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Sorry about doing the edit, but was my edit vandalism? Rafael! (He, him) • talk • guestbook • projects 02:51, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I assume you're referring to Special:Diff/1300651927. Not vandalism (never called it that) just unnecessary. Primefac (talk) 08:47, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Before requesting at WP:REFUND: draft list previously rejected

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I thought about requesting undeletion at WP:REFUND, but then Draft:List of Survivor (American TV series) finalists (seasons 1–10) was rejected as "too arbitrary", and I was told that even changing the list's scope still wouldn't resolve notability issues of the list. Actually, I couldn't access the dialogue of the draft talk page, so I was hoping that someone with access to deleted pages, like you as an admin, would help me decide whether or not to request undeletion there.

(Actually, I thought about very hostile Survivor community, especially from Reddit, flooding all over, especially at Talk:Survivor 43, and feeling distraught over increasingly many Survivor winners being no longer considered notable.) George Ho (talk) 02:04, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't mind restoring and moving it to your userpage if you would like to look at the content. Primefac (talk) 08:36, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No, no. Just the talk page of the draft. That way, my memory can be refreshed by reading the feedback about the draft. Would that do? George Ho (talk) 09:12, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
 Done as a talk page archive here. Primefac (talk) 09:30, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. Now that I see the responses, I can't help wonder whether narrowing down the scope to just winners and runners-up, especially without including others who appeared in season finales, would make the list less "arbitrary". I also know that a list of winners is already redundant and already exists as part of an overview. Do you still agree with the volunteer's assessment about the list, even when narrowed down? George Ho (talk) 10:06, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Clarityfiend's comment is still valid; we already have a list of contestants (which indicates winners) and those with articles are bluelinked. Having blurbs about each contestant that doesn't already have an article does seem a bit unnecessary. Primefac (talk) 23:45, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Help me template

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Thanks for finding that bug! I'd actually reported it to WP:LLMN earlier because I'm jumping to that conclusion too often these days. ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 03:46, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not a problem, glad I could help (though I will admit, I saw the issue but didn't realise it was an issue until someone else pointed it out to me!). Primefac (talk) 09:36, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Non-AfC reviewer accepting drafts

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Hi Primefac, I want to ask what should be done in this case since it seems pretty unclear whether this is something that should be discussed between the user or that this is something that needs to be at somewhere else. A non-AfC reviewer has moved a pending draft to mainspace and placed an AfC accept template on the creator's talk page. What should be done here? Thanks. Tenshi! (Talk page) 15:18, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There is no requirement for drafts to go through AFC so as far as someone moving a draft into the article space... not much that can be done other than sending the page to AFD (if necessary). As far as placing an AFC accept template goes, I suggest leaving them a nice note saying that only AFC reviewers should be leaving AFC acceptance templates. Primefac (talk) 09:16, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Selangor_F.C._Under-23&diff=prev&oldid=1302605432

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ydlp19#ANI

Please can this vandal be banned, and mess reverted 93.140.39.137 (talk) 13:07, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Those are two different editors; are you saying that they are the same person? I guess I need a bit more information before I can say whether or not I can do anything. Primefac (talk) 13:13, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reply tool

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It's lovely when it works but right now I cannot respond to your little snark (which I don't think actually is snark). S0091 (talk) 21:05, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Heh, true, I do suppose it's more cheeky than snarky. Primefac (talk) 21:16, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Saisai227

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Is evading their block as 103.129.79.134. Lynch44 01:49, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Primefac (talk) 08:54, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

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Do you think I can run my bot here, User:Fixinbot? It only edit User:Fixinbot/AFC helper. I have run some tests on test wiki. Runs every hour Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 22:43, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Bots that only edit in their own userspace do not require BAG approval. Primefac (talk) 00:50, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ok Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 01:49, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Can you make my bot extended confirmed rights Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 02:59, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – August 2025

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

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Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, G15, has been enacted. It applies to pages generated by a large language model (LLM) without human review.
  • Following a request for comment, there is a new policy outlining the granting of permissions to view the IP addresses of temporary accounts. Temporary account deployment on the English Wikipedia is currently scheduled for September 2025, and editors can request access to the permission ahead of time. Admins are encouraged to keep an eye on the request page; there will likely be a flood of editors requesting the permission when they realize they can no longer see IP addresses.

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Arbitration

  • The arbitration case Indian military history has been closed.
    • South Asia (WP:CT/SA) is designated a contentious topic. The topic area is specifically defined as All pages related to the region of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal), broadly construed, including but not limited to history, politics, ethnicity, and social groups.
    • The contentious topic designations for Sri Lanka (SL) and India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan (IPA) are folded into this new contentious topic.
    • The community-authorized general sanctions regarding South Asian social groups (GS/CASTE) are rescinded and folded into this new contentious topic.
  • The arbitration case Article titles and capitalisation 2 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case closed on 31 July.
  • The arbitration case Transgender healthcare and people has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 11 August.

