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hello, there was some pretty bad vandalism on Valley Rangers F.C. I think it might be worthy of a revdelete. Gaismagorm (talk) 18:45, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

heres a link since some new edits were made: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Valley_Rangers_F.C.&diff=prev&oldid=1233755683 Gaismagorm (talk) 18:47, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Got it. Thanks! Joyous! Noise! 19:02, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

no problem! Gaismagorm (talk) 19:04, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Why are you modifying the page of Kimberly Cheatle and covering up gross negligence by the S.S? political bias? Ashday0790 (talk) 02:21, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

I haven't reverted anything that was neutral in wording or properly sourced. If you want to add information about the shooting, get a reliable source to cite, and use an encyclopedic tone. Joyous! Noise! 02:23, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Hello Joyous!. I wish to delete two revisions. Can you please help? Jack Riding (talk) 13:13, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Which revisions are you referring to? Joyous! Noise! 13:46, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Sorry for the late response. I’ve since been told that they don’t meet the criteria required to be deleted. Jack Riding (talk) 14:05, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Why'd you delete my edit summaries? Ogundareibrahim123 (talk) 00:16, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

We prefer not to have personal information such as phone numbers or email addresses in articles or edit summaries. Joyous! Noise! 00:18, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

This diff contains similar. CMD (talk) 01:14, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

Dear Joyous,

Thank you so much for all of your contributions to Yanni’s Wikipedia page. Your work and the help of others has been invaluable in sharing his story and achievements with the world. You all have done such a great job ensuring everything is up to date and it’s helpful to see all of the albums listed out as well.

We are wondering if it would be possible to enhance his Wikipedia page by adding a note about me, his daughter, in a “children’s” section. Additionally, we are considering creating a separate page for my own work and contributions.

Could you please advise on the best approach for adding this information? We’d like to maintain the integrity of the page and fit within the rules and requirements so I wanted to connect with you first. We are more than happy to provide any details or references needed for both updates, or follow any preferred process you suggest.

Thank you for your time and guidance. We look forward to your response.

Warmly, Kindness12 (talk) 15:53, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

What you do is taking an opinion.. 2A0D:6FC0:2848:C300:9DBC:56D6:D71E:24D (talk) 20:45, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

What I'm doing is following the guidelines at WP:NPOV and WP:OR, which are policies at Wikipedia. Your edits were pretty far outside those guidelines. Joyous! Noise! 21:00, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

But is not taking any side.. it is pure fact. There is no such country as palestine. 2A06:C701:729A:ED00:F522:424B:55DD:5C64 (talk) 21:30, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

This is a great discussion to have at the article's talk page. I'm not going to argue about it here. If you'd like me to open up a new section on that page, let me know. I'll be happy to help. Joyous! Noise! 23:00, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Palestine should be a country and it should be on Google Maps. 24.51.233.227 (talk) 20:19, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

Great Job being a moderator 👍 24.51.233.227 (talk) 20:17, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

Is this revision satisfy the WP:RD2? Warm Regards, Miminity (talk) (contribs) 05:17, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

Note: I request a speedy deletion of the photo. Warm Regards, Miminity (talk) (contribs) 05:18, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

I did a rev-del on the edit. Sorry for missing it the first time--I didn't recognize the slang. It looks like the photo is already gone. Joyous! Noise! 16:37, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

a pretty bad edit was made on Barbara Buffaloe, I think it may be worthy of a revision deletion. Thanks! Gaismagorm (talk) 14:26, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

new edits were made, so here's the edit that needs to be hidden: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barbara_Buffaloe&oldid=1237178431 Gaismagorm (talk) 14:35, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

Got it. Thanks! Joyous! Noise! 16:39, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

no problem! Gaismagorm (talk) 16:57, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

hey there was a bad edit on Black pride, I think it should probably be revdeleted. Heres the link to the edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_pride&diff=prev&oldid=1237574174 Gaismagorm (talk) 13:09, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! I love zapping that kind of edit. Joyous! Noise! 16:59, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

no problem Gaismagorm (talk) 17:28, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

does something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=LaVyrle_Spencer&diff=prev&oldid=1238183874 meet the requirements for a revdel Gaismagorm (talk) 15:10, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

