User talk:Lafi90

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Hi Lafi90! I noticed your contributions and wanted to welcome you to the Wikipedia community. I hope you like it here and decide to stay.

I've noticed that you've expressed an interest in the Arab–Israeli conflict. Unfortunately, due to a history of conflict and disruptive editing it has been designated a contentious topic and is subject to some strict rules.

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Happy editing! Longhornsg (talk) 23:42, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, Longhorns. Much appreciated! Lafi90 (talk) 03:28, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

Lafi90,

Reitterating the notice above. You are prohibited from making any editos related to the Arab-Israeli conflct until you are extended confirmed. Thiat includes discussing it on talk pages.

Your edits at Special:Diff/1337113309, Special:Diff/1337113804, Special:Diff/1337265404 and Special:Diff/1337346199 were violations of that restriction. Please do not continue. You are only permited to make non-disruptive edit requests. Once you have made the edit request you are not permitted to engage in any pursuing discussion of your edit request. TarnishedPath^talk 23:38, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

Okay. Got it. Thanks. Lafi90 (talk) 23:42, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

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Please help me with... a few questions.
1. Is there a handy way to know what I'm qualified to partake in?
2. With regards to my usage of Wikipedia; the 30 days/500 edits, is that wikipedia exclusive, like en.wiki separate from is.wiki?
3. Do those expire?
Thanks! Lafi90 (talk) 03:32, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

With a few exceptions (protected pages) any editor can edit anything. We are not concerned with your qualifications. Even experts cannot make edits based solely on their own authority. All edits need to be based on a published source. Each separate language project applies user rights separately, so extended confirmed rights are granted on English Wikipedia after 30 days and 500 edits, but that would not affect rights on other projects. No, user rights do not expire. The admins might remove a user right under certain circumstances, but that's quite rare. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 03:42, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

I should have read more of your page to get more context. There is a list of contentious topics here: WP:Contentious topics#List of contentious topics. Most of them are somewhat obvious and each one has some history you can choose to investigate if you don't see why editing is restricted. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 03:58, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

Your thread has been archived

Hello Lafi90! The thread you created at the Teahouse, I went overboard and very much so in the wrong direction in unmasking a user. Will I be punished? Should I?, has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days.

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Happy New Year, Lafi90!

Happy New Year!

Lafi90,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Volten001 ^☎ 03:53, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

Hey Volten, thank you very much, and a Happy new year to you too! Lafi90 (talk) 10:12, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

IMDB

Hey there,

In response to your edit on Greenland 2, here's Wikipedia's guidelines on IMDB.

Wikipedia:Citing IMDb

Alien456 (talk) 08:18, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Hiya!

Okay, but the information I added regarding the cast matches up both on the film's imdb page, as well as the end credits of the film.

So what's the right course of action here? Lafi90 (talk) 08:24, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

I really don't know. I suppose that we could ask another editor for help. I'm just trying to find a resolution to this. Apologies if I disturbed you. Alien456 (talk) 08:26, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Oh I'm rather amused by this than disturbed. Every clash is an opportunity to learn :)

I'm looking into it now and I can see per reliable sources/perennial sources on wikipedia that imdb isn't exactly what one would call 'liked' by editors, but despite that, generally accepted as an 'external link'.

I'm gonna look around and see if I can find anything acceptable to reference here. Lafi90 (talk) 08:27, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Okay, take your time. Alien456 (talk) 08:30, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

I looked into the policy, WP: Citing imdb again, and while not referred to as appropriate, what I did isn't referred to as inappropriate use, but 'disputed' use.

I'm honestly not sure what to make of that.

I also have a digital copy of the film in front of me and could go through it's end credits again. Lafi90 (talk) 08:42, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

That's a good start. Also, can you look on any other websites aside from IMDB that have the movie's cast billing? Alien456 (talk) 08:50, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

TVGuide, TheMoviedb, Metacritic.

There are a couple more I found, but some only list the actors but not their roles, some are missing actors/roles altogether.

Edit; got 'warned' when trying to link TheMoviedb as it's on a blacklist within wikipedia. Lafi90 (talk) 09:07, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Gotcha. Just make sure that the main actors (Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, and Roman Griffin Davis) are credited first, then credit the rest in order. Alien456 (talk) 09:17, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Which order though?

The film's end credits, for example, lists them in order of appearance. Lafi90 (talk) 09:18, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

I really don't know. Maybe how they're credited based on their importance in the plot? Order of appearance is not usually a good way to list. Alien456 (talk) 09:31, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

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