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Coming here as you are the most experienced user I have interacted with. Hoping you can point me to a tool that can search edit summaries. I am looking at a sock farm and they are using the same edit summary (an uncommon one) for their edits. But, I want to check and see if there are any other accounts using the same. CNMall41 (talk) 01:07, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@CNMall41: Interesting challenge. I am not familiar with a tool to do this (never having needed to make such a query myself). I would recommend asking at WP:VPT. BD2412 T 01:14, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nicodemus D. Wernette, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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BD2412 T 03:33, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello I am really confused as to where my restored draft went. I requested for it to be undeleted and I think you approved it, yet I can't find any previous information. Apologies if this is not where I respond. Can you help? Thanks Wordsthatsay (talk) 04:07, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Wordsthatsay:, you mean Draft:Briana Cash, yes? BD2412 T 04:20, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey! Is there any reason New Jersey is still listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/United States judges and justices, or are the justices from those states completed? Looks like the only one left in that section is a bluelink. Staraction (talk | contribs) 04:54, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Staraction: Good catch, New Jersey is clearly done. BD2412 T 13:30, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Forest D. Siefkin, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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BD2412 T 17:55, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I have no issue with your edit, but the edit summary doesn't seem to match the actual edit here. Is it confused by the change from "pp" to "protection padlock" perhaps? Fram (talk) 08:30, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

AWB automatically generates an edit summary based on the changes in the initial edit window, some of which I manually removed before saving the edit, but quixotically does not include its own automatic general fixes, such as substituting direct calls to templates. The substantive edit here is changing "Global Peace Index,Belgium is" to "Global Peace Index, Belgium is", with the correct space after the comma before Belgium. That might be an issue to take up with those who maintain AWB, but this is, I think, the first time anyone has actually noticed this. BD2412 T 14:11, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry that thread went off the rails. Apologies for my initial response, which may have set the tone. It is helpful for those of us in a niche space to hear what topics regular (i.e. not-in-our-niche) readers are interested in. So keep those types of posts coming. I'm generally happy to put in a bit of time to clean up an article if I know there will be at least one interested reader. Will actually put TNIK on my list and get to it soon (if someone at WT:MED doesn't beat me to it). Best, Ajpolino (talk) 16:43, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's no problem at all. I can see the argument for not having an article for every gene, but at the very least we should have articles for genes for which possible therapies have advanced into later-stage clinical trials. I'm sure every gene in the genome has some one doing experiments on it, but not all that many will prove fruitful enough to continue to that stage. BD2412 T 16:48, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

At the very least we should have articles for most everything that is well-covered in reliable sources. In molecular biology, there's tons of easy-to-access source material that has not made its way into Wikipedia. I imagine this is true of other niche fields as well, though I wouldn't really know.

Not that it really matters, but I'm quite sure not every one of the ~20,000 human genes has some one doing experiments on it, for good reason. Some particularly important genes have thousands of people doing experiments on them (p53, AMPK, EGFR (gene), HER2, and more -- each with over 20,000 papers mentioning them in the title/abstract in Pubmed). It's funny the field is large enough to produce tens of thousands of annual grant applications, hundreds of thousands of papers, and yet just a few Wikipedia editors. Not sure how to meaningfully improve that pipeline. Perhaps just keep complaining until AI takes over the writing, as you alluded to.

