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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
• The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
• Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.

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PLease, be so nice and provide me the last known article (before the deletion) of https://ro.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark_Szabo if its possible. It's my sons wiki page and there are some important infortmation. Thank you very much Lorant.szabo (talk) 22:59, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Lorant.szabo, unfortunately I cannot retrieve the contents of the deleted page, since I am not an administrator on the Romanian language Wikipedia, only the English language one (en.wikipedia.org). You will have to ask an administrator on that project for assistance. Some useful links that I found:

• The deletion policy on ro.wikipedia.org
• The information page on administrators on ro.wikipedia.org.

All the best, Airplaneman (talk) ✈ 23:47, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the reply. i will try to contact the romanian administrators.

Regards, Lorant.szabo (talk) 11:42, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).

Arbitration

• Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Cabayi, Firefly, HJ Mitchell, Maxim, Sdrqaz, ToBeFree, Z1720.
• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
• The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• The New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,000 unreviewed articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

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Hello Aiplaneman,

I'm reaching out to you, as a page I've created in my Sandbox got deleted due to conflict of intereses. I'm fresh at Wikipedia, and to be honest, I believed my Sandbox is my "Safe space" to experiment, that's why I created a page of a company, just to see how it would look like.

As far as i understand, I should have done it as a draft - my bad. Could you please help me in saving my effort into an acceptable form?

Thank you!

All my best,

Aldentyzm Aldentyzm (talk) 20:11, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Aldentyzm: I'm confused. It appears you removed the content yourself: Special:Diff/1201783363. Removing content in an edit is distinct from deletion, which removes edits or pages from public view. In this case, the edit has not been removed from public view, so you can still find it in the page history. Cheers, Airplaneman (talk) ✈ 21:15, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, non-actual-airplane man,

I feel so ridiculous. I put together a page under this account for a local artist. It took me quite some time. Apparently, I got a message months ago that I never saw until I did a search... and now I fear the whole page has been deleted. To be clear, I am not the artist; I am a fan creating one for him (Atomik). If you could help me in resurrecting the page/getting it vetted, I would be so appreciative. My business is: awritingconcierge.com for reference.

Thank you, Allison AdamAtomik (talk) 14:00, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Allison/AdamAtomik (talk · contribs)! Thanks for writing. Sorry for my late reply. I am less active on Wikipedia these days. I believe you are referring to Draft:Atomik, which was deleted by administrator Jimfbleak (talk · contribs) for being written like an advertisement. You can see the deletion reason in the page log. As you may know, Wikipedia has policies on writing in a neutral tone and guidelines on subject notability. Given the reason for the page's deletion, I am hesitant to restore the text.

The conflict of interest (COI) guidelines probably also apply in this situation. To encourage transparency and objectively-written content, Wikipedia volunteers have come up with the COI guidelines, which include disclosure requirements for individuals writing about individuals or entities that they have a relationship with, particularly if they are being paid to do so. Let me know if you have any questions about that. Regards, Airplaneman (talk) ✈ 21:12, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
• Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
• Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
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I am not an active editing user of this wikipedia, and I don't know why I am here, but these tiny corners of the internet are strangely appealing to me. I hope you are doing well after 16 years on here (that's the number your page told me at least). I was a preschooler or something like that 16 years ago. If all this will still be here for me to visit in another 16 years, I hope to stumble into it again. 84.238.85.237 (talk) 02:11, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you stick around :). Airplaneman (talk) ✈ 20:59, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day! Hi Airplaneman! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! The Herald (Benison) (talk) 02:32, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

Recently I put up a draft for publishing and got a review after which it was deleted. Can you please paste it back? Would be really helpful.

Thanks & Regards

Shruti Goel Shrutigoel2018 (talk) 11:54, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Shrutigoel2018:, I believe you are referring to the contributions you made to Draft:HyperVerge. Administrator Jimfbleak (talk · contribs) deleted the page under this criterion for advertising/promotion, so I am uncomfortable undoing Jim's action and restoring the content. It looks like a different account has re-created the draft. Regards, Airplaneman (talk) ✈ 20:58, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've deleted the new version too, which had no text. Recreated by a reasonably experienced editor, rather than an obvious sock, so not sure what has happened there Jimfbleak - talk to me? 09:14, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The first version was company-referenced blatant promo, so perhaps Shrutigoel2018 should read WP:Paid anyway Jimfbleak - talk to me? 09:18, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
• Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.

Technical news

• The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

Miscellaneous

• The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
• Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.

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Hi, Airplaneman!

