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Due to the rising profile of Wikipedia and the amount of extra traffic it can bring a site, there is a great temptation to use Wikipedia to advertise or promote sites. This includes both commercial and non-commercial sites. You should avoid linking to a website that you own, maintain or represent, even if the guidelines otherwise imply that it should be linked. If the link is to a relevant and informative site that should otherwise be included, please consider mentioning it on the talk page and let neutral and independent Wikipedia editors decide whether to add it. This is in line with the conflict of interest guidelines.

If you have additional information to add to the article, why not simply add it rather than having an external link?

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Small galleries at furniture

Hello Versageek! Yesterday I’ve added galleries at the page named furniture. They have the purposes to make readers better understand the periods. The edits I make on this page as constructive as possible. The deletion of them is very nonsense. Please let me add small galleries of four pictures at every section of this page. This isn’t a type of vandalism.

External Links

Hi Versageek,

I am new to editing Wikipedia and I was hoping to add useful information about insects to pages. I make educational YouTube videos about insects. I do not want to run into a problem with "conflict of interest" policies, but I also think that these videos would add beneficial information to the pages. Somewhere it mentioned, bringing it up in a "Talk" and letting other editors decide if it was a valuable addition. Where would I do that? I tried to just place a couple up and your bot knocked them down and I just don't want to step on any toes as I did not know that links were discouraged. Also, would it be more okay to just add written information to the body and then add the link at the bottom as a reference?

Thank you, Insectopia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Insectopia 2015 (talk • contribs) 20:26, 18 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

For a broad based discussion, you could try: The WikiProject Insects talk page. Otherwise on the individual talk pages of the articles where you are trying to add links. --Versa geek 19:17, 19 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Some stroopwafels for you!

Thank you for your work on OTRS and other technical issues. DThomsen8 (talk) 13:00, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Self-publishing&action=history

Hi Versageek,

I added the link to Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. Why was it reverted? Thanks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Self-publishing&action=history — Preceding unsigned comment added by 54.240.196.170 (talk) 17:06, 20 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

External links like that are not permitted in the body of articles. --Versa geek 17:40, 21 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Versageek, will it be ok with link to this page though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindle_Direct_Publishing? --54.240.196.170 (talk) 21:23, 21 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

to link to a wikipedia page use this format: [[Kindle Direct Publishing]], it will look like this Kindle Direct Publishing. --Versa geek 03:38, 22 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

help

hello, Well I was trying to create our wiki So if you know how can I create my own please help me out — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sbcreativo (talk • contribs) 18:03, 19 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Disneyland Roblozia

Why did you delete it, It's aloud... I had permission from Disney themselves — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:2CEA:5900:31B5:D6EF:3D87:332 (talk) 22:26, 21 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

sanyog kumar deletion issue

the page sanyog kumar is in the way of deletion . why this is going to be deleted . one thing is clear that this is going to be important ... but u applied A7 here .... but i want this to continued . what to do please suggest ....i don't want it in the way of deletion . thank u — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sanyogchourasia (talk • contribs) 07:36, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

While this young writer may some day merit an encyclopedia entry. He currently does not meet our criteria for inclusion. Try again in a few years. --Versa geek 23:57, 20 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Reversion bot XLinkBot on Propuesta Indecente

This edition is legitimate? or there is an error in it. --186.84.46.227 (talk) 19:19, 1 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Checkuser check

Please do a checkuser check on user:Fuck the Golden State Warriors! Sincerely, Tikeem and user:TikeemIsMyWorld and block the IP address where those accounts originate. 2602:306:3357:BA0:B919:A583:2133:8AAF (talk) 04:47, 2 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like my fellow checkusers have already taken care of it. Thanks. --Versa geek 05:15, 2 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

XLinkBot

Hello, a concern about your bot, XLinkBot, has been raised at: Wikipedia:Bureaucrats'_noticeboard#Unflagged_bot_XLinkBot, please review the discussion on that page. Thank you, — xaosflux ^Talk 19:16, 12 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your bot replaced my updated info with outdated dated. Please stop.

