Hi. I hope you are doing well. I am glad to tell you thatWikipedia:In the news/Posted/Archives are now fully available, with all the vandalism/disruptive edits removed. While creating the bot for the archival process, I went through a lot of the older posts, you are one of the editors whose name popped quite often in ITN in "back in the day", so I personally wanted to let you know about the archives its nice to see that you are still active! —usernamekiran(talk)21:52, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good to know.BorgQueen (talk)02:56, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cape of Good Hope (left) andCape Hangklip (right) in South Africa Hello, BorgQueen. Thearticle for improvement of the week is: Cape (geography) Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections:Ambush •Applied science Get involved with the AFI project:Nominate an article •Review nominations Posted by:MusikBottalk00:05, 22 July 2024 (UTC) usingMediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •Opt-out instructions[reply]

Calder's Flamingo in Chicago Hello, BorgQueen. Thearticle for improvement of the week is: List of public art in Chicago Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections:Cape (geography) •Ambush Get involved with the AFI project:Nominate an article •Review nominations Posted by:MusikBottalk00:05, 29 July 2024 (UTC) usingMediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •Opt-out instructions[reply]

Smiling woman Hello, BorgQueen. Thearticle for improvement of the week is: Happiness Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections:List of public art in Chicago •Cape (geography) Get involved with the AFI project:Nominate an article •Review nominations Posted by:MusikBottalk00:05, 5 August 2024 (UTC) usingMediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •Opt-out instructions[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

Administrator changes

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• Ian.thomson
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Interface administrator changes

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Technical news

• Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators maylocally unblock when appropriate.
• Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" viaSpecial:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committeeappointed the following administrators to theconflict of interest volunteer response team:Bilby,Extraordinary Writ

Morning. ‘Recently Active Admins’ says you’re recently active. Have you got a minute spare for a NewUsers log that flags my concern?

09:31, 9 August 2024 User account Numfor32 talk contribs was created by Ntchotu talk contribs and password was sent by email (To make money)

Ain’t a single ‘beneficial to the wiki’ way that I can see that going! Wanted a second thought before I SPI this, in case that’s blockable on its own, or something.

Cheers.MM(Give me info.)^(Victories)08:37, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Matticusmadness please contact another admin. Thanks.BorgQueen (talk)09:23, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello BorgQueen, you're a senior editor and an admin, hence I'll avoid the templated notices that I use for newer editors! Atr/nosleep, I noticed you made 9 edits within 7 minutes. Most were minor edits but were not tagged as minor. Most edits were across sections, but some were in the same section and nearby each other. You can use the "Show preview" button and avoid multiple saves that increase the page history versions. Obviously you are aware of these, but just my observation! Jay 💬14:47, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jay No, I haven't realized those edits could bother anyone. Please link an appropriate guideline page.BorgQueen (talk)14:54, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What guideline are you asking for - what constitutes a minor edit vs a non-minor edit, or the impact on editors who watch pages?Help:Minor edit hasBecause editors may choose to ignore minor edits when reviewing recent changes, the distinction between major and minor edits is significant. My setting is to prevent pages with minor edits appearing in my watchlist, so if a page shows up in my watchlist, I assume it is a non-minor edit.

Help:Show preview hasPublishing the same article several times in quick succession makes it harder for people to check what changed, and clogs up the page history. Jay 💬15:09, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Both of those pages you've provided has the notice at the very beginning sayingThis is an information page. It is not one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines. So I suppose they're not some enforced policies or guidelines I must follow.

