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I pinged you on the talk page for this article
I'm not sure if you received the notification, but I pinged you to the talk page for Talk:List of formerly unidentified decedents. Koridas(Heyyyyyyy) 05:16, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

A goat for you!
Nice to see you still contributing years later.

Rubbish computer Ping me or leave a message on my talk page 13:39, 20 July 2021 (UTC) 
 * Nice to hear from you! --BabbaQ (talk) 17:16, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of List of fugitives from justice who are no longer sought for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of fugitives from justice who are no longer sought is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted. Davidgoodheart (talk) 19:53, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

Giving information
I had computer help today that was very helpful, so I am feeling optimistic. Davidgoodheart (talk) 01:56, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Sorry for late reply. Great news. --BabbaQ (talk) 15:05, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Please add an infobox to this article Emil Kauppi and add more sources and information if possible. It will need it before I can add it to the List of people who disappeared. And yes I with agree great news and I will be getting more help soon as well. I just discovered these AFDs Disappearance of Maya Millete, and Pro Wrestling Federation of Pakistan right now. Please check it out. Davidgoodheart (talk) 02:56, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

Happy Holidays
Have a great Easter weekend! Davidgoodheart (talk) 16:30, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
 * To you as well! BabbaQ (talk) 18:36, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Would you be able to give this article Mehdi Dibaj an infobox, and add some sources to this George Zápolya article. I am going to see if I can get computer help next week or soon after that. Davidgoodheart (talk) 00:48, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Sure. I’ll take a look today.--BabbaQ (talk) 10:44, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
 * I have added what was needed. At least some improvements to George Zápolya. I have improved the article about the singer Tyler. With sourced confirmation of him participating in the Europe: Love shine a light, which was broadcast to over 100 million people.--BabbaQ (talk) 12:01, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Clarification
Hi. I just felt the need to clarify that despite disagreeing with you on several points in that heated debate for keeping or deleting the article, I have much respect for you as an experienced contributor. I think the whole thing was really going off topic and people may assume bad faith, so I wanted to put an end to any potential tensions that might have risen because of the arguments. Regardless of what the outcome is, your opinions and contributions are appreciated. :) Keivan.f  Talk 16:30, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
 * No worries. Nothing personal from my side either. You are also from what I can see a great editor and a great contributor to Wikipedia. Do not hesitate to contact me if you want an opinion on an article or a question etc. Take care.--BabbaQ (talk) 17:06, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of Princess Leonore, Duchess of Gotland for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Princess Leonore, Duchess of Gotland is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Princess Leonore, Duchess of Gotland& until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Sourcing articles
Can you please add some sources to Charles Miller (musician). Davidgoodheart (talk) 20:11, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Done.--BabbaQ (talk) 18:15, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

Souring articles
Hi, do you think you could help with sourcing articles. I keep getting told that I am not adding good enough sources. I thought that you could either help me find sources to add or check to see if my sources are adequate. Davidgoodheart (talk) 10:41, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, sorry for the delay. I can see what I can do to help! :)--BabbaQ (talk) 15:08, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Good! Are you able to find reliable sources for this article here John Middleton (cowboy). Also please check out this article that is up for deletion William Edward Willoughby. Davidgoodheart (talk) 22:48, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I found two great sources. The ref tool does not work right now, so I might go back later to proper format the sources.--BabbaQ (talk) 08:07, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

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Archiving my talkpage
Hi! Do you think that you can archive my page for me? I would do so myself, but do not yet know how to. Davidgoodheart (talk) 09:02, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Just so we are clear. You mean that you want your talk page archived every 2 weeks or so?--BabbaQ (talk) 09:10, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
 * So, I have added the archive bot to your talk page. It will archive every thread that has no new posts up to two weeks on your talk page. But there will always be at least 4 threads on your talk page. Feel free to change how often your bot should archive and how many threads you want at any time.--BabbaQ (talk) 09:50, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Also note that the bot does one drive throughout Wikipedia every night at about 02.00 (CET) and then archives the threads.--BabbaQ (talk) 09:53, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for archiving my talkpage. A while ago you said you could help me with editing. I do need help adding entries to lists, is this something that you are able to help with? It would sure make it a lot easier for me as I just can't do all this editing by myself. Davidgoodheart (talk) 09:31, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Send me the links and I will take a look at it at least. BabbaQ (talk) 18:51, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi, here's an interesting story: After Nearly Four Decades, a Tip Helps Solve the Killing of a School Cook I though I would share this with you. Davidgoodheart (talk) 19:52, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh, I missed this post. Interesting case. I take a look at it. BabbaQ (talk) 03:14, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Looking for help
Hi,

I was looking for some small help. I created an article en:Kithaab (French fr:Kithaab/ German de:Kithaab) -a play about women rights issues- which has been copy edited and is ready for translation in various languages. Looking for your possible help in translating the article en:Kithaab to your language Wikipedia. If you are unable to spare time yourself then may be you like to refer the same to some other translator.

