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Hello. Thank you for your first edit here, on Wikipedia for the year 2024. Γιάννης Ευαγγελίου (talk) 00:02, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

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Thank you for the review
Hey Utopes,

Lots of love from Nepal

Thank you for reviewing Province Hospital Janakpur. I hope your reviews and contributions in Wikipedia will play a great role. Cheers and Happy editing. WikiEditorNepali (talk) 10:16, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

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Draft:Poybo Media
Hi Utopes, I finished making this draft longer to the best of my ability. hopefully other editors can expand it more but i'll try to do it later if i remember. i'd appreciate if you could check if it's ready, thx Deondernemers (talk) 07:22, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you for doing that; I'll resubmit the draft under your name, but I'll leave it to another reviewer to see if someone else can ascertain the plot more than I can. As I mentioned earlier, the references look reliable, but another set of eyes could be warranted now that there's more to chew on. Utopes (talk / cont) 07:26, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Shaun The Sheep 2 talk: Farmageddon
Greetings Utopes,

Is this an error? Or I am missing something? Maliner (talk) 06:04, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Woah! I am... not sure how that happened, definitely an error. Thanks for catching it! Going to look at other similar edits to see if anything else looks like that, as I haven't seen anything like that before. Very perplexed because that type of message can/would only be placed on a talk page. Again, thank you! Utopes (talk / cont) 06:07, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
 * @Utopes this this and this
 * Saw it before, this error seems to be occurring since last year where it bugs when a talk page has a  in the middle.  Just ' i ' yaya  06:16, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
 * No worries. We all know you're a great editor. Isn't it ? Maliner (talk) 06:26, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Appreciate the heads up all, I'll be mindful when dealing with those requests, and/or CSD any errors such as the above if they slip through the cracks. Cheers! Utopes (talk / cont) 06:34, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
 * mhm! emptying the redirects backlog is really nice :D  Just ' i ' yaya  06:34, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
 * @Justiyaya: You are great, too. I appreciate your efforts in reducing our backlog through your participation in the recent NPP backlog drive. Maliner (talk) 06:43, 20 January 2024 (UTC)


 * I'm also here to find out why you are creating odd talk pages. I see on the Move log that they are frequently then moved to the correct location. But I see that other editors have brought this issue to you. Liz Read! Talk! 07:25, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Talk:Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?! is an example of what I'm concerned about. Liz Read! Talk! 07:27, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
 * It appears that it's a potential bug / unexpected occurrence in the AFC/R helper script. When creating pages requested at AFC/R, the helper script places a banner on the respective talk page of each redirect created. Most of the time this is done without any problems. However, for a small subset of redirects (all of which contain a colon), there seems to be an issue where this talk page is created in the wrong namespace (article space). Justiyaya linked a discussion where this error was first brought up from last year. I didn't notice there was a problem at first but luckily I believe all of these situations have been taken care of, and I've scanned ahead and there's only one page left in the backlog that contains a colon, yet to be created. Could be good to test on if wanted; hopefully this clears up the situation! Utopes (talk / cont) 07:40, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

AFC/RC
Archiving empty requests doesn't make sense, but if you want to do so, no problem. Happy editing! – DreamRimmer (talk) 19:13, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
 * The first request had entries that didn't get registered in the right format (but there was no rationale so they probably wouldn't pass). The second case had some text, but the main reason for logging was in case the two IPs wanted to revise their nomination in the future, so at least there's record of it 👍. Probably not the most necessary to keep record of, but during the process of archiving I figured I'd make sure to grab 100% of the non-vandalism requests made rather than cutting the malformatted ones. That way, everything is preserved from the good to the bad, in the very rare chance it'll be looked at again later. No worries, thanks for everything you do, and happy editing! Utopes (talk / cont) 19:20, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for creating the categories
Thank you for recently creating the series of stock market categories, and in doing so, clearing the backlog. Much appreciated. You've helped make progress in something that has been held up by various roadblocks since early November last year. 92.71.60.61 (talk) 11:40, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

WP:RFD
Hello, Utopes,

Thanks for taking some of the bad redirects you found to Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 January 21. It was a snow close to Delete all which I was expecting. But I have seen some redirects with minor grammatical mistakes like this kept for technical reasons which I don't really understand and can't explain. It has to do with how some computers read and interpret text.

I'm just trying to discourage patrollers from using CSD G6 as a "catch-all" criteria that doesn't really stand for anything but articles, redirects or templates that are just wrong. Speedy deletion criteria are intentionally very specific and limited to apply to very obvious cases so pages like this that are clearly incorrect but don't fit a criteria are best going to AFD or RFD where editors who are experienced in reviewing certain types of pages can evaluate them. Liz Read! Talk! 02:36, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Hello Liz, thank you for the alert! I wasn't intending to use G6 as a means to hypothetically "just delete" a page, or in an "absence of rationale". There certainly are certainly a number of these that I've been able to identify, and you may have seen an uptick of such case following the closure of a handful of recent RfDs that you've pulled up, which indicated to me that it might have been a more wide scale issue. Particularly, there is this query which shows the list such cases, as they existed before deletion: (and this is the query which includes pages that are still up, and don't meet the CSD criteria (or I haven't checked them): )


 * This said, I don't think I've been using G6 as a "catch-all" criteria. I completely understand how using it like one would be a problem, because it is important to make sure that CSD criteria are correctly categorized, and deleting something because "it's vaguely not right" is not a good reason for deletion, as this interpretation differs from person to person and not concrete. In the template text for Template:Db-error, it states: "This may meet [the CSD criteria]... as a redirect left over from moving a page that was obviously created at the wrong title". Based on the edit summaries used in every page-move, these pages were very shortly moved to the correct title, after previously being created at the wrong title.


