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== ''The Bugle'': Issue 223, November 2024 ==
== Question from ] (16:02, 12 October 2024) ==


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I am trying to help a friend who is a actor, author, detective. Who has had a t.v. show on the history channel and had been on many TV shows and news interviews and has written several books. He has a YouTube page with 115k subs. He is asking me why he doesn't have a wiki page and I cannot figure this stuff out. He was the lead actor on the hunt for the zodiac t.v series on history channel and has a peacock series about to start very soon. Just seems odd he's solved cold case murders and been on TV was an fbi task force member undercover narcotics and now celebrity but he's not on wiki but all his co stars are. He also have a fb group called unsolved no more. His youtube group with 115k subs is called unsolved no more. I can help verify his identify etc but he's easily verified on imdb, and news articles both local, national paper news and t.v. news Nancy grace type stuff. --] (]) 16:02, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
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==Invitation to provide feedback==
Hello Rae, it's nice to meet you. I made a Misplaced Pages account so that I could more consistently keep up-to-date the "Opinion polling for the next United Kingdom general election" page without any future semi-protections affecting me. I have edited there under the IPs 81.149.255.205 and 144.178.213.98.
Inspired by Worm That Turned's ] where he noted administrators don't get a lot of feedback or suggestions for improvement, I have decided to solicit feedback. I'm reaching out to you as you are currently one of the users I've selected as part of my ]. I hope you will consider taking a few moments to fill out my ''''''. Clicking on the link will load the questions and create a new section on my user talk. Thanks for your consideration. Best, ] (]) 16:31, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
I know that my description of changes is not standard, so I will try and make it so in future :) --] (]) 16:15, 12 October 2024 (UTC)


== Scammers on Misplaced Pages. ==
:Hi @]! I'm happy to hear that you've made an account to keep editing, and it's definitely an interesting username lol. Let me know if you have any questions :) ] (]—]) 02:56, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
::No questions as of yet :), I've just been waiting for the semi-protected status of that page to end so that I can add a bunch of missed polls ] (]) 11:32, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
:::And yeah... I have no justification for the username
:::(Also I made an edit request almost a week ago that hasn't been answered to the page so that's fun) ] (]) 11:36, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
::::@]: I don't edit much around elections and am not familiar with how we usually incorporate and describe polling, so I'll leave that for another editor, sorry. ] (]—]) 21:14, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
:::::It's okay, the page's protection has expired so I'm adding the missed polls now :) ] (]) 13:23, 20 October 2024 (UTC)


Hi Vernon! Admin Liz suggested me to contact you about simple wikipedia. This is a famous convicted scammer with the fake agency for bots and fake accounts online.All the articles there are paid and fake and you can see that when you check them. https://simple.wikipedia.org/Michael_Graziano
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They made a Simple wikipedia page to keep scamming people online. This is their scam agency, it is called Mindful/Monopolize. https://www.mindfulagency.com/ One of their "owners", a convicted pedophile was jailed last year.https://whoradio.iheart.com/content/2022-09-01-nevada-man-accused-of-child-sex-assault-arrested-in-iowa/
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Here is the article about their scam with link to the lawsuits. It is disgusting. Do you know how to nominate that page to be deleted?His contributions are for the same scammers and his team. Someone I know was scammed by them.  https://www.thephoblographer.com/2023/06/27/photographer-sues-monopolize-for-50k-in-the-craziest-story-ever/ ] (]) 20:52, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
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:Hi @]! I've nominated the article for deletion; you're correct that basically all of the sources are paid. Thanks for sending a message about this. ] (]—]) 22:16, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
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::Thanks! It also shows this scammer MichaelG created one more promo page. It was deleted on wikipedia, bots seem to make a page on simple wikipedia. ] Not sure if it qualifies for speedy deletions. instructions say to consider speedy deletion first. https://simple.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Requests_for_deletion I am trying to figure out how to learn to nominate a page on simple Misplaced Pages, but instructions are a little complicated.
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::Here. https://simple.wikipedia.org/Lika_O
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::Text it the same. It does not meet ], ] , ] ,],]. All the sources are blatantly promotional. ] (]) 01:26, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
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Hello,
Why do you allow people to add and edit to the Misplaced Pages when they clearly don't know what it's about?
I've had to redo the same Wikipage because someone keeps putting in the wrong information and undoing my changes :( --] (]) 04:04, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

:You could just ask the person who keeps reverting you. It is highly irregular to edit something in like 'clearly not (x)'. I suggest you go to the talk page. ] (]) 09:47, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

== Question from ] (14:33, 29 October 2024) ==

Hello,
How do i report someone?
They're adding information that is false and it's aggravating me, They won't do the proper research for it please😭 --] (]) 14:33, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

:Hi @]! When you edit a Misplaced Pages article, you're editing an encyclopedia entry: adding commentary about past edits into the article itself isn't encyclopedic and will be removed. As you've found, justifying the changes is what edit summaries and talk pages are for. I think your most recent edit has an appropriate tone. I'll start a discussion on the talk page - it looks like there is a character named Eurylochus in ], which the source (that your edit removes) describes. ] (]—]) 15:56, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
::Oh My bad, I thought it was Talking about Eurylochus from the Odyssey :'<
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== ''The Bugle'': Issue 222, October 2024 ==

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Hi Rae! I work for a think tank and started exploring adding text to the page of my organization, which I learned should only be done through edit requests. Can I edit directly pages other then the ones from my organization / create new pages that are not linked to my organization? --] (]) 15:09, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

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Scammers on Misplaced Pages.

