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NOTE: I plan to manually archive this talk page every year. To keep things organized, all discussions from the year $2020+n$ should go in Archive n. Also, don't warn me about the blockchain and cryptocurrency general sanctions - I was already notified back in 2021. (This message shouldn't get archived, however.) Duckmather (talk) 23:19, 28 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

G12 decline- that's not how it works

I noticed you recently removed my G12 nomination from the Casa Consistorial de Tarazona article because " the source and the current article are not even in the same language". Please don't do this again. You might also want to read WP:NONENGPLAG before removing G12 tags in future. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 06:42, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Rakul Preet Singh

Re this redirect, it's all socks unfortunately. I'm not going to revert you, but I don't think maintaining a poor quality G5 in the history is helpful to readers. Star Mississippi 13:46, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Edit conflict?

I presume this restoration of text wasn't intentional and due to an edit conflict?[1] Fram (talk) 17:25, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Self trout

Whack!

You've been whacked with a wet trout.

Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

A self-trout for G7-ing redirects that weren't actually requested for deletion by the nominator in Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 February 5. Duckmather (talk) 20:19, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

PR

It's already over than one week. Any further comments in Wikipedia:Peer review/List of Johnson solids/archive1? Dedhert.Jr (talk) 03:19, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Bonus hole

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@MicrobiologyMarcus: This was supposed to be a serious draft though. See Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 February 2#Bonus hole, which I closed as no consensus. Duckmather (talk) 13:48, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If that's the case, then using AfC to subvert the no consensus at RfD isn't proper. You should open a discussion on the draft DAB's talk page and notify everyone who participated in the RfD discussion and ask if the proposed DAB is better than the wikt outline currently in the mainspace. microbiologyMarcus ^{(petri dish·growths)} 13:39, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of LGBTP

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LGBT and Pedophilia are totally different.

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February 2024

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Removal of G5 speedy deletion tag

When you removed the G5 speedy deletion tag with an edit summary indicating "about a real person" were you aware that whether or not they are a real person is not the reason for G5? WP:G5 is for articles created by banned or blocked users, regardless of content. ☆ Bri (talk) 16:47, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Bri: I tend to think that articles should belong here on Wikipedia if they are about real people, regardless of whether they were sock-written or not, if someone is willing to salvage the articles anyways (and one admin, Tamzin, has said she roughly agrees with me in this respect). Duckmather (talk) 17:03, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As an administrator, I can confirm that "seems to be about a real person" is not a valid reason to remove a G5 tag. The purpose of G5 is to not encourage banned editors to continue evading their ban if they think their contributions will stick anyway. Especially Slowking4, this is a long-term abuse editor who spams poor-quality articles. Also, merely existing isn't a reason for having a Wikipedia article. If you disagree with the Speedy Deletion process, you should refrain from interacting with them or removing tags to force your own opinions that are against community consensus. Continuing to do so may be considered disruptive. The Wordsmith^{Talk to me} 22:52, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have the same question for Muthazhagu (TV series) which is part of a larger sock farm of UPE editors that have been bludgeoning Wikipedia. It is a slap in the face for those of us trying to enjoy our time here and clearing out the work of undisclosed paid editors who don't seem to get the point. The speedy request is for being created by blocked or banned user. Declining so would mean that they are NOT a banned user. --CNMall41 (talk) 19:35, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I realize you are not required to response, but hoping you can shed light on your reasoning for the decline. --CNMall41 (talk) 18:16, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

March 2024

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NCIS (season 21)

Hello! Can you close edits for IPs in this article? -- J. Bauer (talk) 20:35, 22 March 2024 (UTC) Or... Can you block this article for IPs? Thanks... -- J. Bauer (talk) 20:39, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@J. Bauer: I'm not a Wikipedia admin; You need to ask at WP:RFPP.

