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Videos

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• How to use IP Info
• How to use User Info

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• For more information and discussion regarding this change, please see the announcement from the Wikimedia Foundation atWikipedia:Village pump (WMF) § Temporary accounts rollout.

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On12 November 2025,Did you know was updated with a fact from the articleThe World After Gaza, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was... that the 2025 bookThe World After Gaza was deemed "repugnant" and "monstrous" for being both overly and insufficiently critical of Israel? The nomination discussion and review may be seen atTemplate:Did you know nominations/The World After Gaza. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page(here's how,The World After Gaza), and the hook may be added tothe statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free tonominate it.

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I have nominated this article, but I feel the blurb needs some copy-editing. It's a lot of information to cram into the character limit. I was not able to find a way to include it all, and include the post-war fate as well.Harizotoh9 (talk)11:59, 12 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, buidhe. Would you consider changing the color of your username in your signature ? It looks indistiguishable to me from the dark red of a non-existent page link, although that is misleading, because you have a user page. Comparison:

• The quickbrownfoxjumps over the lazydog.

Thanks,Mathglot (talk)05:22, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mathglot You really can't win. I only changed to this color because someone complained that my previous sig with black was hard to see in dark mode :( (t ·c)buidhe05:40, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm so sorry! Well, if this one is less problematic than the other, then keep it.Mathglot (talk) 06:52, 18 November 2025 (UTC) Wait—there is a style you can apply so that those using dark mode get white letters (or whatever light color you want, but those using normal mode get the dark font. I'm not up on that, but if you can't figure it out, there are a bunch of people who can help. Or, just post at VPT and you'll get help for sure. Just say you want a sig that also works in dark mode, and mention your original preferred hex (or named) color.Mathglot (talk)06:54, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As ofthis August comment, you were using black font in your signature. I thinkJonesey95 knows about this sort of thing, and might be able to help you add a style to your sig so it works in dark mode as well with a white ornear-white color.Mathglot (talk)07:18, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Like this:<spanstyle="color: var(--color-base, black)">buidhe</span>. The "color-base" says "make it show as the normal text color in either light or dark mode", and the "black" is a backup option that says "if a browser doesn't do weird variables, just show black". –Jonesey95 (talk)15:19, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hopefully no one can complain about the new color :) (t ·c)buidhe05:42, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I like the latest colors!Mathglot (talk)04:58, 28 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

thanksMathglot! (t ·c)buIdhe05:57, 28 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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A tag has been placed onDraft:Eric Gilbertson (climber) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done undersection G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following adeletion discussion, such as atArticles for deletion. When a page has substantially identical content to that of a page deleted after a discussion, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.

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A tag has been placed onEric Gilbertson (climber) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done undersection G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following adeletion discussion, such as atArticles for deletion. When a page has substantially identical content to that of a page deleted after a discussion, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.

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Wikilinking to the bio? I failed to find any non-formal mentions of him in wikipedia. --Altenmann>talk16:45, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Could I ask your opinion onTalk:Gaza genocide#186,000 death toll estimate?

You seem to have a good understanding of what makes something a good academic source or not.

Thank you,IOHANNVSVERVS (talk)22:06, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your non move attalk:Denali gave absolutely no reason. Since you can't go by show of hands in the decision and the only sources given were heavily one-sided for Mt. McKinley (including two sets of Google ngrams, and along with numerous current websites), I need to have some good reasoning for this result. Saying don't move or things haven't changed is not valid without proof.Fyunck(click) (talk)08:38, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Snow close that you were on the wrong side of. At least try to lose with some dignity intact.Zaathras (talk)14:03, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A snow close of "I don't like its." That says a lot of your own integrity.Fyunck(click) (talk)17:59, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see how this could be closed any other way since other editors didn't agree with your evidence or reasoning. (t ·c)buidhe15:39, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There was pretty much no other evidence shown except mine. I used the the type of evidence we use at all these discussions, ngrams, sources across the world, etc. Everyone else was mostly "I don't want it to move." How is anyone ever going to get something to move if people simply don't want it to move regardless of sources? That's not the way wiki is supposed to work. It's not a show of hands and I showed up with sources to back the move. A closer is supposed to weight the strength of argument.Fyunck(click) (talk)17:59, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there, I have nominatedEl Alma al Aire for FAC, and was wondering if you could do a source review for the Spanish-language sources. I saw your username listed at foreign language reviewers.Erick (talk)14:08, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Magiciandude sorry but I don't have enough familiarity with Spanish language entertainment media to give a good assessment here. (t ·c)buidhe15:39, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On28 November 2025,Did you know was updated with a fact from the articleBorder death, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was... that more than 63,000border deaths were documented between 2014 and 2024? The nomination discussion and review may be seen atTemplate:Did you know nominations/Border deaths. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page(here's how,Border death), and the hook may be added tothe statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free tonominate it.

~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk)00:03, 28 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]