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Main Page idea

I was wondering if there was a way that we could add something relating to Wikipedia:Good Articles on the main page? Something that could create viewer engagement right off the bat. Seeing as how there's a little over 100 GAs, I figured it'd be nice to shed some spotlight to those articles especially since naturally they may be harder to find/appreciated. I know it's not common at English Wikipedia to spotlight Good Articles, but seeing as how we're a small community and how we have 102 GAs, I feel like that wouldn't be a bad touch. I was thinking perhaps adding some language to the VGA section of the main page. Something like: "Other very good articles – Proposals – Requirements – Some good articles". Thoughts? TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 07:14, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

I think that's a good idea. We could also think about creating (shorter, without image?) teasers for GAs. And then list one GA teaser as well? Eptalon (talk) 07:59, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

I would support more visibility of the GA process. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 11:50, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Completely agree. For a community as small as ours, 100 GAs is fairly good, so why not showing them on our Main Page? That'd probably even courage people to work on them and get them to VGA status. -Barras talk 17:57, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Should we add a small section of GA article previews like the VGA articles on the main page or a simple mention of Good Articles like how I suggested above? TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 19:27, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

If we agreed,I would say a GA blurb should be noticeably shorter than a VGA blurb, and we need to write 100 blurbs first Eptalon (talk) 20:29, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Good idea. I’ve noticed some of the VGA blurbs are rather small compared to the leads they have on their articles. We could expand the VGA blurbs a bit and follow what Eptalon is suggesting: Two sentence blurbs for GAs? TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 00:04, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

I agree also. fr33kman 01:09, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Perhaps what we could do is expand the "About Wikipedia" section to make it more elongated like the DYK section and then beneath the "About Wikipedia" section we could have a "Selected Very Good Article" (left) and "Selected Good Article" (right) previews? TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 23:05, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

I've also created a sanbox that depicts how the GA blurbs would ideally look like for the newest 10 GAs :) I was also thinking for VGA blurbs and possible GA blurbs that are about shows, characters, books, movies, etc. that don't have a picture, we could place an image of a person related to them such as how I did for the Big Break blurb. English wikipedia does this for featured articles that have copyrighted images that can't appear on the main page. TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 23:31, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

I assume you mean to make the "About Wikipedia" section cover the full width of the page and not go down so far. That's a good idea. ~2025-61813-2 (talk) 13:36, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Yep! The About Wikipedia be expanded horizontally much like how DYK is and then beneath that section we could have VGA (left) and GA blubs (right). TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 19:57, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

I like what you did with the sandbox. How many blurbs do you propose? fr33kman 20:18, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

I was prepared to draft blurbs for all 102 good articles. Would that be a bad idea? TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 02:39, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

We can probably just write a new one every time a new article is promoted to GA. I would suggest having a dedicated page somewhere to be able to see all blurbs at once which could be admin protected, then in the talk page, people can suggest revisions, (grammar, spelling, linking, etc). MrMeAndMrMe_Talk 02:59, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

• Comment Any other feedback from users who haven't chimed in? If this is the direction we'll be moving to, is there anyone who's willing to get the ball moving on this in terms of formatting the main page? --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 20:04, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

  Any updates? ~2025-27691-51 (talk) 03:21, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

  Any movement on this project? fr33kman 23:13, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

MOS:OL

It is my view at this time that, mostly, en:MOS:OL shouldn't apply on this wiki. For readers using simple, links for things like London or England could be useful. For example (to use a language I speak), in Spanish "London" is "Londres" and "England" is "Inglaterra". Does the community agree with me, because I don't recall any consensus on the subject. --IWI (talk) 02:48, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

With that being said, I also think for some examples, OL would apply. There is no need to link "kilometre" for example. --IWI (talk) 02:49, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Kilometre likely is a bad example, as it is a common unit of measurement (even though the SI unit is the metre/meter). While SI units generally have a base 10, this is not true for imperial units (1 gallon = 4 quarts =8 pints, which happens to be around 4.5 litres). So depending on the context, linking a unit of measurement might make sense. Eptalon (talk) 02:59, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

I would agree so long as it's not taking the mick by linking every single little random thing - although I'd hope that is obvious! --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 20:34, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

I remember another discussion about this, where I made the same point you do, that people whose first language is not English might not recognize the English words for things. The example I used at the time was Florence/Firenze. So, yes, I think we should link important terms. Keeping in mind that we (at least theoretically) have a multi-lingual user community, we need to link more than they would on enwiki, but not necessarily every single word. -- Auntof6 (talk) 23:57, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the input. I will take everyone's advice on board for my edits. Thanks, --IWI (talk) 10:45, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Help close out Phase IV of Total Backlog Annihilation

Phase IV of the Total Backlog Annihilation has focused on clearing out Category:Pages with broken reference names. The project is housed at User:Ferien/WikiProject TBA/Phase IV. It started at 847 in July and is now down to 20 articles! The last few could use some brain power as many of them aren't simply just finding it in the article history or the current (or even past) version of the English Wikipedia article. I've laid out some of the concerns for some of the remaining ones at the project page. Thanks for any help you can provide! CountryANDWestern (talk) 01:51, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

All done, I did the mosque one (took an hour to get all of the sources) Plutus ^{💬 🎃} — Fortune favors the curious 13:31, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Awesome! Thanks to everyone who helped finish this in the last dozen or so hours! CountryANDWestern (talk) 13:55, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

I fixed the Mamie Eisenhower one. Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 19:01, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

I'm going to work now on Category:Articles with broken file links which was Phase II of the project. It's back up over 100 entries after getting down to 5 in May 2024. If anyone who is Wikidata inclined is looking for a task, the Special:UnconnectedPages] category, which was the original backlog annihilated, is up to 183 entries. Some of these are ones that can be handled here on Simple, but others may require some Wikidata work. CountryANDWestern (talk) 14:30, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

What are we up for next with the total backog annihilation Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 19:01, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

I am working on Category:Interlanguage link template existing link and User:Cewbot/Interlanguage link templates need to fix but I am not sure if this is a thing I can just do as a part of the program Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 03:35, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

There are no currently open phases, but you can continue to work on it. Plutus ^{💬 🎃} — Fortune favors the curious 03:36, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Does simple english wikipedia have categories for discussion?