The page is Pedro Fernández. I had updated It with recent discography, updated, working links to his official page, his Twitter and Facebook pages. Updated the TV section with his 2015 and 2016 shows. Updated the opening with his Grammy awards. Updated the movie section by adding missing roles. Then your bot comes along and wipes it all out. If you can't capture updated data then leave it alone if you see it has been manually updated. That was qiute a bit of effort you wiped out! Please respond otherwise wiki is a waste of everyone's time and effort. SusanneSCSusanneSC (talk) 03:00, 22 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

How can I edit my Boardloch page so it doesn't get deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nicholastharpe (talk • contribs) 03:59, 5 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Impersonator/Imbotinator

User:XLlinksBot, just created. Not sure if this is an imbotinator or a legit new bot, so just letting you know! Crow^Caw 19:41, 6 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Recreation of Page

You have recently creation-protected RiceGum, however there's now been a page named Bryan Le (RiceGum) created. Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 16:04, 9 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Inquiry on attempt to publish article on Albert Fattal

Hello, my name is Terchi and I am a new writer on Wikipedia. I recently began working on an article on Albert Fattal and was alerted of your attempt to publish the same. I would like to kindly know why your article was rejected and any pointers you may have on how to make my article better. Thanks in advance.

kind regards, (T.terchi (talk) 14:12, 24 August 2016 (UTC))[reply]

The best advice I can offer is to lay off of the superlatives. I read the deleted versions of the article and for a minute I thought it had been autogenerated by one of those programs that uses a lot of big words that seem to say something but are really nonsense. --Versa geek 20:46, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

External Links, Conflict of Interest

Hello Versageek,

I totally understand the terms and conditions, please see that at this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaser_(gambling) the explanation on https://www.bestonlinesportsbooks.info/betting-tips/how-to-bet-teasers is good for readers.

You can compare this one: http://www.bettingbrain.com/betting-tips/teaser-betting/ that is already there as well.

Please let me know.

thanks.

regards,

Andrew — Preceding unsigned comment added by AndrewBOS (talk • contribs) 03:14, 17 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia isn't a directory or link farm, also please see other stuff exists. I'm guessing from your username that you have some relation to the site you are adding. Adding links in this manner is discouraged and could cause the site to be blacklisted --Versa geek 20:46, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Waiting for your answer.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by AndrewBOS (talk • contribs) 05:04, 20 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You can't put in blacklist a site the have information that matter to people.

I added the articles with information according to the content and what people are looking for.

So...I would like you to explain what do you don't like about the information? What type of information is ok for those pages??

thanks for your time.

regards,

Andrew — Preceding unsigned comment added by AndrewBOS (talk • contribs) 05:10, 20 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

We can and do blacklist sites if they are repeatedly added to articles by users with an apparent conflict of interest. Thus far, you haven't repeatedly added links to the site. The content on the site you want to link to adds nothing to the article that isn't already available, either on the page or in one of the existing references. If you want to add the link to that page, I suggest asking for consensus on the article talk page. --Versa geek 16:22, 20 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AndrewBOS (talk • contribs) 00:34, 22 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

checkuser check

Someone brought up on Wolfdog's wikipedia talk page that he rarely does edit summaries. On many occasions he will delete lots of text and never put up a summary of his edits. he has been doing this for a long time. 57.9 percent of his edits do not have summaries. I was wondering if you could checkuser this user and see if he's deliberately going around and doing things he shouldn't be doing on wiki page articles? Since he does this so often and so frequently, I think it should be looked into. This would be unfair to all the other users that contribute to wikipedia that spend alot of time trying to make contributions just to have someone go around very often and delete things without summaries. If a user is going around and deleting large amount of text without a reason, I would figure that would be vandalism. And many vandals like to go around doing that under numerous accounts. And account that has nearly a 60 percent rate of deleting things without a summary, is in my view a problem. Thank you. Juliep94 (talk) 21:20, 18 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I think you misunderstand the function of the checkuser tool. It detects if multiple users are sharing the same IP address. It wouldn't be of any help here. The best solution in this case would be to ask the user to please use edit summaries. It appears that someone has recently requested that on his talk page. --Versa geek 23:41, 18 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for replying. I'm not 100 percent on the rules here so sorry if I'm wrong. Since this user goes around deleting a lot of text all the time from various articles, I was wondering since many vandals do this, if he could also be going under other names and doing something similar? Sometimes people spend weeks/months of research to add to articles. I think it's vandalism if you just go around and delete and snip stuff here and there. Obviously pages evolve all the time, and that's a good thing. But going around and randomly deleting things with no explanation to me is vanadalism. The near 60 percent rate is what worried me. This leads to suspicion. I don't know for sure if they're going under multiple aliases. I figured a quick checkuser would be able to find out if they did or not. And if they didn't, I'd have no problem apologizing for being wrong. I'd apologize to them personally on the talk page if that ended up being the case. Juliep94 (talk) 00:25, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Extended confirmed protection