I personally don't think it reaches rev/del levels. Joyous! Noise! 20:41, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

ah okay thanks Gaismagorm (talk) 22:09, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

In short, it wasn't me, some user before me added it and I was calling the new edit into question since this was the first time I heard about her throwing the pot. I didn't see a source on it either and deleted it first, but since there was info further up apparently supporting the new content, which the new body cam footage seemingly showed as well, I reverted my changes again. My latest edit was just moving the source it was tacked on (which didn't mention anything about the pot being thrown, just holding it above her head). You seem to be under the impression I had added it unsourced, but since I didn't, your reversal didn't remove it. Just letting you know. Someone more well versed in the case than me or the other user should probably look into that.

62.216.215.184 (talk) 16:57, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Sorry for the error. So much has been added and deleted and re-added and re-deleted that I lost track. Joyous! Noise! 17:05, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

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I discovered that you reverted an edit on Chippy Simmons article by another user, however that user seems confused and left a Talk topic on User talk:Sohom Datta instead of replying to the topic you started on their talk page... They seem to have their birth certificate and were looking for a way to provide proof. What's even more confusing is that I was trying to cross verify this anywhere online, and I only find more conflicting dates. This article is just a few day's off from this user's contribution. Colinstu (talk) 07:16, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

Blocked, some nasty stuff in the filter log. Doug Weller talk 07:10, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! Joyous! Noise! 11:29, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi, these IP address appears to be Xiaomichel evading the block, same style of changes: and . JacktheBrown (talk) 16:28, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

I'm a bit bored with reverting vandalism. Do you have any advice on where I could lend a hand? Or if any talk page stalkers can make any suggestions? Maybe need to keep in mind I'm a little slow on the uptake, but I get there in the end! Thank you. Knitsey (talk) 19:28, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Howdy, Knitsey! A couple of odds and ends I like dipping into:

• Project Merge because some articles work better combined. The project pages looks intimidating, but it's not, especially if you have installed Twinkle.
• De-orphaning articles means finding articles with no incoming links (there's a list, you don't actually have to FIND them), and add links to that orphan in at least one other article, when possible.

If either of those sound interesting, I'd be happy to help you get rolling on them. Joyous! Noise! 20:07, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

De-orphaning might be a good place to start. I did look at that some time ago but I wasn't sure about removing the tags side of it. I'm more confident about that now though. I could give that a go if you're willing to look at the first few I do just to make sure I'm doing it correctly? I will have another read through the process. Knitsey (talk) 20:15, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Happy to help. I remove the tag if I add even one incoming link. Joyous! Noise! 20:24, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

OK, I've read through the de-orphaning policy.

Look for a meaningful links, check categories, if I can add one or more links then use the de-orphan summary, remove the orphan tag using the de-orpaned summary.

Does the de-orphan summary/removing the orphan tag automatically remove it from the list or do I do that manually? Does removing the tag automatically generate a message to the page creator?

Thank you for helping me! Knitsey (talk) 20:48, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Removing the tag removes the article from the list. No message is generated to the page creator, and there's no need for you to message them: it's just a "regular" edit. Joyous! Noise! 21:03, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Lovely, thank you. If I do a few tomorrow, can I just message you here so you can check my work and that I've done it correctly? I don't envisage problems, so just the first three that I do? I don't want to add too much to your work. Knitsey (talk) 21:09, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Any time! Truly happy to help! Joyous! Noise! 21:36, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Well this isn't going great. I did 5 November 1946 Vnukovo aircraft crashes which wasn't a problem. The next one I tried was Bloomage. I didn't need to do anything as links were already added but the orphaned tag was added after someone else added links. I then looked at Chang Wen-chen and again, the orphan tag was added even though someone added links. What am I missing. Knitsey (talk) 16:22, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Bloomage has been changed now, it was an error. Knitsey (talk) 16:46, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

