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U5 and drafts

Hi, Ternera. I see you already talked to Spicy about this, but since I did tell one of the users involved that I'd follow up with you, I'm still going to check in with a note on U5. In short, it has an exemption for "plausible drafts", which is a phrase that lends itself to a pretty broad interpretation. Please see Wikipedia:What U5 is not for an infopage I wrote on the criterion's misuse, and User:Tamzin/Plausible drafts for my personal standards of what I consider not "plausible". I see that you've started moving encyclopedic content off of userpages, and I think that's a much better approach; it's become the de facto practice of a lot of admins who patrol CAT:U5, when it comes to content that is plausible as a draft but shouldn't really be a userpage. If you're interested, a while ago I made the template {{draftified userpage}} to replace a userpage that has been moved, lest new users get confused. There's also {{subst:uw-draftmoved}} for explaining on their talkpage. Hope all of that's helpful; happy editing. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe|🤷) 21:04, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey @Tamzin - thanks so much for the explanation of U5! This makes a lot of sense to me. My apologies for rushing into tagging userpages without taking time to familiarize myself with the process first. I'll do my best to assume good faith in the future and will consider moving pages to sandbox or draftspace before placing a speedy deletion tag. Have a nice day! Ternera (talk) 21:13, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comparing texts

Beyond Compare or Meld may be of use to you. For more see Comparison of file comparison tools. Polygnotus (talk) 20:45, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I'll take a look! Ternera (talk) 21:22, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Moves without redirect

Take note that, as a global rollbacker, you are required to only use the ... suppressredirect function[] on the English Wikipedia in the context of counter-vandalism efforts per Wikipedia:Global rights policy. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 20:11, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for pointing this out, Pppery. Ternera (talk) 20:44, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Replacing icon with large image

In [1] you replaced the 20px File:Confused-tpvgames.png with the nominally 512px File:Confused-tpvgames.svg. It looks awful when no size is specified. I fixed my page [2] but a search [3] finds other pages I haven't fixed. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:34, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey @PrimeHunter - thanks for letting me know about this and sorry for the inconvenience caused. I'll take a look at the other replacements I made today and fix any that are too large. Ternera (talk) 22:42, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]