I want to propose Category:Movies based on short movies for discussion to be moved to Category:Long movies based on short movies. Is there some kind of procedure for renaming categories like this aside from manually moving the category and changing it on every page? Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 19:17, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

I'm not sure we need to shorten the scope of this category. Is this to distinguish between another category about short films based on other short films? Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 21:36, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

@Immanuelle: You just described the procedure. Category moves don't move the content. You have to move the category, then move the contents. Cat-a-lot can make the content moves much easier. We might also have a bot that would eventually move the content. -- Auntof6 (talk) 23:03, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

Is the bot a known thing? enwiki has it but not sure about here Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 09:28, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

@Immanuelle It is Special:Contribs/RussBot; it runs twice per month. ~2025-27225-16 (talk) 15:34, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

@~2025-27225-16 I would like to have it move Category:Bekkaku kanpeisha to Category:Bekkaku Kanpeisha do you know how I would do that? Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 03:53, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

@Immanuelle I can do that for you if you want. Plutus ^{💬 🎃} — Fortune favors the curious 03:56, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

@Plutus thank you! I would love that! Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 03:58, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Done Plutus ^{💬 🎃} — Fortune favors the curious 03:59, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

@Plutus Great. That was quick.

Can you do it for Category:Kanpei-chūsha to Category:Kanpei Chūsha

Category:Kanpei-shōsha to Category:Kanpei Shōsha

Category:Kanpei-taisha to Category:Kanpei Taisha

All of these are also part of an inconsistent formatting of the shrine names in a system. Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 04:03, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

@Immanuelle All done Plutus ^{💬 🎃} — Fortune favors the curious 04:05, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you so much! Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 04:06, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Remember, be very careful when using cat-a-lot Plutus ^{💬 🎃} — Fortune favors the curious 04:13, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

The luck of the draw (or are more of the articles 'seriously challenged')

One (new) user,
simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/~2025-27102-45
,has created c. six articles today.--One i have taken for QD (promo).--Another article seems to say, that "About 40% of Western Australia's wheat is grown 'near Merredin".--Please consider asking that user, something like: Are you using A.I. to write articles, or might there be another reason why some of your articles do not seem encyclopedic.--For now, i will pass on reading the '4 other articles'.--Good luck while i fix other articles for free. ~2025-27027-53 (talk) 15:57, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Just curious: How is Cowaramup, Western Australia promo? Plutus ^{💬 🎃} — Fortune favors the curious 09:07, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Not trying to be rude: I have put tags back into the article.

simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cowaramup%2C_Western_Australia&diff=10545026&oldid=10542360
.--I will try to let you know, when the article gets 'near where it should be', in regard to not using 'phrases that sound like a tourist pamphlet/brouchure'.--If that comes across as helpful, then fine. ~2025-27264-18 (talk) 20:39, 1 October 2025 (UTC) /~2025-27027-5

Alexandra Bridge, Western Australia.--Same (unspecified) problems, new IP, and quite likely the same user as above.--No 'crime' committed, except article not ready to stay published.--When this IP moves on, then i plan to tag his/her one, last article: "Tone", and "POV".--"Tourist-brochure wording", is the 'dead giveaway'.--No one has yet written on their talk-page: Within a day or two, then i might write: "Hi! Your articles do not seem ready to stay published.--Are you using A.I. to create articles? Bye for now, while i ask the community to put limits on (arguably) your daily publishing of too many articles, that do not seem ready to stay published.". ~2025-27264-18 (talk) 14:14, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

I think this got to AN Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 02:10, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Discord and arbitration

Hey all. I know Discord is pretty popular here with SEWP contributors, so I want to give you a heads up. If you actually read the new Terms of Service that they started requiring today, there's an opt out clause. You send them an email at arbitration-opt-out@discord.com and tell them "I opt out of the binding arbitration clause." There is a time limit on this. Thirty days from today.

That means that if there is a problem between you and Discord later, they can't say "Ha ha ha, you HAVE to go to binding arbitration and you are NOT allowed to do a regular lawsuit in public court because you agreed to it."

Nobody needs that drama. Darkfrog24 (talk) 17:27, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

This is a thing from 2024, isn't it? Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:42, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Well I sent the message anyways so hopefully it still works Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 00:27, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Is it just me or is there a lot more unhelpful changes being made recently?

I noticed a lot of unhelpful changes in the past few hours. Is this actually abnormal or am I just looking at Special:RecentChanges more today and noticing more? Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 03:36, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Considering it's just a few LTA (sometimes)/cross-wiki abusers, it's quite normal. Plutus ^{💬 🎃} — Fortune favors the curious 03:39, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Oh didn't catch that they were LTAs. Were all of those people LTAs doing some kind of coordinated attack? Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 03:41, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

LTA's usually just vandalise until they get blocked and after a few hours come back. Plutus ^{💬 🎃} — Fortune favors the curious 03:44, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Are children's tv shows a common vandalism target or something? Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 02:11, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Is content translation now using an AI simplification from English to Simple English?

