c:48c2:8c41 removes COI tag: "A (talk) note was left with the explanation plus there were amendments to the content. There isn't any relation with the subject just belongings with its industry."
On user talk:Adakiko
20:30, 9 May 2022 85.65.164.218 "Miss understanding on the close relation to the subject: new section"
21:02, 9 May 2022 2a02:6680:1100:1247:a58b:813c:48c2:8c41 "COI note removal: new section"
21:06, 9 May 2022 Adakiko "Miss understanding on the close relation to the subject: r" (ec & reply to 85.65.164.218)
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The information is from [footnote 1] except the last two lines. 49.183.158.187 (talk) 04:55, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
The Recent Changes Barnstar
Thanks so much for the help with that editor on the Buffalo shooting article. I am still relatively new here and trying to help out with some recent changes work while also doing my editing. I was not sure if I could report the editor to AIV or not as yet, and having them come to my personal talk page like that was a first for me. Having an experienced editor step in with that support was helpful. Thanks. Also, what is that cabal template called? Thanks again, SC Such-change47 (talk) 11:36, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
PS - I initially posted this on your userpage by accident, got disorientated when I saw all the other barnstars there. Such-change47 (talk) 05:09, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
Well, their editing before that had been troublesome, though not block-worthy, but they seemed to be out to put an undue weight to certian facts about the inventor of the Great Replacement theory. These were irrelevant for the articles lead section. After they persisted in adding it after being given the level 4 warning, then they could be reported. Given their edit summaries and such, they were definitely not intending to help build an encyclopedia. Strictly speaking, it wasn't vandalism, but if an editor is acting like they are clearly not here to build an encyclopedia, that is grounds to take them to AIV, especially when it needs urgent intervention to prevent further disruption.
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@Gonnym: Cheers, moved to userspace now, see the discussion page. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 04:15, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
Zap Energy
Hey, can you unflag the draft article for Zap Energy and allow it forward? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Zap_Energy). It is a fusion company that has raised over 40 million in VC funding and has a serious shot at creating net power from a fusion reactor, and therefore fighting climate change. How can you say it is (1) not significant and (2) not well cited? — Preceding unsigned comment added by WikiHelper2221 (talk • contribs) 17:58, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
@WikiHelper2221: You are welcome to submit the draft for re-review, using the instructions on the message that I left, which I see has already been done. However, neither I nor anyone else is allowed to remove that decline message until the draft has been accepted, as it is against the procedures for Articles for creation to do so. The version of the article that I reviewed 50 days ago was one that was much more poorly sourced, and did not seem to demonstrate notability (On Wikipedia, content does not determine notability). To see how much the page has changed since I reviewed it, click here. I will take another look at it, as it may now be suitable for inclusion. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 04:53, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
Shear flow stabilization in the flowing pinch (which is separate from the regular pinch) the University of Washington creates an electron flow that is about 10X higher at the edge than in the middle. This stabilizes the pinch against the kink, sausages and interchange instabilities.WikiHelper2221 (talk) 01:04, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
@WikiHelper2221: Seems pretty much ready for mainspace. Some work is still needed, did you want to let me know when you've finished with it and I'll take another look at it?
The only other thing is that, whilst this article fits into mainspace, mainspace doesn't quite fit it yet. You might want to add some stuff to the main Z-pinch article and other related articles on nuclear fusion to connect this article to mainspace "both ways" (and to avoid this article covering Shear flow stabilised z-pinch better than the main article does!). To clarify, that isn't a barrier to accepting it though. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 02:29, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
I am done with this article. It is ready. — Preceding unsigned comment added by WikiHelper2221 (talk • contribs) 00:18, 9 May 2022 (UTC) I think that you are putting undo barriers on this article.
WikiHelper2221, it is not well-written, it is full of factoids that are irrelevant in an encyclopedic article; the ones that are relevant are not properly verified by secondary sources--I could go on. Also, it's "undue", and that claim is not correct. Drmies (talk) 00:24, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
@WikiHelper2221: Per Drmies advice, I recommend that you find some more sources to back up what you have added. Also, much of the content is better suited to the main Z-pinch article, and it would be better off if it was there, with relatively minimal references to it here, remember, this article is supposed to be on Zap Energy, not on the topic of Z-pinch as a whole. I apologise if it feels like I am putting undue barriers on publishing this article. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 04:37, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
I am just going to keep adding material to the article, as the company keeps announcing raises, sets records, hiring staff and makes headlines. You guys can decide at what point it meets your high standards for Wikipedia.
Moreover, there are many articles on Wikipedia that have a fraction of the detail (and references) that this article has; for example: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustained_Spheromak_Physics_Experiment) has only 3 references and is "approved" for publication on this encyclopedia.
Finally, I would add that fusion power is a revolutionary technology that could fundamentally change the nature of human civilization; it has far more collective importance to the human race than details about a pop star, actor or singer; information that abounds on this site.WikiHelper2221 (talk) 10:15, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
@WikiHelper2221: I have left some comments on the article. I'd recommend reading WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS as this may help you understand why some articles exist which are of apprently poor quality, yet are still in mainspace. Also, it doesn't matter how much overall content and sources you have, as quality is more important than quantity. There are much shorter articles than this one, which would be considered better than this draft, as they keep to the topic at hand, provide relevant information succinctly and simply, and are properly sourced and cited throughout. Simply adding more content to this draft will not necessarily make it better, it will just make it longer.
I also question whether you have addressed the issues that Drmies raised earlier.
Remember, this is a collaborative project, no-one is trying to prevent the article from being published. Rather, they are trying to make sure that the article as finally published is a credit to its main authors (including you) and something that you can compare to the better articles in the encyclopedia, and still be happy with. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 12:57, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
I can't rightly figure out what the relevance is of the "Typical Machine" section, for instance--it doesn't really seem to be about the company, and the references don't seem to be specifically about that machine (hard to tell without links), though a number of them are written or co-authored by a company man, which also means they are not independent of the subject. Drmies (talk) 14:28, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
@Drmies: This article was failed in March for lacking NOTE, which the article clearly does meet (as I noted long ago, IEEE and Reuters are clearly independent and NOTE). Over the next two months, this poor editor has been asked to make changes about wording and subjected to complaints about quality that might be germane in a GA review, but have zero bearing on a draft. We post things in the mainspace so that other editors can see and improve them. Leaving this in draft is preventing the very improvements you are asking for. Enough is enough, unless someone responds with cogent technical fail grounds, I will be moving this to main space shortly. Maury Markowitz (talk) 14:08, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
The unregistered vandals have kept removing the sourced content about Lenin.Foorgood (talk) 13:40, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
Hello i saw your comment on the page protection post. Are you saying it is vandalism or were you disagreeing?Foorgood (talk) 13:50, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
@Foorgood: I'm inclined to think that they are probably being intentionally disruptive, but that it does have the superficial appearance of a content dispute. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 13:54, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
The random ip users are not making arguments there are saying "its excessively sourced" and "unnecessary" when they are deleting the whole edit. They literally created their random ip account just to keep removing it without valid reason. They are showing they continue to be disruptive in deleting content sourced by Oxford and Princeton for no valid reason.Foorgood (talk) 13:55, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
Taking a closer look, I see that their "consensus" is non-existent. So it is just plain disruption. I am concerned about the way that Da Editorz is a WP:SPA, and I think that there is actually another, much more experienced editor behind them and the IPs. I really hope that my suspicions aren't correct. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 14:00, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
Yes sir may you write that in the page protection post.Foorgood (talk) 14:01, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
Further to my comments, I don't think that this is their first rodeo (so to speak), as the way that they have crafted their edit summaries suggests that they are familiar with Wikipedia's processes and policies. Because of that, I don't think that DaEditorz is the oldest account or IP that this person has used. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 14:19, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
Definitely i think those random ips are all sock puppets of DaEditorz because they are saying the same thing.Foorgood (talk) 14:29, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
I'm getting a bit more concerned. DaEtitorz did come to an agreement with Spf, see their talkpage. Did you miss that? Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 14:35, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
SPF changed his mind once he realized he was likely a sock like you discovered! Foorgood (talk) 14:45, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
andddd hes back vandalizing on the totalitarianism page. not only did he remove the sentence about lenin but even the mussolini sentence. Foorgood (talk) 20:12, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
@Foorgood: I've slept on this one. I'm gathering up a few bits of WP:AGF lying around, and I think that this really does need to go to the talkpage. WP:ONUS puts the burden on you to obtain consensus for inclusion of disputed content, even if it is verifiable.
