User talk:EPIC/Archive 1
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Welcome!
Hello, Iantriks, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
You may also want to complete the Wikipedia Adventure, an interactive tour that will help you learn the basics of editing Wikipedia. You can visit the Teahouse to ask questions or seek help.
Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or , and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Ian.thomson (talk) 12:03, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
A cupcake for you!
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Apologies for accidentally reverting/warning you! you're doing a great job on the project reverting vandalism! keep up the excellent work! —MelbourneStar☆talk 13:53, 20 August 2019 (UTC) |
- Thanks! Iantriks (talk) 13:54, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar |
| Thanks for helping re-take control of Chris Moyles from the vandals! Chieftain Tartarus (talk) 06:43, 22 August 2019 (UTC) |
- Thanks! Always feel proud for doing that. Iantriks (talk) 06:44, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
Just a heads up
New reports at Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism go at the bottom (descending chronological order). Ian.thomson (talk) 12:03, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
- Also, I made you a confirmed user, an extended confirmed user, and a rollbacker here since you're those things on sv.wiki as well. Ian.thomson (talk) 12:09, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for telling me. Iantriks (talk) 12:10, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) Er, sorry, just removed the extended confirmed as I see that you're not at the 30 day mark yet. Ian.thomson (talk) 12:11, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
- Do i get the extended confirmed automatically when i'm at the 30 day mark? Iantriks (talk) 14:32, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
- 30 days and 500 edits on the English Wikipedia automatically grants the extended confirmed user right. Ian.thomson (talk) 21:45, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
- I have made 500 edits, but I don't have that right. And yes, I have tried to edit a extended confirmed page, like Minecraft, but I can't. Iantriks (talk) 05:33, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
- 30 days and 500 edits on the English Wikipedia automatically grants the extended confirmed user right. Ian.thomson (talk) 21:45, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
- Do i get the extended confirmed automatically when i'm at the 30 day mark? Iantriks (talk) 14:32, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) Er, sorry, just removed the extended confirmed as I see that you're not at the 30 day mark yet. Ian.thomson (talk) 12:11, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for telling me. Iantriks (talk) 12:10, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
Sorry
Sorry for vandalising Wikipedia. I shudnt of dun that. :'(
- If you really meant that, I accept the apology. Iantriks (talk) 05:34, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
- here you go
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| Sorry for vandalizing Wikipedia! 2605:6000:1711:C8C6:359A:E191:C807:1695 (talk) 05:39, 24 August 2019 (UTC) |
Hello
Can you tell me what your local time is? Thanks! Sincerely, Humorous. (talk) 05:42, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
- Since I live in Sweden, i think it is either UTC+1 or UTC+2. Iantriks (talk) 05:43, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
- Ok, it is 7:44 AM right now where I live, so UTC+2. Iantriks (talk) 05:45, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
Using template messages
Hello. Regarding the recent revert you made: you may already know about them, but you might find Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace useful. After a revert, these can be placed on the user's talk page to let them know you considered their edit inappropriate, and also direct new users towards the sandbox. They can also be used to give a stern warning to a vandal when they've been previously warned. Thank you. —Aranya (talk) 14:29, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
- Yes, I know that, but I was afraid of doing it because if i would do it, the IP-adress would just keep vandalizing. Iantriks (talk) 14:34, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
- Oh ok, I see your point. Cheers, and happy editing. :-) —Aranya (talk) 14:40, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar |
| Despite the consistent harassment and abuse that you've been receiving on your user talk page, you continue to dedicate yourself to patrolling recent changes and reverting vandalism and disruption as if the abuse you receive didn't happen at all. You're an asset to this project, and I thank you so very much for the time and energy that you spend performing such a thankless task and while ignoring the trolls and not feeding them an ounce of recognition. Keep up the excellent work, and please know that you're welcome to message me if you need any input, advice, assistance, or guidance in regards to recent changes patrolling and removing vandalism. I've been performing recent changes patrols for over 10 years, and I'm more than happy to help! :-) ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 15:02, 24 August 2019 (UTC) |
- Thanks a lot! Iantriks (talk) 15:02, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
- You're welcome. Given how much you dedicate yourself to Wikipedia and cleaning up disruption, leaving you a barnstar was the least I could do. ;-) ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 15:05, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
You are now a pending changes reviewer
Hi Iantriks! I've been running into you in recent changes patrolling and I happened to notice that you don't have the pending changes reviewer user rights. I hope you don't mind, but I went through your contributions and I noticed that you're quite active in recent changes patrolling and that you consistently view and undo vandalism and bad faith disruption. I believe that the pending changes reviewer rights would be useful for you to have and that you'd make good use of the tool. Instead of having you formally request the pending changes reviewer right at WP:PERM, I went ahead and just gave it to you. This user right allows you to review edits that are pending approval on pages currently under pending changes protection and either accept the edits to make them viewable by the general public, or decline and revert them.
