— Precedingunsigned comment added by2A02:C7C:7011:A300:2470:82C2:C90:FE1B (talk)18:41, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Since you are bilingual, I was wondering if you would be interested in translating a couple of small articles in French for me?Hawkeye7 (talk)20:28, 24 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Sure! I won't commit to any ETA because my I'm a gold medalist in lazy procrastination but toss me what you need and I'll get it done eventually! :D☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉22:03, 24 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  No deadline! Thank you! Take your time. The articles are small:Maude Jacques andCindy Ouellet. I sometimes forget that not all Canadians can speak English very well. But these two can. In fact, Maude was translating for me in Beijing. I tried auto-translating one once, but they delete unless the French is perfect, and mine's terrible.Hawkeye7 (talk)08:17, 25 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  I'll be honoured to work on the articles! The most complicated thing will be to figure out the frwiki versions of the various templates used. ;)☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉14:43, 25 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  Hawkeye7 - Haven't had time to delve into this but I'm keeping this thread unarchived as a reminder. :)☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉17:52, 1 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I came across an article inGamePro about live game counselors and 900 hint lines which has one or two useful pieces of info. The trouble is, I can't seem to find an article on Wikipedia where such information might appropriately go. Any suggestions?--Martin IIIa (talk)20:34, 30 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

There's probably enough coverage to convertNintendo Power Line into a broader concept ofVideo Game hint lines, of which the most famous was the Nintendo Power Line:Kotaku,A.V. Club, the line was revived for the NES Mini launch (Engadget,CNet,Polygon),Wikia (unusable as a source but can be used as a base for research), featured in The Wizard, that time when one number was bought by an sex company (N4G,NBC,Wired),Gamasutra,Felicia Day biography,Geek.com,Sierra Hint Line (this is an archive of 1989 Sierra Magazine), Sega, Konami also had their own Hint Lines.☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉20:55, 30 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Martin IIIa do you have a link to the GamePro article?☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉13:17, 5 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Bumping thread for 60 days.☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉16:30, 12 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Agh, sorry it took me so unbelievably long to notice this post! To add insult to injury, no, I don't have a link, just a physical copy of the issue. It's issue 92, cover-dated May 1996, and the articles is on pages 14-15, if that helps at all.--Martin IIIa (talk)15:48, 21 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ans you wouldn't happen to have a scan? ;DBen—Salvidrim! ✉04:39, 25 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

[1] —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK20:02, 25 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Moved fromWT:VG

 –Ben · Salvidrim! ✉01:15, 23 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Still something I'm interested in working on.Ben · Salvidrim! ✉01:15, 23 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Wonder if I am ever gonna write this... here's one more refhttps://www.gameinformer.com/2022/02/22/inside-the-nintendo-power-hotline

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Happy First Edit Day! Hi Salvidrim!! On behalf of theBirthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you madeyour first edit and became a Wikipedian!CAPTAIN RAJU(T)01:39, 30 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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I know you've been less active on Wikipedia lately, so I'm not sure if this will mean much to you. But I wanted you to know that I now think the Committee was overly harsh in desysopping you in 2018. If you could see yourself ever back actively and happily adminning, let me know if you'd ever want to talk about the path to becoming a sysop again. Best,KevinL (akaL235·t·c)21:20, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Thanks@L235:, I won't lie, I've been thinking about it recently! I've stayed a bit out of sight of patrolling the admin/community boards but I wouldn't consider myself inactive, I still edit here and there every week. Also, I don't necessarily think the desysopping was unwarranted, although I do miss the gnoming/clerking work I was able to so back then. I'm definitely open to returning to active duty if you think the community will support it!Ben · Salvidrim! ✉23:11, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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If the result of the previous AfD was "delete", surely this article should not exist and its re-creation should be eligible for PROD? –PeeJay11:57, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Hi@PeeJay:, unfortunately, as per policy, an article subject is **ineligible for PROD if it has even been PRODed or AfD'ed in the past**.WP:PRODNOM. Note that if the new article is substantially identical,CSD#G4 may apply, which an administrator can evaluate by viewing deleted revisions (but considering the decade in-between I doubt that it meets the "substantially similar" threshold of the usual post-AfD recreations).Ben · Salvidrim! ✉12:27, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Frustratingly, I can't see what the deleted version of the article looks like to compare. Do you know any way to do that? Happy to nominate under CSD#G4 if valid, otherwise I think this would definitely fail an AfD. –PeeJay23:11, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Hi, only admins can view deleted revisions. But considering the decade in-between I doubt that it meets the "substantially similar" threshold of the usual post-AfD recreations anyways.Ben · Salvidrim! ✉23:33, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I am restarting the creation of the website for the Silesian School of Iconography. In the near future, I will be attempting to work on it. I will be doing this in my sandbox named Silesian School of Iconography. I don't know if you have access to this text. If you can, please help me. I am very weak at Wikipedia, but I will try. I have dreamed about this for years.Forgive me if I am writing this text to you in an inappropriate place, but this maze of information is difficult. The header says that before I start creating this text again, I should contact you, so I am doing that. Best regards.Like the dewfall (talk)01:51, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Hi, you can request the recreation ofWikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Silesian School of Iconography by following the instructions atWikipedia:Requests for undeletion/G13.Ben · Salvidrim! ✉12:02, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day! Hi Salvidrim!! On behalf of theBirthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you madeyour first edit and became a Wikipedian!The Herald (Benison) (talk)10:24, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Salvidrim!,

