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FLOG IT!

Hi Lotje! Thanks for your thanks!

Yes, it was quite a surprise to me to discover that on the Paul Martin / Flog It! Pages there were no illustrations in particular of Paul Martin. While it may just be popular culture, it’s still been around for what 17 years and watched daily by a couple of million people. Nearly everybody in the UK must have watched an episode at some point in time!

I don't know how interested in the subject you are or not, but one mystery I could not get to the bottom of was the date of the last recording day and how many episodes they had in hand at that point?

The BBC official Flog It! Facebook page describes a recording at Dover on 8 Feb 2018, then nothing. But an entry for Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery describes a recording around 15 March 2018. But I can find nothing in between. IMDb just petters out. Also somewhere I read that at the end of recording they had some 60 new shows in hand! Have they all been shown? Most daily shows are repeats.

If you could find anything else that would be good and I think worth putting in the Article?

Cheers  ArchaicW (talk) 11:27, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Wish I could help you with more information. If I come across something, I'll give you a buzz. Lotje (talk) 13:17, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

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Hi Lotje, hope you might remember me, ArchaicW, we were in touch a few weeks ago. Lotje, I've been working on an article about an English country house, Fonthill Splendens, the home of William Beckford. I thought I had put it up as a draft, but somehow, it's got directly onto Mainspace! Do you think you could move it to being a Draft, as it's not really complete. I've got illustrations to add etc before asking for it to be Reviewed. If you could move it now, I would be very grateful. Thank you so much ArchaicW (talk) 18:34, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi Lotje, sorry to bother you earlier - I worked out what to do and have been able to move the article back to Draft:Fonthill Splendens. I'll perhaps ask you to have a look at it in a few days when it's more complete. Thanks, sorry to bother you now ArchaicW (talk) 21:51, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
 * you might wish to take a look at the Draft talk:Fonthill Splendens. Lotje (talk) 05:57, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi, Lotje, thanks, sorry for all the bother yesterday. I got it sorted and moved the Article back to Draft. I do think that Wikipedia can be quite complicated - well, you work out after a while how to do something, then you don't need it for a few months and you've forgotten completely how you did it! Anyway, glad you had a look at the Draft, and many thanks for the links to the two images. As you would have seen, I still have a bit of tidying up to do. Regrding the images, I've actually been to Fonthill and have some very good photos of that marvellous gateway! I was going to put one up for the Article, and I'll let you know when it's there. The other one I didn't know about, but I think it actually relates more to Fonthill Abbey than Fonthill Splendens. If you are interested in the whole William Beckford thing, there is a remarkable book FOC online. Its one I referenced in the Article, 'Fonthill Recovered' and you can download the whole book here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/collections/area-studies-1/products/88271  Amazing   Many thanks   Ross ArchaicW (talk) 14:13, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

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FONTHILL SPLENDENS

Hi Lotje, Thought you might like to see my photo of the wonderful gateway at Fonthill: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonthill_-_north_gateway_to_estate.jpg I took the photo longer ago than I thought, but it's still pretty good! I've got a couple of plans to add to the Draft Article - they are Public Domain, being over 200 years old, but they still apparently need reviewed. Ross ArchaicW (talk) 19:47, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
 * maybe this could be of interest. I am considering creating a category on commons. Is that a good idea iyo? Lotje (talk) 04:18, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi Lotje, you're a step ahead of me now! These two images, the elevation and plan of Fonthill Splendends, are the ones I've put up to go in the Draft Article. I was waiting for them to be reviewed, which I see you have done, thank you very much. I'll now go ahead and put the three images in the Draft.

Re having a Category for Fonthill Splendens images, I've been wondering about this. There is actually a Category just for Fonthill, with hundreds of photos in it! But there's a problem - half of them relate to a house in the USA! Really they ought to be subdivided into 'Fonthill Wiltshire' and 'Fonthill USA', but a lot of work!