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Aromanians

What are you doing? Why you delete my work on aromanians? What is your problem!? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.211.209.67 (talk) 19:59, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

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A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi Versageek.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

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Azzura Birleanu

Please understand Azzura Birleanu is a public person in her own right and it has nothing to do with her father.she has been featured in global news and campaigns and publications that have nothing to do with her father . Reinstate the page , it has substantial links to support my statement — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.29.164.199 (talk) 23:26, 18 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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weblink and Facebook link changed

In Nepal Youth Foundation and Olga Murray wikipedia, we found wrong link to website and facebook page. We dont use www.nyof.org, it was changed to www.nepalyouthfoundation.org.

and also regarding facebook link, its changed to /nepalyouthfoundation instead of /nepalyouth.

My changes has been rejected!

Please suggest me, how should we make changes?

Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sanjoj (talk • contribs) 04:02, 23 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year, Versageek!

Happy New Year!

Versageek,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Donner60 (talk) 08:00, 2 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Why?

Why did you change it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Truth23217 (talk • contribs) 22:31, 12 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I assume you are talking about the changes you (and your IP) made to Psychiatry. In medical articles we generally use the mainstream consensus. If you wish to change that consensus, you need to discuss it on the talk page first. We have an entire article about controversies in Psychiatry, which includes mention of the material you are trying to add to the main article. --Versa geek 19:29, 13 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Question

Hello, I'm new to editing at Wikipedia, but your bot undid the edits I made to the Powers, Oregon page and I have been unable to determine why. I apologize if this is obvious, but I have been unable to find an answer online. Thank you.

Lunaseay (talk) 19:13, 13 January 2017 (UTC)Lunaseay[reply]

The bot reverted you because you added a wordpress.com link. If you omit that link, your changes won't be reverted. Also, we don't use inline links in articles like you did here : '''[http://www.scod.com/cities/powers/ Powers]''' . --Versa geek 19:35, 13 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Reverting reference addition by Rohrigtom

Through XLinkBot you reverted a reference added by Rohrigtom to Buchenwald concentration camp page, the reason of which I am unable to understand by the given edit summary. Can you explain better? Many thanks. Carlotm (talk) 02:32, 18 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like this is why it was added to the revert list. --Versa geek 03:07, 18 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your bot removed legitimate content

Slavic speakers of Hellenic Macedonia also call their language "our own (language)" according to statements by the Slavic speakers themselves: [1]. However, your bot removed this legitimate content and the citation, discriminating against it solely on my status as a new user and the domain name where the statement appears: [2]. You may need to adjust the bot's settings to ensure it doesn't delete legitimate content. Առմենիե (talk) 05:02, 18 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia...

Hello,

Thank you for your message. However I just would like to clarify.

1. I know that this links are no follow and I'm NOT looking here for promotion/alter my page search engine ranking. I just wanted to contribute to "Wikipedia". 2. Previously I added links and they were approved but today you deleted them - no problem. I can see that I'm not very welcome here... 3. In my opinion you should do something here in order that people can understand easily if their links are inappropriate. 4. Just example here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Tension - There is a external link cleary promoting the page: http://www.dynamictension.com/. Why is approved? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tomasz71 (talk • contribs) 13:50, 11 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Kind regards, Tom — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tomasz71 (talk • contribs) 13:41, 11 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Tomasz71: It's not 'approved'. Maybe it got missed, or maybe it once pointed to a different page. You could have clicked 'edit' and remove it; I just did. The existence of other inappropriate links is not a good argument for adding more. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 00:22, 13 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Poss interesting mistake by XLinkBot

[3]

I was pasting a CSD/Copyvio report, and it disliked the link. I couldn't see anywhere on the bot's page to report this. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 00:11, 13 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

please release my wikipedia page named pindi sarhal i will improve the page better thankyou — Preceding unsigned comment added by ADILKHAN1290 (talk • contribs) 19:23, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Fernanfloo

