User talk:OceanGunfish/Archive 2025

On 15 June 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Magnoavipes denaliensis, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a bird with huge feet once walked by a river near Denali? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Magnoavipes denaliensis. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Magnoavipes denaliensis), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Z1720 (talk) 00:03, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

Ayy! First DYK! This one made me laugh, good one. Panini! • 🥪 04:43, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it! OceanGunfish (talk) 16:29, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

Hello. You're invited to participate in The World Destubathon. We're aiming to destub a lot of articles and also improve longer stale articles. It will be held from Monday June 16 - Sunday July 13. There is over $3300 going into it, with $500 the top prize. If you are interested in winning something to save you money in buying books for future content, or just see it as a good editathon opportunity to see a lot of articles improved for subjects which interest you, sign up on the page in the participants section if interested. Even if you can only manage a few articles they would be very much appreciated and help towards making the content produced as diverse and broad as possible! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:35, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

OceanGunfish, for the second running of the Developing Countries WikiContest, it is now open for submissions. Welcome to the contest! You can now list your work at your submissions page to earn points. The coordinators have addressed some of the queries at the last contest and we are hopeful that it'll turn out great for you—yes, you! If you haven't done so already, please review the following:

• New to Wikipedia? Many experienced editors are part of this contest and willing to help; feel free to ask questions on the talk page.
• Got open nominations? List them at the review requests sidebar.
• Looking for a topic to work on? Check out suggested articles and eligible reviews. Remember, reviews now award 10 points!
• Not sure if your article qualifies? See the scoring rules for more information or contact a coordinator.
• Know someone else who might be interested? Sign-ups remain open throughout the contest, so don't hesitate to invite other editors!

On behalf of the coordinators, we hope you enjoy participating and wish you the best of luck! If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page or ask one of the coordinators: Arconning (talk · contribs), sawyer777 (talk · contribs), or TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · contribs). (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 03:52, 1 July 2025 (UTC)

Hi, just a courtesy message to notify you in case you haven't seen the Wikipedia:The World Destubathon contest update in the last few days that we've decided to run the full month until the 16th of July. For those who have been too busy to contribute, we would love some help in reaching 4000 articles by Wednesday night! At present we're about 480 articles short!♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:46, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

More detailed needed for Trae Young for both his collegiate career and professional career. Players with less accolades and achievements have more descriptions despite young having one of the best college careers of all time and multiple highlight seasons as a professional hooper Spud Webb. 4 (talk) 19:34, 19 July 2025 (UTC)

Hi OceanGunfish. Thank you for your work on Ammocryptocharax vintonae. Another editor, SunDawn, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

Thank you for creating the article! Have a blessed day today!

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|SunDawn}}. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

✠ SunDawn ✠ Contact me! 09:30, 23 July 2025 (UTC)

Your good article nomination of the article Cynodon gibbus is under review. See the review page for more information. This may take up to 7 days; feel free to contact the reviewer with any questions you might have. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Jens Lallensack -- Jens Lallensack (talk) 13:47, 26 July 2025 (UTC)

Your good article nomination of the article Cynodon gibbus has been placed on hold, as the article needs some changes. See the review page for more information. If these are addressed within 7 days, the nomination will pass; otherwise, it may fail. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Jens Lallensack -- Jens Lallensack (talk) 16:25, 26 July 2025 (UTC)

Your good article nomination of the article Cynodon gibbus has passed; congratulations! See the review page for more information. If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Jens Lallensack -- Jens Lallensack (talk) 15:16, 27 July 2025 (UTC)

Hey OceanGunfish, thanks for taking part in the Developing Countries WikiContest! For scoring purposes, submissions need to be made under one flag. Could you pick one country you'd like to submit Cynodon gibbus under and update your page accordingly? Let me know if you have any questions about this! —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 16:22, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

Hey, sorry about that. I revised my scoring page to cut my submissions to one flag each. Thanks. OceanGunfish (talk) 16:32, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

No worries, thanks for doing that! —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 16:48, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