Thanking you, with warm regards

Bookku (talk) 08:08, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Sure. I take a look at it today! BabbaQ (talk) 08:26, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for your valuable response. Looking forward to your possible help in the translations. Bookku (talk) 06:22, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, I am already working on it. I ping you when done. BabbaQ (talk) 08:35, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
 * After some time trying to work on this I have decided that it is better that you contact some other editor that might have more knowledge about this obscure topic. Like user Paracel63. Contact him. I hope you find help, otherwise contact me again and I will try to refer you to someone else.--BabbaQ (talk) 23:05, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

42 days
How do you know that they spent 42 days on Robinson 2021? -- Hey mid  (contribs) 17:58, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Hmm, you are right. I don’t know. I remove that information for now. BabbaQ (talk) 18:08, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of Tyler (German singer) for deletion
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WikiCup 2021 March newsletter
Round 1 of the competition has finished; it was a high-scoring round with 21 contestants scoring more than 100 points. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 55 contestants qualifying. You will need to finish among the top thirty-two contestants in Round 2 if you are to qualify for Round 3. Our top scorers in Round 1 were:


 * Epicgenius led the field with a featured article, nine good articles and an assortment of other submissions, specialising on buildings and locations in New York, for a total of 945 points.
 * Bloom6132 was close behind with 896 points, largely gained from 71 "In the news" items, mostly recent deaths.
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ImaginesTigers, who has been editing Wikipedia for less than a year, was in third place with 711 points, much helped by bringing League of Legends to featured article status, exemplifying how bonus points can boost a contestant's score.
 * 🇷🇼 Amakuru came next with 708 points, Kigali being another featured article that scored maximum bonus points.
 * Flag of the United Nations.svg Ktin, new to the WikiCup, was in fifth place with 523 points, garnered from 15 DYKs and 34 "In the news" items.
 * 🇧🇼 The Rambling Man scored 511 points, many from featured article candidate reviews and from football related DYKs.
 * Standard of Oliver Cromwell (1653–1659).svg Gog the Mild, last year's runner-up, came next with 498 points, from a featured article and numerous featured article candidate reviews.
 * Bennington Flag.svg Hog Farm, at 452, scored for a featured article, four good articles and a number of reviews.
 * 🇺🇸 Le Panini, another newcomer to the WikiCup, scored 438 for a featured article and three good articles.
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski, last year's champion, scored 332 points, from a featured article and various other sport-related topics.

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. In Round 1, contestants achieved eight featured articles, three featured lists and one featured picture, as well as around two hundred DYKs and twenty-seven ITNs. They completed 97 good article reviews, nearly double the 52 good articles they claimed. Contestants also claimed for 135 featured article and featured list candidate reviews. There is no longer a requirement to mention your WikiCup participation when undertaking these reviews.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article candidate, a featured process, or something else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews.

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Regarding your Melodifestivalen song articles
Hi BabbaQ. I see you've recently created a few articles for Melodifestivalen entries for this year. Please note it is never appropriate to assume and add a genre to an article. These are always contentious descriptions, even if they're broad like "pop" or "rock" and should always be sourced. Please remove any unsourced genres from articles you have created and refrain from adding them in the future per WP:V. Your efforts to expand Wikipedia's coverage of non-Western topics is appreciated, but repeated additions of unsourced information are not okay. Thank you.  Ss  112   00:02, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for Creating Robinson 2021 Article
Hi BabbaQ, I just wanted to thank you for creating the article for Robinson 2021. Good job! If you need any help with the article, feel free to ask. I'll try my best to help if I'm not busy. Thanks again for creating the article. Nintenga (talk) 17:16, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
 * You’re welcome. I just notice a few days ago that no one had created the article yet. It will be interesting to see the contestants in Sweden. Feel free to update the article. Cheers.--BabbaQ (talk) 20:55, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

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The second round of the 2021 WikiCup has now finished; it was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 61 points to advance to Round 3. There were some impressive efforts in the round, with the top eight contestants all scoring more than 400 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 110 good articles achieved in total by contestants, as well as the 216 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.