Hello. I came across this article doing New Pages Review patrol and noticed on the talk page that you deleted this on 14 October 2016. I am considering taking it to AfD for not meeting notability criteria. I was wondering if you want to have a look and see if it should be speedy deleted (if that is what you did before). That might be difficult because it is an established article and may not fit the speedy criteria. I'll let you decide on that. ---Steve Quinn (talk) 04:11, 17 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, your bot reverted a link on this page

Suckapunch Records (official website link) which currently has no connection to the record company, as my suggestion of their myspace page is deemed inappropriate, please consider removal of the link to the hijacked page altogether, sucka-punch records seems to now only maintain a Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/suckapunchrecords

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XLinkBot edit war

Hi. We've encountered a malfunction with this doodad of yours. Here. 93.73.36.17 (talk) 08:42, 6 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That work you deleted gave me sleepless nights to finish. I hope you are happy. Thank you

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Please dont revert my page

I am trying to create my wikipedia bio and it seems that my bio is being redirected to another page and after I edit you revert all the changes and everything disapear please help me to solve this problem

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Irish coin blog articles

Hi,

I did not intend to spam.

My blog is intended as a useful guide / source of additional info for Irish coin collectors. It is much acclaimed within the coin collecting community - especially to those new to the hobby since I try to explain the history, politics and economics behind the coin issues. I also explain technical wordings and phrases.

It also contains much more info than some of your articles, e.g. St Patrick's Halfpennies / Farthings.

Please re-consider your undo's.

Best regards, James O'Brien — Preceding unsigned comment added by JJJOBrien (talk • contribs) 06:45, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The general rule is that you should not be adding links to your own website. I did look at the site & it does look like it can be useful as a resource, however you should suggest the addition on the article(s) talk page rather than add it yourself. Also, you are consistently breaking page formatting with the way you are inserting the links. --Versa geek 20:41, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:WikiHow screenshot.png

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Chislic

This bot is changing my edits to better reflect the current state of Chislic in the state of South Dakota — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.77.246.170 (talk) 02:29, 27 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

(new section)

Hi Versageek, I'm writing you here because I've seen this is the main wiki where you edit and because here you're an abusefilter, checkuser and sysop. I think I've found a few proxies used recently by a single user who hides behind them to make similar unconstructive edits in different pages, and a few socks used to do the same kind of edits created recently. If I write here the suspicious proxies IP ranges, will you be able to block them (as they're forbidden on Wikipedia) and do the same with the socks created over such ranges (as they weren't created for reasons according to community standards)? Let me know, please, I'd like to be helpful to the project by reporting vandals in bad faith who use proxies and socks such as this one! Enowtenorez (talk) 08:11, 30 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

XLinkBot

Your XLinkBot is the kind of thing that drives people away from Wikipedia. I really don't understand why you reverted all my changes. You even reverted my changes that were links to other Wikipedia pages that were relevant to the discussion. Did you spend any time looking through what I attempted to contribute? I really don't think so. The last time this happened to me was 5+ years ago and I vowed to myself to never return to this evil place with power-happy mods and now I remember why! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sdfoley01 (talk • contribs) 08:02, 1 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Change the name of: Ixquick by StartPage

Good morning. I think that you should change the name of: Ixquick by StartPage. Since the name of: Ixquick is out of date. The updated name is: StartPage. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Notewiki2000 (talk • contribs) 04:27, 3 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Merry

		Happy Christmas!
		Hello Versageek, Early in A Child's Christmas in Wales the young Dylan and his friend Jim Prothero witness smoke pouring from Jim's home. After the conflagration has been extinguished Dylan writes that Nobody could have had a noisier Christmas Eve. And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read?" My thanks to you for your efforts to keep the 'pedia readable in case the firemen chose one of our articles :-) Best wishes to you and yours and happy editing in 2019. MarnetteD\|Talk 22:55, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Statue of Equality (Ramanuja)

I Ravi Teja.M user I'd: ravi.maturi. I have just edited the above subjected article. In which I have just added the information of the chief temple Architect of that project including his facebook I'd link. I just wanted to know, why did that edit has been reverted back and let me know how to improve my edit.So, that It won't be reverted again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ravi.maturi (talk • contribs) 15:12, 21 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Explanation

Can I please know why my last edits have been deleted? Thank you.

(109.235.153.213 (talk) 11:50, 29 December 2018 (UTC))[reply]

Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:14, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank You --Versa geek 05:07, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Coventry Jewish Reform Community page

Hello, I have recently tried to make an edit to the CJRC page to update our contact information as the information provided currently is incorrect. Can you please let me know what needs to be done to update this without the changes being reverted automatically?

