User talk:Cactusisme/Archive 5

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-30

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en:Rathaus-Glockenspiel

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The Rathaus-Glockenspiel is a large mechanical clock located in Marienplatz Square, in the heart of Munich, Germany. Famous for its life-size characters, the clock twice daily re-enacts scenes from Munich's history. First is the story of the marriage of Duke Wilhelm V to Renata of Lorraine in 1568, followed by the story of the Schäfflerstanz, also known as the coopers' dance.

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Tech News: 2024-30

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

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Stewards can now globally block accounts. Before the change only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out. Global locks (a similar tool logging the user out of their account) are unaffected by this change. The new global account block feature is related to the Temporary Accounts project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public.
Later this week, Wikimedia site users will notice that the Interface of FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface and Wikimedia's design system. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile and Minerva skin was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported to Codex by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers. [1]
Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via GlobalVanishRequest. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed. [2]
Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Wikipedia using your phone? A Diff blog post on Patrolling features in the Mobile App highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone.
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User talk:Skarmory

While not technically violating any policy, it's best practice not to reset or remove comments from someone else's talk page unless you are removing personal attacks or vandalism. Just letting you know. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 07:54, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh okay Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 07:55, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

RfD nomination of Category:Male actors from Paris

An editor has requested deletion of Category:Male actors from Paris, a page you created. We appreciate your changes, but the nominator doesn't believe that the page meets Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not").

Please comment on the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2024/Category:Male actors from Paris and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

You may also change the page during the discussion to address the nominator's concerns. But you should not remove the requests for deletion template from the top of the page; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you very much. MathXplore (talk) 02:42, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:Ibn Juferi

Hi. Just so you know, with unblock requests like ones here, non-administrator comments are generally discouraged. As it is a checkuser block, even admins can't review it as it involves evidence we can't see. It's up to a checkuser to review the situation to see whether any mistakes have been made and see whether the checkuser block was appropriate. Thanks, --Ferien (talk) 20:16, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ferien oh alright Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 22:22, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Revert

Hi Cactus, Just wondering why you reverted this edit ?, They had only wikilinked the film or am I missing something ?, Many thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 23:14, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Davey2010 I think it was an accident Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 00:40, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ah okay no worries, Happy editing, Thanks. –Davey2010^Talk 00:43, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you do this?

Special:Diff/9668838 VirusDontKill (talk) 02:02, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@VirusDontKill The user removed the QD template Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 02:04, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I understand. I just think they should be able to add to the article so it does not get QD'd. VirusDontKill (talk) 02:04, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ok Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 02:06, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your revert of non-English text at Simple talk

I don't think there's a requirement for discussions to be in English, so that's not a reason to revert something like that. In this case, though, a translation of the text showed that it wasn't anything related to the wiki, so it did need to be reverted anyway, so no harm done. Just please don't automatically revert things on discussion pages just because they're not in English. Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 05:02, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Auntof6 I was also meaning to right that it had no relevance but forgot. Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 06:26, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New articles

Hi, Cactus. When you create a new article, please note the following:

Categorize the article. I haven't looked at all the articles you've created, but I saw a couple that have no content categories, only maintenance categories.
If the article has references, include a {{reflist}} template in a references section instead of letting Wikipedia decide where to put the references (even if it displays them where you would want).

Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 06:15, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Auntof6 oh alright Cactus🌵 ^spiky ^ouch 06:25, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]