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Question from Doober doob (07:45, 22 September 2025)

Note: Doober doob's mentor Ixtal is away.

Hii can you help me with some basic knowledge about editing because i was planning to create articles about people who are on red link in deaths in 2025, thank you in advance <3 (also would love to know about my mentor as well! Introduction, flexes about how good at editing you are) --Doober doob (talk) 07:45, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

hello respected mentor, i was wondering if you're still there <3 Doober doob (talk) 22:09, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Doober doob! Apologies I missed your earlier message.

For basic help on editing, I recommend Help:Introduction. It is much easier to start by editing existing articles than to try to create new ones, but if you are interested in creating new articles you can check out the advice at Help:Your first article. For red links at Deaths in 2025, I would check to make sure that the person's article was not previously deleted, since if so they may not be notable enough according to our rules to warrant a Wikipedia article.

To learn more about me, feel free to check out my user page or some of the interviews I've given.

Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 22:15, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the advice respected mentor! I'd check them all out for sure! Take care <3 Doober doob (talk) 07:07, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there@Doober doob ~2026-12663-69 (talk) 17:21, 26 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@~2026-12663-69 Hello there : ] Doober doob (talk) 17:23, 26 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Planning help for AI workflows

I'm contacting users who signed up as participants of the Wikipedia:Help Project, about a discussion on brainstorming and choosing the first help page to draft on editing Wikipedia pages assisted by AI.

If you are interested, I'll see you at Wikipedia talk:Help Project#Planning help for AI workflows.

Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 11:47, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Question from PointlessWortwort47 on Draft:Grovyle (23:46, 20 February 2026)

How do I add images to an article? --PointlessWortwort47 (talk) 23:46, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @PointlessWortwort47! See Help:Introduction to images with VisualEditor/1 (or, if you're editing in wikicode, Help:Introduction to images with Wiki Markup/1). Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 06:58, 21 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – March 2026

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Following an RfC, the web archival service archive.today has been deprecated; links to the site should be removed.
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Arbitration

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Question from Ghost Operator07 (23:33, 2 March 2026)

Presently I am trying to make my article ready for publication. --Ghost Operator07 (talk) 23:33, 2 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Ghost Operator07! Good luck — let me know if I can do anything to help. Sdkb ^talk 23:37, 2 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Edit war

Read wp:3rr , note that September 11 attacks is under 1RR. Slatersteven (talk) 16:52, 4 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks — it looks like BretHarteChitown was given a contentious topics notice in January, so they should (theoretically) be aware. Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 17:08, 4 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

You have also now been told, so do not revert again. Slatersteven (talk) 17:12, 4 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I certainly don't plan to. Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 17:14, 4 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Precious anniversary

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:39, 18 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you today for your contributions to Bridge, - a broad topic, in team work! My father loved bridges, and I wrote a few articles with that in mind (Empress Elisabeth Bridge, adding to Chain bridge and Müngsten Bridge, the latter for childhood memory), and also thinking of bridges between people. - I brought two bios to the same page, Christian Schwarz-Schilling and Bill Ramsey whose regular Swingtime I used to hear in the car driving to choir rehearsals. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:16, 17 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 March 22 § Category:Pages with editnotices

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 the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 March 22 § Category:Pages with editnotices on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 20:14, 22 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Yiotro1 (01:59, 31 March 2026)

Hello I just want to ask how to add a citation --Yiotro1 (talk) 01:59, 31 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Yiotro1! There are instructions at Help:REFSTART. Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 02:50, 31 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Did you mean to support a derogatory personal comment?

Hi Sdkb. With this edit: [1] you appear to have added a +1 to a personal comment about me which paints me as "quite conservative and not open to changes" based on me wanting to give a longer discussion to a change on a protected template after 2 days discussion and three participants. Per Wikipedia:Comment on content, not on the contributor, the comment is not adding to the discussion, it is simply a derogatory and inaccurate personal comment done either through resentment that I wanted the discussion opened up, or as an attempt to negate my arguments. We do guide against such comments on WP:ADHOMINEM. I have pointed this out twice: User_talk:MSGJ#Just_a_heads_up. Can you confirm that you did intend to join in such behaviour, or that you intended to +1 some other comment, and it ended under that comment by mistake. SilkTork (talk) 02:15, 1 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @SilkTork! I might have phrased the comment differently had I written it in my own words, but the tendency @MSGJ was commenting on, of editors resisting design changes because the status quo has a comforting familiarity, is absolutely something I've observed as well, and is something that has been well-documented by design researchers. I saw it at the WikiProject Banner shell redesign discussion MSGJ linked, and it's something I've observed in myself from time to time — for instance, in retrospect, I think I was not supportive enough of the switch to Vector 2022. I gave a +1 to his comment for that reason. Sdkb ^talk 04:16, 1 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for responding Sdkb. I have felt that we have had good discussions over the years - sometimes I have supported your proposals, and sometimes I have queried them and in discussion a positive way forward has been found. I am somewhat disappointed that you have viewed me as being someone "quite conservative and not open to changes". Changes occur all the time on Wikipedia. And when changes occur which have good rationale and consensus I get behind them, even if I disagreed with them in the first place. I do believe I have a good record of listening to argument, and changing my views if the argument is well founded. When a change occurs which I am not aware of, and I'm not in agreement with, I may check the discussion which led to the change. If the discussion is sound and has consensus, I accept and move on. In this case I felt there was local rather than wide consensus - three individuals who had agreed with each other, and had not considered there might be an alternative view, had discussed the matter for two days only when MSGJ actioned it. Because this is a significant template, it is protected from changes to ensure there is consensus for the change. I felt it warranted wider discussion before being actioned. What happened was part of the familiar WP:BRD cycle. I can quite accept MSGJ or yourself posting a personal comment or a complaint on my talkpage. What I feel is not appropriate, and runs counter to guidelines such as Wikipedia:Avoid personal remarks and policies such as Wikipedia:No personal attacks, is making ad hominem remarks in a RfC which dismiss or discredit the person rather than deal with the issue under discussion. SilkTork (talk) 11:47, 1 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I likewise feel that we have had good discussions over the years, and overall I have a lot of respect for your contributions to the project!