So, suggest your idea of a separate Fonthill Splendens category is a good one, we leave it at that and maybe some other images will be added. Many thanks  Ross  ArchaicW (talk) 11:03, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi Lotje  You've been at work! Thanks very much for the various edits and tidying up that you have done - much appreciated. Illustrations in particlar seem to do strange things when I try to move them! I think I've now done as much as I can to the article. Would you think I could now move it to Review? (If I can remember how to do it!) Can you review it yourself, or does it need to be looked at by someone else? Many thanks for your help Ross  ArchaicW (talk) 17:17, 30 May 2020 (UTC)


 * since is interested in architecture, you might ask him to take a closer look. :-) Lotje (talk) 09:36, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi Lotje, morning, thanks, that's a very good idea. I know 'Theroadislong', in fact he approved my previous two articles. Not sure if you know him personally so to speak, or saw that he had been involved in my previous articles? I hadn't thought to contact him, as it's ages since I was in touch with him. It seems to take me a long time to find subjects that I think are relevant, then even longer to write an article! I'll contact him and ask him to look at the draft. Yet again, many thanks for your help. Ross ArchaicW (talk) 11:09, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
 * You are most welcome. :-) Lotje (talk) 11:15, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Dear Lotje  Many thanks for contacting 'Theroadislong' re the Draft article. He's left a comment and sounds very positive. I've managed to put the correct AfC thing up on the article. However, when I was writing to 'Theroadislong', I just copied and pasted the 'Submit' box to let him know what I'd done - and it's put the whole thing on his Talk page! Very embarrassing. Thanks for the page with the list of specialist reviewers - that is very helpful and I've bookmarked it. Best wishes Ross ArchaicW (talk) 14:26, 31 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Glad I could be of help. Lotje (talk) 14:29, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi Lotje Just wanted to say thank you very much for your help on this article. Very pleased that 'Theroadislong' moved it up. I've just been having a look at it and I think I might make a couple of small changes - the floor plan image is perhaps a little too small now, and the James Lees-Milne quote I might expand - it looks a bit prominent all on its own! Anyway, thanks very much - I'll be in touch if I think of anything else to write about in the future! Ross  ArchaicW (talk) 11:49, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
 * congrats with the article, keep going, don't be shy :-) Lotje (talk) 11:54, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

I'll think about it!! Ross ArchaicW (talk) 16:36, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

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Books & Bytes – Issue 39, May – June 2020
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Issue 39, May – June 2020 
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Editing news 2020 #2 – Quick updates
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 * Reply tool : This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature will get new features soon.  The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing  . You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster.  Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
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 * Research on the use of talk pages : The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles.  We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.

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A goat for you!
Thanks for sticking that picture of the Talmud into tractate taanit article

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glad I could be of any help. :-) Lotje (talk) 07:54, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you again. I think I tried to insert the picture but it wouldn't let me upload it.  Any chance you can tell me what I wasn't doing correctly? Akiva100 (talk) 07:59, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Don't know what exactly you meant to do, but maybe going through Images, Wikimedia Commons will give you the answer you are looking for. Lotje (talk) 08:03, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks again. I added a picture of Megillat Taanit to wikimedia and inserted in into article. My first picture upload and insertion :) Akiva100 (talk) 08:46, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks and keep going with the good work. :-) Lotje (talk) 08:48, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

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Editing news 2020 #4
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The Reply tool  has been available as a Beta Feature at the Arabic, Dutch, French and Hungarian Wikipedias since 31 March 2020. The first analysis showed positive results.


 * More than 300 editors used the Reply tool at these four Wikipedias. They  posted more than 7,400 replies during the study period.
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The Editing team released the Reply tool as a Beta Feature at eight other Wikipedias in early August. Those Wikipedias are in the Chinese, Czech, Georgian, Serbian, Sorani Kurdish, Swedish, Catalan, and Korean languages. If you would like to use the Reply tool at your wiki, please tell User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF).

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Books & Bytes – Issue 40
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Issue 40, July – August 2020 
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Precious anniversary
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 * how kind of you Thank you very much. Lotje (talk) 08:33, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Charlotte (1784 ship)
Hi Lotje, when you changed my cites to Lloyd's Register in the article, you changed the result from going to the actual page to going to the front page of the book. With your form of cite the reader would then have to search through the book to find the vessel's listing. Note, because this is an old book with low-quality printing, the OCR-based search engine often fails. To find the vessel one has to scroll through to the names, with a new vessel one possibly has to look in two places. The cite form I had uses the page's URL and so takes you to the page, or within a page or two of it. That's why I include in my cites something like "Seq.No.C17" so one can scroll to the actual line. Please don't change any more; the changes make the situation for someone checking the cite worse, not better. Cheers, Acad Ronin (talk) 11:50, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you . Wondering if you would give your opinion on the bare urls in that article. I would prefer having ReFill go through it. Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 14:23, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi Lotje, I looked at the New Zealand Company ships and all the references to Lloyd's Register are crap. All cite the volumes, but without any url to the volume, let alone the page. If you can run something that would link to the volumes, I could from time to time go in and replace those cites with cites to the correct page. Does that seem a reasonable approach? Cheers, Acad Ronin (talk) 15:28, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I think I will have a word (ahum) with ReFill . If in your opinion the result is not satisfactory, just undo my edit. Thnks. Lotje (talk) 15:31, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
 * 1) I only looked at the Lloyd's cites and there replacing them with a cite to the book, with url, would be an improvement. It would do what is currently being done, but with a URL that would at least get the interested into the volume. From there I could, in time, replace with cites that go to the page. That would mean unleashing ReFill first. 2) I have just looked at your two most recent implementations and I see no reason to worry, though those were not cites/refs I had anything to do with. My verdict would be "Sound on anything I know nothing about." Cheers, Acad Ronin (talk) 20:36, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