I don't think you're "missing" anything. The ones that already have incoming links from other articles...you're tidying those up by removing the tag. Possibly someone added the link to Article A from Article B, but never actually noticed the orphan tag sitting on top of Article A, so it never got removed. Joyous! Noise! 17:03, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

OK, thanks for checking for me. I bet you regret me asking now lol. I feel confident about adding links and de-orphaning. If I run into any problems then I can always ask advice from the person adding the link. It's a nice break from anti-vandalism. You're a star, ty, Knitsey (talk) 17:51, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Not at all regretting. Enjoy! Joyous! Noise! 17:52, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

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I do not understand what you are saying regarding blocks and vandalism? I just spent the better part of 4 hours trying to add citations and additional information to a page that had a flag on it requesting it be cited better. Every historical data point I cited per APA and Chicago and I sourced to direct sources. what is the issue?+

Hi! Are you asking about the block notice? Or the copyright messages? Joyous! Noise! 00:03, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

This article looks a bit sketchy to me.

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Awwww, it's right on the edge to me. I have raised an eyebrow, but I don't think I would AFD it if I ran across it on my own. Joyous! Noise! 21:43, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

Cool, thanks!

Kingsmasher678 (talk) 23:21, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Joyous!: I'm 2RDD. I've been editing Wikipedia for a year now and have made over a thousand edits. I'm passionate about maintaining article quality and combating vandalism. I believe Rollbacker rights would help me make a bigger impact. I'm eager to take on this responsibility and contribute to our community's mission. Thanks for considering my request! 2RDD (talk) 10:32, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi, 2RDD. I don't feel comfortable assigning rollback rights for a couple of reasons. 1) I don't see any evidence from your contributions that you engage in much anti-vandal work, outside of a few specific articles that you've created or contributed heavily to. 2) I'm not convinced that you see a difference between "vandalism" and "edits that I don't much like on an article that I care about." Most of your edit reversions have no helpful explanation, and you rarely leave a comment on either the other editor's talk page, or on the talk page of the article itself. I'm sorry to have to decline. Joyous! Noise! 19:32, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Joyous! Thank you for leaving me a welcome message. I would like to clarify that my edit was neither a test nor a misspelling. I changed "Argentinian" to "Argentine", because it's the most commonly employed demonym for people from Argentina and its usage is sometimes recommended over other alternatives (e.g., , , , , ). I would greatly appreciate it if you would reconsider leaving my edit in place. Once again, thank you. 186.152.162.193 (talk) 04:12, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

So sorry for the error! Thanks for teaching me something. Joyous! Noise! 05:02, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

No problem at all! I will restore my edit. Thanks! 186.152.162.193 (talk) 05:44, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello,@Joyous!,

I was wondering if I could get access to the pending changes permission. I've been hanging around for a while, and think I could help keep the backlog down a bit.

Thanks, Kingsmasher678 (talk) 20:13, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi Joyous!! I'm messaging you to let you know that I just strengthened this range's block to a site-wide block and set it to expire one month for now due to this edit that I just caught. I'm letting you know about this because you had modified the block for this range that has still been ongoing. I'm not sure as to how extensive, related, or how frequent the past vandalism from this range has been, but the previous block logs made it clear that stronger blocks would be imposed if shenanigans continue. Please know that you're welcome to modify, reduce, remove, strengthen, turn upside-down, - whatever you want to the block modification that I imposed. Just let me know and why; It would be good information in case this range pops up on my radar again. :-) Cheers - ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 04:46, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up. Pretty much never bothers me to have a block adjusted. I'll let you know if anything else goes on there that I notice. Joyous! Noise! 14:36, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