I see that Martin has offered to remove the comment. I have no problem with that, so I have gone ahead and done so. I hope that moves us toward a place in which we're able to think about status quo bias more broadly as something we can all be susceptible to, rather than anyone feeling personally attacked. Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 14:41, 3 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I've just seen what you have done (I was pinged to the page to make a comment). Thankyou. I had walked away from the situation as I realised I was responding poorly. I should either have removed the comment immediately, or just ignored it. Leaving it there and then needling people about it was really the worse response! Thanks again, and apologies for my above whinging! SilkTork (talk) 07:22, 13 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Following a motion, the GSCASTE extended-confirmed restriction in the Indian military history case has been narrowed. It now applies to caste-related topics in South Asia, and the preemptive protection remedy has been amended accordingly.
The arbitration case Pbsouthwood has been closed.
The arbitration case Maghreb has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 7 April.

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Question from Parkourverify (02:54, 8 April 2026)

How do I create a Wikipedia entry? --Parkourverify (talk) 02:54, 8 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Parkourverify, see Help:Your first article. Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 04:45, 8 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Feraltasty (17:50, 15 April 2026)

Hello! I'm extremely new to wiki editing, and I was wondering about translating articles into a language I'm not fully fluent in myself. It's a language within the 10,000+ article range (Gàidhlig), and I was wondering if it would still be fine to attempt translating and adding some articles, even though I have no way of being 100% sure if everything is correct. --Feraltasty (talk) 17:50, 15 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Feraltasty! Each language edition of Wikipedia is run by its own community, so I would ask at that Wikipedia about whether they would welcome such translation efforts or not. (Related: Scots Wikipedia § Controversy) Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 03:04, 16 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Dr John Pork IV (17:55, 15 April 2026)

Hello, I was just wondering how you have so many edits. I find nearly 85,000 edits to be very impressive, and I was wondering how you have edited so many pages. --Dr John Pork IV (talk) 17:55, 15 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Dr John Pork IV! I've accumulated them over time :) Roughly a third were made using (semi-)automated tools — think fixing the same typo in hundreds of different articles, spending only a few seconds on each one to verify that it is indeed a typo there — but the rest were all just edits where I clicked the edit button on an article or talk page like this one! Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 03:08, 16 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, and well done! Dr John Pork IV (talk) 16:40, 16 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Sjkolv1 (11:00, 23 April 2026)

How do I make a citation? --Sjkolv1 (talk) 11:00, 23 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Sjkolv1! See Help:Referencing for beginners. Sdkb ^talk 13:50, 23 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Xiaog527 (18:55, 27 April 2026)

Hi Sdkb!

I was wondering if there was a way to upload images onto Wikipedia without them having to be for commercial use? I've been reading into the official Wikipedia pages about image use, but I'm new to this, so it's a little confusing... I appreciate your help and your time! Thank you so much.

Best, Grace --Xiaog527 (talk) 18:55, 27 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Grace! Wikipedia allows for fair use of some images (like movie posters) that could never be freely licensed, but for the most part, it only accepts freely licensed images.

If you're considering donating some photos you've taken but are wary of the commercial use element, this page may provide some answers. Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 19:27, 27 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Xander j c (11:04, 28 April 2026)

Hey, I'm new to editing, the page said to ask u if I have any questions.

I'm intending to start a new page for an activist named Jessica Pin. She works in women's healthcare rights, and is directly responsible for significant reforms to 14 medical textbooks, and reforms to the cirtificaiton process for a medical baord. She's published in medical journals, and has been featured in media like the daily show and the new york times.

She should count as a 'notable' figure enough to justify an article right? I have no connection to her whatsoever btw. --Xander j c (talk) 11:04, 28 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Xander j c! Thanks for reaching out and for being interested in contributing! Creating a new article is one of the harder tasks for newcomers, but it is doable with the right sourcing. Could you share links to three of the media sources in which she has been featured? Ones focusing on her as an individual (e.g. including elements of her biography) are going to be much stronger than just ones where she is cited as an expert. Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 23:05, 12 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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New Page Patrol Newsletter - May 2026

Hello Sdkb,

Backlog update

At the time of this message, there are 15,282 articles and 32,951 redirects awaiting review.

After the January–February drive the article backlog was reduced to 15,179 articles and the redirect backlog to 19,053 respectively. Great job! However, both queues are growing rapidly and any additional reviews are highly appreciated.

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JTtheOG was selected as the NPP reviewer of the year for both 2024 and 2025, for reviewing the most articles amongst all reviewers.

Hey man im josh and MPGuy2824 won the Redirect Ninja Master Award for 2024 and 2025 respectively, for reviewing the most redirects.

Overall in 2024, one Platinum, two Gold, eight Silver, 12 Bronze and 45 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 66 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year. In 2025, one Platinum, ten Silver, 13 Bronze and 38 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 38 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year.

BoyTheKingCanDance, Rosiestep, SunDawn, and Vanderwaalforces were inducted into the NPP Hall of Fame for having two separate years of 2,000+ article reviews.

January–February backlog drive

The experimental two-month long backlog drive concluded with 183 reviewers patrolling over 27,761 articles and 35,309 redirects, earning over 36,836 points. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 6,484.6 points in this drive.

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