User talk:Ingratis

For earlier talk page stuff see User:Ingratis/Archive 1

Grindle

Hi, thanks for the prompt and hopefully straightforward page review. One question, I couldn't see Grindle on Special:NewPagesFeed, am I doing something wrong? TSventon (talk) 12:14, 7 January 2022 (UTC).[reply]

TSventon - no problem - as you say, should be straightforward. You're not doing anything wrong - the page is on the NewPagesFeed under the date of creation, 15 April 2007. Ingratis (talk) 18:51, 7 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I knew the redirect was creatyed in 2007 and pages are listed by creation date, but for some reason didn't put two and two together. TSventon (talk) 19:24, 7 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Quartier Thiers

Hello. Thank you for the modifications on the article "Quartier Thiers". The geolocation at the beginning of the page is wrong because it points to the 7th district. I don't know how to modify and place the right geolocation which is on the equivalent article in French. Thank you for your help. All best. --Parsedan (talk) 10:55, 13 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Parsedan: - no problem. I've added the coordinates from the fr-Wiki article, so I hope it's OK now. I'm also making a small spelling change ("neighborhood" to "neighbourhood"), for consistency of ENGVAR, as elsewhere you're using UK English spellings. Best wishes, Ingratis (talk) 23:12, 13 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you and, by the way, happy new year 2022.--Parsedan (talk) 07:57, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Parsedan: Thank you! and happy 2022 to you as well! Ingratis (talk) 08:26, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ellen Alpsten / The 'Tsarina' series

Hi, the novel is not about Catherine the Great, and the quartet of novels deals with the early Romanov dynasty, which has not been treated at all in Literature. Catherine the Great was born as a German Princess and ruled at the end of the 18th century. M — Preceding unsigned comment added by Makkimekko (talk • contribs) 11:34, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Makkimekko: - You're right - apologies. I've acknowledged as much om the talk page. Ingratis (talk) 22:36, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

draft review

Hey, I noticed you are an active person at AfC. I've helpe this draft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Gohenry and filled it with reliable sources. Could you please take a look? --82.40.169.107 (talk) 11:35, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Irmintraut Schneider

thankyou for redirecting the article on Irmintraut Schneider. The events that happened with this article make me very heavily question the justifiability of Lugnuts mass reverting my redirects. I feel that he is specifically trying to limit my ability to contribute to Wikipedia.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:03, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Johnpacklambert: - hi John. Thanks for the thanks! Since you approach me directly, my take on the whole thing is that it's seldom clear with older Olympians whether they're going to be notable without a lot of pre-internet foreign-language research so there is a wholly legitimate point here about redirecting too quickly, which parallels the concerns about articles being created too quickly - I can see the points of view of both of you. My own feeling FWIW is that if some form of bulk deletion really has to happen then wherever possible redirection is preferable to outright deletion, without necessarily being convinced that the wholesale deletion programme is a "good thing" in the first place. (I am however quite angry that these deletions have now extended to medalling Olympians - see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aage Høy-Petersen. This is really taking the piss, but I'm aware that this nomination was not yours, so this is not directed at you). Try not to take it all personally! Certainly wise to focus the bulk of your editing away from this area to give yourself a breathing space. All best wishes, Ingratis (talk) 17:40, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

WP:AFC Helper News

Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.

AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
The template {{db-afc-move}} has been created - this template is similar to {{db-move}} when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.

Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Olympics

Hello. I've begun a deletion sorting page for articles about the Olympics which are nominated at AfD. Hope you find it useful. No Great Shaker (talk) 14:01, 23 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@No Great Shaker: Great idea, and thanks for letting me know. I was sorry to see that the SPI came to nothing, but I think FWIW that there were enough grounds to raise the question.Ingratis (talk) 19:15, 23 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Ingratis. I think there certainly were grounds and the Icewhiz one was inconclusive, perhaps because we muddied the waters. I was completely wrong about the first one, although the activity was similar. It was a case of investigate or ignore, and I think it would be wrong to ignore. Anyway, glad you like the delsort. All the best. No Great Shaker (talk) 08:45, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A Barnstar for you

	The Editor's Barnstar
	For your excellent work on the Bishops of Vienne. Doric Loon·(talk) 15:24, 6 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Doric Loon: Thank you! much appreciated. An unexpected side effect of the exercise was to renew my interest in AfC, so I may well look at more reviewing. All best, Ingratis (talk) 01:06, 17 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022

Hello Ingratis,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.

Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 863 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 830 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

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New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022

Hello Ingratis,

Backlog status

At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000^[a] at the end of May.

Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.^[b]

In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).

While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).

Backlog drive

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TIP – New school articles

Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.

Misc

There is a new template available, {{NPP backlog}}, to show the current backlog. You can place it on your user or talk page as a reminder:

High unreviewed pages backlog: 7422 articles, as of 14:00, 29 September 2025 (UTC), according to DatBot

There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.

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Notes

^ not including another ~6,000 redirects
^ The number of weekly reviews reported in the NPP feed includes redirects, which are not included in the backlog we primarily track.

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NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on!

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(t · c) buidhe 20:25, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Lucifera (ancient name/goddess/epithet) vs Lucifera (comics)

Thanks for help with Lucifera; I overdid the subject making separate '(name)' article. I don't know the original ancient name/goddess/epithet (mainly Diana/Artemis) is large enough subject so can you say either way if should still be disambiguation (now stub) or just move back Lucifera (comics) as main with hat-note to Diana? I prefer articles start with history (like Boston should be about UK with hatnote to 'Boston (USA,)' and many similar cases) but maybe not always done. Luciferas certainly have citations/quotes/references for respective articles, which sounds like what cross-references are for.--dchmelik (t|c) 10:54, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Dchmelik: - thanks - I've replied at the article's talk page, to try to keep everything together. Ingratis (talk) 10:56, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Rabin Koirala has been accepted

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Ingratis (talk) 01:39, 20 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Pedro Braillard Poccard has been accepted

Pedro Braillard Poccard, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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Ingratis (talk) 01:03, 28 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Guillaume Hoorickx

I'm just wondering about this edit you made - is it really a pseudonym, or is it just a different spelling (Anglicization) of his name? What do the sources say? St Anselm (talk) 19:44, 1 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@StAnselm: I think it's a side-effect of being Belgian that the name occurs in two languages, i.e., French and Dutch. Some Dutch sources call him Willem, and many of the art and auction sites give it as an alternative. (One or two Anglophone sources also call him William, but I'm discounting that). If you think it's a distraction, by all means take it out again. Ingratis (talk) 20:38, 1 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

NPP drive award

		The New Page Patrol Medal of Merit
		This award is given to Ingratis for 218 reviews in the July NPP backlog reduction drive. Your contributions played a part in the 9895 reviews that took place during the drive. Thank you for your contributions. Zippybonzo \| Talk (he\|him) 08:18, 3 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022

Hello Ingratis,

Backlog status

After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators Buidhe and Zippybonzo, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to Dr vulpes who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.

Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.

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NPP Award

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NPP message

Hi Ingratis,

Invitation

For those who may have missed it in our last newsletter, here's a quick reminder to see the letter we have drafted, and if you support it, do please go ahead and sign it. If you already signed, thanks. Also, if you haven't noticed, the backlog has been trending up lately; all reviews are greatly appreciated.

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NPP Award for 2020

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October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive

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(t · c) buidhe 21:16, 23 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022

Hello Ingratis,

Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section.

Awards: Barnstars were given for the past several years (thanks to MPGuy2824), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to John B123 for leading with 26,525 article reviews during 2021. To encourage moderate activity, a new "Iron" level barnstar is awarded annually for reviewing 360 articles ("one-a-day"), and 100 reviews earns the "Standard" NPP barnstar. About 90 reviewers received barnstars for each of the years 2018 to 2021 (including the new awards that were given retroactively). All awards issued for every year are listed on the Awards page. Check out the new Hall of Fame also.

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Backlog:

Saving the best for last: From a July low of 8,500, the backlog climbed back to 11,000 in August and then reversed in September dropping to below 6,000 and continued falling with the October backlog drive to under 1,000, a level not seen in over four years. Keep in mind that there are 2,000 new articles every week, so the number of reviews is far higher than the backlog reduction. To keep the backlog under a thousand, we have to keep reviewing at about half the recent rate!

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NPP Award for 2022

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New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023

Hello Ingratis,

Backlog

The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.

2022 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. Rosguill led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!