Also, I don't see how the IP edits are particularly disruptive? It's not like typical IP spam (blatant ads or random keysmashes). Duckmather (talk) 20:47, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, Thanks. 3 IPs deleted my paragraph about crossover characters...-- J. Bauer (talk) 20:51, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikisource

I'm considering writing a short article for the Signpost about contributing to (English) Wikisource, which I've been doing on and off since this January. Since you're another Wikipedian who recently joined that project, I wondered if you would like to say a few words about your experiences getting started on Wikisource (learning curve, pros, cons, anything really). No worries if you don't want to. Cheers, Cremastra (talk) 14:23, 20 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Cremastra: Sure, why not. Duckmather (talk) 18:26, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You can go ahead and reply here, I'll incorporate your comments into the potential article. Thanks, Cremastra (talk) 19:57, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Cremastra: Here are some miscellaneous thoughts, in no particular order (I might stick a shortened version of this on my Wikisource user page later on):

Each wiki is a huge time commitment. When I joined Wikidata last year, I got concerned about whether I could still keep up editing on Wikipedia; but now that I'm active on three wikis (Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikisource), my activity here on Wikipedia has dwindled a lot. (In particular, I've been focusing almost exclusively on redirects, dabs, and given name/surname lists, none of which require a lot of brainpower.) In fact, nowadays, my best work here (on articles like Indistinguishability obfuscation and Banking in Bhutan) is way in the past, back when I first joined in 2021.

Wikisource in particular takes lots and lots of time. Even a single page can easily take 15 minutes to even an hour to proofread or validate (depending on how much text there is in it; and at least when I do it the way I usually do, which is retyping out the entire text from scratch and then diffing against either the OCR'd text or the previous version). Short 5-10 page pamphlets can take days or weeks, and entire books are unthinkable. Further, editing Wikisource requires a monomaniacal focus, unrivalled by either Wikipedia or Wikidata (except, perhaps, hardcore sourced content work here, which I admittedly do very rarely).

Wikisource is also (like Wikidata, and the rest of the smaller Wikimedia wikis) hugely under-marketed. The impact of Wikipedia on daily life and pop culture can't be understated; however, the impact of Wikidata and Wikisource, however, is pretty much zero. I've heard of proposals to rename the "Wikimedia Foundation" to the "Wikipedia Foundation", and even though I don't agree with it, I can very much understand why they'd do so.
Thoughts on Wikisource UI/UX (though if you know me, I'm no stranger to complaining about bad UI/UX in general):

Desktop UI/UX is ok. In fact I edit (and read!) almost exclusively on desktop.
The Wikisource mobile UI/UX sucks (on both iPad and iPhone; I don't use Android so I don't know about that). In particular, editing on mobile is close to impossible, with the two-column layout squeezing the wikitext so thin it's virtually unreadable. (I've been thinking about even making a Wikisource app, but firstly I'm not sure that's even worth it, and secondly despite my extensive coding experience I don't know a whit about app development in particular.)
Relatedly, and mysteriously, the Monthly Challenge is completely gone on the mobile version of the Wikisource homepage.
Uploading images is really hard. In fact, I've been even thinking about making an entire gadget just to reduce the process from ~50 clicks down to one (but that would also require me to study JavaScript, which I also sadly do not know). Just to illustrate how painful it is, here's my entire workflow:

Download the PDF source (or if it's DjVu I try to look for a PDF equivalent);
Extract one page using PDFsam and save it as a PDF.
Use pdftoimage.com/pdf-to-png to convert that one-page PDF into a PNG.
Crop the PNG to focus in on the illustration.
Restore the image via onlinepngtools.com or similar.
Upload the image via the Wikisource Image Uploader (which due to my eagerness I have somehow become the ~only user of).
At last, transclude the image into the page.
Also (usually) try to proofread the rest of the page via the retyping thing, just so I can save an edit.

I might continue on with this a few days later. Sorry for being late; I'd been busy with schoolwork and such, and also this took me a lot of time to type out. Also, feel free to ask as many follow up questions as you wish!

Duckmather (talk) 05:07, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, and thanks a lot! (Oh and by the way— I think the missing-monthly-challenge thing is due to the "enws-hide-on-mobile" class, which is apparently arbitrarily applied to some of the elements on the main page to compress it.) Cremastra (talk) 11:53, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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@Significa liberdade: I have declined the CSD because the page I created is literally just a wiktionary redirect. If you still want it to be deleted, bring it to RfD. Duckmather (talk) 17:14, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I have sent you a note about a page you started

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