Comrade-yutyo has also raised an objection on the talkpage to the inclusion of this content, so I would suggest that you take this to the talkpage, and try to discuss it with DaEditorz/the IPs. If they don't want to engage in discussion, follow the steps outlined in WP:DISCFAIL, which although only an essay, gives some very good advice indeed. I've reprimanded them for edit warring, warned them about editing whilst logged out, and directed them to the article talkpage as well.
I'd recommend that a good first step to put yourself in a good position here would be to remove the disputed content yourself. I'd only remove the part that was originally disputed by DaEditorz, as that is what the dispute really seems to be about. If they raise a genuine dispute about more than just the content that you added, we'll cross that that bridge when we get there.
The best way of getting the upper hand in a dispute is to back down. This might seem paradoxical, but there is method in the madness, as it then leaves the other party with two choices:
1. Also back down, thereby lowering the overall hostility and making a resolution easier and more amenable.
2.Or continue as before, and make themselves look arrogant and aggressive.
I do think that treating this as a content dispute is the best way forward, even if they are just being merely disruptive, as if they are, then this will show it up much, much more clearly. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 02:52, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
5 editors including you have reverted these vandals because I had 10 sources including Oxford and Princeton saying Lenin founded the first totalitarian state. I already spoke on DaEditorz talk page but him and the vandals continue repeating the "sources are excessive and biased" which is 1. obviously no valid reason to remove it and 2. False lies about independent university sources. This shows that the inclusion of Lenin simply offends these vandals and their bias and they know it so they are using unregistered ips.Foorgood (talk) 04:14, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
@Foorgood: Look, I know that it doesn't seem like a good outcome in the short term, but if they are to be shown up, you will need to do what I have suggested. Otherwise, there will be no way of making it clear that their behaviour is intentionally disruptive. Discussion on their talkpage isn't enough, it must be on the article talkpage.
I personally think that it warrants inclusion, but this user is evidently not new to this game, and are making it seem so much like a content dispute to other users that the only way of resolving it is to take them seriously and act like it is one. By doing so, they will be forced to either appear blatantly disruptive and uncooperative, or actually discuss reasonably. I doubt that they will do the latter, and so will end up blocked.
Sorry if that doesn't make sense, please let me know if you don't understand any part of what I am trying to say. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 06:58, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
I don't read it like that, more as a somewhat rhetorical question, directed at the specific user, because they weren't providing any evidence to prove their points (In the same token, neither are the ad hominem comments by the new sockpuppet editor who has recently appeared on the talkpage for no apprent reason).
I'm sorry that I wasn't able to make this clear earlier, so I now have to make this absolutely clear:
WP:ONUS is clear on this: You must obtain consensus for inclusion if your additions are challenged. No matter who by.
Their conduct is problematic, but it is beside the point, and has not yet crossed the line of being "blockable", as we must WP:AGF. DarkWorld—25 has also reverted to the version that the DaEditorz associated users are reverting to, and they are clearly acting in good faith, and seem to possibly consider it to be a content dispute, which is quite reasonable.
But, please, address the content issue, not the contributors. Leave that part to me and I will keep an eye on it. I may not react immediately, but I will react.
If this issues persists, I am going to request that the page be fully protected, until such time as consensus is reached, and the dispute resolved. Otherwise it may likely end with more than just DaEditorz & co. blocked, which would be the worst possible outcome.
I hadn't actually seen that far, I only saw the diff (using SWViewer).
As a plus side, I guess it would mean that you'd be able to travel across Australia by air for about $60 each way (TNT do quite a good deal), if you didn't mind some slight discomfort. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 09:58, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
Nah, it's not too bad actually, the domestic airlines are basically all up and running again, international flights are down, but if you want a flight, you can get one easily enough, though prices are somewhat higher.
I noticed you are blanking a lot of pages by one user and I see nothing wrong with it but wanted to know why. SkyTheWolf (Talk) 12:27, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
@SkyWolf369: They seem to be running a bot of some sort, and they are likely trying to game Wp:XC / WP:NOTHERE. I think that the bot will hit an error under the circumstances that I've created on those pages, hopefully, they will then think about their talkpage, instead of just leaving the bot to play around at random without any supervision. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 12:31, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
Mind if I help? SkyTheWolf (Talk) 12:32, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
@SkyWolf369: It now seems like it won't make any difference, I've just checked back, and it hasn't made any difference. Apparently they are doing this nonsense manually. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 12:34, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
That or the bot is moving slow so it doesnt trigger the API Rate limits. SkyTheWolf (Talk) 12:35, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
Do you mind if I make an AIV report on it? SkyTheWolf (Talk) 12:36, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
@SkyWolf369: I've already done that. And to answer your first question: Not really, there are some unusual aspects to some edits which suggest that it is a human. Try pasting {{Talkback|User talk:Sztadii93}} on the pages they edit. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 12:38, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
@SkyWolf369: Regarding deletion, there isn't really any valid CSD criteria (JBW has deleted the lot as U5, which makes sense, thinking about it). Given that they offered to clean up, I've asked them if they would be OK with having me ask an admin to Special:Nuke all the pages that they created, which would fall under U1 if they are. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 13:14, 20 May 2022 (UTC) edited 13:20, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
Comment ex post facto: Sztadii93 (the user being discussed above) was blocked indefinitely by JBW as WP:NOTHERE. They were testing out the Wikimedia software. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 14:43, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
I can't afford a PB and J sandwich, so here's a toast sandwich for you!
Here you go! A toast sandwich, made using the last of my emergency funds! AmerikanKoloniser (talk) 06:04, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
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History of the kilt
I amended an article to correctly indicate the common narrative and to remove politicised personal, revisionist opinion and within 5 minutes you have felt expert enough to alter what I did.
As an ethnic Highland Scot with a cultural pedigree well beyond beyond a foreigner writing my own history I have to question what it is you found so offensive? and what qualifies you to question the information I explained more accurately? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:485A:F300:7174:EEF1:7BCE:5A7B (talk) 23:17, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
See the message on your talkpage for the explanation on that. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 05:10, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
Hi Mako001! You recently reviewed my Risk-based quality management article and rejected it based on "Wikpedia is not a textbook. These concerns have not yet been addressed, and were separate from the wp:neutral point of view violation." I was wondering what part of the article you thought needed to be changed with the tone of voice. I have had this reviewed on the reviewer's talk page twice, and each person had said they thought it would be moved to the public space. Happy to connect with you on where I can improve! — Preceding unsigned comment added by SaltyEdits603 (talk • contribs) 15:54, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
@SaltyEdits603: If others have looked it over and are OK with it as it is, then I have no objections to it being moved to mainspace. I haven't looked at it too recently, so it would probably be better if you ask one of the other reviwers to move it. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 05:11, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
Richard Gilbertson
Thanks! this is Richard Gilbertson. I corrected my actual research description (written by the PR folks in Cambridge). Please can you revert to what I had written. There are too many publications to cite so simply stating what I did simply is easier.