Miscellaneous

  • Wikimania 2025 is happening in Nairobi, Kenya, and online from August 6 to August 9. This year marks 20 years of Wikimania. Interested users can join the online event. Registration for the virtual event is free and will remain open throughout Wikimania. You can register here now.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:56, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MatrixBot

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If I were to request more general TfD permission, would I be denied? I think it would be useful, especially after User:PearBOT and User:BsherrAWBBOT dropped out. —Matrix(!) ping onewhen replying {u - t? - uselessc} 15:33, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Probably; SporkBot and PrimeBOT have open-ended permission for TFD closures because we both went through multiple other bot tasks for basically the same thing; having an open-ended approval for the first bot task would be unprecedented. PearBOT did have a similar approval but never really did much, and Bsherr's bot hasn't even edited since 2020, with the last TFD-related edits being (I believe) in 2017 (my point here mainly being that the "loss" of those two bots wasn't really that big of a deal). Primefac (talk) 16:00, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the advice, I was planning to but I won't do it then. Just to confirm, I should not apply to do TfD related bot tasks? —Matrix(!) ping onewhen replying {u - t? - uselessc} 20:47, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Apologies, didn't necessarily mean to imply that. Simple find/replace operations generally get handled by one of the two existing bots - they're pretty easy to set up and thus (with some exceptions) get dealt with fairly quickly, so pinging one of us is usually easier/faster than going through the process of a BRFA. There are other mergers and replacements, though, that require a bit more complex workings from a bot, which is often why they sit at TFDH for extended periods. You're more than welcome to submit a BRFA for one of those if you feel so motivated; that sort of task shows you know your way around coding/regex and can handle the complex cases. From a botop perspective, if you want to do something that I have been avoiding because it's tricky (or otherwise time-intensive to "get right"), I will not complain. Primefac (talk) 21:14, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Review and Promotion of Bariire Draft to Main Article Space

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft_talk:Bariire&action=edit&redlink=1 Dear Wikipedia Review Team,

I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to kindly request a review of the Wikipedia draft page I created for Bariire. The draft has been under review for some time, and I believe it meets Wikipedia’s notability and content guidelines for promotion to the main article space.

The page covers important information about Bariire, including [insert key points: e.g., its history, geography, culture, significance], and is well-sourced with reliable references. I have carefully followed Wikipedia’s guidelines to ensure the content is neutral, verifiable, and encyclopedic.

I would greatly appreciate it if the review team could re-examine the draft and consider its promotion. Please let me know if any further edits or additions are required to meet the necessary standards.

Thank you very much for your time and assistance.

Best regards, link: https://sonna.so/en/snas-ground-forces-commander-visits-recently-liberated-town/ https://www.hiiraan.com/news/2025/Aug/wararka_maanta11-191067.htm. https://www.bbc.com/somali/articles/c987wwj5g1xo


Isma4l (talk) 11:14, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You submitted it 10 hours ago, which is not "some time", and you have failed to make any of the suggested changes since it was first declined yesterday. Repeatedly submitting the draft without making any substantive changes is considered disruptive editing and could result in the page being deleted. Primefac (talk) 22:47, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Deadmaus's protection

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Greetings. I should have came here first. I apologize. I have requested a decrease/removal of protection for Deadmaus's article: [1] Rockfang (talk) 05:07, 14 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'll reply there, thanks. Primefac (talk) 08:46, 14 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Draft Doubts

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Hey @Primefac, I hope everything’s alright. I came here to seek your guidance on finding article topics. I found a topic on the Alaska Triangle, and during my research, I gathered quite a few sources, maybe even more than enough, so I created a draft here: Draft:Alaska Triangle. However, I later discovered that an article with a similar title had been deleted three times, which makes me unsure how to proceed. I have collected multiple sources that I consider reliable and in-depth, but I wanted to get your advice before moving forward. Jesus isGreat7 ☾⋆ | Ping Me 07:55, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My suggestion (which I was going to make prior to seeing your draft was declined) would be to look at the AfD (in particular the second nomination) and determine if your new draft "fixes" all of the issues presented in the deletion discussion. I see that your draft was declined, with some fairly good feedback on the quality of your sources and how best to proceed from here. Primefac (talk) 00:06, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Free Digital Skills Course for Girls

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Moved to Talk:Education in India § Free Digital Skills Course for Girls

Primefac (talk) 09:16, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Scorpions13256

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This is Scorpions13256 editing under a new account. Can I please get my AFC and AutowikiBrowser permissions back? I lost them when I scrambled the password to my last account. Please get back to me whenever you can. Thanks. The Knowledge Pirate (talk) 22:53, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Patience, friend. It is done. Primefac (talk) 21:02, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry. I just let my OCD on something unrelated get the best of me. Thank you very much. The Knowledge Pirate (talk) 21:03, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Userfy Request

