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Hi! This is my talk page, feel free to drop me a message. To experienced editors: feel free to stalk my talk page and reply to any threads here.To admins: I prefer that my talk page remain unprotected, even if it's being vandalized. Such edits do not particularly bother me and I prefer to remain accessible to anyone who would like to reach me. However, if the volume of vandalism is so high that no other solution would stop disruption, I don't mind if my talk page is semi-protected for a day or two. Hopefully, this is a rare occurrence.

Hi there! Do you know why primary sources are not allowed on here? its always confused me, as i always thought primary sources were better then secondary. Thank you! --AJRossetto9953 (talk) 00:20, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@AJRossetto9953 happy to explain. Primary sources aren't disallowed, but they only provide an in-the-moment perspective. Wikipedia endeavors not to do analysis of things ourselves, as that is original research, but simply listing facts without analysis isn't very useful to our readers. So it's best to have secondary sources we can draw on for analysis, instead of citing primary sources.

This is different from, say, school projects, which would often want you to do your own analysis of sources to draw your own conclusions! It's an important skill to have; it's just not what we do here. Hope that clears things up :) Elli (talk | contribs) 15:44, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not really a concern but you realize blocking 2601:601/32 is a giant swath of comcast customers right? 2601:601:701:21CD:4845:D63B:322B:75AE (talk) 23:46, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. It's just from a few pages, though, and there isn't really an easier/less-restrictive way to prevent this disruption. Elli (talk | contribs) 23:50, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi my name is Jack Earp and I am having a problem with writing in general --21JacjE (talk) 16:06, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@21JacjE hi! Can you elaborate on the problem you're having? Elli (talk | contribs) 00:27, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have any advice for creating a page on a living person? I want to make a page on Gianni Matragrano(video game voice actor), but I have literally no experience with doing this. If you could provide some detail, I would be very grateful. --AJRossetto9953 (talk) 20:47, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@AJRossetto9953 hi and sorry for not getting back to you sooner. I would suggest making sure you have multiple reliable sources with significant biographical coverage of Matragrano. As for living people, our biographies of living persons policy is an important read; the tl;dr is that it is especially important to make sure material you include in the article is neutral and well-sourced. Please let me know if you have more specific questions. Elli (talk | contribs) 00:29, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

story · music · places

November was rich in sadness and happiness for me, expressed in music. Today is the last day for the election of arbitrators. Regarding my question to candidates like you, I found one so far who looked into the matter and didn't stay at the surface, Simonm223. There are two composers on the Main page today, Siegfried Thiele and Aaron Copland. I find the response of my friend Jerome Kohl to a question on Copland's article talk promising. What do you think? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:47, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Today's story comes from a DYK about a concert that fascinated me, and you can listen! For my taste, the hook has too little music - I miss the unusual scoring and a specific dedication - but it comes instead with a name good for viewcount. I'd still like to know what you think about the Copland posts. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:56, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

On the Main page today Jean Sibelius on his birthday. Listening to Beethoven's Fifth from the opening of Notre-Dame de Paris. We sang in choirs today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:49, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Listen today to the (new) Perplexities after Escher. - Congratulations to being elected! Could you look at Samuel Barber and tell me if you miss something in his infobox? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:33, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Listen today to Beethoven's 3rd cello sonata, on his birthday - it was a hook in the 2020 DYK set when his 250th birthday was remembered. I picked a recording with Antônio Meneses, because he was on my sad list this year, and I was in Brazil (see places), and I love his playing. - I can report happily that the Barber situation was solved. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:24, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I come to fix the cellist's name, with a 10-years-old DYK and new pics - look for red birds --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:42, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2024).

Administrator changes

• Ahecht
• DoubleGrazing
• Dr vulpes
• FOARP
• Peaceray
• Queen of Hearts
• Rsjaffe
• SD0001
• SilverLocust
• Sohom Datta
• ThadeusOfNazereth
• Voorts

• Ajpolino
• Fathoms Below
• Pppery
• Tamzin
• Worm That Turned

• Aervanath
• Christopher Sundita
• Dank
• Dennis Brown
• Dragons flight
• Fastily
• Graham87
• JaGa
• Kbh3rd
• Marine 69-71
• Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington
• Yamamoto Ichiro

Interface administrator changes

• SD0001
• Sohom Datta

Pppery

CheckUser changes

• Spicy
• TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RFC, the policy on restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
• Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, T5, has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used.

Technical news

• Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Yasuke (formerly titled Backlash to diversity and inclusion) has been closed.
• An arbitration case titled Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 14 December.

• 2409:4053:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)

Unfortunately, you're going to get that from time to time. It is the IP address range used by mobile customers of Jio. The couple of people (2 in the past year) saying "It wasn't me!" is going to be far outweighed by the number of random edits like Special:Diff/1106760683 and Special:Diff/1105621375 and Special:Diff/1074495251 abd Special:Diff/1070284648 that are going to start right back up again when the block expires in 2025. It is an unfortunate situation, but the numbers are orders of magnitude against us. We do not have the resources to combat even the small percentage of people who do not understand the basic fact that they are editing Wikipedia with their mobile 'phones, and apparently are regarding the "talk" and "edit" hyperlinks on articles as some kind of chat or search app. Uncle G (talk) 08:04, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 18:07, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! How I need to write a citation for the historic of my boxing club --Luar.aliu (talk) 15:59, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Luar.aliu not sure exactly what you're wanting to do. Does Wikipedia:Citing sources help? If not please let me know what specific problem you are having. Elli (talk | contribs) 00:30, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations on your appointment to Arbcom! Andre🚐 00:22, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@AndreJustAndre thanks! Elli (talk | contribs) 00:30, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

congrats! :) ... sawyer * he/they * talk 01:22, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@L235 thanks! I've replied by email :) Elli (talk | contribs) 02:09, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Electoral Commission is pleased to announce that you have been appointed for a two-year term to the Arbitration Committee effective January 1, 2025. Congratulations on the appointment.