You see, I'd say it's rather counter-productive to come after established editors over those minor issues, and I hope it's not something you do on a regular basis. Of course, I know what constitutes minor edits, and I'm aware of the preview function and I do use it. However, as someone involved in the Main Page's DYK process, I have to work on a lot of articles before they show up on Main Page, which is also time-sensitive, so I tend to fix them as quicky as I can. There are only a limited number of admins and editors who work regularly on DYK, and its excessive workload is a constant problem. It's not that I've created several pages of unnecessary edit history, have I? I personally prefer to fix one issue at a time when I work on articles, in order to prevent any confusion on my part, to avoid edit conflicts with others, and for my focus in my limited time. Thank you for your understanding.BorgQueen (talk)15:34, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm good with your explanation that you do this only in DYK articles because of the time sensitivity. Yes, they are not guidelines but practices that make our lives at Wikipedia easier. I disagree that these are minor issues, or that established editors should be immune from them. At first I thought it is a newbie (not having interacted with you before), and I could do my standard notice and move on. Then I checked your user talk archives to see if there have been similar notices. Just checked a couple of pages since your archives are not searchable. I had to know why you edited the way you did, hence the notification. Jay 💬17:03, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jay Very well. Having said what I've said, I'll use the minor edit more often from now on. I know you meant well for Wikipedia.BorgQueen (talk)17:05, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Thank you very much for your review of the article “Umehara ga kimeta” which was recently nominated for DYK. I have a request regarding this DYK. Currently, the hook of this article has received negative feedback.

In this opinion, the comparison between “was regarded” and “is regarded” makes sense to me, As for the rest of the opinions, they seems to be purely subjective. Also, the quoted Japanese sentences seem to have been clipped out of their context. My position opinion is that the source is a very ordinary tone article from a media outlet that meets reliable sources and that both the hook and the article are in line with the policy and guidelines.

I am afraid I do not yet have a full understanding of the DYK process and do not know if I should just wait or express my views or if there is something else I should be doing.If I find that a hook or article needs improvement, I am gladly willing to improve the article to the extent possible.Nevertheless, since the other person is an IP user, it is difficult from my side to distinguish the degree of validity of the person's opinion.

If the IP's opinion is influential, I would like to ask for 3rd opinions from one of the users who has a verifiable DYK contribution record and can read Japanese, is there any way to do this?I am sorry to say that this is the situation, but I wonder if you could give me some advice. I will be faithful to the best of my ability. Thank you in advance.--狄の用務員 (talk)14:10, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@狄の用務員 お腹が空いたので、何か食べないと。 後ほど回答しますね。BorgQueen (talk)17:18, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@狄の用務員 私の意見では、記事の書き方が悪い。 ネイティブ・スピーカーによる大幅な書き直しが必要だ。 記事のテーマには興味がないので、あまりお役に立てないと思いますが。 あなたの努力に感謝します。BorgQueen (talk)18:48, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@BorgQueen Thank you very much for your advice.Based on your experience with DYK, I take your opinion as correct.I will try to improve the main text of the article.狄の用務員 (talk)06:52, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Director Sergio Leone (right) and actor Enzo Santaniello on the set of the film Hello, BorgQueen. Thearticle for improvement of the week is: Once Upon a Time in the West Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections:Keygen •Social experiment Get involved with the AFI project:Nominate an article •Review nominations Posted by:MusikBottalk00:05, 26 August 2024 (UTC) usingMediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •Opt-out instructions[reply]

I want to use this title for my page but I’m gunna use different informationCtorres1995 (talk)02:04, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See these answers.BorgQueen (talk)08:32, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello BorgQueen! I got your name from Mike Turnbull who is trying to help me with a DYK query and who suggested that I get in touch with you. I am very inexperienced at DYK. I am trying one atTemplate:Did you know nominations/Mary Jane Patterson People more experienced than I am say that it is in danger of being timed out. I wonder if you might have a peep at the page and, if it is in danger of being timed out, and if you think the amended hook is okay and so on, could you possibly rescue it? Sorry to ask but it seems like an interesting woman might be in danger of lapsing! Thanks for any help you can give.Balance person (talk)12:07, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

BorgQueen (talk)02:13, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much!Balance person (talk)08:07, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

Administrator changes

Pppery

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

Oversighter changes

Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

• Courcelles
• GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

• Following anRfC, there is a newcriterion for speedy deletion:C4, whichapplies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past.
• Arequest for comment is open to discuss whetherNotability (species) should be adopted as asubject-specific notability guideline.

