User talk:Myrealnamm/2025/March

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2025).

Administrator changes

• Jarry1250
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• AmandaNP
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Oversighter changes

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Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is open to discuss whether AI-generated images (meaning those wholly created by generative AI, not human-created images modified with AI tools) should be banned from use in articles.
• A series of 22 mini-RFCs that double-checked consensus on some aspects and improved certain parts of the administrator elections process has been closed (see the summary of the changes).
• A request for comment is open to gain consensus on whether future administrator elections should be held.

Technical news

• A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. T378488
• Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Special:Nuke tool. T376378

Miscellaneous

• The 2025 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, Arcticocean, Ameisenigel, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, Galahad, Nehaoua, Renvoy, Revi C., RoySmith, Teles and Zafer as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
• Following the 2025 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: 1234qwer1234qwer4, AramilFeraxa, Daniuu, KonstantinaG07, MdsShakil and XXBlackburnXx.

Hello there,

When making edits to a page based on an external source (i.e. I'm editing a page on a former college professor and I'm using a page from the college they worked at about them), how should I cite that source in general? I believe on the article I was working on there was nothing dedicated to "Works Cited." Should I have started something along these lines?

Thank you! --Camwill011 (talk) 02:08, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

@Camwill011 That’s a great question. Citing sources can always be tricky on Wikipedia. In the visual editor (which is what you have used for editing) look for the “cite” button: . There, you can add in the website URL and it should automatically do it for you. Be sure to add the citation after the sentence (look at the ones already present on the article for examples). Happy editing! Myrealnamm (💬Let's talk · 📜My work) 12:33, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

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Hello Clapper --Oldwhesky (talk) 01:57, 9 March 2025 (UTC)

@Oldwhesky Hey there! You already made an account, and you thus don’t need to request one. Do you have any questions about Wikipedia for me? Myrealnamm (💬Let's talk · 📜My work) 13:09, 9 March 2025 (UTC)

Hello what my know to helping here --CYDRIC1234 (talk) 15:40, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

@CYDRIC1234 Hi, do you have any questions for me about editing Wikipedia? I would be very glad to help! Myrealnamm (💬Let's talk · 📜My work) 15:41, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

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How to get the best desition --CYDRIC1234 (talk) 16:04, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

@CYDRIC1234 Hi, could you elaborate? I only know about editing Wikipedia’s articles, not really about the content in them. You could try the Wikipedia:Reference Desk. Myrealnamm (💬Let's talk · 📜My work) 17:56, 15 March 2025 (UTC)

It's not AI generated, I just wrote with reference to the source 2001:D08:D7:123D:8581:26E5:7CA4:FA74 (talk) 23:50, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

Oh, then sorry! However, what you wrote did not comply with WP:NPOV as it was not written in a neutral tone. Please ensure that it does not have WP:PEACOCK terms before you add it back. Thanks, Myrealnamm (💬Let's talk · 📜My work) 23:53, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

Maybe you can look at the source because much of my text infers from there, hope this helps! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:D08:D7:123D:8581:26E5:7CA4:FA74 (talk) 23:53, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

Look at my newest edit, it is OK? I removed 'elegant', 'top', 'excellent' - adjectives that are peacock. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:d08:d7:123d:8581:26e5:7ca4:fa74 (talk) 23:59, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

yes, it is a lot better. I will help you a little more in the article, but don't worry I won't remove it all. Thanks! Myrealnamm (💬Let's talk · 📜My work) 00:02, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

I felt that my reverts were justified through the fact that the talk page comments were personal attacks that included ableist remarks, but at your request, I will stop reverting. I appreciate your calling for me to disengage there. JeffSpaceman (talk) 18:57, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

@JeffSpaceman Yes, you're absolutely right. But sometimes feeding the trolls makes them more engaged, so normally I just stop if they keep attacking people. I like to let the admin do it. Why waste time on trolls. Myrealnamm (💬Let's talk · 📜My work) 18:59, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

