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My press

You made the news. Just a passing mention mind, no indepth coverage yet. ;) Dylanfromthenorth (talk) 01:50, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Oh, and again here (at the bottom). Dylanfromthenorth (talk) 01:54, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Wow, and here it is again [1] in a separate story about the same issue. Think I'm notable yet? 0;-D --MelanieN (talk) 00:22, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Multiple mentions in a Slate (magazine) article. [2] Pretty good and accurate article actually. -- MelanieN (talk) 03:56, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

ANI Notification (historic)

This is to notify you that I have opened a complaint about your behavior in the Victoria Pynchon matter here:

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive757#Complaint About Editors' Behavior In Victoria Pynchon Deletion Discussion

Pernoctus (talk) 21:23, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

I modified the link for the record when the discussion was archived. --MelanieN (talk) 15:57, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

AN Notification (historic)

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Wikipedia editor paid to protect the page "John Ducas". Thank you. Jackmcbarn (talk) 23:16, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

Recent RfCs on US city names

for reference
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
April 2012: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (geographic names)/Archives/2012/June#WP:USPLACE was not officially made into an RfC or officially closed. September-October 2012: On another page, Talk:Beverly Hills, California/Archives/2012#Requested move was closed as "No move". An extensive November 2012 discussion involving 55 people was closed as "maintain status quo (option B)". Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (geographic names)/Archives/2012/December#RfC: US city names. A discussion in January 2013 later was never officially made into an RfC or officially closed; discussion died out with 18 editors opposed to a change and 12 in favor. Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (geographic names)/Archives/2013/February#Request for comment . Discussion started in June 2013: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (geographic names)/Archives/2013/June#Naming convention; speedy-closed per WP:SNOW. December 2013-February 2014: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (geographic names)/Archives/2014/February#Should the article be at Bothell or Bothell, Washington? . Closed as "no consensus to change existing practice (that is, USPLACE)." January-February 2014: Associated proposal for a moratorium on USPLACE discussions. Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (geographic names)/Archives/2014/February#Moratorium on WP:USPLACE change discussions. Closed as "There is a one year moratorium on changing the policy at WP:USPLACE unless someone can offer a reason that has not been discussed previously." August-September 2018: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (geographic names)#Proposal to eliminate comma-state from unambiguous U.S. state capitals. November-December 2019: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (geographic names)#US-centric USPLACE continues to cause confusion

Concern regarding Draft:LiQuiD112

Hello, MelanieN. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:LiQuiD112, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 16:01, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

I have notified the actual creator of the page. -- MelanieN (talk) 02:34, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

Proposed additions Bragg

Hi MelanieN. My name is Andrew Bragg. I am a politician in Australia. Per WP:COI, I have disclosed my identity and proposed some additional content to beef up the Wikipedia page about me with independent citations. It's been over a month and nobody has responded. I wanted to ask if you'd be willing to review the proposed additions (in bold) and consider adding them if you feel they comply with Wikipedia's rules. If you can, I'd be grateful. AndrewJamesBragg (talk) 21:46, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

@AndrewJamesBragg: Excuse me for butting in. I have MelanieN's user talk page on my watch list, probably because I'd messaged her at some point in the past. I have looked at the changes and made one obvious change and solicited discussion on another. —C.Fred (talk) 22:21, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Andrew Bragg, and thanks for being so careful to comply with Wikipedia's rules about "conflict of interest" edits. C.Fred, thanks for replying. As it happens I am pretty much away from the computer right now due to that Real Life that we sometimes have to deal with, so I can't answer the request at the moment. So, thanks for responding. If that takes care of the issues, great. If not, you or any other page watchers are invited to consider the changes and make them to the article if appropriate. (I do love my stalkers!) -- MelanieN (talk) 20:25, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

P.S. Wow, that's a lot of changes and they will have to be evaluated one at a time. I would suggest, if somebody accepts a particular change, that they add it to the article and unbold it in the draft - leaving the rest to be dealt with a little at a time. -- MelanieN (talk) 20:38, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

I went a step further and used some of the good example notations to mark the change in green. It lets others to come along later see the scope of the changes that were proposed. —C.Fred (talk) 20:53, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

Clever! Thanks for your help with this. -- MelanieN (talk) 21:44, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

List of The Story Makers episodes

Can you re-protect that page again but permanently instead please? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Story_Makers_episodes --Annamargarita0 (talk) 16:20, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Annamargarita0, thanks for the note. I see the page has already been protected by Ymblanter. -- MelanieN (talk) 05:19, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi, can you have a look here pls...

at Talk:Pushbacks in Greece. An IP is harassing an editor, at least. He has been active in other pages as well [3] Cinadon36 08:00, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

Taken care of by @331dot: after a short discussion at ANI.[4]. Cinadon36 18:51, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled

A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Epstein migration.

