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New Page Patrol December Newsletter Hello Wikaviani,
It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.
 
John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.
As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition. Six Month Queue Data: Today – 2262 Low – 2232 High – 10271 To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here 18:17, 10 December 2020 (UTC) Doogh Ayran DebacleHi Wikaviani, you seem like a very respectful and responsible editor with a lot of experince here. I see you're debating in good faith and appreciate it. I was wondering if you and I could co-operate on making the case for (and then properly splitting into) two separate articles, regardless of the outcome of the existing move request. We'd have a better argument for two different products if we can build on the the Farsi-language videos that are in the links: just based on watching these, it is obvious to me that the the traditional doogh being prepared in the videos is a product that is much closer to buttermilk than it is to yoghurt-water. That is to say, a good argument might be that
Can I expect that you'd be able to help me with this since you are able to speak the Farsi language? Wikabulary (talk) 00:09, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
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Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian EmpireHello! I'm currently working on the article of Nabopolassar and I found this source, which goes into quite a lot of detail on Assyria's final war. I'll be using it in Nabopolassar's article and to beef up Sinsharishkun and possibly Revolt of Babylon (626 BC) (which maybe should be merged into Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire since it's a different stage of the same conflict?), but I thought I'd let you know since you might want to expand Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire a bit with the source. I could do it myself as well, but considering you've done most of the work there and recently got it to GA I thought you might be interested in doing it yourself (also a good way to avoid the wording in all the articles from becoming essentially the same). Ichthyovenator (talk) 09:49, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
Regarding a sockpuppetry investigationHi Wikaviani, I recently handled a sockpuppet investigations case against you (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Wikaviani/Archive). I do not believe that the IP editor or editors from that case are you, but after re-reading the case I believe that the evidence suggests that you might be coordinating with that person, so I would like to remind you of our policies on meatpuppetry and canvassing. If I'm wrong and you are not coordinating with this other person, then I apologize for the incorrect accusation. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:34, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
HiI wonder what you think of the changes on the page Turks in Algeria and can you look at the talk page there, whats your opinion?Loveisthebest1 (talk) 19:36, 29 March 2021 (UTC) How my explanation about the current environment of my mother town city (Zanjan), can be counted as an advertising item !!!???Hi Ms. Sahar Khodayari (Wikaviani), Your reply made me confused. You mentioned that "your edit to the page Talk:Iranian Azerbaijanis, seem to be advertising" but I can't understand how my explanation about the current environment of my mother-town city, can be counted as an advertising item !!!??? And unfortunately it looks my comment was removed from the list, probably because of that wrong misleading (advertising issue !!!) but as you definitely know, that wasn't advertising item at all. Regards, Behnam Behnam.Zanjan (talk) 07:07, 13 April 2021 (UTC) User talk:Behnam.Zanjan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Welcome! Hello, Behnam.Zanjan, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Talk:Iranian Azerbaijanis, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see: Policy on neutral point of view Guideline on spam Guideline on external links Guideline on conflict of interest FAQ for Organizations If you still have questions, there is a new contributors' help page, or you can click here to ask a question on your talk page. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia: The five pillars of Wikipedia How to edit a page and how to develop articles Help pages Tutorials Article wizard for creating new articles Simplified Manual of Style Task Center – need some ideas of what kind of things need doing? Go here. I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (Behnam.Zanjan (talk) 07:07, 13 April 2021 (UTC)); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! ---Wikaviani (talk) (contribs) 07:44, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
Nomination of 2021 Avignon shooting for deletion The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2021 Avignon shooting until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Sakiv (talk) 00:20, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi, what was wrong with my edit at Mehmed the Conqueror. I added source and respected Wikipedia rules. Please guide me to correct any errors if any. --82.76.0.201 (talk)
Third opinion at Talk:Genetic studies on Turkish peopleHi Wikaviani! If you would like to participate in the third opinion process, which is optional and non-binding, please provide a short comment at [Talk:Genetic studies on Turkish people#Third opinion|this section of the talk page]] at your earliest convenience. Thanks! Firefangledfeathers (talk) 06:27, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
Discussion at Talk:Khwarazmian dynasty § Splitting proposal