Thanks.

Hysteria57 (talk) 12:54, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The user 6K CZECH

You might want to check there talk page-deleted my message about deleting the user page with more stuff not in English. (Not sure if this person knows English or not) Wgolf (talk) 01:04, 23 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

McAllen TX Temple Page

Hi! I was wondering why you had deleted the McAllen TX Temple page. -- Joshua 14:00, 18 October 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jmjosh90 (talk • contribs)

I can't find the deletion you are referring to - do you have the exact name of the page that was deleted? --Versa geek 19:55, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers

Damon Runyon's short story "Dancing Dan's Christmas" is a fun read if you have the time. Right from the start it extols the virtues of the hot Tom and Jerry

This hot Tom and Jerry is an old-time drink that is once used by one and all in this country to celebrate Christmas with, and in fact it is once so popular that many people think Christmas is invented only to furnish an excuse for hot Tom and Jerry, although of course this is by no means true.

No matter what concoction is your favorite to imbibe during this festive season I would like to toast you with it and to thank you for all your work here at the 'pedia this past year. Best wishes for your 2020 as well V. MarnetteD|Talk 20:45, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Popular_Computing_Weekly

Hello, about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Computing_Weekly the link added shows the exact result and purpose of the magazine parts called "type-in software" published to BE USED. this software is in fact PUBLIC DOMAIN and so far useable for everyone who can READ a copy. the link http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/type-ins/popcomwk/pw_names.htm is a subpage aiming on th ZX Spectrum type-in software from this particulair magazine.

the link to THE PAPER version is allowed,

https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly

so please ALLOW the link to the BINARY FORM of the ARCHIVE
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/type-ins/popcomwk/pw_names.htm

aswell since some software is ready to be used directly as PUBLIC DOMAIN in the form of tape-images. it is an archive just like 'archive.org' to which you DO link. Chris 85.149.83.125 (talk) 03:20, 4 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Starter kit for smaller wikis

Hello, and greetings! As part of a Starter kit project for smaller wikis, there is a work-in-progress guide around Bots & Tools here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Starter_kit/Bots_and_Tools. I'm reaching out with a few questions, as there is a mention of the "XLinkBot" on this page in the list of useful bots section:

Is it okay to have the bot listed in that section? Are there any concerns?
Would you be okay with folks from smaller wikis reaching out to you for help, and would you be willing to list your preferred method of contact under "Bot owner contact"?
Is there anything like a note or reminder related to the bot that you would like to add in the "description" column?

Additionally, if you have a suggestion for any other bots or tools currently on the list which should not be there and those that are not there and should be there, I would love to know about them—looking forward to your input! Srishti (talk) 08:03, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

arbitrary header

Hello dear, I wanted to contribute to the page, Shahram Qadir. But the result becomes something else and now deletion notice is on the top of the page. I will be grateful if you remove this notice. Thank you so much for your help.

Best regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Garciamilano (talk • contribs) 20:41, 8 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Reversion

Hello,

Your bot reverted my edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Preah_Maha_Ghosananda&diff=957949038&oldid=957948888

I had added an interview of the said person provided on Youtube by the copyright owner. I think it is a relevant addition to the article.

Could you review it? 2A03:1B20:6:F011:0:0:0:A02D (talk) 07:33, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

For Making my website page on wikipedia

Hi Versageek,

I have one brand new Amazon Affiliate Website www.bestproductify.com . And i want to make wikipedia page for my website Like a www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/

and other thousands of website. but i don't have proper knowledge

for this and criteria for making website page. And i already received 2 warnings from wikipedia. plz give me some information about this. and how it's impact my site and wikipedia account.

