User talk:CommissarDoggo

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Hello!

Welcome to my talk page, feel free to say hi, or whether you think I've been an idiot somewhere. Just remember that cat pictures are always welcome.

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diplomacy
	Took steps that stopped an editing war involving the spelling of the subject's name. Kiwatts (talk) 14:29, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

William Henry Harrison Seeley

Under the B-class criteria, the article needs two more citations at the end of "The straits separated the islands of Honshū and Kyūshū, providing a passage between the Seto Inland Sea and the Sea of Japan" and "Despite retaliatory actions from the treaty partners, another attack occurred in July 1864, when rebels fired upon the US steamer Monitor." I will wait rather than immediately assess the article as C-class. I realize that the first sentence is probably verified in the articles but the criteria require a citation at the end of each paragraph for facts stated after the previous citation. If you can provide citations for the two sentences, I will assess the article as B-class. Good work. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 05:28, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have put a brief message on the request for assessment page. If someone thinks this is a completed assessment and deletes it, please relist it if you add the two citations or ping me and I will assess it as B class. If you wish to leave it as is, let me know and I will rate it C. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 07:38, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Donner60 I've now clarified where I mentioned the retaliatory attacks, they were the retaliatory attacks performed by the US and French for the attacks on their shipping - that was my mistake, I misinterpreted the source. As for the SS Monitor, I was quite lucky to find a source for it from a newspaper of the time which went into far more detail. Hopefully this'll sort the need for citations. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 10:27, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Good work. Now rated B class. Donner60 (talk) 23:33, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

can you explain to me what you mean by "poor source citations" because I chose the correct citations, you can read that on the citations I post.

Thanks. Jikaj214na (talk) 19:55, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to the drive!

Welcome, welcome, welcome CommissarDoggo! I'm glad that you are joining the drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

Fix a random page lacking sources

CactiStaccingCrane (talk)18:44, 1 February 2024 UTC [refresh]via JWB and Geardona (talk to me?)

ITN recognition for Barry John

On 7 February 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Barry John, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. PFHLai (talk) 13:02, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

		The Completionist Barnstar
		For your work on 2020-2022 catalytic converter theft ring.

Queen of Hearts (talk • stalk • she/they) 21:02, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I second this! I was astonished to see how much you expanded that article over the past 24 hours. Of course, I expected some expansion but I never thought of a huge expansion! It's definitely one of the quickest and biggest expansions I've seen. I appreciate your time to expand this article; I'm impressed and grateful you've completed this article in Vami's honor. Thanks, ~ Tails Wx (🐾, me!) 21:24, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm honestly pretty surprised at how much I expanded it as well, especially in just 24 hours. I'm also really glad to have had @Epicgenius helping, everyone else helping out with Americanising everything and yourself for archiving everything and reviewing the page so quickly. Thanks @Queen of Hearts as well for doing the honours of moving it to mainspace, couldn't think of anyone else that I'd rather to do it.

It's been a long 24 hours, but more than well worth it for Vami. With those archives it'll hopefully live on forever in their memory. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 21:34, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Willy's Chocolate Experience

Thanks for all your work on the article! The new Connell interview is a great insight into what went down, but I do think it's better used to flesh out the timeline of events, than to run as a duplicated sidebar to it. The other stuff he was saying was colourful but I'm not sure it added that much to the article, the basic wonderland/warehouse disjunct is already very vivid, I think, without Connell repeating his perspective on it.

Let me know if you think I'm pushing back too much on this! Belbury (talk) 19:27, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh god no, you're fine. I mainly whacked the whole quote in there because I was afraid of getting edit-conflicted if I were to try and link it into the article, which happened either twice or three times earlier today. It looks a lot better without such a long box. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 19:31, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Rube Goldberg page

Hi.

In regard to my minor edits that you reverted, I left what you did in place, but:

The first comma you re-introduced is unnecessary. It separates an independent clause prior to the comma and a dangling phrase after the comma. If the piece after the comma started with "and he took" instead of just "and took", then the comma would be fine.

The second comma you re-introduced is also unnecessary and interrupts the flow of the text. It's after a single two-word prepositional phrase ("In 1911") and is not needed.

In the clause "each of his sons was|were heading off to college", the subject is "each" (singular), not "sons" (plural). So the verb should be "was". The word "sons" is the object of a preposition, and that can never be a subject.

And I changed "antisemitic" to "anti-Semitic" on the recommendation of the Wikipedia editor itself. The word "antisemitic" was underlined in red (as it is now as I'm typing this) with "anti-Semitic" being the recommended change. Venango (talk) 14:19, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I actually had to go back quickly and check what I did, as this was around 5 months ago. Looking back on the reversion, it seems rather hasty, I doubt I would've made the same reversion nowadays and have made some changes based on that. Feel free to check them.