I saw the pages created by SchoolWikipedian (talk · contribs · logs) and was wondering whether they simplified them themself. canadachick (talk) 23:57, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

@Canadachick personally looking at their page Taita white-eye I think it is insufficiently simplified. It has slightly but barely changed content. Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 02:30, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

They were deleted Plutus ^{💬 🎃} — Fortune favors the curious 12:34, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

when I did some translation perhaps 1-2 weeks ago, there was no automatic simplification of English to Simple English Eptalon (talk) 14:26, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

They may have been insufficiently simplified, but no, I do not know of a way to automatically simplify English to Simple English. I accept that there are issues with my approach for simplifying only the terms that seem complicated to me, and I am sorry if this has been causing issues. Have a great day! SchoolWikipedian (talk) 14:54, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

You can help with some tools like complex word finders. I am not aware of a complex sentence detector even though complex sentences are a bigger issue Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 00:28, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Igor Stravinsky

I want to attest that Igor Stravinsky lived in Paudex Switzerland in the year 1944 where with my family we also loved in Paudex. ~2025-27131-14 (talk) 16:06, 2 October 2025 (UTC) My parents, Gualtiero and Juliette Croccolo visited the composer Igor Stravinsky in hi home situated in Paudex Switzwrland in the year 1944. ~2025-27131-14 (talk) 16:14, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

@~2025-27131-14 Hello and welcome to the Simple English Wikipedia. We cannot use your testimony as a source to uphold the statement that Stravinsky lived in Paudex. You will need to show this from reliable sources, as Wikipedia is about verifiability. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 13:30, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Mathematics

The article mathematics is too complicated I think. ~2025-27494-08 (talk) 18:48, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

I have undone the recent edit that added the complex words and notified the editor who added it. Ternera (talk) 19:00, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Help with a template issue

On the page Great Mandala of Nichiren the Template:Nihongo seems to be broken. I’m not sure what is happening there, but can someone take a look at it? Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 15:10, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

I don't see any issues with it? Plutus ^{💬 🎃} — Fortune favors the curious 02:56, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

I somehow managed to make it disappear but I do not know how. Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 03:32, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

My guess is it was some kind of cacheing issue on my end and not a problem with the page Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 03:47, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Okay Plutus ^{💬 🎃} — Fortune favors the curious 03:48, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Help with an article I translated

I recently translated an article, Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour, from English to Simple English, but something went wrong, and I don't know what (you will know what I talk about when you open the article). I tried fixing it but it didn't work. Can someone help me or fix it? I'm not sure what to do here.

Any help is appreciated. Have a great day! Zabro29 (talk) 02:44, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Fixed, you had to add the {{notelist}} template Plutus ^{💬 🎃} — Fortune favors the curious 02:54, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

"Total Backlog Annihilation" phase five

Hi everyone! After the Category:Pages with broken reference names backlog was cleared in phase 4 of WikiProject TBA (Total Backlog Annihilation), a new phase has just begun to clear the next backlog: Category:Dead-end pages. Instructions are provided on how to help clear the backlog. You can find out more and register interest at User:Ferien/WikiProject TBA/Phase V. All help is very much appreciated to try and clear as many backlogs on our wiki as possible! Thank you very much for all volunteers who have helped so far, and thank you in advance for all those who will help in this phase! --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 01:45, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

This should include Special:DeadendPages too, because they have exactly the same issue, except they are guaranteed to have no links. ~2025-27691-51 (talk) 03:24, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

~2025-27691-51, thank you! This is now included. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 13:34, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

Ooh I am interested Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 03:39, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Is there a bot we can use to remove the template from those pages that have links Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 03:43, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

A backlog I really want to fix is User:Cewbot/Interlanguage link templates need to fix and Category:Interlanguage link template existing link can we work on these in a later stage? Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 03:48, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Okay so I completed all the major ones except a couple random errors caused by cewbot. They really should be resolved very soon and have no links on that page anymore. Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 23:59, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

Wow it has been 100% cleared in mainspace Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 04:38, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Okay so this diff we need to repair the capitalization error but there is substantial changes that need to be recoered https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adult_animation&diff=10529197&oldid=10415869 Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 04:50, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Wrong link meant this Category:Interlanguage link template existing link Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 04:56, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Not sure if this is included or not. But I did a lot of work to fix up interlanguage links Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 02:34, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

@Ferien I noticed a lot of links were added with a specific edit summary related to the backlog clearing. Is there some kind of tool that is being used or is it just that people are manually copying the explanation relating to the backlog thing here? Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 04:26, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi Immanuelle, sorry for not responding to your comments up until now. To answer your questions:

• The current backlog we are focusing on is Category:Dead-end pages but the categories are often suggested to me by other editors, so you are welcome to suggest other categories for the next phase. You're also more than welcome to work on other backlogs at the same time, so thank you for your work on the interlanguage link category.
• There isn't a bot to remove the dead-end template from the ones with links as far as I know, and in the time it would take to develop and approve one, we can just remove them from the pages as we go.
• I've encouraged other editors to link to User:Ferien/TBA/P5 in their edit summaries to try and encourage more people to work on the project, but there's no tool being used for it.