Your good article nomination of the article Liatu King is under review. See the review page for more information. This may take up to 7 days; feel free to contact the reviewer with any questions you might have. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Riley1012 -- Riley1012 (talk) 15:45, 2 August 2025 (UTC)

We're a month into the 2025 Developing Countries WikiContest, with stiff competition at the top of the leaderboard already! Our current top five contestants are:

1. Spookyaki (submissions) – 256 points, mostly from a handful of GAs about women's history in Latin America as well as the 1991 Haitian coup d'état.
2. vigilantcosmicpenguin (submissions) – 229 points, back with a number of articles on abortion in various African countries.
3. simongraham (submissions) – 213 points, mainly from GAs on species of jumping spiders in both Africa and Azerbaijan.
4. PizzaKing13 (submissions) – 200 points, with five GAs on articles relating to Salvadoran politics, history, and griddle cakes.
5. BeanieFan11 (submissions) – 168 points from a few GAs, a few DYKs, and a few ITNs on athletes from a variety of countries.

Looking for ways to climb up the leaderboard yourself? Help out your fellow participants by answering a few review requests, particularly the older entries. Several more nominations needing attention are listed at eligible reviews, and highlighed entries receive a 1.5× multiplier!

On behalf of the coordinators, we'd like to thank all the participants for helping to combat systemic bias on Wikipedia! If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page or ask one of the coordinators: Arconning (talk · contribs), sawyer777 (talk · contribs), or TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · contribs). (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 03:36, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

Your good article nomination of the article Liatu King has passed; congratulations! See the review page for more information. If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Riley1012 -- Riley1012 (talk) 13:24, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

Your good article nomination of the article Clarias ngamensis is under review. See the review page for more information. This may take up to 7 days; feel free to contact the reviewer with any questions you might have. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:02, 13 August 2025 (UTC)

Your good article nomination of the article Clarias ngamensis has passed; congratulations! See the review page for more information. If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:21, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

On 23 August 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Cynodon gibbus, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the original type specimen of the fish species Cynodon gibbus (example pictured) may have been destroyed in a bombing raid? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cynodon gibbus. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Cynodon gibbus), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 23 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi OceanGunfish, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the autopatrolled user right to your account. This means that pages you create will automatically be marked as 'reviewed', and no longer appear in the new pages feed. Autopatrolled is assigned to prolific creators of articles, where those articles do not require further review, and may have been requested on your behalf by someone else. It doesn't affect how you edit; it is used only to manage the workload of new page patrollers.

Since the articles you create will no longer be systematically reviewed by other editors, it is important that you maintain the high standard you have achieved so far in all your future creations. Please also try to remember to add relevant WikiProject templates, stub tags, categories, and incoming links to them, if you aren't already in the habit; user scripts such as Rater and StubSorter can help with this. As you have already shown that you have a strong grasp of Wikipedia's core content policies, you might also consider volunteering to become a new page patroller yourself, helping to uphold the project's standards and encourage other good faith article writers.

Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! voorts (talk/contributions) 01:22, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

On 12 September 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Liatu King, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that basketball player Liatu King (pictured) played boys' American football when she was a child? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Liatu King. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Liatu King), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

On 22 September 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Clarias ngamensis, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that one airbreathing catfish species cooperates in pack hunting with another species of catfish? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Clarias ngamensis. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Clarias ngamensis), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.

RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Casey Foyt is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Casey Foyt until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

Servite et contribuere (talk) 04:28, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

Two weeks ago, the 2025 Developing Countries WikiContest came to a close! After three months of stiff competition at the top of the leaderboard, we have our winners. vigilantcosmicpenguin (submissions), continuing his work on covering abortion in Africa, comes in third with 692 points. simongraham (submissions) comes in second with 763 points, largely from a slew of good articles about jumping spiders. And returning to the podium for the second year in a row, BeanieFan11 (submissions) takes the Gold Belt Buckle with a mind-boggling 946 points from his series of articles on sportpersons. Congratulations to our winners!