As for the last bit, while it does get underlined by spellcheck, looking at the article for antisemitism, antisemitic is widely used across the page without a hyphen; when "anti-Semitic" is used, it's either in quotes or as part of a citation. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 14:34, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Trout!

Whack!

You've been whacked with a wet trout.

Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

WP:COMMON NAME Babysharkboss2 was here!! ^{King Crimson} 19:05, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh god I definitely deserved that... CommissarDoggo^Talk? 19:08, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

February 2024 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award

		Citation Barnstar
		This award is given in recognition to CommissarDoggo for collecting more than 5 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's FEB24 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing 14,300 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:58, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Mexia Supermarket

On 9 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Mexia Supermarket, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when Mexia Supermarket was abandoned because of its owners' bankruptcy, all of the food inside was left to rot for more than three months? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mexia Supermarket. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Mexia Supermarket), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Z1720 (talk) 00:03, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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A barnstar for you!

	The Teamwork Barnstar
	Congratulations! 14 novembre (talk) 23:30, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, CommissarDoggo. Thank you for your work on Grigory Sverdlin. Wikisteveb4, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

Well cited

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Wikisteveb4 (talk) 21:08, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

2024 Crocus City Hall attack

Hey,

HTB are an official news organization and this is their official channel (NTV (Russia)) Mgfdhsrhe (talk) 00:22, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That may be so, but a Telegram link is unfortunately not acceptable as it's classed as a WP:SOCIALMEDIA source. I can't be sure, but I'm assuming you'll be able to find a corresponding article from them on the Telegram source to cite. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 00:24, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Video games and electronic lit

Hi, Thank you for your help in the Tearoom. I see you are interested in videogames, and I wondered if you might extend that interest to electronic literature. Some of our works are based on or told through video games, so it is a "next door" field. We have a new project page at Wikipedia:WikiProject Electronic literature. I confess, I failed at retirement and have two fullish time gigs now so I have not devoted myself as much as I could to learning how Wikipedia works...

We could really use your help and expertise! Thank you 01:13, 26 March 2024 (UTC) LoveElectronicLiterature (talk) 01:13, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for 2020–2022 catalytic converter theft ring

On 27 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 2020–2022 catalytic converter theft ring, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that an interstate catalytic converter theft ring generated US$545 million in revenue? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/2020–2022 catalytic converter theft ring. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, 2020–2022 catalytic converter theft ring), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:03, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of William Henry Harrison Seeley

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article William Henry Harrison Seeley you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Asilvering -- Asilvering (talk) 22:21, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the ping! I'm so sorry, I totally forgot about this!! I keep my in-progress reviews on my userpage and never put this one up. I'm really behind on everything right now, so I'll return it to the queue in hopes it can pick up another reviewer. If no one's grabbed it in a month, can you ping me about it? Sorry again! -- asilvering (talk) 19:39, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, I was thinking it'd been a little while since you popped up, I hope you get caught up with everything soon. Thanks anyway! CommissarDoggo^Talk? 19:44, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of Get Lost (organisation)

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Nomination of Mexia Supermarket for deletion

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FOARP (talk) 21:03, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Shared Interest

Hello. I gave you a friend request on Discord. You can probably figure it out because I gave myself a certain name. It is very hard apparently to reach users on Wikipedia. Benmac1089 (talk) 20:00, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Depends on the person, I tend to respond to messages quite quickly on my talk page.

Would you be the person who sent me a friend request a couple of days ago, Mexia Store? If so, I declined the friend request when I received it as we didn't share a server. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 20:02, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes that was me. I could find the server that was mentioned on your page. Benmac1089 (talk) 22:41, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I mean couldn't. Benmac1089 (talk) 22:41, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, that's alright, you just click on the link, then hit "Join Server", it's the big blue box a little bit down. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 22:42, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Get Lost (organisation)

On 12 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Get Lost (organisation), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that as of December 2023, Get Lost claimed to have helped nearly 20,000 people avoid conscription in Russia? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Get Lost (organisation). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Get Lost (organisation)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:03, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of William Henry Harrison Seeley

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A barnstar for you!