Let me know if you have any other questions, thanks :) --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 13:01, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

I do not think there is that much of a backlog of the interlanguage link stuff now. Most of that stuff is resolved now. we are definitely working on the harder side of it now. Focusing on nonexistent foreign language pages and pages that are more ones that should be created than syntax errors Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 21:02, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

This article

https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spooky_Month it reads like a famdom article Oo Uui (talk) 14:23, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

@Oo Uui is it better now? Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 02:37, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Second opinion on Luis Suárez Miramontes?

For the past month, I've been working on trying to improve the article Luis Suárez Miramontes to get it to GA or even potentially VGA level. I'm still in the process of creating articles for it, but I was wondering if any of you guys could have a look at it, just to get a second opinion on if I can make it simpler in some places? ShadowBallX (talk) 01:56, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

You need to link or change complex words like considered, established, tournament and also link the word manager as it doesn't explain what the term means. Basically go through it again and any word not in the combined word list either link it to wikt or explain it in line. Other than that the sentences are not too long and the article flows well. There are also too many redlinks fr33kman 03:03, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestions. I already know about the redlink issue (as I mentioned, I'm still in the process of creating articles for it), but the rest of the advice is appreciated. ShadowBallX (talk) 03:45, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

And please use Wiktionary links as an absolute last choice, if at all. If an article is ever created for the term, we might want to find all uses of it and it's harder to find them if they're linked any way but local. Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 00:38, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Nobel prize week

Hello, during the coming week, the winners of the Nobel prizes in different disciplines will be announced. Likely we won't have articles on the people receiving them. So if anyone feels like it: this is likely something making a person notable.... Eptalon (talk) 09:58, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Not only likely making them notable, but definitely! -- Auntof6 (talk) 00:39, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Who/what awards have already been announced? Plutus ^{💬 🎃} — Fortune favors the curious 00:40, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

As far as I can tell, the only one awarded so far is the one for Physiology or Medicine. ShadowBallX (talk) 03:22, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Australia locations - AI concern

Over the past couple of weeks, I've noticed a large number of towns/locations in Australia (especially Western Australia) being made. I'm concerned that they may be AI-generated. Before I start tagging them as such, I'd like other opinions/eyes on it. Some examples include:

• Minnenooka, Western Australia
• Beachlands, Western Australia
• South West (Western Australia)

They seem to be almost AI summarized versions of the EN. articles. It's utilizing same source for population found from the En. articles, then has a lot of bullet point summaries of things.

Any suggestions on how to approach these? CountryANDWestern (talk) 11:57, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Similar topic here Plutus ^{💬 🎃} — Fortune favors the curious 12:19, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

If an IP-user (or non-establishe user) is creating c. 3 or more spammy A.I. thingies, in one day, then that should be the time to put on the brakes.--Hard.

The 'same symptoms' (possibly same user), were pointed out on Sept 29, thread "The luck of the draw (or are more of the articles 'seriously challenged')". ~2025-27778-01 (talk) 20:24, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Many of these articles could be deleted as Promo - even article "South West (Western Australia)", version at this time.--Am i going to forward a list of words (so that the software engineers can fine tune, 'garbage generation')? Well, i might give that a pass. ~2025-27778-01 (talk) 20:30, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Is it is reasonable to ask for a temporary block ('can not create new article', at least), as soon as someone has created 3 spammy articles, within 'hours'?--Another thing: two (of the three) articles, should probably be Deleted.--(A third article, i did fix ('for no reason, that has anything to do, with the other two articles')).--Justification for Delete, might be: the user has created three, promo articles - in other words three, bad articles. ~2025-27778-01 (talk) 00:20, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Update - of the three articles, i have nominated the last one, for QD, A7 - and promo.--In regard to the other two articles: Maybe they only need a tag; At least i did not catch any promo, while skimming thru once. ~2025-27778-01 (talk) 16:51, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

The elephant in the room, might be: Should any of the articles of

simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/~2025-27875-98

, be saved/salvaged? C. none, is my view. ~2025-27778-01 (talk) 17:53, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

South West (Western Australia) has been deleted two times, and recreated.

That article needs RFD (justification: 'promo language' and/or A7).--The same RFD should really include at least the 'author's ' two other articles. (Checking the other two article, before nominating? Don't worry, the RFD will make things right, and RFD will point out anything that should get kept. Not likely that anything will get kept, in this case.)--Good luck (while i fix other articles for free). ~2025-28382-09 (talk) 02:21, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

• 'New author' (October 11). At least 4 new articles; the first of those, Carey Park, Western Australia.--I am guessing that it has at least one hallucination.--Article waiting for ' anyone's RFD '.--Throw in the rest of the new articles (from that author), in the same RFD; that is fine by me.--RFD will sort things out.--Good luck, while i fix other articles for free. ~2025-28382-09 (talk) 08:56, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

  It has at least one hallucination - that is my hypothesis. (Earlier i used the word "guess", which might understate my view.) ~2025-28382-09 (talk) 19:22, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

College Grove, Western Australia, is in the cluster. ~2025-28382-09 (talk) 16:53, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Davenport, Western Australia ,too. ~2025-28382-09 (talk) 16:53, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

• 'New author' "October 11's author #2. Only 8 one new article for now: East Bunbury, Western Australia, is the first one; It seems to have at least one hallucination. ~2025-28382-09 (talk) 13:53, 11 October 2025 (UTC) /~2025-28382-09 (talk) 14:04, 11 October 2025 (UTC)
  • That account's new articles:
    simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/~2025-28449-73
    . ~2025-28382-09 (talk) 16:35, 11 October 2025 (UTC)
• 'New author' "October 11's author #3. Only one new article for now: Glen Iris, Western Australia. At least one hallucination, it seems.~2025-28382-09 (talk) 13:58, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

A non-important detail (about A.I. generated articles)

A.I. generated articles seems to have happened (here) as early as year 2024 (in February that year).--All that stuff has now largely come 'under control', in my opinion.

