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Hello Larry Hockett:

This month, February 2026, WikiProject Women in Green is participating in the February 2026 GAN Backlog Drive, in which we're aiming to review as many outstanding Good Article (GA) nominations about women and women's works as possible. If you want to help out, you can check out the project talk page for a list of nominations in need of review (including some WiG originals). If you haven't reviewed a GA nomination before, be sure to check out the reviewing instructions and guidelines and feel free to ask for a mentor to check your work.

We are also working together with a wikithon hosted on 5 February by Wikimedia UK, which will focus on writing and improving articles about women involved in sustainable development. If you want to join the event, feel free to sign up at the eventbrite page; or if you would be interested in providing a 20-minute assessment and/or a full GA review of the submitted articles in the weeks following, put your name down on the project talk page for updates as the event progresses.

We hope to see you there!

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:05, 3 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on Canon PowerShot SX280 HS requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

I want to rename this article Canon SX280 HS to Canon PowerShot SX280 HS. The move didn't work because of the redirect. --Skranon (talk) 20:36, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, pages that meet certain criteria may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here.

Skranon (talk) 21:01, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for straightening out so many of the vandal edits by ABDURAHIM OLLOXNING QULI. I left what I thought was an alert for some bot or human with automation edit tools to clean up all his mess, but left it in plain view, as you observed. I didn't know what else to do. This is an uncharted sea for me, and I will appreciate any advice -- thanks! Larry Koenigsberg (talk) 05:30, 9 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

No worries! Thanks for trying to help. If you go to the little account dropdown menu at the top right corner of the screen, you can click on Preferences and then click on the Gadgets section. There are a ton of checkboxes to enable custom features (some you might want and some you might not). Under the Contents section of that page, you can check the box for Twinkle, which makes warning and reporting vandals much easier. Once Twinkle is enabled, you'll see something that says "TW" near the top right, and if you're on a user's contributions page or user talk page, you can use that TW dropdown menu to warn or report them. You may want to review Wikipedia:Vandalism too, as it has great information related to identifying and responding to vandalism. Larry Hockett (Talk) 05:54, 9 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]