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Main Page idea
[change source]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). MrMeAndMrMeTalk 02:59, 17 September 2025 (UTC)
- Did we make all the blurbs? Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 21:38, 19 October 2025 (UTC)
- If we say there are 2 ga hooks on the page we perhaps need 4-6 such hooks to show. If it is just a layout proposal, even 2 hooks will do Eptalon (talk) 21:47, 19 October 2025 (UTC)
- I may need some help in creating blurbs for the remaining GA articles as I have 90-ish left to do. Anyone is free to follow the 10-12 examples I’ve laid out on the mentioned sandbox above :) TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 04:56, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
- Did we make all the blurbs? Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 21:38, 19 October 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). MrMeAndMrMeTalk 02:59, 17 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)
- I like what you did with the sandbox. How many blurbs do you propose? fr33kman 20:18, 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Sounds okeh to me. Kdammers (talk) 17:45, 1 November 2025 (UTC)
- @TDKR Chicago 101. Any updates? Plutus 💬 🎃 — Fortune favors the curious 03:59, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
- I was hoping that someone with experience in editing the main page would chime in/take a stab at editing the main page. I’m fairly new as an admin and don’t have experience editing the main page. I’d be happy to do it if everyone’s in agreement :) TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 04:55, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
- Any updates? ~2025-27691-51 (talk) 03:21, 5 October 2025 (UTC)
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)
- I am surprised this has a jawiki article. Might be worthy of its own. But if not idk what we should do with the ill Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 23:14, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
- Both of these Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 23:14, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
- I am surprised this has a jawiki article. Might be worthy of its own. But if not idk what we should do with the ill Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 23:14, 13 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)
- I think we should have an article on this Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 05:27, 14 October 2025 (UTC)
- Although non mainspace so I think actually not Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 05:28, 14 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)
- Sent a suggestion for another person to make it Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 04:31, 14 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)
- I think this might be worthy of a deletion since it is only used as a circular linkImmanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 07:13, 13 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)
- I think this might be worthy of a deletion since it is only used as a circular link Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 07:12, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
- {{ill|Burmese Wikipedia|en|}}Burmese WikipediaImmanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 20:33, 12 October 2025 (UTC)
- I think this might be worthy of a deletion since it is only used as a circular link Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 07:12, 13 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)
- This one is not quite completely unlinked like the others Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 07:13, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
- Is it worthy of deleting something because the only usage of it as a redirect is as a circular link? Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 07:15, 13 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)
- I did the deletion proposals anyways for the ones only used in indirect self links Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2025/Burmese Wikipedia Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2025/Asturian Wikipedia Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2025/Aramaic Wikipedia Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 22:05, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
- As a recap these are the unresolved ones
- The Railway Series
- List of Wikipedias
- Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 17:13, 14 October 2025 (UTC)
- I think we should make all of these pages, but they are not really my area. Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 21:06, 15 October 2025 (UTC)
- I did the deletion proposals anyways for the ones only used in indirect self links Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2025/Burmese Wikipedia Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2025/Asturian Wikipedia Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2025/Aramaic Wikipedia Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 22:05, 13 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)
- Did more clearing Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 20:28, 12 October 2025 (UTC)
- @Immanuelle: I agree that some page spaces could be excluded, but I don't think it should be only article space. For example, I've seen this issue in templates. It's also plausible that it could be in categories (in text at the top of them) and possibly in others. Also, things in userspace often become articles later, so we might want to catch those as well. -- Auntof6 (talk) 01:30, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
- I would say no to userspace ones, because since this is a backlog thing, it tacitly encourages people to edit pages in other people's userspace. And the userspace stuff might just be a test or something. Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 06:33, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
- Apparently on User:Cewbot/Interlanguage link templates need to fix it seems like the bot is actually doing stuff on this page. Might attempt to edit the links here. So this is confusing. Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 02:40, 18 October 2025 (UTC)
- Yeah this page got edited https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Simple_talk&oldid=10577054 Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 02:45, 18 October 2025 (UTC)
