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Page deletion issue Webdoors

Hi Padgriffin,

I have been working to create article about Georgian Based Software company Webdoors JSC , which is serving more than 100000 users daily through more than 10 client websites in Georgia. Please be precise and remove deletion tag from the companies article, it is not for a commercial use, but for the history that this company has achieved and will achieve. Shalikosi (talk) 13:44, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

Please read WP:GNG- the article currently does not display any evidence of notability. Padgriffin ^{Griffin's Nest} 13:45, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

no that is the link to provide students all and depth knowledge of msc as that was not the ariticle we can't provide depth knowledge there so i inserted the link AnshulKumar2003 (talk) 04:20, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

What? Padgriffin ^{Griffin's Nest} 04:21, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

I am saying that the link i have linked there is only for students as you know the page msc has no defination i described it there. And there in no proper knowledge about msc in the page so the link is necessary there for students purpose. AnshulKumar2003 (talk) 04:26, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

You edited a disambig and added a spam link- also, there is a link to Master of Science on the page, under "Education". Padgriffin ^{Griffin's Nest} 11:29, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

Yiwu railway station Telegraph Code

Dear Padgriffin,

I noticed that Yiwu railway station has a Telegraph code called YWH, but however you changed the YWH page from a disambiguation page to a redirect.

Please look into this.

Thank you.

Aravindhan Ravikumar (talk) 07:19, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

I restored the redirect as I could find no instances of "YWH" actually being used to refer to the station- all of the instances of "YWH" I could find were used to refer to the Canadian airport, with no hits outside of Wikipedia (and mirrors) for the station. Padgriffin ^{Griffin's Nest} 11:27, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

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Draft:Fan Pengfei

Per WP:DRAFTOBJECT, I have asked you at Draft talk:Fan Pengfei#Return to draft because one link has been invaild to self-revert your move of the page to draft. Before your move of the page to the draft, I had already objected to a previous move to draft. Cunard (talk) 10:07, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

Moved. Padgriffin ^{Griffin's Nest} 10:32, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

Jeanne Calment

You reverted my deletion of "nationality French" stating that it did not appear constructive. No other supercentenarian has their nationality in their Infobox. I wasn't experimenting, I was simply making a reversion of an edit by a new editor with the grand total of four edits. I myself, although retired for the time being, have made well over 16 thousand. Regards, 2A02:8388:27C0:4480:F55C:15C6:CCAE:AEBB (talk) 02:31, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

WP:HKGW again?

is this the HKGW 219.76.24.194 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)?
I noticed that the anon reverted a removal on Template talk:HK routes by Citobun Citobun removed an anon's talk and flagged that edit as HKGW. Citobun hasn't edited for a few months and I saw you also reverted an edit on Tt:HK routes. I removed one of the anon's red link categories and was pinged to the anon's talk page. I replied and then noticed that the anon had added a number of red linked categories which I started removing. Then noticed the Tt EW. Not familiar with how to proceed, so leaving this message. Thanks Adakiko (talk) 08:10, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

Category requests by 219.76.24.194

• WP:RACFC#Category request: Category:Roads in New Kowloon
• WP:RACFC#Category request: Category:Roads in Kowloon
• WP:RACFC#Category request: Category:Road bridges in Hong Kong
  • I made a comment on each of these mentioning HKGW.
• 42.200.55.113 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) edited ~ 5 Oct 2022

Cheers Adakiko (talk) 10:03, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

Reporting the IPs to AIV should suffice. The New Kowloon category and obsession with roads in Hong Kong is a pretty clear giveaway that it's them again, despite their attempts at claiming otherwise. Padgriffin ^{Griffin's Nest} 17:18, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

Thanks. That was a simple AIV report. Was the RACFC comment a good idea or not? DENY? Cheers Adakiko (talk) 17:34, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

I'm a bit iffy about that, as two of those categories do make sense and are needed as a result of the CFD- but the "New Kowloon" one is questionable as it's one of HKGW's favorite terms that has close to zero actual usage in real life. Padgriffin ^{Griffin's Nest} 17:40, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

@Adakiko: Wow! I came back from a couple months off Wikipedia and my notifications are filled with reverts by HKGW using countless different IPs. Thanks for keeping an eye on this user. Citobun (talk) 03:02, 22 October 2022 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion contested: Pagure

Hello Padgriffin. I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Pagure, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A7 does not apply to software. Thank you. BangJan1999 20:05, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you reviewed

Hello, Padgriffin. Thank you for your work on Gawar people. User:Onel5969, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

Hi there... I unreviewed this because none of the sources talk in-depth about this ethnic group. In fact, 8 of the 9 don't even mention the group, only the language, Gawar-Bati, or the Gawar region. The ninth mentions it, but only in a passing sense. I think this should stay unreviewed for a while to give the creator time to add more sources (I left a message on their talk page). But if it remains in this condition for a week, I'll draftify it, or mark it for deletion.