Hi Vernon! Admin Liz suggested me to contact you about simple wikipedia. This is a famous convicted scammer with the fake agency for bots and fake accounts online.All the articles there are paid and fake and you can see that when you check them. https://simple.wikipedia.org/Michael_Graziano

They made a Simple wikipedia page to keep scamming people online. This is their scam agency, it is called Mindful/Monopolize. https://www.mindfulagency.com/ One of their "owners", a convicted pedophile was jailed last year.https://whoradio.iheart.com/content/2022-09-01-nevada-man-accused-of-child-sex-assault-arrested-in-iowa/

Here is the article about their scam with link to the lawsuits. It is disgusting. Do you know how to nominate that page to be deleted?His contributions are for the same scammers and his team. Someone I know was scammed by them.  https://www.thephoblographer.com/2023/06/27/photographer-sues-monopolize-for-50k-in-the-craziest-story-ever/ Moondust534 (talk) 20:52, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Moondust534! I've nominated the article for deletion; you're correct that basically all of the sources are paid. Thanks for sending a message about this. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 22:16, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
Thanks! It also shows this scammer MichaelG created one more promo page. It was deleted on wikipedia, bots seem to make a page on simple wikipedia. Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Lika O Not sure if it qualifies for speedy deletions. instructions say to consider speedy deletion first. https://simple.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Requests_for_deletion I am trying to figure out how to learn to nominate a page on simple Misplaced Pages, but instructions are a little complicated.
Here. https://simple.wikipedia.org/Lika_O
Text it the same. It does not meet WP:BIO, WP:ANYBIO , WP:ATH ,WP:PROF,WP:ENT. All the sources are blatantly promotional. Moondust534 (talk) 01:26, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

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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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  • Two new parser functions were added this week. The {{#interwikilink}} function adds an interwiki link and the {{#interlanguagelink}} function adds an interlanguage link. These parser functions are useful on wikis where namespaces conflict with interwiki prefixes. For example, links beginning with MOS: on English Misplaced Pages conflict with the mos language code prefix of Mooré Misplaced Pages.
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  • Technical documentation contributors can find updated resources, and new ways to connect with each other and the Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team, at the Documentation hub on MediaWiki.org. This page links to: resources for writing and improving documentation, a new #wikimedia-techdocs IRC channel on libera.chat, a listing of past and upcoming documentation events, and ways to request a documentation consultation or review. If you have any feedback or ideas for improvements to the documentation ecosystem, please contact the Technical Documentation Team.

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  • The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
  • Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "All collection" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the <page-collection> </page-collection> tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to the step-by-step guide.
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  • The 2024 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 3 January 2025, and has an associated privacy statement.
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Question from Abdulmujibalhaddad (05:23, 10 December 2024)

what will happen if i editing something because i though the article had wrong source, particulary in history ? --Abdulmujibalhaddad (talk) 05:23, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-51

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  • Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? The CampaignEvents extension offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit the deployment status page.

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  • The global reminder bot is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. See the technical details page for more information.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:54, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

Happy holidays!

A golden Misplaced Pages logo with stars, balloons, and the words "New Year" Happy holidays and a prosperous 2025! Two squirrels in a tree

Rae, one of my first interactions with you was emailing answers@ over the summer when I wanted to know how the UCOC was licensed. Thank you for the diligent follow up to my question. But since then I have enjoyed getting to know you better, and it was a pleasure meeting you at WCNA. I hope to see you in NYC for WCNA2025 :) Best to you and yours in 2025, and happy holidays! HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 04:50, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from Monu badmash 10k on 3000 (number) (23:04, 22 December 2024)

monu __badmash__10 --Monu badmash 10k (talk) 23:04, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

Season's Greetings

Hello Vermont: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Misplaced Pages. Cheers, AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 01:49, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

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Question from Mkbonline (16:37, 24 December 2024)

What we can change? --Mkbonline (talk) 16:37, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

@Mkbonline: What do you want to change? You can edit almost all pages :) Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 18:21, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from Ysrkavali on Pattapu language (14:37, 25 December 2024)

I need to add links and need to add some content it's not not shwoing --Ysrkavali (talk) 14:37, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

@Ysrkavali: I've made an edit to format the link as a citation, and to restore content I think you accidentally partially removed in a previous edit. If you're using the visual editor, there's an easy tool for automatic citations. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 18:27, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
thank you Ysrkavali (talk) 00:30, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from Ibrahim01721 (12:00, 26 December 2024)

If I don’t give any references or links in my article then will Misplaced Pages remove it? --Ibrahim01721 (talk) 12:00, 26 December 2024 (UTC)