Keep these things in mind regarding the tool or when you're reviewing any pending changes:
- A list of articles with pending edits awaiting review can be viewed at Special:PendingChanges.
- A list of the articles currently under pending changes protection can be viewed at Special:StablePages.
- Being granted and having these rights does not grant you any additional "status" on Wikipedia, nor does it change how Wikipedia policies apply to you (obviously).
- You'll generally want to accept any pending changes that appear to be legitimate edits and are not blatant vandalism or disruption, and reject edits that are problematic or that you wouldn't accept yourself.
- Never accept any pending changes that contain obvious and clear vandalism, blatant neutral point of view issues, copyright violations, or BLP violations.
Useful guidelines and pages for you to read:
- Wikipedia:Reviewing pending changes, the guideline and tutorial on using the rights and reviewing pending changes.
- Wikipedia:Pending changes, a summary of pending changes protection, the pending changes user right, and how it applies.
- Wikipedia:Protection policy#Pending changes protection, the policy section on pending changes protection and its appropriate application and use by administrators.
I'm sure you'll do fine with the reviewer rights - it's a pretty straight-forward tool and it doesn't drastically change the interface that you're used to already. Nonetheless, please don't hesitate to leave me a message on my user talk page if you run into any questions, get stuck anywhere, or if you're not sure if you should accept or revert pending changes to a page, and I'll be more than be happy to help you. If you no longer want the pending changes reviewer rights, let me know and I'll be happy to remove it for you. Thank you for helping to patrol recent changes and keep Wikipedia free of disruption and vandalism - it's a very thankless job to perform and I want you to know that it doesn't go unnoticed and that I appreciate it very much. Happy editing! :-D ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 15:07, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
Extended confirmed
Can someone tell me why I do not have the extended confirmed right? My account is more than 30 days old and has made 500 edits, but I somehow do not have this right. Iantriks (talk) 05:26, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
I do not know! YinYang21 (talk) 05:17, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
- Why are you here? Iantriks (talk) 05:18, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
- It should have come up automatically but I've turned it on manually. Ian.thomson (talk) 22:59, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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| This is for your valuable efforts for countering Vandalism and protecting Wikipedia from it's threats. I appreciate your effort. You are a defender of Wikipedia. Thank you. PATH SLOPU 16:27, 16 September 2019 (UTC) |
- Thanks! EPIC (talk) 16:29, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
I removed content from Fariborz Shamshiri because he asked me to remove all things that I wrote about him because it is damaging for him.
I hope you understand and remove all the contents that he does not like to be published about him. He does not want anything about him to be published on the internet or elsewhere.
- Ok, then it's fine. EPIC (talk) 16:16, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
Could you help me out to remove the page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thelosangeles (talk • contribs) 16:35, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
- @Thelosangeles: I'm confused about something. Above you claim that you wrote about Fariborz Shamshiri but in this edit you claim to be Fariborz Shamshiri. Which is correct? Dharmalion76 (talk) 16:37, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
- I can't remove it because I'm not an administrator. As said on Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard, email info-en-q@wikimedia.org. EPIC (talk) 16:41, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
Thanks EPIC. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thelosangeles (talk • contribs) 16:45, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
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Moved to my talk page on the Swedish Wikipedia EPIC (talk) 06:42, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
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Petrov
No, I'm new and I don't know how to use the system. I just want to suggest the link from the website that Petrov's son Dimitrij has set up. Is that not allowed?--GrauerMoench (talk) 08:47, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021
Hello EPIC,
Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.
Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.
At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.
There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.
If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.
Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here.
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New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022
Hello EPIC,
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 803 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 851 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.
If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}}
on their talk page.
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New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022
Hello EPIC,
- 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
A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here. 
Barnstars will be awarded.
- 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:
Very high unreviewed pages backlog: 13236 articles, as of 02:00, 23 November 2024 (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.
- Reminders
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New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022
Hello EPIC,
- 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.
- Coordination
- MB and Novem Linguae have taken on some of the coordination tasks. Please let them know if you are interested in helping out. MPGuy2824 will be handling recognition, and will be retroactively awarding the annual barnstars that have not been issued for a few years.
- Open letter to the WMF
- The Page Curation software needs urgent attention. There are dozens of bug fixes and enhancements that are stalled (listed at Suggested improvements). We have written a letter to be sent to the WMF and we encourage as many patrollers as possible to sign it here. We are also in negotiation with the Board of Trustees to press for assistance. Better software will make the active reviewers we have more productive.
- TIP - Reviewing by subject
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- New reviewers
- The NPP School is being underused. The learning curve for NPP is quite steep, but a detailed and easy-to-read tutorial exists, and the Curation Tool's many features are fully described and illustrated on the updated page here.
- Reminders
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{{subst:NPR invite}}
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NPP message
Hi EPIC,
- 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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New Message from Ballads2110
Hello, just putting a message here! I think your page is pretty cool :) Hope you're having a nice day, fellow leftie. May society grant us non-smudgey inked pens one day. Ah, yeah - do you play video games by any chance? I forgot if there's any userbox you have that says so, think I saw a minecraft one though. Eitherway, nice seeing u! epic B) Ballads2110 (talk) 22:37, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
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New pages patrol needs your help!