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Edit war notice

Hi, I noticed you're currently engaged in an edit war with an IP address on Rodent. While the other person is making unconstructive edits, you should report this to WP:ANI or request page protection, instead of repeatedly reverting their edits. I would advise not bothering to negotiate with them, as they've already been issued an extreme warning with no response. Thank you Coolman2917 (talk) 14:13, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

I personally don't know how the IP is doing this, Pending Changes lock is enabled so a reviewer is allowing these. Coolman2917 (talk) 14:14, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

After further looking into it, the IP in question is blocked. Please disregard, thank you for reverting. Coolman2917 (talk) 14:16, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

I would like to note that the IP in question was adding obvious vandalism to the page (unless you consider "gdfsgawe4twa4taw4taw4twa4taw4t" to not be obvious vandalism) and was editing a large amount of pages, introducing similar gibberish to all of them. WP:3RRNO has explicit exemptions for this kind of vandalism, and they hopped IPs almost as soon as they were being blocked. This entirely falls under the provisions of WP:ROLLBACKUSE, which is to revert obvious vandalism and other edits where the reason for reverting is absolutely clear. Padgriffin ^{Griffin's Nest} 14:20, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

I didn't know there were exceptions to 3RR, thanks for this info Coolman2917 (talk) 15:00, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Aries Dates

you can click here https://horoscopes.astro-seek.com/#birthchart for the accurate dates, try the birth charts by putting the dates, and Aries dates are from March 20 to April 20 79.106.161.138 (talk) 07:20, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

That is very obviously not a WP:RS. Padgriffin ^{Griffin's Nest} 08:05, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

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Hi it appears an organization's page was mistakenly flagged to be deleted

Hi it appears an organization's page was mistakenly flagged to be deleted, may you please resolve this. Wixmv (talk) 17:03, 1 December 2022 (UTC)

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Wishing Padgriffin a very happy birthday on behalf of the Birthday Committee!   Chris Troutman (talk) 14:43, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! Padgriffin ^{Griffin's Nest} 16:43, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

Thanks! Padgriffin ^{Griffin's Nest} 23:52, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

Disgusting

The map of India isn't right and you think this is a neutral thing? Why? Now you are going to decide what is our nation's boundaries? Or you're one of the great worker of the following company to make sure everything is against anything that doesn't suit you or west's mindset? Vishwas225 (talk) 21:50, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

Please read WP:NPOV and WP:NPA. All I can really do is to advise you to not continue with this manner of behavior, since it will likely lead to a block. Padgriffin ^{Griffin's Nest} 21:53, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

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Infinite Dimensional Lebesgue Measure

The article I edited contradicts itself, by making a claim that there is no infinite dimensional Lebesgue measure, and then constructing three examples two paragraphs down. Do not edit if you are not a mathematician or do not understand mathematics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.168.158.220 (talk) 15:25, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

The article itself contains the references! Do you even read? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.168.158.220 (talk) 15:29, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

How can you edit this page when you do not understand what it is saying? It is saying that Lebesgue measure doesn't exist, then constructs it two paragraphs down as the product measure! The claim is that it doesn't exist on separable spaces, this is true, and that sigma finite versions don't exist. This is the only claim made in the sources. How can you edit without understanding the article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.168.158.220 (talk) 15:32, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

strongDM

I left a detailed explanation of my argument to the deletion request on the talk page. In response to the nomination for deletion, this article uses nearly all reputable 3rd party sources and the one or two instances where it may use an interview or Crunchbase, it does so for very limited information like to cite that he is CEO or that the company does employ 90 people. Apparently the old article used a lot of improper sourcing but, that is not the case with my version. My argument for notability is that the company is often referenced as notable competition by other companies in the field that are deemed reputable, the company was one of the few successful SV tech companies led by a female founder, that managed to raise over $76M in venture capital. It is backed by GV (formerly Google Ventures) and has the Managing Partner of Sequoia, Douglas Leone on its board. The company is also cited on his Wikipedia page and on the page of competitors.