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Hello! Sorry for writing this so late but I would like to userfy the following templates from these deleted templates: Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/United States daily deaths in 2020, Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/United States daily deaths in 2021, Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/United States daily deaths in 2022, and Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/United States daily deaths as I still need to reference these data sometimes. Thank you very much! Horizon Sunset (talk) 09:32, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Out of curiosity, what sorts of things are you needing these as reference for? You might not need the entire template if it's just a subset of information you want. Primefac (talk) 16:12, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I am monitoring a data template on Wikimedia about COVID deaths post-emergency (which was moved there from Wikipedia after the template was deleted here and still being updated daily). Some of the states had irregular reporting in the past that might affect their figures today. Oklahoma, for example, reported roughly 1000 fewer fatalities than what was recorded in Wikipedia as of May 2023 and I need to know the reasons for this discrepancy (e.g. mis-recording of data, the inclusion of probable deaths, etc.) through referencing past data, the edit summary, or the editor to know how to further update the template when Oklahoma resumed reporting in a different way (and this is just one example, there are many more states like this). I definitely would not need the entire template but I don't know what part of the template exactly I would need. It would be nice if the templates could be userfied or temporarily undeleted (for a day or two for edit history) for my reference. --Horizon Sunset (talk) 18:30, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
 Done. Primefac (talk) 18:47, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Great! Thank you so much! --Horizon Sunset (talk) 18:51, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:PrimeBOT request

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Howdy! Hope you are well. Was wondering if you might be able to help out with a parameter clean up task? {{Infobox sportsperson}} removed support for {{{residence}}} and there are some 1,913 pages still using the parameter. Would be lovely if you could work your magic on it! If you need any more info or if I can help in any way, let me know! Thanks in advance. — Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 07:37, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. I do note that there are ~700 other pages in that cat, do you think you could find some other common problematic parameters? I'd rather hit them (especially if they're doubled with residence) to avoid needing more edits than necessary (and to help clean up the cat). Primefac (talk) 21:51, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If you could replace |career= with |years_active=, |ethnicity= with |nationality=, |nicknames= with |nickname= and remove |show-updates= that would be awesome! - Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 00:03, 6 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds good, I'll try to get to it this weekend. Primefac (talk) 01:20, 6 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think there is consensus to move ethnicity values to nationality. Those are two very different things. |ethnicity= should be removed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:43, 6 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Jonesey95 thanks! I did a cursory glance at a half dozen pages and they appeared to all have values in ethnicity that could easily be moved to nationality but if there is not consensus I’m fine to just remove them. —Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 04:10, 6 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It should probably not be done by a bot. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:33, 6 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds good! Let’s skip that one then. — Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 05:34, 6 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Knocked out the ones I could, plus a few easy fixes like |Sport= → |sport=. Might still be some residence params hiding amongst the others but I didn't want to run through and remove them just so that someone else could go through and remove the other pad param(s). Primefac (talk)

LLM content

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Hi, I would like to draw your attention to this diff [2], It shows how much emotive and subjective content has been added. I think this should be noted before they demand any rights in future and also the existing ones, see [3] and here [4] Jesus isGreat7 ☾⋆ | Ping Me 10:31, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Those edits were from six months ago, and their AFC request was declined (twice) since then anyway. Primefac (talk) 21:47, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – September 2025

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

Administrator changes

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Interface administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

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Oversight changes

readded AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC is open on whether use of emojis with no encyclopedic value in mainspace and draftspace (e.g., at the start of paragraphs or in place of bullet points) should be added as a criterion under G15.

Technical news

Arbitration

  • The arbitration case Article titles and capitalisation 2 has been closed.
  • An RfC is in progress to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.
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Exodus

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Hi! I've seen you declined the move of Exodus (Archetype Entertainment game), but the proper naming convention in the guideline at WP:NCVGDAB says it should have been Exodus (upcoming video game). Like the guideline says: "Use "video game" rather than videogame, game" and "For further disambiguation, use "(YEAR video game)". "If no year has been announced, use (upcoming video game)." Jovanmilic97 (talk) 08:42, 8 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good to know, I will keep that in mind for next time. Primefac (talk) 23:10, 8 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WhatLinksHereSnippets.js

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Hello, I noticed that WhatLinksHereSnippets.js, listed at WP:TFD/H, has been broken for a long time. I tried using it a few months ago, but it was not working, so I uninstalled it. Seeing it again, I decided to fix it. The updated version is at Special:Permalink/1310268111. Since you were one of its users, you are welcome to host it in your userspace by copying it. It should work correctly for most cases, but if any pages are missed, check the console log for error and adjust the regex to cover the missing variations. – DreamRimmer ■ 17:01, 8 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Cool, I'll have to give it a look. Primefac (talk) 08:59, 10 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Another task for PrimeBOT

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Howdy again. I’m getting ready to do a major overhaul of {{Infobox newspaper}} to conform to MOS:INFOBOXNAME. I would love to get you to run a PrimeBOT once I’m done to clean it up. What is the best way to give you the list of params to replace? I’m happy to provide them in code form so you can literally just copy and paste if that would help. Otherwise would a table be best? A list? What would make your life easiest. Thanks in advance. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 04:57, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm watching the template talk page now, so just post in the thread you started about the change and I'll chime in. Primefac (talk) 09:01, 10 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

hi :)

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idk how you make the time to study and do all the contributions :(( i wish i had time to learn lol Iceypurple (talk) 10:57, 10 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There's always time to learn, just depends on how much you want to! I personally was able to find a good balance between studying when I was at uni and helping out here. Primefac (talk) 16:41, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]