Removing others' posts from talk pagesA list of valid reasons to edit or remove others' posts from talk pages is given at WP:TALKO. This is not on the list. Please don't do this again. As for the level-2 warning: I can see why you don't agree with it, but please do consider that my welcome post contained a first warning, and that the editor proceeded with another disruptive edit. I also believe they were probably acting in good faith (it's hard to interpret why they don't respond at their talk page, but maybe they just don't know that they even can do this), and if they would have followed up with more of the same, I would have tried to engage them on their talk page before going to a level-3 warning. Nevertheless, the escalating warning system exists for a reason, and I try my best to be patient with newcomers in any case. Apaugasma (talk|contribs) 22:47, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
Copyright problem on Rose waterContent you added to the above article appears to have been copied from https://iranicaonline.org/articles/golab, which is not released under a compatible license. Copying text directly from a source is a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy. Unfortunately, for copyright reasons, the content had to be removed. Content you add to Wikipedia should be written in your own words. Please let me know if you have any questions. — Diannaa (talk) 19:07, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
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persian gulfhi. can you fix it? i explained https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Persian_Gulf#Semi-protected_edit_request_on_27_November_2021 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.158.110.122 (talk) 08:12, 27 November 2021 (UTC) Persian GulfArabic name doesn't match English name and is not suitable as translation. Additionally it carries anti-Iran sentiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Iranian_sentiment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.185.57.87 (talk) 20:23, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
Regarding death of Muhammad GhoriDear editor You have reverted my edit on Mohammad Ghori page wrt how he died. In all modern sources and including today's writers sources it calls Khokhars, Ismailis, Gakhars etc. Except one odd writer, it nowhere mentions Jats. To me it looks like Sita Ram Goel's book comes under WP:FRINGE, modern writers are clear that it were probably Ismailis, Khokhars and Gakhars etc depending upon writers who were responsible for his death. Sita Ram Goel has erred here, in the book it is not written what sources he has referred to come to the conclusion. I think it should come under WP:FRINGE and should be removed to avoid confusion in the minds of readers. RS6784talk RS6784 (talk) 06:25, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
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Requesting some article expansion helpGreetings @ Wikaviani
Sources from other languages indicate that, the usage of the word seem to have been transferred in some Asian languages through Persian language, during spread of early Islamic times, but usage in Iran reduced in later times. I am looking for and requesting support in expanding the article Draft:Aurats (word) with Persian language / Iranian sources, if the topic would interest you. Thanks and warm regards Bookku, 'Encyclopedias = expanding information & knowledge' (talk) 03:18, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
Thanks @ Wikaviani I will keep you posted as any specific need arises further. Happy times and warm regards Bookku, 'Encyclopedias = expanding information & knowledge' (talk) 15:10, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
RaziIt seems, sooner or later, this editor wants to remove Persian ethnicity from Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi page lede.[7] They have already removed three sources mentioning he was Persian. One those sources is a reliable quality source. Their last edit summary makes it clear that they don't like the quote from source. But from how I see It, the fact that source mentions the ethnicity of other physicians is irrelevant to its inclusion. Other sources mention that he was native of Ray, Iran or hailed from the Persian city of Ray, Iran which are not in contradiction with him being a Persian and actually further supports his ethnicity. They also used "greatness of ethnic group" in their edit summary, thus I'm sure they are going to stand against this source as much as they can. You are an experienced editor, what do you think?Premitive (talk) 12:21, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
Would you review my edit. The source that I used was already cited in the article. It is a translation of a work by Razi from Arabic to German. Introduction in the source is written by Julius Ruska who is an orientalist and historian and has other works on Razi as well. In the introduction Julius Ruskaby reasons based on available information from primary sources (time/location/others) for descent of Razi's family. The source can be found in this link and the reasoning is in page 4.Premitive (talk) 16:18, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
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Turkmenistanhello, I added the second map of Turkmenistan because it was more detailed, the other one looked a little older. Do not worry if there is a problem. Teknoment (talk) 21:45, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022 Hello Wikaviani, At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue. Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant. In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 822 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 847 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP. This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear. If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. Please help with arabian liesplease sir remove “sometimes called…” from [[Persian Gulf article beginning . Please I do another vote maybe we can help PersianGulfWorld (talk) 05:27, 22 June 2022 (UTC) must deleted and respect original eternal name PersianGulfWorld (talk) 05:29, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022 Hello Wikaviani,
At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000[a] at the end of May. Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.[b] In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month). While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).