The page isnt completely finished .. I thought I would like to put an early version up where myself and the rest of the community could work on it. If you have any suggestions on how I can improve the article or you would like to chat, I am happy to converse on my talk page . I would be happy to take you through my logic. ScienceAdvisor (talk) 19:42, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Unfortunately, notability is not inherited, and the mere fact that a notable company may have invested in the company does not help the article in terms of determining notability. I've looked through almost every source cited and they either involve some sort of participation from the company in question, making them not independent, are press releases or fails to qualify as significant coverage. The only one that initially looked semi-promising (Socialstarts) turned out to be a promotion from a Venture Capital fund that also has/had a direct disclosed financial state in the company. I couldn't find any other significant coverage through Googling either. Padgriffin ^{Griffin's Nest} 21:04, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Can you give me an example of a press release used on this page? Also there are a number of articles that are independent sources. I avoided all of the articles where the company was mentioned and there was only a quote from the CEO, instead focusing on articles where the subject was strongDM and their product offerings. There is a NY Post article about them being an early female founder investment from HearstLabs, the Global Managing Partner of Sequoia Capital is one of their board members and has it on his profile. There is coverage from Forbes, I know they sell articles occasionally but, those are usually from low level contributors. Their platform is technical in nature so, their coverage is from sources like TechCruch, DevOps and IT sources.. Did you really go through and look at the articles that have strongDM in the heading and the more technical sources? Do you understand what they do? I don't want to overstep but your argument doesnt seem as credible. A simple Google search for a technical product like wouldnt differentiate from credible sources and ones which they were just participating as a technical expert. ScienceAdvisor (talk) 21:25, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

WP:SIRS requires sources to be be completely independent of the article subject. A quote from the CEO renders the source non-independent. Even if the WP:NYPOST article passed SIGCOV it would still not be usable regardless. The DevOps articles are both non-independent. The WP:TECHCRUNCH article is nearly half-comprised of direct comments from the CEO, and the source is questionable in for use of establishing notability. Padgriffin ^{Griffin's Nest} 21:42, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Using a quote from a press release does not stop the source from being independent. Also, in this type of tech based area, it is common to request a quote from the source when doing an article. In fact in journalism, it is proper to notify a subject of an article and request a comment. It just good journalism and it adds to the cache of the article. Plus the NY Post article is quoting an employee of Hearst and not from strongdm. What is not appropriate sourcing is using articles where the employees are being quoted as experts on other subjects. In those articles the company is usually only mentioned once and there are hundreds of them on the internet to go through. ScienceAdvisor (talk) 00:35, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

Saraik District

Hi dear the page you edited Saraik District Province Bamian Country Afghanistan is a historical place in Afghanistan . you don't know about historical background of Saraik District in Afghanistan , The Saraik District in Afghanistan is with the name of Saraik where Saraiki language is spoken . SOURCE: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA ,

The geographical name data for Saraik in Afghanistan, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division.

Full Name (see definition): Saraik

Primary Country Code (see definition): AF (Afghanistan)

First-order administrative division code (see definition): 05 (Bāmyān )

Region Font Code (see definition): 4 (Russia/ Central Asia)

Unique Feature Identifier (see definition): -3390841

Unique Name Identifier (see definition): -4822293

Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): 35.185

Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): 67.721111

[https://geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=-4822293&fid=154&c=afghanistan ] let people know the background of Saraik in Afghanistan , Requested that dont misguide the people of World .

Saraik (talk) 05:31, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

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November Articles for creation backlog drive

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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.

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Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over 1100 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:24, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

The Current Edit War on the Nijikon Wikipedia Page.

Hi, i'm aware that you've removed my reversion of the Nijikon Article for "unconstructive editing" Despite the fact that the article in question has been constantly vandalized for weeks now by people who have since been exposed for spreading misinformation about Nijikon and Japanese Otaku Culture in general. As me and several other users have attempted to fix and restore the article to its original state our reversions have all been removed for nonsensical reasons. I would like a full explanation for why this is happening and what is the true purpose doing this. 75.42.43.57 (talk) 08:02, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 59

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Issue 59, September – October 2023

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Copy-paste move

Hi,

How would I move the page for Appomattox Regional Governor's School for the Arts And Technology? I asked about this seven years ago on the page, but no one answered, and once I tried moving it, I couldn't because the page I wanted to move to already existed as a redirect. The capitalization at the original page is incorrect. It should be moved. But I can't do it. Packer1028 (talk) 23:20, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

I've applied for CSD G6 (WP:G6) speedy deletion on the alternative spelling- an admin should come along and move the page properly in a bit. Padgriffin ^{Griffin's Nest} 23:27, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

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Those are cities not regions on the Romani Americans article.

