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Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyableNew Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Hello! I see you cited my review of **Myrrha** in your article on the story. How did you find Galactic Journey? :) --Neopeius (talk)04:27, 5 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Originally... probably viaFile770, or possibly while doing the reading for theHugo Award for Best Fanzine. While writing the article onMyrrha... probably just Google.

Interestingly, a post onGJ is directly responsible for me writing the article aboutAntoni Przybylski.DS (talk)04:39, 5 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, in case the ping didn't work, I mentioned you atWikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#New user repeatedly citing Wikipedia, does not communicate.DuncanHill (talk)14:46, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I’ve lived with this ridiculous entry for years and I can continue to live with it, but it’s utter nonsense. The Trumbos never wanted or asked for the physical Oscar statue back; my dad, who fronted for Trumbo, and Trumbo were fast friends for life, and the idea that I would have anything to do with it is nuts. The Oscar sat in the bottom of Ian’s filing cabinet for decades. In ‘93 the Academy “restored” Trumbo’s story credit and had a ceremony giving the family a new Oscar, and I was at that ceremony with the Trumbo family; Mitzi Trumbo was my roommate. The graf in the McFadden book about tv producer Dan Curtis doesn’t even say what the Wiki bio says, though I don’t have the citation with me now. I’ve never given a damn about this stuff, but some outraged friends have indeed tried to delete or correct it. Anyway, the idea that the Trumbos asked Ian to give back the physical statue is completely false; and the idea that I, his son who had nothing to do with any of it, was ever involved or asked for anything is even more nuts. In fact, I was mostly responsible in helping Trumbo’s son, Chris, to get the Writers Guild to restore Trumbo’s name on the actual screenplay credit (the Oscar in ‘53 was in fact for best original story). Listen, I’ve had a long career myself and have managed to live with this nonsense and survive quite nicely; but if you’re the guy who keeps putting in that the Hunters, me specifically, refused to give their close friends The Trumbos back the actual ‘53 Oscar statue, I have to tell you it’s a completely spurious entry. I leave it to you, Dragonfly. Salut/Tim H179.50.232.64 (talk)04:07, 26 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I read your essay on the philosophy of the Cultural References section before hitting "restore" on that section for the Floating Island page. Yes, it's people eating food, but this is not a common dish--I went to look it up on Wikipedia after I watched the Hepburn/Tracy movie and thought this old cinematic reference would be interesting to Wikipedia users. Then a few other users listed a handful of other references, which I found interesting and cool. This is my first "talk" entry, so sorry if I miss some formatting thing.Winnifred Goldring (talk)14:59, 28 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Source:https://www.facebook.com/JohnConroe/posts/pfbid02UgNaDV3sYgG9oeX4gSkewwgZ5BysMeYP59uh79GDczjh8F2HrbqE3fmfKRNm8tpEl?__cft__[0]=AZVLVO5X8evwH8vmQ1JKfhiB9AeawDJiBvaLr6H9I0SNr2sE7GWFF5tiUWqNmk3zJqmxvTvU2UZaLn_ndDR1_CQ-gsCOJzAH0-19dTO7Cq3D07ytIIOe9fSqH91p-M6lAv2AjpVnFIfNO6iUtfLHfHwZSCyTQd_fDK3Nj5EEc5qZVg&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R

If this happens how long would it take to get a page for it on Wikipedia and would that mean the author could get his page created on Wikipedia?CarverSindile (talk)00:19, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Dragonfly. I've been submitting possible redirects for theUser:DragonflySixtyseven/Marquis necrology list via WP:AFC. I've found a few that appear to be typos in the original book:

• "Winfleld Smith" =Winfield Smith
• "Anton S. Hesing" =Anton C. Hesing
• Elizabeth Eleanor Greatorex =Eleanor Greatorex (may be confusing Eleanor Greatorex (1854-1917) withEliza Pratt Greatorex (1819-1897)?)

74.94.190.241 (talk)16:02, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, but if you find any more that are such obvious errors, just correct them in the source.