On behalf of ElectCom: —CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas) 14:02, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

hello, how can I download my work in a sandbox as a pdf? --AS5694 (talk) 23:42, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My changes to Cord blood keeps getting reverted when I try updating with the correct information, why is this?

Thanks. --7pounds (talk) 04:21, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Arbitration Committee welcomes the following new and returning members following their election by the community. Their two-year terms formally begin on 1 January 2025:

• CaptainEek (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• Daniel (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• Elli (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• KrakatoaKatie (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• Liz (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• ScottishFinnishRadish (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• Theleekycauldron (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• Worm That Turned (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

The one-year terms of these members also begin on 1 January 2025:

• Primefac (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Upon meeting the Wikimedia Foundation's criteria for access to non-public personal data and signing its corresponding confidentiality agreement, all incoming members will be subscribed to all Committee-managed email lists, assigned the CheckUser and Oversight permissions for use in office, and given access to the CheckUser and Oversight queues on the VRT system.

We also thank our outgoing colleagues, whose terms end on 31 December 2024:

• Firefly (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• Guerillero (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• L235 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• Moneytrees (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Outgoing members are eligible to retain the CheckUser and Oversight permissions, to remain active on cases accepted before their term ended, and to remain subscribed to the functionaries' and arbitration clerks' mailing lists following their terms on the Arbitration Committee. To that effect:

• Stewards are requested to remove the permission(s) noted from the following outgoing members, who have not chosen to retain them, after 31 December 2024:

  CheckUser: Firefly, L235

  Oversight: Firefly, Guerillero, L235, Moneytrees

• Outgoing members are eligible to remain active on cases opened before their term ended if they wish. That will be noted on the proposed decision talk page of affected case(s).
• All outgoing members will remain subscribed to the functionaries' mailing list.
• All outgoing members will be unsubscribed from the clerks-l mailing list, with the exception of Firefly, Guerillero, and Moneytrees, who have chosen to remain subscribed.

On behalf of the Committee, Sdrqaz (talk) 02:44, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard § 2025 Arbitration Committee

Congratulations. Crafterstar (talk) 16:22, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What should be done to avoid vandalism and which, what rules should be observed? thank you Happy editing! --Proggrammer QT WV (talk) 13:14, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello ,how should I start creating or editing Wikipedia topics to get started my Contents creations? --Sabbath Day Remnant Church (talk) 17:20, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Since I don’t want to start a fourth level of forking, I would like to ask you to add a feature to your OneClickArchiver script that asks for confirmation before using it on mobile, or at least adds that as an option. JJP_Master (she/they) 20:51, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@JJPMaster sure. Maybe an option in general? Not sure if trying to detect mobile really makes sense, but could definitely add a setting to always ask for confirmation first. Elli (talk | contribs) 16:28, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, that sounds good. JJP_Master (she/they) 16:31, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Would the use of the term immediately in "Muse immediately changed the name of the airline to Southwest Airlines, moved its headquarters to Dallas, and raised $1.25 million (of which $750,000 was from Wesley West) to replenish cash reserves depleted by Southwest's legal battles." be considered a breach of tone? It feels to me like a subjective use of immediately...

Thanks! --Benmoulton (talk) 16:24, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Benmoulton good question. It's not the best wording, it'd be better to be more specific if the source has more details (e.g. "within the first X days"). Elli (talk | contribs) 16:27, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

January 2025 Backlog Drive | New pages patrol
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:53, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello how can I make a Wikipedia artist page? --ROCKS2LIT (talk) 09:12, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@ROCKS2LIT hi! Help:Your first article has some general advice. However, if you want to make a page about yourself, I would strongly discourage this: writing about subjects where you have a conflict of interest is difficult, as it is almost impossible to write with a truly neutral point of view on such subjects. Please let me know if you have any more questions :) Elli (talk | contribs) 04:07, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi..I want to do editing and add pages about famous personalities, how to do --Deepak9876 (talk) 17:54, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Deepak9876 hi! I'm not sure what particularly you want help with, can you clarify? Elli (talk | contribs) 04:07, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How can i change my name on delta ticket --Amelialily34 (talk) 06:33, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

	Happy holidays and a prosperous 2025!	LE (sounds like Elli!)
	Elli(e), it has been a year. Thank you for taking 1964 Illinois House of Representatives election through the FA process (a fabulous article on a crazy election). Thank you for reviewing 1934 German head of state referendum, and thank you for running the gauntlet (twice!). I cannot wait to work alongside you on ArbCom, and I know you will be a fantastic arb. It was a delight to meet you in person at WCNA, and I hope to see you again soon. Best to you and yours in 2025 :) HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 22:59, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I've enjoyed getting to work alongside you as well, and look forwards to continuing to do so in 2025 :) Elli (talk | contribs) 23:09, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, please how am l going to start my editing? --Saviour Simon (talk) 07:03, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi --Prof. Asif Mehmood (talk) 08:17, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I want to make a Goohle searchable profile for myself, how to do it? --Prof. Asif Mehmood (talk) 08:18, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Prof. Asif Mehmood please don't. Wikipedia is not a place for self-promotion. We don't have "profiles" for people, we have articles, and those articles must be written neutrally and supported by reliable, independent sources. Elli (talk | contribs) 08:27, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Garuda ^Talk! 23:55, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]