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Hello, Salvidrim!,

A sockpuppet created this User page and a User talk page, claiming it to be one of your alternate accounts. Is this true? Or would you like them to be deleted?Liz^Read!Talk!02:28, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Yes that is an alt account I own (even though I don't use it lol, I think 10 years ago I got inspired by Bishzilla :p). The weirdo actually tried to move the content (aka nothing) toUser:Salvidumbass which is a non-existant account. It's just weird shenanigans.Ben · Salvidrim! ✉05:53, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Why did you editUser talk: VanishedUserABC[2][3][4]?Horse Eye's Back (talk)15:52, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Hi, the abovementioned account was for a user whoWP:VANISHed in 2013. Later in 2013, 2015 and again in 2017 there were accidental messages left by automated scripts which had been reverted by Auric and by myself, and then applied page protection to avoid future accidental scripted messages. You can see all that through mthe edit summaries in the revision history.Ben · Salvidrim! ✉16:08, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Why were they reverted? I don't see anything that says posts to the talk pages of vanished users aren't allowed.Horse Eye's Back (talk)16:18, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also note that only two of those comments were left by bots. This one was left by an editor[5].Horse Eye's Back (talk)16:21, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Vanished accounts are vacated by the former operator, there is no point for scripts to erroneously leave accidental messages to an account that does not operate anymore. The specific diff you linked was an automated message from an AfD script (WP:TWINKLE). Generally speaking, all of the pages in the vanished account's userpage are deleted, as was the case here, but generally the main user talk is not deleted (perWP:CVUT), but instead either preserved as it was when the user vanished, and/orblanked, which in this case is the same since the user blanked it themselves before vanishing their account. If you're looking for a hard rule engraved in stone that spells this out in bold authoritative letters, you will not find it, it's a bit of an admin judgement call. If you believe that vanished accounts should continue to see their vacated talkpages get buried under useless automatic messages, you're welcome to start a discussion on the topic to establish where community consensus settles.Ben · Salvidrim! ✉16:29, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm looking for any rule at all, it doesn't have to be hard and fast. To be clear I am challenging both the reverts and the page lock. I think you have consensus backwards, you made the edit so you would need to get consensus for it if as you say it really is novel (you can also self revert if you don't want to go through that process). We have a consensus on this,WP:TPO, and this doesn't seem to fall under the acceptable editing practices enumerated there. Personally I get a lot of information out of those automatic messages, they are not useless and you should not make that claim again unless you want to state that you personally find them useless but that other people find them useful.Horse Eye's Back (talk)16:41, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome to ask another admin if you believe an admin action is required here. My 2017 was based on my thinking that allowing messages to be left to an inoperative account invited confusion for message-leavers and passersby, as well as was discourteous to the used who went through the vanishing process. In any case, as I'm no longer an admin, I can't implement any change at this point.Ben · Salvidrim! ✉17:19, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fascinating twist, its of course obvious in hindsight but it had not occured to me that someone could essentially lock themselves out of an article. I will look/ask around and see what others think is best practice in this area. Thank you for you time and detailed explanations.Horse Eye's Back (talk)17:21, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Heh, yeah it literally happened to my own userspace as well -- my main userpage was FPP'ed, I had to ask to have it to get downgraded to SPP so I could edit it again after I left the admin corps :)Ben · Salvidrim! ✉17:23, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Voting for theUniversal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 17 June 2025. Read thevoting page on Meta-Wiki andcast your vote here!
• AnArticles for Creation backlog drive is happening in June 2025, with over 1,600 drafts awaiting review from the past two months. In addition to AfC participants, all administrators and new page patrollers can help review using the Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in theGadgets settings.Sign up here to participate!
• TheUnreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in June 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with{{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles.Sign up to participate!

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

Administrator changes

NuclearWarfare

Interface administrator changes

L235

Guideline and policy news

• Following atalk page discussion, speedy deletioncriterion G13 has beenamended to remove "Userspace with no content except thearticle wizard placeholder text."
• WP:Manual of Style/Superscripts and subscripts was upgraded to a guideline followinga RfC discussion.

