User talk:Usernamekiran

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—usernamekiran(talk) 19:59, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

See Special:Diff/1283820024, in an attempt to remove the AMP url, it made the URL an unhelpful ambiguous URL.

Luckily, the URL wasn't really necessary before since it was syndicated from another source, which I replaced with the original source. I would not be surprised if a lot of yardbarker links did this, since they mostly syndicated then pull articles from other sources, but these become harder to find when they go from this amp url to a more ambiguous one. Might need a quick review to see if this happened anywhere else. If you have a list, I can go through and try and fix them with the original source. Chew^{(V • T • E)} 22:29, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

@Chew: Hi. Yes, none of the yardbarker URLs were usable when I found the issue a few weeks ago. So I added the yardbarker domain to the ignore list, and removed all the problematic yardbarker URLs from the database. There were quite a few of them. Currently there are only seven yardbarker URLs in the database that were operational. I undid all the changes I could find, seems like I missed some. Unfortunately, I do not have a list (as I removed them from the database), but most of the problematic edits were undone. —usernamekiran (talk) 15:09, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

Awesome, thank you! I'll try and go through and just remove them all if I can for my prior reasons, just wanted to make sure you were aware as well. Appreciate it Chew^{(V • T • E)} 00:37, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

Hello. I wish to SUGGEST three prominent people to write a Wiki article about. There actions affected 1000s of people across the USA and were in front of national media cameras. They graduated from my high school. But you are impartial. I cant add their names into Wiki content unless there is already an article about them. Here are the suggested Three Names and Major Newspaper Articles or Bio Sites about them to help you write a suggested article. They often made quite a few articles and headlines! These articles or Bios were all retrieved today, July 5, 2025.

They are:

• Rex Meredith

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0580625/ https://www.laughfactory.com/comedians/RexMeredith https://everythingcarson.com/carsonnugget/events/rex-meredith https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/rex-meredith https://www.sierrasun.com/news/funny-man-rex-meredith-has-a-lot-to-say/ https://lexnightclub.com/event/ev294955dt180928rm294148-reno-tahoe-comedy-presents-rex-meredith/reno-tahoe-comedy-presents-rex-meredith-180928/

• Dale Ross (aka Lloyd Dale Ross)

https://ilsr.org/articles/georgetown-texas-voices-of-100-podcast/ https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2017/10/23/how-georgetown-s-gop-mayor/10076897007/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/the-conservative-texas-mayor-leading-the-charge-with-renewable-energy-on-the-green-new-deal/ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/republican-mayor-texas-clean-energy-no-brainer-n769056 https://www.c-span.org/person/dale-ross/117515/ https://www.digi.city/what-were-reading-1/2018/3/20/mayor-dale-ross-and-georgetown-tx-getting-national-recognition-for-going-all-green https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-conservative-georgetown-texas-became-renewable-energy-leader-mayor-dale-ross-2019-04-23/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/texas-town-future-renewable-energy-180968410/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-04/why-republican-mayor-dale-ross-is-all-in-on-renewables https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/dale-ross-georgetown-renewables-calgary-1.4839431 https://time.com/3761952/georgetown-texas-fossil-fuel-renewable-energy/ https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/newspaper-reporter-says-georgetown-mayor-threatened-her https://www.statesman.com/story/news/local/flash-briefing/2020/01/27/georgetown-mayor-ross-wont-seek-reelection/1817648007/

• Dayna Steele

https://www.palmdesertlibrary.org/event/author-talk-surviving-alzheimers-friends-facebook-and-really-big-glass-wine-dayna-steele-3186 https://canvasrebel.com/meet-dayna-steele/ https://www.houstonpress.com/music/foxy-lady-to-bitch-dayna-steeles-houston-radio-odyssey-6524655 https://ballotpedia.org/Dayna_Steele https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00639419/ https://tv.apple.com/us/show/dayna-steele-rock-the-36th/umc.cmc.4anb064d3njxdtqe4tfd8euoy https://thegamechanger.network/dayna-steele-surviving-alzheimers-friends-facebook-really-big-glass-wine/ https://rock101movie.com/category/dayna-steele/ https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/democratic-party-of-texas/C00639419/summary/2024 https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/biography/177059/dayna-steele https://www.ktre.com/2024/10/04/radio-host-dayna-steele-challenges-us-rep-babins-seat-minus-public-donations/ https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/endorsements/article/brian-babin-dayna-steele-election-endorsement-19829819.php https://texaslifestylemag.com/living-texas/five-minutes-with-rock-star-principles-dayna-steele/