As for Greatorex: you're probably right that Marquis conflated the two, but given that it was a list of people who died between 1895 and 1901, they most likely meant Eliza Pratt, not Eleanor Elizabeth.DS (talk)16:19, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

In [this diff], I don't understand what you mean by "Not mentioned inMOS:S". It's very clearly mentioned. The noun spelling is "licence" in all varieties of English except AmE, in which it is "license". The verb spelling is "license" is used in every variety. "Licence" (and hence "licenced" etc) is always an incorrect verb spelling, except in archaic texts (and that's why it appears in Wiktionary). It's really not contemporary BrE usage.Bazonka (talk)20:04, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It'simplied, but it's not present.DS (talk)20:09, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You are splitting hairs. What's there is clear enough.Bazonka (talk)20:12, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! We were chatting on IRC aboutc:File:Centre of New Industries and Technologies, 2006.JPG/File:Cnit.JPG because the image is not acceptable for Commons (no Freedom of Panorama in France). Could you please undeleteFile:Cnit.JPG so I can take care of the Commons file? Best, —Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs)14:20, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Restored.DS (talk)14:59, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Glad to see that you created a page onMiss Caroline. It may be worth noting that the panels which ran in newspapers were mostly -- but not solely -- reprints of panels from the book, and also that in 2020,About Comics reissued the book, expanded to include the additional panels. Both facts are referenced inthis press release -- which as a press release doesn't add notability, but does give information. I won't be adding this information myself, because I'm the publisher of About Comics, so COI-city!, but noting collections is pretty common in strip articles. --Nat Gertler (talk)00:44, 23 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi you met me in Wikichat, I was OrangeOcelot32 and I asked advice from you for making my first article about an Iloilo City Government official. Thank You for entertaining my questions, I might pester you again to improve my article! Regards! :DCharles Jayson Zaldivar (talk)05:05, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Please ignore! Sausage fingers when scrolling my watchlist. So sorry. ♠PMC♠(talk)18:06, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, i hope you're doing great. I saw your message to Jamiebuba seeking clarification to why he rejected the article I created,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Ola_Oresanya

I am doing everything to improve the article, have followed all the instructions and advice of other editors who have even helped to correct the article.

respectfully, I have seen many articles with less references, citations and less quality in the content approved here. I feel the articled meets notability deserves an approval, or better still given more chances for corrections.

Please i need your honest opinion and review of the modified article i created after making some adjustments and adding more references. Here is a link to the new articlehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Oladimeji_Oresanya

Thanks for your timeSemilore90 (talk)18:05, 4 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's good! I want to run it in theSignpost. This is good, yes? May I?jp×g18:25, 10 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Certainly. Make sure to include the context (i.e., the quote from Collect).

Can I ask how it came to your attention in the first place?DS (talk)22:20, 10 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Dear DS Hello I restored a previously deleted draft (Draft:Hossein_Mohammadi_Vahid_2i) and added new material and sources to it, and included a televised interview of his event. Please check if these resources can turn a draft into an article.I checked and saw that the text were not copied from another site.Jackpet11 (talk)16:34, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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ForMelancholia you said the etymology was indeed "Gall Bladder" and provided a source. Someone has since said it is actually "Black Bile" using that same source. Where did you get the idea that it was "Gall Bladder"?Player02110 (talk)23:56, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No idea, sorry - it was five years ago.DS (talk)01:03, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The least you can do is vote for this redirect to be deleted.Kailash29792(talk)05:37, 1 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

thank youElijahwordpress (talk)20:47, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello DS - thanks for responding to my help request. I've added affiliation on my userpage and placed the COI header on Kenneth Zaret's talk page. Would it be best to revert to the old version (15:18, 1 May 2023‎) and then I can follow the Edit COI template to start the process to update to Zaret's page?Birch1896 (talk)15:36, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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I feel this file must be deleted as the image is not a poster (the first version of the file wasn't one either but a video cover), is miscapitalised and has an unwanted space. May I get this to RfD, or can you easily just delete it?Kailash29792(talk)07:04, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

For whatever reason, I'm not comfortable with doing that unilaterally. Go to RfD.DS (talk)03:06, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Gone to RfD. Please feel free to vote.Kailash29792(talk)04:17, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi DragonflySixtyseven,

I noticed yourdeletion of this file redirect. Although the logs are slightly confusing, it appears to have been an{{R from move}} fromFile:Raat (movie poster).jpg, which was at that title from 2009 until recently.

