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MOS:ORDER for maintenance tagsHey there! I just wanted to reach out as I noticed you've added a few maintenance templates to articles recently. Per MOS:ORDER, I wanted to point out that these generally should be placed above infoboxes. You're doing great work—simply some brief feedback for the future. Happy editing, and let me know if you have any questions! Bsoyka (t • c • g) 01:16, 10 January 2024 (UTC) Drive-by taggingI can see you are a new editor, and your contribution seems to be drive-by tagging. Please take a moment to fix some of the problems you are identifying, rather than leaving them for other editors to fix. Thanks for your understanding. Magnolia677 (talk) 16:38, 13 January 2024 (UTC) Not sure why Biden and the Academy Awards was deleted.Biden addressed the very serious issues from the documentary "The Hunting Ground" (2015), which discussed assault on college campuses. I don't understand why it was deleted. Starlighsky (talk) 03:15, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
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Five Nights at Freddy's - I'm here to help!Hi Toby, I hope this is the right place to reach out. My name is Kane Carter and I'm directly involved in the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise. I've personally released two official games for it in the past few years under the Fazbear Fanverse Initiative. I've seen that the Wikipedia article for the Five Nights at Freddy's series has had some internal discussion about whether the Fanverse should be recognised on the page. I would love to give some insight on the Initiative, as well as possibly provide useful information for the rest of the series page based on my time as a fan and a developer for the series. If you or anyone else working on the Wiki is interested, please DM me on Twitter, "kanethecarter", or "POPGOESdev". I'm happy to answer questions and clarify things regarding the Fanverse, or my own series in it. I am not going to personally edit things on the page, to avoid a conflict of interest issue, but I will say it's sad to see the Fanverse being so broadly dismissed as a simple footnote. I was hoping that it being a huge part of the anniversary event this year would give it some well deserved credit, but it appears to still be seen as a mere group of "fangames" which is not correct. Thanks for reading, hope to hear back from you soon. KaneCarter (talk) 19:39, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
Maintenance templates on Bishop Herman CollegeAfter doing some editing to address the problem, I removed the templates you placed on Bishop Herman College ( Your PERM requestI just noticed on my watchlist that you used convenient discussions to add the perm request, and I don't think it works properly because of how the templates work - might be worth removing and readding your request with the button they have there because I don't think I see an easy way to fix it. Zippybonzo | talk | contribs (they/them) 17:24, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
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You're quietly helping me ...?TheWikiToby, you seem to have done the needful to do archiving of various Talk conversations I've had. Thanks, though it would have been appreciated all the more if you'd called my attention to that, though I know I've been behind the curve in following through on your comment about the need for that. Congratulations on your Defender of the Wiki barnstar, which I see just above my message here. Augnablik (talk) 07:46, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
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Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by TheWikiToby (talk) 18:53, 13 December 2024 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template. I have replied back to the question I created lol Kind regards, Reader of Information (talk) 00:15, 14 December 2024 (UTC) Hello, TheWikiToby, I don't know why you tagged this page for speedy deletion, CSD U1 is only for tagging your own User pages for deletion, not other editors'. You shouldn't have even been editing this page, please do not tag other editors' User pages for deletion unless CSD U5 applies or you want to tag them for an MFD discussion. But neither of those factors applied here. In general, it's best to edit within your own User space and leave other editors' alone. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 19:14, 14 December 2024 (UTC)
Deletion saying I didn't provide a reliable source.Hey, so you deleted a post in PayPal Honey for not having the correct or reliable sources. Whilst that is fair enough, you are mistaken for I am not the one who added the reference, I merely just edited part of the description, not adding the reference and simply just added a few words. I am not saying to add it back, I'm just saying you accused me of adding the thing without a proper reference, which was the previous user. FreckleTheCat (talk) 21:20, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
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