The Romani people portal is also up for deletion. 79.141.173.157 (talk) 00:22, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Draftification question

Hi, Padgriffin! I have a quick question about an article you recently draftified, Draft:Copper Development Association UK. Because the article didn't have sources, I was keeping an eye on it for draftification, but wanted to ensure it hadn't been edited within an hour (per WP:DRAFTIFY). The article creator made a substantial edit at 6:22 CT, then another editor draftified at 6:32 CT. Because this violated WP:DRAFTIFY, I moved the article back into the mainspace at 6:54 CT, but then you draftified again two minutes later. Given that you have much more experience with New Page Patrol and Wikipedia more generally than I do, could you explain why you draftified the article again? Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 13:13, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

That's odd, because when I came to the article I saw that there were two edits, the initial edit and yours at 11:52 GMT, and since it had been an hour (12:56 GMT) it was presumably fine to move it. Looking at the history I can see that there were multiple edits in between, but I didn't see them- and since you moved the page back without a redirect, I wasn't aware that you had done a WP:DRAFTOBJECT (note: it's not a good idea to move it back to mainspace just because someone else violated WP:DRAFTIFY's 1-hour timer as technically this means nobody can move it back in the future). Maybe the logs hadn't caught up on my end because the page had been moved back and forth? Very odd indeed. Padgriffin ^{Griffin's Nest} 14:23, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation! I'll keep the undrafting comment in mind, too. :) Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 14:28, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 60

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Issue 60, November – December 2023

• Three new partners
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Books & Bytes – Issue 61

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Issue 61, January – February 2024

• Bristol University Press and British Online Archives now available
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Yerida

You restored a claim that a 2004 document is the Israeli government's latest population projection about Israel. Why did you restore this? Do you believe that they haven't issued a single projection in the last 20 years? 123.51.107.94 (talk) 01:24, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

I... have not done that. My last edit to that page was here. As of writing nobody has actually reverted your removal of that specific claim, so I am extremely confused as to why you're claiming that I did. Padgriffin ^{Griffin's Nest} 01:28, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

I didn't realise that you'd reverted the first edit rather than the second. But why did you revert that one? Your templated warning treated me like a vandal. 123.51.107.94 (talk) 01:34, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Because your edit changed the wording in a way that made it more confusing so I reverted it. The templates are sent automatically via Huggle. Padgriffin ^{Griffin's Nest} 01:36, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024

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New Page Review queue January to March 2024

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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Invitation to join the Ten Year Society

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I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Ten Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for ten years or more. ​

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Thanks! Ten years really does seem to fly by, eh? (Yes I know I'm late) Padgriffin ^{Griffin's Nest} 23:33, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Nice line

If Wikipedia were Facebook, I would have awarded this line a like and a lol: "The summary for Air France Flight 447 is 'Entered high-altitude stall; impacted ocean' and not 'plane crashed because too slow' for a reason." I may start talking about stalls as "plane crashed because too slow". PRRfan (talk) 00:16, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! I was trying to figure out how to communicate that occasionally you will need to use the correct technical term to describe an incident even if the general public would likely not be aware of it, and describing a stall as "plane slow then crash" was the best way I could do it. Padgriffin ^{Griffin's Nest} 00:22, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

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Requesting you reconsider reverting my addition to the molasses page

Hi. I appreciate your hard work on Reddit but my edit should not have been deleted. Many uses for molasses have been added recently and I see no reason why its use in dinosaur shaped dog treats is less worthy of mention than any of the other uses. It is in fact being used in this way as you can verify with a google search or this link to the product I am referring to:

https://petrinserepeatstore.myshopify.com/products/handmade-molasses-dino-delights-wheat-corn-and-soy-free-designer-dog-treats-12-per-case2600:1001:B055:2DB7:B122:36F9:86A4:5522

2600:1001:B055:2DB7:B122:36F9:86A4:5522 (talk) 01:07, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

This is a WP:LTA who has been inserting claims about supposed dinosaur content in molasses into Molasses since at least 2019. See User:Meters/Molasses dinosaur vandal Meters (talk) 06:29, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 62

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Issue 62, March – April 2024

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Content deletion

Hello,

I was editing/adding to the page for Ministry for Ethnic Communities and my work has been reverted. I was wondering if you could perahps let me know your reasoning? I am aware is was not strictly MOS compliant, but thats what I was working to fix i.e adding relevant citations for my new addition. Even my fixing of grammatical errors was reverted? Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing back from you. Mr Public Management (talk) 06:01, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Twitter the Ship of Theseus

If you think my Theseus comments constitute "original research", please read this. But I'm not gonna engage in those move discussions any longer, cos life's too short. Kailash29792 (talk) 11:55, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 63

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Issue 63, May – June 2024

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Books & Bytes – Issue 64

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Issue 64, July – August 2024

• The Hindu Group joins The Wikipedia Library
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Books & Bytes – Issue 65

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