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Your GA nomination of The Battle of Polytopia

The article The Battle of Polytopia you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:The Battle of Polytopia for comments about the article, and Talk:The Battle of Polytopia/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Vacant0 -- Vacant0 (talk) 22:03, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Tonight97 (13:55, 9 July 2025)

Hello. How can I write a Wikipedia article? --Tonight97 (talk) 13:55, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Tonight97 Creating a new Wikipedia article can be a bit tricky for newcomers such as yourself, so I would recommend getting familiar with our editing policies and guidelines before creating an article. In the meantime, are there any topics that particularly interest you? You can help improve already existing articles in the meantime by fixing typos and adding sources. If you'd like a brief overview for creating articles though, you can take a look at this page. Anyway, welcome to Wikipedia! Fathoms Below (talk) 15:28, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Wikihelper260415 on User:Wikihelper260415/Sample page (06:12, 10 July 2025)

How do I add a information box? --Wikihelper260415 (talk) 06:12, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Wikihelper260415 and welcome to Wikipedia! Which infobox would you like to add? You can see a list of infoboxes here, and to insert them onto the page, you have to transclude them by pasting a template in brackets and fill out the relevant parameters. For example, if I wanted to post the video game infobox (the details of it and its parameters are located here) I would copy and paste the following in brackets, which is also listed in the "Usage" section of the details page I linked above:

{{Infobox video game
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| italic title  = 
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| image         = 
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| caption       = 
| developer     = 
| publisher     = 
| series        = 
| engine        = 
| platforms     = 
| released      = 
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| arcade system = 
}}

After pasting that, I would fill out the information in each of the parameters (such as naming the developer of the video game immediately after the "Developer" parameter) and paste it into the article. So sorry if this is a bit confusing, since I'm really not the best at explaining infoboxes. Perhaps you could get a more concise answer at the teahouse? Hopefully I was able to help a little, though you could ask at that page for some better help potentially. Fathoms Below (talk) 01:35, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Lvy espina317 (10:54, 14 July 2025)

Ivy espina --Lvy espina317 (talk) 10:54, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Concerning the deletion of Legacy revision on Mar. 25, 2025 (Five Nights at Freddy's)

Looking over the deletion of information concerning The Week Before under the legacy paragraph back in March, I see no problem with the included citations. AxhtonCole (talk) 19:02, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@AxhtonCole I'm assuming you mean this diff. I removed this content since this is a featured article and it is meant to have high-quality citations like game reviews that go in-depth with the subject and including papers published in academic journals (when applicable). The USA Today source was only a listing of what the book is and provided no commentary and it wasn't a staff piece, meaning it is probably not a reliable source. You should look at WP:USATODAY for more information. I also couldn't find any other reliable sources on the web covering The Week Before including after using the WP:VG/SE. On the other hand, the article from IGN was a listicle and there is a general consensus at WT:VG and elsewhere that listicles are often not high-quality reliable sources. This listicle also does not provide much commentary on FNAF other than its ranking on the list, and I did not think that it was the best source to include. Fathoms Below (talk) 19:39, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

But with little other media coverage, what else can we do? If we don't make do with what there is, we lose control over the documented history of this franchise. Fact of the matter is that The Week Before is an extremely important piece of FNaF media, especially to the first game. AxhtonCole (talk) 19:50, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If this book was hardly covered by reliable sources, then sadly we can't include information about it. Only possibly a brief mention at most, and even that would require a reliable source. Wikipedia follows what the sources say, we can't just include unsourced or poorly cited information about the subject even if it may be an important topic for the franchise's own community. Fathoms Below (talk) 20:03, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from MichaelJTurney (13:10, 20 July 2025)

Hello Fathoms. I’m interested in having a Wiki page created for Dr. Peter Turney.

This website has a bio that could be a Wikipedia entry with minimal edits: https://www.apperceptual.com/bio

Can you help me move this forward? I come to you with no Wiki page creation or editing experience.

Many thanks, Michael --MichaelJTurney (talk) 13:10, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there @MichaelJTurney. Do you have a professional/familial/other significant relationship with Dr. Turney that could be constituted a conflict of interest? If so, you must disclose this connection on your userpage following the directions that are listed here. Wikipedia can only have an article written on a subject if said subject receives a lot of coverage and attention from reliable sources that are independent (have no connection to) the subject such as peer-reviewed journals, widely circulated newspapers, and the like. Do also note that Wikipedia isn't a venue for advertising or promotion of any subject, and if you are potentially being paid to write this article, you are required to disclose who may be paying you. You can look here for more information.

Also, please don't copy and paste material from other websites into Wikipedia like you did like the biographical text above (which I have removed), since that would likely be considered a copyright violation. We can only include material written in your own words or if it is listen under an appropriate content license. Fathoms Below (talk) 00:05, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

July thanks

Thank you for improving article quality in July! - Three Ukrainian topics were on the main page today, at least at the beginning, RD and DYK, - see my talk. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:07, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On Bach's day of death, I decorated my user pages in memory, with his music, and my story ends on "peace". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:59, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki article for Dr. Turney

Thanks for the guidance with this, Fathoms.