Arbitration

• Following amotion,remedies 5.1 and 5.2 ofWorld War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans onMy very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
• Remedy 3C of theGerman war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") wassuspended for a period of six months.
• The arbitration caseHistorical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.

Miscellaneous

• Editors can now enter intogood article review circles, an alternative for informalquid pro quo arrangements, to have aGAN reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
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Map of the Caroline Islands Archipelago Hello, BorgQueen. Thearticle for improvement of the week is: Caroline Islands Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections:Cancel culture •Once Upon a Time in the West Get involved with the AFI project:Nominate an article •Review nominations Posted by:MusikBottalk00:05, 9 September 2024 (UTC) usingMediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •Opt-out instructions[reply]

Eight gold Spanish escudo (1687), issued during the reign of Carlos II of Spain Hello, BorgQueen. Thearticle for improvement of the week is: Currency of Spain Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections:Human geography •Polling station Get involved with the AFI project:Nominate an article •Review nominations Posted by:MusikBottalk00:05, 30 September 2024 (UTC) usingMediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •Opt-out instructions[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).

Administrator changes

• Asilvering
• Significa liberdade

• Good Olfactory
• Hesperian
• I JethroBT
• TommyBoy
• Woody

CheckUser changes

• Barkeep49
• Izno

• Doug Weller
• Spicy

Guideline and policy news

• Administrator elections are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative torequests for adminship (RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, withcandidate sign-up from October 8 to 14, adiscussion phase from October 22 to 24, andSecurePoll voting from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page atWikipedia talk:Administrator elections.
• Followinga discussion, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterionG8 toF2. This does not change what can be speedily deleted.
• Arequest for comment is open to discuss whether there is a consensus to have anadministrator recall process.

Arbitration

• The arbitration caseHistorical elections has been closed.
• An arbitration case regardingBacklash to diversity and inclusion has been opened.
• Editors are invited tonominate themselves to serve on the 2024 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until23:59 October 8, 2024 (UTC).

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Thanks the comma (in the news).Uncle Ed (talk)17:59, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey @BorgQueen, nice to meet you. I noticed you were currently active and was hoping you might be able to help me out.

There's an editorover at my talk page that seems to be having a pretty bad day, can you help me out and let me know how to proceed?RachelTensions (talk)15:41, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@RachelTensions Sorry, I'm working on an article. Please contact another admin.BorgQueen (talk)15:43, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, have fun with your article!RachelTensions (talk)15:45, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).

Administrator changes

• Crisco 1492

• Babajobu
• Daniel
• Elf
• Jayron32
• Thue
• Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

Maxim

Oversighter changes

Maxim

Guideline and policy news

• Following adiscussion, thediscussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine therequests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
• Following arequest for comment,Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.

Technical news

• Mass deletions done with theNuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier.T366068

Arbitration

• RoySmith,Barkeep49 andCyberpower678 have been appointed to theElectoral Commission for the2024 Arbitration Committee Elections.ThadeusOfNazereth andDr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
• The Arbitration Committee isseeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.

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Josephson voltage standard chip developed by theNational Bureau of Standards as a standard volt Hello, BorgQueen. Thearticle for improvement of the week is: Volt Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections:Diurnality •Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/2024/47/1 Get involved with the AFI project:Nominate an article •Review nominations Posted by:MusikBottalk00:05, 2 December 2024 (UTC) usingMediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •Opt-out instructions[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2024).