Hello Mrs. T!

I hope you're well. Saw your name on the recent Epstein edit history, so hope you don't mind me asking your opinion of this mess: Talk:Members of the Council on Foreign Relations#Epstein, Epstein, Epstein!. Love to know your take. Lindenfall (talk) 22:04, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

db-move and drafts

Heya, I'm not sure how (if at all) active you are at WP:AFC, so I wouldn't be surprised if you haven't seen this discussion, but in general if a draft reviewer asks for a redirect to be deleted, please do so; it saves everyone a ton of time and effort. Thanks!

The other reason for this thread is because I quoted your decline of Jessica Neuwirth's db-move at WP:AN#db-move and drafts - I didn't specifically mention you but I thought you should know that you've been (if indirectly) "named"; as an admin declining the CSD your input might actually be useful towards fixing this issue. Thanks again! Primefac (talk) 13:37, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Merchandise giveaway nomination

A token of thanks Hi MelanieN! I've nominated you (along with all other active admins) to receive a solstice season gift from the WMF. Talk page stalkers are invited to comment at the nomination. Enjoy! Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} talk ~~~~~

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:50, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Lift-to-drag ratio

Hi, thanks for your efforts. I am feeling insulted by Marc by his comments at Requests for page protection. Marc is not only clearly wrong, HE refused to give any reasons for his pics and the nonsense text.

In several years, i had some aggressive edit-wars with Marc who imho loves to revert before thinking.

I am sure, it will be the best for all Wikipedia readers, if you revert the article to a version which is scientifically correct, and by an experienced engineer and pilot who gave reasons.[5]

Thanks. 95.91.246.145 (talk) 05:41, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for your note, but you are talking to the wrong person. The article talk page is where this will be resolved. A third person has joined that discussion which could be very helpful. It would be even more helpful if you would tone down the hostile, I-am-right-and-you-are-dead-wrong tone of your commentary and stick to facts and proof. -- MelanieN (talk) 16:49, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

I-am-right-and-you-are-dead-wrong: in this case, it is the friendliest one can say, regarding the readers and the ignorant behaviour of especially Marc, who should be blocked for all the wrong reverts without talking. I know him for years: regarding all his other edits, this will be no big loss.

The third person started lecturing me, that i should talk about the article, what i had: he first did not. At last, one who can see clear facts after many hours.

Wikipedia should be about science: i am not discussing about 1+1=1, 1+1=3 or 1+1=4: even a compromise like 1+1=2.5 is CLEARLY rejected by me. You think thats wrong. I am the scientist who can make things fly. Reliable. Do you want to have an aviation accident in a plane designed by Marc or a person lectured by him? Humanity, responsibility, respect are my values. Accidents and death are not MY values.

Wikipedia should be a gift, a joy working together with others in the search for knowledge and truth: not a slanderous fight by dogmatists and lazy egomaniacs. 95.91.246.145 (talk) 18:17, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

You wrote:

• On Wikipedia, it's important to know when to stop arguing with people, and simply let them be wrong.

In contrary, i do all i can to correct a clearly wrong article. Knowledge brings responsibility.

• Wikipedia guidelines are like scripture: somewhere in the labyrinthine network of rules, you can find support for any position.

There is only one reality: its too bad so few people care about. 95.91.246.145 (talk) 18:46, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

Wishing you a happy 2022!

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Happy New Year!

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MelanieN,
Have a great 2022 and thanks for your continued contributions to Wikipedia.

