User talk:DessHolliday

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Thank you, @BlueboyLINY!

~~~~ DessHolliday (talk) 14:58, 5 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi DessHolliday, thank you for your contributions. Just saw your recent edits at the page The Life of a Showgirl, where you have linked some pages stating your reason as further reading. While you are most welcome to make your helpful edits, there is a need to bring your attention to these policies: WP:OVERLINK and WP:NOPIPE.

• Generally, the words that are very common sense are not linked for further reading to there pages, until there is something required very specifically. It is also avoided to repeat the linking within the prose of the same article.
• Also, when you wrote [[melody|melodies]], it is an unnecessary linking and piping using the bar symbol |. The plural words can be directly linked like [[melodies]] (again, this needs to be specific and not very common). Otherwise, s can be put after the brackets like [[bottle]]s.

Hope this basic summary helps, you can study the policies thoroughly as well. Thank you! M. Billoo 17:07, 21 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi, @M.Billoo2000! Thanks for the information. Sorry to over-link!

Quick question - to fix the [[melody|melodies]] (using this as an example), would I switch to the source editor? I added that link using the hyperlink symbol in the visual editor. Just wondering if that can be avoided by only highlighting the singular part of the word in the visual editor or if I'd have to go into the source editor for that.

Thanks again! DessHolliday (talk) 17:42, 21 August 2025 (UTC)

Yes, it is preferred, and that is why called as Source Editor. M. Billoo 17:51, 21 August 2025 (UTC)

	truck for ya...
	I thought this would be funny. 🫀 Crash // Organhaver (talk to me, maybe?) 17:30, 21 August 2025 (UTC)

HAHAHA oh no!!!

~~ DessHolliday (talk) 16:05, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

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You just accidentally nuked American Idiot (musical) by deleting almost half the article. I restored it. 〜 Festucalex • talk 14:24, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

Oh god!! Oh no!! Not sure how that happened!!! Thank you for fixing it!!!!!! ~~ DessHolliday (talk) 14:44, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

No problem. Happens sometimes. 〜 Festucalex • talk 14:50, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Criticize, and welcome to Wikipedia. I appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to Novo Nordisk, it appears that you added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. Thank you. Criticize (talk) 14:57, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

@Criticize Thanks! i fully intended to cite my material as there are several recent publications regarding the acquisition, but lost Wifi until now. I am going to restore my edit and add the citation. Thanks for the reminder :) ~~ DessHolliday (talk) 16:29, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

Please do not use styles that are nonstandard, unusual, inappropriate or difficult to understand in articles. There is a Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. Thank you. livelikemusic (TALK!) 14:34, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi there, @Livelikemusic - can you please point me toward an example of where I have made this error? I'm not sure where I made a mistake and used a style that violated the manual of style. I strive to align with Wiki guidelines at all times, so I apologize if I have made a mistake! Thanks for clarifying your comment here. ~~ DessHolliday (talk) 14:39, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Please do not ping me in talk responses, thank you. In this edit you violated both MOS:DATEFORMAT and MOS:CURLY. And then, in this edit you violated MOS:SIGNIFCAPS. livelikemusic (TALK!) 14:42, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your recent edits to ExtraMile Convenience Stores when you modified the page, you introduced unknown parameters. Just because you specify |some_param=some_variable does not always mean that variable will display. The |some_param= must be defined in the template. You can look at the documentation for the template you are using but it is also helpful to use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and ensure that the values you have added are displaying correctly. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the page will look like without actually saving it. It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. If you have any questions, contact the help desk for assistance. Thank you. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 23:24, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi there! Thanks for your edits on Mary Fortune. I wanted to let you know that I've unfortunately had to undo your changes, and just wanted to explain why so that you are aware for future. On Wikipedia both "DMY" (e.g. 1 January 2000) and "MDY" (e.g. January 1, 2000) dates are acceptable, with the former being more common in Commonwealth English and the latter being more common in American English. When deciding which variety of English or which date format to use in an article, there are two considerations: the format used by the article's first major contributor (WP:DATERET), and the national ties of the subject (WP:DATETIES). In this case the article has a {{Use dmy dates}} template and is about an Australian subject, so the Commonwealth date format should be retained rather than switching to the American MDY format.