Thank you for these considerations! Stevespacek1 (talk) 19:36, 5 July 2025 (UTC)

Hello fellow editors,

I’m currently working on the Ravi Kumar Punia article and would appreciate it if someone with more experience could review the entire page for structure, formatting, and adherence to Wikipedia’s content guidelines.

My goal is to ensure the article is well-organized, neutrally written, and properly sourced. If you notice any areas that need improvement—such as notability, tone, layout, or citation quality—I would be grateful for your feedback or any edits you may suggest. I’m happy to collaborate and make revisions where needed to ensure the article meets Wikipedia’s standards.

Thank you for your time and assistance!

Best regards, 2405:201:5C08:41E5:13D:7B24:9154:3157 (talk) 15:01, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

Hey, there's a bug with your bot on nlwiki where nieuwsblad.be links are getting converted to hbvl.be, even though nieuwsblad.be doesn't use AMP. You can see it happening in these diffs: 69654475, 69574270.

Could you take a look at what's causing this? It's messing up citations and potentially affecting other Belgian news sites too (though not entirely sure). XXBlackburnXx (talk) 21:11, 25 July 2025 (UTC)

@XXBlackburnXx: Hello. The bot is thinking the original URL is an AMP url because of the "amper" in it. Then the bot is trying to find a canonical URL for that amp url. The issue is, original URL/page (nieuwsblad.be) is mentioning the hbvl.be URL as the canonical urls. Looking at the pages, they both seem to be exactly the same. If you want, I can blacklist the hbvl.be URLs. Kindly let me know how should I proceed. —usernamekiran (talk) 22:00, 25 July 2025 (UTC)

Blacklisting would be nice. The main issue isn't necessarily the websites themselves, but rather that when a site within a citation is replaced with hbvl.be, the rest of the citation parameters, such as |publisher= or |work=, no longer match appropriately. Hope you understand :). XXBlackburnXx (talk) 22:22, 25 July 2025 (UTC)

@XXBlackburnXx: ah, I see. no issues. I have fixed added the domain to the blacklist. —usernamekiran (talk) 22:39, 25 July 2025 (UTC)

@XXBlackburnXx: Hi. I was going through the logs of the bot, and I came across:
Failed to save Limburg United in het seizoen 2025/26 on nl.wikipedia: Edit to page nl:Limburg United in het seizoen 2025/26 disallowed by the AbuseFilter.
This action has been automatically identified as harmful, and therefore disallowed. If you believe your action was constructive, please inform an administrator of what you were trying to do. A brief description of the abuse rule which your action matched is: KiranBOT bug
I could not find the edit filter on nlwiki. Has it been deleted/deactivated? —usernamekiran (talk) 04:16, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

Hello, and thanks for your bot, KiranBOT’s contributions. According to Chinese Wikipedia policy, global bots are required to obtain local approval unless they are solely performing tasks related to fixing interwiki links or double redirects (policy). Please submit a request for local approval at this page. Otherwise, your bot may be temporarily blocked. Thank you for your understanding! Stang 00:17, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

@Stang: Hello. Thanks for reaching out. I had gone through the policy page beforehand, I misunderstood the policy — I thought global bots were allowed. I will stop KiranBOT in a couple of hours from now. Thanks again, —usernamekiran (talk) 00:57, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

@Stang: done, and brfa filed. —usernamekiran (talk) 03:39, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

Hi Usernamekiran, I noticed that there's no article yet for TRMS (The Real Me Studios), even though it's listed on MusicBrainz and is the label behind artist SXMRXXT and releases like NOTHING IS OFFICIAL. Since you enjoy working on overlooked topics, I was wondering if you'd be willing to create a stub for it? It would really mean a lot. Thank you! 117.194.108.43 (talk) 02:12, 19 August 2025 (UTC)