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Dominican priory

Thanks for the education. I admit to not knowing much about the order besides the song. I moved the article to "Dominican priory", which is what I think you were recommending. If not LMK Elinruby (talk) 20:48, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Another question about Dominicans

If you know: I am getting a disambiguation notice for "Phylactery" in that article. I have only previously encountered the word in the context of Orthodox Judaism, which is why I wikilinked it. Do you know which of those choices on the dab page, if any, is appropriate? Elinruby (talk) 21:12, 28 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Elinruby: New to me too, except, as you say, in the Jewish sense. But it does also apparently sometimes mean some type of small Christian reliquary or amulet (e.g. here). Since this article is about a Christian subject, perhaps "reliquary" would work better? Ingratis (talk) 21:39, 28 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

good suggestion. Seems to be accurate and solves my dab problem Elinruby (talk) 23:40, 28 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects and categories participation

Hello. Thank you for participating and helping out at WP:AFC/R. I thought I'd suggest that you utilize Enterprisey's script for processing requests which can be found here. I mention this because it looks like you're processing requests manually and, in doing so, you appear to have made a typo in a request that you processed (here). No big deal, these things happen, but I wanted to suggest it since I've found it's made life easier for me. Hey man im josh (talk) 11:49, 3 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Hey man im josh: Thanks for the link - I've tried out the script and it's indeed very helpful. Best wishes, Ingratis (talk) 08:15, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Ancient World: History of Dress

A tag has been placed on Ancient World: History of Dress requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section R3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a recently created redirect from an implausible typo or misnomer, or other unlikely search term.

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. ℰmi1y_⧼T·C⧽ 19:40, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Ingratis,

You certainly create a lot of redirects. It concerns me because we have had editors get in trouble in the past for creating too many frivolous redirects. There was even a special CSD criteria category to delete the thousands of unnecessary redirects created by one admin editor who resigned as an admin and then blocked from the project. Be sure you are only creating redirects that make sense according to Wikipedia guidelines and serve a useful purpose. Just because a redirect is requested doesn't mean it should be created. You've been an editor for a long time now so please use the judgment that came with all of that editing experience. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:46, 9 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Liz: - Hello Liz. Thank you for your message. I have indeed recently created a lot of redirects because I was working on the lists of requests at WP:AFC/R. I started on this just a couple of days ago but have already had so much grief from it that I will not touch it again. As with SIGCOV and GNG, there is a large subjective element in what constitutes a useful redirect, and clearly my filters are differently aligned, but do please be assured that I am not a frivolous editor and do give thought to all my edits, even those that displease. Ingratis (talk) 12:51, 9 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Draft question

Hi Ingratis - did you intend to decline and then subsequently resubmit this draft? LittlePuppers (talk) 13:55, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@LittlePuppers: Yes, I did. I declined it because this particular editor has been submitting machine-translated crap for years under many different IP addresses, and also because there isn't enough content to warrant an article. After doing so I thought I might have been a bit unfair, since the references are adequate and there aren't any translation issues, so for fairness' sake thought it should have a second opinion, so resubmitted it. I'll point out however that if anyone did accept it I'd immediately redirect it under NOPAGE! Ingratis (talk) 14:36, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

...which I've now done. In the past in these situations the IP editor has then gone on to copy/paste their draft over the redirect, which is why I wasn't in a hurry to do it this time, but we'll see. Ingratis (talk) 23:38, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Don't mention it... oh, you didn't... Ingratis (talk) 06:32, 5 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, somehow I missed your second comment here. It sounds like a bit of a convoluted process, but thanks for taking care of it. LittlePuppers (talk) 06:53, 5 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Yeah, I translated the Swedish article. I modified a few words to make it better readable, but it's like 99% translation. Go ahead and do the attribution thing, because I have no idea about that, sorry. Thanks for your interest on the article in any case. 12qwas (talk) 14:20, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Fix a random page lacking sources

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Referencing

Hello Ingratis. I learned how to properly reference articles. I created a new article about the Roman consul Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Lupus of 156 BC. Please check it to see if I did it correctly. If it is insufficient by all means, please delete it and inform me. Thank you, Edgar Aetheling 25 (talk) 17:50, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Acquasale

Hi, thank you for adding some references. As stated in the deletion request, the first reference isn't viewable; also, it would be nice if you could help me improve the sentences on this page. JacktheBrown (talk) 08:33, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No problem - I'll certainly take a look but not immediately - I'm still convalescing so am presently avoiding anything demanding much effort on Wikipedia. Ingratis (talk) 08:39, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ingratis: no rush, the beauty of Wikipedia is that there's no time to respect. Have a good recovery! By the way, the references you added don't seem to have been formatted. JacktheBrown (talk) 08:50, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

feel free... Ingratis (talk) 09:12, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Draftified article