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Frisia Landscape & Geography
Greetings Lotje,

Thank you for 'thanking' me for joining Frisia wiki site, which was welcoming and nice!

Can you speak Frisian? Can you write in Frisian?

I am interested to attempt to learn some Frisian speaking and listening.

In America, Los Angeles, California, where I live, but I was born in Amsterdam, I am still connected Frisia in a distant way. My first language in America was not English, but Nederlands. As I began to learn English, first speaking English, then reading and writing in English, I continued to listen to Nederlands, as my parents spoke to me in Nederlands, as did my Grandparents, aunts and uncles.

I wish to mention that I have been to Texel one time, circa 2000, for a few hours, and felt drawn to visit as I like islands and seashores, but I was only there for a few hours.

Peace, 'Roy' Robert Jan van de Hoek (talk) 16:11, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
 * No, talk, unfortunately I do not speak Frisian (though I understand some words), but as yourselves, I am keen on learning. As a matter of fact, I mentioned your name to Drewes. Lotje (talk) 16:17, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
 * There is also a |Frisian wiktionary, if that is helpful to you. Lotje (talk) 16:20, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

Google Purchase links?
Hi, Lotje. I came across the Edward Southey Joynes article today when correcting some Virginia politician articles. I notices it has google play links to various books, but only one is actually now available, less than a couple of months after your check for dead links. This man died in 1917, before the cutoff date for U.S. copyrights (long 1923), so I was surprised to find the 3 links as purchase only. I don't claim to be a copyright expert and of course the Library of Congress is closed to the public because of Covid. I remember seeing a few articles several months ago where Amazon links were removed for much newer books because they were only for purchase, and I think the rationale was that such violated some wikipedia policy? Do you know anything about that? Thanks.Jweaver28 (talk) 21:12, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi wish I could be of more help to you. Though, you might put your question forward to  on commons :-) Lotje (talk) 04:56, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Try asking at WP:RSN.  — Jeff G. ツ 05:06, 13 October 2020 (UTC)


 * FYI, I just did.Jweaver28 (talk) 19:50, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Great! Lotje (talk) 05:45, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Anjali Pichai
In Sundar Pichai’s Wikipedia page, the last paragraph, his wife’s maiden name is shown as ‘wiki’. Anjali Pichai’s maiden name is Haryani. Cjurkoshek (talk) 17:20, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

New message from Emir of Wikipedia
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Books & Bytes – Issue 41
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Images on Wikimedia

Hi Lotje Apologies for not being in touch for a long while, hope you are OK and busy. Lotje, I've been doing a bit of work on Invergarry Castle, a minor but very interetsing Scottish Castle. I've put some images up on Wikimedia Commons, but as usual I find all the copyright stuff very confusing! Could you look at these and see if they are OK and can be 'passed'? They are under Category: Invergarry Castle. One is a survey drawing by General Petit from 1714. It comes from the National Library of Scotland, who allow use on a CC-BY licence with acknowledgement. The other are two pages from an old book, MacGibbon & Ross from 1889. If you could have a look at these I'd be very grateful  Best wishes ArchaicW (talk) 13:33, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
 * , I'm fine, just fine, thank you for asking. How are you doing? Going through the files on commons, I noticed there is a Lewis Petit des Etans on wikidata: ( and ). Now that,... is rather confusing to me. The should be deleted I guess. I did some linking to Lewis Petit des Etans to which I'll see if I can add some more images.  Wondering if this file would fit in the Commons:Category:The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century (1887) (The date on the file reads 1889) or if it should be added to Commons:Category:MacGibbon and Ross. I can hardly believe there would (still) be copyright on those images. Lotje (talk) 15:25, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi Lotje Thanks for looking at these images. I'm going to put the 'Petit' plan on the Invergarry page with some extra text, I hope tomorrow. Yes, odd that there are two 'Petit' pages, but I wouldn't know the difference! Yes, you are quite right, the MacGibbon & Ross two pages should be linked to the MacG&Ross 'Category' page - I've looked through it and Invergarry does not show up. Anyway, MacG&Ross book definitely long out of copyright. All five volumes are on the Internet Archive and Volume 3 is shown as 1889. I'm getting on OK, thanks, but this Covid business is very trying. Let's hope a vaccine really is on the way. Best wishes  Ross  ArchaicW (talk) 18:29, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