I feel happy at least knowing someone out there with far more knowledge of wikipedia than myself can assist. I understand the guidelines; however, I wrote the piece as an admirer of the artist. If that page can't be restored, can I resubmit a new page? It took me a long time to create that content (essentially, just figuring out how the wikipedia platform works) - which is why I'd be forever in someone's debt if it could be restored. If not, please let me know emphatically "no" - and I will proceed with a new page. Thank you! AdamAtomik (talk) 22:34, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A copy of my email reply, minus the deleted content:

Hi Allison,

Sorry again for the delay in my reply. I've removed my name from the list of people you probably found me on, since I am not volunteering anywhere near daily these days.

As for the article draft about Atomik that we've been talking about, I am unsure that Wikipedia volunteers would consider the subject to meet the General Notability Guidelines mentioned here. If you are able to establish the notability (notability as defined by the guidelines) of the subject by including significant coverage in reliable secondary sources, the article is more likely to be kept.

I am still unsure about restoring the article draft as it was deleted, since that would in some ways be a reversal of the previous administrative decision made by administrator User:Jimfbleak, and I don't want to set you up for additional disappointment by restoring content on-wiki that will likely be re-deleted. However, I know writing articles takes a lot of work, and it is tough to see the work removed. I am attaching a copy of the page below in this email.

All the best,

Airplaneman

deleted content not included Airplaneman (talk) ✈ 18:29, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Airplaneman,

I'm new to wikipedia and recently I created my first page about my friend's family business and it was an unpaid task. One editor @Jimfbleak got back to me and believe there's a conflict of interst creating this page so he/r suggested I check out the COI related article, revise it and ask him to review before publish. Would you be able to help me retrive the content so I can make it right? Thank you so much.