Anyway, sorry to hear when your curiosity called, our article wasn't ready to answer. Hopefully we'll do better next time. Ajpolino (talk) 17:11, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Alpha Beta Chi was locked for creation in 2007. We've got a discussion and have an English and Spanish speaking editor on WT:FRAT who has likely pulled enough together to recreate. Could the creation lock please be removed?Naraht (talk) 18:34, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Naraht: Per Wikipedia:Solicited administrator actions, I do not respond to specific requests for administrative action. I would recommend making a request at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard. BD2412 T 19:30, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fair, this would mean singlehandedly overriding an AFD, I guess. 2007 vs. Last week doesn't matter.Naraht (talk) 21:11, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for clarifying why the person making the guess (the guesser) was mentioned and bolded in the lead, I hadn't considered that. Wouldn't it be regarded as one of the "obvious close variants" of the verb under WP:RSURPRISE, though? Belbury (talk) 12:11, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I would err on the side of inclusion in this case, as guessing is one of the more basic concept and the reader looking it up might therefore be more at the level of basic concepts. BD2412 T 14:37, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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		In 2024 you were one of the top AfC editors, thank you! --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:42, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, although I would say that this stretches the meaning of "one of the top" pretty far. BD2412 T 15:37, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, This is to let you know that one of your recent edit at Denis Vidal caused a citation error. you have added invalid url at {{Cite web}} template. Your url input was |url=http://www.sudoc.abes.fr/cbs/DB=2.1//SRCH?IKT=12&TRM=00140430X&COOKIE=U10178,Klecteurweb,D2.1,E21bf34b2-c7,I250,B341720009+,SY,QDEF,A%5C9008+1,,J,H2-26,,29,,34,,39,,44,,49-50,,53-78,,80-87,NLECTEUR+PSI,R109.221.208.153,FN Do not add invalid url and use preview before saving your edit. Happy editing. ––kemel49^{(connect)(contri)} 16:51, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A machine error, but frankly one that led to a better outcome all around. BD2412 T 16:57, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello BD2412, can I ask that this draft be REFUNDED? and restored? I wish to work on it. Crafterstar (talk) 18:42, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Crafterstar:  Done. Please note, however, that per Wikipedia:Solicited administrator actions, I generally do not respond to specific requests made on my talk page seeking administrative action. In the future please use WP:RFU for such requests. Cheers! BD2412 T 18:47, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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De-orphaned; this should not have been orphaned without discussion in the first place. BD2412 T 21:35, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I guess I don't really care, and I don't understand Wikipedia enough to know if this is the right place because it's very confusing,but I'm not sure why you would remove two actual Fashion Week website links, including the official Paris Fashion Week website link 98.173.239.180 (talk) 00:09, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I honestly feel like this is why people don't like Wikipedia, because wiki people have a penchant for simply knee-jerk deleting things without knowing anything about the topic, which is kind of frustrating 98.173.239.180 (talk) 00:11, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You have the wrong editor. I didn't remove any such links from Fashion Week. BD2412 T 00:14, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Got it, like I said it's very confusing, apologies for the in 98.173.239.180 (talk) 00:15, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And on the other hand, you have kept a link to something called DN mag, a publication with no authority in this space, which is simply a scrape of the actual Paris Fashion Week schedule at FHCM, which on top of everything else is two years old and beyond outdated 98.173.239.180 (talk) 00:14, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Again, you have the wrong editor. Cheers! BD2412 T 00:30, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello BD2412, Do you use any automated tool or script to edit, random diff.^{(Just to mention these CS1 errors)} Happy editing.––kemel49^{(connect)(contri)} 16:26, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I use WP:AWB, but not in an automated mode. BD2412 T 16:50, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Seems like AWB loving to left mark always at citation errors, don't you think that's an error to AWB and needed to be fixed immediately. See how it has put a space after comma inside an url.––kemel49^{(connect)(contri)} 17:28, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It irks me that URLs contain commas at all. They rarely do, and I usually avoid these. Is there a tool or report to detect CS1 errors? I would be happy to check my work after it is done. As you can see, except for the space introduced in the URL, there are correct fixes on the page to unsightly punctuation spacing errors. For example, instances of an extra space before a comma, or a space between the period at the end of a sentence and the ref tag following. BD2412 T 17:32, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

For me, Live previewing references too before saving the edit works. you can see that red error texts on references.

{{cite web|title=Black Site |url=blacksitemovie.com |publisher=Official Site |access-date=12 May 2019}}

will produce

[blacksitemovie.com "Black Site"]. Official Site. Retrieved 12 May 2019. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)

see that there are no protocol at url (e.g. http://) so it produces error message.––kemel49^{(connect)(contri)} 17:39, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I see, thank you for the tip. BD2412 T 17:40, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also you can see all cs1 errors at Category:CS1 errors.––kemel49^{(connect)(contri)} 17:40, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am looking through those now. BD2412 T 17:41, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Before further AWB usage, you need to see this edit.––kemel49^{(connect)(contri)} 01:58, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@KEmel49: I have implemented a self-review system of checking against the URL category after each AWB run. When I finish this run, I will make such a check. BD2412 T 02:02, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Granted, if you're thinking from the perspective of just the one page that came across your radar, it doesn't seem like much of a burden to invest the few extra seconds it would take to go into a page to find and manually disable a category compared to just removing it with HotCat — but the thing you need to understand is that the polluted category reports only run once per week, meaning that by the time they actually update I have hundreds of categorized draft or user pages to clean up all at once.

That means that I already have to invest at least two hours into cleaning up the batch even if I do it the quickest possible way — if I did it the longer way, I'd have to invest four, five or six hours into the job, which is not a burden I have a responsibility to take on.

Sure, if you come across one improperly categorized draft or user page in the process of doing other things, then the extra time it takes to merely disable the categories instead of removing them isn't that big of an imposition — but when I have to get through hundreds of improperly categorized draft or user pages in one swoop, it adds up to an extreme imposition on my time to have to deal with each page the longer way rather than the shorter one.

It would be wonderful if the developers could figure out a way to automatically keep draft and user pages out of mainspace categories at the server level, so that humans didn't have to spend time on it at all anymore — an editor did file a request for that last year, but nothing's been implemented yet. But so long as it remains a job that human editors have to invest time into, I'm entitled to both (a) get it done in the shortest amount of time possible, and (b) not take any pushback from anybody about that. Bearcat (talk) 17:36, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Bearcat: If thoughtfully done, it cannot possibly take more time to add a colon in front of the word "Category" than it can to delete the information from the draft altogether. Point me to your polluted category report, I'll set up an AWB workflow that takes care of your two hours of category work in five minutes. BD2412 T 18:03, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

To add a colon in front of the word category, you have to go into edit mode and find the category or categories, which quite obviously takes longer than just clicking on a minus sign with HotCat from view mode. (Further, I frequently come across pages where users have added categories in strange places, like in the middle of the page instead of at the end or in several different places within the same page, so it's not always as simple as "just scroll to the bottom of the page".)

