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Deletion of the Pretty Cure page

Hi there! I'm not the one who originally made the page, but I noticed that back in March, you deleted an article on Pretty Cure. May I ask why? Pretty Cure is a well-known franchise and also has pages in the en and jp versions of wikipedia, so it should meet the notability requirements. Pikaryaa (talk) 02:10, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

I think... I found a way to crash the servers! (Haven't tried it yet)

I would use Special:ApiSandbox to add a new section with the title "Test" and then substituting the sandbox on the sandbox page as long as the edit token is filled. I will keep pressing "Make request" every time the request is made to make another edit. It may not work if there's an error, or if I'm blocked. 209.52.88.114 (talk) 17:19, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

Q

Hello, i'm new to SimpleWiki, How do I add citations in "Change source", the features that makes it easy to add title, page etc seems to be missing, do I have to add it manually? I'm currently blocked on WikipediaEnglish standard, would I be able to edit on here? Lokiszm7 (talk) 16:10, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

• See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Middayexpress/Archive for this editor's history. Macdonald-ross (talk) 14:14, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

Reverting pranks

I have noticed a couple of kids posting vandalism edits here recently. I wonder if sending a message at websites such as http://www.ccsc.staffs.sch.uk/index.php/contact-us may help curtail the enthusiasm of students who vandalize Wikipedia? Or maybe even mentioning this on the talkpage of the vandals themselves?

It sure would be nice if contributors would not have to spend so much time reverting kid pranks, no? Ottawahitech (talk) 13:44, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

Apologies fo4 the. Strange. Words inserted here by some. Mysterious sy st em Ottawahitech (talk) 13:48, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Generally no we wouldn't contact people's schools unless the vandalism was particularly bad. Just the same as we wouldn't contact someones place of work. Eventually if the same IP keeps vandalizing here they end up with blocks that prevent editing for the school year anyway. At which point of the administration notices the block it is up to them to deal with it at that point. -DJSasso (talk) 16:58, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

Côte d'Ivoire / Ivory Coast

You might not have noticed, but there is a current discussion at Simple talk about which name we should use for this country. I noticed that you changed some category and article names from the French name to the English name. I have changed them back. Please participate in the discussion if you want, but please do not make this change while the discussion is going on. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 04:28, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

shrek redirect

Why did you redirect Shrek_(character) to Shrek_(movie)? They are different pages for different things and just because the character is in the movie doesn't make it the same thing, IMO. Computer Fizz (talk) 04:41, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Email Help Team

Why did you delete this page? Vermont (talk) 17:28, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

Likely didn't check the edit history and see it was just a page that had its contents removed. -DJSasso (talk) 17:45, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

Possible copyvio

Hi Macdonald-ross. AnuraagPatel's recent page creations seem to be derived directly from en.wiki without/with little amendments. 大诺史 (Talk/留言/토론/Discussion) 13:38, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

Well GRUH Finance is up for discussion now. It has not got an En wiki page under that title (but see Housing Development Finance Corporation). I checked his work on Ahmedabad, and that seems more or less OK, and not a copy of En wiki. I don't draw a conclusion about this editor, even though his work may need watching. Macdonald-ross (talk) 17:08, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

Hide

Please hide the racist edits on African Americans. Thank you. 大诺史 (Talk/留言/토론/Discussion) 12:48, 25 August 2019 (UTC)

Your block of 61.68.31.190

I was wondering if you had noticed that I declined a block on this IP a little over an hour before you blocked it. The IP's edits were all within about 16 minutes, and they had made no edits for almost an hour when I declined to block. Their last edit shows as only one minute after the final warning was left, so it could have been only seconds later and it's very possible they made that edit before they saw the warning. No further edits were made before you blocked. Since the purpose of blocks is to stop bad edits, not to be punitive, there's no need to block if the user has stopped editing, especially if they have not been blocked before as in this case. --Auntof6 (talk) 22:22, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

Q

Hi Macdonald-ross. Just clarifying, is {{Placeholder}} really needed? 大诺史 (Talk/留言/토론/Discussion) 09:04, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

I don't know. I've never used it, and I can't remember seeing it. Probably redundant. You could put it up for deletion discussion. If people need time to work on a page they can do it on a sub-page of their userpage. But many would not know this. Let's see if any others want to repond. Macdonald-ross (talk) 09:37, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

Please have a look at Geometer moth...

