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I think my assesment is accurate and carries some factual weight and should therefore be included ...instead EVs can do no wrong attitude many people have. there not the answer we need to reduce emissions and are floored in many ways this being one example
81.99.172.25 (
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04:56, 12 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Sure but the short description of an article isn't the correct place to put such information. See
WP:Short description. As for your third edit,
Special:Diff/1218515384, I'm not sure if
axle load should have that information, probably something about EVs in particular would be a better place, and it needs to be written in an encyclopedic style and should ideally be
WP:SOURCED.
Skynxnex (
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04:59, 12 April 2024 (UTC)reply
You may like reading something like
Help:Introduction or
Help:Contents for more guidance about how to edit, both technically and our style. You can also start a
WP:DISCUSSION on a particular article's talk page to proposal ideas to improve the article.
If you want a place where you may get more content-specific help than I'm able to give right now, consider trying the
teahouse if you think you have a question that's easy to answer. Hope this helps.
Skynxnex (
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05:23, 12 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Mehzabin P S Alvi, I'm not sure how much help I can be. I think the advice in
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ucodelite (2nd nomination) is basically correct. In my quick searches, I'm just not seeing any sign of
WP:significant coverage in
WP:reliable sources of
Ucodelite. Without that, English Wikipedia has collectively decided software products shouldn't be included in the encyclopedia. Assuming it is deleted this time, it will be much more difficult for a future article if (not when) there is coverage of it. The way forward would be to find sources that meet our requirements (please make sure you read and understand them) and then create a well-sourced, non-overly promotional article and submit it via AFC. If the AFC is declined, don't try to force it into the article space.
I'm reaching out because there is a software program named CodeLite that can be easily confused with another program called Ucodelite. I wanted to clarify that these are two distinct software products with different features.
Mehzabin P S Alvi (
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17:03, 18 April 2024 (UTC)reply
My inquiry stems from encountering software called "
CodeLite" documented on Wikipedia. I couldn't locate any information regarding "Ucodelite." Given the similar naming convention, I wanted to confirm if these are distinct software programs with unique features
Mehzabin P S Alvi (
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17:05, 18 April 2024 (UTC)reply
@
Mehzabin P S Alvi They seem to be totally unrelated, yes. In my experience in the tech-sphere for products at this level, the difference between CodeLite and Ucodelite is enough to avoid most confusion on Wiki. Questions about overall confusion is outside of the realm of what might be addressed on Wiki.
Skynxnex (
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17:07, 18 April 2024 (UTC)reply
I ask myself quite calmly why the pure truth is deleted, because what is ‘promotional content’ if you write factually, unemotionally and consisting only of the truth in the article of ‘Fort Worth’ to the section ‘Media’ that the word mark ‘The Fort Worth Press’ has been secured and the former daily newspaper ‘The Fort Worth Press’ has been revived and is published daily in 5 languages, around the clock, seven days a week? Well, you have to have a lot of authority of your own and consider yourself important if you suppress the truth, dear ‘’‘Skynxnex’‘’ you should think about that in peace, because the truth should not be suppressed and to use a flimsy reason ‘inappropriate advertising’, well that is factually and calmly said, a bad style! I recommend that you take an unemotional look here and convince yourself of the truth:
https://www.TheFortWorthPress.com — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
90.187.114.241 (
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10:47, 11 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Hey, a website using the name of the previous newspaper would probably be
WP:DUE a brief mention if you can find a decent source actually talking about. Looking back at what you added, just needs to be not overlinked (that is, you wiki linked words like clock, which we don't normally do here) and simpler description.
Skynxnex (
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10:59, 11 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Hey, I suggest reading
Wikipedia:Signatures and perhaps signing up for an account.
For Fort Worth, feel free to suggest language on
Talk:Fort Worth, Texas and other editors can help (or maybe the
WP:Teahouse). I'm not an expert on there and I'm not stopping you from re-adding something improved. I'll say that Yahoo! link you just shared looks like basically a press release/ad for the website so isn't really a reliable source (Yahoo has those in some of their sections).