WP:FILEREDIRECT states that[i]n most cases the file redirect should remain, except if the original name falls under one of the revision deletion criteria...or shadows a file on Commons - neither of which appear to apply in this case. Therefore, unless there is something I’m missing (in which case I apologise), please could I ask that the redirect is undeleted?

All the best,^user:A smart kitten_meow13:23, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

What you're missing is that someone took it to RfD, and I decided to shortcut the process by just deleting it. That was procedural; however, it's clearly very important to you that this redirect continue to exist, so I've restored it.DS (talk)00:44, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ten years ago,you were found precious. That's what you are, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk)09:49, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi DS, I saw your edit to that page. What part of Canadian Jew was unsourced to you? That he was born in Vancouver and is Jewish are the first 2 sentences in the early life section and sources currently in the article mention both.Nobody (talk)06:15, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No idea how I didn't see that. Thank you for pointing that out.DS (talk)14:14, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Heh, 19 years ago? Sorry, I don't recall. --Elonka05:10, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Heh..[(●¥●)]Dr Jackson is not rweal (talk)04:19, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Spanish protests against the amnesty (2023-2024) - Wikipedia This page has been subject to numerous edits without any evidence given. Spanish protests against the amnesty (2023-2024): Difference between revisions - Wikipedia Spanish protests against the amnesty (2023-2024): Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

User contributions for Unidosporasensio - Wikipedia In addition to this user not providing any sources or evidence that the protests are still ongoing, I have reason to believe that it is a sock account of this user, User contributions for Dreimouse in an nutshell - Wikipedia, who has been making identical edits and arguments without evidence, despite repeated warnings. Spanish protests against the amnesty (2023-2024): Difference between revisions - Wikipedia Talk:Spanish protests against the amnesty (2023-2024) - Wikipedia User talk:Dreimouse in an nutshell - Wikipedia

Given that this has been ongoing for weeks and no one has given any evidence that these particular protests are ongoing, I ask that the page be restored to 2023 Spanish protests against Catalan amnesty, that the page be put on full protection, that both of these users be banned for constantly making edits without giving any sources, and for using sock accounts, since the edits and the lack of sources strongly implies its the same person, and that the protests be declared definetifly over. Thank you. (2607:FEA8:7221:F600:6D6D:96B4:58C3:9331 (talk)23:11, 10 February 2024 (UTC))[reply]

You left a note asking that I be more formal, having taking issue with the details of an article I wrote. I have issue with details that corroborate what I have tried to convey about people; are deleted by editors whom appear to have no use for those details. I did not say that in reading the cite it came across that the commodore was in his later years prone to injecting into his converse language not suitable for delicate ears, and that while he kept a talking bird the curse words it repeated has been described thusly. He cursed, the bird cursed and if you have a better way of stating this, please, have at it. Deleting the entry does no service to this decorated seaman and hero of WWI & WWII. Plain spoken has always meant to allow for the language used below decks.

InBahia he picked up a talkingparrot he namedBarnacle Bill, which became a salty sea dog itself, the captain always had a ready smile and was very plain-spoken, the Transatlantic Commodore was the epitome of anold sea salt.

The edit to this trashed hours spent trying to find a cite for this bird, in real life, the 1909 cartoon for the talking bird wasn't good for publication, but the commonalities between the cartoon, Randall's bird and Popeye's (salty sea dog) bird had me looking for that connection (WWI hero had talking bird = Popeye's talking bird) but I could not find any published connection. It's not just the talking bird, but the connection to a popular cartoon fiction of the bird making fresh comments to the Bluto character. I intended that the link for Bahia Bill not go to the popular sea shanty or to the genus Parrot, but to a TALKING BIRD. Please restore any edit to the original. ThanksCaptJayRuffins (talk)16:20, 13 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello. Awhile ago I stumbled up theUser:DragonflySixtyseven/Marquis page by happenstance and I've been trying to help maintain it every once in a while. I have noticed something that may be an accidental omission, but I wanted to check and make sure it wasn't intentional. I was checking the blue links in the Summerbell section when I noticedJohn Preston Sutherland (in between George Sutherland and Roderick Dhu Sutherland in the book) is missing on the page's list. It isn't a red link, its just not present in the list at all. Should the name be added?RoundSquare (talk)23:01, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, I simply hadn't gotten around to cleaning that section yet, because this is all just a hobby and there are lots of other things to do on Wikipedia and its sibling projects. If I'd been doing the sections in order instead of just whichever ones I feel like, that might have been more obvious.