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Hi Lotje
Just thought I would write and wish you a Happy New Year! Nothing new to report, few weeks now since I added quite a lot to the Invergarry Castle page, and it seems to be OK. Got a minor project to add some photos to another page, but progress slow! ArchaicW (talk) 17:14, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Hello, a Happy New Year for you and your loved ones too :-) Good to see the Invergarry Castle page is stil okay. Meaning you did a good job. Cheers. Lotje (talk) 17:19, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

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Editing news 2021 #1
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The Reply tool  is available at most other Wikipedias.


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 * As of January 2021, more than 3,500 editors have used the Reply tool to post about 70,000 comments.
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 * The Editing and Parsing teams have significantly reduced the number of edits that affect other parts of the page. About 0.3% of edits did this during the last month. Some of the remaining changes are automatic corrections for Special:LintErrors.
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Books & Bytes - Issue 42
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Issue 42, November – December 2020 <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: 1.2em">
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).

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Being human
Hello Lotje, I've removed a picture of Christian de Dadelsen from the Wikidata page for his uncle Jean-Paul de Dadelsen, because it erroneously also found its way onto the French wiki page about him. It must have been an oversight, easily done. I hope you don't mind. Regards, --Po Mieczu (talk) 23:16, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2021
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 * A request for comment is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a 2019 RfC in favor of creating one such a policy.
 * A request for comment is in progress to remove F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a, which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
 * A request for comment seeks to grant page movers the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at Page mover/delete-redirect.
 * A request for comment asks if sysops may place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
 * There is a discussion in progress concerning automatic protection of each day's featured article with Pending Changes protection.

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 * There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (T275322).

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 * The Kurds and Kurdistan case was closed, authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.

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Refill and nonfunctional links
Hi there, just wanted to let you know I encountered some anomalies with ReFill on URLs that don't work such as the journal in this diff and the census in that diff. Because the URLs were broken, the program erroneously filled over the title of the journal and author, leaving me very confused when I saw the citation of a login page! In the second case, it seemed to pick an entirely new website describing the Kazakhstan Statistics Bureau. I've since been able to track down the original works but just thought I should let you know about these dead-URL anomalies for future reference. Thanks! Techhead7890 (talk) 13:07, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for this information. That is very worrying and leaves me puzzled. Lotje (talk) 13:12, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

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You don't have to tediously edit the draft
I was going to fix everything starting around now but if the red tags are attracting attention a better solution would be to put a comment start tag at the first error and a comment end tag at the last. The ref ref tags are where there was no CTBUH reference so I cut out all but one inferior reference except for the empty tags to show at a glance which ones in the part of the list that was copied still need a CTBUH reference. The character soup is the result of making a text editor find all the frequent character strings that are only found in inferior references and replacing with nothing to blank them. This and the manual pruning up to about 850 feet greatly moderated how much editing that section was fucking up my weak smartphone when it was most of 236.4 KB. I also have much other work to do besides fixing the red tags so maybe let me do that, I'll do it in my sandbox instead if that's better. P.S. you might've overlooked something in the comments but you broke the numbering system with a lot of changes, it won't number the rows right if you do that. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 18:02, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 42
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021). Administrator changes
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Bài Gliese 667 nhầm lẫn
Chào bạn! tôi tên là Trần Nam Nhân, năm nay 12 tuổi. Tôi thấy nhầm lẫn hay không ? Xin giải thích tại sao ? Vì sao lùi sửa vậy ? Namnhantran211 (talk) 01:36, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Hello please in English. Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 06:28, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

4 SA Infantry baboon
Hi Lotje, yes Ive heard of baboon mascots of the South Africans in WW1. Corporal Jackie was the most well known. He was apparently at 3rd SA Infantry, not the 4th, but he was apparently. I would love more context on where and when the photo was taken? I'm assuming this is Corporal Jackie. There was also a springbok mascot for 1st SA Infantry. The 4th also had a springbok called Nancy. https://www.tommy1418.com/mascots.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporal_Jackie

