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Phishing as a Wikipedia editor

I received an email from someone using a gmail account disguised as a "wikipedia.org" email address, offering Wikipedia page editing services (but not asking for money, at least not yet). How/where can I report this properly? 47.229.148.219 (talk) 17:59, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is the talk page for the Help Desk, and is not the Help Desk itself, which is at WP:HD. But you may see WP:REPORTPAID for information about reporting your email. 331dot (talk) 19:10, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WP:Y

What is the rationale behind the WP:Y shortcut to the associated project page? WP:Y NOT? The shortcut is currently saving the Solar System ~570 keystrokes per year, while being no easier to remember than WP:HD. Other star systems: unknown. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 21:49, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2020_July_15#Wikipedia:Y. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 21:53, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. You have a remarkable memory. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 21:58, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Actually I just checked the history. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 21:59, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ah so. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 22:00, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Medieval help desk

Medieval help desk at YouTube. I think I've done this before here, but that was years and years ago. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 01:23, 21 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Syllables

Please, change 'WICK-ee' to 'WI-k_e_i' ('WI-ki'). An article's Wiki. --5.43.76.5 (talk); 00.45, 2025-09-29 (UTC)

Edit link offset?

I've just gone to correct my own very minor typo in an answer I gave earlier today, and discovered that the [edit] link to that query (Honda Sparta?) sent me to another query two sections below; I then found that clicking on the [edit] link of the query two sections above took me to the query I wanted.

I haven't a clue what's going on, but something seems amiss. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.193.153.108 (talk) 13:44, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This can happen if a new section is added, or an old one archived, between you adding the page and selecting the "edit" link. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:40, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you check the edit link you'll find out it contains the section number, not a title/header. So when you step back in your browser's history while somebody already edited the page, you retrieve an out-of-date version of the page from the browser's cache with links fitting that old version. If you then click such link, Wikipedia server serves you the current version, so the link hits another section which now happens to be at the position indicated by the link. --CiaPan (talk) 19:04, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I wasn't using my browser's history (I'd left Wikipedia entirely, and came back some time later to (amongst other things) see if any one had added to the thread and then noticed the typo), but I suppose caching could have been involved. I'd just never ever seen this phenomenon before in over 20 years of regularly editing. Thanks both for responding. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.193.153.108 (talk) 23:01, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]