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(t · c) buidhe 20:26, 1 July 2022 (UTC) New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022 Hello Wikaviani,
After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators Buidhe and Zippybonzo, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to Dr vulpes who led with 880 points. See this page for further details. Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.
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For those who may have missed it in our last newsletter, here's a quick reminder to see the letter we have drafted, and if you support it, do please go ahead and sign it. If you already signed, thanks. Also, if you haven't noticed, the backlog has been trending up lately; all reviews are greatly appreciated. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:11, 20 August 2022 (UTC) Notice This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date. You have shown interest in post-1978 Iranian politics. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic. To opt out of receiving messages like this one, place This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date. You have shown interest in the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic. To opt out of receiving messages like this one, place -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she|they|xe) 16:00, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
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New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022Hello Wikaviani, Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section. Awards: Barnstars were given for the past several years (thanks to MPGuy2824), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to John B123 for leading with 26,525 article reviews during 2021. To encourage moderate activity, a new "Iron" level barnstar is awarded annually for reviewing 360 articles ("one-a-day"), and 100 reviews earns the "Standard" NPP barnstar. About 90 reviewers received barnstars for each of the years 2018 to 2021 (including the new awards that were given retroactively). All awards issued for every year are listed on the Awards page. Check out the new Hall of Fame also. Software news: Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have connected with WMF developers who can review and approve patches, so they have been able to fix some bugs, and make other improvements to the Page Curation software. You can see everything that has been fixed recently here. The reviewer report has also been improved.  Suggestions:
Backlog:  Saving the best for last: From a July low of 8,500, the backlog climbed back to 11,000 in August and then reversed in September dropping to below 6,000 and continued falling with the October backlog drive to under 1,000, a level not seen in over four years. Keep in mind that there are 2,000 new articles every week, so the number of reviews is far higher than the backlog reduction. To keep the backlog under a thousand, we have to keep reviewing at about half the recent rate!
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New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023Hello Wikaviani, 
The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.
Onel5969 won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. Rosguill led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone! Minimum deletion time: The previous WP:NPP guideline was to wait 15 minutes before tagging for deletion (including draftification and WP:BLAR). Due to complaints, a consensus decided to raise the time to 1 hour. To illustrate this, very new pages in the feed are now highlighted in red. (As always, this is not applicable to attack pages, copyvios, vandalism, etc.) New draftify script: In response to feedback from AFC, the The Move to Draft script now provides a choice of set messages that also link the creator to a new, friendly explanation page. The script also warns reviewers if the creator is probably still developing the article. The former script is no longer maintained. Please edit your edit your common.js or vector.js file from Redirects: Some of our redirect reviewers have reduced their activity and the backlog is up to 9,000+ (two months deep). If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, see this guide, this checklist, and spend some time at WP:RFD. Discussions with the WMF The PageTriage open letter signed by 444 users is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers the NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted dozens of patches in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also had a video conference with the NPP coordinators to discuss revamping the landing pages that new users see.