The page title: ORA Engineering Co. LTD.

~~~~ Dr.springliang (talk) 08:14, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes

• Kbdank71
• Kosack
• NrDg
• TLSuda

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.

Technical news

• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".

Miscellaneous

• Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

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Hello, would you be able to send me a copy of the page Cojum Dip before its deletion? Although it redirects to Tally Hall since 2023, it used to have some content in 2005 before being deleted shortly after. That page also used to contain Image:WOW.jpg, and I would also appreciate if you can recover this image.

Thank you very much. 57EML (talk) 12:42, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The old revisions of the page are still publicly accessible. You can view them here. You can go to Help:Page history for more information on how to navigate page histories. I'm not sure what Image:WOW.jpg is supposed to refer to, but the file appears to be accessible as well. Airplaneman (talk) ✈ 18:14, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.

Technical news

• Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
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Kindly recover the deleted "Trisen Larsen" Biography Article I posted the article via sandbox, kindly reinstate the article to my "user page" so I can make the necessary edits and changes required by wiki guidelines again via sanbox for review. Tristen Larsen (talk) 15:03, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you are writing about yourself, you will need a huge number of WP:RSs and be notable in the extreme. BTW, this editor hasn't been around for a long time. — Iadmc♫ 15:13, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In this edit, the editor states that he is a paid representative of Tristen Larsen. Therefore not an autobiography, but a WP:PAID editor. And that brings up an issue with the username (WP:IMPERSONATE). --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 17:04, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

I submitted my first contribution and it was deleted today. Can you please copy the article "Professor Rami Qahwaji" to my user space please so I can improve it further as per Wikipedia guidelines? Rsr19721 (talk) 19:54, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Filing note: answered here. Airplaneman (talk) ✈ 18:07, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy adminship anniversary! Hi Airplaneman! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! The Herald (Benison) (talk) 00:56, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes

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• Good Olfactory
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• I JethroBT
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CheckUser changes

• Barkeep49
• Izno

• Doug Weller
• Spicy

Guideline and policy news

• Administrator elections are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative to requests for adminship (RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, with candidate sign-up from October 8 to 14, a discussion phase from October 22 to 24, and SecurePoll voting from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections.
• Following a discussion, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterion G8 to F2. This does not change what can be speedily deleted.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether there is a consensus to have an administrator recall process.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Historical elections has been closed.
• An arbitration case regarding Backlash to diversity and inclusion has been opened.
• Editors are invited to nominate themselves to serve on the 2024 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until 23:59 October 8, 2024 (UTC).

Miscellaneous

• If you are interested in stopping spammers, please put MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist and MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist on your watchlist, and help out when you can.

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Hello! This is User:Luiysia (IRL name is Kelly). My main interests are fashion, music, literature, and history. I am fairly new to Wikipedia editing and I found that there has been very little activity from the Chicago Wikipedia user group since 2020.

I'd like to host a casual meetup in Chicago to celebrate Wikidata Day on Saturday, October 26.

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Concorde has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 02:16, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings @Airplaneman, hope you are doing good. This was a long overdue, and thank you very much for taking the initiative to get it done! Would also appreciate if you could consider making Progression of the deadlift world record semi-protected as well. With kind regards, Nir007H (talk) 02:21, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Nir007H, thanks for your note. I don't think there's sufficient disruption in Progression of the deadlift world record for semi-protection to be applied. Page protections require weighing the costs of restricted editing access with the benefits of reducing abuse, and I'm not sure the level of disruption here is worth semi-protection. Roughly, I tend to consider multiple disruptions per week from multiple accounts/IP addresses, among other factors, as grounds for semi-protection. You can always bring this to WP:RFPP if you would like someone else to weigh in though. Best, Airplaneman (talk) ✈ 18:05, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Understood @Airplaneman and I concur with your decision. I was also wondering why you have semi protected Deadlift 'only' for a one month period. Nir007H (talk) 18:38, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I try to be a bit conservative when applying page protection, with reference to the balancing test I mentioned above. Should the disruption prove to need longer-term protection, the lengths of time can be escalated in subsequent protections. Does that make sense? Airplaneman (talk) ✈ 18:51, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Airplaneman Yes, that makes sense. If disruptions from multiple accounts/ IP addresses continue after the 25th November, let us please consider lengths of time to be escalated. Let me also add @MrOllie to the loop to keep him informed. He also worked hard to rectify the disruptions. Nir007H (talk) 08:13, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good to me! Airplaneman (talk) ✈ 00:36, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Two disruptions in two consecutive days from different IP addresses. Just keeping you notified @Airplaneman. Nir007H (talk) 09:18, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Greeting @Airplaneman, there's four disruptions from four different IP addresses for the month of December and we are still not even halfway through the month. Kindly requesting to make the article semi-protected, indefinitely. Nir007H (talk) 16:04, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there! I am not as active these days, so if you want to get a timely response, you can continue to request at WP:RFPP. I understand the ongoing edit dispute can be a chore to manage - I have protected the page for 3 more months. I'm not sure every admin who sees this level of disruption would agree that semi-protection is necessary, but I think there's a reasonable case to be made for it here, so I've applied it. Airplaneman (talk) ✈ 02:15, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot for everything @Airplaneman. Nir007H (talk) 03:14, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Airplaneman,

I have just a small question. On the Macintosh startup article that you created (many years ago), you said in the "Startup Chime" section that the first generation Power Macintosh computers have a chime that used a Yamaha 12-string guitar played by Stanley Jordan. I've seen a lot of sources saying the 12-string part, but was it actually Yamaha brand? I want to make sure so I can at least put a source here. Please get back to me whenever you can.

Warm regards,

Jibblesnark86 (talk) 17:40, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jibblesnark86, that's a good question. I remember creating the article by merging multiple articles together. If you can't verify the Yamaha part, then it should be removed. Cheers, Airplaneman (talk) ✈ 18:00, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks buddy, let me see if I can at least find some source about the brand and maybe I can source it soon enough. Thank you again for a little boost of help.

Best,

Jibblesnark86 (talk) 18:14, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes

• Crisco 1492

• Babajobu
• Daniel
• Elf
• Jayron32
• Thue
• Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

Maxim

Oversighter changes

Maxim

Guideline and policy news

• Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
• Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.

Technical news

• Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068

Arbitration

• RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
• The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.

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BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 00:18, 13 November 2024 (UTC) [reply]

Hello! This is User:Luiysia again. At the last meetup, people expressed interest in having a Wikipedia meetup bi-monthly (that is, every other month). So, here's our December meetup!

The meetup will start at The Bourgeois Pig, in the Lincoln Park neighborhood, at 11 AM.

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

Administrator changes

• Ahecht
• DoubleGrazing
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• 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.

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Hey Airplaneman,

I'm writing to you again. I'm wondering if I should remove that banner listing multiple issues on the Macintosh startup article. I don't know if I should be asking you or somebody else though. Either way, maybe you could give it a scan and tell me what you think. Thanks!

Jibblesnark86 (talk) 04:41, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey @Jibblesnark86! You can actually remove the banners yourself if you think they no longer apply. I can see that a significant amount of work has been done on the article recently to improve it. I think it's reasonable to remove the banners. Airplaneman (talk) ✈ 02:17, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, got it. I actually read it one more time before you replied, and I thought the same thing, so I am so glad that you said that. I'll go ahead and remove it very soon here. Thanks a lot!

Jibblesnark86 (talk) 03:11, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Airplaneman; sorry to bother you via your personal account, but as you weren't that active with your WMF account as of late, I'm not sure you have seen the pings in a recent discussion on Commons, so I take the liberty of posting this pointer for you to forward to your "WMF self" ;-) Gestumblindi (talk) 11:59, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]