Hi! Thank you so much for helping me with that Picture! So here is a barnstar for you! Again Thank you! HermoineGranger54 (talk) 16:29, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, just glad I could help. If you have any other questions then feel free to drop by the Teahouse or head over to the Wikipedia Discord server. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 16:31, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

new page

I found a new page with some advertising issues related to Ukraine's Dragon Capital (company), which has had previous problems with deletion. Perhaps you should consider paying for a professional review of it. 2603:7000:60F0:1E0:5923:94E6:5529:305A (talk) 08:10, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't immediately come off as promotional to me, some errors in translation sure and some niggling issues, but not the major issues I somewhat expected.

Are you looking for someone to look through it or to improve it? CommissarDoggo^Talk? 08:13, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@CommissarDoggo yes, exactly. I think a review by a third-party could be beneficial. I'm not sure if including the entire range of investments made by this company in the article is a good idea. I believe you could provide more help. Thanks for your prompt reply. 2603:7000:A200:4F08:8C4C:7DCB:4027:7BC4 (talk) 09:18, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I'll tell you what: I'll be out for a couple of hours, but when I get back I'll look up some more info about the company. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 09:21, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I've basically just removed a bunch of the "we bought x, then sold it" stuff. It'll need improvements from someone, but I'm not at all interested in doing that. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 15:01, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Help

Hey! Thanks for helping me! Just one more question for you haha. To join CVU is it just free to join by changing your name? I read about trainings but I dont understand. Also like on your profile, can we just add medals and about us? GamrrOverDue (talk) 19:46, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@GamrrOverDue To your first question, you have two entries to the Counter-Vandalism Unit.

One way is to go through the Counter-Vandalism Academy, which will teach you how to perform counter-vandalism work in a structured and supported manner. You'll be assisted by a mentor to learn the various processes relating to counter-vandalism, common tools, common essays/policies and common actions you may have to take.

The other way is the hard way which I personally did, learning it all by yourself, getting stuck in and eventually deciding "well I already know all or most of what I need to, I guess I'm in". To my knowledge, there is no need to go through the Academy to join the CVU.

As for your second question, yes you can. See WP:USERPAGE, WP:UPDG, WP:USERBOX, WP:AWARDS and WP:SERVICEAWARDS. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 19:53, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so so so soo so much!!!!! You are a wonderful help, have a great day! Did you just join CVU however, like just opted in without saying anything or did you need to apply? GamrrOverDue (talk) 20:01, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, happy to help.

I just put the userbox onto my userpage, you can find it a bit further down the Counter-Vandalism Unit page. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 20:06, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, and once you do that you're in CVU? GamrrOverDue (talk) 20:06, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pretty much, yeah. Despite having learned everything myself I'd still advise that newcomers go through the academy, it'll help a whole bunch. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 20:10, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, we'll you're in it. Um, can you train me? I trust that you'd be a great help. GamrrOverDue (talk) 20:12, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'll be happy to answer any questions you might have, but I wouldn't personally train you. I'm experienced enough to share and to do, not to teach. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 20:28, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay! GamrrOverDue (talk) 20:34, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Could you help me make a userbox? GamrrOverDue (talk) 20:52, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've never made one myself, you can search for premade ones though. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 20:54, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

teahouse

Hey, CD, I know you're trying to be helpful, but please don't give advice at Teahouse unless you understand the policy in question. This advice is not only incorrect, it misinforms new editors in a way that might make them afraid to keep reverting BLP violations until an admin shows up. Removing the addition of BLP violations is one of the few things we do want people to edit-war over, and we'd much rather they overcorrected than undercorrected.

Good advice would have been to tell Mmccaea to next time go to wp:blpn and ask for admin help when faced with this situation, but it's absolutely not correct that they shouldn't continue to revert something they honestly believe is a BLP violation until that help shows up. Valereee (talk) 13:07, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of William Henry Harrison Seeley

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I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi CommissarDoggo. Thank you for your work on Grigory Sverdlin. Another editor, SunDawn, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

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✠ SunDawn ✠ (contact) 04:16, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Adding New York in the page for more clarity

Hi user, it's for readers across who are not familiar with all events which occurs around the globe. Met Gala is not familiar terms to people outside entertainment & fashion, hence mentioning of city provides more clarity. Aleenass (talk) 14:51, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I wouldn't say it requires clarity personally, it's only hosted in a single place and if someone wished to find out where it was hosted they could follow the link for the Met Gala. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 14:54, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

can you please help me

Block this user User:Trimutes. Toofan is a bangladeshi movie as 90% of its cast is bangladeshi. Even kolkata sources confirmed it. He keeps editing even if he is porven wrong. SVF is producing this movie but director,actors,screenplay,plot is bangladeshi.2607:FEA8:A75B:7100:69C2:82B1:32E0:D62B (talk) 14:51, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not an administrator, as such I cannot block people, only assign notices based on poor conduct. As for the rest, please see my reply on the talk page. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 09:52, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sir

if a movie is only two actors from other country then its moostly a one country film

yes producers are joint

but its not joint venture movie

i beleive this is a requirement of joint venture movie 2607:FEA8:A75B:7100:E8BA:B056:1431:6E48 (talk) 12:04, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please see the response I made to you on the talk page. The only requirement as far as I can tell is that the movie be made by joint Bangladeshi and Indian studios. That is exactly what's happening, as such I can't help you here. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 12:06, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of William Henry Harrison Seeley

