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Sorry, but...
[edit]...you may want to watch your deletions criteria.
One time i made an images missing template,because i didnt know if there was one or not,and it was removed Hello! this is my signature! 09:31, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
- @Eprodashinthewiki That template maybe shouldn't have been deleted as a test page, but we don't mark missing images in articles. You may want to use Template:Image requested instead. If you're experimenting with templates, do that in your user space instead of the template namespace. Rusalkii (talk) 16:54, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
I missed two redirects
[edit]Hi! Sorry to bug you, but in my nomination at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 July 2#Interstate 99 in Maryland, I completely missed also nominating two other redirects at Interstate 99 (North Carolina–Delaware) and Interstate 99 (North Carolina-Delaware). Given that they're virtually identical in function to the other ones that were just deleted, I was hoping that maybe they could also be deleted without further issue? It just feels like a pain to have to create yet another separate nomination, especially since the last one received no opposition. OrdinaryScarlett (talk) 23:31, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
- Yeah, those are close enough I'm happy to consider them bundled into that nom unless anyone pops up to object. Done and thanks for the catch. Rusalkii (talk) 23:36, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
Hey there! Just wondering, if an article sounds like it's reviewing something, i.e a sailing boat being described as having a "stunning rigging that helped enhance performance", should I completely dumb it down or keep some of that tone? Thanks! --Hierobp (talk) 01:49, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- @Hierobp That's definitely a violation of the neutral point of view policy. That entire sentence should probably removed, unless there are independent reliable sources that specifically say that it has a good rigging, in which case it should be rewritten to a more neutral tone and probably attributed (e.g. "According to so and so, the rigging is [good in these specific ways, without any words like "spectacular" or vagueness like "enhances"]") Rusalkii (talk) 02:10, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
Request to reopen the 2026 Asian Games article
[edit]Hello! I would like to ask if I can reopen the article for Malaysia at the 2026 Asian Games? If not, could I get the reason for this? Khaayreel (talk) 13:00, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- This was deleted because of this discussion. If there's enough content to start an article on this, like Philippines at the 2026 Asian Games, you can make that article. Currently the main 2026 Asian Games article doesn't have more content on Malaysia than it did at the time of deletion (just a mention in a list), so the original deletion reason still applies and the redirect shouldn't be recreated unless more content can be added. Rusalkii (talk) 18:34, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
Mistaken usertalk move
[edit]Hi Rusalkii, it looks like you mistankenly moved User talk:Adel M Amin into draftspace as a duplicate draft, and now a talk message has been merged with some draft content. Is there a way to undo this? Sarsenet•he/they•(talk) 03:03, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
- ...oops! Thanks for flagging this. Um, I removed the redirect at the talk page, for a first pass fix. I'm going to be honest, I have no idea how to untangle the mess I made of the history. Rusalkii (talk) 02:59, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
Regarding two of your recent TRYUNPROT trials
[edit]I think it would probably be a good idea to set pending chances on Elton John and McDonald's. Those two have a pretty high daily view count. Giovanni Potage (talk) 00:24, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
- Some context on my recent lifting of very old protections. We don't protect just because of high page views: we want to see empirical evidence of high vandalism, and empirical evidence of high vandalism nearly 20 years ago doesn't mean that much today. While for some articles like Fuck there's no need to even attempt the experiment, a lot of very high page view or potentially very controversial articles aren't protected, because we want to balance the chance of vandalism with the chance of constructive edits from new users. I'm watching everything I've unprotected for the next month, so if regular vandalism resumes I'll reprotect. (McDonald's is an interesting case, actually, there's been several attempted vandal edits but all of them so far have been caught by the edit filter. Doesn't bode well for the stability of the article but I'll wait it out and see.)
- I'm ambivalent between re-protecting as semi or with pending changes in these cases, so in the case of Burger King I just restored to the status quo. If you think it should be swapped to pending feel free to put in a request at WP:RFPP if you want a second pair of eyes on this. Rusalkii (talk) 00:34, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks for responding! So that explains why no reverts appear in the recent history of McDonald's. I agree that Wikipedia admins have an unfortunate tendency to over protect pages, even though I wouldn't have TRYUNPROT'd those two pages if I were in your shoes. What particular filter was triggered if you're OK with sharing that? Giovanni Potage (talk) 00:42, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
- Yes, that was perhaps overly optimistic, but we'll see. If the experiment for this batch goes poorly I won't unprotect these kinds of high-visibility pages in the future.
- 3, 30, and 644; if you can see them on the filter page then I assume it's not private information. Rusalkii (talk) 01:13, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
- Just a heads up, one of the people caught by the filter is Diddy is in your walls. It's clear from their username what their intentions here are, and it's definitely not to constructively contribute to Wikipedia. I'm also pretty sure their username is a violation of one of our guidelines. Giovanni Potage (talk) 07:09, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
- Our friend of the dubious username has been blocked for hitting edit filters, and McDonald's unfortunately reprotected due to resumed vandalism. Mixed feelings about this given that one of the edits since protection was actually a very helpful edit by a user that now can't edit the article again (exactly the harm of indef protection on articles that don't necessarily need it), but several independent vandals in two days probably trump one helpful editor.
- Elton John seems to be doing okay still.
- You may also be interested in User:Rusalkii/Candidates for unprotection, I threw together a bot to collect some likely indef-protected articles instead of stabbing blindly at the main protection list. Rusalkii (talk) 20:16, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
- Just a heads up, one of the people caught by the filter is Diddy is in your walls. It's clear from their username what their intentions here are, and it's definitely not to constructively contribute to Wikipedia. I'm also pretty sure their username is a violation of one of our guidelines. Giovanni Potage (talk) 07:09, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks for responding! So that explains why no reverts appear in the recent history of McDonald's. I agree that Wikipedia admins have an unfortunate tendency to over protect pages, even though I wouldn't have TRYUNPROT'd those two pages if I were in your shoes. What particular filter was triggered if you're OK with sharing that? Giovanni Potage (talk) 00:42, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
massXFD.js categorization
[edit]Page User:Rusalkii/massXFD.js is categorized into Category:Non-talk pages with an edit request template. Please consider wrapping the whole userscript into tags <nowiki>...</nowiki> (like User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft.js), <pre>...</pre> (like User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/massXFD.js), or both (User:Lupin/recent2.js). —andrybak (talk) 15:40, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
- Ah, I copied it out without the opening comment and lost a pre tag. Will do once I'm on my computer, sorry about that. Rusalkii (talk) 16:15, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
NCRET Delete
[edit]I haven't seen a NCRET Delete before the close done at WP:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 July 14 § Sea beard. How is deletion justified under NCRET, as it is supposed to be an ATD? Jay 01:55, 27 July 2026 (UTC)
- I suppose I was using NCRET as a general synonym for a bartender close, which I have seen used for delete at least occasionally (e.g. Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2026_January_6#Mothra_Leo). Probably should have been more precise there. My judge of the consensus was that it was listing rather anemically towards deletion, and it didn't feel right to close as retarget given one weak retarget with no supporting argument (though I assume it carried the implicit argument of "these are obviously similar terms just stylized differently"). I also didn't want to relist given two previous relists and no comments after the most recent one.
- That being said, I went spelunking through old RfD logs and I agree that NCRET/BARTENDER closes as delete are very rare and if I was going to do one I should've justified it more at minimum; I'll be more careful with these in the future. Happy to reopen this and leave to another closer if you'd prefer. Rusalkii (talk) 20:12, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
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