Thanks, Chavda1946 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chavda1946 (talk • contribs) 03:00, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

IP 174.126.7.230

Hi Versageek. You previously blocked this IP per WP:VAN at the end of last month, but they're back again. They seem to be nothing more than a WP:VOA, but I figured I'd ask you about it first since you were the last admin to try and sort things out. -- Marchjuly (talk) 23:42, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

AvianSociety.org was removed from Avian. Why

AvianSociety.org was removed from Avian. Why? Another link Avian Limited is listed? Avian Society is referred to as Avian just as Audubon is without Society. Avian Society is an educational site and not a "commercial manufacturer" like Avian Limited. (Paul)

Tylan Wallace

Good afternoon, I have made edits to Tylan Wallace Wiki page and it keeps getting deleted. Can you tell me why you have deleted this accurate information. I have verified this information and since wiki is a public site i believe it should be placed there as we have googled this many times before. You have flagged my account and have placed a notification for any movement on tylan wallace account so now I'm placing accurate information on the page and someone keeps removing it. I am also new to this wiki and would like to find out what is going on. I thank you for your time and consideration and I hope I get a response so that I'm not adding content that keeps getting removed. Monroe Ellis ≈≈≈≈ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Monroe Ellis (talk • contribs) 21:34, 28 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The information isn’t appropriate where you added it, and external links to Facebook pages are never appropriate in article text. You might be able to add information about his parents in a section called: ==Early Life==, with text along the lines of “Wallace was born in wherever, USA to Firstname Wallace and Firstname Wallace. This information should include a reference to a reliable published source. --Versa geek 16:00, 29 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

user's note

Hello and thank you for your message although it made me feel discouraged :-( The informations I have corrected and/or added are correct. My father died on January the 2nd and all the other information I have added is accurate. I am (or was, to be more precise) a professional journalist, so I do verify (ex: when I added Thanos Adamopoulos it was because he has a significant musical career as well, and inserted him before Eve because he is older than her). I do understand you should monitor whats on Wikipedia but you make it so inaccessible to 'normal' people that it really discourages me from further editing. Best regards from Portugal — Preceding unsigned comment added by SADAMO (talk • contribs) 08:48, 8 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Financial markets content project

Hello,

My name is Tijana and I am a team leader of Wikinvesting.com project. Along with five of my colleagues and friends who are investment and trading enthusiasts, I have started the Wikinvesting which is based on MediaWiki platform.

Wikinvesting is a non-profit, game-changing movement which aims to round up all those individuals who believe that unbiased financial market information and knowledge should be extensively available to everyone. And this is also how I got to you :) Namely, I was searching for information I needed on financial markets and I have noticed that there isn’t a lot of "useful" information available on Wikipedia (to my surprise). In addition to that, the information available through sites such as Investopedia or Investing is tightly controlled by the business owners and hence easily manipulated. Simply, traders like me could not trust such sources in planning the investment and trading strategy...

So, what we want to create is a base where active or aspiring traders, content writers, investors, and generally financial enthusiasts will share their knowledge and experience, discuss investment opportunities, analyze news etc., all for the purpose of wikinvesting becoming the biggest financial knowledge “open source” base. I am not sure if you are familiar with the recent case of GameStop where gaming enthusiasts gather around the GameStop via reddit forum and prevented the hedge funds from sinking it down. They were basically our inspiration to starting this project.

I would love to share more information about this project with you and also discuss future potential opportunities, hence if you are interested, please let me know so we can continue this on our slack channel.

Cheers,

TijanaRistic (talk) 13:27, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Information regarding Idris Khattak

Hello! I am a local resident of KPK and I possess authentic information about Idris Khattak which I want to bring to light to the world. Therefore, do not withheld the information as I am uploading the content with reliable and credible sources.

Regards Ali Dawar March 2, 2021 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ali Dawar (talk • contribs) 08:26, 2 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

changes in my wikipedia article were canceled by wikipedia...

dear sir/madam, today and yesterday, i tediously updated my own entry Emanuel Tov

unfortunately all the changes have been canceled

can you reinstall them?

i dont know how to sign with the tildes

here's my signature emanuel tov06:55, 30 March 2021 (UTC)109.66.167.147 (talk)

You really shouldn't edit the page about yourself, but rather request changes an the article's talk page. I reviewed the changes & reverted the bot change that removed them. --Versa geek 03:10, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Noticeboard notice

A discussion regarding your bot account is currently open at Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard#Clearing_bot_watchlists. Please see and respond to the discussion there. If you do not respond, developer action may be taken without your cooperation. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:58, 7 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

XLinkBot and Michael Nesmith

Just to understand: why did XLinkBot remove the Youtube link posted in Michael Nesmith on September 21? Are Youtube links not allowed at all? Or are Youtube links just not considered reliable sources for the body of an article? It's actually an interesting and relevant Youtube video (and apparently stable); would it be acceptable to place it in External Links? (I didn't create the link, but I do have the article on my watchlist).Finney1234 (talk) 10:12, 18 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Al Quduri