- Kind of weird that this one of all pages is keeping that page running. We really need to fix the bot to stop it from running on Wikipedia: namespace, but it is an interesting reminder Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (talk | changes) 03:26, 2 November 2025 (UTC)
- Yeah this page got edited https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Simple_talk&oldid=10577054 Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 02:45, 18 October 2025 (UTC)
- Apparently on User:Cewbot/Interlanguage link templates need to fix it seems like the bot is actually doing stuff on this page. Might attempt to edit the links here. So this is confusing. Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 02:40, 18 October 2025 (UTC)
- I would say no to userspace ones, because since this is a backlog thing, it tacitly encourages people to edit pages in other people's userspace. And the userspace stuff might just be a test or something. Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 06:33, 13 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Great User:Cewbot/Interlanguage link templates need to fix has finally refreshed so I can finally finish with this really long backlog stuff. Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 02:26, 18 October 2025 (UTC)
- Can't say everything went as expected. Mainly Timeline of the Israel–Hamas war did not get edited as I expected and we still have a good deal of pages in . I think it might be best to just let it cycle again since the bot might have been overwhelmed last time. Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 02:43, 18 October 2025 (UTC)
- I’m not sure why one of the links didn’t change on that page but I hope things just get fixed next. Don’t want to push too much on the bot operator though. Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 21:50, 20 October 2025 (UTC)
- Should update tomorrow Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (talk | contribs) 00:07, 24 October 2025 (UTC)
- Might be better just to make a new thread Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (talk | changes) 16:25, 6 November 2025 (UTC)
- Should update tomorrow Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (talk | contribs) 00:07, 24 October 2025 (UTC)
- I’m not sure why one of the links didn’t change on that page but I hope things just get fixed next. Don’t want to push too much on the bot operator though. Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 21:50, 20 October 2025 (UTC)
- Can't say everything went as expected. Mainly Timeline of the Israel–Hamas war did not get edited as I expected and we still have a good deal of pages in . I think it might be best to just let it cycle again since the bot might have been overwhelmed last time. Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 02:43, 18 October 2025 (UTC)
Request to Review and Move: Tableo Article
[change source]Hello! I have created a draft article about "Tableo" in my user sandbox: User:TamaraNaudi/sandbox
As I am affiliated with the company, I will not move the page to mainspace myself. I have disclosed my conflict of interest on my user talk page and the article talk page.
If any editor would be willing to review the draft and, if appropriate, move it to the article namespace, I would be very grateful.
Thank you! TamaraNaudi (talk) 14:46, 4 November 2025 (UTC)
- Personally, I feel like it needs a bit more work. Some additional secondary sources would better enhance the reliability of the claims in the article. Also, the article could use some more neutrality. Plutus 💬 🎃 — Fortune favors the curious 10:12, 6 November 2025 (UTC)
- Hi Plutus, thank you so much for your feedback. It's much appreciated. I've reworked the content including many more references and worked on the neutrality of the article, to make it more factual. Would you be so kind as to give it a second glance? TamaraNaudi (talk) 11:54, 6 November 2025 (UTC)
- Hi Plutus! I just wanted to follow up on the Tableo draft in User:TamaraNaudi/sandbox which I revised as per your earlier suggestions. I’ve tried to address the concerns around sourcing and neutrality. When you have a moment, I’d be grateful if you could take another look. Thanks again for your time and help! TamaraNaudi (talk) 13:43, 13 November 2025 (UTC)
"Total Backlog Annihilation" phase six
[change source]Hi everyone! I've just opened the newest - and probably most ambitious - phase of WikiProject TBA (Total Backlog Annihilation) yet and that is to clear our backlog of complex 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 VI. 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!) 12:00, 5 November 2025 (UTC)
- I’m interested in this Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (talk | changes) 16:18, 6 November 2025 (UTC)
- This is going to take a while Plutus 💬 🎃 — Fortune favors the curious 04:00, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
- Do we have any stats on how much work is being done on this? Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (talk | changes) 00:08, 13 November 2025 (UTC)
My concern
[change source]I'm concerned that the Simplewiki community has nothing constructive to say about any of my GA nominations. I get that they may have issues in the eyes of some people, but can't those people maybe give me tips on how to FIX THE ISSUES THEY SEE? Is it really that hard, guys? Hell, if it's such an issue, why don't you guys go in and fix it yourself? Contributor118,784 Let's talk 19:43, 5 November 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @Contributor 118,784, sorry if my comments on the GA nomination came across as too harsh. One of the problems people were pointing out is that the sources rely too much on Apple's own website (primary sources) instead of relying on sources from third parties (other websites talking about the product). This could be fixed by finding sources from a variety of reliable websites (you could also look at the English Wikipedia article for ideas). Hope that helps. Ternera (talk) 19:51, 5 November 2025 (UTC)
- You're perfectly fine, thank you for the apology. I appreciate the guidance. :) Contributor118,784 Let's talk 19:58, 5 November 2025 (UTC)
- I see feedback and guidance in that discussion. People pointed out the concerns with too many sources from Apple. People pointed out the concerns with it being written with a lot of bullet points and not in paragraph form. People pointed out uncited areas. People pointed out sections that felt like they read like press releases.