I hope that makes sense, and do just let me know if you're unclear at all on how to apply that rule. If you're looking for other copyediting or cleanup tasks, WP:TASK has a whole bunch of maintenance backlogs that you might enjoy helping out with. Happy editing! MCE89 (talk) 07:51, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you so much for kindly explaining to me! ~~ DessHolliday (talk) 19:59, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

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Also, are you the Roaring Knight? TalkTuahLunchly (talk) 04:41, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know! And hey, do you think I'd just answer that question outright?! Keep searching (for me AND the answer! Cuz, uh, I still feel a little ~lost~ about it myself! :P)

~~ DessHolliday (talk) 19:20, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

Hello DessHolliday. Regarding the recent revert you made to List of Maroon 5 band members: you may already know about them, but you might find Wikipedia:Template index/User talk namespace useful. After a revert, these can be placed on the user's talk page to let them know you considered their edit inappropriate, and also direct new users towards the sandbox. They can also be used to give a stern warning to a vandal when they've been previously warned. Thank you. Speedrunz (talk) 19:33, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

Thank you, very useful!

~~ DessHolliday (talk) 19:35, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi--can you explain what happened here? Thanks. Drmies (talk) 16:55, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi! Sure!

Wow, this was a while ago! I was on a kick of reference/citation formatting fixing. This may have been one of those "convert" option circumstances where the platform flagged it as needing to be fixed. Or I saw the lack of italics and intended to revise that.

But regardless, I was aiming to fix the formatting to the original source/correct formatting per MOS. If there was an accidental issue, please let me know and I'll be aware in the future. Thanks! DessHolliday (talk) 16:58, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi there fellow Deltaruneling Dess! I just thought to let you know about the current Draft:Noelle Holiday that's in the works as we speak. Feel free to contribute whenever if you can - if you choose to do so but I just want to let you know about it :) Thx ~Berdly KrispyBlueJays (talk) 19:59, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Oh amazing!!!! I will take a look at it as soon as I can!!!!! Thank you for letting me know, @KrispyBlueJays! ~~ DessHolliday (talk) 18:32, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

Aye your welcome, and I'm glad!!! I joined Wikipedia a month ago, and I'm glad I'm seeing some faces in the Deltarune fandom on Wikipedia that we can help collaborate with each other on that draft, haha, but seriously though, I'm glad to be here and seeing us put in the work and effort into the draft. I pray we find some more good references in the near future! KrispyBlueJays (talk) 23:54, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

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I was trying to revert at the same time as you and accidentally reverted your edit. Sorry!!! pHLOGISTON eNTHUSIAST (tALK pAGE) 14:42, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

Shoot! Thanks for letting me know! DessHolliday (talk) 14:44, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

Hi Dess! I just want to let you know that there's a current Discussion ongoing...
of a potential merge into the Deltarune article. Feel free to give your thoughts about it! KrispyBlueJays (talk) 21:41, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

Just jumped in! Thank you!

~~ DessHolliday (talk) 23:34, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

Hiya Dess! I was wondering if you potentially think that a WP:PROPSPLIT for the Deltarune's alternate route article section would be a good idea. Do you theoretically think that the Weird Route can have its own standalone article? The reason why I say this is because my homie @Organhaver originally brought up the idea because there were reliable sources of significant coverage of the Deltarune Weird Route, take a look:

https://www.avclub.com/deltarune-weird-route-game-theory (this one in particular is the strongest and this is recent from December 2025)

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/best-of-2021-how-deltarune-chapter-2-portrays-a-disturbingly-dark-relationship/1100-6499235/

https://www.destructoid.com/deltarune-chapter-2-snowgrave-route/

To be more specific, what I want to do is remove the alternate section of the main Deltarune article and just merge that into the Draft:Weird Route where it directly is about Deltarune's Weird Route. Several sources discussed the Weird Route and even offered its reception and analysis. Also, I would love to see Weird Route images on the wikipedia page haha (not that I'm a psychopath ofc just bcuz deltarune gang)

Do you want to merge, do you agree with this, do you disagree, etc. Up to ya ofc :)

@Organhaver said I can do WP:PROSPLIT at the main Deltarune article whenever I want and agrees with it but I wanna hear your input/perspective just to be curious on where you stand hehe KrispyBlueJays (talk) 06:25, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Hi @KrispyBlueJays!