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Giving information
Hi, I may been getting some more computer help in a few days. Also do you think that you can expand this article here V. Balakumaran (Tamil activist) by adding an infobox and more sources to it. Soon I will ask at the teahouse for this kind of help, but this doesn't mean that I will get some for sure though. Davidgoodheart (talk) 02:41, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
 * The AFD here Pro Wrestling Federation of Pakistan was closed as delete, but has been re-opened! That is the first time that I have ever seen this happen, which I do find odd I must say. Davidgoodheart (talk) 06:45, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Please make infoboxes for these articles Hukum Singh and Raffaele Diana. Davidgoodheart (talk) 01:12, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
 * - It is better that you start a new thread. Or ping me instead of writing a new post at an older post. Because I get no noticifation of these specific new posts. Infoboxes completed. Cheers.. --BabbaQ (talk) 08:36, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

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Getting in contact
Hi, how is everything? I haven't heard from you in a while do I thought that I you message you. I hope all is well. Davidgoodheart (talk) 07:24, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, I have been semi-active on Wikipedia during June. I have enjoyed the summertime. How are you?.--BabbaQ (talk) 14:03, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I am doing a bit better. Also I wanted to let you know that I WON'T have to retire after all. Davidgoodheart (talk) 08:50, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

WikiCup 2021 July newsletter
The third round of the 2021 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 294 points, and our top six scorers all had over 600 points. They were:


 * 🇧🇼 The Rambling Man, with 1825 points from 3 featured articles, 44 featured article reviews, 14 good articles, 30 good article reviews and 10 DYKs. In addition, he completed a 34-article good topic on the EFL Championship play-offs.
 * Epicgenius, a New York specialist, with 1083 points from 2 featured article reviews, 18 good articles, 30 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
 * Bloom6132, with 869 points from 11 DYKs, all with bonus points, and 54 "In the news" items, mostly covering people who had recently died.
 * Standard of Oliver Cromwell (1653–1659).svg Gog the Mild, with 817 points from 3 featured articles on historic battles in Europe, 5 featured article reviews and 3 good articles.
 * Bennington Flag.svg Hog Farm, with 659 points from 2 featured articles and 2 good articles on American Civil War battles, 18 featured article reviews, 2 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 4 DYKs.
 * ICS Zulu.svg BennyOnTheLoose, a snooker specialist and new to the Cup, with 647 points from a featured article, 2 featured article reviews, 6 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 3 DYKs.

In round three, contestants achieved 19 featured articles, 7 featured lists, 106 featured article reviews, 72 good articles, 1 good topic, 62 good article reviews, 165 DYKs and 96 ITN items. We enter the fourth round with scores reset to zero; any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (one contestant in round 3 lost out because of this). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

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Nomination of Lexi Wilson for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Lexi Wilson is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Lexi Wilson until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. The notice above pertains to the following articles you created, which are bundled in the deletion debate: Olivia Wells, Aysel Manafova, Eline de Pool, Mari Chauhan, Shi Lim, Jeanette Borhyová, Nina Đurđević, Amanda Ratnayake, Alexandra Friberg, Olga Storozhenko ☆ Bri (talk) 23:58, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
 * You know what, to make the AfD simpler, I'm going to remove these from the list. ☆ Bri (talk) 03:30, 8 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Half of the articles you listed I did not create. BabbaQ (talk) 06:17, 8 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the mixup, I wish I had just PRODded the ones created by sockfarms from the start. Then AfD any that needed to be, afterwards. The list kind of grew out of hand when I discovered how much they created. - ☆ Bri (talk) 17:38, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
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How many edits have you made?
Hi, if you know how many edits that you have made you can place a star on your userpage like I have. Davidgoodheart (talk) 21:59, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Gunilla Bergström, RIP

 * Thank you. Sad day! As you said, a slice of my/our childhood is gone. --BabbaQ (talk) 07:57, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2021 September newsletter
The fourth round of the competition has finished with over 500 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants, 🇧🇼 The Rambling Man and Epicgenius, each scoring over 3000 points, and six contestants scoring over 1000. All, but one of the finalists achieved one or more FAs during the round, the exception being Bloom6132 who demonstrated that 61 "in the news" items produces an impressive number of points. Other contestants who made it to the final are Gog the Mild, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski,  BennyOnTheLoose, 🇷🇼 Amakuru and  Hog Farm. However, all their points are now swept away and everyone starts afresh in the final round.

Round 4 saw the achievement of 18 featured articles and 157 good articles. Bilorv scored for a 25-article good topic on Black Mirror, but narrowly missed out on qualifying for the final round. There was enthusiasm for FARs, with 89 being performed, and there were 63 GARs and around 100 DYKs during the round. As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it to the final round; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. For other contestants, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4, but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

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North Kosovo crisis
Hello:

The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article North Kosovo crisis has been completed.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Best of luck with the GAN when you get to it. There are some "clarify" tags and dead links that will need to be cleaned up first.

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 18:24, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

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