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You just reverted my edits of the article on R since you interpreted my edits as a "test" that should be performed in the Wiki Sandbox. However, these edits were genuine and not a test. Please restore my edits unless you have any criticism against the contents of the edits.

Best, DoctorAro DoctorAro (talk) 16:27, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In fact, another editor did that reversion. And I probably should have used the {{uw-mos1}} warning rather than the {{uw-test1}} template. Since you messaged me both here & on your talk page, I have added a more detailed discussion at User talk:DoctorAro#December 2024. Peaceray (talk) 17:21, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on Suzanne Rouviere 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

• disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
• disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
• is an orphaned redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines for more information.

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. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 09:54, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2025!

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You are an experienced administrator that I respect, @Peaceray. If possible, I would value your contribution to the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Palestinian political violence (3rd nomination). It would mean a lot to have your third-party, neutral, and experienced perspective. Firecat93 (talk) 19:59, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, I have been in Wikipedia for 6 months. I just recently saw the User Access Level article and am wondering if I am eligible to be auto-confirmed. I would be grateful if you have a tour on my user page and recommend improving that one. Thank you. BlackRider90 (talk) 00:56, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@BlackRider90: Hi, go to WP:AUTOCONFIRM & the box on the left should indicate whether you are autoconfirmed or not. I will have a look at your user page a bit later. Peaceray (talk) 02:10, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I see a box on the left side. Is it showing only for me or it is attched to the article for everyone? BlackRider90 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 02:48, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@BlackRider90: It shows for everybody but the text will vary whether you are autoconfirmed or not. If it says you are autoconfirmed, you are.

You can also check your stats at xtools.wmcloud.org/ec/en.wikipedia.org/BlackRider90. I see that autoconfirmed is part of your user group.

Finally, you should always sign you posts with ~~~~ – if you want to customize your signature, have a look at WP:Signature tutorial & WP:Signatures. Peaceray (talk) 05:51, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, thank you, and can I add the "autoconfirmed" ribbon in my user page?BlackRider90 (talk) 16:22, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sure! Peaceray (talk) 16:24, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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His birthday is wrong . I have proof. thanks.. Tater1211 (talk) 11:58, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Tater1211: You are correct & I was wrong. I fell prey to reverting unexplained changes (no edit summary) without changes in citations, but I failed to check the existing citations.

I have added an explanatory footnote, rather than a HTML comment, to help me & others to avoid the same mistake in the future. I have also switched the preferred & deprecated birth dates at Sterling Holloway (Q725507) in Wikidata so that the preferred value appears first. Peaceray (talk) 20:29, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, you left me a message about a previous edit and I wanted to state why I did so. The Native Hawaiians page inconsistently uses the 'okina in spellings involving Hawai'i (alot don't have it but then there are other sections that with spellings that use it, making the article look less encyclopedic. I figured I just would add some to spellings of it since the article does use the standard spellings for other Indigenous Hawai'ian words, but must've accidentally added a few to article links. Aside from that my main reason for posting was updating some years info I noticed hadn't been added. I've just added the info without the additional 'okinas to other sections. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mwatuangi (talk • contribs) 07:52, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Mwatuangi: That is fine, & I generally support the use of ʻokinas where appropriate. However, maintaining valid URLs for citations is sacrosanct & it is the responsibility of editors to maintain their validity & quickly restore then as necessary. That is why I reverted your otherwise proper edits. Please take care in the future not to invalidate URLs through negligence.

Incidentally, you can use the {{okina}} template to produce the ʻokina if you are not able do a copy and paste. Peaceray (talk) 17:19, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also, please use ~~~~ to sign your comments. Peaceray (talk) 17:21, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Toooyyymmmyy appears to have an agenda so care with Solomon Islands where your change appears to have been correctly reverted by an non logged in user. ChaseKiwi (talk) 12:25, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@ChaseKiwi: Mea culpa! I should have checked Toooyyymmmy's edit. However, 75.142.212.152 did fail to leave an explanation for removing the material, which was the behavior I was addressing. In retrospect, would have been better to revert to Really steve's edit because the subsequent two edits still left the {{main}} template in the World War II section. That way I would have reverted to the last known good version & still have left the {{Welcome-unregistered-delete}} on 75.142.212.152's talk page.