The article William Henry Harrison Seeley you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:William Henry Harrison Seeley for comments about the article, and Talk:William Henry Harrison Seeley/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Czarking0 -- Czarking0 (talk) 01:21, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for William Henry Harrison Seeley

On 27 June 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article William Henry Harrison Seeley, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that William Henry Harrison Seeley was the first American recipient of the Victoria Cross? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/William Henry Harrison Seeley. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, William Henry Harrison Seeley), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

RoySmith (talk) 00:03, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Michael Wettlaufer

On 29 June 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Michael Wettlaufer, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a U.S. Navy plane piloted by Michael Wettlaufer clipped the tower of a Florida TV station while on a training mission, forcing it off the air for nearly five years? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/WOTF-TV. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Michael Wettlaufer), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

IP editor blocked

Hiya, just wanted to give you a heads-up that the IP you've been working on Draft:2023 Stenungsund landslide with has been blocked as a sock. They asked that you be notified (diff), so I'm letting you know. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. They still have TPA at the moment if you wanted to make contact. StartGrammarTime (talk) 05:25, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh damn, that's a real shame, they were the one that brought me to that article in the first place and provided a whole bunch of really good sources that I would've never found as they were in Swedish. Thanks for letting me know. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 09:51, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No worries - I was sad too, it looks like you guys have a great draft/article taking shape. I wish I could help but I also don't speak Swedish. I hope you feel up to completing it on your own, it's a very interesting topic! StartGrammarTime (talk) 04:24, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I'm glad they brought it up on the Teahouse actually. It was really interesting to research and the whole landslide thing is definitely out of my editing comfort zone.

I'm more than happy to finish it on my own, I'm just hoping more information comes out at some point regarding the investigation. It'd be nice to see where the story goes as it's still very much ongoing. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 10:10, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Thanks for participating in the June 2024 backlog drive!

You scored 23 points while adding citations to articles during WikiProject Reliability's first {{citation needed}} backlog drive, earning you this cookie. Thanks for helping out!

Pichpich (talk) 16:12, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Quick note on the Teahouse

Hey! Just in my opinion, the Teahouse might not be the best venue to interrogate or discuss user conduct issues in the future. That kind of discussion is probably better suited for the user's talk page or (if really necessary) WP:ANI. Not to say I don't agree with your concern, but I just don't think similar discussions should happen in the future at the Teahouse. Thanks for all you do, and happy editing! Bsoyka (t • c • g) 16:59, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Bsoyka Nah, you're right, that's on me. I'm not a fan of seeing people try to pull the wool as it were, but I definitely should've taken it to their userpage to discuss that conduct. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 17:26, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Totally agree with you on the concerns, and thanks for understanding! Bsoyka (t • c • g) 17:51, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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(Hamish) 93.138.231.23 (talk) 17:05, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, what is this about? CommissarDoggo^Talk? 17:07, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, having looked through your own editing interactions with them, I would advise against jumping to calling people a vandal or telling people to "Get lost". It's at best uncivil and at worse can push people away if they're trying to be constructive. Please try to assume good faith.

Although I'm glad that you mentioned them out of concern, when it comes to Hamish socks, they have fairly obvious tells and I'm not seeing any of them with this user. Thank you. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 17:31, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi CommissarDoggo. Thank you for your work on Brownies & Downies. Another editor, North8000, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

Good start

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North8000 (talk) 18:28, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think you requested deletion the same time I turned it into redirect

oops 4.39.220.106 (talk) 16:28, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely did, yeah, no worries. Redirect is the better thing to do in those cases. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 16:29, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy deletion declined: কুরআনের গাণিতিক ভুল

Hello CommissarDoggo. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of কুরআনের গাণিতিক ভুল, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A bad non-english draft is not a test page. Thank you. Whpq (talk) 15:43, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Smoot-Hawley Tariff Edits

I recently performed an edit on the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs Act article, removing several paragraphs. But, the edits were restored due to insufficient explanation.

