Hi mentor, My first draft of a created article was rejected and I spent a lot of time making suggested edits. As I don't want it rejected again, is the wiki IRC channel the best way to ask someone to take a look at it before I submit? Thanks. --NanoNerd (talk) 17:43, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@NanoNerd: Hello! I think your changes after the draft decline look decent, but I'd remove the "Outlook" section, as it seems more for an argumentative essay than an encyclopedia article. You can ask IRC Wikipedia channels for more advice. Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk may be helpful too. ObserveOwl (talk) 20:14, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I had similar thoughts about the Outlook section. Thank you for confirming my suspicions. NanoNerd (talk) 20:15, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there dear ObserveOwl,

I tried to contribute an artist page and I was wondering where my contribution was or what the current status is, as I am not able to find it anywhere.... --Ferdinand Zandvoort (talk) 14:45, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Ferdinand Zandvoort: Welcome to Wikipedia! From your contributions to the English Wikipedia, I cannot see any artist page created/edited by you, only an edit to your user page. What were you trying to contribute? Are you looking for the user draft page you created on the Dutch Wikipedia, Gebruiker:Ferdinand Zandvoort/Kladblok? ObserveOwl (talk) 14:53, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

thank you so much, for welcoming me. Appreciated, I contributed in dutch about the artist Arash Fakhim, but can't seem to find it.... anymore. Ferdinand Zandvoort (talk) 14:57, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Ferdinand Zandvoort: Apologies, what exactly are you having issues finding? I linked to the Dutch user page. Are you trying to make the draft page a live article, so it appears on Google results? ObserveOwl (talk) 15:02, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes exactly as I send it for review after creating it in sandbox and was wondering if I did anything wrong on my half. Since I can't seem to find it any where... Ferdinand Zandvoort (talk) 15:04, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Ferdinand Zandvoort: I am not sure the Dutch Wikipedia has a draft review sistem like the English Wikipedia has. However, you could ask for feedback on the draft at nl:Help:Feedback. There, you can also ask for the next steps to publish the page. The English and Dutch Wikipedias operate differently, so I cannot be sure of their policies and procedures. ObserveOwl (talk) 15:28, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much you were absolutely right everything was still in the dutch wikipedia version in my draft sketch, its awaiting its review now. Thanks @ObserveOwl. Last question on my end will it automatically appear in English as wel once peer reviewed and uploaded? All the best, Ferd Ferdinand Zandvoort (talk) 16:33, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Ferdinand Zandvoort: Glad to help! No, the article will not appear automatically on other Wikipedia language editions. It can only be translated manually (or alternatively written with different content). ObserveOwl (talk) 16:38, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:46, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Gråbergs Gråa Sång: Thanks, happy holidays! ObserveOwl (talk) 15:56, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You are invited to participate in WikiProject Podcasting, a WikiProject dedicated to developing and improving articles about Podcasts. Feel free to add your name to the list of WikiProject participants and use the WikiProject's userbox by placing {{User WP Podcasting}} on your userpage.

I saw you did some work on Pocket Casts and thought you might be interested. The other articles in Category:Podcasting software could use some attention. TipsyElephant (talk) 14:02, 29 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

hi!! on my user wiki page, i wanna add one of those things that look like:

1.Main info 2.FAQ 3.Links or whatever, and it brings you to those parts in the wiki article, how do i add that? --Minecraft boy236 (talk) 14:30, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Minecraft boy236: Hello and welcome! To add a link to a Wikipedia article, you can select the word or phrase on the page, click on the small link icon and search for the article you intend to link to on the box that appears. ObserveOwl (talk) 14:42, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

thats not what i meant, it brings you to diffrent parts in that one page, so if you click on something in that thing, it would scroll you to that point Minecraft boy236 (talk) 06:08, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Minecraft boy236: After pressing on the link icon, search the article title on the small box, then type "#" followed by the section name, as in Earth#Natural history. ObserveOwl (talk) 06:12, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

If it's on the same page, just do something like User:Minecraft boy236#Account links:. ObserveOwl (talk) 06:14, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Thanks so much! How can I add a link to another Wiki page? --BOBBYCHANHKDJFS (talk) 02:33, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@BOBBYCHANHKDJFS: Hello and welcome to Wikipedia!

If you use the VisualEditor, you can select the text on the page you want to convert to a link, press the icon at the top bar and search for the page you want to link to.

If you are editing the source code, you can insert the link by placing the text inside double square brackets ([[Earth]] -> Earth) or "pipe" the link if the link text is different to the page name ([[Earth|This planet]] -> This planet). Hope this helps! ObserveOwl (talk) 09:34, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hey @ObserveOwl, what's an LLM? --Giorgio Bicchiere (talk) 06:37, 17 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Giorgio Bicchiere: LLMs are large language models that can process and generate text in natural language, like ChatGPT. ObserveOwl (talk) 06:53, 17 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Why are LLMs banned on Wikipedia, @ObserveOwl? Giorgio Bicchiere (talk) 06:58, 17 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Giorgio Bicchiere: From what I know, there is no policy or guideline outright banning all LLM use. The closest we have is Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models, which does not permit creating articles with raw LLM output. However, in practice, some experienced editors have been working to detect and clean up LLM use in articles because models can fabricate information ("hallucinate") and violate policies by maintaining a non-neutral tone or containing unverifiable original research. The essay Wikipedia:Large language models advises to thoroughly check LLM text against Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. ObserveOwl (talk) 07:32, 17 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

OK @ObserveOwl, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks for informing me! Giorgio Bicchiere (talk) 08:47, 17 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]