- While they didn't say "this is uncited, you should cite it," it should be pretty obvious what the fixes are for each of these things. We're all volunteers here. No one is obligated to fix your article for you to make it meet good article standards. CountryANDWestern (talk) 20:05, 5 November 2025 (UTC)
- The article met the official GA standards when I nominated it. It just didn't meet YOUR standards. Contributor118,784 Let's talk 20:34, 5 November 2025 (UTC)
- I would say it definitely did not meet requirements 3 and 5 of WP:RGA. It underwent a large rewrite shortly before being nominated for GA. Ternera (talk) 20:39, 5 November 2025 (UTC)
- You've got a misunderstanding here. What you are referring to is requirements for the article to be nominated, it is not the criteria for it to be a GA.
- There are lots of other reasons why an article might not be suitable for GA, and that is what the !voting time is for. Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 08:57, 6 November 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you for the clarification, I understand now. Contributor118,784 Let's talk 19:42, 6 November 2025 (UTC)
- The article met the official GA standards when I nominated it. It just didn't meet YOUR standards. Contributor118,784 Let's talk 20:34, 5 November 2025 (UTC)
- You must realise that the GA criteria is designed to be applicable to well written simple English articles. If you are getting some negative feedback, it's a tale that the articles in question aren't quite at the point of being suitable yet. If someone hasn't given actionable feedback, you can ask for some, but remember that reviews are voluntary, and a reviewer doesn't have to provide ways to "fix" an article Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 20:24, 5 November 2025 (UTC)
Active proposal at WP:PVGA
[change source]I'm just here to remind people that there is an active proposal at Wikipedia:Proposed very good articles, seeing as there's been no comments at all in the 11 days that it's been up. ShadowBallX (talk) 00:10, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
- Yeah, I already placed a notice here Plutus 💬 🎃 — Fortune favors the curious 03:59, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
- Ah, I didn't notice it. Thanks though! ShadowBallX (talk) 04:14, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
How do I nominate a page for Quick Deletion?
[change source]Hi, I want to nomminate Super_Mario_(2027) for QD because I can not find any reliable source for it, making it most likely a hoax (see A6). I put the apropriate template up with Twinkle but do I need to start a discussion somewhere? microTato (talk) (contribs) 18:26, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @MicroTato, you did it correctly. There is no need to begin a discussion for quick deletion; only for WP:RFD. I deleted the page because it was definitely a hoax. Ternera (talk) 18:35, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
Something is wrong with the IPA template
[change source]Look at Frederiksberg. The IPA pronunciation, which should be after the first word in the article, is not being displayed. ~2025-32945-68 (talk) 20:41, 11 November 2025 (UTC)
AI-generated template
[change source]The {{AI-notice}} was renamed to {{AI-generated}} and the wording was made more complex, is this good? ~2025-32945-68 (talk) 22:22, 11 November 2025 (UTC)
Library
[change source]I am a member of the, "British Library" and have access to a lot of books. I however, cannot find the pages I want to quote from online. Can I still use them here as reliable sources if they are not self published?-Baangla (talk) 14:43, 12 November 2025 (UTC)
- Yes, that's no issue, simply qute them in a way that people can find the information (for books likely author or publisher, place of publication,year and if you refer to a page number likely edition) Eptalon (talk) 21:49, 12 November 2025 (UTC)
- @Eptalon: I have to compulsorily quote the passage/sentence from the book is it?-Baangla (talk) 01:52, 13 November 2025 (UTC)
Meta request for comment
[change source]There is a request for comment at Meta Wikipedia that you may want to take part in. It concerns the potential closure of Simple English Wikipedia. Your contributions are welcome. Szmenderowiecki (talk) 17:18, 12 November 2025 (UTC)
- So is this a serious issue with a high chance of closure? Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (talk | changes) 18:58, 12 November 2025 (UTC)
- It looks like the request was closed (requests for cloaure are different from request a for comment) Eptalon (talk) 23:01, 12 November 2025 (UTC)
- OK that’s good I was kind of worried Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (talk | changes) 23:10, 12 November 2025 (UTC)
- It looks like the request was closed (requests for cloaure are different from request a for comment) Eptalon (talk) 23:01, 12 November 2025 (UTC)
- Szmenderowiecki, for the record, this was already posted about above, on this page, at #RFC.