Hello EPIC,
The New Page Patrol team is sending you this impromptu message to inform you of a steeply rising backlog of articles needing review. If you have any extra time to spare, please consider reviewing one or two articles each day to help lower the backlog. You can start reviewing by visiting Special:NewPagesFeed. Thank you very much for your help.
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New pages patrol newsletter
Hello EPIC,
Backlog update: At the time of this message, there are 11,300 articles and 15,600 redirects awaiting review. This is the highest backlog in a long time. Please help out by doing additional reviews!
October backlog elimination drive: A one-month backlog drive for October will start in one week! Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled. Articles will earn 4x as many points compared to redirects. You can sign up here.
PageTriage code upgrades: Upgrades to the PageTriage code, initiated by the NPP open letter in 2022 and actioned by the WMF Moderator Tools Team in 2023, are ongoing. More information can be found here. As part of this work, the Special:NewPagesFeed now has a new version in beta! The update leaves the NewPagesFeed appearance and function mostly identical to the old one, but updates the underlying code, making it easier to maintain and helping make sure the extension is not decommissioned due to maintenance issues in the future. You can try out the new Special:NewPagesFeed here - it will replace the current version soon.
Notability tip: Professors can meet WP:PROF #1 by having their academic papers be widely cited by their peers. When reviewing professor articles, it is a good idea to find their Google Scholar or Scopus profile and take a look at their h-index and number of citations. As a very rough rule of thumb, for most fields, articles on people with a h-index of twenty or more, a first-authored paper with more than a thousand citations, or multiple papers each with more than a hundred citations are likely to be kept at AfD.
Reviewing tip: If you would like like a second opinion on your reviews or simply want another new page reviewer by your side when patrolling, we recommend pair reviewing! This is where two reviewers use Discord voice chat and screen sharing to communicate with each other while reviewing the same article simultaneously. This is a great way to learn and transfer knowledge.
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November Articles for creation backlog drive
Hello EPIC:
WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.
You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.
Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
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New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024
Hello EPIC,
Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.
Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.
Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.
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Edit filter on J.Williams
Would it be worth hiding the old copies of the J.Williams article so it can't be reverted to that and creating an edit filter for something simple like "Samuel" and "2003" in the same article? Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 17:50, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
- Hi; possibly, but unfortunately in either case, since I'm not an administrator here I cannot help with that, so a local sysop will have to do this. EPIC (talk) 20:09, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
EP1C or EPIC1
Are you available on IRC through EP1C or EPIC1 (based on your EnWiki and Meta user pages)?
On the En-Wiki user page you said as well as the account "EPIC1" on IRC and Miraheze.
On the Meta you said (through userbox) This user is active on IRC using the nick EP1C.
Cheers, Myrealnamm (💬pros · ✏️cons) 16:22, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
- Apparently I have forgotten to update here at enwiki - EP1C is the current nick I use on IRC, although my IRC account is still called EPIC1. EPIC (talk) 16:24, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
- Gotcha. Myrealnamm (💬pros · ✏️cons) 16:35, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
My apologies
Sorry about my misclick that restored garbage to your talk page. I'm not even sure how that happened. Meters (talk) 22:40, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
- It's fine, mistakes can happen. EPIC (talk) 23:22, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
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IP address 50.220.95.39
I was using my laptop at my local Denver Public Library branch on the public Wi-FI and when I went to edit a page I got the "This IP address has been globally blocked" message. I'm currently on one of the public computers sending this message. Is there any way that my user account can be exempted from this apparent ban of someone else using the public Wi-Fi at the library to do abusive editing? 🌿MtBotany (talk) 21:04, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
- @MtBotany: I set the block to anonymous users only. You should be able to edit as normal from that network now. EPIC (talk) 21:13, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks! Working as per-normal. Disappointing that someone else here at the library has been making bad edits, but it is a public space. 🌿MtBotany (talk) 21:41, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
Careful on the rollbacks!
Hi EPIC! You seem to have unintentionally ended up rolling back a spam reversion on Lunchly which restored a vandalized version of the page. Thanks for all you do! ~Darth StabroTalk/Contribs 18:37, 19 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for noticing! I was cleaning up after an LTA who reverts good-faith edits, though there might indeed have been vandalism sneaked in there. EPIC (talk) 18:42, 19 October 2024 (UTC)
- The same applies to your recent change to Rose Hanbury - I have reverted. GenevieveDEon (talk) 18:52, 19 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks, no issue with that either. EPIC (talk) 18:55, 19 October 2024 (UTC)
- If I may add Special:Diff/1252087896 vs. WP:BLPPRIMARY here...
Thanks! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 16:47, 24 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for noticing that as well! EPIC (talk) 16:49, 24 October 2024 (UTC)
