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You've been an administrator since likeforever (fooled me, I didn't even realize you were one) and you're this clueless? If your objective is to raise my blood pressure to the limit, you've succeeded brilliantly.wbm1058 (talk)19:40, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Your close atWikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 January 14#Common lime didn't, in practice find "no consensus". It found a consensus that not only isTilia × europaea the primary topic, it's theonly topic. What a farce. Maybe it's primary topic in the UK, but I think the tree's practically unknown in the United States – I'm not aware of them lining any roads here. To have a primary topic, you need to have a consensus that there is a primary topic. PerWP:Primary topic, "highly likely—much more likely than any other single topic" means highly likely editors will agree that it's much more likely than any other single topic. When editors can't come to an agreement, the default is to disambiguate.
Well, I've just cooled off enough to read your last sentence, "No prejudice against converting this to a disambiguation page", so that's what I'm gonna do, i.e. override your close. –wbm1058 (talk)13:25, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I made the "no consensus, retarget" perWP:NCRET:.. it may be appropriate to retarget a redirect in these circumstances, even absent explicit consensus for the retarget. There were nomultiple retargeting options to go for the "no consensus, disambiguate". By the way, you are discussing this close objection under the title "WTF", and I'm assuming doing that was an oversight. Jay 💬14:43, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I'd never noticed the subpageWikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Common outcomes before, so thanks for the pointer, so now I know where you were coming from. I don't like to see essays that have not been thoroughly vetted by the community plastered with so many shortcuts that are used to imply they have been vetted as justifiable rationales for closing discussions. None of the threeWP:NCRET examples fitthis particular case. Just disregard my arbitrary section header if you like, it's not important. –wbm1058 (talk)15:22, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi there, I'm hoping you might be able to help us over atWikiProject Eurovision. We recently had adiscussion on renaming the project and consensus was reached to rename to "WikiProject Song Contests". Given thelarge number of sub-pages which have been created over time, I felt getting help from an admin would be beneficial, just so I don't royally screw it up! Looking through the pages I don't believe everything needs to be renamed, as a lot of stuff has been archived, so if you're willing to help, please let me know if you'd like a full list of pages to be renamed! Many thanks.Sims2aholic8 (talk)10:39, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If the archived pages needn't be renamed, then won't they continue to show in a user search and create confusion? For example,WP:WikiProject Eurovision/Archive/todo. If a user types in "WP:WikiProject Eurovision" in the search bar, it will list this and all archived pages. Or is it sufficient that the baseWP:WikiProject Eurovision page is deleted (and not made a redirect) as part of the pagemove, while any other non-archived pages continue to exist as redirects to the new page name? Upto 100 subpages can be moved as part of a page move. Jay 💬16:35, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Can you wait a week or two? You will be completing a month only today, and your request was made last week, when you had not met the criteria. Jay 💬14:57, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I don't participate in user rights pages to know if a 3 days backlog is big. Normally how big does a backlog get? I see only 4 entries before yours. Jay 💬08:29, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Thank you for updating the reference citation for Gaurav Dwivedi in FTII page.
My draft for his wiki page has been rejected by previous reviewers.
I have not resubmitted it after last review. Can you please review it and give your opinion about the page and his notability. I will be adding more references.
Please help with your experienced opinion so that I can make his page better.
I did try to clean up the draft, but what the latest review said is still valid - the references.. do not showsignificant coverage (not just passing mentions)... If you are able to find references with significant coverage (not interviews), then you may add them. Jay 💬01:37, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you very much Jay for your time in reviewing my draft and editing. I will try to find more sources and also I will update one award nomination he had for best actor for short film Still Voices at an american film
I am grateful and thankful to you for editing Gaurav Dwivedi's draft and including valuable information. I added more content today, added commercials with youtube links citations, which are commercial videos. Also added Award nominations section and references. Added page title.
Can you please review it once more. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Thank you for your time to refine my draft. I understand that references are needed to prove any information listed there. For his best actor nomination , I found it mentioned in this link :https://thereviewmonk.com/person/gaurav-dwivedi/
why is this link not being considered as a reliable source.
In the reviewmonk page, towards the end it shows.. Gaurav Dwivedi was nominated for the best actor award.Wikipedia ^ Show Less That page uses Wikipedia itself as a source, so is not usable. I removed the commercials because the youtube links you added were primary sources, and the youtube account is unverified. It is the same with his Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts - they are all unverified. Typically, notable actors get their accounts verified for their fan base and to avoid impersonation.
Hello Jay, Thank you for explaining it to me. I wanted to add commercials youtube links because he is seen in the commercial video and that is the proof that he actually acted in the commercial. Please suggest how can we have those added in his wikipedia page, if not youtube links.
Also , I wanted to know that how to proceed to find reliable sources about someone’s nominations.
Thank you Jay. For commercials I will search for more sources. And for nomination too. I think thats the only nomination I saw on google for him.PrachiVyas27 (talk)13:47, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
And regarding that link you said is using wikipedia as a source, I dont think thats the case because that wikipedia link at the end of the article is redirecting to draft page but I didnot include any award information untill yesterday in the draft page.I first found this link on google and then used it as reference to update award nomination. So it is other way round. Please give your thoughts. I am not sure when this article was published. Your thoughts on this please 🙏
The wikipedia link at the end of the article ishttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaurav_Dwivedi , the article page, not the draft page. It used to be a Wikipedia article and has been deleted 3 times - in 2015 and 2017. In 2016, the article did mention the Best Actor nomination, seethe web archive. In any case, the fact that a website relies on Wikipedia as a source, implies it is not reliable, and cannot be used. Jay 💬13:58, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Jay, I see that an IP just createdDraft:Adam the woo for a newly deceased YouTuber. I believe the spelling is incorrect, so I am presently working onAdam the Woo, as this is the spelling as it is being reported in reliable sources. Can you tell me what is the proper procedure in this case — i.e., is it more correct to promote the draft or allow me to publish my article — assuming of course that he is notable, which I believe he is.StonyBrookbabble06:47, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There can be multiple draft pages on the same topic either in draftspace or userspace. You could have created your own draft with the proper spelling, or enhanced the current or created directly in mainspace. In any case, now that it is in mainspace, the question is moot. Jay 💬09:20, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It's six of one or a half dozen of the other, I guess. If the only difference is that I lose creator credit to the IP, then it's no bigee. I'm no better than the next human contributor (but thesupercomputer pilfering all of our stuff? Well, that's a different matter!).StonyBrookbabble11:17, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for informing. Restored. XFDCloser was facing problems because of the quotes, and I changed the section title at the RfD for the close to go through. I don't know why XFDCloser deleted the non-quoted title. Jay 💬18:27, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi, please do not remove the bolding of anything on list of drugs articles, as the medications and INNs are bolded in all of the articles, meaning it is standard
I'm not sure, it doesn't state it in the article. But every article that is a "List of drugs" they're all bolded, so I think it's standard across the subject. Maybe they can make it so the brand names only are bolded and not the INN names, or split the brand names and generic names into different listings. I think it looks better too.PLBF61371 (talk)16:16, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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