Hello 117.194.108.43 I could not find any information on TRMS (The Real Me Studios). I will have to say it fails the notability criteria for organisations. In short, to be notable, an entity must have significant coverage in reliable sources. —usernamekiran (talk) 02:31, 19 August 2025 (UTC)

Hello! I kindly ask you to increase the delay time of the bot in the Russian Wikipedia after edits made by unregistered users and newly registered accounts. At the moment, your bot makes edits just a few seconds after any change. Sometimes such edits include vandalism or other violations, which makes them harder to detect or leads to incorrect reverts (1, 2, 3). I would like to request that the bot’s edits be made only a few days after such changes. Mitte27 (talk) 09:25, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

@Mitte27: Hello. I understand your point. The bot's edit are whitelisted, so the vandalism must get whitelisted as well. I'm currently out of town. I will get back home in 4-5 days. I will look at it as soon as I get home. —usernamekiran (talk) 13:59, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi Kiran, I just read User:KiranBOT/AMP which explains what is done and how is that done, but I missed a reasoning about why Wikipedia needs this done. Is removing AMP done to improve reader experience, to reduce the data flow to Google, to work around bugs or for some other reason ?

If Wikipedia already has a place where this is explained, I would be happy if you could link there from the bot's page, otherwise could you please add a section "Reasoning" or the like to this page ? Thank you, -- Juergen 5.147.163.199 (talk) 15:11, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello Juergen. Yes, you are correct, I somehow missed/forgot to add the reasoning section. I will do it soon. You are correct. It is not entirely to "reduce the data flow to Google". The AMP URLs are, in short, privacy invasive; and they also pose a security risk. The other reason is that AMP URLs often seem to become non-operational after a while. That creates difficulties with Wikipedia's verifiability policy in case the URL was not archived. So it is preferable to use the canonical URLs. Thanks for reminding, I will add the "reasoning" section soon. —usernamekiran (talk) 16:42, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Hey Kiran, for some reason the references at List of sports figures considered the greatest are not displaying anymore. Not sure if it was because of the recent KiranBot edit or not, but it just happened. Let me know your thoughts. GOAT Bones231012 (talk) 01:50, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

@GOAT Bones231012: there was an issue with template:reflist. It had been discussed in the past at WP:VPT, and is currently (indirectly/tangentially) being discussed at Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 88#List-defined references format. It is not a well-known/well-publicised issue. I will post this incident there just to be sure. thanks for pointing it out. —usernamekiran (talk) 02:42, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing and big fan of the KiranBot btw. GOAT Bones231012 (talk) 02:45, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

@GOAT Bones231012: no problem. and appreciation is always appreciated. thank you for the kind words. I posted the incident the aforementioned discussion as well. —usernamekiran (talk) 02:48, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi usernamekiran. I came across Template:Editnotices/Page/Template:Old moves/doc and noticed that it doesn't seem to be serving any purpose now (the sandbox link is broken, and even if fixed, it would redirect to the doc page). I was planning to send it to TfD but decided to ask for your thoughts on it first. jlwoodwa (talk) 20:11, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi Jlwoodwa. I have no issues with deletion, I will request for speedy after this edit. There were a few moves, and rewrites of the template, and doc. It was created as part of me trying to simplify the documentation, but then it was redirected and moved (page history) The current documentation is not confusing, and that particular edit notice has been rendered useless as well. Thanks for contacting me first, it saved a lot of community time at Tfd. It is appreciated a lot. —usernamekiran (talk) 10:04, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

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@Pppery: Hello. I have responded to most of the questions on their talk pages. Some of them were not responded to, as they already welcome-message/warning on the talk page, like User talk:Yubrajpandeya02. A few days ago, on the dashboard, I had changed the frequency to non-manual lowest — "about half the average". I will look for what happens for a week or two, if I cant respond to the questions properly till then, I will mark myself as away. —usernamekiran (talk) 14:34, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

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Hi i want to create a new page for Dinesh Thyagarajan. He is a hollywood actor who acted in superman. I tried publishing it multiple times but it is rejected. i have the below links where his details are published and they are published in super man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_(2025_film) and many other news publications. Example: www.comicbook.com slashfilm.com dcuniverse.fandom.com He has played the character of Malik Ali.