I wouldn't be surprised if there are other entries in that section that are missing or display OCR errors (e.g., "Williain" instead of "William"). Thank you for asking.DS (talk)00:46, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I hope your week is starting off well. Just a reminder that category redirects are formed differently from article redirects. Please look at the code/template on this page so that creating them will be easier in the future. Many thanks!Liz^Read!Talk!19:07, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi DragonflySixtyseven,

I noticed that the pageMetalachi was deleted for not asserting notability back in 2013. I am interested in viewing the content of the last deleted revision for research purposes as I consider reviving this page. Could you please help me with this?

Thank you,NatBaca (talk)18:47, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is this still not worth putting atSatiric misspelling, even after 15 years?Chuterix (talk)22:10, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I've noticed that you have been closing some AFD discussions. A couple of points. Please let discussions run for a full 7 days before closing them instead of closing them a day early. There is really no reason to close a discussion before 7 days have passed unless it is a SNOW situation which would mean an overwhelming number of Keep or Delete arguments and very little opposition. Secondly, according toWP:NOQUORUM, if an AFD discussion has only 1 Delete argument, we typically close these discussions as "Soft Delete" due to low participation. Soft Deletions are possible if the article has not been to AFD or been PROD'd before and there are no arguments to Keep the article. This allows the article to be restored viaWP:REFUND should an editor wish to work on the article and improve. If you are using XFDcloser, which I recommend, you'll see the option to tag a Delete closure as a Soft Delete.

Thanks for helping out, we can always use more conscientious discussion closers!Liz^Read!Talk!20:24, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I saw that one of your sandbox pages of a "who's who" had a link to the not yet createdMiles Rock. Well, I just created it if you wanted to take a look and probably improve. Fascinating individual. Regardsdm (talk)10:06, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey there Just wondering if you could help take a look atthis case. Said IP address has persisted with disruptive behaviour and I feel it best to request urgent intervention on this. Thank you!hundenvonPG (talk)04:30, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

Kelly Xu (financier/investor), article has been QD, "06:35, 2 December 2024".

Many people, doing a lot of good work. Have a nice day!2001:2020:301:A1FD:11E:D11E:1E34:E036 (talk) 05:14, 9 December 2024 (UTC) /2001:2020:301:A1FD:11E:D11E:1E34:E036 (talk)05:16, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not clear on what (if anything) you're asking for, sorry.DS (talk)15:31, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

These appear to be out-of-process deletions. Whatcriterion for speedy deletion does each of them fall into, if any?

• File:FHM1.jpg ("bad license", but the license info{{self|GFDL|cc-by-sa-2.5,2.0,1.0}} isn't anything violatingWP:F3)
• File:LakeWade.JPG ("image used only by a deleted page", but tagged as public domain, so not eligible forWP:F5)
• File:Muralb.jpg ("photo of a mural in Illinois, where freedom of panorama does not apply to murals. Image is not really needed in the article, therefore no proper Fair Use Rationale could be constructed.")
• Kelly Xu ("sources 1&2 are by a Forbes Contributor: not useful. 3&6 are press releases (PR Newswire): not useful. 4 is a podcast transcript of Xu talking about her own project: Not useful. 5 is a translation of the Forbes piece. With all those removed, there's nothing left.")
• File:Dh logod.jpg ("I doubt the validity of that license")
• File:Esham1.jpg ("dubious licensing")

SilverLocust 💬13:01, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yourresponse on my talk page did not answer my question, which was "What criterion for speedy deletion does each of them fall into, if any?" The rationales you provided are not bases for speedy deletion but rather for deletion-discussion nominations (or in some instances PROD-style seven-day tagging underF4–F7).