Hello, I just created the article Geometer moth, and tried to describe its special movement, which gave the famliy its name. Could you have a look at the article, when you got some spare time? - In particular, I am not sure if they are moths, or butterflies, Lepidoptera seems to include both. Thanks. --Eptalon (talk) 11:23, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

Chedi Amir

Hello Macdonald-ross, Chedi Amir is an notable article. I would like to keep this article , there are several articles of Chedi Amir , Chedi Amir is one of the first few Tunisian singers . I added more natable sources in Chedi Amir . Article now is finished for confirmation. please I need your help .I look forward to hearing from you . Regards-- Shady.photography (talk) 05:48, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

Comments

Hey Macdonald-ross! I noticed this and thought about making a page in my userspace for amusing quotes written by Wikipedians in relation to our work here. What are your thoughts on this? Vermont (talk) 22:43, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

• Way to go! we could do with more fun. Macdonald-ross (talk) 07:16, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

I feel like displaying that kind of stuff could be considered npa, especially when it's directed at a specific editor. though lowkey it was kinda funny Computer Fizz (talk) 18:22, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

I think that's far from a personal attack. Vermont (talk) 19:04, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

Your edit on Katy Perry

Is there a particular reason you reverted the anonymous editor? The information added did not appear to be false. Chenzw  Talk  12:27, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

The content seemed to support Witness more strongly. As for the dates, I don't think we should list everyone they date. Meaningful longterm relationships, yes. However, I don't feel strongly about these edits, so feel free to revert them. Personally, I think WP panders to pop PAs far too much. Macdonald-ross (talk) 12:39, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

I think the anonymous editor's intentions have been misunderstood here. While it's true that the cited source was specific to Witness, the source was not added by the anonymous editor. They added their own content, but just in the wrong place (before the existing citation). Furthermore, an engagement seems to be a pretty meaningful longterm relationship compared to ordinary boyfriend/girlfriend relationships. Chenzw  Talk  12:45, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

Revdel action on Sentence

Unfortunately, while the edit summary could have been considered disruptive, that particular revision does not appear to be eligible for revdel under RD3. The deletion policy extends RD3 to "grossly inappropriate threats or attacks, browser-crashing or malicious HTML, shock pages...", of which the violation severity of the edit summary in question does not seem to meet that standard. Chenzw  Talk  10:36, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Basshunter discography

Hello. You have removed page without any warning. Schouldn't you start any discussion before page deletion? How I can simplify it? I belive it was already simple so I made other adjustments for SimpleWiki. @Djsasso: Told me that articles can be identical. @Auntof6: Eurohunter (talk) 19:39, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Well, I found the prose part of the article was almost unreadable. Possibly that's because it seems to repeat all the details which are in the discography format. The latter is quite standard, and obviously acceptable. I notice you have a separate page about the person. Generally, one would expect to see a musical personality talked about in the prose section, followed by a discography table. I'll recreate the page so others can see what we're talking about. Macdonald-ross (talk) 20:15, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Biography could be extended but I wanted to add separate discography first. Biography is in work on ENwiki and it will take long time yet to finnish so I would like to implement developed biography on SimpleWiki later. Eurohunter (talk) 20:27, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

It can be the same as long as the language is simple. There is almost always something you will need to simplify however. -DJSasso (talk) 12:31, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

Muesli

I made the Muesli article myself. It's rather small at the moment, but I reckon it could be easily expandable. Would you like to have a go at expanding this article? Qwertyxp2000 (talk | changes) 09:33, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

It's fine as it is. If I think of anything worth including I'll do so. Macdonald-ross (talk) 09:39, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

Okay. Looks fine too, and covers pretty much most of what muesli is about. Qwertyxp2000 (talk | changes) 22:14, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

Also, how is my Corn dog article? I added a bit, but I think that Corn dog is able to be expanded just a little bit more. Qwertyxp2000 (talk | changes) 23:29, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

It's good. Interestingly, of all fast foods from the U.S. this is the least known in Britain. I had never heard the term. I would add its becoming popular in the 1930s, because it makes sense in an era when many were very poor, perhaps add the cut-through section diagram. Macdonald-ross (talk) 08:30, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Start draft - can you start a page for Gabe Galloway

Hello one of my professors is running for public office and we think it would help the community become informed if there were a wikipedia page about him. Can you start that page? There is a lot of info about him available online. ---Cam682

The answer to this is that the community has discussed this (WP:Requests for deletion/Requests/2019/Gabe Galloway) and decided that he was not sufficiently notable. A previous similar discussion on the main English Wikipedia had the same result. Macdonald-ross (talk) 09:13, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

I will get best Katyn info from horse's mouth

You want to have created Simple English article about Katyn Massacre. I can provide you beautiful Katyn unique article that I will email you, so please give me your email here as reply. I will work with you until job is done but first I want favor from you as one good turn deserves another!