Hi Mako! I just re-read what you edited and it is actually now incorrect. Please can you revert back to my edits from today. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rgilber35 (talk • contribs) 08:52, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
@Rgilber35: Sorry, I've got to go off-line for a couple of hours, can I get back back to you then? I've left another message on your talkpage. Please read it and the pages I have linked to. In the meantime, can I ask that you avoid editing that page directly? Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 09:00, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
Thanks Mako
I have reverted back to the more accurate statements. I am absolutely compliant with open and transparent accurate reporting.
I will get our PR group to check too and add in references as needed
Please don't. That is a conflict of interest, and you really, really, need to read the pages I have linked to on your talkpage, thoroughly. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 09:08, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
Yes, thanks I saw that now. As per my recent comment I have now sent the edits to our Scientific Communications group and they will log in and make sure all is accurate with appropriate references. Thanks again! Rgilber35 (talk) 09:20, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.
What did you find objectionable? Please let me know. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.63.1.209 (talk) 05:15, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
See your talkpage and the article talkpage for my reply. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 05:33, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
Question by IP user
I'm sorry, who are you? Or who do you think you are? You keep framing "rugged individualism" coined by a republican president, with republican motives, as though it's a neutral term. Clearly, it's not neutral and that should be expressed in its phrasing and explanation. Who are you? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.194.73.98 (talk) 06:25, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
I'm a ghost, just in case you were wondering. See WP:NPOV. 👻 Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 06:32, 4 June 2022 (UTC) 👻
@10mmsocket:@Mutt Lunker: What do you think of this carry on? I'm not greatly familiar with Politialguru, but this seems to fit a bit of a pattern. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 08:20, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
I was trying to make a good faith edit according to the citation. Also the citations about some countries there are all based from a old article while some (Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova) have better and more informative sources (since they where added recently). Also can you take a look at my latest edit on Montenegro? I added source
Thanks :) 2A02:587:E20C:8000:30FB:F804:3563:9953 (talk) 12:50, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
Hello, I will strike that warning, I actually misunderstood the placement of that phrase, and the reduction of a more complete sentence to three words seemed rather odd at the time, but I makes sense now that I see it was in a table. Regarding this more recent edit regarding Montenegro, you should probably leave the "obstacle" in, but add the information you have found to the article, to show that it was surmounted, and is no longer an obstacle.
To add the source you mention correctly, I recommend you paste what you see here {{Cite web |url=https://ec.europa.eu/neighbourhood-enlargement/document/download/6d45cc87-9d19-4f06-a49f-e3690cde3da4_en?filename=Montenegro%202021%20report.PDF |title=Montenegro Report 2021 |date=2021-10-19 |website=European Commission - European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations |publisher=Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations |page=110}} after what you want to add that is backed by it. The longer url is because this is the direct link to the PDF, which is better for avoiding link rot. To learn how to use the template I used above yourself, see {{Cite web}}. Let me know if you need any more help, but if I don't get back quickly enough, try the Teahouse. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 13:35, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
Oh thanks a lot! Btw can you take a look (if that alright) at my first edits to the "Democratic Party of Albania"? It has been recently (past 2-3 months) constantly being vandalized by some users, even the logo is incorrect lol.
Thanks again :)
I'd consider your edits an improvement to that article, the only thing I would question is the translation of the slogan. The Albanian word "si" seems to have other translations as well as "like", and I can't exactly tell if the word "like" in that case means "similar to" (as in "That house is like that other house") or "have favourable feelings toward" (as in "I like that house"). If it can be translated in a way which removes the ambiguity (and, if need be, resolves the minor grammar issue of using "like" in the sense of "have favourable feelings toward" immediately after anything except for "I", "we", "you" or "they") then that would be ideal.
It seems that the Albanian for "like" in the sense of "have favourable feelings toward" is an entirely different word to "si", and "like" isn't a good word to use in this situation, and neither is the Google translate version, "Albania as Europe!" which makes even less sense than "Albania like Europe!". I think that trying to translate it whilst maintaining the number and position of words isn't going to be possible. Do you know of any other way of translating the slogan? Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 15:05, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
Hmm that seems interesting and indeed confusing. I re-added the old slogan without checking it and yeah now it's confusing. Yeah it's the first example you gave : "That house is like that other house" and yeah it means "similar too". The "Albanian as Europe" as you said makes it even less sense, how about "Albania same as Europe" or "Albanian becoming similar to Europe"? Btw thanks for giving your time to help me I really appreciate it :).
I've had a look at it, and, in short, it seems like it should probably be translated as "Albania [becoming] like Europe". Adding the word "becoming" removes the ambiguity of the word "like". Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 08:37, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
Officially there were no such a country as Habsburg Empire / Monarchy [moved from my userpage]
There was no such a country as "Habsburg Monarchy", it was not official name, you can not see it on institutions, offices, coat-of arms, law texts, seals, nowhere in any official documents. It was always used by historians only as an umbrella term. We must emphasize that. Read: https://www.visitingvienna.com/culture/habsburg-monarchy-introduction/Longsars (talk) 19:26, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
Turkey pox
You're wrong!
You don't understand copyright violations.
Go find one of the many non-academic pages that is based on another's writing, I see countless of them, and bother them.
There are only so many ways to write something factual, based on data, I'm following the law, and you're wrong.
Revert your rollback. 49.184.175.53 (talk) 00:08, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
(talk page watcher) @49: Mako seems to understand copyright violations just fine here. In [18], you directly copy-pasted from [19], [20], and [21]. The copy-pasted content makes up the significant majority of what you added. (And most of the rest of what you added was inappropriate for other reasons; our articles don't give readers advice and don't use the second person.) If you wish to continue editing here, you need to understand our policy on copyright violations. It's true that there are cases where there's only one way to write something, and so you wind up with situations where a few words, a sentence, two sentences on the outside will be validly the same as what's in a source, but that's definitely not what was happening here. For instance, Compared to other poxviruses, such as vaccinia virus, mechanisms that account for APV pathogenesis is poorly understood is not such a sentence; you even copied the grammatical error.Please consider this a warning, IP49. Continued copyright violations may lead to a block from editing. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she/they) 00:42, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
minor text change that addressed
hi, I'm relatively new to Wiki so I don't have much experience trying to fix things to address your concerns.
I noticed your posting
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This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. (April 2022)
This article contains content that is written like an advertisement. (April 2022)
Earlier I had added 5 more citations to go from 8 originally to 13 now. Other Wiki bios of living people tend to be in that ballpark, so I don't know what more to do to address your reservations.
I also heavily edited the text awhile ago to excise writing that sounded like advertising, but I don't really know what you mean by that. I'm open to your suggestions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.32.33.23 (talk) 11:24, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
Sorry, didn't get around to replying for a while, but since you have explained why you removed the tags, I don't have an issue with it. Cheerio and happy editing! Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 13:59, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
In plain english, this organisation is part of the Web3 movement. As per this source https://www.coinbureau.com/review/opendao-sos-opensea/ , was started as a way for "people" to take things into their own hands, and reject the notion that we are at the mercy of big organisations. There are a couple of more news articles written on this.
In plainer english, bitcoin is a cryptocurrency that allows transfer of just "money". ethereum allows us to transfer "other stuff". one of that is unique tokens / representations of things. Most of these things are traded on a large exchange called OpenSea. The OpenDAO community formed by itself, to combat that. Because this represents a weakness in the system, where there is a large single player.