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LA

Just want to say that I've been a big fan of your editing, even-handedness and perspective since I first came across your comments on the Sean Spicer talk page in January 2017. I didn't know you were in LA, which is probably a good thing, at least for you - I would have asked you to speak at Wikipedia Day at least 100 times a year. I'm disappointed that our in-person paths are unlikely to cross, but thank you for removing yourself from the LA invite list; we really don't want to spam people. Happy New Year! Julie JSFarman (talk) 16:00, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi, Julie, and thanks for the note and the kind words. Actually I am not in LA; I live in San Diego. (There is a fairly active San Diego project, but so far I have not gone to any of the meetings and don't plan to; at this point I prefer my privacy.) I think this is the first time I have heard from the LA project and I'm not sure how I got on their mailing list - maybe they just emailed everyone in southern California. -- MelanieN (talk) 18:36, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

I completely respect the privacy thing, and I'll continue to be psyched whenever you and your sanity show up on WP. And so glad I left a message, because I've never read your talk page before, and YESSSSSSS. I gotta put it on my watch list. JSFarman (talk) 21:59, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

About IP addresses

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18:13, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi & Reviewing Lawyer Page Edits?

My name is Ashley and I work for lawyer Steve Berman. I shared proposed early life and personal life sections to round out the Berman page at Talk: Steve Berman (lawyer). Per WP:COI, I wanted to see if you’d be willing to review the proposed content.AshleyK1990 (talk) 20:19, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I have reviewed it and added it to the article (except for one sentence). See my comments at the article talk page. -- MelanieN (talk) 17:43, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi MelanieN. I wanted to check-in on this. I disclosed a COI and offered a draft Early life section that you implemented with tweaks at Talk:Steve Berman (lawyer). Then, I offered a of the Career section, as well as a detailed explanation of what was wrong with the current Career section (not supported by the given citations, press releases, brief mentions, etc.). No rush, but wanted to see if you were interested in reviewing the proposed career section as well? AshleyK1990 (talk) 22:27, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi, Ashley, thanks for the tweak. I found a little time just now to look the draft over and I have some comments and advice. Where would you like me to reply? Here, or at the bottom of your draft, or the draft's talk page, or where? -- MelanieN (talk) 00:58, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Hi Melanie. Anywhere you want to post your feedback would be ok. I suggest probably at Talk:Steve_Berman_(lawyer) if there’s only a couple things, or at User talk:AshleyK1990/swb draft1 if you have a lot and you don’t want to crowd the main Talk page. You could even put your feedback directly on the draft if you like, if that makes it easier to show the specific sentence you’re referring to. Thanks AshleyK1990 (talk) 23:18, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Thanks. I think I'll put it directly on the draft, at the bottom. -- MelanieN (talk) 23:34, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Tatars

Sorry to disrupt you, but Vaultralph is again edit warring regarding the numbers. Beshogur (talk) 23:52, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

Beshogur, thanks for the note. I have blocked them for a week - partly because I noticed that they do this kind of unsourced editing to many other articles, always involving Tatars. You might want to look over their recent contributions and see if any of them are unsourced or inaccurate. -- MelanieN (talk) 17:41, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll check, but I'm not Tatar expert, so leaving for now. Beshogur (talk) 17:52, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election#Electoral college vote and "alternate" electors

Hi there - I noticed we are editing the same section of this article, and one of your recent edits deleted one of mine. Wanted to check if you were intentionally removing my edit or if it was an oversight. If it was intentional, would appreciate knowing what if anything from it can be salvaged - I noticed this Hawaii 1960 incident has been cited by commentators a few times and think it's important to have some kind of pointer to it on the page. (See 1960 United States presidential election in Hawaii for more context.) GlobeGores (talk page | user page) 04:50, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

Fixed diffs, they were screwed up for some reason. GlobeGores (talk page | user page) 04:52, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for your note, GlobeGores! I was baffled, because I saw your paragraph when I was in "edit" mode, but it simply wasn't there whenever I looked at the actual article. I wondered if it was in "invisible" brackets or what. I finally concluded it was some kind of glitch and overrode it. Let's figure out how to restore it without interrupting the narrative. Or is there some better section in the article to put it? I agree it should be somewhere. -- MelanieN (talk) 05:11, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

While we're at it, what would you think about eliminating the Biden quote at the end of the section? I don't think it adds much. -- MelanieN (talk) 05:15, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

Amusingly I remember editing that sentence more than a year ago. I don't have a strong preference but it does seem important to note Biden's responses to some of this - IIRC the only speeches he gave that touch on this issue were the one after the Electoral College vote, a few after the January 6 incident, and then the recent speech on the anniversary of January 6. So removing this does memory-hole the fact that Biden was saying this was dangerous even prior to January 6, which might be notable.