"For the Forever Persian Gulf"Hello dear Wikaviani! I would like to thank you for responding to my talk topic on Wikipedia's "Persian Gulf" article. As an answer to your question, I would like to say I didn't have any issues with the Wikipedia article, in fact, my issue is the possibility of it to change due to current warm relations between Arabian governments and the West, adding these current protests in Iran making it another golden time for them to make the changes they want disingenuously as they often did in history, without facing any consequences! I would like to thank you again for responding to my ticket, best regards. ~A normal teen from Iran, who loves studying history and learning from it 151.242.114.173 (talk) 00:31, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
Meru prasantaThere is a anonymous user 95.115.7.9 who had republished meru prasanta and Pingala can you please go and verify the sources he put in Wikipedia article Pascal triangle Ppppphgtygd (talk) 16:56, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
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Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 07:03, 18 April 2023 (UTC) Göktürks move discussionThe move request is about the title changing of Göktürks to its original form Türks. There are people who oppose and who support as their opinion, replying to the section, I would like to have your opinion there on the talk page of Göktürks. The title of the section on its talk page is Requested move 19 April 2023 (Göktürks). --Kansas Bear (talk) 20:36, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:12, 20 April 2023 (UTC) New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023Hello Wikaviani,  Backlog Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day. Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here. WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of Sam, Jason and Susana, and also some patches from Jon, has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers. Articles for Creation (AFC): All new page reviewers are now automatically approved for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script, visit Special:Preferences, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script. You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest. Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums). Reminders
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Sent by Zippybonzo using MediaWiki message delivery at 06:59, 1 July 2023 (UTC) Afsharid ≠ Persianafsharids are not Persians they are Turcoman. Nader Shah himself is Turcoman. It doesn't make sence to call it persian while the leader and founder of the empire is Turkic Suluk Çor Kağan (talk) 02:25, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
Reliable sources determine what we call wars/battles/raids, etc. Not some editor's personal opinion.
Atatürk TalkThank you for the 3RR nom. I was trying to figure out what the "post on user's talk" meant for an IP when I saw you'd completed the same nomination. Nothing else, just a 'thanks and good day'. Cheers, Last1in (talk) 01:38, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
Possible BLP violationHi. How do you do? Would you please verify [8] and [9]? --Mann Mann (talk) 04:22, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
Khusrow references. Please be constructiveHi I Removed unsourced material. Please add a reference if you want to keep the information in question 86.5.202.27 (talk) 02:36, 3 September 2023 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:46, 22 September 2023 (UTC) Recent articles about Ottoman/Safavid battles@Kansas Bear:@HistoryofIran:@LouisAragon: Hi to all of you guys, hope you are all doing well. I'm pinging you here instead of at the relevant talk pages in order to avoid numerous pings. I recently found some Turco-Persian battles added recently, namely Campaign of Trabzon (1505), Battle of Erzincan (1507), Campaign of Trabzon (1510), Campaign of Trabzon (1510), Capture of Bayburt (1514), Siege of Kemah, Battle of Tekiryaylağı, Siege of Harput (1516), Battle of Koçhisar and Capture of Mosul (1517). All these articles are characterized by two things: almost exclusively Turkish sources and hardly any page numbers for the sources cited. I know they passed the submission process, but honestly, I'm wondering how they did so and if deletion proposals should be made for at least some of them (which ones ?). Thoughts ? ---Wikaviani (talk) (contribs) 13:24, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
About khoreshtYou mentioned that it might not be productive, while the edit you returned was not productive, the information was very irrelevant, it was a Persian name.For example, tell us why we should include the Albanian name of a food, which, like many other languages, is derived from the English name next to its English name on its information page?! 5.74.120.85 (talk) 22:29, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
Clarification requestHello!