Because many of the concepts are rather new, the literature in this field could be more lacking, but it is real nonetheless.
@Angyts: You are welcome to get a third opinion on this from someone else, but I'm not really seeing more than WP:Routine coverage, nor am I seeing coverage over a longer period of time (remember, notability is not temporary). You may also want to read WP:TOOSOON as I think it may possibly be the case here. But again, you can (and probably should) get a third opinion on this. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 02:52, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
ok got it thanks!
Where can I get a third opinion on this? Angyts (talk) 11:08, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
@Angyts: Try going here to start a new query. I'd recommend linking back here as well for context, and also mentioning that the original reviewer directed you there, as the article needs attention from someone with a better idea of what notability looks like for blockchain and cryptocurrency topics. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 11:20, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
Mandate period
I notice in Uri Zohar's article[1] you rolled back his birth country from Israel to Mandatory Palestine. When I saw the anonymous editor's change a few hours ago the birth country in the info box was Mandatory Israel and Tel Aviv appeared without a country mentioned. While composing a new section on WikiProject Israel Talk page I discovered the phrase appears in at least 3 articles mentioned in Search results[2]. Perhaps you should change those as well.
Since the Uri Zohar article wasn't listed it may appear in others as well. Should I raise the issue on the Project's Talk page to alert editors to that possibility?
The info box of Aaron Ciechanover's article shows his birth country as British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel)[3]. Perhaps I should mention that as well.
BTW I gather that adding the Wikitext on WikiProject Israel/Participants[4] will automatically result in my ID appearing but am not totally clear how to add myself to the list. Mcljlm (talk) 04:42, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
Well, I don't tend to get officially involved in any WikiProjects, so I can't give much advice, but you may want to go to your Preferences, then go to "Gadgets", as there is a gadget to make joining WikiProjects easier. I don't really know whether you should alert the WikiProject as, again, I don't deal with projects much.
The whole Arab-Israeli conflict topic is covered by ArbCom sanctions due to the massive amount of disruption there, coming from all possible sides, I'll leave a notice on your talkpage regarding that in a second, which should have some more details. I prefer to keep messy discretionary sanctions areas (like that one) at arms length, dealing with stuff up to a point, and then leaving it to the "experts".
The full name of "British Mandate of Palestine" is not incorrect, but also not really necessary IMHO, as a wikilinked Mandatory Palestine is enough, and is the WP:COMMONNAME anyway. "Mandatory Israel" is definitely not correct, as no such entity existed. Sorry, I hope this all makes sense? Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 09:51, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
Lakemba Schools
G'day,
thanks for reaching out.
I live in Lakemba, so I added the schools in the area and checking their exact locations using Google Maps to ensure they are in Lakemba.
There is no single source of information to get that.
NSW DoE School Finder can search for public schools just by name or home address to check if you are in their catchment area.
I have no citations I could add more than that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.67.65.109 (talk) 22:08, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
Good morning, you may want to try to add a citation to a map using {{google maps}}, that should satisfy the requirements of Wikipedia:Verifiability. All you need to do is just copy the stuff you see in the special formatting below, paste it after what you want to add, fill in the square bracketed fields, and hit "publish". If you've done it correctly, you will get a lovely little citation template, which will make it easy to see where you got the information from.
{{Google maps|url= [the url that appears when you are viewing the schools location] |title= [the school name] |access-date=6 June 2022}}.
I hope this helps, if you need more help, you will probably want to ask at the Teahouse as I will be unavailable for several hours. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 22:28, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
This article relates to the research undertaken by Professor Mustapha Ishak Boushaki on the expansion of the universe, and it is listed in the scientific literature under the name Index of Inconsistency (IOI).
The professor's research team at the University of Texas at Dallas is working rigorously on this subject, which has captured the attention of astrophysicists and cosmologists.
If there are third parties or people who are bothered by the highlighting of these results that have been sponsored by NASA and other institutions, it is not acceptable to please and accept their request for deleted article which was noted as being of high importance for the development of scientific research in the United States and around the world.
Sincerely and warmly.--Authentise (talk) 09:26, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
Do you mind me asking why you have started editing these articles at the same time as several other accounts (which have an obvious conflict of interest) started editing? I'm sure it is probably just a coincidence, but it is just a rather odd one. In any case, I can only abide by the content policies in any changes I make, and you should too. Also ensure that your sourcing complies with the policy on reliable sources. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 12:58, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
Hello. Take a look
Hello. I hope this message meets you well. I am currently working on a page [[Cross BBNaija), kindly review. Amaekuma (talk) 14:47, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
@Amaekuma: Sorry, I am not familiar enough with that topic to do a review of that draft. Again, my apologies. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 14:12, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
This is the first time my edits have been rejected by Wikipedia. Here is a link to an interview with the grand son, which supports my edits to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamnalal_Bajaj..
If you disagree, so be it.. I have no skin in this game. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 171.49.174.242 (talk) 08:03, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
YouTube is not a reliable source, nor is the video of an interview considered a reliable source. It is only suitable for attributed statements of opinion. Please provide a reliable source to support your changes in future. Thank you, cheerio and happy editing. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 14:10, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
M.Arunachalam (politician)
M.Arunachalam is not a living person, he died in the year 2004.
I will read more about the citations and get back with proper citations.
@Av8ertrker: If I recall correctly, the edit concerned people who were living, even if the articles subject is not? Hence the "living persons" policy applies. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 14:07, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
The Mummy (2017 film)
Good evening to you! How's it in Australia?
I'm responding to your message that you sent after ....
User talk:46.89.233.203 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search June 2022
Information icon Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit(s) you made to The Mummy (2017 film), did not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use the sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 09:36, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
Yeah, let's face it, my english is really not that good, so this might not be the perfect way to present this information. I agree with you to delete after thinking about it and I'd like to say thank you for your effort to let me know and take your time to write a few lines. I appreciate that.
Nevertheless I can't agree the current plot that they are escaping the sandstorm. I watched it several times now and suggest you do it yourself. You can see that only from Nicks horse the sandstorm is building itself. Especially at 1:39:30 (I hope we have the same time stamp as I'm from Europe) where Nick is seen in front and Chris as well. Check both horses! Let me know what you think: [email address removed]
The main issue was the confusing grammar, if you have fixed that then please re-add the changes you want to make. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 10:17, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
Pokémon the Series: Ultimate Journeys
I am editing the Pokémon the Series: Ultimate Journeys episode 24. I am not practicing the editing. I am edit just was aired on the TV Tokyo. If any mistake on this then please correct this mistake but you cannot removed it. I request you.
Thank you.
Please don't remove Krish1604 (talk) 12:52, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
@Krish1604: I had made a mistake when I reverted that. I didn't read the changes you were making correctly, so though that you had done something different to what you had actually done. I have struck the warning I left. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 13:20, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
Cheers, I'd noticed their stuff, and had suspicion it would end up there, but was not in the mood to make a lengthy ANI report at that point. Thanks for doing so. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 23:22, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
I know as an non plane lover you may don’t know about planes a lot but I’m from Russia and saw the official reports and the crash it self I was 5 then and I remember everything so please can u leave this case to me
Also I want to say that this crash was certified for a long time until the Soviet Union fell apart so when it’s again uncertified and we all know the truth can I please set it back to overload of aircraft that caused stall? And will you please don’t change it later
Also, I don't quite know why you made the assumption I wasn't a plane lover. I don't consider myself a "plane lover" per se, but I do have a great personal interest in aviation. Is that what you would consider a "plane lover"? By "certified" do you mean "censored"? (подвергнут цензуре?) and by "uncertified" you mean after Glasnost (Гласность)? Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 13:38, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
Update about mind-blindness cleanup tags
Hey Mako001, it's been a couple of months since our discussion about Mind-blindness which was here. Since then I've learned more about how Wikipedia works and issue templates, and read the documentation for the "expert needed" template at Template:Expert_needed. Since I recognise now the initial tag was rather vague and it is not obvious how the tags still apply to the article, I've removed them again, this time making it clear that more specific issue templates would be beneficial. If you had any more specific cleanup tags in mind I encourage you to leave them on the article/sections/inline with more detailed explanations on the talk page if you can.