Dag Lotje, hartelijk dank voor de verwittiging want ik was me nergens van bewust - ik kom niet elke dag op wikipedia. Ik heb inmiddels een antwoord geformuleerd ivm die foto's en zou persoonlijk zelfs liefst de foto's zien verdwijnen van wikipedia omdat ze er niet thuis horen. Misschien moet men ooit eens een familiewebsite maken of zo, maar wikipedia is echt meer iets voor dingen met encyclopedische waarde. Hopelijk wordt mijn mening me niet kwalijk genomen door hen die het anders willen... vriendelijke groeten, Nico Declercq — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prof-Declercq (talk • contribs) 13:54, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia: Image use policy --> displayed image size

Ey Lotje - wie ben jij dat je over Kunmings metrosysteem schrijft. Woon je er? bluppfisk (talk) 15:34, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Dag bluppfisk, neen. Lotje (talk) 15:54, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at [[Thought suppression]], you may be blocked from editing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DeanGuenth (talk • contribs) 04:15, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments, the reason I undertook the reverts was due to the effect they had had on the page view when viewed from some desktop browsers, I had taken some care in putting the page together and was going to look again at your additions and how to accommodate them, if you can take that onboard when adding material please. I hope that explains my work. Thanks for your input Bulverton (talk) 07:17, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Lotje,

why are you ruined my names of the links at conleth hill's page?

Negreydens (talk) 10:55, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

PAUL MARTIN (Flog It!)  I'm just wondering if there is any etiquette on Wikipedia? A few weeks ago, I was looking up Paul Martin and was surprised to find that there was no photograph of him on his entry. It then took me considerable time and trouble to find a good image of him that could be used under a CC licence. There are loads of pictures of him on the internet, but nearly all 'commercial', so no possibility of a licence. I found this very good picture of him on Flickr but it was an 'all rights reserved' copyright. I then got into a dialogue with the chap who took the photograph (and that took some doing!) and he agreed to give it a CC licence. I put the picture up yesterday, intending today to edit it into the Paul Martin entry - to find that you had been there before me and had already uploaded it! Have you just been sitting waiting for a pic of Paul to appear? It could hardly have escaped your notice that the picture was being uploaded by a third party, ie, me. Why would I be doing that if I wasn't intending to put the picture on the Martin entry? It would have been polite to leave it to me. ArchaicW (talk) 19:04, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
 * (what's in a name) Sorry if you feel angry about me having added the image to the article. It was not my intention to hurt your feelings. Next time, I suggest you insert it in  where I replaced the image by yours.

Not angry, Lotje, pained ArchaicW (talk) 16:08, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Oops! wrong wikidatalink. Lotje (talk) 05:22, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Well thank you, you just made my day !!! Glad I could be of help :-) Cheers. Lotje (talk) 13:49, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Some baklava for you!

 * Thank you, what a nice idea to start the day :-) Lotje (talk) 04:31, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

About you Wikidata conflict report
Hello,

I recommand you aditing/fixing your report on https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Interwiki_conflicts/Unresolved/2021 by replacing the Q1/Q2 numbers with the actual Qitem numbers you were talking about!

Thanks for your help,

2A02:2788:22A:100D:177:C581:FE6D:BFEA (talk) 13:34, 20 April 2021 (UTC) it took me some time too to understand several things about Wikidata, and I still have so much to learn about it before hoping to begin to master its subtilities… however I’m not sure to understand what you wanted to report exactly… all I know is there no need to merge the two Qitems, as I mentionned below your Wikidata report. Feel free to clarify there in case you feel it required. Thank you. "De mazzel" 2A02:2788:22A:100D:177:C581:FE6D:BFEA (talk) 14:09, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I was refering to the Q1/Q2 report (not seeing yet that it was followed by a second one), so I guess you won’t mind if I delete the Q1/Q2 part, right ? 2A02:2788:22A:100D:177:C581:FE6D:BFEA (talk) 13:57, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
 * No no, on the contrary! every help is welcome there (difficult stuff at Wikidata}} Lotje (talk) 13:58, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Hello,

Marie Lloyd Jr.
Hi. You deleted the link for the poster on the above page as I was in the middle of adding and uploading it. A simple look at the time stamps would have shown this. Thanks. Dreamspy (talk) 06:18, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Dreamspy@undefined No need to repeat, since I thanked you twice already, meaning that I read your summaries. Thank you Lotje (talk) 06:23, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