The one exception is that you've now asserted thatKelly Xu hadno indication of importance. However, that standard "is distinct from verifiability and reliability of sources", so noting that the sources areForbes.com contributors and press releases doesn't mean that the assertions are not credible.

More broadly, my concern is that you are habitually deleting pages that aren't eligible for speedy deletion. These files should be nominated for deletion, not boldly deleted. Since yesterday, there's alsoFile:Buttweld.jpg ("unused and extremely low quality (it's 6kb, made in MS-Paint)"), again despiteF5's limitation to non-free images.

I'm looking for you to stop doing that. The easiest way would be for you to agree to stop, but if you are of the view that you don't need to follow deletion policy, there are more tedious ways to seek to resolve that.SilverLocust 💬13:47, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2025!

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Abishe (talk)22:26, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

HiDS, I was wondering if you could help me with something. I’m trying to check if any of the original sources cited in the four biography articles I published contain personal identifiers, like usernames in the URL—especially in PDFs. Since some PDFs can display either the uploader’s name or the name of the person who opens them, do you have any suggestions on how to spot this easily? I just want to make sure that no identifying information was accidentally included in the citations.Logger67 (talk)— Precedingundated comment added02:23, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the articleThe Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according toWikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should bedeleted.

The article will be discussed atWikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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

Orange sticker (talk)15:48, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for uploadingFile:Glory Lane (Alan Dean Foster novel - cover art).jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under aclaim of non-free use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (seeour policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in anyarticles will be deleted after seven days, as described insection F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk)03:12, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On22 February 2025,Did you know was updated with a fact from the articleCombination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was... that one analysis of the song "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" cites the ancient Roman oratorQuintilian? The nomination discussion and review may be seen atTemplate:Did you know nominations/Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page(here's how,Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell), 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 to suggest it on theDid you know talk page.

—Ganesha811 (talk)00:02, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day,DragonflySixtyseven, from theWikipedia Birthday Committee!Have a great day!RPE✍️📚04:57, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On8 May 2025,Did you know was updated with a fact from the articleArthur Harrison Motley, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was... that instead of drinking liquor with prospective clients,Arthur Harrison Motley sent them notes written in red pencil crayon, 10,000 times a year? The nomination discussion and review may be seen atTemplate:Did you know nominations/Arthur Harrison Motley. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page(here's how,Arthur Harrison Motley), 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 to suggest it on theDid you know talk page.

—Ganesha811 (talk)00:04, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On10 June 2025,Did you know was updated with a fact from the articleJacques Drollet, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was... thatJacques Drollet said that he would haveMarlon Brando arrested if Brando ever returned to Tahiti? The nomination discussion and review may be seen atTemplate:Did you know nominations/Jacques Drollet. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page(here's how,Jacques Drollet), 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 to suggest it on theDid you know talk page.

RoySmith(talk)00:02, 10 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

		Hook update
		Your hook reached 15,615 views (650.6 per hour), making it one of themost viewed hooks of June 2025 – nice work!

GalliumBot (talk •contribs) (he/it)03:27, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for uploadingFile:Mark Lasky, cartoonist.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under aclaim of non-free use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (seeour policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in anyarticles will be deleted after seven days, as described insection F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk)02:44, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Dontsign has beennominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion atthe entry on the Templates for discussion page.2A0E:1D47:9085:D200:5AF:9096:9EC1:275E (talk)17:00, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi DS,

I would like autopatrol permission to upload a new version of the photo of Roger Ailes that I've lightened using the Photoshop Curves adjustment. Please help me with this. The present photo on Wikipedia is at:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roger_Ailes,_June_2013.jpg

Thanks.Doug4 (talk)18:03, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not involved with that side of Commons, sorry. I recommend asking a Commons admin, on Commons.DS (talk)23:16, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi (DragonflySixtyseven),Could I ask for an explanation on your review of the pageCecilia Rikap? You reviewed the page a week ago or so and if I search the name on Google the page does not come up. I thought that pages are indexed for google search within about a day from the review. Is there something specific to this review or a change of practice? This is purely for my understanding and thank you for reviewing the page!

If you have sources to support comparisons to Thornton Wilder, great! Incorporate them into the text!

Make sure to attribute the opinion, because "<cultural thing X> is similar to <cultural thing Y>" is always an opinion that needs to be attributed.