"Source", simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Tesh&oldid=9344710
.--The first version of that article, seems to also have the problem (so therefore i will pass on salvaging it). ~2025-27778-01 (talk) 20:13, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Update: there is now 'another first-version' of the article (started today in October 2025).--Thanks to user:Ferien. ~2025-27778-01 (talk) 22:17, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

any advice

ima new wiki editer and i've only been doing minor things like spell checks and adding links.

are there any articles that need major help? Xlowntheclown (talk) 16:35, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for asking. You can poke around in Category:Wikipedia cleanup categories and its subcategories and maybe find things where you think you can help. E.g. if you think it may be fun to research and find a source for a claim, you could look in Category:Clean-up categories from March 2014 and find articles that lack sources (some of these problems go back to 2007!!!) or if you know about scripting, you could try to debug Category:Pages with script errors. Spell checks and adding links is also super-valuable. Thanks for all you do. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:25, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

@Xlowntheclown you accidentally posted in the wrong section. On the talk page for simple talk rather than in simple talk. I moved it here to the proper location. Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 02:56, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Language availability

I was thinking if a boy wishes to read articles for learning but gets disappointed after seeing his topic unavailable in language option bar while trying to search it in his mother tounge. He has already spent significant hours in articles and discovered some interesting topics to learn and thought to read them throughly in his languages. Sandeep Manikpuri (talk) 03:34, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

@Sandeep Manikpuri: What is your point here? -- Auntof6 (talk) 04:17, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

Reading Wikipedia articles in simple English. Sandeep Manikpuri (talk) 04:18, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

I was thinking of school boy who tries to search any material in local language. So as I know not everyone can write or speak English, then what next for them ? . Here a boy as an example. Sandeep Manikpuri (talk) 04:22, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

You need to make the page in the language so he can read it Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 03:13, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

How to delete the user page of mine ? I never did it before. Sandeep Manikpuri (talk) 04:45, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

simply blank it, and an admin will delete it eventually Eptalon (talk) 05:44, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. | Start and improve on way | Do not rely on improvement and lose the opportunity to start | # My advice to any new villager learner if asked about language "protocol "of lWikipedia if any. Sandeep Manikpuri (talk) 05:55, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

You were there from where I came rn Sandeep Manikpuri (talk) 22:02, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

Administrator note: Dummy edit to keep this section from being archived right after being moved here from the talk page. --Auntof6 (talk) 21:53, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Samuel Chukwueze

I just want to point out an error on your info details for the Nigerian AC Milan Player, Samuel Chukwueze. He was born in 𝗨𝗺𝘂𝗮𝗵𝗶𝗮. Just need to correct the spelling as it is wrongly spelt on your page. 194.185.82.146 (talk) 16:53, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Why don't you just correct it yourself by editing the page? Brick No.2 (talk) 06:30, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

So what error what you get? Miguel Inigo Mercadal (talk) 21:55, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

Courtesy link: Samuel Chukwueze. The article doesn't exist here. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:18, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

idk what the person was talking about but seems like a pretty easy article for someone to make who wants a random task Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 03:36, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Okay put it here Wikipedia:Requested_pages Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 05:35, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Interesting to know about this. So can I just dump a bunch of links there? Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 18:45, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

@Immanuelle: Well, you can, but:

• Things don't necessarily get created just because they're listed there.
• The more things listed there, the less likely anything is to get created. That page just doesn't get much attention.

How many pages do you have in mind? Also, keep in mind that there is Special:WantedPages for things that are linked to but don't exist. -- Auntof6 (talk) 21:47, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

I made a list here User:Immanuelle/links from pages I made, so pretty long. Probably better just for my own use if that page is not commonly used. Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 00:57, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

What is the rule about users removing QD templates?

I am getting this on this page Gold's Smile Playhouze with TeenNick and I do not know what the proper response is. Are we supposed to do an RFD on the page instead? Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 03:11, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

QD templates can be removed if the issue is taken care of. In this case, I don't think it hurts to have a discussion since you said you aren't entirely sure it's a hoax.

I see that the RfD has been removed more than once now. I reverted the most recent removal and warned the user. If they continue removing it, keep warning them until they reach a final warning, and after that we can block them. -- Auntof6 (talk) 21:51, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

@Immanuelle: Sorry, forgot to ping you. -- Auntof6 (talk) 21:51, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Outdated sections?

Why are some really old sections appearing on Simple talk? (Wikipedia:Simple_talk#Samuel_Chukwueze, Wikipedia:Simple_talk#Language_availability etc) Plutus ^{💬 🎃} — Fortune favors the curious 03:51, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Sorry about that they were put in the talk of simple talk so I moved them here. I hope this is not causing problems. They should go away on their own Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 04:09, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

I think the bot that archived old discussions hasn't run in the last week or so? Eptalon (talk) 09:59, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Chenzwbot is also down Plutus ^{💬 🎃} — Fortune favors the curious 12:44, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

@Immanuelle: Not a problem. Next time, maybe add a comment about what you did so that 1) people know and 2) the section doesn't immediately get archived based on the old timestamps. -- Auntof6 (talk) 21:55, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Fernsehserien

I've noticed that we have a lot of links to Fernsehserien.tv, 55 to be precise. I note that this site is not used at all on the English Wikipedia, and only used once on the German Wikipedia. Is this an appropriate website to be using? It's essentially looking like it's used like IMDb would be used. CountryANDWestern (talk) 12:47, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