I wish to create a page regarding the Hanafi Jurist Abul Husayn Al Quduri. I have been referred to yo as you previously deleted a page called al quduri, does the page of the person ive cited meet the criteria needed to be created. Thanks

I have not posted any content that was protected by a copyright

All the changes I made to this wiki were links to media Lance Sterling owns, they should not have been deleted. I would like to know why our links to our own host websites were deleted. Please post the changes I made.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Sterling

notice the noticeboard notice

Hi Versageek, please see Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard#XLinkBot_has_forked_an_article!_😲 regarding edits made by your bot. Thank you, — xaosflux ^Talk 19:10, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

How we will see unregistered users

Hi!

You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki.

When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.

Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.

If you have not seen it before, you can read more on Meta. If you want to make sure you don’t miss technical changes on the Wikimedia wikis, you can subscribe to the weekly technical newsletter.

We have two suggested ways this identity could work. We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can let us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.

Thank you. /Johan (WMF)

18:13, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Please check your email

Hi there. Last Monday I directly sent you an email but realized you might not check that email all that often so I'm posting here in the hopes of drawing your attention to it. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 15:24, 1 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

YGM

Hi Versageek, I just sent a mail – could you answer it as soon as you're able? Much appreciated! Best, KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 22:16, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

About XLinkBot

The bot hasn't edited for 5 months maybe it needs to be rebooted? LDM2003 (talk) 11:15, 1 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Assistance request

Hello, I'm addressing a tracked syntax error on Wikipedia, and I wondered if you would be willing to assist me for the some of the last few in User space. The error I'm correcting is called the Tidy Font, and due to changes with MediaWiki in 2018, any link written in the format of <font color>[link]</font> with the color stated outside the link does not display the intended colors and instead defaults to standard blue for most browsers. If you would be willing, would you change on your page User:Versageek/Talk/Archive/2 the following?

Requested code change

Change

== Is [[User:XLinkBot|XLinkBot]] working? ==

Please see [[Wikipedia:An#Problem with anti-Vandalism bots.3F|the relavent AN thread]]. Thanks! <font color="amaranth">[[User:NuclearWarfare|NuclearWarfare]]</font>''''' <sup><font color="green">[[User talk:NuclearWarfare|contact me]]</font></sup>'''''<sub><font color="purple">[[Special:Contributions/NuclearWarfare|My work]]</font></sub> 15:30, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

to

== Is [[User:XLinkBot|XLinkBot]] working? ==

Please see [[Wikipedia:An#Problem with anti-Vandalism bots.3F|the relavent AN thread]]. Thanks! [[User:NuclearWarfare|<span style="color:#F4364C">NuclearWarfare</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:NuclearWarfare|<span style="color:green">contact me</span>]]</sup>'''''<sub>[[Special:Contributions/NuclearWarfare|<span style="color:purple">My work</span>]]</sub> 15:30, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

This will address this error and allow NW's signature to display as they intended.

Thank you, Zinnober9 (talk) 20:30, 4 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – February 2024

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

Administrator changes

Bureaucrat changes

Worm That Turned

CheckUser changes

Wugapodes

Interface administrator changes

Guideline and policy news

An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

Technical news

Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

Arbitration

Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

Miscellaneous

Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 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!

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:01, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Revert

Why would you revert my edits? Any issues? Pls let me know Ajay Aravindan (talk) 10:32, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Mainly due to repeated addition of links to https://www.keralatourism.org/event/palakkad-pattambi-nercha/28 --Versa geek 11:41, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

okay, Thank you. I won't add any external links. Ajay Aravindan (talk) 11:44, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – March 2024

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

Administrator changes

Bureaucrat changes

SilkTork

Guideline and policy news

Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.

Technical news

The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

Miscellaneous

The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:22, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

remember me?

you used to be on wikihow. i was dazwarier in 2019. Do you remember the user that dropped admin trust on that poor excuse for a site down to zero? Reirawzad (talk) 12:59, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – April 2024

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

Administrator changes

Guideline and policy news

An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.

Technical news

The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".

Miscellaneous

Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:48, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – May 2024

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

Administrator changes

Nyttend

Bureaucrat changes

Nihonjoe

CheckUser changes

Joe Roe

Oversight changes

GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.

Technical news

Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

Arbitration

The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.