https://comicbook.com/movies/news/superman-movie-malik-ali-death-tribute-real-hero-mvp-dcu/?fbclid=IwZnRzaAOa7XBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeqLEQNjbtK2oAkI-CkDgJuYSzLJ1TpGSUEmY8wZJmgAnfAkw5esXYexvQwTM_aem_ZzenczUoOmhUD7_YsnjDPg

can you share what is the criteria for publishing this. Tulasivani (talk) 01:22, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

@Tulasivani: Hello. Kindly see notability criteria for actors. Your query was somewhat responded to at Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1271#To publish wiki page. I have also posted some links to your talkpage. —usernamekiran (talk) 02:01, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

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Hi! I noted that KiranBOT has been doing odd edits on fi:Mike Watt since October. It has been appending this URL with dots over 20 times now. Could you have a look at this bug? Thanks! Samoasambia ✎ 03:06, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

@Samoasambia: Hi. Thanks for pointing it out. I'm currently on mobile. I will fix it as soon as I get on the computer. —usernamekiran (talk) 05:05, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Hi! Just letting you know that I granted a bot flag for KiranBOT on fiwiki. Thanks for the useful bot! --Lentokonefani (talk) 11:51, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

@Samoasambia and Lentokonefani: I fixed the bug, and removed the stopper from the article page. Lets see how it works out. I will be watching that article from now on. Lentokonefani, thank you for your kind words, it is appreciated a lot. —usernamekiran (talk) 15:55, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

KiranBOT sent me a message saying a Teahouse discussion had been archived at Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive_1274.0#hCaptcha though in fact it was archived at Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive_1274#hCaptcha (no ".0") - I don't particularly care and you do not need to reply. ~2025-31381-67 (talk) 18:01, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you very much for letting me know, none of the logged-in editors either didnt notice, or didnt care to notify me. That makes your message even more appreciated. I fixed the previously posted message, as well as the problematic code. Thanks again, —usernamekiran (talk) 05:14, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

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Thank you Kudpung, and same to you! apologies for the delayed reply. How have you been? It was nice to see you becoming active last year after your wikibreak. —usernamekiran (talk) 17:22, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

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@Destinyokhiria: Hello, and same to you! I apologise, I somehow missed your message. Again, a belated happy new year. —usernamekiran (talk) 18:04, 7 January 2026 (UTC)

Hello! I noticed you're a bot operator, so I thought you might be interested in a hackathon we're organizing: the Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026, on 13–14 March in Arnhem, Netherlands.

It's a two-day, technically oriented hackathon bringing together Wikimedians from the region. Whether you want to work on bot frameworks, tools, or other technical projects, this could be a great opportunity to collaborate with fellow developers. Registration closes mid-January or when full. Let me know if there are any questions. Hope to see you there! Daanvr (talk) 09:25, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

@Daanvr: thank you, this us much appreciated. —usernamekiran (talk) 16:11, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

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Bot is now flagged, crat says request itself will remain open for a month — no problems expected given the past run :P — regards, Revi 02:31, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

@Revi C.: I was translating the comments on google translate when you posted the message here hehe. Thanks for your help, it is much appreciated. —usernamekiran (talk) 02:34, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

I just removed a bunch of KiranBOT notifications on SineBot's talk page for Teahouse archives. Might be worth skipping those notes since they're rather pointless! Primefac (talk) 19:33, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

@Primefac: thanks. I added deny parameter on the talkpage. it is a weird bug that I havent been able to pinpoint in code. The program looks for the "creator" in page history. I havent been able to understand why it identifies SineBot as creator. —usernamekiran (talk) 11:57, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

Honest to Goodness is an Australian certified organic and natural food company based in Sydney, New South Wales. The company supplies organic and natural products through wholesale and manufacturer distribution, e-commerce, a retail store, and a community buying program.[ Citation - https://www.wellbeing.com.au/at-home/the-honest-to-goodness-journey-of-passion-and-purpose.html]

History Honest to Goodness was founded in 2002 by Matt and Karen Ward as a market stall in Sydney.[ Citation - https://www.wellbeing.com.au/at-home/the-honest-to-goodness-journey-of-passion-and-purpose.html] The business initially sold organic and natural wholefoods before expanding into wholesale distribution.[ Citation -https://insidefmcg.com.au/2018/11/09/honest-to-goodness-named-favourite-organic-brand/]