I feel quite meh about this source. Their main page says Sie haben Verbesserungsvorschläge oder Fehler gefunden. Senden Sie uns ebenfalls gerne eine Email. (You have found ways for improvement or errors, send us an email.) so it is user-editable with approval (and email is a bit more of a hoop to jump through) but it doesn't seem to be spam. I would personally use it in the same way as I would IMDb, ideally use another source but use with caution for basic facts. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 22:05, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

I didn't know this site, and 'Fernsehserien' literally translates as 'tv serials'. So I think it would likely be good to not see them as reliable source. Eptalon (talk) 22:44, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

is it appropriate to use external link to normal English wikipedia

ive found that some articles don't exist on the simple English Wikipedia. can I use the external link tool to link to normal English Wikipedia? Xlowntheclown (talk) 16:49, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Actually I think we need red link, so that anyone can find it useful to create that. And for me, interwiki link to another Wikipedia, is like this article shouldn't be created. 🪶-TΛNBIRUZZΛMΛN (💬) 16:57, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

ok ty very much

I'll make sure to link to other sources if needed Xlowntheclown (talk) 13:32, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

@Xlowntheclown no, it is against the rules here. redlinks like redlink or if you really want to emphasize that it exists on enwiki redlink Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 18:40, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

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Removing untrue thing (falsehood)

There is an article, this one, where one (or more) users, insist on writing at least one untrue thing.--The user that created the article, seems to be young. Be that as it may, a tag is being removed (without that being a good edit).

1) Does anyone have authority to give me three reverts, from now (so that i again can try to fix the article, while 'totally steering clear' of the finer points of the '3 times revert rule')? (Note: that i have made previous edits to the article, is my claim.)

2) An alternative is that "i ask that the article should go to RFD, for having one untrue thing - and not about a small detail".--Note: I have already been on the article's talk page, re: some relevant stuff.

If the above is 'reasonably helpful', then fine.
If the above is not a simple request, then never mind.--Then i can have this article, as the first entry on a not-yet created "popcorn list". (As in, warning about a (smallish) train wreck, and no else else making any significant move to fix, and then i open a bag of popcorn, and looking at 'human nature, taking its course': a smallish train-wreck of an article, maintained-or-further evolving.) ~2025-28382-09 (talk) 13:59, 10 October 2025 (UTC) /~2025-28382-09 (talk) 14:25, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

You haven't explained on the talk page of the article what the problem is with the changes. You just escalated for calling for a topic ban. A topic ban for what? For what specific reason? CountryANDWestern (talk) 14:35, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

I will be needing "3 reverts from now", to make significant fixes to the article.--I am fine with possibly doing some education, thru edit comments.--If you or some other user, is the first user to say, "Go ahead with (up to) 3 reverts from now, and make things good", and then we will quite possibly 'get somewhere'.--If you know of some other way to get the article fixed (that does not involve me), then feel free to pursue that avenue/venue.--Escalation? 'Clueless edits et cetera', are escalations one might say; Have the article fixed first, and then one can see if feathers should be 'un-ruffled', et cetera.--Have a nice day. ~2025-28382-09 (talk) 16:26, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello,

As you probably know, anyone can send an article to RFD. The community will then discuss and when the time is up, an admin will take the decision on what to do. Note also, that at least in theory the article above looks like it might be notable. RFD is not for cleanup. As to different people editing an article, it is normal that some things get changed. When several editors edit at the same time,they should coordinate their efforts, if possible. Also, with very few exceptions anyone can edit any article. Eptalon (talk) 16:52, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

When things get too messy, then "Nuke" is a solution that sometimes gets chosen.--Anyway, i am advising that someone (but not me) says, "Go ahead with (up to) 3 reverts from now, and make things good".--Re: co-ordinating efforts: one will likely have to do some extraordinary spoonfeeding,in regard to necessary edits.--If that seems simple enough, then fine. ~2025-28382-09 (talk) 17:44, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

Dude, no one knows what you're talking about, and no one is going to take you up on your advise. If you want things done, go do them, but stop with this "someone else should..." If you want to try to help, go help. But stop telling others how things should run. CountryANDWestern (talk) 17:57, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

Two edits done, as of
simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hung_Cao&diff=10563018&oldid=10562395
. Obvious nonsense, removed (again), and my two edit comments are helpful and okay.--How things should run? Kicking junk (swiftly) out of articles, is often a good start.--Have a nice day. ~2025-28382-09 (talk) 18:59, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

Madoka magica page not complete

Puella Magi Madoka Magica

this article right here reads kinda weirdly

the plot summary isn't complete

if someone could complete I would love that.

is there any way to add the episode template thingy (idk how to code so if someone could do it that would be great) -_- ~2025-28091-43 (talk) 16:46, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

btw I was logged out when I made this so pls reply to my actual account (the one I'm writing this reply on) ~2025-28091-43 (talk) 16:46, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

actually reply to this reply... (RAHHH Xlowntheclown (talk) 16:48, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

@Xlowntheclown do you think this is fixed now? Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 04:31, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

User:Cewbot/Interlanguage link templates need to fix

This page User:Cewbot/Interlanguage link templates need to fix is now abnormally large since the bot was briefly run on all interlanguagelinks. I have been manually going through it and fixing links and then removing them from the page.

I think I got all of the easiest ones. But if anyone wants to take a look at them, feel free.