Amazingly, the award for the most countries covered goes to both BeanieFan11 (submissions) and simongraham (submissions), who each submitted articles under 30 flags! BeanieFan11 (submissions) also wins for writing the most quality articles (16 good articles). For submitting 16 articles related to El Salvador, PizzaKing13 (submissions) wins the award for most submissions under one country. The award for most submissions related to women goes to both Spookyaki (submissions) (7 biographies about women) and vigilantcosmicpenguin (submissions) (21 related articles). And for the second year, simongraham (submissions) wins for the most reviews, having submitted 21!

Among the participants' contributions were 2 FAs, 5 FLs, 124 GAs, and an uncounted number of DYKs, ITNs, and reviews of every kind! Regardless of your level of participation, every contestant can be proud to have contributed towards a major step in countering the systemic bias on Wikipedia. Every year, millions of readers and editors around the globe use Wikipedia to educate themselves and communicate with others about parts of the world that often receive less attention than they deserve. Thank you for participating with us in the contest and contributing to this effort. The DCWC will return next year, and we look forward to seeing you contribute again! However, before that...

We need your feedback! Join the conversation on the talk page to discuss your reflections on the contest (even if you didn't participate!) and help us make it better.

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page or ask one of the coordinators: Arconning (talk · contribs), sawyer777 (talk · contribs), or TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · contribs). (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 16:43, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

Hey there. I've seen your articles for a while now. Fantastic work, especially on the athletes. An overabundance of sources is infinitely preferable to a deficit. For more context on my recent removal of birthplaces sources to the ESPN or Yahoo! Sports databases, I have found that they sort of just scrape "hometown" data from other sources, wether they were born there or not. (e.g. see Travis Hunter, who was born in Florida not Georgia, or Jayden Higgins, who was born in Georgia not Florida). Sometimes a player's college bio will include their birthplace down in the "personal" section, but otherwise you'd have to source a news article or their Pro Football Reference bio. Keep up the great work and happy editing! JTtheOG (talk) 20:00, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind words. I will avoid using these databases to source birthplaces in the future. Good to know I can still use PFR. OceanGunfish (talk) 13:00, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Several websites including the official NFL site confirmed that he's unretiring and signing with the Colts. I was going to sign up and undo your vandalism and report you, but decided to post this instead. The stuff came out before you chose to wrongly remove the stuff.

https://www.nfl.com/news/philip-rivers-signs-with-colts-practice-squad-comes-out-of-retirement-at-age-44

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/philip-rivers-qb-nfl-return-colts-signing/

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/philip-rivers-signing-with-colts-practice-squad ~2025-39663-83 (talk) 21:46, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

You may have missed the big giant banner at the top of that article, which says Information regarding the transaction may be based on anonymous sources or awaiting an official announcement. Breaking news reports may be unreliable. It doesn't matter how many websites report it until it's official (see WP:RSBREAKING), which is why I was not the only editor reverting those changes. Even your NFL link says that the signing is reported by Ian Rapoport, Tom Pelissero and Mike Garafolo, whom you will note are not named, reputable league or team officials as stated by WP:SPORTSTRANS.

I do encourage you to create an account. It may help you learn some more Wikipedia policies, such as assuming good faith and what is and isn't vandalism. Have a nice day. OceanGunfish (talk) 22:58, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

Hey there, you recently created Hosea Wheeler. Could you explain how a utm_source=chatgpt.com URL parameter made it into one of the references on that page? Did you only use ChatGPT to find that reference, or did you use it to write any of the text on the article? If you did use an LLM to generate the article, would you be willing to WP:LLMDISCLOSE? --Gurkubondinn (talk) 11:35, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Hi! Thank you catching that! I did use ChatGPT to find that source. I generated zero text with an LLM and am opposed to doing so. Thanks for your concern. OceanGunfish (talk) 12:30, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Great, thanks for for the no-nonsense clarification! I'm definitely taking this at face value.

and am opposed to doing so.

Me too! :) --Gurkubondinn (talk) 12:42, 10 December 2025 (UTC)