Regarding any conflict of interest, to be clear, Dr. Peter Turney is my brother. I will update my Wiki info as you directed. Does this mean my efforts to have a Wiki article developed for him will be fruitless? Or should I proceed. He has certainly received a lot of recognition and attention from peers, well known sources and institutions.

I am not being paid or in way compensated for or benefiting from the creation of this proposed page. I do believe Turney’s contributions to AI and Artificial Life to be worthy of a Wiki article.

I will also provide copy of his bio that is not a cut and paste from his website. This will follow under separate article.

Regards, Michael 38.143.52.68 (talk) 17:53, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Michael. Do you still have access to your account? You should be able to post that COI declaration on your user page. I see that you have posted here under an IP address, and I would recommend editing Wikipedia from your account instead since editing under an IP address can reveal your real-world location and accounts also give access to other useful features. Anyway, since you have a COI, you will have to submit a potential draft article through the Articles for Creation (AFC) process where you build a draft for the page and then submit it for review from one of our volunteers to determine if it is appropriate enough to be included in the main article space. Wikipedia's rules on what articles to include or not can be complicated, but the basic gist is that we need a lot of coverage from reputable institutions. Since Dr. Turney is an academic (I saw his profile on ResearchGate here) we have a page that can be used to help determine whether he may be "notable" (the term that Wikipedia uses for whether a subject should generally have an article). That page on notability is located here. If reputable sources provide information that shows that Dr. Turney meets any of the criteria on that page, you should be able to submit a draft article at AFC and one of our volunteers will accept it and move it to the main article space. To start a draft for AFC and start collecting sources, you can take a look at this Article Wizard that should be able to walk you through some of the steps. I'm a bit busy this summer and might take a little while to reply to any queries, so you might want to ask some other questions at the teahouse, an area where new editors can ask others for help with editing Wikipedia. So sorry if this is a bit overwhelming, and if you're confused about anything and need clarification, please let me know. Fathoms Below (talk) 18:27, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki bio/intro for Dr. Turney

Dr. Peter David Turney (17 April 1960 - present) is a Canadian computer scientist and researcher based in Gatineau, Quebec. He is known for his work in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and the philosophy of science. Since 2018, he has been a Research Scholar at the Ronin Institute.

Turney previously held research positions at several notable institutions. From 2015 to 2017, he was a Senior Research Scientist at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2). Prior to that, he worked for over two decades (1989–2014) at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), where he attained the rank of Principal Research Officer. He also served as an Adjunct Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Ottawa from 2004 to 2015.

He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto (1988), with a focus on the philosophy of science. Over the course of his career, Turney has published more than 100 scientific papers, which have been cited over 20,000 times.

Turney has been active in academic publishing and professional service. He served as editor of Canadian Artificial Intelligence magazine and held various editorial roles with the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, including Editorial Board Member, Associate Editor, and Advisory Board Member. He was also a member of the Editorial Board of Computational Linguistics. From its inception in 2006 until 2017, he was the editor of the ACL Wiki, a collaborative resource for the computational linguistics community. MichaelJTurney (talk) 18:42, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @MichaelJTurney. Did you see this Article Wizard? It might help you create a draft page for the potential biography so you don't have to write it out on this talk page. Fathoms Below (talk) 18:54, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Perfect! Thanks for all your help Fathoms. I’ve posted my COI and send the draft page through Article Wizard. Cheers, Michael MichaelJTurney (talk) 19:25, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Anonymous50570 (02:22, 28 July 2025)

How do I make an article? --Anonymous50570 (talk) 02:22, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Sanjay02102002 (11:14, 28 July 2025)

Hi, what are some trusted sources we can take reference from to edit an article? --Sanjay02102002 (talk) 11:14, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Sanjay02102002 (04:28, 29 July 2025)

Hi, what is user talk page, user page and sandbox? --Sanjay02102002 (talk) 04:28, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Nothando Zulu (21:27, 30 July 2025)

Hello I hope you are well. I'm trying to edit a historical article but it keeps getting reversed by another editor. Please help --Nothando Zulu (talk) 21:27, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Nothando Zulu. If you are getting reverted in an article, it is usually best to discuss your changes with the person who is reverting you so that you can understand what issues that they have with your edit so that you can fix any relevant problems and come to a consensus. Do know that continuing to revert another editor too many times without discussing your changes with them can lead to an edit war and a potential loss of editing privileges. Fathoms Below (talk) 23:59, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mentor Advice