Draft:Yūto Suzuki
Hello, and thank you for your contribution to Draft:Yūto Suzuki. I'm not sure what you meant to imply by 'self promotion' - are you suggesting that I (who created the draft) am him? If that is the case, I assure you I am neither him nor am I affiliated with him in any way. I noticed him in the credits to several games I was working on pages for, and saw his list of credentials, which led me to wondering why there wasn't already an article about him on the English Wikipedia. I started to translate his body of work from the Japanese Wiki page, but frankly, don't have enough interest in the subject to put much more effort into it. I can tell that the English Wikipedia has a community of editors who are very committed to writing quality articles about similarly prolific voice actors, so I requested it be moved to draftspace (rather than my personal sandbox) so that others could find it and help bring it up to quality. Londonbeat41692 (talk) 15:15, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you interesting to learn more on Yūto Suzuki  Lotje (talk) 15:20, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Uh-oh, a third one? We might need a disambiguation page...all three are different kanji at least!Londonbeat41692 (talk) 15:25, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
 * LOL Lotje (talk) 15:26, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

can you help me with my draft
as you saw, my english is not very good, neither i have much experience on wikipedia, im translating things from the portuguese article (https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controv%C3%A9rsias_envolvendo_Jair_Bolsonaro), so, can you please help me? its very hard for me to do it without help. Dojyaaan, Joojadorprofisional is here! (talk) 20:02, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

Please use preview
I have fixed a number of template typos that you have made (this is just one example). It might help you to use copy and paste, and to use Preview before saving. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:38, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Here's another example. Please use Preview. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:33, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

Your edit on Urdu Wikipedia
Hey, can you tell me what is the reason that you made this support comment on Urdu Wikipedia in a proposal that's just limited to Urdu Wikipedia. Thanks. ─ The Aafī on Mobile   (talk)|undefined  12:28, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
 * let me know if this was a mistake? or simply struck your comment. ─ The Aafī on Mobile   (talk)|undefined  12:30, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Please apology if I offended you, my knowledge of the Urdu language is nil and I do not know what happened there. Thank you for your time. :-) Lotje (talk) 13:19, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
 * sorry to trouble you but do you have any idea what this is for? Thanks. Lotje (talk) 13:24, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
 * . This appears to be an image that our Urdu Wikipedia admin uses. Seems legit. Thanks for the information. ─  The Aafī on Mobile   (talk)|undefined  13:38, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
 * please let me know what is wrong in the image. does this violate wikipedia policy? Faismeen (talk)
 * Hello, how nice to make your acquaintance I was only wondering if that self-promotion, since the description reads: faismeen logo, in combination with faismeen.com. {smiley}} Lotje (talk) 05:37, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Jean-Antoine de Mesmes (diplomat)
Dear Lotje. Thank you very much for picking up my mistakes in the source descriptions of the article "Jean-Antoine de Mesmes (diplomat)". I think the correct description in the source list for the entry about the subject in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) should be:



Would you agree? With many thanks and best regards, Johannes Schade (talk) 05:11, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
 * thank you for picking this up. Always doubting about the source descriptions, I feel this OK. Cheers. Lotje (talk) 05:18, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I will attend to the others in due course. It takes a bit of time. Ek kan Nederlands meer of min lees maar nie praat. Ek is vlot in Afrikaans. Groete, Johannes Schade (talk) 05:35, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Goed, en ik kan Afrikaans meer of min lezen maar niet praten. Lotje (talk) 05:38, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

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Hello just wondering if this is you. Lotje (talk) 11:37, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

--> Hey - thanks for contacting me! No this is actually my old professor and mentor from medical school. I believe I never published the page (and don't intend to, I used it for practice mostly about a topic/person I knew in and out) and it remained a draft. How did you find it? I thought drafts are not visible until published?