Fair point. I have a habit of continuing to revert until talk page access is pulled -- maybe I should work to abandon that in the future, or at least wait until talk page access has been pulled to remove such content. Thank you for discussing this. JeffSpaceman (talk) 19:01, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

Adding sandboxed material that is not visible to public, but only to editors in HTML markup is arguably not COPYVIO, but in any case, to submit to you concern, the material was removed, even from the hidden quote area. 98.226.86.66 (talk) 15:41, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

It doesn’t matter. The problem is that the copyrighted material is on Wikipedia, and has to be hidden by an administrator. I’ll leave it up to the administrator who will review the page shortly to decide, but I have restored the copyvio template. Myrealnamm (💬Let's talk · 📜My work) 15:45, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

OK, let's try, at least between us, to rectfy this and come to agreement. We pasted in an extensive quote from an article, (a) into a "quote =" field of a {{cite web... template, in the citation from which the quote was drawn, and (b) then hid the quote from sight using <!-- markup. We then (c) removed the offending quote, when questioned by a registered editor. (So, presently, the material that raised the COPYVIO concern is no longer present.) Please tell me how the tag, and an administrator's review is still relevant, and necessary? I propose it is unnecessary, and likely to lead to further issues based in misunderstanding. Finally, two points. First, all advice we are given says that one cannot violate copyright in the way described above, steps (a) and (b), because there is no presentation/publication of the "offending" material; it always remained hidden from sight. Second, this sort of respond-to-bot-outputs-and-take-action kind of process was the very reason that some of us left WP, despite many hundreds of thousands of edits. When we shoot first, and ask questions later, we are often shooting our own. 98.226.86.66 (talk) 19:14, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

Let me explain. Some people like to look for places that have potential copyright problems. What the template does is to request an administrator to look at the page so that that revision cannot be seen and opened by a non-administrator.

It seems like it was my misunderstanding, because an administrator has hidden that revision two hours ago, and I did not see it. I sincerely apologize for this as I was not aware that it was deleted. I have now removed the copyvio tag, as it was, indeed, no longer necessary since almost 2 hours ago. I hope you understand. Myrealnamm (💬Let's talk · 📜My work) 19:24, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

Thank you GrayStorm. I'm on here to learn and fix small things. --LosAlamosHistoryNerd (talk) 19:37, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

@LosAlamosHistoryNerd It looks like your mentor is indeed GrayStorm. I have no idea why it went here. I am another mentor. I will ping GrayStorm here. @GrayStorm. Myrealnamm (💬Let's talk · 📜My work) 19:42, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

No worries. I missed that @GrayStorm is away. LosAlamosHistoryNerd (talk) 19:47, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

@LosAlamosHistoryNerd Okay, do you have any questions regarding Wikipedia for me? Myrealnamm (💬Let's talk · 📜My work) 19:48, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Oh, perhaps that is why the software brought you here because GrayStorm is away. Myrealnamm (💬Let's talk · 📜My work) 19:49, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Blue Lock, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and to see how to add references to an article. Thank you. Xexerss (talk) 03:01, 27 March 2025 (UTC)

Yes, I found a Roblox source but it was blacklisted. I will readd if it gets whitelisted (see MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist/Archives/2025/03#roblox.com/games/18668065416/Blue-Lock-Rivals) but without the last sentence about when it got popular. Myrealnamm's Alternate Account (talk) 12:27, 27 March 2025 (UTC)

@Myrealnamm Is your uBlock Origin on your Microsoft Edge stopped for you? Vitorperrut555 (talk) 01:01, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

@Vitorperrut555 No, it still works. Is yours broken? Maybe try uninstalling it and reinstalling it. Myrealnamm (💬Let's talk · 📜My work) 01:03, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

@Myrealnamm Oh, so you uBlock Origin on your Edge still works, are you sure? Vitorperrut555 (talk) 22:01, 27 March 2025 (UTC)

Yes, I am sure it works. At least, yesterday it still works, but I'm not at home right now (I'm at a public place) so I don't know if it still works at this moment. Myrealnamm's Alternate Account (talk) 13:06, 28 March 2025 (UTC)