Skynxnex (
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17:27, 11 May 2024 (UTC)reply
I received a wikipedia message that Hannah Ryder page has been reviewed. I got a message that it's moved to draftspaces from another usertalk .
Gold Junior (
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08:38, 13 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Gold Junior, the reason I marked the page as review is purely a technical one: since it was nominated at
WP:Articles for deletion, the community will decide if the page should be kept or not so I "reviewed" it so other
WP:New page patrolers won't have to consider it. It looks like, yes, there was an earlier version of the article you created that was
WP:Draftified and then deleted. I see you're taking part in the AFD discussion, which is good. I'd suggest that if you can find it, presenting the three "best" sources (so the ones most clearly independent of the subject, reliable, and in-depth) in the AFD. Let me know if you have any other questions.
Skynxnex (
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12:50, 13 May 2024 (UTC)reply
I'm not an expert on
WP:conflict of interest matters. I'm not sure if there's anything productive to do during the duration of the
AFD nomination, so discussion probably should primarily be there or on your talk page? I don't quite understand the timeline with the article now at AFD and the draftication/deletion of an article with the same title.
Skynxnex (
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15:00, 13 May 2024 (UTC)reply
@
Gold Junior Relisted AFDs are generally kept open for new discussion for 7 days (although can be closed by an experienced, uninvolved editor at any time of consensus is clear). AFDs are normally relisted up to three times. I'll note that it's expected that editors who
!voted before the relist do not do so again after the relist. So I'd suggest
WP:STRIKEing the literal "keep" in your most recent comment. It's fine to add additional comments as long as it doesn't reach what reasonable editors might see as
WP:BLUDGEONing the AFD.
Skynxnex (
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13:30, 21 May 2024 (UTC)reply
@
Gold Junior It may be relisted again. But whenever an experienced closer (probably an
WP:administrator at this point) decides they can read the consensus based on policy, they can close it (so decide if it should be kept, deleted, or no consensus, which means it's easier for another deletion discussion to occur in the future). I honestly have not looked at the article much; my impression is that it's bordering on the edge of notability.
And I'm not going to opine on COI or not, but the level of sustained attention you've given this article is normally a red flag. Article writing at Wikipedia can be hard and so it's normally best to get a bit more experience before you write one. I may or may not add anything to the AFD since I don't have a good grasp of what sources in this space are considered reliable.
Skynxnex (
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13:14, 24 May 2024 (UTC)reply
the most attention should go to the merit of keeping or deleting, and the best place to look at is the edited article since nomination, the notability of this article since AFD . I just read about the unintended consequences of activating the relist process which neither keeps nor deletes a AFD article
Gold Junior (
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14:54, 24 May 2024 (UTC)reply
This award is given in recognition to Skynxnex for accumulating at least 200 points during the May 2024 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions helped play a part in the 14,452 reviews completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog!
Hey man im josh (
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19:01, 6 June 2024 (UTC)reply
May 2024 NPP backlog drive – Streak award
Geneva mechanism Award
This award is given in recognition to Skynxnex for accumulating at least 25 points during each week of the May 2024 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions played a part in the 14,452 reviews completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog!
Hey man im josh (
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19:17, 6 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Hi mate, I noticed you put out three nominations for deletions on my articles on Sin Tae-song, Yu Kwang-jun, and Choe Ok-chol. Why?
I understand Choe Ok-chol's due to there not being much information on his page but so is the case for many North Korean footballers. Sin Tae-song and Yu Kwang-jun had enough sources in correspondence to the DPRK's secrecy and I did my best to dig up as much info I can find. Why were those two nominated for deletion?
C18ver (
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05:16, 21 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Hi @
C18ver, I only marked the pages as "reviewed" as a technical action so they would be removed from the
WP:New pages patrol feed since they've been nominated at AFD so the community will review them now (see
WP:NPPDEL to be specific).
Just noticed you added my nomination of an AfD to a bunch of sorting lists - I don't really know how to edit Wikipedia that well and wouldn't have known how to do that, so that was a big help, thanks.
JustAPoliticsNerd (
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04:01, 26 June 2024 (UTC)reply