Re: the Hawaii thing, I think see a good place to reference it, though the amount of verbiage in my previous edit might be overkill. I'll add a sentence or two and you can let me know what you think. GlobeGores (talk page | user page) 05:35, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

OK, thanks. I'm heading for bed soon so if I don't respond, that's why. Go ahead and do your thing. And I hadn't realized how little Biden said about this; in that case we should keep it, maybe even expand it a little (it's awfully generic).

Another thing to think about: I believe this is a huge story, particularly since it was clearly orchestrated by someone: most or all of the groups had EXACTLY the same document to fill out, right down to the fonts and spacing. And somehow they all knew exactly where to send it. The congressional committee is investigating, and IMO there will be a lot more to report on this issue. But for now, are there any other articles where we should be posting this, or a brief summary of it? -- MelanieN (talk) 05:46, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Wishing MelanieN a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Birthday Committee! Best wishes! CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 18:27, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Extended protection

Can you please give extended protection to Mahabharat (1988 TV series) article? A person continuously doing disruptive editing with three accounts (Ilyadante, Sidbidmidlid & Tahir Mahmood 1). Rtyggu (talk) 13:24, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

•  Done Thanks for the alert, Rtyggu. That can happen when there is active sockpuppetry going on. Is there a sockpuppet investigation for this case? If so these three should be added to it. -- MelanieN (talk) 16:21, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

Ah yes, I assume this is the one: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Yashthakurkamail. -- MelanieN (talk) 16:23, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

Not vandalism

Hello, I just want to say my edits are not vandalism, nor am I ban evading or IP hopping. I'm on a mobile device, sometimes the IP changes and I've never been banned, suspended, or anything. I have however been baseless accused of such by Ymblanter, but that seems to be a personality issue. The sentence under contention is "The list excludes the city of Sevastopol and locations within the Republic of Crimea, since those were not subject to the 2010 Census as constituent parts of Ukraine." I removed it for two reasons: it isn't part of Russia, and including this sentence is superfluous. But perhaps most importantly I removed that sentence because "Sevastopol and locations within the Republic of Crimea" ARE included in the table, making the sentence inaccurate for yet another reason.2600:1008:B015:2A95:F496:11AC:F84D:BB08 (talk) 21:47, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Hello. Thanks for the note, but you're talking to the wrong person. This kind of content dispute needs to be worked out at the article's talk page. -- MelanieN (talk) 22:38, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Unneecessarily reverting all my edits

Hello, I am a new editor on Wikipedia trying to contribute here with correct information but DaxServer is unnecessarily trying to make me a Socketpuppet account. I just added one line in the Mahajanapadas article which was a direct fact. I mean everybody knows it that Karna was the ruler of Anga. But still Dax Server reverted my edits and despite providing sources, he is still reverting my edits on Mahabharat (2013 film). Please check into the matter and tell DaxServer to not revert all edits unnecessarily. This is not fair to hurt small editors on Wikipedia which has hardly made 10-15 edits and is trying to suppress him or close his account by calling him a socketpuppet--User talk:Anther24

Aishwarya R. Dhanush

Hi. Would you consider extending protection for Aishwarya R. Dhanush (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs), the last protection expired on 25th, and IP disruption soon after. Or does it not have enough disruption to warrant so soon? Thanks! — DaxServer (talk · contribs) 11:01, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the note, DaxServer. This is clearly the same person, with changing IPs, making the same kind of disruptive edit. (I assume she has not publicly changed her name?) I have put on semi-protection for a month. -- MelanieN (talk) 17:40, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! It seems she hasn't had any change yet Facebook profile — DaxServer (talk · contribs) 17:45, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Gianpiero Sportelli

Hello,why you think only one fight...in internet we are a lot of article... There is not fake bio 79.43.35.13 (talk) 03:03, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