"He1488il"? Username violation? If it's really bad, please redact that. I'm trying to jumble the letters and numbers together to formulate what the username is saying... yeah I got nothing. Help? ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 04:08, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

1488 Joyous! Noise! 04:09, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

2604:3D08:7A8E:C00::/64 (talk · contribs · IP contribs · WHOIS)

Hi, thanks for the block here. Would you consider extending it? The previous block was for 1 year (see block log, which expired today at 16:12, and the vandalism started up again only a little more than an hour later at 17:33. I know some admins don't like to make longer blocks, but in this case, I don't think we'll ever see a constructive editor from the IP range (and /64 range blocks have pretty much no collateral damage). Would you consider extending the block to another year? Thanks. 73.67.145.30 (talk) 17:52, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

 Done Joyous! Noise! 17:55, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello,

Would you be able to respond to the (admittedly small, 3-person) backlog at Pending Changes Review? I don't mean to be impatient, but I would love to have this tool - it would allow me to further improve the encyclopedia. I saw you granted a request a few days ago.

Thanks so much!

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Just an FYI, you arn't logged in for this comment.

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Jimmy Ferguson’s grand daughter - I’m his daughter. Please revert this edit. Lemonsalty (talk) 05:12, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

Lemonsalty, thanks for contacting me. Even if you are a relative of Jimmy Ferguson, we still need to be able to verify information added here, so it still needs to be cited to a reliable source. Joyous! Noise! 18:02, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

Ok thanks what would be a reliable source ? What is the source for the marriage and child? Lemonsalty (talk) 18:17, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

Honestly, there might not be a published source, in which case the information can't go in. Some things that are..."family knowledge", if that makes sense, are very difficult to find a source for. Joyous! Noise! 18:23, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

Message received. Life is short. I won't butt in again. When someone has time to post a Wikipedia entry on the shaka movie that is documented to your satisfaction you will have the verification you want for the information you deleted. Until then the Wilipedia community can live without accurate information about Fasi's embrace of the shaka hand sign. As the late Dennis Mendoza would say, "It is what it is, it isn't what it isn't." 2603:800C:3A00:59B5:BCE9:F978:E55C:E94 (talk) 17:59, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

Hey! I've never really dealt with this before so I'm not sure what to do but the account that you recently blocked for vandalism (user:Ishartted) I think is using this account: user:Vlynar as a sockpuppet. They were both created within minuets of each other and have vandalized the same pages using the same language but not at the same time. I also don't know how to detect if there are more linked accounts. Thanks for any help! -- Lenny Marks (talk) 23:36, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

Well, fortunately, both accounts have messed around enough that it doesn't matter if socking was happening or not. Both indef-blocked. Thanks for the heads-up! Joyous! Noise! 23:38, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

Of course, thank you! I was doing RCP and I noticed that the edits seemed very similar. -- Lenny Marks (talk) 23:43, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

Hey there Just wondering if you could help take a look at this case. Said user is persisting with wholesale addition of Tamil scripts without consensus (and displaying identical behaviour to a blocked user) and I feel it best to request urgent intervention on this. Thanks! hundenvonPG (talk) 00:59, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

Why is there no mention of God on the topic of human sex ratio. God made one man and one women. That is why the ratio is and always will be as close to one man and one women. The principles or philosophies mentioned are an attempt to explain the sex ratio. The belief that the human sex ratio is established, maintained and monitored by god is just that. A belief. That more than one person has and is provided in text as a historical document. I can provide a write up but should be mentioned. Again, there is not a perfect explanation for the human sex ratio which leads to an opinion or belief, which it is the belief of myself and many other religious, or spiritual scholars if you prefer, people that it is God. 47.223.176.227 (talk) 04:05, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