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Pingalasome user had recently added the image of Pascal triangle in pingala article and a statement can you verify it whether it is right or wrong. Myuoh kaka roi (talk) 09:12, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
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Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages. Sockpuppet Investigation?Hello. I have frequently edited the Azerbaijani cuisine article and I noticed you make edits there also. I wanted to ask for your opinion and possibly a request as an experienced Wikipedia editor. I believe this unnamed user displays very suspicious behavior that makes me believe it might be yet another sockpuppet of User:Əzərbəyəniləri. Specifically what I find suspicious is that the new, unnamed user began editing on the same Azerbaijani cuisine page immediately after the previous sock with username OnlyCreatesNewWikiPages was banned. Furthermore, both the sock and the new unnamed user focus almost exclusively on Azerbaijani cuisine. Also, the edit descriptions are quite similar, specifically the continuous reference to removal of "peacock terms" that both the sock and the unnamed user share. Also the heavy focus on "unsourced" content, "etymology" in the edit descriptions is also what the sock and the new unnamed user share. In light of the above, I was wondering if you could maybe open a sockpuppet investigation? I have forgotten how to do it, I would be thankful for your assistance or even advice. - Creffel (talk) 19:37, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
Cosmetic editsPlease reconsider making so many cosmetic edits that make no difference to the article. So far, you've made 18 consecutive edits to Omelette, none of which are necessary or useful. You've done this on several other articles as well. Please read WP:COSMETICBOT, and note where it says:
Ciambella; Wikipedia CommonsHi, I'm looking for an image of an Italian ciambella to add to the ciambella page, but I only find the American ones, how can I do? JacktheBrown (talk) 17:58, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:27, 2 April 2024 (UTC) Zoroastrianism@Wikaviani some users insist on replacing "Monotheism" with "Dualism" in the lead on Zoroastrianism page. they want to create an edit war. can you help on reaching a consensus there? Researcher1988 (talk) 13:33, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
Help@Wikaviani despite all the positive and constructive edits that I have made to the Zoroastrianism page, some editors have reported me to Admins. can you help me there? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Multiple_issues_with_Researcher1988_at_Zoroastrianism Researcher1988 (talk) 13:03, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
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Indian mathematicsIn the section of Pingala of the article Indian mathematics it talks about the binomial coefficient and Pascal triangle.Can you verify whether it is reliable or not. Myuoh kaka roi (talk) 19:06, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
History of MathematicsThere are a major problem in theHistory of mathematics article For example in the Indian section of the article it is given as
The reference provided doesn't really talk anything regarding calculus nor derivate. Myuoh kaka roi (talk) 03:08, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
medieval indiaIn the section of Medieval knowledge of the article History of botany.The subsection of the medieval india talks about the statement like
Can you check whether the reference is reliable or not.One of the reference which is mentioned talks some outlandish claim that ancient India knew about xylem or phloem or have a knowledge about cell wall. Myuoh kaka roi (talk) 19:49, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
Snell's law articleAn ip user who has created an account by the username Casteiswrong is making disruptive edits on Snell's law article. Please have a look because I am busy these days. Hu741f4 (talk) 11:18, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
Not afraid of being wrongOn your personal page, it is written that you are - apparently - "not afraid of being wrong". That is a very nice attitude, not inappropriate right now. However, to accuse me in the process of that, of "evading my block", even though I'm not in anyway related to the user you are referring to, is not a very nice attitude. I have also noticed the discussion above with user Hu74, who has a very big mouth about going to the talk page, but when he is at the talk page refuses to engage in a discussion. And on top of that is also accusing me of what you are falsely accusing me of. What the hell is going on here? What is this weird suspicious behaviour, that goes against a few of the most important principles of this project? GoneWithThePuffery (talk) 16:56, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
Due to an IP's tampering with the result in the infobox, I started checking some of the sources. I can't find anything concerning:
I'm hoping you can find evidence of this book. Thanks! --Kansas Bear (talk) 22:57, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
Yajnavalkya's theory of heliocentrismThe article Yajnavalkya's theory of heliocentrism has a lot of misleading information and unreliable sources.First the two references which talks about heliocentrism isn't even a scientific journal nor a peer reviewed source and secondly it talks about gravitational force between sun and earth where they provided class 11th text book as a reference. Myuoh kaka roi (talk) 12:07, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:11, 26 August 2024 (UTC) About recent edit on Sherbet (frozen dessert)I noticed you reverted my edit on the article Sherbet (frozen dessert). I changed the author's last name to "Gallary" which is spelled differently from "gallery". You can check the cited article yourself to verify this. Please revert your edit. If you disagree, please explain why. 66.215.184.32 (talk) 06:58, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
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SockpuppetrySorry Wikaviani for flooding your talk page with this stuff. But it seems there is a sockpuppetry there: @HistoryofIran, LouisAragon, and Semsûrî:: Wanted you guys to know about it. There could be an active sockfarm with some sleeper accounts. This is my last message here. Cheers! --Mann Mann (talk) 09:46, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
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