@Darcyisverycute: Thanks, I'll take a look later, I might be able to help with the article itself as well. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 13:41, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
Good day, I understand why my post was deleted ie no citation. I published two books on Amazon which I will citate, if it is in order?
Want to ask a question.
Think Tools are not exactly the same as Thinking Tools, does it need a separate page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by CasOlivier (talk • contribs) 11:02, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
@CasOlivier: Before you add the content you want to add, I would like to ask you to consider the policy on "original research" and consider whether what you want to add would violate that policy. I would suggest you thoroughly at the criteria for inclusion and the content policies before you continue, as it is easy to fall into certain pitfalls when adding content when you are closely associated with the topic. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 12:16, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
The page is bloated with reference that state the same thing. There is no need for 3 different websites that announce the release date, another 3 for every member of the cast, and so on. I suggest one reference and use the <ref name> command for the rest of the article. 186.12.116.89 (talk) 05:09, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
Fine, go ahead, but why not merge the refs? Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 10:09, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
Mission failed successfully I guess?
Hello, I see you reverted the image edit I did on your user page, which is quite ironic due to the reason why I did that. So, if you have seen the edit summary (which you probably have), I was attempting (and failing) to make a joke on that section. I found this 5-month-old fake 'last warning' notice made by a vandal who was peeved that all of his edits were being reverted by you and I thought it would be funny to add a stop sign to the 'semi barnstar' and add sarcasm to the edit summary. To my d̶i̶s̶p̶l̶e̶a̶s̶u̶r̶e̶ pleasure, you reverted my edit with the short edit summary 'Rollback edit(s) by Spodle (talk): Vandalism (RW 16.1)'. I find it quite ironic that you reverted my edit that was meant to mock a guy who was mad at you reverting his edits. My apologies for the bad joke and have a nice day on Wikipedia! :D SpodleTalk 05:49, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
@Spodle: I was a little confused as to why it was being done, and the joke looked at first glance like a rather oddly written insult by an LTA. I reverted first, then read the joke a bit more closely later, and then got it, but I was running out of break time by then. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 11:00, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
Oh, my apologies for the really bad edit summary then. I thought that making an assumption that the joke would be easily understandable would be a safe bet, but it pretty much backfired (seeing your revert). (P.S: I thought that LTA stood for Long -Time-Adminstrators. Seeing the actual page, well you can fill in the blanks to see why I made (another) bad assumption.) SpodleTalk 11:37, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022
New Page Review queue June 2022
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Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.[b]
In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).
While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).
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🤖 Bleep bloop, Thank you. Would you like a candy? Bleep bloop. 🤖 Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 10:37, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
Tewodros image
How come the old versions of the page have the quote from the British consul Plowden looking normal but after adding that picture it looks squeezed to the left? I tried to remove the picture but it looked the same and you reverted it so I'd like to keep that on there if the problem will persist. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ZKDemelash (talk • contribs) 10:37, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
I'll see what I can do. Sometimes that can happen. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 10:40, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
@ZKDemelash: It looks fine to me, I don't know if it renders differently on your device though. As far as I can see, it has moved the text to one side, but not more than it should. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 11:10, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
Okay, thank you. I'm using my phone to edit so maybe thats why. I'll check on desktop when I get the chance. ZKDemelash (talk) 11:12, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
@ZKDemelash: I just checked what mobile view looks like, and it seems to be OK, with the quote appearing below the image. You can also switch to desktop view on a mobile device, by clicking the "Desktop" link at the bottom of the page, or clicking here. That is how I usually view Wikipedia, as I find the mobile interface good for reading and article creation, but not so much for finicky gnoming and other editing. You can switch back using the "Mobile view" link at the bottom of the page. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 12:10, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
Sundanese people
Sorry in advance. I edited the Sundanese people page because what was written in the Infobox was wrong. Even on the website or research there is no such thing as a Kasepuhan or Lojikobong Sundanese dialect. Thank you. Blackman Jr. (talk) 13:07, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
They had a watertight case for being unblocked, pretty impressive, it was almost as watertight as my pasta strainer. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 15:32, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
Totally stealing that. EEng 16:47, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
you deleted my addition to doin just fine by boyz ii men page
why. the source for the video is there already — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hotspirits (talk • contribs) 11:22, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
Reverted edit on Burmese calendar
Hello, I saw that you reverted my edit on the Burmese calendar page. This is my first night editing on Wikipedia, so I just want to double check if I messed up here? I edited "1/30th" to "1/30", and I was going based on the information off of this page. Was I wrong that 1/30th is the wrong misspelling there? Sorry to bother you about this! I'm new, so, still learning. And I hope I edited the talk page right, never done that, either. Hope you have a good day! HeyElliott (talk) 04:36, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
@HeyElliott: Sorry, my bad there, I misread it, I was thinking that it was supposed to be an ordinal numeral. I've reverted it back to the version where you'd corrected the typo. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 10:24, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
No problem at all, thank you so much! Have a great day! HeyElliott (talk) 17:53, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
One-way quantum computing
Hi Mako001, I'm SebastianoCorli, I'm a new user to Wikipedia. Actually I'm attending the first year of PhD from Polytechnic University of Milan (department of physics), the main topic of my PhD focusing on measurement-based quantum computing. One of the PhD courses I'm attending focuses on how to modify and/or improve a Wikipedia article. I was just trying to edit the page in order to practice: sure next time I'll enhance my performances!
Hello Sebastiano, that is good to hear. If you can get your head around quantum computing, I'm sure you'll find understanding the guidelines to citing sources a breeze, and the Citation templates help quite a bit. If you have access to the material where the information you are adding came from, please feel free to cite it. If you are citing a journal, I recommend using Citation bot, all you need is the doi, and the bot fills the rest! Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 14:56, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
Thanks a lot! I'm looking forward to see the results of the new work! By the time, I'll be editing on my sandbox. SebastianoCorli (talk) 15:25, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
Quizlet Wikipedia reversion edit
Hello,
I saw that you reverted the changes made to the Quizlet article due to a lack of references. Any changes to the article become verifiable by simply looking at the new site and comparing it to the old one. However, I've looked for quite some time, but it seems that no major company has reported on this issue. It seems that the company intentionally waited until June to change their site, as it's mostly relied upon students who would likely only discover the change months later. The company themselves haven't even made a statement on it, and rather simply called the period of change a maintenance break. The only other place on the internet that clearly demonstrates this would be their twitter, but that would be an absolutely terrible source to cite. I suppose the only line in my change that would be unverifiable for now. would be the negative effect on low income students and teachers. Quizlet plus is also listed as a controversy, which while it has caused some backlash, I don't believe the full extent of the backlash has happened yet, so I wasn't exactly sure what else to file it as.
Basically, most things in the edit are obviously changed when looking at the website, and don't have a source because no other company said anything about it because they have no need to yet.
- DeadPixelPro — Preceding unsigned comment added by DeadPixelPro (talk • contribs) 01:17, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
I checked the No Original Research page. While I would have to rephrase some parts, I stated in the edit that certain modes were made hidden. This is easily verifiable and thus shouldn't count as "Original Research". Anyone could just go to the website itself and it would show what I stated in the edit. While some minor changes would need to be made due to a lack of source, the majority of it (the "Hidden modes" category) shouldn't require anyone to do any research - and no one will for likely months, since it's an educational site.