Administrator changes

• Ahecht
• DoubleGrazing
• Dr vulpes
• FOARP
• Peaceray
• Queen of Hearts
• Rsjaffe
• SD0001
• SilverLocust
• Sohom Datta
• ThadeusOfNazereth
• Voorts

• Ajpolino
• Fathoms Below
• Pppery
• Tamzin
• Worm That Turned

• Aervanath
• Christopher Sundita
• Dank
• Dennis Brown
• Dragons flight
• Fastily
• Graham87
• JaGa
• Kbh3rd
• Marine 69-71
• Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington
• Yamamoto Ichiro

Interface administrator changes

• SD0001
• Sohom Datta

Pppery

CheckUser changes

• Spicy
• TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• Followingan RFC, thepolicy on restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at theWikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
• Following arequest for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion,T5, has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used.

Technical news

• Technical volunteers can now register for the2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey.Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024.

Arbitration

• The arbitration caseYasuke (formerly titledBacklash to diversity and inclusion) has been closed.
• An arbitration case titledPalestine-Israel articles 5 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 14 December.

Entomology is the scientific study of insects. Hello, BorgQueen. Thearticle for improvement of the week is: Entomology Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections:Architect •Jetty Get involved with the AFI project:Nominate an article •Review nominations Posted by:MusikBottalk00:05, 30 December 2024 (UTC) usingMediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •Opt-out instructions[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).

Administrator changes

Sennecaster

• Daniel
• Hog Farm

• BozMo
• Ferret
• John M Wolfson
• MaxSem
• Panyd
• Tide rolls
• Titoxd

CheckUser changes

• Daniel
• Elli
• Liz
• ScottishFinnishRadish
• Theleekycauldron

Worm That Turned

Ferret

Oversight changes

• Daniel
• Elli
• Liz
• ScottishFinnishRadish
• Theleekycauldron

Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• Followingan RFC,Wikipedia:Notability (species) was adopted as asubject-specific notability guideline.
• Arequest for comment is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature also nowprovides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.

Arbitration

• Following the2024 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee:CaptainEek,Daniel,Elli,KrakatoaKatie,Liz,Primefac,ScottishFinnishRadish,Theleekycauldron,Worm That Turned.

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SAARC Region Hello, BorgQueen. Thearticle for improvement of the week is: South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections:Entomology •Architect Get involved with the AFI project:Nominate an article •Review nominations Posted by:MusikBottalk00:05, 6 January 2025 (UTC) usingMediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •Opt-out instructions[reply]

A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with thecategorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments atWikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 January 9 § Categories:LGBTQ in on thecategories for discussion page. Thank you. --MikutoH^talk!23:28, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wool weaving shuttle, with pirn in middle Hello, BorgQueen. Thearticle for improvement of the week is: Pirn Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections:South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation •Entomology Get involved with the AFI project:Nominate an article •Review nominations Posted by:MusikBottalk00:05, 13 January 2025 (UTC) usingMediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •Opt-out instructions[reply]

There is currently a discussion atWikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding this diffhttps://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eves_ministry&diff=prev&oldid=1258325773. The thread isUser:Citation bot won't stop adding incorrect dates to articles. Thank you.Legend of 14 (talk)19:42, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The prescription symbol, ℞, as printed on the blister pack of a prescription drug Hello, BorgQueen. Thearticle for improvement of the week is: Medical prescription Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections:Pirn •South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Get involved with the AFI project:Nominate an article •Review nominations Posted by:MusikBottalk00:06, 20 January 2025 (UTC) usingMediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •Opt-out instructions[reply]

Ice cream social held in a U.S. community college Hello, BorgQueen. Thearticle for improvement of the week is: Ice cream social Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections:Gastropub •Medical prescription Get involved with the AFI project:Nominate an article •Review nominations Posted by:MusikBottalk00:05, 3 February 2025 (UTC) usingMediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •Opt-out instructions[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2025).

Administrator changes

• Arcticocean
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Euryalus

CheckUser changes

• Firefly
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Oversighter changes

• Firefly
• Guerillero
• L235
• Moneytrees

Technical news

• Administrators can nownuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days.T380846
• A 'Recreated' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter inSpecial:RecentChanges andSpecial:NewPages.T56145

Arbitration

• The arbitration casePalestine-Israel articles 5 has been closed.

