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Guild of Copy Editors December 2024 Newsletter

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Tol Bot (talk) 21:00, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

On your wonderful User:Vanderwaalforces/checkTranslationAttribution script

Hello! I recently installed your attribution script (along with CFA's script) after reading this discussion at NPP. Although I let my patroller rights expire because I have a pretty cruddy AfD rate and admittedly subpar application of notability on Wikipedia, I find your script useful for practicing patrolling procedures if I ever decide to apply for the right again.

Today's featured article, Apocalypse of Peter, displays a big red "This article is likely an unattributed translation" box warning at the top of the page, and I do not have the experience to understand why. As you developed the script, is it possible for you to figure out why this page is detected as such by the tool? If it's simply a false positive, then feel free to ignore this. Cheers. LR.127 (talk) 04:32, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@LR.127 Hi there. Thank you for installing the userscript and finding it useful. Huh? you let your patroller rights expire without re-requesting for permanence? I hope there were no issues and will love to see you back at NPP, please!

The script fetches edit summaries of articles and look for certain keywords that might indicate a possible interwiki translation, I just did a manual search on Apocalypse of Peter's history and found that there are edit summaries that have the keywords even though they were unrelated to an interwiki translation. So, yep, it is indeed a false positive. Happy editing! Vanderwaalforces (talk) 06:31, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Response to the message dropped on my Talk Page

Moved to User talk:Royalesignature

SPI case

FYI, because you may have an interest in this: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/DieudoneBila --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 21:52, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Drm310 thanks for following this up and notifying me. They were definitely the same person. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 05:46, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New pages patrol January 2025 Backlog drive

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Happy holidays!

Hello there, 'tis the season again, believe it or not, the years pass so quickly now! A big thank you for all of your contributions to Wikipedia in 2024! Wishing you a Very happy and productive 2025!  ♦ Maliner (talk) 13:15, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Maliner Thank you Maliner! Happy holidays and see you in 2025! Vanderwaalforces (talk) 08:52, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Holidays

Hello Vanderwaalforces: 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 Wikipedia. Cheers, ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 20:54, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@WikiOriginal-9 Thank you for the wishes and I wish you same! See you in 2025! Vanderwaalforces (talk) 14:45, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Happy Holidays!

Hello Vanderwaalforces: 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 Wikipedia. Cheers, --- Bhairava7 • (@píng mє-tαlk mє) 10:28, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Bhairava7 Thank you for the wishes and I wish you same! See you in 2025! Vanderwaalforces (talk) 14:45, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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