After about a week this page wil become substantially smaller since User:Cewbot will fix all of the interlanguagelinks again and only check for errors on the pages in Category:Interlanguage link template existing link. So this is time sensitive. Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 07:41, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

I feel I fixed the majority of the ones that actually cause problems here. But we definitely should at least look at the other ones Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 01:20, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Yeah I did a bit more but I think this is thoroughly exhausted on the easy things to fix Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 02:19, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Once the page refreshes, is there any way we could do something to clear the non-mainspace pages from Category:Interlanguage link template existing link because it really should just be article space pages Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 02:29, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Best to leave this one on hold until the next cewbot cycle though. Since this would involve template editing that might have unexpected and technically difficult consequences Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 04:20, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Did more clearing Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 20:28, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Now there are only ones of this thing, or ones that do not exist on the foreign language. The nonexistent ones I think really need a speaker of the language but these ones are all resolvable and would ideally need their own pages

== Missing converted local page, or the foreign / local page is not link to wikidata. ==

=== The Railway Series (E) ===

Missing converted local page, or the foreign / local page is not link to wikidata.

{{ill|Edward the Blue Engine|ja|エドワード (きかんしゃトーマス)}}Edward the Blue EngineImmanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 20:33, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

{{ill|Henry the Green Engine|ja|ヘンリー (きかんしゃトーマス)}}Henry the Green EngineImmanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 20:33, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

=== Wikipedia:List of Wikipedias (E) ===

Missing converted local page, or the foreign / local page is not link to wikidata.

{{ill|Wikipedia community|lt=lots of different editors|en|}}Wikipedia communityImmanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 20:33, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

=== 2025–26 UEFA Europa League (E) ===

Missing converted local page, or the foreign / local page is not link to wikidata.

{{ill|Beşiktaş Stadium|en}}Beşiktaş StadiumImmanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 20:33, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

=== List of Wikipedias (E) ===

Missing converted local page, or the foreign / local page is not link to wikidata.

{{ill|Aramaic Wikipedia|en|}}Aramaic WikipediaImmanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 20:33, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

{{ill|Syriac alphabet|lt=Syrc|en|}}Syriac alphabetImmanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 20:33, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

{{ill|Asturian Wikipedia|en|}}Asturian WikipediaImmanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 20:33, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

{{ill|Burmese Wikipedia|en|}}Burmese WikipediaImmanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 20:33, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

{{ill|Cherokee syllabary|lt=Cher|en|}}Cherokee syllabaryImmanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 20:33, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

{{ill|Kurmanji|en|}}KurmanjiImmanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 20:33, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

{{ill|Vlax Romani language|lt=Vlax Romani|en|}}Vlax Romani languageImmanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 20:33, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

{{ill|Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia|en|}}Scottish Gaelic WikipediaImmanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 20:33, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 20:30, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

I do not think I will be able to really do these pages. Although adding things so we can discuss these things individually Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 20:33, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Questions

Hi,

Please, does a deletion vote without (or with very little) arguments have the same weight as a preservation vote with arguments ?

Does the vote of an administrator have more weight than the vote of a non-registered user ?

Also, what are the chances that I will get back the page I spent time creating ?

Thanks,--~2025-28471-43 (talk) 09:50, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Rfd is not a vote, the closing admin will decide based on the discussion. Also editors who came here not to just vote but who have also done other things generally carry more weight. Note also that during the time it is bring discussed the article can be changed and improved. Eptalon (talk) 10:03, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. Does that apply also to "Deletion review" ? Also, can the administrators still view an article that was deleted and its sources ?

Thanks, ~2025-28471-43 (talk) 10:45, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

@~2025-28471-43 yes administrators can view an article that was deleted Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 04:32, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi,

Okay, great.

Thanks, ~2025-28530-99 (talk) 12:50, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

A lot of highly wanted templates

Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 20:52, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

|}

1. Template:Infobox element/symbol-to-top-image/overview (184 links)
2. Template:List of chemical elements (184 links)

Apologies for accidntally clicking a shortcut I will make the mesage here more clear Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 20:53, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

There is a very large amount of templates that are wanted on Special:WantedPAges and I would think they could be easily imported from enwiki. But some were deleted in the past, I believe likel because they were less used then Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 20:53, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

1. Template:Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Type/Use dmy dates (168 links)
2. Template:Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Use dmy dates (168 links)
   1. Template:Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Articles needing additional references (145 links)
   2. Template:Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Type/Articles needing additional references (145 links)
      1. Template:R from list topic (133 links)
         1. Template:Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Articles containing potentially dated statements (129 links)
         2. Template:Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Type/Articles containing potentially dated statements (129 links)
         3. Template:R from ASCII-only (129 links)
            1. Template:Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Type/Wikipedia articles in need of updating (128 links)
            2. Template:Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Wikipedia articles in need of updating (128 links)
            3. Template:R to ligature (128 links)
            4. Template:Wikipedia articles in need of updating progress (128 links)
               1. Template:Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Articles lacking sources (125 links)
               2. Template:Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Type/Articles lacking sources (125 links)
                  1. Template:Infobox element/testcases-all-params (124 links)
                     1. Template:JS (120 links)
                     2. Template:Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Pages with too many red links (120 links)
                     3. Template:Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Type/Pages with too many red links (120 links)
                        1. Template:Germany districts Rhineland-Palatinate (118 links)
                           1. Template:R from ISO 15924 code (113 links)

Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 20:55, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

1. Template:BSD-lic (108 links)
2. Template:GPL-lic (108 links)
3. Template:LGPL-lic (108 links)
4. Template:Monthly clean-up category/Messages/BLPs needing more sources (108 links)
5. Template:Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Type/BLPs needing more sources (108 links)
   1. Template:Austrian Bundesliga (104 links)
      1. Template:Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Articles lacking reliable references (100 links)
      2. Template:Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Type/Articles lacking reliable references (100 links)
         1. Template:Germany districts Schleswig-Holstein (96 links)

Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 20:55, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Sorry about the mess as I accidentally pressed ctrl+enter since I was doing ctrl+v a lot

These are all of the templates that have 100 or more links and are not present. I think almost all of them should be imported from enwiki unless something is otherwise keeping them from import Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 20:57, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

I've collapsed the top of this, I'm not sure we needed a full list from that special:page.