If you don't want to incorporate your sources into the text, then remove the sentence entirely.DS (talk)00:45, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the notr.

I mentioned in the edit summary to look at the talk page.

Please take a look, I'm curious as to what you think. -jc3704:12, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there. A couple years ago you commented twice that 'Youderian' sounded like an Armenian name, and indeed, it does. However, I edited the page to say he was of Prussian descent because I am a relative and that whole side of the family is originally from Prussia. The name was Guderian (like the WWII general of, I hope, no relation) prior to arrival in this country in the mid-19th century. Hope that clears it up!147.251.22.4 (talk)14:43, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to trust that you're telling the truth here, but the problem is that accepting "I know this, it's part of my family history, I have no reason to lie!" as a source is a terrible precedent. What if someone else said "I'm a relative of Youderian and we are 100% Armenian"? How would I know which of you to believe?

It's not likely to happenin this particular case, but "I don't have any published sources but I promise that the deceased person was of my ethnic group" is something that has caused a lot of squabbles. (Sometimes even when they're still alive: what ethnicity do you assign someone who was born in a nation that no longer exists, to parents who were from two other nations?)

That said, I suppose "I'm not Armenian, but thatsounds Armenian to me" isn't really valid either. Solution: the article doesn't reallyneed to say that he was Armenian or Prussian. So I'll remove that detail.DS (talk)14:56, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Have a Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Hey there DragonflySixtyseven, I'd like to wish you ahappy adminship anniversary! Congratulations on your special day, and thank you for all the contributions you've made.

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Happy adminship anniversary! Hi DragonflySixtyseven! On behalf of theBirthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy 20th anniversary of yoursuccessful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day!May The Swartz - Be With You (talk) (talk)15:57, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Happy Adminship	from theBirthday Committee
WishingDragonflySixtyseven a veryhappy adminship anniversary on behalf of theWikipedia Birthday Committee! --DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk)03:52, 10 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,I was chatting with you earlier on the #wikipedia-en-help IRC channel about the article Draft:Imtiaz Rafi Butt. Unfortunately, we got disconnected before the conversation could be completed.As discussed, I have now corrected the factual detail regarding his father's death to match the source exactly:“Imtiaz Rafi Butt was just two months old when his father, Rafi Butt, died in a plane crash in 1948.”The rest of the draft is built only around The Nation’s independent coverage and one supporting source from Dawn. I’d greatly appreciate it if you’re able to revisit the draft when time allows — or let me know if there’s anything else I should improve on my side.Thank you again for your time and guidance.Best regardsHassnain Raza786 (talk)14:10, 10 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As I was trying to convey to you earlier, if you only have those two sources, I don't think Mr. Butt meets notability criteria. "Notability" is, by and large, "the extent to which someonehas been noted".DS (talk)23:53, 10 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your honest reply — I truly appreciate your time and clarity.

If I may ask just once more, is there any version of this draft (e.g., shorter, strictly limited to the verified content) that could still be published in Wikipedia’s mainspace based only on these two sources? Or is it better to wait until more in-depth, independent coverage becomes available?

Thank you again for all your guidance.Hassnain Raza786 (talk)08:10, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wait until there are more sources, yes.DS (talk)12:25, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just to clarify further. If I’m able to provide one more solid, independent, secondary source (in addition to The Nation and Dawn), would that likely meet the notability threshold for an article on Imtiaz Rafi Butt? Or is a broader media trail typically expected?

I want to be fully prepared before resubmitting, and your guidance has been really helpful.Hassnain Raza786 (talk)12:29, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Three quality sources should be enough for an article, yes.DS (talk)13:31, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks once again for your invaluable guidance.Hassnain Raza786 (talk)14:04, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On23 October 2025,Did you know was updated with a fact from the articleJeannette Ng's Campbell Award acceptance speech, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was... thatJeannette Ng accepted the 2019 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer witha speech in which she called the award's namesake,John W. Campbell, a "fucking fascist"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen atTemplate:Did you know nominations/Jeannette Ng's Campbell Award acceptance speech. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page(here's how,Jeannette Ng's Campbell Award acceptance speech), 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.

Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk)00:02, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]