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Hi, it seems you have been doing a lot of edits that don't add any new content to pages/ correct mistakes, instead just change the way it is written in a way that affects the objectivity and unbiasedness of the article. please refer WP:NPOV, WP:SOAP and WP:LLM Shibui neko (talk) 00:59, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I notice you're doing a lot of bare-URL fixes, many by using the reFill utility. One I stumbled over was this one which was a problem because it caused loss of essentially all information about the source (so I reverted it). This happened because reFill changed the URL to one without information as to the article, and thus lost all chance of using the "reference" to again find the source. Apparently reFill replaced the URL with the one that it is redirected to when the URL is used, which now goes to the base page of a related site instead of to the specific article. The actual article can still be found if one has the original URL by looking in an archive (e.g. archive.org) using that URL. It happens that reFill also destroyed the useful hand-coded information that was present in the original reference (that sort of identifies the source).

You need to be careful about "cleaning up" bare URLs. In particular, the original URL shouldn't be removed unless a replacement URL actually leads to an equivalent article, one containing the text which supports the points being made in the article referencing it. -- R. S. Shaw (talk) 23:28, 4 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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		Well done for sorting out the references on Mary-Ann Ochota (and other pages). I know what a complicated process it can be so I really appreciate the effort you've gone to. Keep up the good work! ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 19:47, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello. I can see from your edit history that the majority of your edits involve converting references to use citation templates. In some circumstances that's entirely appropriate, but there are things you need to consider that I'm not sure if you've read.

WP:CITEVAR is the place to start. The first point there is one to be aware of straight off the bat. Be particular aware of the note. Then in the "to be avoided" section it's clear that "adding citation templates to an article that already uses a consistent system without templates, or removing citation templates from an article that uses them consistently" is one thing to avoid.

So, I think the only place that I've come across these edits was at Benjamin Smyth, an obscure British cricketer. On 22 September you converted the references that were all consistent in their style to use citation templates. I've reverted that. I wonder if you ended up at the page due to the "bare urls" maintenance tag that had been added the previous day, despite the fact that there weren't any bare urls on the page at all? I imagine that's the most likely way that you ended up at the page.

So, I reverted you and I imagine that this could easily be considered an unimportant point about referencing styles and so on. Aside from the fact that I dislike using cite templates because I can never remember how to do them and tend to think that the errors produced by them are an issue, I tend to think of it as a matter of respecting the choices that the editor who added the original references made. If the article's a mess, sure, convert the citations - although I'd suggest checking the history first to see if you can figure out whether they used citation templates originally. But if it's consistent, there's nothing wrong with leaving them as they are. Most people probably won't even notice, let alone care. But someone might.

I'll watch here for a week in case you want to discuss this further, but after that you'll have to attract my attention somehow. Blue Square Thing (talk) 17:08, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Yes I ended up there because it was tagged with the "bare URLs". I'll refer to the page you provided and keep it in mind for future citation edits and make sure to check the history as well. Thanks for letting me know, I appreciate it. PinkDucky91 (talk) 01:53, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to repeat the comments from @Blue Square Thing: It is not appropriate to change the established citation style in an article, just because you prefer a different style of cite template. See WP:CITEVAR: "Editors should not attempt to change an article's established citation style, merely on the grounds of personal preference or to make it match other articles, without first seeking consensus for the change." I've reverted your changes to the cites used on William Hamilton Merritt, and I see from your User Contributions page that you've "converted" cites on a number of other pages. That is contrary to CITEVAR. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 01:11, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I generally follow those that have been tagged as cleanup URLs or bareurls but was trying to branch out with the random option on the task center. I will refrain from doing so in the future. Thank you for reminding me of citation styles. I will continue on ones tagged bareurls or if it just shows the link. PinkDucky91 (talk) 01:28, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your contributions to Wolfgang Mückenheim. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it has too many problems of language or grammar and too many of the claims go too far, plus notability is very unclear. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Ldm1954 (talk) 13:16, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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	Good work, and lots of it. Biohistorian15 (talk) 11:41, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dear PinkDucky91,

On the page of Dan Roman (businessman) has appeared a message regarding the non-compliance to the Wiki standards for presentation. It is our mistake that we didn't take care of the mandatory rules.

In the mean time, I have changed and updated the text based on your recommended standards.

Please be so kind and send me feedback regarding the new version already published in order to rest assured that we are fully compliant after your revision.

If you consider necessary in order to avoid any confusion, please completely delete the text and revert to previous approved version of the page.

We are relying on your approval before publishing the new version of the text.

