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Cleanup cats

Hello, it's nice to see you around again. For monthly cleanup cats (like ... from June 2022), please remember to use {{MonthlyCleanupCat}}. Thanks, --Ferien (talk) 17:36, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

@Ferien Thanks. I thought there was something missing because when I added anything to the article like use dmy it threw an error about invalid formats. I will keep this bookmarked. And thank you for the kind words. PotsdamLamb (talk) 17:38, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Spam warnings

Hi, I noticed that you warned an editor for adding spam links using {{uw-advert1}} and subsequent higher warning level templates. I want to let you know that there are templates specially used to warn editors for adding spam links - {{uw-spam1}} up to {{uw-spam4}}. However, like {{uw-rfd}}, this isn't in twinkle (though uw-spam1 technically is, albeit incorrectly categorized as single-issue warnings). Thanks. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 13:59, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

@Fehufanga: They are one and the same so it does not matter which one is used. If you read the spam one you linked it also says advertising. Thank you for your comments though. I appreciate them. PotsdamLamb (talk) 17:06, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

Qubo

Most of the content was falsified to begin with (the logo in the infobox is someone's invention for a 'rebranding' after it actually closed), and there should not be that much finite detail for a Simple article, nor is an affiliate list needed (most of it was from the en.wiki article without attribution or proper editing). Mrschimpf (talk) 02:43, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

@Mrschimpf Please respond on your page where I left the original message so everything stays in one place and there are no broken conversations for editors following along. There can be a lot of “finite” detail for any article as we work to build up our articles. Saturn started with only a couple paragraphs and was worked by a group of us to build it up to a very large article with a lot of detail. Having a list is perfectly fine as it is historical in nature. I just took an article from one sentence and turned it into a very decent article despite not having a lot to research on based on the facts I was able to uncover. The logo I can see being an issue so I can agree with that. But with the wipeout of all of the content you made it a stub when you could have simplified it down and maintaining it to the basic English language. By you doing this you also emptied out all references and created a blank section so if you don’t have any references I would ask that you please remove the empty references section. I would go the route of simplifying it especially since you have not edited since 2016 and your first action is to remove over 34k characters from an article. Thank you for your time. PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} 03:03, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

Apologies, but this is how I use talk pages on en.wiki, where I have near 85k edits, and rarely venture to Simple, which from my understanding has always presented articles in a simple manner, shortened, and with readable wording easily understood in a manner where things are not complicated by too many details (here details about cable deals are too detailed and unimportant) or things like station affiliate lists. Again, I reverted what was mainly an unattributed copy of the en.wiki article dropped in by an IPv6 without any proper editing to fit this project, an edit itself flagged as 'possible spamming'. On en.wiki, this would be reverted as vandalism, with a warning not to do it again.

Has the mission of Simple changed since then, or am I now mistaken? If this is the reception I get for trying to fix issues which stuck out from the en.wiki Qubo article, I'll probably remain there from now on. Mrschimpf (talk) 03:29, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

Also the IP which threw in the en.wiki text vandalized en.wiki with nonsense about another company restarting Qubo out of nowhere. So I feel justified in my revision here, as vandalism is unacceptable. Mrschimpf (talk) 03:32, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

I agree with what you said. The mission is the same but we want to expand the articles too. Too many editors just throw one or two sentences on a page and call it an article with no references. So a lot of what I do is go through and fix these and try to expand them. I was mostly curious as to why you blanked the entire thing with that type of explanation. If you could add a couple of references you should be good :) Sorry for any confusion. As far as the talk pages, some of us prefer to keep the conversation on the same page it started just easier to read that way and editors don’t have to go back and forth to read the conversation. I find it much more simpler. PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} 04:33, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

The IP edits to bird articles

This IP wasn't actually removing content in their edits to Bird, Neoaves, and Passerine, but they did replace the common name with the scientific name. I agree with your reverts, because the common name is better as a title to the infobox. (This was just a remark, not saying you did something wrong.) Lights and freedom (talk) 01:34, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

Correct that is why I did that plus the taxon bar matches which was the other reason. I did them as AGF reverts just to be sure because I know you are stalking me :) PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} 01:36, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

I'm not stalking you in particular, just watching recent changes. Sometimes IP's will do something that messes up an article; other times they notice a problem or inconsistency that's not spotted by regular editors. Thanks for catching this! Lights and freedom (talk) 01:42, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

No worries! PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} 01:45, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

Danny Phantom Fanboy Killer article

Can you help make the article longer

heres the link

Danny Phantom Fanboy Killer 2604:CB00:2612:9100:8495:3995:F7E4:CAD0 (talk) 03:24, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

Sorry I don’t do expansions on articles that are copied over without the proper attribution being given to it and with the editor who brought it over doing most of the work. PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} 05:44, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

Why revert my changes on Lisa Montgomery

What was wrong about my wording? Meanwhile to describe drinking as a way to actually “better handle” the situation of having been raped and abused as a child is not correct and gives a misleading impression that drinking is a good way to handle trauma, instead of a common way to disassociate and harm yourself following trauma. 2603:6000:F042:5B36:4DB4:9EE0:66B8:C660 (talk) 03:25, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

Replying to your message

Is it not also expressing an opinion on Wikipedia to leave the text as is saying “to better handle the situation”? Wouldn’t following your own preferred rule mean we should actually re-write it “Montgomery began drinking alcohol” etc etc, not expressing any opinion about why and leaving it implicit that the two subjects (her repeatedly facing rape and abuse & her heavy drinking) are related?

I will make that change and perhaps we can all like it better. 2603:6000:F042:5B36:4DB4:9EE0:66B8:C660 (talk) 03:29, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

Remove this Rfd tag

Sir, I talk you that is eligible on Santali Wikipedia. Author,Actor etc. Is easily eligible I thinks. I showing many author not have a reliable source.Ex: Maina Tudu, Tala Tudu Sar Sagun (talk) 01:25, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

@Sar Sagun No I will not. That is not up for debate as the article is in a discussion for deletion, so please keep everything on that page. Thanks. PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} 01:33, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

Hitler

I don't remember Hitler advocating murdering Jews in Mein Kampf. I have read the book. Although there is one passage where he talks about twelve or fifteen hundred of them being killed, he appears to be talking about a small minority among them, not the vast majority. I thought that his original plan was to expel them. RegrettingMistakes777 (talk) 02:54, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

[[..._called_for_the_murder???]] Eptalon stated here that Hitler did not call for the murder of Jews in Mein Kampf. RegrettingMistakes777 (talk) 02:58, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

However, you put in your point of view, including in the edit summary where you stated "I don't believe that Hitler called for their murder in Mein Kampf" located here. That shows a point of view. If you are able to show a reference of where in a point of time he decided to kill off the Jewish population in his life, then it can be changed. I hope that helps you better understand why I reverted your addition. I did it as good faith so you are not in trouble, you just need the reference to prove what you stated you believed as every person has a different belief. PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} 02:59, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

@RegrettingMistakes777 Let's move this conversation onto the talk page for the article where it will be better instead of my talk page. I will copy it over then add my comments. PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} 03:06, 25 June 2022 (UTC)