92.17.242.34's manual reversion of my reversion is exactly what I hoped to see, a removal with an explanation. Peaceray (talk) 17:21, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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While I understand you're frustrated, the IP's edit were not obvious vandalism, so any blocking necessary should be left to someone else to decide per WP:INVOLVED. Suggest unblocking and referring to a noticeboard or uninvolved admin. (Also they seem to be editing from mobile so probably can't hear you). Nikkimaria (talk) 03:25, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Nikkimaria: I have unblocked 192.182.199.75's ability to edit Tonatiuh Elizarraraz. Peaceray (talk) 05:21, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

please use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history, as well as helping prevent edit conflicts. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the page will look like without actually saving it.

But I didn't understood the problem with my last attempt to edit (refused for "vandalism")... I posted a false positive, but it was "Declined – Edits were vandalism" but... without any explication.

I was just trying to add this template in External Links: {{Rotten Tomatoes | dirty_angels}}

[Please, excuse my poor English]
Best regards, — jeep (j33p) ॐ 11:44, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@J33p: Please see en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AAbuseLog&wpSearchUser=J33p & look at the individual reports. I already referred to one, Special:AbuseLog/39908255, on your talk page. Examination of these logs reveals that you attempted to remove everything before the ==External links== header. This is shown in the log(s) by text preceded with the - on the left & the blank section on the right. Based upon your comment at your report at Wikipedia:Edit filter/False positives/Reports, I think that you believed that you were only attempting to add the {{Rotten Tomatoes}} template.

Using preview should help prevent this problem. I have no explanation for why preview did not work as expected for you, but I wonder if you were pasting the entire section test into an edit window in which you were actually editing the whole article. You can also choose the Show Changes button to see what the Wikitext looks like before & after your addition.

Incidentily, since the information about some of this was already on your talk page, I think it would have been better to have had the discussion there. Using the {{ping}} or {{u}} template will alert an editor to a discussion elsewhere than that user's (as in mine) talk page. Peaceray (talk) 17:19, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nice answer, thxs Peaceray! Yes, I'll go to my talking page to eventually answer to your post (explanations).
Best regards, — jeep (j33p) ॐ 17:54, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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I appreciate the effort to encourage new editors and you did, in your welcome additionally, note that one of the new edits from the IP address had been reverted and make reference to vandalism. It'd turned out, however, I worked upstream from another obvious case of vandalism, found five edits in a one-day four-minute clump, and probed them all: All were vandalism from this IP user. I took the advice at Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism and posted a stiff warning about such behavior on the User talk page. It'd been four days since the edits. Some kind of probe or test of the encyclopedia, the clump seemed maybe to have been. In any event, your welcome ended up feeling to me sort of ill-suited for the circumstance; maybe should have been stiffer and less welcoming given the one 'conviction on vandalism charges' already known and what I'd now call the taint the conviction cast on the other four quickies already posted there on 2/4/25 when your welcome ran 12 hours later, a couple of hours after (and maybe triggered by?) the first vandalism catch.

