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Tag bombing at Maharaja Ranjit Singh Armed Forces Preparatory Institute
Hi! I don't know if you know this, but tagbombing (adding lots of cleanup tags, both at the top and inline) is generally not very liked or useful. If it pervades in the entire article, usually only notices at the top or in a specific section are necessary. I hope this helped! :) Sennecaster (What now?) 01:32, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you for the feedback! I'll use more of the top cleanup tags from now on. (FYI, I am fairly conservative about what kind of stuff here needs cleanup, which is why I tend to insert more cleanup tags wherever I go.) Duckmather (talk) 20:04, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
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Wikipedia and copyright
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- Thanks for the copyright notice, Diannaa! I'll be much more careful about using copyrighted content in the future. Duckmather (talk) 21:00, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
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- It's fixed.Duckmather (talk) 13:48, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
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- Fixed. Duckmather (talk) 18:00, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
July 2021
Hello, I'm David Gerard. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. None of crypto sites, crypto site reprints, promotional sites, personal blogs, or Forbes contributor blogs are Reliable Sources for Wikipedia - David Gerard (talk) 09:36, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
Bad referencing in books
A book cannot be a reference in an article about itself. References must be about the subject, and except in very rare cases a book is not about itself. Please stop adding references to books in articles about those same books.
Additionally, you have been repeatedly violating WP:CITEVAR, which says not to change the established style of referencing in an article. In an article that uses Citation Style 2 (the {{citation}} template), you should not be using Citation Style 1 (the {{cite}} line of templates). And in an article using list-defined referencing (all references named at the end of the article inside the {{reflist}} template, sometimes used in conjunction with the {{r}} template to refer to later named templates) you should not be placing the references inline, in the text of the article. You have been repeatedly doing this despite my previous notifications in edit messages that you should stop. Do you want me to start mass-rollbacking your edits? Pay attention and do better. —David Eppstein (talk) 21:06, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
- In addition, your edits at Combinatorial Geometry in the Plane show that you did not even make the most cursory attempt to look at the sources that were already present in the article. If you had looked at them, you would have noticed that the supposed 1950 publication date was a typo, instead of tagging it as contradictory and yet propagating the same information into the infobox you created, without checking it for correctness. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:10, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
Startups in Odisha moved to draftspace
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Startups in Kerala moved to draftspace
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Startups in Madhya Pradesh moved to draftspace
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Nomination of Bihar Startup Policy for deletion
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- Fixed. Duckmather (talk) 18:52, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
Ideamarket moved to draftspace
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AfC notification: Draft:Ideamarket has a new comment
- (I know you only split the article, and did your due diligence by tagging it appropriately, so thank you for that! I'll leave this here anyways, but wanted to make note of this.) ASUKITE 00:00, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion nomination of Rally (cryptocurrency)
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Speedy deletion nomination of Roll (cryptocurrency)
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- David Gerard (talk) 16:44, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
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- Fixed. Duckmather (talk) 22:18, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
Signpost interview request - Random Page Patrol
Hello! I'm writing an article for The Signpost about the Random Page Patrol wikiproject. We often do interviews with Wikiproject members, and I saw your name on the list of members. As a newer member, I'd love to ask about the project, why you do it, and why you think it's valuable. I could drop a few questions for you below which you could answer in your own time over the next couple of weeks. Let me know - thank you! Ganesha811 (talk) 19:21, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks for the request! It'd be great for you to ask me some questions about this. (I'm somewhat new to the entire enterprise of writing an encyclopedia anyways ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.)
- As for the questions you've already asked: I participate in the project because I find it a great way to find stuff to write about. (As you may have already noticed, I *do* have a marked interest in mathematics and computer science, but I often find it edifying to write about other topics.) Also, I think that the project is valuable because it brings attention to articles that lack it. Duckmather (talk) 00:56, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
see User:Abraham236
User:Abraham236 contains {{User shared IP address|Duckmather}}. If true I think you should add that template to your user page. -- PBS (talk) 23:10, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks for the notification! The template you're asking about was already there on my userpage under the formerly autocollapsed "WP-relevant" userboxbox. (I just edited the page so that none of the userboxboxes autocollapsed, so all the userboxes are now visible.) Duckmather (talk) 04:51, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
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- Done! I've entered what I've done so far. (I'll likely won't be able to accept prizes because of it beyond my means, but I'll join for the fun anyways ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) Duckmather (talk) 20:32, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
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- Fixed. Duckmather (talk) 06:05, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
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List of Hindawi journals
These tags are ridiculous. Just because a journal is defunct, does not make it cease to be verifiable, e.g. Advances in Acoustics and Vibration. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 06:46, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
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