Miscellaneous

This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:25, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Carter

If or when Abi Carter wins, will you remove the protection? Headtothestripe (talk) 19:30, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sure --Versa geek 20:04, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Would you? Headtothestripe (talk) 02:58, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, appreciative. I am talking to a group (three to six editors, apparently) on the Abi Carter talk page. They are trying to remove parts of the article. I have tried to tell them they need consensus.Headtothestripe (talk) 22:27, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Versageek, please visit Abi Carter and the talk page, as well as some editors' talk pages. (See this) There is some serious ownership behavior and edit warring going on. A number of experienced editors are making no headway in convincing Headtothestripe that once an article "goes public", the creator no longer owns it. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 23:14, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The immediate problems have been solved with a one-week block of Headtothestripe. That will likely not change their attitude, so I expect problems when they return. If that happens, a topic ban might be the best solution. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 13:31, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I 've created and edit the page for author C.M. James removing anything that would seem as advertisement or promotion. The goal is not to advertise but to link actual author websites AND links from other sources. Reading over the article I thought everything was strictly information and not bias to the author. If there was a statement made about credentials or awards it was cited in the article. If anything else was placed incorrectly is it possible to know exactly what? Because reading through it I can't seem to find anything that is promotional. Relevant to the subject maybe. If a claim was made then there were links to show that the statement can be verified, but wasn't use to promote. A story and time line is being explained to show when and how c.m. james became a writer which includes correct information, cites, and a timeline. There are accomplishments made by the author which led c.m. james to focus on his passion which is writing. And I thought those needed to be cited. Am I needing to only write actual author information nothing really else? Dmcneely25 (talk) 21:13, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

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

Administrator changes

Graham Beards

Bureaucrat changes

Oversight changes

Dreamy Jazz

Guideline and policy news

Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

Technical news

The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration

The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.

Miscellaneous

WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:45, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Did something happen to XLinkBot?

Hi, in Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#Is pv-magazine.com reliable? I suggested moving pv-magazine.com from the blacklist to XLinkBot, but I was informed that it isn't operational anymore. Is this true, and if so, what are the chances of reactivating it? ~Anachronist (talk) 20:35, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – July 2024

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

Administrator changes

Technical news

Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)

Miscellaneous

The Community Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:59, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Email from me

Hello, Versageek. Just noting that I've sent you an email. Thanks, Sdrqaz (talk) 01:01, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

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

Administrator changes

Isabelle Belato

Interface administrator changes

Izno

CheckUser changes

Barkeep49

Technical news

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

Arbitration

The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

page delition

May I know why my user page was deleted? Mrsanjeevyadav (talk) 06:59, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A user page on Wikipedia is for things relevant to Wikipedia, not a place to post your resume / CV / biography. Please see WP:U5. --Versa geek 05:57, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you delete my page? What was wrong with it? Mrsanjeevyadav (talk) 10:44, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – September 2024

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

Administrator changes

Pppery

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

Oversighter changes

Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

Guideline and policy news

Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past.
A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.

Arbitration

Following a motion, remedies 5.1 and 5.2 of World War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
Remedy 3C of the German war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") was suspended for a period of six months.
The arbitration case Historical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.

Miscellaneous

Editors can now enter into good article review circles, an alternative for informal quid pro quo arrangements, to have a GAN reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in September 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,900 articles and 26,200 redirects awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:45, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – October 2024

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

Administrator changes

CheckUser changes

Guideline and policy news

Administrator elections are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative to requests for adminship (RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, with candidate sign-up from October 8 to 14, a discussion phase from October 22 to 24, and SecurePoll voting from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections.
Following a discussion, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterion G8 to F2. This does not change what can be speedily deleted.
A request for comment is open to discuss whether there is a consensus to have an administrator recall process.

Arbitration

The arbitration case Historical elections has been closed.
An arbitration case regarding Backlash to diversity and inclusion has been opened.
Editors are invited to nominate themselves to serve on the 2024 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until 23:59 October 8, 2024 (UTC).

Miscellaneous

If you are interested in stopping spammers, please put MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist and MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist on your watchlist, and help out when you can.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to participate in a research

Hello,

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BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 19:22, 23 October 2024 (UTC) [reply]

Administrators' newsletter – November 2024

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

Administrator changes

Crisco 1492

CheckUser changes

Maxim

Oversighter changes

Maxim

Guideline and policy news

Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.

Technical news

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

Arbitration

RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.

Miscellaneous

An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2024 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!

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