User talk:LightningComplexFire/2020 archives

Speedy deletion nomination of Shalimar Restaurant (chain)


A tag has been placed on Shalimar Restaurant (chain) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a company, corporation or organization that does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the. David Biddulph (talk) 14:32, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I'll try to fix it in my sandbox then --♦M-ir_AHE-zeGUy♦ (talk) 14:34, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

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--&#123;&#123;SUBST:User:GeometryDashFan12/sig&#125;&#125; (talk) 19:16, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of Copper Fire (2020) for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Copper Fire (2020) 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/Copper Fire (2020) 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. McMatter (talk)/(contrib) 16:15, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Templates that link to user-space pages
I'm not sure what value Global user page, User CentralAuth , and Sandboxlinkup have.

Correction - I see what value they have, but there are already ways of doing this. Plus, it's much more common to use a wikilink thank a URL for internal links, and much more common to use an interwiki link for links to other Wikimedia Foundation projects.

For example, the "canonical" way to do "Global user page" would be either with an interwiki, mw:User:, or by a URL using either the "fullurl" magic word, , or the "canonicalurl" magic word,.

Centralauth and the sandbox are similar, except use Special:CentralAuth/ and User:/sandbox  instead of  mw:User:.

You can also use  in place of   in the examples above, which will substitute the page name as it is right now for the calculated-at-time-of-viewing magic word BASEPAGENAME. On this page it renders as GeometryDashFan12 but unlike the ones above, it will stay that way even if the page is later moved. You can see this for yourself by editing this comment. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)  18:17, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

Odd thanks received from you
I got a notification dated 11 minutes ago saying you thanked me for my action from an automated action to my account in 2016 that gave me "extended confirmed user" rights.

It's very unusual to get "thanked" for something that old, particularly for something that was automatic.

Did you thank me, or did I just discover a bug in the system? davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)  16:46, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
 * It was on accident --a gd fan (talk) 16:47, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
 * OK as long as it wasn't on account of a bug in the Wikimedia software. That was my main concern.  davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  16:52, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

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Your recent report
Hi, thanks for reporting this. In the future, if you see content this egregious, please report it immediately. Don't worry about following the typical warning structure.  Anarchyte  ( talk •  work ) 15:12, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
 * You're welcome --a gd fan (talk) 19:00, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

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Disambugition pages
For proposing an intriguing idea with some creative misppelings:

Cheers, &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 19:51, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Important Notice
Doug Weller talk 16:34, 30 October 2020 (UTC) Does that mean I'm in trouble? --a gd fan (talk) 16:41, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
 * No, but your edit to Antifa - or rather to two articles on Antifa in two countries - were reverted. Please don't do that again without discussing it at the talk page. Terrorism is not a label to be tossed around without discussion and damn good sources (hopefully not political ones). Doug Weller  talk 16:52, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

November 2020

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.. Shut up guys a gd fan (talk) 17:32, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Your recent editing history at Antifa (United States) shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See the bold, revert, discuss cycle for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing&mdash;especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring&mdash;even if you do not violate the three-revert rule&mdash;should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Binksternet (talk) 16:21, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing from certain pages (Antifa (United States)) for a period of 1 week for not adhering to neutral point of view and edit warring. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:23, 2 November 2020 (UTC)