I noticed that the page I created, William III Talleyrand was moved to a sort of draft. You have edited it, so Im going to to ask you the reason for that. Was it just the inconsistent spelling or is there another issue? Thanks. Edgar Aetheling 25 (talk) 17:40, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Edgar Aetheling 25: I did edit it but only to the extent of removing the inverted commas in the title. (I would have moved it to "William III of Angoulême", which is where I think it should be, but there is a redirect with that name in the way). The article is presently at Draft:Guillaume III Talleyrand of Angoulême, as you're aware - you should look at the edit history, where the person who took exception to it gives their reasons, which come down to this, that of the four references you have given, two of them don't support the contents they are supposed to support. I took a quick look, and the problem with one is ~~simply that you've given the wrong name for an abbey (Sarlat instead of Saint-Cybard), which is easily fixed.~~ the name of the abbey can't be verified from the reference as given. However, he is also querying the chronology of several deaths, and that's a far more important and complex matter. Ingratis (talk) 04:38, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

the underlying problems are that this editor is mostly translating from other Wikipedias (without attributing, btw, despite being warned about it) and also translates the titles of books, which means that the titles as given don't exist and can't be located; he also rarely gives page numbers.

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"Not mentioned"

Re: "not named". She is named at 1999 World Women's Handball Championship squads, though. That leads me to want to give you a tip - to always check Special:Whatlinkshere of articles that are nominated for deletion. Geschichte (talk) 10:25, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh dear. Why then did you not mention that in the discussion rather than the article 1999 World Women's Handball Championship? But I learn from this - again - not to trust anything anyone says in an AfD discussion. Ingratis (talk) 12:30, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Stevo Crvenkovski

I disagree with your removal of the PROD tag without any attempt to add sources. Wikipedia should not be having completely unsourced articles. Not a single statement on the article can be verified without sources. AusLondonder (talk) 12:53, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree with your adding the PROD tag without any attempt to find sources, so I think we're quits. Ingratis (talk) 21:00, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Articles can't exist without sources, and responsibility for adding sources lies with those who add or restore material. AusLondonder (talk) 15:36, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It has sources. Please stay off my talk page. Ingratis (talk) 17:41, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I hope you're ok because that is such a bizarre response. AusLondonder (talk) 04:43, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Stay...off...my...talk...page. I'm not interested in whatever fight you're trying to pick. Ingratis (talk) 10:01, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WP:SOMTP. AusLondonder (talk) 10:40, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't want this conversation here, because I'm not convinced that your intention is constructive. If you have points to make about the article, go to the talk page. Otherwise please now take the (very broad) hint and desist. Ingratis (talk) 11:10, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Since this exchange I've become aware of the term Sealioning, which I would have used had I known it at the time. Ingratis (talk) 12:13, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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German expand tag

I use the "German expand tag" generously because my German is terrible. I translated a couple of legal terms (Auslegeschrift is one) poorly. Funny story: I was in Germany a few years ago, and folks kept asking me for directions to the nearest pub that was showing the World Cup finals. My one Angle or Saxon ancestor had all the dominant genes. Lol. In the meantime, nobody was asking my Filipino partner who actually can speak German fluently. Bearian (talk) 18:44, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry for the slip up at Diepoltskirchen - I wasn't intending to remove the Expand tag. My finger slipped on the keyboard while I was looking at something else in the article. I've reverted myself - apologies. I also use the Expand tag a lot - I never have time to go back to do the translations I'd like to do. From what I remember of Germany (I was last there in the 70s), what you describe in your story doesn't surprise me! Ingratis (talk) 20:37, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Thana, Kannur

Hello, Ingratis,

I'm curious about your edit summary saying that the PROD deletion rationale was untrue as the article when it was tagged, and still now, is unsourced. I agree with many of your de-PRODding edits, as when you turn a tagged article into a redirect, but I don't see that this PROD tag was invalid. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:47, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Liz - what I was getting at was that a settlement falls under the criteria of GEOLAND, not GNG, but Joe always PRODs settlements as not meeting the GNG criteria. I didn't have time for a proper search on Thana so used what I thought was an acceptable procedural reason for de-tagging. Have I got this wrong? Ingratis (talk) 19:24, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I may well have jumped too quickly - I've redirected it for now and won't bring it back unless I can source it. Ingratis (talk) 19:33, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Olympics