I do understand that you feel strongly about this, but Wikipedia doesn't state religious beliefs as fact. Our policies of verifiability means that information added needs to be cited to a reliable published source. The Bible doesn't qualify there, and your individual interpretation of your religious beliefs falls under the category of original research, which is also something we try to avoid. Joyous! Noise! 03:51, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply. If were really honest about what were talking about, or writing about, then we would have a different conversation. The bible is the most printed book in the history of the world and has been read by more people in the world than any other book. This is a matter of your belief versus my belief. Which is fine. Neither can change the others. If anything, I would like to believe that you have read a bible or seen a verse from Gods word. If not, its a darn good book that has changed more lives than any other published source. Thank you again 47.223.176.227 (talk) 04:36, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

The correct spelling of the word is pronunced, not pronounced. Kolano123 (talk) 03:11, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

I can't find a mention of a word spelled pronunced anywhere. Are you sure? Joyous! Noise! 05:15, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

The word does exist, though. Kolano123 (talk) 10:09, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I get it. Kolano123 (talk) 10:24, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

Where is the word ever used? I looked in dictionaries, and was not able to find it. If we can't find ANY source using that spelling, I'm not sure it belongs in the article. Joyous! Noise! 14:19, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

OK. I get what you're saying. Kolano123 (talk) 14:32, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

Feel free to remove the warning I originally left on your talk page, if you haven't already. Happy editing! Joyous! Noise! 20:43, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

Dear, since you appear to be unaware of the grotesque sexism of the duluth model:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2007.03.002

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-016-9862-7

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01030-0_14

DOI: 10.1891/1946-6560.10.4.517

70 Mont. L. Rev. 125 (2009)

 Beyond Duluth: A Broad Spectrum of Treatment for a Broad Spectrum of Domestic Violence 2A02:A03F:852E:2F01:7946:4AA5:E89C:9BF0 (talk) 19:37, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

I've replied at your talk page. Joyous! Noise! 22:46, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

I used the Florida Senate website for my edit in Homelessness and wondered if it's copyright-free, I saw your warning and trying my best not to do that mistake again. Regards, ミラへぜ ミラへぜ (talk) 21:09, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

No problem! Thanks for checking. Even if the site is copyright-free, it's best to cite your sources anytime you add content, especially if there's a direct quote involved. That allows other people to read the source material for themselves for verification purposes, and so they can learn more about the topic. If you aren't sure how to add a reference, you can look over this page, or ask at The Teahouse. (The only reason I'm not jumping in with an offer of help with the referencing is that I mess up citation formats every time.) Joyous! Noise! 21:13, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

@Joyous! could we please revoke 206.71.233.18's talkpage access? disruption still continues after block.

Thanks, Filmssssssssssss (talk) 21:19, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

Yes. Yes we can. Joyous! Noise! 21:20, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

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Taken care of. Thanks! Joyous! Noise! 21:22, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi Joyous! Would you consider yanking talk page access from 62.253.196.109 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) as they're angry and digging themselves a deeper pit? 2A00:23C5:50E8:EE01:208D:22DF:6D36:FDE2 (talk) 21:46, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

Oshwah got there first. Thanks anyway! :-) 2A00:23C5:50E8:EE01:208D:22DF:6D36:FDE2 (talk) 21:52, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

Sorry I missed it. I picked a bad time to go make a cup of tea. Joyous! Noise! 22:28, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi, Joyous! On second thoughts, I've blocked Robertdowneyjr32 properly now, as a vandalism-only account. (Probably a friend of the other guy, Gohjj880, that you blocked.) Bishonen | tålk 18:53, 21 October 2024 (UTC).