 * No, its because some antifa defender reverted my edit removing biased content, and he said it was unexplained. I reverted the content to explain why I removed it and now you are reverting my edit for edit warring, and my edit should stay. a gd fan (talk) 16:24, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
 * And why am I temporarily blocked from editing an article because I was edit warring? It was only 1 revert that I made and there are vandals and LTAs that have shorter blocks. And if you want to enforce NPOV, then remove what I removed, not suck up to terrorists a gd fan (talk) 16:27, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Before you consider appealing this block, I suggest you read our guidelines on reliable sources, neutral point of view, original research, tendentious editing, and just for fun, no personal attacks. If after reading through these guidelines you think you can convince administrators that you'll stop trying to use two user-submitted wiki websites and a handful of Youtube videos to support the removal of properly-sourced and analyzed material that you happen to disagree with, then by all means see the guide to appealing blocks for instructions to prepare a block appeal. In the meantime you are free to discuss your proposed changes on the article's talk page, as long as you can do so without being disruptive. I see you have already received a notice about the discretionary sanctions that apply to the topic of post-1932 American politics, so I will not repeat it. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:40, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
 * You reverted twice and used rubbish sources. As for bias, political articles are always subject to a variety of biases by the nature of politics and WP:NPOV is how we deal with that. The next step for you if you don't change will be a longer block or a topic ban from anything to do with American politics.  Doug Weller  talk 17:11, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ANTIFA is still violent, even with those "rubbish" a gd fan (talk) 17:15, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
 * And it WAS 1 revert that I made, not 2 a gd fan (talk) 17:18, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
 * The sentence immediately before the one you removed says This may involve digital activism, harassment, physical violence, and property damage against those whom they identify as belonging to the far right. You appear to have overlooked that. FDW777 (talk) 17:21, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
 * If both of those sentences stayed, then the paragraph will look ironic a gd fan (talk) 17:23, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I had no idea it was impossible to engage in violent and non-violent activities at different times. FDW777 (talk) 17:26, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

Userpage editnotice
Hi, I noticed that you have a custom editnotice for your userpage. That particular editnotice (the creepy pictures of the "ghost" and threat that the ghost will haunt you) isn't really appropriate; would you please remove it? GeneralNotability (talk) 19:14, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I have deleted it per the user's request. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 19:40, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Please remain civil on your user page
Hello, I have noticed your comments on the country of Israel, on your user page, and they violate Wikipedia's Civility Policy. (WP:CIVIL) Please remove the negative comments, and delete the userbox. While you may not like a particular group of people, it is inappropriate to have that material on Wikipedia. JackFromReedsburg (talk &#124; contribs) 19:06, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Fine, but I would rather not a gd fan (talk) 19:10, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:GeometryDashFan12/Userboxes/Anti-Israel
User:GeometryDashFan12/Userboxes/Anti-Israel, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:GeometryDashFan12/Userboxes/Anti-Israel and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of User:GeometryDashFan12/Userboxes/Anti-Israel during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Joseph2302 (talk) 16:10, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you make personal attacks on other people. Comment on content, not on fellow editors. For the avoidance of doubt, you are to treat all persons with respect while editing on this website, per the civility policy. We give a very wide latitude to users making political statements and expressing support for various positions on their user pages and/or through the creation and use of userboxes, but we do not tolerate hatred nor hateful statements of any kind. Furthermore you are to respond civilly and respectfully to fellow contributors; your casting of aspersions that other editors "love praising killers" or that you "don't even care" are disrespectful and unacceptable. One more incident of this behaviour and you will be blocked from editing.

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 * -- Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:15, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

November 2020
You have been blocked from editing for a period of 2 weeks for making personal attacks towards other editors. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 20:08, 5 November 2020 (UTC)


 * What attack!? What did I do!? a gd fan (talk) 20:13, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
 * You were given a final warning about edits like this just three hours ago. In addition to your ongoing disrespectful comments, your edits on the PETA talk page are indistinguishable from trolling. You can use these two weeks to read and understand the civility and no personal attacks policies, and if you can't improve your attitude then maybe this website is not for you. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 20:16, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
 * The first was a joke, and the second and third aren't attacks. a gd fan (talk) 20:18, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:CropScreenshot123456qwerty.png


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PA
Read wp:npa", You comment ion content, not the motivation of a user.Slatersteven (talk) 09:51, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of User:GeometryDashFan12/sandbox/sjw


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 * That sandbox was to add a new section to another article --a gd fan (talk) 20:02, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