Scandinavian Peninsula Hello, BorgQueen. Thearticle for improvement of the week is: Peninsula Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections:Ice cream social •Gastropub Get involved with the AFI project:Nominate an article •Review nominations Posted by:MusikBottalk00:05, 10 February 2025 (UTC) usingMediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •Opt-out instructions[reply]

Cheesecake recipe from a family cookbook Hello, BorgQueen. Thearticle for improvement of the week is: Family cookbooks Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections:Peninsula •Ice cream social Get involved with the AFI project:Nominate an article •Review nominations Posted by:MusikBottalk00:05, 17 February 2025 (UTC) usingMediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •Opt-out instructions[reply]

Katz's Delicatessen, a popular Jewish deli on the Lower East Side in New York City Hello, BorgQueen. Thearticle for improvement of the week is: Jewish deli Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections:Family cookbooks •Peninsula Get involved with the AFI project:Nominate an article •Review nominations Posted by:MusikBottalk00:05, 24 February 2025 (UTC) usingMediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •Opt-out instructions[reply]

A kerosene storage tank Hello, BorgQueen. Thearticle for improvement of the week is: Kerosene Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections:Jewish deli •Family cookbooks Get involved with the AFI project:Nominate an article •Review nominations Posted by:MusikBottalk00:05, 3 March 2025 (UTC) usingMediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •Opt-out instructions[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2025).

Administrator changes

• Jarry1250
• Lethe

CheckUser changes

• AmandaNP
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Oversighter changes

AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

• Arequest for comment is open to discuss whether AI-generated images (meaning those wholly created by generative AI, not human-created images modified with AI tools) should be banned from use in articles.
• A series of22 mini-RFCs that double-checked consensus on some aspects and improved certain parts of theadministrator elections process has been closed (see thesummary of the changes).
• Arequest for comment is open to gain consensus on whether futureadministrator elections should be held.

Technical news

• A new filter has been added to theSpecial:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below.T378488
• Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using theSpecial:Nuke tool.T376378

Miscellaneous

• The 2025 appointees for theOmbuds commission areだ＊ぜ,Arcticocean,Ameisenigel,Emufarmers,Faendalimas,Galahad,Nehaoua,Renvoy,Revi C.,RoySmith,Teles andZafer as members, withVermont serving as steward-observer.
• Following the2025 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards:1234qwer1234qwer4,AramilFeraxa,Daniuu,KonstantinaG07,MdsShakil andXXBlackburnXx.

Wooden rake Hello, BorgQueen. Thearticle for improvement of the week is: Rake (tool) Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections:Kerosene •Jewish deli Get involved with the AFI project:Nominate an article •Review nominations Posted by:MusikBottalk00:05, 10 March 2025 (UTC) usingMediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •Opt-out instructions[reply]

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Hail. I wanted to nominateMarch 2025 Venezuelan deportations for DYK, but I've been dealing with health issues (which would have been manageable if I wasn't also horrible at time management) and expanding the article has taken more than seven days. I'm not very familiar with DYK, having only nominated one article (which failed hilariously, I'd misread the instructions), and wanted to ask if it makes sense to nominate and ask for the seven-day limit to be stretched by a day or two, or if it's too late. If there's time, I'd also like to ask if the article is in any shape to nominate, what changes should be made to it, and if "...theMarch 2025 Venezuelan deportations were only the fourth time theAlien Enemies Act was invoked in U.S. history, and the first use of the wartime authority in peacetime?" would be a passable hook?

By my count, the article has been expanded fivefoldsince here. I've also bothered Casliber about this.- --Kizor20:02, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Kizor I think you should ask atWT:DYK.BorgQueen (talk)05:57, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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This thread in a nutshell: If I rewrite an already-existent article from scratch due to the below reasons, does it make it eligible for dyk?

Hi there. I am currently working on the articleChristopher Bullock (civil servant), and it would be a great DYK:

• ... thatChristopher Bullock remains the onlyBritish civil servant to be dismissed, a move then-Prime MinisterStanley Baldwin later regretted?