They did seem to be acquainted. Joyous! Noise! 19:36, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

I recently found Wikipedia and and I had an idea about editing from learning from the editing tutorial page on Wikipedia but then after I tried to start editing on Wikipedia I started getting messages once being from you about something being reverted but I didn't know it wasn't the sandbox page and then I got another one and it was for a real page and it wasn't from you but it was from the user Drmies about disruptive editing and I am just wondering how to stop disrupting editing if you can respond to this thank you. Yes your internet is working (talk) 23:52, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

(copying your comment to your talk page, so I can reply there) Joyous! Noise! 02:09, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

A pretty bad edit was made on Jews as the chosen people and I think it is worthy of a revdel. Thanks in advance! Gaismagorm (talk) 17:57, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

Working on it. Also blocked the user for a couple of weeks. Joyous! Noise! 17:58, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! Gaismagorm (talk) 17:59, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

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	You're one of the most active RC patrollers I've seen in a while. Thanks for your hard work keeping Wikipedia clean!! نوحفث   Let's Chat! 20:36, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! Joyous! Noise! 20:55, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

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BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 19:21, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi, Joyous! You are listed among the "active administrators", so I was hoping you could steer me in the right direction on the following issue. I frequently edit the articles about towns in Iowa, and I found that almost all of those articles contained summaries of the 2000 and 2010 US Census info for the city, but no summary of the 2020 census results. Almost all of the articles had had the population updated with the 2020 values, but the vast majority had no multi-paragraph summary of the 2020 census, even though they did have multi-paragraph summaries of the 2000 and 2010 results. This is true for other states too. I first noticed this a few years ago when the 2020 results were released, and I assumed that some bot would come through and update all the articles, because it appears that a bot did all of the 2010 census updates. But here we are, approaching the middle of the decade, and no such mass update has occurred. So I updated the Iowa articles myself, and there were 974 of them. I'm not willing to do that manually for the other 49 states. I asked, on the Bots/Noticeboard, if anyone would be willing to work with me to create a bot to do the mass update, but got no takers. Is there a better place to discuss such things? I can write code that will pull the data out of the US Census servers, and format the output so that it is suitable for Wikipedia, but I don't have the guts to actually try to make a bot for Wikipedia myself. Do you have any suggestions about how I should proceed? Thanks for any info!PopePompus (talk) 01:54, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

You updated all 974 of them???? Dang, your keyboard must be smoking! I would suggest visiting the Village Pump, perhaps the technical or proposals section. If someone there can't help you directly, they can probably send you to a better spot. Joyous! Noise! 02:00, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick response and pointer. I'll check out Village Pump. Yes, I manually updated all 974. It took several days. PopePompus (talk) 02:09, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

Hello. I am asking of you and your colleagues to stop reviewing pages. There's just too much already that there are like thousands! --2600:381:EFD0:1741:A8F5:F944:DC1B:2F53 (talk) 00:31, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but that is unlikely to happen. We're just trying to keep Wikipedia as helpful and accurate as possible. Joyous! Noise! 00:34, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

I have lost count of the number of times just today that you've beaten me to the draw on rollbacking vandalism and other nonconstructive edits. If this were a western I'd be dead a few dozen times over. Kudos! AntiDionysius (talk) 01:12, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. I love when we're on patrol at the same time. Joyous! Noise! 01:13, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

It is always a pleasure. AntiDionysius (talk) 01:26, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

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Kingsmasher678 (talk) 01:43, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Hello, I've just had a user make what seems to be a threat about contacting my employer over my repeatedly tagging his non-free, ineligible image uploads for deletion. What is the proper methods for going through arbitration, reporting this, etc? Thanks. ~Darth Stabro^{Talk/Contribs} 15:15, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

I would report at ANI. Joyous! Noise! 15:17, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

The link was removed, but I was simply replacing the outdated link with the new one which is in use by the community project to restore the webcomic to its original state 82.14.222.80 (talk) 11:11, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

Replied at your talk page. Joyous! Noise! 12:51, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi I have a class assignment for editing social psychology wikipedia, can you please not delete things I added? It's very important to me. Joyiiw (talk) 02:26, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi, Joyiiw! I understand that you are in a class, but that doesn't override the standards we have for editing here. I'm sure the content you added came from somewhere. Can you just cite that source? You can look at WP:REFBEGIN if you aren't sure how to add sources. Please be sure the material comes from a reliable, published source. Joyous! Noise! 02:30, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/AveragePigs/Archive usually has pig/pigger in their User name. I reported to AIV after the first edit. Knitsey (talk) 19:55, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll add that one to my list. Joyous! Noise! 20:03, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

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BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 00:17, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

Hey, Joyous, thanks for blocking SkibidiTreyNyoni from the bio they were disrupting. But, especially considering those of their edits that the edit filter caught, do you think we want that character here at all? Bishonen | tålk 00:36, 15 November 2024 (UTC).

