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فارسی ItcouldbepossibleTalk 08:10, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

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A quick search technique?
Can you get the search result from here as per your suggestion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:K4rolB/Sources for these drafts? Draft:Nitter Draft:NodeBB Draft:Freetube Draft:Ethercalc Draft:Pixelfed Draft:Lemmy (software) Draft:Invidious Greatder (talk) 12:49, 24 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks for reaching out to me! I'm glad that you are active in our WP:FOSS. To give you a direct answer: No, I won't do that research for you under the current circumstances. Instead of letting me solve this, I think it would be more productive to help you to acquire the skill to be able to do that by yourself. I was checking your current Draft:YouTube_Vanced and see issues with it. I am aware it's still in drafting stage but together with your other drafts, it reads as WP:Promotion. At least I assume a neutral reader would assume this.
 * Editing and creating content on Wikipedia requires a lot of upfront reading. There is no way around to make yourself familiar with what are the rules and expectations here. And I am also learning every day a lot.
 * I would like to ask you to (re-)read WP:FIRST, WP:GNG and WP:PSTS.
 * While you are including sources very early in the process (good!) you should be more careful and critical which you use to base your article on. When I was roughly checking your sources all of them seem dubious. I checked The Sunday Times from Sri Lanka and had a hard time deciding if it's an acceptable source.
 * Is it a real newspaper company?
 * Do they really have a printed edition?
 * Why they don't mention the day of release of their article?
 * Where is their imprint?
 * Why do you have to go as far as Sri Lanka to find a good source to make your claim?
 * Following the advice from WP:THREE you should focus on 3 high quality sources and build your article on top of that.
 * Most of the information you want to convey are facts about the software itself and in software topics you often can get them from primary sources as their Github or similiar. But you need secondary sources to fulfill WP:N
 * Use a device with a physical keyboard and a bigger screen than a smartphone
 * I have seen that you seem to mainly use your phone to make edits on Wikipedia. You can do that but please be aware that it makes the work multiple times harder. So if it's possible for you to have access to a laptop or a desktop PC it would make your own work easier.
 * It's great to see your motivation and I'm here to help you to reach your goals. Try to use my advice to improve on your current draft for YouTube Vanced (which I totally support, it's what I am here for too thematically) and I will support you to guide you on your path.
 * GavriilaDmitriev (talk • they/them) 10:46, 25 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the reply(remember to ping otherwise I wouldn't know you replied). On Vanced article I can see that at least two article has a Wikipedia page. The SriLankan has 330,000 circulation and came up on a search. The other site owners are also a notable news site, so I think it's pretty notable. On the desktop part, I don't have access to one currently and editing is so painful that I am thinking if I should use the wikimedia etherpad to write than paste edits here. I asked you to do the search because I saw that video game reference library has some desktop bookmark magic to search multiple sites at once which can't be done on mobile. Thanks again[why do I have to sign with tildes? So annoying :'( ] Greatder (talk) 10:28, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Can you please specify which pages you consider notable and link directly to their WP articles?
 * Can you link and proof the notability of the TheSundayTimes(SriLanka)?
 * What do you mean with video game reference library?
 * What desktop bookmark magic do you mean?
 * GavriilaDmitriev (talk • they/them) 16:50, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
 * 1.I was referring to this page Draft:YouTube Vanced
 * 2.I linked to the page in the reference section of the Vanced article.
 * 3. This
 * 4. This was the instruction from link above ""You can also create a keyword search of the Library in Firefox:

Bookmark this page Right-click the bookmark and select "Properties" Change the name to "WP:VG mag search". Change the keyword to "vgm". Now you can type something like "vgm Max Payne" in the Firefox address bar to search all the different magazines that have articles so you don't have to browse all the different magazine pages.""Greatder (talk) 05:28, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

February 2022
Hello, I'm Smuckola. I noticed that you recently removed content from Wikipedia:WikiProject Software/sidebar. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. ''You are a new user, who has simultaneously asked newbie questions in good places and requested mentorship, and also stomped the entire world as if you alone own and occupy it. You even got involved in a dispute over nothing due to being a hothead, and got past it due to the very generously good graces of others. You have mass-deleted and altered vital authoritative references such as whole Wikiprojects as if they or their targets do not exist, and you did so without even a single inquiry or any other participation. I don't know how you could presume to think you could automatically know what project is or isn't active when it's the size of the whole world. This is disruptive editing, and users can be blocked for it. Stop. Wikipedia is not your personal toy or mission. Revert your disruption and just participate, slow way down, and ask questions and make basic proposals.'' — Smuckola(talk) 05:00, 25 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello @Smuckola! I'm genuinely sorry that I stepped unto your toes with my edits. Thank you that you you care about the content on Wikipedia to the same extent as I do. There is no reason for a conflict and also for no personal feud since we both want to improve things. None of us is perfect and we all make mistakes --> WP:BITE.
 * | Looking at your edits and your fleeting mention it seems that your main concern is about the sidebar of WikiProject Software.
 * Out of pure curiosity I would like to ask you, why you prefer to link to WikiProjects which are inactive?
 * Furthermore I would like to remind you that the link to WP:FOSS has changed two years ago as you can see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Software/Free_Software&action=history. Thus I used one of the shortcuts on our TaskForce header. But again, it's possible to have different opinions and I respect that.
 * You are right that I didn't inquired all the places where I made edits. I have been WP:BOLD and took the risk that someone might not agree, which we are hopefully settling peaceful here now. GavriilaDmitriev  (talk • they/them) 08:57, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Welcome GavriilaDmitriev! Hello GavriilaDmitriev. Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions!

I'm Sm8900, one of the other editors here, and I hope you decide to stay and help contribute to this amazing repository of knowledge. Alternatively, leave me a message at my talk page or type  here on your talk page and someone will try to help. To get some practice editing you can use a sandbox. You can [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Mypage/sandbox&action=edit&preload=Template:User_Sandbox/preload create your own personal sandbox] for use any time. It's perfect for working on bigger projects. Then for easy access in the future, you can put  on your userpage.

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 Sincerely, Sm8900 (talk) 22:18, 28 February 2022 (UTC)   [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Sm8900&action=edit&section=new&preload=Template:Welcome_to_Wikipedia/user-talk_preload (Leave me a message)]

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فارسی Sm8900 (talk) 22:18, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Sending pings and inline icon templates
Hey GavriilaDmitriev, about your reply at WT:COUNCIL: your attempted ping did not get sent, because you linked to a non-existent Wikipedia article PJvanMill instead of my user page, user:PJvanMill. How I usually send pings is by writing, which automatically gets expanded into. You can also use a template like. You also did not sign your post, which prevents a ping from being sent (see WP:MENTION for a complete explanation of when a ping is sent).

Secondly: inline icon templates such as, etcetera are typically only used at the start of a comment, instead of in multiple places throughout the comment. Your use of them is overkill and a bit distracting. The same goes for boldface-font text. Kind regards from  PJvanMill ) talk ( 13:52, 1 March 2022 (UTC)