August Complex
, may you please add information regarding August Complex containment on 2020 California wildfires and August Complex Fire? I'm blocked. https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/6983/ is proof. --a gd fan (talk) 20:07, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
 * GeometryDashFan12, while you are blocked you may not recruit other editors to make edits on your behalf. You can make this edit yourself if you successfully appeal your block or after it expires. Ajs2004 may be blocked if they edit for you and your block may be extended. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 20:11, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I didn't know that, sorry --a gd fan (talk) 20:12, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Silverado fire
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Your GA nomination of Silverado fire
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RFA transclusion
Please don't transclude an RFA unless you are asked to (you made two mistakes doing so), and in the very unlikely chance you need to, please make sure that the standard template is used for the RFA. power~enwiki ( π, ν ) 19:16, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: List of closed Wikipedias (December 1)
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Clean up tags
Please stop tagging articles for clean up until you have a better understanding of what it entails. How is this "lead to short"? It's a single sentence sub-stub. Tagging this article, created by an Adminstrator, as a hoax and pinging Jimbo Wales in your edit summary? Why? Here you put the more sources needed tag intended for an entire article into a section - a section which includes inline citations. While your intent is to be helpful, the outcome is not. You have only been using this account for 2 months+ and have more warnings and blocks than I would expect to see in 2 years of editing. I strongly suggest you seek a mentor to avoid further issues.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 20:41, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Ok, sorry, about the "hoax" I thought I saw something with misinformation, so I tried pinging any admin that came to mind, but then I noticed the references, so I removed the hoax tag. --a gd fan (talk) 20:47, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't doubt your good faith in adding the tags, but it's not helpful if they're incorrect. -- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 20:51, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Articles
You've been warned previously not to edit the user pages of other editors - doing so is now a requirement for your continued ability to edit Wikipedia, additionally, I would strongly encourage you to now spend as little time as possible editing your own user page, and instead to focus on material improvements to the articles that are the core purpose of Wikipedia. Nick (talk) 19:10, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

User Page / "Least Favorites"
Hi there.

The "Least Favorites" section on your user page comes off as aggressive, hateful, and generally un-collegial. I would strongly advise you remove it, it will not make you many friends here. -- a they/them &#124; argue &#124; contribs 21:48, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Category:2020 identifications has been nominated for deletion
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Same Thing
Hi, I have the same problem as yours. It always says ERROR. Hope its not the whole system is broken.

 Larryzhao|Talk|Contribs  22:46, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

North Complex Fire Caps
I appreciate your effort to cleanup capitalization, but "fire", as part of the name of a wildfire, is capitalized. Like any other natural feature that is lowercase when a general term it is capitalized when included in proper a name. (Think lake, river, mountain, hurricane...) Thank you again for your efforts. Crescent77 (talk) 15:30, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Slater and Devil fires has been accepted
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Your signature
Hi, your signature is non-compliant with Wikipedia's signature policies, in particular: Please can you read through Signatures and update your signature to be compliant with that page? Joseph</b><b style="color:#000000">2302</b> (talk) 16:00, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
 * 1) Images should not be used in signatures, as per WP:SIGIMAGE
 * 2) tags should not be used, as they can disrupt text around it (WP:SIGAPP)
 * 3) The yellow text is almost unreadable for someone with reasonably good eyesight, so will be impossible to read for people with visions problems, and as such almost all shades of yellow on a white background fail MOS:COLOR.
 * The fire isn't an image, it's an emoji, but I will remove the yellow and big --  🔥 Lightning  Complex  Fire 🔥  16:45, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Also, your signature is currently 292 bytes long when the normal limit is 256, you are currently circumventing this limit using substitution of user:LightningComplexFire/sig. See WP:SIGLEN.  PorkchopGMX  (talk • contribs • Merry Christmas!) 15:03, 12 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you for removing the big markup in User:LightningComplexFire/sig! As PorkchopGMX noted, your signature exceeds the character limit, which is actually 255. Also, it is missing a closing  tag, which is causing missing end tag lint errors. I struggled with it and I don't see any way of saving all aspects of your signature within the 255-character limit. I suggest sacrificing the text shadow, and going with this:


 * : —🔥<b style="color:red">Lightning</b><b style="color:orange">Complex</b><b style="color:yellow">Fire</b>🔥