Many thanks in advance,

Bogdan Learschi Bogdan.learschi (talk) 13:57, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reaching out, after reviewing, it flows much more cohesively. Thanks so much for your revisions. PinkDucky91 (talk) 14:07, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, some of your copyediting at Special:Diff/1258319170 is not necessarily constructive. For instance, replacing This dish is served in almost all the activities by This dish plays a significant role in almost all the activities makes the sentence both more vague and more peacock-y. Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 14:10, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't realize it seemed more peacock-y as it didn't read well before but I have updated it to the original sentence with the addition of the word "of" between "all" and "the". Thank you @Chaotic Enby for pointing this out to me and I'll make sure to keep this in mind for future edits. PinkDucky91 (talk) 14:22, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can you explain why you remove the tag at this diff? Thanks. TiggerJay (talk) 16:16, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I could see there was no Bare URLs or citations needing conversion after going through the entire article. In the past when I've left them after looking for Bare URLs, I was told I need to remove them if there is none. Could you point out the Bare URL I could look at and possibly fix? PinkDucky91 (talk) 16:39, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, you're correct. I was certain I saw a few and didn't have time to address them myself, but I was wrong. Good work! TiggerJay (talk) 19:12, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I noticed in this you added a date parameter for various references in this diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1st_Parliament_of_Ontario&diff=prev&oldid=1268369845. However, these do not seem to be the date of publication or creation for these sources as they predate the existence of HTML. These dates have been removed. Please do not add false dates to citations in articles. Thanks. Legend of 14 (talk) 17:38, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that I didn't notice it auto-filled those dates when I used the re:Fill tool, it normally hasn't in the past and I didn't think to check. Thanks for bringing it to my attention so I can make sure I don't make that mistake again. PinkDucky91 (talk) 17:41, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your contributions to Michele Hetrick. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit for review" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Patre23 (talk) 06:18, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for converting all those citations! OpalYosutebito (talk) 00:21, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for cleaning up the citations in Neighborhood councils of Los Angeles (and I think I remember seeing a bunch of other edits in article histories). RJFJR (talk) 15:14, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for improving the citations at List of Native American and First Nations law resources. May I ask what tool you use (if any) to do so? Netherzone (talk) 01:26, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much! I don't use a tool unless you count manually searching Internet archive and IABot for archives, I've just been practicing. PinkDucky91 (talk) 01:32, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm sorry I went through the page a number of times before removing the Bareurls tag, including using ReFill and Citation bot and IABot. Is there something I had missed that could be pointed out to me? I was told previously to remove the Bareurls tag once I've ensured there is none and have been adhering to this. I understand if I have missed something but going over the page again I can find nothing that would be a bare URL or even an inline URL. Once again I apologize for removing it. PinkDucky91 (talk) 22:08, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @PinkDucky91: No thats fine. I think its just the way ReFill tools and so on works that the level of what is considered a bareurl is so low. I think its been fixed by Oransay anyway. scope_creep^Talk 11:46, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @PinkDucky91: And they are not pages. They are articles. Please refer to them as such. Pages are the internal name used in the software and not used by folk her except by new folk. Thanks. scope_creep^Talk 06:57, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, will use the term article moving forward. Thanks for letting me know, I appreciate it. PinkDucky91 (talk) 11:07, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, PinkDucky! Thank you for filling in bare references at Abdourahamane Tchiani. The same problem exists at List of heads of state of Niger and List of prime ministers of Niger, so I want to ask you to help there as well. Cheers! — Sundostund mppria ^{(talk / contribs)} 10:32, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reaching out! I've fixed both now. Let me know if you find any other related pages you would like me to fix for Bare URLs. PinkDucky91 (talk) 10:44, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much, and for being so quick! Of course, I will let you know if I find some other pages with similar issues. — Sundostund mppria ^{(talk / contribs)} 10:52, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again! There are some bare URLs at President of Gabon that you might want to take care of. — Sundostund mppria ^{(talk / contribs)} 14:53, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know! I've gone ahead and fixed it. PinkDucky91 (talk) 17:53, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Great work, as usual! — Sundostund mppria ^{(talk / contribs)} 20:03, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just letting you know: If you want your user page to not exist again, you can place {{Db-u1}} on the page and an administrator will delete it. Steel1943 (talk) 23:11, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much! I thought I was going to have to live with a blank page. PinkDucky91 (talk) 23:26, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Are all overriding sovereign kingdom power and authority of God 2601:47:4C00:29D0:D0BC:5992:AB73:D3EB (talk) 00:31, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry I didn't override your edits, it was just reverted to the last clean state which was my edit. They may have been overwritten due to not following Wikipedia guidelines. PinkDucky91 (talk) 00:38, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