A lot of the reason for not having these templates are because some of them are simply created from copying items from enwiki. Simply importing them doesn't help us where it isn't suitable or where it needs updating.

If you had specific ones that needed importing, that we can do. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 21:01, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

I am looking at this Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2024/Template:1964 European Nations' Cup referees and would the best thing be just to edit Template:UEFA European Championship templates so that these do not appear like they are being used? Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 21:07, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Pages not in mainspace appearing in Category:Interlanguage link template existing link

I think that pages not in mainspace should not appear in Category:Interlanguage link template existing link because that is a specific tracking category for mainspace pages that User:Cewbot is gonna change or failed to change. Could we try to change Template:Interlanguage link to make it so that it does not add the category unless it is in ns:0? Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 02:30, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Oh it should appear on templates too, but I do not think anywhere else Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 02:32, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Best to leave this one on hold until the next cewbot cycle though. Since this would involve template editing that might have unexpected and technically difficult consequences Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 04:20, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Basically this is not an error in the pages it is a proposal for editing the template so that these pages would not be in the category since they are not in the scope of the editing

• Talk:Death penalty in the Gaza Strip
• User:Glossaryman
• User talk:Griffinofwales/Arab Belt
• User talk:Immanuelle
• Template:Interlanguage link
• Template:Interlanguage link/doc
• User talk:Mathglot
• User:MJL/Gabriela Hardt
• User:MJL/sandbox
• User:MJL/Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia
• User talk:Plutus/Archive 4
• Talk:Pomosexuality
• User:SportsOlympic/sandbox
• Talk:Theory of Good Human Nature

Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 20:27, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Omitted Deaths

It seems like for all of the articles in Category:Lists of deaths in 2025 and Deaths in 2025, there is a considerable lower number of deaths listed in simple than in en, and it does not seem like there is any reason to this, since these articles are often actively updated. MrMeAndMrMe_Talk 03:21, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

The reason is that no one is taking the time to copy over all the deaths from English Wikipedia to here. In fact, most of the work is done by unregistered users. Is there some other answer you're looking for? canadachick (talk) 03:26, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

I guess I would assume that, since this is pretty easily copyable, that the articles would be copied from one page to the other. MrMeAndMrMe_Talk 03:35, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Content translation tool seems to not work with wikidata properly anymore

I tried out the content translation tool on the article en:Hie Shrine and it has been giving this result

By contrast most of these links actually exist just fine here, and they are connected to wikidata. It also does not get templates.

The Hie Shrine (日枝神社, Hie Jinja) is a Shinto shrine in Nagatachō, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Its June 15 Sannō Matsuri is one of the three great Japanese festivals of Edo (the forerunner of Tokyo). Other names for the shrine include Hiyoshi Sannō-sha, Hiyoshi Sannō Daigongen-sha, Edo Sannō Daigongen, Kōjimachi Sannō, Sannō-sha, and Sannō-sama.

The main god of the shrine is Oyamakui no Kami.

History

The date of establishment of the Hie Shrine is uncertain. According to one theory, Ōta Dōkan established it in 1478. Another theory identifies the Hie with the Sannō Shrine mentioned in a 1362 record of the Kumano Nachi Taisha.

Tokugawa Ieyasu relocated it to the grounds of Edo Castle, and in 1604 his son Tokugawa Hidetada moved it out, so the people of Edo could worship there. The shaden was lost to the Great Fire of Meireki of 1657, and in 1659 Tokugawa Ietsuna rebuilt it at its present location. The shrine stands southwest of the castle, in the ura kimon direction according to onmyōdō.

So this is confusing. It likely indicates it is not properly fetching page and template names from the backend?

The behavior I expect is for it to give all the same text (no ai simplification or translation), but skip over articles that exist on enwiki and not simplewiki, and give piped links to the simplewiki pages if they differ, as well as giving all of the templates from enwiki, and doing the same for categories. But it appears it is only giving the raw text with all of the templates and links removed. It also does not apply categories. Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 04:14, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

@Immanuelle: It appears like this for me:

canadachick (talk) 04:43, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Oh. Then it must just be an error on my side, and working as intended for others. Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 04:45, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

I will try refreshing browser cache and stuff like that after a while and see if it works later Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 05:05, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

WMF board reform

This seems like the most appropriate place to post for this project (feel free to let me know if it isn't). Anyways, editors may be interested in the m:2025 WMF Board reform petition. Clovermoss (talk) 14:01, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Images

People who know me from old will know that I've tried multiple times to get non-free images approved on simplewiki. This time I'm asking something slightly different. Previously Barras suggested that we approach the developers to make it possible so we could locally use images uploaded to enwiki here on simplewiki. This means we could use their images of logos, TV screen shots etc. without kneading to upload them here. This would allow us to avoid the problems and work load of processing non-free images ourselves. Any thoughts? fr33kman 23:33, 12 October 2025 (UTC)