@DeadPixelPro: Sorry, but this still really counts as original research, even if you think it shouldn't. However, if you must add it, at least ensure that you make it clear where you got it from, giving both links. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 22:06, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
The year shouldn’t be there since like how the tv article wiki guidelines says. If you look an American series article. There’s no year in there so a year shouldn’t be there. The year should be placed there if it’s a movie article. Like Top Gun for example. 122.54.93.91 (talk) 01:47, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
OK, thanks for clarifying, I thought it was a film. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 08:50, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
Change to Buck & the Preacher
Hi!
I just watched Buck and the Preacher a couple of days ago. Madge Sinclair is in the film but she isn't credited. I was surprised when I saw her. I don't think she had many lines, she was part of the first group that Buck helped out. You can see her in the first few minutes of the film. :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.40.189.36 (talk) 02:37, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
If she isn't credited, and the only way you know she was in was because you watched the film, unfortunately, you can't add that. That is because Wikipedia doesn't allow original research. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 21:54, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
You removed my edit
Hi I removed feminist from "marxist feminist" because the only proof of a marxists feminist the nyt "arts" article provided was "Nina Power, a British philosopher and self-described “open-minded centrist” with roots in Marxist feminism" (she is an "open minded centirst" not a marxist feminist) and does not mean that the magazine has "marxist feminists" writers just because one British philosopher (who even the nyt does not describe as a marxists feminists) wrote an article in the magazine. Marxists do write in the magazine but not marxists feminists, that is very misleading.
The second paragraph I removed is also very misleading and alot of the info there is twisted from the nyt article, for example the paragraph I removed stated that "initially considered envisioned that the magazine would be a nonprofit supported by donors, but later decided to pursue a for-profit model and incorporated Aponte with the condition that half of the site's content cover "material concerns"." is misleading compared to what the nyt article actually says... and the info about how the site was initially going to be funded seems completely irrelevant. Also this paragraph has outdated info as well when it says that there is a paywall on the magazine when currently that is not true and the paywall was removed a while ago. And the nyt article says nothing about a "subscription based business model" and just references the magazine may have subscribers in the future. Ptero60 (talk) 05:47, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
@Ptero60: Thanks for the explanation, just remember to provide an edit summary, particularly when removing material. You are welcome to reinstate the edits if you haven't already done so. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 10:45, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
Reverted my good edit
I edited the page for Lysychansk to remove some obvious bias language "self proclaimed", "so-called." You reverted it in rude fashion, apparently because that bias language agrees with your own bias.
Hi, you've just removed pictures that I added to the Beatrice Huntington page. I'm new to this, but I added them on purpose - please reinstate. Many thanks. TWSFAS (talk) 13:27, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
Sorry, my bad, I didn't notice that you had added some photos as well.
I will explain what the issue was:
Basically, you can only specify one dimension for image sizes (e.g "180x200px" is an invalid entry, so it will not work correctly), even so, usually the size is not set as a specific number of pixels (e.g 200px). See WP:Images for more details on this.
Also, I'm not sure why you added a few hundred spaces to the page, but you may want to read up a bit more on Markup and play around with it a bit in your sandbox until you get used to it.
I can't reinstate the edit right now as I need to get some sleep, but you are welcome to re-add the images yourself. If it doesn't work quite right, or you still haven't added them by tomorrow, I'll do it myself, but I'll let you have a go at getting it right first. You can copy part of the article to your sandbox if you want to try formatting stuff there without messing up the article. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 13:53, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
Great, many thanks, don't do any more on this - I'll look into it in the next couple of weeks! TWSFAS (talk) 13:55, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
@TWSFAS: OK, I'll leave you to it then. Don't hesitate to ask if you need any assistance or guidance. You can either ask here, or at the Teahouse. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 03:57, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
Hello, take a look
Hello, I hope this message meets you well. Since you're online, if you aren't too busy, take a look at this page, give pointers and advise and review the page Neo (BBNaija). Thanks. Amaekuma (talk) 12:59, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
@Amaekuma: I think that some of the words used could be switched for a more encyclopedic alternative, for instance: "beef" would be better as "dispute". "Pants" and "panties" would be better as "underwear" or something similar, since "pants" in some countries (e.g. Australia) means 👖 instead.
There are also some possible peacock terms in the article ("eminent lawyer" for instance) which are probably not necessary.
The controversies seem to take up a large amount of the article, and whilst it might be due weight, you may want to review whether it is or not.
A grammar adjustment would be "He is a cousin to" --> "He is the cousin of".
I would also suggest making sure that the topic doesn't clash with WP:BLP1E, basically, make sure that he is notable for more than just his participation in BBNaija.
The last thing I can think of right now would be to check if this is the correct title, as he seems to be referred to as "Neo Akpofure"? The current tile would be a useful redirect though.
The quality of the article overall is good. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 14:35, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
{{u|mako001} I have made all the adjustments you suggested. Thanks. I'll read up on the Wikipedia editing yardsticks you pointed out. Amaekuma (talk) 18:31, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
Let me know how it measures up against those yardsticks. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 03:22, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
@Amaekuma: Quite a few of the sources seem to be tabloids. Generally, it is best to avoid using tabloids. Can I also suggest looking at WP:NOTGOSSIP? The article quality overall is good, but if the sourcing can be improved, it will be a lot more likely to survive a potential AfD. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 03:28, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
BRITNEY SPEARS CERTIFICATION UPDATES
Hello, I'm sorry I didn't provided the official source because I don't know how to do it. I found recently this official source https://www.dropbox.com/s/rkgailb0fncipwj/2018%20Accreds.pdf?dl=0.
As you can see the certifications as of 2018 are the following:
The Singles Collection: Platinum (70000)
Greatest Hits My Preogative: x7 Platinum (490000)
Circus: x5 Platinum (350000)
Thanks for your attention. 88.7.36.115 (talk) 10:06, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
Sorry, that link doesn't work for me, but you may want to look at WP:Citing sources which will explain how to do so. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 11:30, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
Hello @Mako001 I hope you're doing well. Can you look at my article creation, if it's eligible for page triage would you consider marking it. I know it's not advice to ask for review due to backlog. Thanks for your consideration. C1K98V(💬✒️📂) 12:04, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
I didn't see this for a while, I think it got buried amongst other messages, but it looks like it has, so far, been reviewed, had spam added, removed, added again, removed again, and then been semi-protected after more spamming. So I guess I was a bit late to the party. 😁 Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 11:43, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
@Mako001 Yeah it has only been protected for 2 week due to spamming. But if you can look and review it would be great. Thanks C1K98V(💬✒️📂) 13:59, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
@C1K98V: My bad, the page curation tool had failed to load, so I thought that it had already been reviewed. It has now, since notabilty for earlier seasons has been established so this one should be fine as far as that goes. I don't see any glaring maintenance issues, and have given it a C rating. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 05:17, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
No problem, tool failure happens. Thanks for the quick response C1K98V(💬✒️📂) 05:20, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
Rooobot
I soft-blocked Rooobot (talk · contribs) for the bot username. I'll leave the house training for the vandalism to you. The last edit seems well-intentioned, if a little clumsy. Cabayi (talk) 12:12, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
@Cabayi:: That was largely why I hadn't sent them to AIV, as it definitely isn't a VOA. The first two are definitely vandalism, but the third I'd agree that the intent was apparently constructive. FWIW, I'd say the soft block seems most appropriate. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 12:22, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
Charlie Gracie
I made mention that Charlie Gracie was born the same day as his contemporary Bobby Darin. Gracie and Darin were both born on May 14th, 1936. They were both Italian-American. They were born on the east coast; Gracie in Philidelphea, Darin in NYC. They both began in the 1950s doing Rock'N'Roll, then did other genres such as jazz, pop, country, and folk. In 2022, as this era of artists are mostly dead and/or forgotten, I thought this was an interesting bit of information. I also added this to the Bobby Darin wiki page, saying that Darin was born the same day as Gracie. 69.14.164.134 (talk) 13:24, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
Yes, but it isn't encyclopedic to include trivia in articles, hence why it was removed. Even if it is correct, it is still not really relevant to the topic at hand, unless it had some impact or effect on the articles subject, which I would presume it didn't. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 13:28, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
my edits to "screwdriver"
I'm new to editing Wikipedia, so perhaps you can offer me some personal guidance. Should I have communicated with you directly before submitting my second, more modest single-word edit?