Miscellaneous

• The 2025Developing Countries WikiContest will run from 1 July to 30 September.Sign up now!
• Administrator elections will take place this month. Administrator elections are an alternative toRFA that is a gentler process for candidates due to secret voting and multiple people running together. The call for candidates is July 9–15, the discussion phase is July 18–22, and the voting phase is July 23–29. Get ready to submit your candidacy, or (with their consent) to nominate a talented candidate!

Hey,Salvidrim!. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of theWikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk)00:59, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes

• CoconutOctopus
• Curbon7
• Hinnk
• Jlwoodwa
• Kj cheetham
• KylieTastic
• Ser!
• Smasongarrison
• UndercoverClassicist

• Bbb23
• Beeblebrox
• David Gerard
• Oleg Alexandrov
• Satori Son

CheckUser changes

• Alison
• Bradv
• Joe Roe
• RickinBaltimore
• ST47

Oversight changes

• Bradv
• RickinBaltimore

Guideline and policy news

• Followinga request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion,G15, has been enacted. It applies to pages generated by alarge language model (LLM) without human review.
• Followinga request for comment, there isa new policy outlining the granting of permissions to view the IP addresses oftemporary accounts. Temporary account deployment on the English Wikipedia is currently scheduled for September 2025, and editors canrequest access to the permission ahead of time. Admins are encouraged to keep an eye on the request page; there will likely be a flood of editors requesting the permission when they realize they can no longer see IP addresses.

Technical news

• Administrators can now restrict the "Add a Link" feature to newcomers. The"Add a Link" Structured Taskhelps new account holders get started with editing. Administrators can configure this setting in theCommunity Configuration page.

Arbitration

• The arbitration caseIndian military history has been closed.
  • South Asia (WP:CT/SA) is designated acontentious topic. The topic area is specifically defined asAll pages related to the region ofSouth Asia (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal), broadly construed, including but not limited to history, politics, ethnicity, and social groups.
  • The contentious topic designations forSri Lanka (SL) andIndia, Pakistan, and Afghanistan (IPA) are folded into this new contentious topic.
  • The community-authorized general sanctions regardingSouth Asian social groups (GS/CASTE) are rescinded and folded into this new contentious topic.
• The arbitration caseArticle titles and capitalisation 2 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case closed on 31 July.
• The arbitration caseTransgender healthcare and people has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 11 August.

Miscellaneous

• Wikimania 2025 is happening inNairobi,Kenya, and online from August 6 to August 9. This year marks 20 years ofWikimania. Interested users can join the online event. Registration for the virtual event is free and will remain open throughout Wikimania. You canregister here now.

Rocket League has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to thereassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article.Z1720 (talk)04:47, 9 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes

Euryalus

• Admrboltz
• FloNight
• Floquenbeam
• Ganeshk
• JesseW
• Night Gyr
• Nixdorf

Interface administrator changes

Ragesoss

CheckUser changes

AmandaNP

SQL

Oversight changes

AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open on whether use ofemojis with no encyclopedic value in mainspace and draftspace (e.g., at the start of paragraphs or in place of bullet points) should be added as a criterion underG15.

Technical news

• Administrators can now access theSpecial:BlockedExternalDomains page from theSpecial:CommunityConfiguration list page. This makes it easier to find.T393240

Arbitration

• The arbitration caseArticle titles and capitalisation 2 has been closed.
• An RfC is in progress to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

The redirectTemplate:Ctop has been listed atredirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets theredirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect atWikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 September 27 § Template:Ctop until a consensus is reached.Toadspike[Talk]12:42, 27 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes

• Billinghurst
• Crisco 1492
• DarkFalls
• Spike Wilbury
• Valereee
• Ergo Sum

CheckUser changes

Vanamonde93

Arbitration

• Aftera motion, arbitration enforcement page protections no longer need to be logged in the AELOG. A bot now automatically posts protections atWP:AELOG/P. To facilitate this bot, protection summaries must include a link to the relevant CT page (e.g.[[WP:CT/BLP]]), and you will receive talk page reminders if you forget to specify the contentious topic but otherwise indicate it is an AE action.

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

Administrator changes

Toadspike

• Elahrairah
• Juliancolton
• Magnus Manske

CheckUser changes

asilvering

Guideline and policy news

• The speedy deletion criteriaU5 has been repealed, withU6 andU7 replacing it. See theFAQ for more clarifications.
• Community-designated contentious topics may now be enforced and appealed at thearbitration enforcement noticeboard (AE) as a result ofan RfC.

Technical news

• You can enable a handyuser info card next to usernames, which when clicked displays edit count, blocks, thanks, and other information. To enable this feature, visitPreferences →Appearance →Advanced options →Enable theuser info card

Arbitration

• The arbitration caseTransgender healthcare and people has been closed
  • Uninvolved administrators may impose anAE participation restriction on any thread at theArbitration Enforcement noticeboard.

Miscellaneous

• Anunreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with{{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles.Sign up to participate!

Precious

Nine years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk)10:48, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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