The problem is I'm not sure if he is eligible. Currently the page is rated as B-class and is 2306 words. However, the page is actually quite problematic and needs entirely rewriting, which is something I am in the process of doinghere. Examples of why it needs rewriting (from before I tried to copyedit the page and somewhat gave up):

• WP:TONE in "The survival of Britain in the Second World War was largely due to the foundations that Bullock laid for the vast expansion of the RAF. Of all the civil servants known by Lord Hankey, Secretary of the Cabinet, Bullock made by far the greatest creative contribution to the Defence effort. For ten peacetime years, Bullock worked as if already at war."
• WP:NPOV andWP:V in "Among those who took against him was Sir Warren Fisher, the Head of the Civil Service, who was notorious for his wish to control senior appointments in the civil service and to second-guess defence policy.", which is referenced tohere orhere onTWL. If you read the ref, you may notice that this claim is not supported at all. For one that could be possibly libellous, that is not particularly promising.
• Claims such as "On leaving the Civil Service, Bullock went on to pursue a successful career in business, being appointed to the board of a number of public companies." and others that are reasonably significant such as "on 12 June 1930, the prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald, agreed to his appointment as Permanent Under-Secretary at the age of 38." are not sourced at all, which is particularly worrying on a BLP.

Therefore, you can see why it is necessary to rewrite the article, especially as the sources that have been used are not easily accessible and because of the above, I do not trust that they actually verify the claims in the article. If I essentially rewrite the article from scratch because of the above reasons, does that make it eligible for DYK?

If I were to strip back the article toreliably sourced andencyclopediaic claims, then rewrite it, it would be eligible under 5x expansion. If I were to move it to the draftspace as it is not appropriate to be an article in its current state, and then republish it, it would be eligible as a new article. So is it eligible if I just leave the current article in situ and write a new one in my userspace, before copy-pasting it in?

Thank you for your time,JacobTheRox (talk)08:33, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not doing the DYK work these days.BorgQueen (talk)10:09, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay thanks for letting me know. I found you viaWP:DYK/A so you may want to amend this to prevent people like me accidentally pestering you. Thanks,JacobTheRox (talk)13:44, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@JacobTheRox DoneBorgQueen (talk)13:47, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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matty villani has a greasy hynie that needs to greased with lard and let his spincter blow massive amounts of creamcorn from the juice whole, he has got to stop eating so much creamcorn before he bends over for the night. a chimo, a chacha chimo, oleyHoneyBun III (talk)13:32, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just stopped by to say that I enjoyed this article, which I stumbled across by accident, and which seems to have been written almost entirely by you. You certainly packed a ton of information into it!Choliamb (talk)20:23, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Choliamb Thanks. I was amused to find how many biographical articles (mostly of ancient figures) linked to the book's article along with their portrait from it, as no other likenesses were available. Needless to say, most of those portraits are completely imaginary.BorgQueen (talk)22:51, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello BorgQueen,I hope you're doing well. I’m currently working on a draft article titledDraft:Vastav.AI, and I came across your contributions, especially your expertise in copyediting and improving grammar on articles.Since I’m not very experienced in formal writing, I would really appreciate it if you could take a look at the draft and help improve the grammar and overall flow to meet Wikipedia’s standards. Your input would be incredibly helpful in making it more polished and encyclopedic.Thank you so much for your time and any support you can provide.AliveNull (talk)21:28, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@AliveNull Please do not use the list format unless you really have to. The relevant guideline isMOS:PROSE, which says:Prefer prose where a passage is understood easily as regular text that appears in its ordinary form, without metrical structure or line breaks. Prose is preferred in articles because it allows the presentation of detail and clarification of context in a way that a simple list may not. It is best suited to articles because their purpose is to explain.BorgQueen (talk)21:42, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Merry nostalgia from… 2006! LOL.BorgQueen (talk)21:36, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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