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Padshah UtherSRG 2024

You wrote "Since you can't explain in your own words, I see no reason to unblock you"

What own words? What do mean?

What questions should I answer You just decline the unblock request.

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Non-willing editor

What can be done if an editor claims that something is not a good source, and when you ask him what can be done to make sure that the source is WP:RS he claims that no matter the result of RfC, no matter the result of RS noticeboard, nothing will make the source good enough to change his POV. He also was invited to dispute resolution once, but he ignored it and showed no will for discussion. I am doing my best, asking him what can i do to make sure sources are ok, but he doesn't care and says even if i have 10 sources, his 1 is better because it's "consensus in scholarship" even though i provided him with academic sources that clearly disagree. Don't know what can i do Setxkbmap (talk) 17:03, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You can bring this up on an admin noticeboard. The general one is WP:AN. - UtherSRG (talk) 17:08, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much! Setxkbmap (talk) 17:09, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Restoration of a deleted article

I see that you restored the article Legal career of Keir Starmer after I had deleted it, not only without following the accepted practice of consulting an administrator before reverting their action, but without even informing me that you had done so. Why was that? JBW (talk) 23:36, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This was done as a result of a request at Wikipedia:Requests_for_undeletion#Legal_career_of_Keir_Starmer. I had draftified it. - UtherSRG (talk) 10:57, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I know that; my question was about why you did it without informing me. JBW (talk) 11:00, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Many types of RFU requests are regularly handled without consultation with the deleting admin. Draftifying a G5 has no requirement to do so. - UtherSRG (talk) 11:05, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is no requirement to do so, but I should have thought that at the very least it would be considered a courtesy to inform the administrator whose action you are reverting. Frankly I am astonished to learn that an administrator with as much experience as you have doesn't think so. JBW (talk) 21:32, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

why did you revert all of my edits?

not all of them were unconstructive. some might have been, but why did you revert the edits that were possibly constructive? Qxva (talk) 19:43, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

i noticed you didn't revert them all, but still most of them. what is your reason for reverting them? Qxva (talk) 19:45, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

nevermind, i saw that only the unconstructive ones were reverted. still, when i responded to someone, why did you revert my reply? Qxva (talk) 19:48, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Everything I revert looked like disruptive behavior. - UtherSRG (talk) 19:49, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

so saying "indeed" is disruptive? you reverted me when i said "indeed" Qxva (talk) 20:11, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

people respond "indeed" a lot Qxva (talk) 20:12, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of page Naveen Tewari

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18:43, 29 February 2024 UtherSRG talk contribs deleted page Naveen Tewari (G4: Recreation of a page that was deleted per a deletion discussion, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Naveen Tewari (2nd nomination))

I see that you had undeleted the page once and eventually deleted it after discussion. Naveen Tewari is one of the most notable entrepreneurs from India. Actually the founder of the first Unicorn. Maybe the page was poorly put together. Wondering if I could recreate it? NS1811 (talk) 09:03, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Or simply improve the draft to make it factual & encyclopedic? NS1811 (talk) 09:06, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You will need to go to WP:DRV for the community to decide the restore the article in some fashion. - UtherSRG (talk) 11:01, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Etelis coruscans

Hey UtherSRG, just following up on this tag. While I think you may be entirely correct that the redirect should be deleted, based on Template:R from species to genus stating "Note that the practice of creating redirects from species names that could be articles is strongly discouraged", I don't believe R3 is appropriate in this context. The subspecies/redirect (Etelis coruscans) is indeed mentioned at the target (Etelis#Taxonomy) which doesn't make it an implausible typo or misnomer. Hey man im josh (talk) 15:34, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough. How should it be deleted, then? - UtherSRG (talk) 16:38, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Probably RfD I'd imagine. I'm surprised to see that, despite that warning, there's ~4,600 pages in Category:Redirects from species to genus. Hey man im josh (talk) 16:40, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Note that the practice of creating redirects from species names that could be articles is strongly discouraged" was added to the template a little over a month ago (29 July 2024). While I would agree with that sentiment, I think that note would be better placed on {{R taxon with possibilities}}. R from species to genus suggests that it should be placed along with {{R to monotypic taxon}} when relevant, and it is also used on species in genera known only from fossils such as Apatosaurus ajax. There is no consensus to discourage creating redirects for species in monotypic and fossil genera (although there is consensus that these are "species names that could NOT be articles").

I think there are a pretty small number of editors who are responsible for most of the species redirects to (non-monotypic and non-fossil) genera. And many of the species redirects to genera aren't tagged with {{R from species to genus}} (I've probably tagged a couple hundred of the species to genus redirects created by User:Galactikapedia, but there are thousands of them (see e.g. Microplana haitiensis).

I don't think bringing individual species to genus redirects to RfD is an effective solution. It would be better to start mass RfD's corresponding to the editors who have mass created species to genus redirects and get consensus to delete them all. Galactikapedia is the worst offender in this regard. Plantdrew (talk) 21:43, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. What would be the best way to help in the deletion process? I didn't expect this to still have significant damage to the encyclopedia left behind seven years later, and I'm sorry. I want all the impractical redirects gone. 13-year-old me should not have had this much access. Galactikapedia (talk) 02:54, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Galactikapedia:, Hi, I was intending to link to your contributions without calling you out specifically by a notification. I didn't want to put you on the spot over what you did as your 13-year-old-self. But I do think your creations of redirects from species to genera weren't very helpful. If you want to help clean-up your creations of redirects from species to genera, tag them with {{Db-g7}}. Plantdrew (talk)

Userpage

Hi.UtherSRG, can you please fully protect my userpage from creation because I think I no need to create our page due to they reflected from meta wiki as glibal userpage. Happy editing!--- ᗩvírαm7 • (@píng mє-tαlk mє) 12:19, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I see no reason to do this. - UtherSRG (talk) 12:22, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I thought fully protect level is very trustedable and anyone cannot edit fully protected userpage without any good reason, but I happy if you change protect level of creation of my userpage on here.Happy editing! --- ᗩvírαm7 • (@píng mє-tαlk mє) 13:14, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]