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CFA is busy in real life and may not respond swiftly to queries. This user is a regular and doesn't mind if you template him. This user is aware of the designation of the following topics as contentious topics: post-1992 politics of the United States and closely related people pseudoscience and fringe science India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan gender-related disputes or controversies or people associated with them governmental regulation of firearm ownership; the social, historical and political context of such regulation; and the people and organizations associated with these issues COVID-19, broadly construed climate change complementary and alternative medicine articles about living or recently deceased people, and edits relating to the subject (living or recently deceased) of such biographical articles abortion the Arab–Israeli conflict He should not be given alerts for those areas.

Welcome, welcome, welcome CFA! I'm glad that you are joining the November 2024 drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

Cielquiparle (talk) 11:59, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we discuss how the team is working hard to rewrite Wikifunctions' backend, to overcome some of the limits we encountered with the current language.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Also, we remind you that if you have questions or ideas to discuss, the next Volunteers' Corner will be held on November 4, at 18:30 UTC (link to the meeting).

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 13:19, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The source of the copyvio is no longer online, nor could I find it at the Internet Archive or through the source site's archive of past issues. You wouldn't happen to have a local copy that you downloaded would you? -- Whpq (talk) 14:55, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Someone else already deleted the article, though you can see a cached version of the source on Turnitin here (if you log in through CopyPatrol) if you're curious. C F A 💬 21:10, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

All good thanks Whpq (talk) 23:22, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I am wondering many things about how to edit. 1. How do I insert links to other articles? 2. How do I create a new article? 3. How can I translate an article into a language that I do not speak?

Thank you for your help! --BobOfCoolness (talk) 19:54, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi BobOfCoolness, and welcome to Wikipedia! I'll answer your questions below:

1. I see you're using the Visual Editor. To add links to the other articles, follow the steps at Help:VisualEditor#Editing links — there should be a "link" icon in the toolbar.
2. To create a new article, you can use the Article Wizard. I see you've already submitted Draft:RobertIDK for review, but it was declined for lacking citations. I suggest reading Referencing for Beginners to learn how to cite sources Wikipedia-style.
3. You probably shouldn't. Machine translations are rarely a good idea, particularly if you have no way to review the output.

Let me know if you have any other questions. Happy editing, C F A 💬 23:12, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).

Administrator changes

• Crisco 1492

• Babajobu
• Daniel
• Elf
• Jayron32
• Thue
• Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

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Oversighter changes

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Guideline and policy news

• Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
• Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.

Technical news

• Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068

Arbitration

• RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
• The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.

Miscellaneous

• An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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Is there a tool like Citation Hunt, but for original research? --Autspectorder (talk) 12:52, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think so, but you can use this link to find a random article that is tagged as containing original research. C F A 💬 15:05, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As you told me in a previous message, you saw my article got rejected first. Now, it got rejected again for a lack of reliable sources. I spent a long time searching for these sources and I worked hard on writing this. Is there a way you can help or tell me what I need to add and what counts as a ‘reliable source’? --BobOfCoolness (talk) 15:27, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi BobOfCoolness, Draft:RobertIDK still has no references. Have you read Referencing for Beginners? It's important to make sure that all information can be verified using reliable, published sources. You should also take a look at Wikipedia's notability guidelines for people — the criteria which determines whether the subject qualifies for an encyclopedia article. C F A 💬 17:42, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

Thank you so much for taking the time to review my article. I am hoping that you can offer further insight so that I might get it published down the road. The note said that the notable works and grants were completed unsourced but I did place reference sources for all of them. Is there a different way to source them? Please do let me know. In addition to this, it said that he may not be notable enough to warrant a wikipedia page, how might you recommend strengthening his notability? Thank you kindly for your help here! {{Ping|CFA}} Bliss.Rios (talk) 17:09, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Bliss.Rios, I reviewed your draft when it looked like this. I see you've since added more references and have submitted it for review — another reviewer will hopefully check it out soon. In the meantime, can you tell me which part of Wikipedia:Notability (people) is satisfied? Happy editing, C F A 💬 17:48, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, CFA. The article for improvement of the week is: Slow living Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Space Age • Image Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 4 November 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

Hey I have been trying to figure out the sandbox feature all night. I think I published my sandbox but can't get to a sandbox tab/don't even know how the page functions.

Would you be able to instruct me how to access/edit my sandbox page? --BKetching1 (talk) 06:50, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi BKetching1, and welcome to Wikipedia! Your sandbox is accessible at this link: User:BKetching1/sandbox. You can edit it by clicking the "Edit" button in the top right. You might also be interested in trying out The Wikipedia Adventure – a game that shows you around Wikipedia. Let me know if you have any other questions. Happy editing, C F A 💬 14:14, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, I've created multiple Wikipedia articles and was wondering how to go about creating proper talk pages for them. Could you offer any assistance? --Skyscraper Aficionado (talk) 21:08, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Skyscraper Aficionado, most reviewers add relevant WikiProject banners (e.g. {{WikiProject Architecture}}) to the top of the talk page. For example, I added {{WikiProject North Carolina}} and {{WikiProject Skyscrapers}} to Talk:FNB Tower Charlotte. I also rated it as start-class. You might be interested in installing the Rater tool which automates a lot of this. Let me know if you have any other questions. Happy editing! C F A 💬 00:43, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I didn't mean to redirect to draft but there is a duplicate article that was also moved to draft. Articles older than 90 days cant be moved to draft but this article wasn't. See Draft:Murivu (Film) and Draft:Murivu. See Wikipedia:DRAFTIFY.

DareshMohan (talk) 16:13, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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