Thank you to everyone who recommended I try out the New Page Reviewer right, however, I have opted not to make it permanent nor do I intend on returning to it for as long as this message is up. New page reviewing doesn't seem to make sense to me given all I've ever used it for (mostly) was page reviewing redirects following bad article attempts. Even that part of Wikipedia has given me a small amount of stress, and I've had to back away from disputes to avoid making that stress worse.

In short, it doesn't make sense to me to keep a user right if I know I'm not going to use it as frequently, especially given I might leave Wikipedia within the next few years. Jalen Folf (talk) 18:44, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I was coming here to leave a message to you regarding NPP, and saw this. Too bad, we could use quality folks over there, but I definitely understand about the stress. Thanks for all you do. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 15:21, 9 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The redirect Team Reptile has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 February 18 § Team Reptile until a consensus is reached. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 17:00, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In the Coat Corporation#Internet meme, I changed the English title of what is referred to in Japanese as '真夏の夜の淫夢' from 'A Midsummer Night's Wet Dream' to 'A Midsummer Night's Lewd Dream' because this notation was used in other contexts, including Wikidata.However, This edit was returned to @JalenBarks as "it did not appear constructive."

What should I do? Cookie4782 (talk) 03:24, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No action needed from user at this time. I have reverted my revert in response to this. Jalen Barks (Woof) 03:41, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Cookie4782 (talk) 04:04, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Happy birthday! Leijurv (talk) 08:45, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

you wrote: "User:Altenmann I really wish you put more effort in these Anthroponymy indexes; these keep popping up on ShortPages and I and other editors are tired of cleaning up after your starters."

Colleague, we are all unpaid volunteers here and do this thankless job for one reasons or another and we have different priorities. My foremost priority is no provide a network of interconnected information. Whenever I do not feel psychological pressure, I even put dashes of proper size, wasting my time on things I think ridiculously unimportant.

My second priority is to write articles on subjects about which nobody cares, but I somehow find interesting enough for me to waste my time to do some research. Latest example: yesterday I wasted 6 hours to write up Fire Hunt with Beaters, the first Lithuanian theatre musical. I started it simply because I noticed that two lead roles were by singers I used to like much. Of which I spent 3 hours to write up an article Beater (hunting) missing from enwiki, to make a wikilink which provides an explanation for the title, which, as I found during research, is often misunderstood and mistranslated. And this left me with another "hanging red fruit". driven hunt/driven hunting, weirdly absent from enwiki, I say "weirdly", because, e.g., de-wiki has 4 different articles on the subject.

Another example: Windsor Theatre (Bowery, New York): I accidentally noticed a discrepancy in a date in an article that wikilinked Windsor Theatre, and to my surprize I found there were quite a few of them and one was missing. While writing and fixing wikilinks, I found an fixed other errors which entered wikipedia from sloppy sources. And I don't freaking care about theatres, it is just errors make me itchy and sleepless :-)

All my new articles have very few backlinks, i.e., barely noticeable, and 98% of other edits in them come from people like you, for which I am thankful: at least I see that my texts do not fall into the void. :-)

I could have shrugged and ignored your annoyed comment, but I wanted to show respect of your work and your concerns, and explain myself before giving the following rude advices: If you are tired, I see two advices for you: (1) ignore my surname pages, or (2) take a wikibreak. --Altenmann >talk 04:29, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

P.S., some time ago my user page contained several userboxen I deleted since then; you may take a look at the bottommost ones, so yes, I have long been aware that my articles create problems. You are welcome to nominate them for deletion. --Altenmann >talk 04:29, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. I just saw your message on my talk page and I wanted to bring up one thing regarding the removal of the redirect. There was no mention of the convention center in any of the page that the Waco Convention Center page was redirected to at all. Unknownuser45266 (talk) 14:37, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Unknownuser45266: Still, don't blank redirects. The same applies for Grand Rapids Comic Con; please take such redirects for discussion at WP:RFD or write up an article about these subjects if you think they're notable. Jalen Barks (Woof) 15:10, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2025).

Administrator changes

• Jarry1250
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• AmandaNP
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• A request for comment is open to discuss whether AI-generated images (meaning those wholly created by generative AI, not human-created images modified with AI tools) should be banned from use in articles.
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• A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. T378488
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• The 2025 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, Arcticocean, Ameisenigel, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, Galahad, Nehaoua, Renvoy, Revi C., RoySmith, Teles and Zafer as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
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Hi Jalen - thanks for the guidance and apologies if I errantly deleted information. I was arttempting to address what seemed to me to be a distinction between a specific person (well, job) of Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Experimentation, which is focused on the person who occupied that role over the years, and the Office itself, in terms of what it does, notable accomplishments, etc. At present the "Office of..." page looks to redirect to the "role of..." page, and perhaps in that is how I goofed up the existing content. Is it possible to present the data on the office without damaging the data on the person? Thank you! Turransky2399 (talk) 00:01, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]