Pacific Typhoon Season

Pls Discuss For The Names Jolina,Maring And Odette Was Retired In 2021 Pacific Typhoon Season. But I had A Serius Problem : why you lock That Article? 2021 Pacific Typhoon Season (talk) 10:48, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Haikou22. The place to discuss this is at the article's talk page, Talk:2021 Pacific typhoon season. If the names have been officially retired, say so there. Be sure to show a Reliable Source for the information. -- MelanieN (talk) 15:25, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

there's the name Jacinto, Marisol and Opong replaced that names i mentioned, tnx Haikou22 (talk) 09:39, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Note

Please if you can pay attention to last 3 edits i did, even notified more users, about usually constructive editor acting as mentioned pages owner, reverting wrong data and true facts i described detailed, all seems because taking his stats above my ip edits, and community articles suffer...many thanks, kind regards! 93.137.10.199 (talk) 18:09, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

SkyWay Group

Thank you for protecting SkyWay Group page. This user is consistantly vandalizing the article, if you view his Talk page he has been warned many times but keeps acting in offense of the company. Is there a way to prevent this in the future? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bkissin Free (talk • contribs) 12:52, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

Auto-confirmed protection

Hi Melanie, can you give protection to Dharmakshetra. Occasionally IP edits are being made to disrupt the page. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.161.48.81 (talk) 16:09, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

 Done -- MelanieN (talk) 16:37, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protection

Could you please provide protection to this article Arjun (Firoz Khan). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.161.48.81 (talk • contribs)

(talk page stalker) There is not enough disruption on the article to warrant any kind of protection; last edit was about 2 weeks ago. Lectonar (talk) 14:31, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

Thank you, Lectonar. (I love my stalkers!) You are right that the article does not need protection now. It looks like back in January and December it was targeted several times by an LTA sock farm that I am familiar with. But they seem to have moved on to, umm, greener pastures? -- MelanieN (talk) 22:44, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

Mahabharat (1988 TV series)

Hi, could you lower the level of protection of this page Mahabharat (1988 TV series). I think extended-confirmed protection is not required for such pages. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by ArsheyaSagar (talk • contribs) 08:26, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

Hello, ArsheyaSagar, and thanks for the note. In this case I think extended confirmed protection was necessary, because the article was under repeated attack by sockpuppets. The sockpuppets were autoconfirmed, so semi-protection was not sufficient to protect the article. -- MelanieN (talk) 16:00, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

@MelanieN Could you extend the protection for the page? It was expired last week and disruption resumed since yesterday. Thanks! — DaxServer (t · c) 09:45, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

@MelanieN Hi Melanie, I am not trying to disrupt the page. I was just changing the cast order of the show. The actors Pankaj Dheer and Nitish Bharadwaj played the lead role in the show. I expect the administrator to check the matter through neutral view and not blindly accept a senior editor's edits and discard a junior editor's request. DaxServer is kind of becoming a bully editor. Thanks! Anna Bhaiyya 11:09, 10 March 2022

Please extend protection level for the page again. I think the block user have created another account for disruptive editing. Rtyggu (talk) 11:45, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

2022 in American television

There is another offensive comment over at the article edit history. The user called me a nazi and I don't support nazis at all. We're not even in World War II either. — FilmandTVFan28 (talk) 23:09, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

 Done Got it. Thanks. -- MelanieN (talk) 14:03, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

Bob the Builder (2015 TV series)

Sorry about the editing war on Bob the Builder (2015 TV series). I was thinking that another new Bob the Builder reboot series will happen for real. 121.94.187.149 (talk) 09:24, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

And maybe it will someday. But we can't put it in the article until it is reported by sources. This is an encyclopedia, we report facts; we can't just say something based on our hope or our hunch. I'm glad you have learned this. -- MelanieN (talk) 13:22, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Karna promotion is now cross-wiki

Hi Melanie! The Karna promotion (as you might know from Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1090#LTA sockpuppetry, puffery of Karna of Mahabharata) has already spilled into cross-wiki abuse. Apparently they are doing it for a while, as long as January and as recent as a couple of days ago. For example: Angla Bangla (Wikis: en, commons, simple, hi, wikisource); Ajju Khote (en, commons, hi, simple). I'm looking for advice as to how to tackle this. Thanks! — DaxServer (t · c) 19:34, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi, Dax. I'm afraid you would have to ask someone who is familiar with those other Wikis. I'm not. And of course I am not an admin anywhere else but EnWiki. Maybe a talk page stalker would have some advice? @Titodutta: do you edit the Hindi Wiki? @Vermont: Would you be able to help at the Simple English wiki? Daxserver can explain what this long-term abuse is about, but basically, it's an organized gang of sockpuppets, whose goal is to glorify Karna, one of the main characters in the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata. -- MelanieN (talk) 23:01, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