So, I'm a bit torn on this one, like I was for the Sword Route discussion! Same as I felt before, until we can corroborate the significance of the SR or the WR to the overall plot, it may not meet platform standards for notability for a whole article just yet. As mega-fans of Deltarune, we can personally tell that it's likely to have a greater impact on the overall story somewhere down the line, but a casual player may not even realize you can go on the WR.

Is my whole YouTube algorithm Weird Route analyses and Chapter 5 predictions? 100000000% But I think we'd need a tad more notability and source coverage to break it out into it's own article. (Unless those 3 were just examples and you can find more that align with Wiki guidelines! :) ) Maybe we wait to see where the Weird Route and Sword Route go in Chapter 5 and Chapter 6? Maybe Toby will ultimately make it necessary to one extent or another to play the Weird Route in order to entirely beat the game. (Ex, if you need the thorn ring for something later on, even in normal gameplay).

Maybe then we can justify an entire alternate route article that covers every run you can take? Especially if they win any game awards or anything!

As far as images go, I noticed a major lack of DR imagery on Commons. I wanted to add Ralsei images to an article and couldn't find any that were of the actual character. To add WR images, we'll either need to purchase licenses for the images or find a fair use/public domain one. Which is where I've been hitting a wall!

That being said, let me know if you need help with any of this! I'd love to hear how you'd structure the article/what you'd include! I'm totally open to discussing this - maybe I'm off! :) DessHolliday (talk) 17:16, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Oh I 100% understand where you're coming from haha. I think honestly, though while yes, the Sword Route is 100% likely to be dead - the difference is that the weird route has 100% more coverage than the SR. I couldn't even find any sources that talk about the Sword Route directly just only guides which probably ain't enough to establish notability haha. So I personally believe that, given there are sources about the Weird Route, it could be a possibility.

That said, I completely agree that more sources would strengthen the case - and I'm optimistic Chapter 5 might bring exactly that, especially if the route continues.

As for images: totally fair point about Commons! You can use non-free screenshots under fair use once the Weird Route article is already in mainspace or we can just borrow images from https://deltarune.wiki

and ALSO yes I would love to see more sources about the Weird Route GAHHHH. Three sources are 100% about the Weird Route and honestly I agree I'm hoping and praying that we get a shit-ton of sources once Chapter 5 drops.

it would 100% be easier once Chapter 5 of the game is finished, because that could make a case for notability if more sources cover not only the Deltarune characters like Noelle, Susie, and Ralsei, but also the Weird Route, potentially.

Btw, speaking of the Noelle Holiday draft, it didn't get accepted, unfortunately, because most of the sources discussed Weird Route Noelle, BUT the reviewer said she absolutely 100% has a chance for notability once Chapter 5 gets released, so honestly! The same thing could honestly be said for the Weird Route!

I'm hoping there's more to discuss or write in the Draft:Weird Route and the good news is that I included the analysis/reception/reactions of the Weird Route (thanks to the signifant coverage of sources) which is the one thing that has more details than the current Deltarune alternate section of the article. I'm not sure what the first image would be (chapter 2 snowgrave gif haha or just the mechanics of the snowgrave from a screenshot or whatever you can think of you think is best) KrispyBlueJays (talk) 18:25, 1 March 2026 (UTC)