I have not been active on Wikipedia for a while, but I might want to edit at some point in the future again, so any help will be appreciated - Thank you,

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 * Hello (nice username :-). If you take a closer look at the bottom of the image y'll see it leads to de:Benutzerin:Himbeerhase/Artikelentwurf  :-) Lotje (talk) 06:20, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 43
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DS 2021 Review Update
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picture sizes?
I see you removed the "px" and "right" parameters from several images on Whaling. Is this because of a style guide? I'm still learning. Kim9988 (talk) 22:48, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
 * it is. See: Manual of Style/Images (Most images should be on the right side of the page, which is the default placement, cheers. Lotje (talk) 10:27, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

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Thanks for editing Draft:Ezequiel Matthysse Blessings! :)
 * you are very welcome. Lotje (talk) 19:06, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Draft:Ezequiel Matthysse
Could you add this Commons link like you did with the other one? Thank you! link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ezequiel_Matthysse / https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ezequiel_Matthysse / https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96745630 ( In Draft:Ezequiel Matthysse ) Emat20211 (talk) 01:19, 1 June 2021 (UTC)Emat20211

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Editing news 2021 #2
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Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.

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 * Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
 * The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.

These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.

Looking ahead

The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.

The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.

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Painting with letter
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Articles for Creation July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive
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A barnstar for you!
thank you for your kind gift. Really appreciated. Lotje (talk) 15:05, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you
Thanks for filling up bare references in High-speed rail in India article. I'd like to know how did you do it and what is reFill 2? Footy2000 (talk) 11:35, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
 * reFill is a tool. Hope this is answers your question. Lotje (talk) 12:35, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

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reFill must be carefully checked every time
In of Jerome Randle, with edit summary "Filled in 35 bare reference(s) with reFill 2", you installed some thoroughly bollixed references, including changing the workable

to the unworkable

which I corrected to

and the workable

to the unworkable

which I corrected to

And you also replaced 8 nbl.com.au page links that had valid titles with ones that had, effectively, no titles at all, for example,

with the effectively untitled

The net effect was 8 stories that had unique titles before all displaying the same, viz:

The reason these references came out so badly is they were effectively dead links at nbl.com.au. Fortunately they were all available at archive,org, and I fixed them, including in this example

Moral: reFill is a powerful and useful tool, but results are not guaranteed and must be carefully inspected each and every time. —Anomalocaris (talk) 18:43, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Free Will. Hansson proof of superdetermism.
Why did you delete my change? DH39 (talk) 09:41, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
 * I did not, I merely removed the invisible character. Take a closer look and you'll see. Lotje (talk) 11:05, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

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Lovely pics !
I ran into you on the Belo Horizonte wiki. The painting selection on your profile is marvellous, thank you for putting it up ! ExitFilm(For a Music) (talk) 15:36, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Glad you like them :-) Lotje (talk) 15:39, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
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Books & Bytes – Issue 46
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 * Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
 * The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.

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refill?
Query: what is reFill 2 and how do I install it? Maury Markowitz (talk) 12:29, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
 * it's what I tend to call "a magic and very powerful tool".


 * 1) ReFill
 * 2) https://refill.toolforge.org/

Hope that answers your question. Lotje (talk) 12:34, 25 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Most useful! Maury Markowitz (talk) 12:35, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Sammy Malakwen
Hi Lotje! You made some sort of data edit on Sammy's page. Did you use a tool to find James Rotich in Wikidata? How did you do that? It's awesome! Comm260 ncu (talk) 18:44, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
 * to check if there are any links, go to wikidata.org and type the person or subject you're looking for. Hope that answers your question. Lotje (talk) 04:50, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
 * You manually do that for pages? I figured you found James Rotich by combing through with a bot. But kudos to you for just finding Sammy's page and plugging away. That takes a lot of time! Comm260 ncu (talk) 22:04, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

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Books & Bytes – Issue 47
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Your contributed article, लमही नगरपालिका


Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, लमही नगरपालिका. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – Lamahi Municipality. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Lamahi Municipality. If you have new information to add, you might want to discuss it at the article's talk page.

If you think the article you created should remain separate, 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, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Additionally if you would like to have someone review articles you create before they go live so they are not nominated for deletion shortly after you post them, allow me to suggest the article creation process and using our search feature to find related information we already have in the encyclopedia. Try not to be discouraged. Wikipedia looks forward to your future contributions. JW 1961 Talk 17:56, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

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A barnstar for your efforts

 * Thank you ever so much, sincerely appreciated  Lotje (talk) 04:44, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

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Discretionary sanctions topic area changes
In a process that began last year with WP:DS2021, the Arbitration Committee is evaluating Discretionary Sanctions (DS) in order to improve it. A larger package of reforms is slated for sometime this year. From the work done so far, it became clear a number of areas may no longer need DS or that some DS areas may be overly broad.