In 2025, the company opened a warehouse and distribution centre in Villawood, Sydney.[ Citation - https://mhdsupplychain.com.au/2025/03/11/honest-to-goodness-expands-with-new-warehouse-in-sydney/]

Acquisitions

In 2021, Honest to Goodness acquired 2die4 Live Foods, a producer of activated nuts and snacks.[ Citation - https://insidefmcg.com.au/2025/01/07/honest-to-goodness-acquires-komarov-foods-pimp-my-snack-brands/] In 2023, the company acquired Absolute Organic and Eco Organics.[ Citation - https://retailworldmagazine.com.au/honest-to-goodness-acquires-eco-farms-grocery-brands/] In 2024, it acquired the Pimp My Salad and Pimp My Snack brands from Komarov Foods.[Citation - https://insidefmcg.com.au/2025/01/07/honest-to-goodness-acquires-komarov-foods-pimp-my-snack-brands/]

Products

The company stocks over 1,000 products including grains, flours, legumes, canned foods, spices, oils, nuts, dried fruits, nut butters, and household cleaning products.[Citation - https://goodness.com.au/shop/australian-range/]

Awards and recognition

Honest to Goodness has received awards from the Australian Organic Industry Awards and Clean + Conscious Awards.[ Citation - https://econews.com.au/honest-to-goodness-celebrates-triple-win-at-the-2025-clean-conscious-awards/] In 2024, Karen Ward received the Organic Woman of the Year award from the Australian Organic Industry Awards.[ Citation -https://www.gulfood.com/gulfood-2026-press-releases/double-victory-for-honest-to-goodness-at-organic-industry-awards]

Sustainability

The company was a certified B Corporation and was recognised as a "Best for the World B Corp Honoree" in 2017, 2018, and 2019.[Citation -https://goodness.com.au/awards/] CashewFan2026 (talk) 02:18, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

Hi Mentor of Wikiruls you havent been online in a long time and i have a Question for you that has been keeping me from doing my job on the Wiki of Editing so if you could look at my question that i sent you that would be grate. The Wikiruls Wikiruls (talk) 12:30, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

and its REALLY MAKING ME TOO SCARED TO EDIT Thx for Understanding User:Usernamekiran Wikiruls (talk) 12:32, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

@Wikiruls: Hello. I was out of town for few days. user Bait30 has posted some useful links on your talkpage. Regarding plagiarism, dont do it. You can start with simple editing through WP:Task center. In case you have further questions, feel free to ask me here, or at WP:Teahouse. —usernamekiran (talk) 20:41, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi Usernamekiran. I want to ask if you know if there's any way to workaround adding usernames["(family)"]["(lang)"] = "YourBotHere" for every wiki that the bot should edit, similar to the wildcard example on mw:Manual:Pywikibot/user-config.py for authenticate[]. — Tenshi! (Talk page) 21:14, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi Tenshi. I'm not sure what exactly you are trying to ask. Are you using a script/bot provided by pywikibot, like replacebot? In replacebot, the script wouldn't edit any project unless you tell it which project to edit. For non-pywikibot/"pre-provided scripts", you have to define the site where your bot should edit. So even if you use the wildcard, not every site would be edited unless you specifically define the sites to be edited. In main (custom) script it can be done by:

site1 = pywikibot.Site("en", "wikipedia")
site2 = pywikibot.Site("de", "wikipedia")

My config file has following:

usernames['wikipedia']['*'] = 'KiranBOT' # wildcard for all wikis
#usernames['wikipedia']['mr'] = 'KiranBOT_II'  # override for mrwiki

I control which sites to edit/exclude from another file. In the same file, I have also mentioned some wikis that are not available in pywikibot. Also, even if you add/define the site to edit, it will not be edited unless a local account exists there. I hope this answers your question, if not feel free to ask again. —usernamekiran (talk) 07:36, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