@DaxServer village pump or administrators noticeboard of the respective Wikis will be helpful to bring this to their attention. Mostly WP:VP (exact shortcut) shortcut works for all Indian Wikis. Several Wikis have their admin noticeboard. You may get the links in the language sidebar of En AN or ANI. The links in sidebar (or might be language drop down) will help to find the reporting destination. Regards. --Titodutta (talk) 23:07, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestions, Melanie and @Titodutta. I'll post on their ANs for a proper reach. I think I'll also post on AN here alerting the same. — DaxServer (t · c) 10:25, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @DaxServer: I've globally locked Ajju Khote as a Steward—cross-wiki abuse can be reported to the Steward Requests/Global noticeboard on Meta -- TNT (talk • she/her) 11:02, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks TNT, that's very useful. I'll report the users there for locks! — DaxServer (t · c) 11:25, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Draft:Chint Electric

Good afternoon, I apologize in advance if my request is off topic, but I ask for your help. The fact is that I created an article,"Chint Electric". The fact is that it has been under consideration for several weeks. Can you please tell me if I need to improve or add to it? help me please. I would really like to publish it in order to start writing other articles, but I am afraid that my efforts will not be in vain — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vivatbela (talk • contribs) 09:06, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) The volunteers who review new articles are rather backed up at the moment, there are some that are over 3 months old that aren't quite accepted yet. Don't be discouraged if the page hasn't been gotten to yet, the reviewers will be there eventually. It's been about 2 weeks since you first submitted, so even if it takes awhile, don't be afraid to start a new article. I am not a draft reviewer, but I am a New Page reviewer, so I can't accept it but I took a look anyway. You seem to have a good idea on Wikipedia layout and style. The only thing I saw that might catch a reviewers eye that was major was that it is recording as a 30% on the copyright detector report. While it does appear that you mostly changed the wording from chintglobal.com/about-us-13; it may be a bit too close for the reviewers to want to accept. Maybe if you copyedit the phrasing a little more, a reviewer will like it a bit more. Also, its helpful on talk pages to sign your name by adding four tildes at the end (~~~~), and to link to the pages you mention: Draft:Chint Electric Happy Editing--IAmChaos(talk page stalker) 09:23, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Edit forgot to ping: @Vivatbela: Happy Editing--IAmChaos 09:24, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for your input, User:IAmChaos! (I love my talk page stalkers!)

Vivatbela, I would make one additional suggestion. You have disclosed, on your user page, that you are being paid by Chint to create this article. It's good that you are being open about this, as Wikipedia requires. Please take a look at Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure#How to disclose, which recommends that you also disclose your conflict of interest on the draft article's talk page, and look at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#Paid editing for additional information. One other thing: I would suggest that you not be too impatient about getting it approved. As Chaos said, there are a lot of drafts, there are a limited number of draft reviewers, and it would be best for you to patiently wait your turn. -- MelanieN (talk) 17:40, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected pages needing PC reset

Hello, the following pages are indefinitely semi-protected but still haven't had their prior PC settings reset:

• John Schnatter
• Kelly Preston
• Chaz Bono

Can you please take care of this? Thanks. Larsenian (talk) 20:29, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

•  Done Thanks for calling these to my attention. -- MelanieN (talk) 21:48, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Chinese government response to COVID-19

Just in case you didn't notice, I blocked the two most recent edit warriors before you fully protected the page and warned the users on the article Talk page.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:49, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

I saw that after I acted; sorry. Do you think I should remove the full protection? -- MelanieN (talk) 18:53, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

For the moment yes, but it may be needed later if editors start battling at the article instead of discussing on the Talk page.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:01, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

Done. I have restored the pre-existing ECP protection. Hopefully this will teach the two you blocked (who have been here long enough to know better) not to simply keep reverting each other. Thanks. -- MelanieN (talk) 23:36, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	Thank you for protecting r/place before it gets vandalized! Ekh0-1talk 21:53, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

New administrator activity requirement

The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.

Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:

1. Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR
2. Made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period

Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.

22:53, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

EaseUS Partition Master deletion discussion

Hello, MelanieN. I just got a notification for Speedy deletion nomination of EaseUS Partition Master. The reason is G4:Recreation of a page that was deleted per a deletion discussion, at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/EaseUS. But the EaseUS Partition Master is for the partition software, not for the EaseUS company. It is not the recreation of the EaseUS page. Could you please tell me why and how should I proceed with the next step? Thanks. Chacecola (talk) 06:14, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Chacecola. OK, I see that. There was just a single sentence in the EaseUS page about this product, so this article is not a recreation of the article about the company. I will restore it with a note explaining the situation on the talk page. Note that the article could still be deleted under other rationales. -- MelanieN (talk) 03:48, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

Thank you MelanieN for your great care of the new page creation. Chacecola (talk) 06:26, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

Are you sure to have administered my contribution properly?

Hello, Dear MelanieN, You seem to have failed to administer my contribution to WP World War II casualties of the Soviet Union. Its title is "How 56,9 percent Mortality Rate in Red Army Became Known". It happens to be the key passage of the whole Article. I know it, I am a pro historian.

Russian generals still regard military losses of the Red Army in World War II a top secret matter. After complete destruction in 1953 of registration cards on the enlisted men and warrant officers at all military commissariats throughout the Soviet Union the Soviet military losses can only be estimated. Entirely preserved, however, are the records of Communists and Komsomol members. Both groups represented 40.01 percent of the total draft —  40,656,993 —  all ages of servicemen and all regions of the country. That is why, Communists and Komsomol members remain the most representative part of the Armed Forces to assess all military losses in WWII. We know the exact total death toll of Party and Komsomol members in WWII. It is 9,269,542. All figures are from the cross verified Soviet publications.

The table of my contribution was taken from an article by a Russian historian Igor Ivlev http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/2013/0559/analit02.php. I have only adapted it for WP standards. As any other science history keeps developing. For example, Mr. Ivlev has based his numbers 5 years ago on the other full toll of conscripts - almost 6 million less. He has also cited the number of invalids of 3,465,100 from general Krivosheev's studies. The correct figure is known now as 11,7 million.

There seems to remain a group of Anglowiki editors on the payroll of the Russian Defense Ministry who try to obstruct all efforts to reveal the true death toll of the Red Army. Kindly do not follow their advises. Let the table of the Party and Komsomol members death toll be preserved in the Article.

I put the table into the Talk page in January. Not a single person has objected its contribution into the Article. Why this fuss and vandalic deletes now? Въ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.252.188.39 (talk) 14:16, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

• Dear MelanieN,
  • May I resubmit my contribution "How 56,9 percent Mortality Rate in Red Army Became Known" to WP World War II casualties of the Soviet Union? It contains obviously undisputable Soviet data on the Communist Party and Komsomol members' losses in WWII. Let any EnWiki editor prove the contrary in the Talk page if he can. Only then one is entitled to delete anything.

The RuWiki page is also well guarded by Russian Defense Ministry watchdogs. You may put any truth into the same article and it will disappear the same day.

Watchdogs of the Russian DM in EnWiki are ridiculous at any time, in the present especially. Въ 109.252.188.39 (talk) 13:06, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Closure at WP:Articles for deletion/W41 (2nd nomination)

Dear Melanie,

Working on the Afd-merge backlog, I am confused about the outcome of WP:Articles for deletion/W41 (2nd nomination). The closure mentions merging B46 and B46 nuclear bomb, while the discussion mentioned merging W41 into B41 nuclear bomb. In my mind, however, the only sensible place to merge W41 would be into B41 nuclear bomb, of which the W41 is the warhead version.

Do you have any thoughts about this? Felix QW (talk) 13:45, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Felix QW, and thanks for catching this. I apologize for my confusion. Yes, the intention was to merge the nominated article W41 into B41 nuclear bomb. I will correct my closure. Thank you for your work on these backlogs! -- MelanieN (talk) 19:29, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your quick response, and apologies for the mess-up of the Wikilink. I'll set to work then :) Felix QW (talk) 20:11, 8 May 2022 (UTC)