Hi, you are my mentor. I would appreciate your opinion on someone recently reverting my edits on the Channel Tunnel Page. I read this page and could not understand which book was being referred to when the reference was just showing as 'Wilson pp.44' for example. The references and sources detailed two authors with the surname Wilson. The references also contained multiple instances of the same book being mentioned. Some references did not contain the book title. I spent considerable time going through the page edit history, to understand which book references that just said Wilson pp.44' for example came from. I then consolidated the same book being listed multiple times in references, so the book was referenced only once and so people reading the book knew the page numbers, I added the RP template. User Redrose64 then reverted all of this work. He showed guidelines (which I feel made it clear what I had done was not wrong) and told me to start a discussion and gain consensus. I did as advised, whilst explaining to him why this was not helpful to people reading this content. He then did not contribute to that discussion and made further changes which still result in people reading having difficulties in knowing the title of the book referenced, whilst there will be five mentions of the same book in references and sources. What is your opinion?LateFatherKarma (talk) 13:16, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @LateFatherKarma and sorry for a somewhat late reply. I'm taking a break from mentoring right now since I'm on vacation. Have you considered requesting a third opinion to attempt to resolve these concerns that you have about referencing? That might be able to get Redrose's attention on the matter and make sure that things are resolved in a timely manner. So sorry that I couldn't be of much assistance, but if you have any other questions right now, maybe the teahouse could be of some help? Fathoms Below (talk) 19:08, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

August thanks

Thank you for improving article quality in August, with a story about a children's writer - check out the video of book introduction ;) -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:31, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Check out my talk for an Independence day, or: the pic of Oksana Lyniv was taken on 24 August. There's listening and reading in today's story, and I like both. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:34, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On top of my talk: birthday of a great violinist and Requiem for a great friend. We sang Paradisi gloria from the Stabat Mater in the end. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:02, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

New pages patrol September 2025 Backlog drive

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WikiCup 2025 September newsletter

The fourth round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 29 August. The penultimate round saw three contestants score more than 800 points:

BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 1,175 round points, mainly from sports-related articles, including 17 good articles, 27 did you know articles, and 9 in the news articles
Arconning (submissions) with 1,090 round points, mainly from articles about athletes and politicians, including a featured article on Philippines at the 1924 Summer Olympics, 9 good articles, 28 did you know articles, and a wide assortment of featured and good article reviews
AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) with 854 round points, mostly from a high-scoring featured article on the Indian leader Rani of Jhansi and two good articles, in addition to 13 featured and good article reviews

Everyone who competed in Round 4 will advance to Round 5 unless they have withdrawn. This table shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far, while the full scores for Round 4 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 9 featured articles, 12 featured lists, 98 good articles, 9 good topic articles, more than 150 reviews, nearly 100 did you know articles, and 18 in the news articles.

In advance of the fifth and final round, the judges would like to thank every contestant for their hard work. As a reminder, any content promoted after 29 August but before the start of Round 5 can be claimed in Round 5. In addition, note that Round 5 will end on 31 October at 23:59 UTC. Awards at the end of Round 5 will be distributed based on who has the most tournament points over all five rounds, and special awards will be distributed based on high performance in particular areas of content creation (e.g., most featured articles in a single round).

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Nomination for WikiProject Military history coordinators is now open!

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evasion

Hello! Fsheoeos (talk · contribs). Take care --tony 01:11, 7 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ajsoosoww (talk · contribs). Let me know if you don't want me to notify you of these anymore tonight :) Take care --tony 01:14, 7 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ieeihrwja (talk · contribs). Take care --tony 01:19, 7 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Block increase

ANY TIME you need to adjust a block I've made, feel free. Thanks for taking care of that. Joyous! Noise! 02:05, 7 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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September thanks

Thank you for improving article quality in September! - Today is the birthday of the 16th Thomaskantor after Bach, remembered. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:59, 20 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My 100th biography to the Main page in 2025 is Siegmund Nimsgern. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:48, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

IP 108.28.146.23

Hi Fathoms Below. Thanks for your comments at User talk:Materialscientist#IP 2600:4040:2dca:1e00:e671:a363:289:cf77. I think, however, the IP account user discussed there might've come back 108.28.146.23. That account has already been blocked by PhilKnight, but it was an account that hadn't edited from May 2012 until yesterday. Anyway, the latest IP account has already made an unblock request that was declined by 331dot, who might not be aware of the account's possible connection to other blocked accounts. Is there anything else that can be done here besides page protection? -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:14, 23 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Marchjuly I don't think page protection is needed at the moment. It looks like you're right that the vandal did come back under the IP 108.28.146.23, though none of the individual pages (such as Yellow Bear) that have been targeted contain vandalizing edits other than the ones from the range I blocked earlier and this IP. If a new IP or account continues to vandalize these pages and who is clearly the same person behind the blocked IPs, a report to RFPP for one or all of these pages might be necessary. So in other words, this block evasion is approaching the disruption level that protection might be necessary, but not quite yet. Fathoms Below (talk) 22:10, 23 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]