- Immanuelle, as the request wasn't set up correctly, it was invalid. There have been four official proposals for closing this Wikipedia, before this one, at m:Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Simple English Wikipedia, m:Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Simple English Wikipedia (2), m:Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Simple English Wikipedia (3) and m:Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Simple English Wikipedia (4). They are usually rejected by LangCom because the reasoning is often similar and usually related to the quality of content and vandalism, and both aren't accepted reasons to close a project. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 23:24, 12 November 2025 (UTC)
Is this a reliable source?
[change source]Is this a reliable source: https://archive.org/stream/manmythmagictheillustratedencyclopediaofmythology21volumesin1/Man%2C myth %26 magic the illustrated encyclopedia of mythology 21 volumes in 1_djvu.txt to paraphrase and add this to the article about Cheiro: On the other hand, the celebrated professional palmist and fortune-teller Cheiro had told a well-known journalist of the day* W.T.Stead, that April 1912 was going to be a time of danger for him: 'So don't travel by water then if you can help it, Stead took no notice and went down with the liner.
-Baangla (talk) 19:43, 12 November 2025 (UTC)
- Source appears to be reliable from reading the intro pages. Peterdownunder (talk) 23:46, 12 November 2025 (UTC)
- How can we determine that a source is reliable Peterdownunder?-Baangla (talk) 02:04, 13 November 2025 (UTC)
- Source appears to be reliable from reading the intro pages. Peterdownunder (talk) 23:46, 12 November 2025 (UTC)
- I also request someone to fix the broken link.-Baangla (talk) 19:48, 12 November 2025 (UTC)
Page about Cheiro
[change source]I created a page at https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheiro but don't know how to connect it with the English Wikipedia article with the same name. Please help link the two.-Baangla (talk) 17:52, 13 November 2025 (UTC)
- @Baangla, I added it to Wikidata so it will be linked. The article still needs a lot of simplification though. Ternera (talk) 17:55, 13 November 2025 (UTC)
- @Ternera: Please import the image of Cheiro to the Simple wikipedia page about Cheiro from the English Wikipedia.-Baangla (talk) 19:44, 13 November 2025 (UTC)
- On Simple English Wikipedia, images can only be imported from Wikimedia Commons. I see that there is a proposal to add the image of Cheiro to Commons, but until that happens, it can not be used here. Peterdownunder (talk) 19:56, 13 November 2025 (UTC)
- @Ternera: Please import the image of Cheiro to the Simple wikipedia page about Cheiro from the English Wikipedia.-Baangla (talk) 19:44, 13 November 2025 (UTC)
GA Nom & DYK noms
[change source]Hello everyone! Just a little ping that there’s some DYK noms that need review and there’s an ongoing nomination at Wikipedia:Proposed good articles. Any feedback on the two projects is highly appreciated and valued :) TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 00:41, 14 November 2025 (UTC)
- Adding to this, there's also an active nomination over at Wikipedia:Proposed very good articles. ShadowBallX (talk) 02:34, 14 November 2025 (UTC)
References
[change source]I have just created the page about Karen Stollznow but couldn't get two of the cited sources to go below into the References section. Someone please correct it.-Baangla (talk) 20:49, 14 November 2025 (UTC)