Hi Ingratis. I've noticed that you've redirected many of the Olympian PRODs. Do you think you could try to get to each of them and redirect them before the PRODs expire and the articles are deleted? (I've been busy recently which hasn't allowed me much time to focus on Olympians) I hope to eventually go back and restore the ones that are really notable but when they're deleted first it complicates things. You're probably already aware but they're all listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Olympics/Article alerts. I'd appreciate it. Thanks, BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:17, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi BeanieFan. Yes, happy to, although I notice that Habst is now de-PRODding them as soon as they appear. Ingratis (talk) 04:55, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ignaz-Glaser-Symposium

Sometimes a redirect is needed. Bearian (talk) 07:13, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, Ingratis,

I saw you de-PROD'd an article today so I thought I'd check in with you. First, you have messages on your User talk page that go back to 2019, you might consider archiving ones that are pre-2025. It can be difficult for editors with mobile devices to load pages that have as much content as your User talk page has. You might find it easier to navigate it if you have fewer messages on it.

I also see that you have had your "Fed up" notes at the top of your User talk page, at least for all of 2025 even though you are currently a very active editor. Maybe if you are no longer as fed up as you were when they were originally posted them, you could remove them. Maybe? I know the situation on Wikipedia always has room for improvement but it must have some attractive features and room for hope for you to spend the amount of time here as you do. It's just if you are not in such a gloomy mood, you might consider changing the message you are sending out to other editors who come to visit your User talk page.

I hope you are have a pleasant summer if you are in the Northern hemisphere. I'm in the NW U.S. and although it's been hot we haven't had many days over 100F so that's fortunate for us. Take care and happy editing! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:36, 29 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Liz - I take the hint about talk page length. As to the other matter, I really have reduced what I do - I now rarely create articles or work on NPP or AFC. This is because I spent most of the last year being enormously angry with the behaviour of the Delete brigade on Olympics stubs but things seem to have taken a slightly better turn, in that redirects now very often satisfy most people. So the messages are gone (for now).

We've been relatively lucky with the weather, like you - it's been extremely hot but just short of being impossible. Always pleased to hear from you! best wishes, Ingratis (talk) 18:21, 29 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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PRODs

Could you make sure to do redirects for PRODs before they're deleted? It's irritating to see them deleted and then redirected since then all history is lost and it is much more difficult to ever restore it. BeanieFan11 (talk) 13:46, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@BeanieFan11: You've asked me this before. You - or someone else - has also asked at some point that PRODS should not be redirected until the last possible moment, to allow max time to look for sources. Since I don't live on Wikipedia, and my life is such that I can be taken away from my computer without warning, sometimes for many hours or days, I can't guarantee always to keep to such a tightrope and to get to them all at the precise moment apparently required. I can generally redirect them c. 36-48 hours before the deadline, if that would help. Would you prefer that or to have them deleted entirely without redirects? IMO a redirect without history is preferable to a deletion, by the way. Or would you prefer it if I did not redirect these articles at all? Ingratis (talk) 14:12, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't remember asking to wait till the last moment? Though if I did, I apologize if I've made it difficult to manage. I would be fine if you do it 36-48 hours before the deadline. BeanieFan11 (talk) 14:21, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@BeanieFan11: OK - let's see how that goes. Ingratis (talk) Ingratis (talk) 14:47, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Ingratis, on this topic, thank you so much for creating redirects with categories. One small ask I would suggest going forwards: After the redirect is created (e.g. at Maxime Mehinto), can you go to Wikidata, find the relevant item (e.g. wikidata:Q60310595), click "edit" under the Wikipedia section, and add sitecode "en" -> title "Maxime Mehinto" -> click the badge button and add "intentional sitelink to redirect"?

This will add it to Category:Redirects connected to a Wikidata item. The reason for this is so that editors can easily find the Wikidata item for more information, and so that readers of interlanguage pages can click "English" to at least be redirected to an enwiki page where the subject is discussed. Sometimes, this is not so easy because of disambiguations and the like. I did an example here at wikidata:Special:Diff/2408388180. Thanks again. --Habst (talk) 17:39, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Habst: No problem. I can also go back over the ones I've already done, with time, not only for the Wikidata thing but to add to the categories as well. Best wishes, Ingratis (talk) 05:48, 23 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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[1] t including another ~6,000 redirects

[2] The number of weekly reviews reported in the NPP feed includes redirects, which are not included in the backlog we primarily track.

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