Taken a step further, the better auto-response to such a set of facts to my mind seemed maybe have been an alert for a Wikipedian to look at the other four edits rather than in any way encouraging the new editor to feel welcome. My effort was happenstantial and I had had the time, and had the learned experience, to take all the steps required (including, now, this present one); fortunate, maybe clumsy-seeming and piecemeal but certainly an improvement for the encyclopedia and not best to be counted on; the three other of the vandalisms had already been caught (also) piecemeal before I stumbled in. But meanwhile the immediate past Prime Minister of Japan had been carrying a completely fantasized (but maybe craftily targeted) bit of educational resume for four days while his successor was in Washington (Feb 6) and at the White House (Feb 7); the fifth and final vandalism to be caught and corrected because I chose to follow my nose and ultimately do the full canvass and correctives. (The Japanese-subject vandalism now looks maybe to have been the point of the clump, the following four just '[ugly, they happened to be,] noise' to distract from the 'substantive', 'timely' one. ... Then there was trying to track down the IP number. I was out of steam; you were already doing a lot. I finally just Googled 'Fumio Kishida "princeton" cornell' (double quotes on Princeton from clicking on 'show' in a first-round Google result) and only Wikipedia showed up in Google results beyond academic citations, nothing in 'News'; that was good; maybe the fix would get the falsehoods back out of Google eventually or sooner; but still, 4,000 hits on the flawed page on Feb 7.)

Sort of a ramble from a now-less-active editor but I hope it maybe helps you and/or others. Google has eliminated the Wikipedia result to the same search, several hours later now. (But look at this current Google suggestion a few steps down: 'People also ask / Is Fumio Kishida liberal?') I'm not really prepared to step back up to more at Wikipedia, am not a 'programmer', but will consider response/suggestions. I may be wrong about ‘auto-response’ in paragraph 2 and the 'triggered' question in paragraph 1 (my programmer comment, here) but that’s how I’ve come to view these (good & amazing, generally) welcomes over the years. Cheers, all best. Swliv (talk) 12:49, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Swliv! I have thousands of pages on my watchlist & recently became an administrator. Given those & other demands on my time, I cannot investigate the edit history of every editor I welcome or warn.

I have been part of the Welcoming committee since 2012-12-01. I do believe in welcoming everyone, even bad actors, & like to see a welcome notice first thing on new user's talk page. I will note that {{Welcome-unregistered-unconstructive}} specifically admonishes an IP editor for their behavior & links to policies & guidelines that govern that behavior.

Why should I welcome a vandal? About a decade ago, I heard an editor, long a respected & an important contributor on a major WikiProject, admit that their first edit was vandalism. This editor later became a Wikimedian of the Year. I have never forgotten that.

While I know that in reality, only a very small amount of vandals can be converted to a good editor, I figure it is worth a shot. Never underestimate an invitation to contribute in a positive manner.

Thank you for your effort in tracking down & dealing with vandalism! Peaceray (talk) 20:52, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please read Wikipedia:PRICK Tiny Particle (talk) 17:45, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Tiny Particle: If a regular cannot follow some of the basic guidelines of the manual of style, they should not be surprised when they receive a template warning. I almost always check the number of edits a register user with a talk page has before considering such a warning. I was frankly dismayed that an editor with your experience would be disregarding basic MOS guidelines. I do not know if otherwise your editing is exemplar, but I thought my warning was warranted in your case.

Since you have linked to a redirect to an essay on Meta, let me quote from the meta:Don't be a jerk#How to deal with others: Telling someone "don't be a jerk" is generally wrong – especially if it's true. It upsets the other person and reduces the chance that they'll listen to what you say. While I have a thick skin & do not mind getting told off off by other editors when merited, I would ask you to examine & cop to your own behavior. Peaceray (talk) 18:21, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Don't big yourself up mate, your skin is as thin as mine. "almost always"- that is almost commendable. Tiny Particle (talk) 20:37, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, been around here for nearly 10 years, no author, but content in the role as picker-upper of tiny misfaults :) I do random wikiwalks (in EN and four others) as an excuse to not do things I should, that's one reason I minimize involvement; Wiki changes my IP nr every year or so, or you would have seen all the gum wrap I've picked up across Wiki. I also end up with aimless routes through random fields, i.e. no systematics, unlike the many responsibilities you seem to have taken upon you. Hat off to that, and much success and enjoyment in your future endeavours. Best wishes, T - same age & beard as you :) 84.208.78.193 (talk) 21:33, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Peaceray (talk) 23:12, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]