Also, I notice that other editors don't use their real names. Should I consider using a pseudonym instead?
Ron Blewitt (talk) 14:43, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
Nah, that second edit was fine. It's a bit hard to gauge what the scope of an article should be at times, and it's something you can only get with some practice and by reading a few other articles.
Regarding using your real name, you may want to read this paragraph on using your real name as a username. If you need any more advice, or would like more details, either ask me here, or ask at the Teahouse. I'm in UTC+8, so it's a bit late right now, and I might not get back to any queries until the morning. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 15:09, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
Utter nonsense, and I don't believe a word of it. Why redirect it to that page? I wasn't born yesterday. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 15:01, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
Why not? When you redirect a page to the user pages of two indefinitely blocked socks in succession, then make further edits referencing other pathetic socks, it's difficult to assume that you are merely "testing". Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 15:17, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
Oh, that is a surprise, you got rangeblocked due to block evasion, didn't see that coming. 🙄 Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 11:32, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
Doggy eat dog
Doggy doooooooo dooooooo 174.89.92.13 (talk) 07:46, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
Hi, are you feeling OK? Would you like a candy? 😁 Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 07:48, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
deletion becuase of lack of source.
Mako I am the source. I have first hand experience. You only aource when when you use another persons information but in this case am the the 'person'. Go to any South African prison to check the validity of my statements, if proven false then I will agree with your removal but for now please bring back the statement I had written. 41.13.148.78 (talk) 07:34, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
I am the source. You source when you use another persons information. When I said I am source I never said I am the originator of that information but merely the mouth piece of public information of which it seems you have no knowledge. What I wrote is public knowledge in South African prisons and Townships. In townships this is well known and it seems you are not aware of it. This is public knowledge and those who are not aware of it take the errors written in this risk death, Am a number gangster and I know what is secret and public information, The errors I corrected were not only errors but dangerious information which would get people get killed hence I put the correct public information and if secretive I used a non risky approach to write about not that previous approach of yours.
I would advise you to go into townships and South African prisons to observe what I have stated. Taking down the information I wrote becuase of your misuse wikipedia policy put the lives of people who will read that dangerious article that you prefer. 41.13.191.175 (talk) 07:56, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
Also read Wikipedia:No legal threats, as your comments above can be considered to fall foul of that policy. As I said before, there is a policy against using original research, as you are demanding that I do. If you wish to continue to argue this point, I can't stop you, but I doubt there will be any point doing so. Rather, I think it likely to end with you being rangeblocked, but that's up to you really. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 11:26, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
F###ig nose poker
You’re nothing but a sad nose poker who gets unlimited gratification by constantly patrolling random pages on Wikipedia and undoing vandalism. You’re so quick that it seems you get paid $800,000 a year for doing this. 2600:1014:B000:57E1:7D96:A30C:A1F4:3B8D (talk) 03:41, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
Haha, you're funny. I wish I got 800k a year for it. Thanks for the compliment on my reversion speed. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 03:44, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
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You can participate in the deletion discussion like anyone else. And no, I will not "help to remove [the] discussion". Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 07:18, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
Your message on my talk page
I made no of changes...
plz refer which one... 27.63.19.226 (talk) 07:19, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
I deleted the bit about Ken Sprague because it refers to another person
I deleted the bit about Ken Sprague as if refers to another person 213.140.205.216 (talk) 07:43, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
OK, that's all good, just state that in the edit summary when you remove it. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 07:46, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
Vaish varna
The word Vaish is believed to have originated from the Hindu deity Kubera who was the son of sage Vishrava, and he came to be called Vaishravana, and he is the elder brother of Ravana. So he is considered to be the god of wealth, only then after breaking the word Vaish from Vaishravana, it was made an introduction to the rich people!(The name Vaiśravaṇa is derived from the Sanskrit viśravaṇa which means "son of Vishrava", a usual epithet of the Hindu god Kubera. Vaiśravaṇa is also known as Kubera) 103.206.177.47 (talk) 03:21, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
Pasting the content you tried to add to the article onto my talkpage won't help your cause. Please provide a reliable source as I asked. Also the way you have written it does not fit the encyclopedic tone expected of Wikipedia articles. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 03:31, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
I had heard this orally from my guru and it is a fact that rich people in India are believed to have taken blessings from Kuber dev and Kuber dev is known as Vaish+ravan.(the elder brother of Ravan) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.206.177.47 (talk) 03:39, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
Well, your persistence paid off, but not how you expected. (Blocked for two weeks on 4 August). Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 22:49, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
You're part of the problem.