I failed to check the filter log, soooo... blocked. Thanks for the heads-up. Joyous! Noise! 00:52, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! You know what, I never have to check the filter log any more, because I have a script that shows edits disallowed by filters right in the ordinary contribs list. Most convenient. Let me see if I can find it... yes, here: User:Ingenuity/AbuseFilterContribs.js. Bishonen | tålk 01:21, 15 November 2024 (UTC).

OMG. I just installed it, and it's wonderful! Thank you! Joyous! Noise! 02:31, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

Long live Ingenuity! Bishonen | tålk 12:18, 15 November 2024 (UTC).

Ur so brainwashed bipolar who are you to decide who is terrorist and who is not 185.187.94.50 (talk) 16:47, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Please read this page about the neutral point of view and this guideline on sourcing edits, if you don't understand why your edit was reverted. You cannot insert your own opinions into articles. Joyous! Noise! 16:50, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Hello Joyous,

I see you reverted my edit to the Marsupial mole article -- do you disagree that 'burrowing' has a more obvious meaning to the average user than 'fossorial'? [i'm very new so, my apologies if this is not the right way to discuss changes] Ngenthatcould (talk) 18:45, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Well dang, I'm so sorry. I remember looking at that edit and thinking "oh, good thought." Totally didn't mean to revert it. I was probably aiming at an edit that was either above or below yours on a list of recent changes. I've replaced your edit, and I offer apologies. Joyous! Noise! 19:04, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Can we include in the description of Swifties somewhere that they have a lower than average IQ. I think it's an unbiased and important piece of information. Please consider adding it. Unless you like being selective about what to post based on your biases. 199.198.223.154 (talk) 19:23, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Please read. Joyous! Noise! 19:24, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Wishing Joyous! a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Birthday Committee! Best wishes! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 22:27, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

P.S. I am so sorry for the lateness. DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 22:27, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! I really appreciate it. Joyous! Noise! 22:34, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Why you deleted my paragraph on the ancient Greek lyre page?You said it was promotional while I only mentioned the first university that created an educational program of ancient instrument because the information reported by other sources is not true. Plus Dr Nikos Xanthoulis promotes his book on the same page. Isn't this advertising? I don't understand.... Maria87abba (talk) 23:18, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

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Hi, you invited me to explain my addition to Ed Westwick’s Wikipedia page regarding his exclusion from this BBC series filmed in 2017 and eventually released in 2018. My sources for this reference to Ed’s original casting in this series and the reason for his replacement is the BBC News item at the time (explaining why the series was delayed until Easter 2018 as Ed’s part had to be re-shot with another actor), and the reference to this in the Wikipedia page on the Ordeal By Innicence BBC adaptation (through which the link to the BBC website article in 2018 can be obtained) 2A00:23C7:8945:2D00:118A:2035:9FC9:17F1 (talk) 17:06, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

That reference will need to be added directly as a footnote, then. People who read the information in the Ed Westwick article won't know they need to go to another article for verification. Joyous! Noise! 17:48, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

I believe this edit needs to get revdelled as well. Thanks. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 20:24, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

People are losing their minds today. Thanks for catching this. Joyous! Noise! 20:26, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

Now that you mention it, yeah and I wonder why. Thanks for deleting it. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 20:34, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

I'm guessing the revision you hid on this page is probably similar to the one now added by a registered user - may be worth swinging back by to check out. Home Lander (talk) 21:36, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. On my way! Joyous! Noise! 21:38, 18 February 2025 (UTC)