The paragraphs were added on Nov 7 in the wake of the initial effects of the current proposed tariffs and were lengthy and heavily biased in favor of tariffs and contrary to the consensus opinion of the effects of the Smooth-Hawley Act. The nature of the edits suggested that they were added to provide political bias rather than informative content.

Additionally, they were posted by a one-time editor with no username and no other edits in their history. This methodology is suggestive of the bots and agents that have been used to provide misinformatuon in the recent past. 2600:1702:2930:6D10:E95D:D2C8:9C19:48FD (talk) 14:21, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The large majority of that section was apparently written on 1 November 2022, with the only additions made on 7 November this year being a couple of words here and there; the entire section is seemingly well cited at first glance, hence my instant concern with the entire section being removed. I will have a closer look at what their specific edit added in terms of difference though.

As for your third paragraph, I don't mean anything by this at all but I do feel the sudden and inescapable need to point out the irony of you editing through an anonymous IP (with only one edit other than to my talk page) while stating that this is a common attribute of bots and agents of misinformation; I can't disagree, I just thought it was quite funny is all. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 14:32, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As I'm sure you can see, I've since reverted to the version before the IP editor re-added the content based off of the arguments used by Volunteer Marek in their edits on 3 October this year. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 14:41, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies, and I do appreciate the irony. I'm obviously new to the whole process and didn't realize that I wasn't logged in. Thank you for your assistance. Reece Aaron (talk) 19:43, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Help requested: train crash at Finneidfjord

Hello CommissarDoggo!

Do you remember the article about the landslide at Stenungsund? I started a translation of a Swedish Wikipedia article, that you then took to a next level and, after lots of editing, you managed to get it published. :-)

Well, here's a new story: Rock falls on train track, train collides with rock, derails and ends up on European route E6. Sad result: train driver killed and Norway cut into 2 pieces for about 51 days, because a train wreck was blocking the only main road and the Nordland Line railway, causing logistic nightmares and another fatal car crash. Norwegian user Ranværing, from Rana fylke, wrote an article for the Norwegian Wikipedia, which he (or she?) then started to translate to English, but Ranværing had a car crash and a computer crash and I have not seen any progression in that article since about one week. I was hoping that you would be ready to give this draft article some love and care, so it can get ready for publishing.

https://wiki.eso.workers.dev/w/index.php?title=Draft:The_train_accident_between_Bjerka_and_Finneidfjord_in_2024&action=history

One might want to argue that this train crash is of little interest outside Norway, but E6 has lots of road trip tourist traffic, so the fact that this road can be closed for weeks and that the detour is hundreds of kilometres is significant in my opinion. Furthermore, I wonder if climate change is speeding up rockfall. Back in the days of real winters, rocks would freeze once per year and that would be it, but when the temperature is fluctuating around zero degrees all "winter" long, any water can continuously infiltrate in cracks, freeze, extend, create new cracks and break rocks in just a few weeks, in stead of years. Isn't climate change of global relevance?

I suspect that Ranværing has used machine translations. Did I insult this user by pointing out his/her errors in English? Or is he/she still trying to overcome the car crash and the computer crash? Why abandon this draft?

with best wishes, 82.173.160.29 (talk) 23:47, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Taking a cursory glance at the article, it certainly seems interesting and quite well sourced aside from two places where inline citations are not used. I'll take a closer look tomorrow as there's definitely some rejigging that needs to be done to make the article flow better, that and removing proseline, but it already looks good.

Obviously I don't speak Norwegian so I'm not going to go poking around their global pages, but I do hope they're doing alright. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 23:59, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, thank you for your swift answer, CommissarDoggo! :-)

When I ran into an edit conflict (we were simultanously editing), I was trying to add this: The infrastructure provider, BaneNOR, claims it had taken enough safety measures, but I care to disagree, because train tracks in Canada have signalling cables that break when large rocks fall on train tracks, so why would such technology not be used to improve safety on railway lines in Norway?

You may want to check the talk pages of E6 and Nordland Line, and see what you can use from the text that I had written before, with lots of references. I still think English Wikipedia articles should not be stuffed with references in a foreign language that Joe Average cannot read, but very little sources in English were available, so you will indeed need translating software, when you dive into this matter.

I found a train cab video (from Trondheim to Mo i Rana) with the exact spot of the accident, but that was deleted, despite a news article in the Norwegian newspaper VG pointing out the same location for the accident. Google Streetview does not exist for train tracks, but train cab videos seem to be a good replacement. The traces are in the editing history. I had enough of edit wars...

Looking forward to publication of that draft article. I hate to see all that energy go to waste. 82.173.160.29 (talk) 00:16, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]