The topics proposed for revocation are:
 * Senkaku islands
 * Waldorf education
 * Ancient Egyptian race controversy
 * Scientology
 * Landmark worldwide

The topics proposed for a rewording of what is covered under DS are:
 * India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
 * Armenia/Azerbaijan

Additionally any Article probation topics not already revoked are proposed for revocation.

Community feedback is invited and welcome at Arbitration/Requests/Motions. --Barkeep49 (talk) 16:59, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Discretionary sanctions topic area changes
In a process that began last year with WP:DS2021, the Arbitration Committee is evaluating Discretionary Sanctions (DS) in order to improve it. A larger package of reforms is slated for sometime this year. From the work done so far, it became clear a number of areas may no longer need DS or that some DS areas may be overly broad.

The topics proposed for revocation are:
 * Senkaku islands
 * Waldorf education
 * Ancient Egyptian race controversy
 * Scientology
 * Landmark worldwide

The topics proposed for a rewording of what is covered under DS are:
 * India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
 * Armenia/Azerbaijan

Additionally any Article probation topics not already revoked are proposed for revocation.

Community feedback is invited and welcome at Arbitration/Requests/Motions. --Barkeep49 (talk) 04:36, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Wiki page
Hey was wondering if you could help create a wiki page 😎 71.7.171.190 (talk) 13:32, 14 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello sorry for not coming back to you sooner. Did you create a username in the meantim? We might take a look at it together and see if we find something you like. {{smiley Lotje (talk) 14:48, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 48
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).

Administrator changes
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Interface administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * The Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines have been published for consideration. Voting to ratify this guideline is planned to take place 7 March to 21 March. Comments can be made on the talk page.

Technical news
 * The user group  will be renamed   in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
 * The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.

Arbitration
 * Community input is requested on several motions aimed at addressing discretionary sanctions that are no longer needed or overly broad.
 * The Arbitration Committee has published a generalised comment regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks).
 * A motion related to the Antisemitism in Poland case was passed following a declined case request.

Miscellaneous
 * Voting in the 2022 Steward elections will begin on 07 February 2022, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2022, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
 * Voting in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey is open until 11 February 2022.

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WP:AFC Helper News
Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest. Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
 * AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
 * The template db-afc-move has been created - this template is similar to db-move when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.

Disambiguation link notification for February 18
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Berthe Cabra, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Stanley Falls.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 05:54, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

CO2 template
Hi Lotje, I just saw your edit here and wondered what the errors were that the template was causing as I'm struggling to figure it? Neils51 (talk) 21:42, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
 * See this talk page discussion. A change was made to the template after the above edit was made. That edit fixed the problem that was causing errors. The template can safely be restored to any articles from which it was removed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:30, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you Jonesey95, always around with a watching eye and ready to help, good to see you back, :-) Lotje (talk) 05:42, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks Jonesey95, It took me to the back story. Neils51 (talk) 10:11, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).

Administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
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Oversighter changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
 * A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.

Technical news
 * The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project.
 * Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022.
 * The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.

Arbitration
 * Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
 * Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
 * The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.

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Portal: Current events/Year/Month/Day subpages
Hello, Lotje, can you convert old "Portal:Current events/Year/Month/Day" pages into its current format, the current format goes like this "", can you do this please appreciate it, 203.128.83.115 (talk) 04:19, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
 * See this discussion for more information. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:43, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

K0zak1991
Hi ! My name is Alexander, I'm from Ukraine. Can you help me? I created an article about a Ukrainian artist Ivan Semesyuk:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Ivan_Semesiuk

This is my first article in English Wikipedia I need help! I am looking for a Wikipedia user who could help me verify and approve this article. This is very important, because the person I wrote an article about created a project that covers for people abroad what Russia is and why it is at war with Ukraine. Thank you in advance for your help! — Preceding unsigned comment added by K0zak1991 (talk • contribs) 21:13, 10 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Hallo I tried my best, since I do not speak Ukranian, but I must say, for your first article in English, this seems very good  Lotje (talk) 07:48, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

reFill 2
In a comment to your edit you mentioned "Filled in 2 bare reference(s) with reFill 2".

As far as I understand, this is a kind of instrument, which helps to create Cite web templates. Is it? Can you tell me more about the tool? --Perohanych (talk) 19:51, 11 March 2022 (UTC)


 * I have found the link! reFill ! --Perohanych (talk) 19:53, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Ecxellent Lotje (talk) 07:13, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Actually, this link leads to nowhere, https://refill.toolforge.org/ng/ is the way to go. Lotje (talk) 07:14, 12 March 2022 (UTC)