Misinformation is an easy claim to make when your sources are news anchors and career politicians, or worse, pharmaceutical CEOs self-proclaiming the safety and efficacy of their own products. You're an edit-warring user. Please cease and desist. MD Ronald Tarson (talk) 03:50, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
If you are willing to travel, I will be more than happy to show you my endless months of cellular research into the effects of the Pfizer-BioNtech SARS-CoV-2 vaccine as well. I'm licensed to study and receive the vaccines in my office. If you refuse to see evidence, you shouldn't be editing my edits. MD Ronald Tarson (talk) 03:55, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
Using your real-world achievements to put additional weight behind your statements is not going to get you far here. You don't own your edits. You are welcome to add content to the articles, so long as you have sourced it correctly, but your quest to right great wrongs will end very swiftly if you persist in doing so without getting consensus on the article talkpage. Also see the guidelines on due weight and on fringe content, as it seems like your view is potentially not a mainstream view. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 08:00, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
Parliamentary processes is
Sourced. See the citation which uses the phrase. Doug Wellertalk 15:10, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
Mosvik
You reverted my edit on Mosvik. As I explained in my comment, the section is no longer relevant. This is due to the municipality no longer existing, so statements like "are responsible for primary education" are misleading; the municipality is no longer responsible for primary education. Allerla (talk) 07:32, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
@Allerla:Sorry for the slow response. Whilst there was a summary, it was a bit vague, and wasn't quite enough to tell why you had removed it, hence why I reverted it. Yes, it wasn't relevant, but why wasn't it relevant? Thanks for the more complete explanation, if you haven't reinstated your changes, feel free to do so. Cheerio and happy editing. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 10:15, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
Sure, I should have been more specific in my first explanation. Cheers, Allerla (talk) 10:33, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
Rgw
That policy you linked me says a source has to be verifiable for the claim is added. Since it is a word, and I verified that as such, please can u tell me what was wrong with my edit? I have stopped for now cos I don't wanna edit war Stephanie921 (talk) 13:18, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
Would you be OK with shifting this discussion to your talkpage? I'd left a longer comment there before I saw this. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 13:26, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
Yes I'd be fine with that :) Stephanie921 (talk) 13:27, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
Pronouns
I noticed you had your talk page set to say your pronouns when you ping someone on it :) Please could u tell me how to do that? Stephanie921 (talk) 13:34, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
Go to the "Preferences", on the desktop version it will be at the top right, on mobile it is in a menu off to the left when you tap some button (I forget exactly how to do it). You should then see an option on the first page (User Profile), "Gender used in messages" or similar. Then you can set it. You can also do so for all Wikimedia wikis by doing the same thing on https://meta.wikimedia.org. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 13:42, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
Hello
Threatening to block me for fact-checking another Wikipedia user is uncalled for. I have been a responsible Wikipedia contributor for 7 years. Please do not mistake my intention to fact-check another user with aggression. The so-called "original research" that you have mentioned are actually corroborated by third-party publications and it only happens I have intimate familiarity. Vgyu 08:29, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
@Vgyu:Sorry, I misunderstood the situation, my sincere apologies. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 10:24, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
Whilst I didn't exactly threaten to block you, I am sorry that it came across that way. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 10:33, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
Apologies accepted. Vgyu 01:21, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
Greetings
Hello, I made a very quick minor edit to the page Muslim conquest of the Maghreb, and yes it is true it was a very minor edit, but it was definitely a constructive edit. The article itself quite literally gives a date range of 647–709 AD. If one clicks on the link to the Persian Empire that is mentioned in the introduction text, then one will find that this particular iteration of the empire collapsed in 330BC. That is a gap of 977 years! How can it be not constructive to change it to the actual Sasanian Empire that co-existed with the event in the article? Obviously I'm just some random internet editor so you should take what I do with a grain of salt, but to say it is a non-constructive edit when it is actually an accurate one is bizzare. 2001:8003:3D84:4E00:3DF8:8EC0:388E:183A (talk) 14:02, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
Ah, right, that makes more sense. Sorry, it seemed a bit odd to change the target for that, and it's a fairly common sort of disruption. I'll strike that warning. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 14:15, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
Masala dosa
Dear sir Masala dosa or dosa is not entirely Tuluva cuisine. Udupi is bilingual kannada & Tulu both spoken. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Laks883 (talk • contribs) 14:19, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
Page is about Masala dosa not just dosa. Masala dosa can be found in other parts of South India too, Finding masala dosa origin is difficult but Dosa origin traced in Tamil sangam literature & Someshwara ||| 's ManasollasaKalyana chalukyas > — Preceding unsigned comment added by Laks883 (talk • contribs) 14:47, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
@Laks883: Thanks for getting the sources, so long as they comply with Wikipedia:Reliable sources, then they should be good. I'll take a look at whether the editor you are talking about may be engaging in sockpuppetry. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 09:08, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
Thank for the reply, the editor added Tuluva Udupi cuisine for Masala dosa page but deleted my same edit ( Udupi cuisine ) in the " dosa " page. It means there is no proper evidence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Laks883 (talk • contribs) 12:00, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
I'm disappointed (but not surprised) to see that you are now indefinitely blocked. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 22:41, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
Draft:Driton Halimi
Hi, I have improved this draft Draft:Driton Halimi. There are many more citations added. Is it possible to have another look? Aporesing60 (talk) 20:02, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
@Aporesing60: It has definitely been improved from what it was! You seem to have done a good job here. However, I am not really confident to declare this one as notable or not, as I am not familiar enough with sports topics. Sorry, you'll probably just have to wait for another editor to review it. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 08:08, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
Edits related to Wion
Hello Mako001. Thanks for writing to me. I added that segment about anti-China bias based on my personal observations for past 2 years. Also I found out that when this channel started it felt great that India has its own international channel and Indians will be open to world news in a different way than the western way which is thrust on India by cnn bbc etc since all these years. But soon wion reduced itself to a English version of a typical indian hindi news channel who will just give conspiracy theories without any fact checks or validity. They literally pick up OP ED from news portals like NYT and WSP etc and convert it into breaking news showing that the opinions in those articles are actual happenings. Later it became a typical India jingoistic channel and lost more credibility. And when it started its anti china rhetoric., that was end of it. Palki Sharma at 9 pm China bashing became a daily ritual. The way she talks looks less like news more like some agenda driven women taking out some personal grudge. It's difficult to get citations, as other sources wouldn't care to cross check. I suggest you personally see some of their videos, & after proof checking undo the changes. P.S. Wion is owned by zee news, you can google controversies about zee news, & you'll get clear picture. Thanks...have a great day !!! 117.211.128.189 (talk) 10:36, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
That may all be true, but on Wikipedia, verifiability is more important. Unless you can citereliable sources to support your statements, you can't add them to the article. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 11:51, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
Katerina Kolozova
Hello User:Mako001. I saw that you have reverted an edit on the article about Katerina Kolozova here. The strange thing is that your edit returned the article to the position that Kolozova is of Bulgarian origin, which is simply not true. North Macedonian is not fully correct per WP:MOSMAC. I requested in the meantime on the page Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Increase that the article be protected against IPs and newly registered users. It was explained there by Lectonar to me that This can't be solved via page-protection, especially as at least another autoconfirmed user has reverted to a version which includes "..of Bulgarian origin...". Could you please explain if it is not a mistake on your part. Regards. Jingiby (talk) 11:47, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
@Jingiby: No, I don't think that I would have meant to revert it that far, and I'd say it was some sort of mistake or oversight on my part. You may want to mention this comment the next time you request page protection for this page. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 11:48, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
No problems. Jingiby (talk) 12:16, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
User talk:157.97.21.249:
hi. Joga is Jóhanna Jóhannsdóttir nickname. it even says so later in the text, referred to here: Björk remained a close friend to Jóhanna, writing the song "Jóga" from her 1997 album Homogenic about her. if you click that link you get: "Jóga" is dedicated to—and named after—Björk's best friend, Jóhanna "Jóga" Johannsdóttir (the wife of former Mayor of ReykjavíkJón Gnarr),
So Jóhanna Jóhannsdóttir is the sama Jóhanna (Jóga) Jóhannsdóttir as the song Jóga 157.97.21.249 (talk) 12:50, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
The problem was the other content you added about the children, not so much the nicknames, though I recommend you read WP:NICKNAMES, which should give some guidance on the use of nicknames. Please read WP:BLPPRIVACY as well to make sure that (even if sourced, which it isn't currently) the content you are adding about their children isn't going to raise legitimate privacy concerns. Does this answer your query? Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 13:02, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
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Hello. I hope you're good. Can you teach me how to join to infoboxes together?
Amaekuma (talk) 10:18, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
@Amaekuma: Which two infoboxes do you want to join? Usually you can't really join infoboxes, but you can merge their content. Is that what you are trying to do? Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 15:59, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
The subject is a reality tv star, but before that she was a beauty queen; who took part in some pageants. I want to attach the model Infobox that has parameters for eye color, hair color, etc to the already existing Infobox in her page. Here is her page Kim Oprah. Mako001
Hmm, OK, I'll try to get a closer look at it tomorrow, but form what I've seen so far, she seems to have a fairly broad career, so it might be best to avoid using the more specific infobox style? Anyway, I'll take a proper look tomorrow. (It's rather late for me here in UTC+8) Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 16:53, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
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@Amaekuma: looks like someone else got there first as it has already been reviewed, but I will look it over anyway. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 22:36, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
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I'd actually remove citation needed on Phuket International Airport since most airlines already operate to and from Phuket in the past few years. Hope you understood! Cornerstone2.0 (talk) 13:12, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
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Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to Newcastle upon Tyne, you may be blocked from editing. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 07:40, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Newcastle upon Tyne. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 07:44, 5 June 2022 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.175.143.49 (talk)
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