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Hello Ser! Per your comment atWikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Paul Gosling, could you enlighten me how you were able to find so many newspapers.com sources? Does this require a subscription? Thank you!starship.paint (talk /cont)13:55, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

Hey @Starship.paint, yeah certainly. Most of my research has come fromWP:The Wikipedia Library, which has a bunch of brilliant resources with news coverage from years past. The website I usually use is Newspapers.com, which requires a subscription but as part of TWL you can put in a request for database access - check outWP:Newspapers.com for more on that. A lot of sources (particularly on darts players) are available on there that can’t be found online, which helps my research a lot. Best,ser!^{(chat to me -see my edits)}14:02, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the help, Ser! I will have to reevaluate my AfD votes once I have gotten access to this tool.starship.paint (talk /cont)14:12, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

Of course. For what it's worth I've had a look through at a few of the AfDs and found sources for some but not gotten around to voting as I wasn't swayed one way or another, but I'll keep having a look through whenever I get a chance.ser!^{(chat to me -see my edits)}14:54, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

Dear ser! I have now gotten Newspapers.com access and it has definitely improved my judgement at AfDs. Thank you again!starship.paint (talk /cont)14:55, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

There's a lot more of these pages, and their view counts have gone from the low tens per day to over a thousand per day over the the couple of days[1] (this is perhaps connected to Elon Musk's X activity?). I've made a post at NPOVN with what I think are a comprehensive list of pagesWikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/Noticeboard#"Muslim_grooming_gangs"_again, which you may find interesting.Hemiauchenia (talk)15:39, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

Musk mentioning them is what brought the page to my attention in the first place - because whenever he talks about something, you can rest assured there'll be a flood of dreadful edits and talk page messages accusing Wikipedia of "bias", "censorship" or doing the bidding of Bill Gates/Klaus Schwab/whoever else. Where Musk goes, a trail of pain follows...ser!^{(chat to me -see my edits)}15:42, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, it's just that the questionable editing has hardly been confined to the Oxford article. Take the activities ofthis user for example, which you may be interested in taking a look at.Hemiauchenia (talk)15:47, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk)07:48, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Good evening Ser! Just wanted to let you know that theDraft:Cam Crabtree is in development, if you’d like to help develop it you are more than welcome and your help would be appreciated.

Kind regardsJamesVilla44 (talk)23:57, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

Cheers, will have a look.ser!^{(chat to me -see my edits)}00:00, 13 January 2025 (UTC)