I'm aware of the requirement to specify the site whenever you need an instance of pywikibot.Site as well as needing a local account to exist first, I'm not sure how I can be clearer than I was above, though I was looking for usernames['wikipedia']['*'], as I previously tried usernames['*']['*'] which didn't work. Tenshi! (Talk page) 08:51, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Tenshi Hi. I didn't mean to say you don't know, I apologise for the confusion. Conversing over text is often confusing. I'm well aware you are a good bot-op . In user-config each site family needs to be explicitly mentioned, but usernames can be wildcarded. Passwords can be similarly wildcarded:

('wikipedia', 'KiranBOT', BotPassword('labs', '<password>'))
('wikidata', 'KiranBOT', BotPassword('labs', '<password>'))
('wikinews', 'KiranBOT', BotPassword('labs', '<password>'))
('wikivoyage', 'KiranBOT', BotPassword('labs', '<password>'))
('mr', 'wikipedia', 'KiranBOT_II', BotPassword('labs', '<password>')),

The entries that come later overrides the previous entries. Please feel free to ask any questions you have. —usernamekiran (talk) 17:14, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Dear Kiran, I noticed your bot has an issue where it uses a template to generate a message, which in turn uses the talk quote inline template. However, since this was quoting text that included the = character, this broke the template. The bot or the template it uses should be adjusted such that the first parameter of the tq template is always filled starting with 1= so that this will not happen anymore.

See my edit fixing it on my own talk page, and the template’s page for more context. Thank you in advance. Happy editing. Slomo666 (talk) 11:19, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

@Slomo666: Hi. Sorry for the delayed response. I will soon implement the code in actual bot. Thank you for pointing it out. —usernamekiran (talk) 01:55, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

No rush. Thanks for responding. Slomo666 (talk) 02:31, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

Please use this edit summary for your recent bot edits on Urdu Wikipedia:
"یوآرایل سے اے ایم پی (AMP) ٹریکنگ کو حذف کر دیا گیا ہے: (مزید تفصیلات) (غلطی سے آگاہ کریں) نسخہ 2.2.9s"
عرشی (talk) 03:51, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

@عرشی: Thank you. I have updated the code, it should reflect in 1-2 days. —usernamekiran (talk) 01:53, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

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Filmssssssssssss (talk) 18:53, 25 March 2026 (UTC)

@Filmssssssssssss: Hi. The article was created in userspace of RAJRAUT15. That userpage has some move history which involved me. Maybe that's why Twinkle thought I was the page creator. SDZeroBot notified the correct creator RAJRAUT15 properly. See you around :-) —usernamekiran (talk) 03:24, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

Hey Usernamekiran!

You might remember me from this discussion on WT:ITN. I know I already made a request over there, but I wanted to seek advice from you relating to another project of mine.

WP:ERRORS has never had an archive page, and there are a lot of folk who think that should change. I've started the process of archiving discussions manually, but given that ERRORS has just under 150K revisions over a period of two decades, archiving by hand will obviously be intensely time-consuming. When I attempted to solicit aid on WP:VP, Graham87 (talk · contribs) recommended that KiranBOT (talk · contribs) could aid in the process, again like the ITN posting archives. The issue is however that ERRORS posting is a lot more hectic (there aren't any subpages for any of the MP sections, and things are often not cleared out at once).

So as such, I just want to know if it would be feasible to use KirianBOT to help with this process? Any advice relating to this archiving process would be much appreciated. PS, I also saw your reply on WT:ITN and am planning on gathering consensus in favor of the move. Thanks! — Knightoftheswords 17:46, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

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Hello Kiran (I assume that’s your real name?) – I’m an actor with many years of professional experience, including internationally, and I’ve also appeared in a number of well-known films. I’d like to create a Wikipedia article about my work, or have one created – because I, too, often find out about colleagues via Wikipedia. Can you tell me how I might go about doing that? And there’s currently a film production I’ve been involved in, the shooting for which wraps up in early May – and I’d like to add an entry about myself to it. (This is the production “Santo Subito!” starring Mark Ruffalo.) I would be delighted to hear from you. Thank you – and kind regards, Carsten Voigt --20CV26 (talk) 14:18, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

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Hello. I’m an executive for Casey’s. Probably don’t have a lot of edits outside of what I have absolute knowledge of, but able to provide updates within my industry.

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