The polluted category reports don't produce lists of the pages, they produce lists of the categories that have the pages in them, and I have to scan each category to find the pages — which is part of why the job already takes two hours as it is. To be fair, that only applies to the draftspace report at Wikipedia:Database reports/Polluted categories (2) — the userspace report at Wikipedia:Database reports/Polluted categories provides automatic links to incat searches for each category, so the time sink there is less in finding the problematic content and more in the sheer number of categories that have to be dealt with, while we have enough bots catching some (but not all) categorized drafts that the draft report is never as big size-wise and its time sink is having to manually find the draft or drafts in each category because it doesn't provide the same incat links. (I have previously asked for it to be modified to provide the incats, but my request has never been addressed.)

The reports also don't distinguish between "category for articles which has misfiled draft or user pages in it" and "category for draft or user pages which has misfiled articles in it" — the question of whether the problem is a misfiled draft or user sandbox in a category meant for articles, or a misfiled article in a category meant for non-article pages, is a determination I have to make as I'm looking at the category. An AWB workflow wouldn't be able to correctly suss out the distinction at all — even if there were a way to have AWB scan all the categories in the report to generate a list of the individual draft and user pages inside them, that would sometimes miss the actual problem, because sometimes the problem is a misfiled article in a category meant for drafts rather than vice versa. Bearcat (talk) 18:27, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Then create a list of draft pages containing mainspace categories. How hard can that be? AWB can literally just find every instance of [[Category: and change it to [[:Category:. Those already in a correct draft categories template can be skipped. BD2412 T 18:56, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Create a list of draft pages containing mainspace categories how? If all I'm given is a list of categories that fails to distinguish mainspace categories that need to have drafts pulled out of them from draftspace categories that need to have mainspace articles pulled out of them or maintenance categories that don't need any action at all, meaning that I have to individually inspect each category to determine which of those it is because the list of categories isn't already making that distinction for me, then how is it in my power to turn that into a "list of draftspace pages with mainspace categories on them" at all? Coding a whole new report that creates a list of the individual pages from the outset isn't in my skill set, so I have to work with the existing report as it stands because making a whole new report from scratch is far outside my ken. Bearcat (talk) 19:05, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fine, I'll take care of it. BD2412 T 21:49, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on Category:Non-free biographical images published in 1929 indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Stefan2 (talk) 21:35, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, this is what happens when the calendar advances and the images fall out of copyright. Cheers! BD2412 T 22:01, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

•  Done. BD2412 T 22:02, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I monitor the page on large redirect pages and your list article has been on there for a short while without updates. Are you still working on the draft? If so, could you move it to draftspace and continue your work there? You can also just remove the redirect tagging and mark it as an actual standalone article if you think it's finished. Cheers. LR.127 (talk) 14:09, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@LR.127: I think the list is sufficient to split off as it is, but I made a proposal at Talk:List of NFL individual records#Proposed split, and would prefer feedback there before finishing the split. BD2412 T 14:15, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Charles Lott (New Zealand military officer), which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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BD2412 T 00:47, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on Təzəkənd, Bilasuvar (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a disambiguation page which either

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Are you still working or monitoring this project? It doesn't appear to be active since the 2011 data reports. I have been planning on going through it for a couple of years and haven't been able to because of real life situations. If the reports/pages are outdated and don't have the concern of red links do these pages get deleted or do they get archived for preservation purposes? WikiCleanerMan (talk) 15:52, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@WikiCleanerMan: I pick at it once in a blue moon, but it is pretty badly out of date. Ideally, the existing subpages should be overwritten with a new report at some point, which I asked about at the Village Pump a while back, and was told to use new tool instead, which I was unfamiliar with, so I haven't done that either. BD2412 T 17:11, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What tool was that? Can you link the discussion? WikiCleanerMan (talk) 19:50, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@WikiCleanerMan: Indeed, the discussion is here, and the tool was quarry:query/68737. BD2412 T 19:56, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I left a comment at Talk: 2024 Burnsville shooting, and since you are an admin who has edited that page before, I’d like it if you took a look. Another user had made a very offensive edit to that page, and while the offending content has been fixed in the current revision, the edit summary is still visible in the page history and should probably be hidden. 174.213.241.247 (talk) 06:23, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done. BD2412 T 18:26, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Patrick H. Wood, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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BD2412 T 02:02, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, this closure is undetermined in the AfD script. Would you mind changing it to Draftify? - The9Man ^Talk 08:58, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done. BD2412 T 18:26, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Russian jazz, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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BD2412 T 04:46, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]