 * That works, with 44 characters to spare. However, it does not address Joseph2302's concern over the poor contrast of yellow on white. I assume you are contemplating another "warm" color to use instead and I leave that to you. —Anomalocaris (talk) 11:47, 15 December 2020 (UTC)


 * I see that you have updated User:LightningComplexFire/sig largely along my suggestion, and you've added a bit more, using exactly 255 characters. Congratulations! —Anomalocaris (talk) 21:59, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Hello, i hate to bother you again, but unfortunately you will have to change your sig again. It is 261 bytes long (over the limit of 255) and it contains a transclusion of a template, something that isn’t allowed in signatures. Also by transcluding the ping template in your sig you may accidentally ping the user named Ping. You will have to change  in your signature to   to fix these issues.  PorkchopGMX  (talk • contribs • Merry Christmas!) 15:33, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

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Hi
Hey! I see that you like to do a lot of wildfire edits! And I was also wondering if you live in the Sonoma/Napa area? Cause I’m mostly into this because I went thru the 2017 Tubbs fire and kincade. Also I would like to thank you for making the Mountain View fire page, I was literally getting on rn just to make it then I see that you did it. But other than that I just wanted to say hi. Hockey4life101 (talk) 04:52, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I used to live in Alameda County, but I moved away. I now live in Texas. But North California is my real home :) --🔥<b style="color:red">Lightning</b><b style="color:orange">Complex</b><b style="color:dijon">Fire</b>🔥 (always me when replying) 13:39, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I remember seeing smoke from the Camp Fire before, and my mom's friend had to be evacuated from the Woolsey Fire. --🔥<b style="color:red">Lightning</b><b style="color:orange">Complex</b><b style="color:dijon">Fire</b>🔥 (always me when replying) 13:41, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I started editing the wildfire articles because the SCU Complex threatened the city I used to live. --🔥<b style="color:red">Lightning</b><b style="color:orange">Complex</b><b style="color:dijon">Fire</b>🔥 (always me when replying) 13:46, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Bond Fire has been accepted
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Thanks again, and happy editing! I dream of horses (Contribs) Please notify me after replying off my talk page. Thank you. 14:18, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Talk alert test
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Revert?
Reverting is for vandalism. Choose "Undo" so you can add a comment. I'm assuming the source you've found is reliable. Deb (talk) 19:23, 18 December 2020 (UTC) ...though actually, you don't even need to undo, just re-add the entry with a source. Deb (talk) 19:24, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Could you add some context to that entry? Most readers won't even know what country the fire was in. Deb (talk) 09:53, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Red Salmon Complex fire has been accepted
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Your submission at Articles for creation: 2020 Lassen County Wildfires has been accepted
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Vandalism reverting
Sorry about reverting your vandalism. It was Twinkle that said it was vandalism so I rollbacked them. – Cupper 52 Discuss! 11:11, 23 December 2020 (UTC)


 * , be careful when using auto vandalism detection. Always scan the text using diffs to see if the change was vandalism or not. JackFromReedsburg (talk &#124; contribs) 15:17, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Rock House Fire (December 30)
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Theroadislong (talk) 19:22, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Rock House Fire has a new comment
<div style="border:solid 1px #9accf6;background:#f1f9ff;padding:1em;padding-top:0.5em;padding-bottom:1em;color:black;margin-bottom: 1.5em;width: 100%;"> I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Rock House Fire. Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 21:25, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I do not know what you mean by "incorrect tense". Can you please clarify? --🔥<b style="color:red">Lightning</b><b style="color:orange">Complex</b><b style="color:dijon">Fire</b>🔥 21:27, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
 * For instance "The fire has possibly been ignited" should read "The fire was possibly ignited" Theroadislong (talk) 21:32, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅, is there anything else I need to fix? --🔥<b style="color:red">Lightning</b><b style="color:orange">Complex</b><b style="color:dijon">Fire</b>🔥 21:37, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Rock House Fire (December 31)
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-- Amanda  (aka DQ) 00:26, 31 December 2020 (UTC)