 * Throughout this process, I feel as if I've been conscientious of which of these pages with unlikely characters I've been nominating. I've been paying attention to edit summaries and move logs to make sure that each page was an early page move from a title created in error, with no other editing history that may have arisen since then. As an example, there's a reason why I tagged Tomomatsu Atsunobu（Scholar) for G6, but have done nothing about the nearly identical Atsunobu Tomomatsu（Scholar） due to the page history of the latter. During the time that I was going through these titles, I also was creating relevant RfD threads such as this and that, as these pages were brand new creations at these titles and not redirects left behind from page moves, thus these did not meet the G6-error criteria.


 * I don't believe I've made a mistake on this front, but if there are any examples that weren't early page moves from articles created at the wrong title, I would be gracious to know, as this wasn't my intention. 🙏 I appreciate the reminder, as it's always good to make sure the right rationale is used for deletion tags, but you'd also be correct that I didn't want to flood RfD with that many more of these if G6-error was applicable. 😅 I've been trying my best to ensure that the correct channels are used for titles with these characters, but please let me know if there's anything I should be doing differently in the future with these. Thanks again! Utopes (talk / cont) 04:50, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Palworld
I disagree with you about its class. B it is not. I would place this more at a C status. Its written like an advertisement and has grammatical issues. Its really close, but I dot think its there yet per WP:Content assessment. Im going to run it though WPCleaner and fix it a bit, I already have some. Its in interesting topic.  Dillard421♂♂ (talk to me)  23:49, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Draft:Yeshayahu Folman
Hello, you declined my draft and I believe it's a mistake since a few sources are in Hebrew but Yeshayahu was an Israeli and a proffesor in Israel so there are most sources in Hebrew. Can you please review this since all sources are reliable and if one isnt in your opnion I will clear it. Thank you. Shahar Navon new (talk) 16:02, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

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Re-reviewing for NPP
I was re-reviewing for NPP and came across Godfrey Boyle which has a high Earwig score. I think is suffers from WP:CLOP Bruxton (talk) 00:32, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2024 February newsletter
The 2024 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with 135 participants. This is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2017.

Our current leader is newcomer, who has one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher) and 10 GAs and 12 DYKs mostly on New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:


 * , with one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, and two DYKs;
 * , with one FA on Doom (2016 video game), one GA on Boundary Fire (2017), and 11 reviews;
 * , with one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and two DYKs;
 * , with one FA on OneShot and one DYK;
 * , with five GAs and five DYKs on television and radio stations;
 * and, both with one FA and one DYK each.

As a reminder, competitors may submit work for the first round until 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February, and the second round starts 1 March. Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round; currently, competitors need at least 15 points to progress. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (,, and ) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:58, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

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unclosed titles
I saw you nominate a load of unclosed titles for RfDs, like Xenophobe (video game, can I ask, why you don't simply run a bot to delete clean those off?? Is it really necessary to go through all the red tape?? Govvy (talk) 22:36, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Hello! In all honesty, I really do wish there was an easier way to deal with these redirects 🫠. Unfortunately, there is no bot or script that can safely delete these, and it often comes down to an admin pressing the final button. Alongside the RfD nominations, there's also an assortment of pages that get moved, or tagged for speedy-deletion, so the RfDs are just a fraction. While there is a CSD criterion for "redirects left behind from moving pages that were created at the obvious wrong title" (WP:CSD G6), a lot of these have actually been challenged in the past, and not always "made in error". The Xenophobe (video game title that you linked was actually not an error, but intentionally created back in 2022, despite the game article existing since 2003. Because of this, there's no speedy deletion criteria applicable, so RfD is the place to go.
 * There definitely are a lot of these titles that have ended up at RfD, and there's been a number of discussions looking for solutions to deal with errors in the act of disambiguation without needing RfD. Over on the talk page for WT:CSD, there was a pretty hefty "mini-RfC" about whether or not to create a new CSD criteria for pages that make these errors. And even then, there's been pushback against me using CSD to tackle errors and to just take 100% of everything to RfD, so it's definitely a fine line.
 * Hopefully that answers your question ^^, I've been trying to space out my noms so they aren't all at once (trying to break these into blocks by letter). This process started back in December, but there's been discussions on how to make this less RfD-heavy; feel free to chip in at WT:CSD if you'd like! The good news is that there started out with 700 pages like Foo (bar, but it's been dropped down to like 350 😅, we'll see how things go from here. Utopes (talk / cont) 22:58, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Hmm, okay, shame you can't speedy through them, wikipedia search feature is pretty good, so there really are a lot of useless redirects around. Govvy (talk) 14:42, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

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Hello! Could you review my new pages? Azamat Akhmedov, Dmitrii Adamov and Aznaur Tavaev. Thank you! -- Ricco Baroni (talk) 07:06, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Idrissa Barry Jalloh/sandbox


A tag has been placed on User:Idrissa Barry Jalloh/sandbox, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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WikiCup 2024 March newsletter
The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2.

The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points:


 * , who has 916 points mostly from one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher), 15 GAs, and 16 DYKs on a variety of topics including New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures, in addition to seven reviews
 * , who has 790 points from two FAs on Felix M. Warburg House and Doom (2016 video game), two GAs, one DYK, and 11 reviews
 * , who has 580 points from one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, two DYKs, and five reviews
 * , who has 420 points mostly from nine GAs and seven DYKs on television and radio stations
 * , who has 351 points from one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and three DYKs
 * , who has 345 points from one FA on OneShot, one DYK and two reviews

In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to, who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two Four Awards. Vami also wrote an essay on completionism, a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his to-do list.

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