God Bless Amen 2601:47:4C00:29D0:D0BC:5992:AB73:D3EB (talk) 00:41, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, your edit to Mowat ministry (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mowat_ministry&diff=prev&oldid=1262437900) and Whitney ministry (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Whitney_ministry&diff=prev&oldid=1261880249) included incorrect publication dates. I'd ask that you please clean them up. Legend of 14 (talk) 20:13, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I have fixed them now, it must have pulled with reFill and I didn't think at the time to remove them. I've since made sure that the information and dates pulled with reFill are accurate so it shouldn't happen going forward. PinkDucky91 (talk) 20:30, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed maintenance templates from Blast furnace. When removing a maintenance template, please either ensure that the problem that the template refers to has been resolved, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as this change has been reverted. Take a look at getting started to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Thank you. AntientNestor (talk) 13:15, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it was a mistake, I thought I could mark it as dead using the IABot, however I currently don't have access to change the URL to being dead at this time and didn't realize until I removed the tag. Now that I know I will be more vigilant on not removing it until I know it can be marked as dead. Thank you for reverting the change and sorry for my mistake. PinkDucky91 (talk) 13:19, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reply. It's of no consequence now as I've added the updated URL. AntientNestor (talk) 14:44, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, PinkDucky! Your help would be appreciated with filling in bare URLs at List of presidents of Benin and Maurice Kouandété. Cheers! — Sundostund mppria ^{(talk / contribs)} 21:40, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've gone ahead and fixed the bare URLs in both articles. Thanks for letting me know! PinkDucky91 (talk) 23:54, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Great! Thank you so much for your help! — Sundostund mppria ^{(talk / contribs)} 00:23, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again, PinkDucky. Your help is needed at the following articles:

• List of presidents of Guinea-Bissau
• High Military Command for the Restoration of National Security and Public Order
• Horta Inta-A Na Man
• Dinis Incanha

Of course, the main issue is fixing the bare URLs in those articles, but not just that – some of the references (both bare and filled) are mentioned more than once, so that should be fixed as well.

— Sundostund mppria ^{(talk / contribs)} 08:06, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The following two articles have hidden references that I can't even locate in the source code:

• List of presidents of Guinea-Bissau
• High Military Command for the Restoration of National Security and Public Order

The other two articles have been fixed. PinkDucky91 (talk) 17:41, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm honestly not surprised, since references were added to this template that is transcluded in these two articles; that's why you couldn't locate them in the source code... as for your work – you're great! Thank you for being helpful, as usual! — Sundostund mppria ^{(talk / contribs)} 07:22, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @PinkDucky91, thanks for your contributions. Please remember next time while editing that you generally do NOT need to cite people blogs while writing about them in Wikipedia. You are just supposed to cite the sources for your claims in the sentences. To cite something about them use reliable third party sources.

Read, 1. WP:Citing sources, 2. WP:Reliable sources.

Thanks. Orwell'sreader (talk) 06:53, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know I may have done it when converting existing in-line links that may have been put in place instead of a citation. I'll keep it in mind in the future when converting those to citations. I appreciate the links, thank you so much. PinkDucky91 (talk) 11:38, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi - are you using AI tools for your edits here? If so, WP:LLMDISCLOSE please mention, here and in all relevant edit summaries:

• What tool(s) you are using, and what versions
• What prompts, workflow, etc. you are using
• What review, if any, you are doing of the output

Thank you. Gnomingstuff (talk) 20:39, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I have previously used AI tools to create tables. My edits generally consist of minor grammatical corrections, such as punctuation fixes, or improving clarity. When working on articles that are poorly written, such as those written by non-native English speakers or those resembling opinion pieces or resumes. I revise the text in a word processor before pasting it in the article. If this approach is not appropriate, I will refrain from doing so in the future. I will also attempt to locate previously added tables and tag them in accordance with WP:LLMDISCLOSE. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. PinkDucky91 (talk) 21:46, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I would also like to add that after pondering about it some more I am going to scale back making edits in general as I like using Wikipedia and will just stick to dead links and bare URLs within articles. Once again thank you for bringing this to my attention as I have a lot more to learn. PinkDucky91 (talk) 22:14, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi -- no need to scale back edits unless you want to, just wanted to get some clarity. Gnomingstuff (talk) 00:56, 14 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]