Thank you for your kind offer. However, I am not going to write that page. I was just drawing attention to its absence on our wiki. Macdonald-ross (talk) 12:05, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

somebody will email you in regards to this, confirm what he will request in return!

expand tag or stub?

do i put stub tag or expand? or both? when creating articles? Baozon90 (talk) 15:30, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

If you write a new page, you do not need to do either. Others will go through all new pages adding flags as necessary. There is Wikipedia:Simple Stub Project which sets out the scheme. Macdonald-ross (talk) 16:24, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) It is appreciated if article creators put stub tags on articles they think are stubs. Why leave more work for others? --Auntof6 (talk) 06:01, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

I created a new page you might like. I actually created it for you. Baozon90 (talk) 12:06, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

Nikki Lilly

Hi, mate! Nikki Lilly has won Junior BakeOff on TV in 2018, she has appeared on This Morning and BBC News. She was bullied because of her rare condition. --81.152.172.185 (talk) 13:19, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

Error for reverting on human

I am and feel really sorry for what I did on the human article; I thought it was vandalism. CentralTime301 (talk) 19:50, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

The IP previous to you had slightly damaged the page, and what it needed was to revert to the last good version. That is usually the last version edited by a regular registered editor. Some of these pages are very complex in terms of content, even though the expression of the content is simpler than on En wiki. It takes time to get used to this wiki, but you may enjoy it after a while. Because we don't protect the pages as English wiki does, we do get all kinds of things happening! Regards, Macdonald-ross (talk) 20:12, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

Quick deletion of Artem Zhylin

Good day! Which signs of advertising were present in the article? This is an ex co-owner of Ukrainian TV-channel and also a nominant and winner of an international award in sphere of television (as part of Russian scientific magazine). The sources were provided. Thanks --Wikikillz (talk) 05:52, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

The page was advertising the person, and did not establish his notability according to the prescription under WP:Notability. Being rich and owning parts of companies does not in itself give notability. Supporting sources (in a language I cannot read) suggest they are typical trade sources. These tend to lack the quality of being reliable and unbiased sources. There is no equivalent page on English wiki. Macdonald-ross (talk) 10:02, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

copy paste from en wiki then into own words?

am i alloud to do this? Baozon90 (talk) 20:03, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

• Yes. Macdonald-ross (talk) 20:04, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

Please quote the permanent link on your edit summary to acknowlege the source as I did with Geezer Butler edit summary ==> created simplified page from english wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geezer_Butler&oldid=925553068

-- Brian R Hunter (talk) 11:40, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

Block this ip??

Hi, User:195.194.13.3 seems to be a vandal only IP address of long standing... Can we put a permanent block on this. The recent temporary block only stopped this person for a day. -- Brian R Hunter (talk) 12:14, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

Well, we don't usually block school IPs for long periods and virtually never permanently. The present block I've given is 3 months, which may cause the school to have a look at this person. Macdonald-ross (talk) 13:04, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, as far as I can tell ALL edits by this IP have been reverted as vandalism, so it seems the school do not encourage anonymous wikipedia edits by students. As a teacher I encourage student editing via named accounts and would not object to my school IP being blocked due to vandalism. Teachers do not have the time to police student contributions, but using named accounts allows for some level of student accountability. -- Brian R Hunter (talk) 20:38, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

update: For information: This IP is blocked on the english wikipedia until September 2022, having had a 5 year block put on in 2017. -- Brian R Hunter (talk) 20:55, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

• I'm quite open to the idea that this issue should be discussed more generally, or that another admin should look at is and make whatever decision they think best. Macdonald-ross (talk) 18:51, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

Thank you!

For cleaning up all those QD's. --Gotanda (talk) 12:42, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

Undoing mass Vandalism and other bad faith edits

Hi, thanks for blocking 186.193.52.83 who had been creating lots of new redirect pages. None of them seem to be needed. Should all this users edits be mass-undone or removed on a case by case basis? I and another editor had started to fix them before realising what the user was doing; I would support removing them all as the easier option. Brian R Hunter (talk) 12:37, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Yes, I agree, and have done so. Macdonald-ross (talk) 14:30, 2 December 2019 (UTC)