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Note: My watchlist gets over 1000 edits per day so I don't look at it any longer. If you want my input in a discussion, please ping me or write something here. Wham2001 (talk) 16:50, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year, Wham2001!

Happy New Year!

Wham2001,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Abishe (talk) 14:04, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Precious anniversary

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:10, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank-you Gerda

Wham2001 (talk) 10:23, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Numspan33

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Continual creation of non-notable pages and drafts by Numspan33. Thank you.--Jasper Deng (talk) 21:38, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! That draft must be one of the most chaotic things I've seen on Wikipedia – glad it's been deleted again. Best, Wham2001 (talk) 07:14, 25 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Source stack

hello, do not worry about the sources on the legalism page yet, I have to go through them. I have a tendency to source stack and then trim later.FourLights (talk) 00:22, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Aah, that makes sense. Thanks for dropping by to let me know

Wham2001 (talk) 15:48, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Vids

Could you please explain how I'm supposed to upload vids to the pages I'm working on? DementedSoul4000 (talk) 02:18, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @DementedSoul4000, this information page should have what you need (particularly the "Uploading video" and "Embedding" sections).

But can I ask, is this for Draft:Sword4000? I am going to be blunt here – right now your chances of getting that draft published as an article on Wikipedia are essentially zero. There are a set of criteria that determine whether an article should be included in Wikipedia known as the "notability guidelines" (it's not a good name – "inclusion guidelines" would be closer to the mark). For an article about a living person you need to show either:

That the article subject has has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject (WP:GNG) or
That they meet one of the extra criteria in WP:NPERSON – in this case probably WP:NENT.

Wikipedia gets lots of draft articles about youtubers, and they almost all get rejected for lack of sourcing. As far as I can see no third-party reliable sources have written about Sword4000, and so your draft will get rejected as well when you submit it. I'm saying this, not as a criticism or your work or because I have anything against Minecraft videos, but because I don't want you to spend lots of time on the draft and then not get anywhere with it. Best, Wham2001 (talk) 06:53, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@DementedSoul4000, please don't remove either messages written by other people, or messages from you that have been replied to, from talk pages (either user talk or article talk pages). I've restored this section. See Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines for more advice. Thanks, Wham2001 (talk) 07:14, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Checking broken references

A few weeks ago, you had flagged some broken footnotes at Talk:Flaming Creatures#Missing sources. Is there a tool you were using to identify those? Trying to see if there's a way to automatically check footnotes I add on other articles. hinnk (talk) 22:08, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Hinnk, I use User:Trappist the monk/HarvErrors.js, which highlights problems with {{harv}} and {{sfn}} references, in particular duplicate or missing long-form bibligraphic details. It's super-useful

Best, Wham2001 (talk) 07:17, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! This should make things much easier. hinnk (talk) 07:22, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for this revert. Apparently my forgetfulness. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 10:09, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No worries

I sometimes think that we would be better off if all the references, external links, see-also sections etc. on Wikipedia were handled via some sort of relational database – then validity of the footnotes, avoiding repeated references, etc. could be done automatically and I would need to find some other way of filling quiet Sundays. On the other hand, looking at Wikidata, perhaps we're better off as we are. Best, Wham2001 (talk) 14:19, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Hello and thanks for fixing the weird typos in my copyedit of the Kim Beazley article. I don't know what happened but I was having some key pressing problems on my keyboard yesterday. I should have checked the edit after making it. Cheers, Yahboo (talk) 02:02, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No worries – these kinda things happen

Thanks for dropping by! Wham2001 (talk) 07:32, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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