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- The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (T334338)
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- @64andtim Thank you for the barnstar! I appreciate it. —*Fehufangą (✉ Talk · ✎ Contribs) 07:02, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
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why remove my post 2607:FEA8:4CC0:5400:FCE4:79C1:633C:8E87 (talk) 06:05, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
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On Christian Gonzalez wiki,
how did you read and respond with a half paragraph within like 10 seconds lol anyway I think that changing Gonzo's short description to best person to ever play football is just commonly known truth, not biased whatsoever, 2600:8800:1800:5E0:9815:AEC3:C406:C4FB (talk) 08:10, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Somebody else might have a different opinion about who the "greatest" is. Is "greatest" mentioned anywhere in the article? Is it sourced? No. —*Fehufangą (✉ Talk · ✎ Contribs) 08:11, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- true im just a pats fan and he's like one of the only good people on the team right now so im exaggerating how good he is because he is the only talent I ever get to watch. also whats your typing speed wpm? idk how you respond so quick 2600:8800:1800:5E0:9815:AEC3:C406:C4FB (talk) 08:15, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Fehufanga
I am the manager of a local restaurant, At 7 Bar & Grill in Des Plaines Illinois and I have written an extensive article on things to do in Des Plaines. I think this is a great article to put on the Wikipedia page about the city of Des Plaines.
Please take a look at the article and tell me what you think about it Article: https://www.at7barandgrill.com/things-to-do-in-des-plaines
Thank you,
Erwin Kovacevic Ekibum (talk) 22:55, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
- @Ekibum Hi, Wikipedia is not a place to promote your business by adding an external link to articles. As you are also the owner of the restaurant, you also have a conflict of interest. —*Fehufangą (✉ Talk · ✎ Contribs) 22:57, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
- @Fehufanga I am not the owner, I just work there for salary. This article really covers everything that is interesting in Des Plaines and there is nothing like it on the internet. This is not a promotion, but I want this article to reach a large number of people who would like to visit our beautiful city. Ekibum (talk) 23:05, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
- @Ekibum My mistake, but you still have a conflict of interest as you work there. Please avoid making edits about the restaurant. It is also against the neutral point of view to promote one restaurant over another. —*Fehufangą (✉ Talk · ✎ Contribs) 23:07, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
- @Fehufanga I am not the owner, I just work there for salary. This article really covers everything that is interesting in Des Plaines and there is nothing like it on the internet. This is not a promotion, but I want this article to reach a large number of people who would like to visit our beautiful city. Ekibum (talk) 23:05, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
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Advice to receive the global rollback right and another one
Hello, I was thinking if I could receive some advice on receiving the global rollback permission, such as requirements in addition to combating vandalism and spam on other wikis and not to edit war with vandals/LTAs, because I might consider re-applying in around late 2024; I'm currently a trusted rollbacker on enwiki, eswiki and simplewiki (although I'm probably not as active on the latter two). I did a request on Meta once, but it did not succeed (not done) as I didn’t have enough experience at the time. Based on the opposes, I decided to use TwinkleGlobal to help me with my anti-vandal/spam activities. Currently, I use the abuse log on Meta to watch for vandalism on other projects.
Similarly, are there any requirements for a very trusted user to have the global abuse filter helper right? I do know how to identify some LTAs at the very least (although I'm probably not as trusted as an admin who defends enwiki/simplewiki from the vandals), and I probably have at least some competency at the WP:EFFPR page by responding to false positives for some time; I probably have another trusted user to nominate me for EFH on this project in April (via email).
Thank you. 
– 64andtim (talk) 08:51, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
- @64andtim Hi, global rollback is given to users who are active in cross-wiki antivandalism. I see that you have used SWViewer, so that's good. However, a few months ago it seems that you were edit-warring with HoY on slwiki. From my experience in cross-wiki antivandalism, you should avoid edit warring with known LTAs, or currently active cross-wiki abusers who are known to make frequent revers. Somebody might highlight this in your request. Besides that, your current cross-wiki activity looks good to me. I think if you keep up your cross-wiki activity your request will be successful.
- As for the abuse filter right, I'd say that it's slightly more trusted than global rollback, as this user right grants you the ability to see all filter logs and abuse filters on all Wikimedia projects (not including log entries hidden by oversighters). These logs may contain private data, libel, LTA behaviour and other information that should not be made public, and rules in the filters themselves can be used by abusers to circumvent them. I'd say that once you've used the global rollback for a few months, you can consider it. Having local EFH also helps. I hope this helps. Best, —*Fehufangą (✉ Talk · ✎ Contribs) 09:00, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
- About the edit war, I thought that LTA spammed disruptive text on pages on the Slovene Wikipedia, and I was trying to revert all of their edits but little did I know that this would be considered edit warring. I will take note on the fact that I should avoid to edit war with known vandals (just like Ferien told me not to edit war with Projects on simplewiki), and how I will have addressed the edit war issue by the time I do my next request on Meta.
- As for the global AFH right, in addition to EFH on this wiki, it will also allow me to respond to change filter mistakes on the Simple English Wikipedia (in addition to admins), and also edit filter false positives on the Spanish Wikipedia (Spanish is my first language, and I don't have the experience to modify filters there without causing some risk of disruption, or have the required trust to be an admin on eswiki). While I'm probably on point that I could be trusted to view private data (such as emails, phone numbers, attempted doxxing edits, libel and stuff like that), I might need a few more months to have the required trust on not spilling the frijoles in public, and to continue being competent on responding to false positives here (my regex is probably very basic).
- I hope my response helps, and thank you. 🫡 – 64andtim (talk) 09:18, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
- @64andtim: No problem, and good luck!—*Fehufangą (✉ Talk · ✎ Contribs) 09:33, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
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Jophiel
Hello, Fehufanga. I'm Mreci1, and it's nice meet you. I wish to talk you about the article page of an archangel named Jophiel you had contributed because I made contributions there. Mreci1 (talk) 01:34, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
- @Mreci1 Hi Mreci1. Unfortunately I am not familiar with the subject of the article, my edit there was a routine anti-vandalism edit. Sorry! —*Fehufangą (✉ Talk · ✎ Contribs) 01:37, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
- Technically, it's a contribution debate I had with a user named Archangel53. In the article page of Johphiel, he changed her and she to just Jophiel, explaining that angels are neither male nor female. Although it's true, most of the angels' names sound male while some are female. I changed it back the way it was because I don't think it counts as misinformation if the angels' names either sound male or female. However, Archangel53 changed it back the way he wanted again. Mreci1 (talk) 01:43, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
- @Mreci1 It sounds like something that you should discuss with Archangel53 on the talk page of the article: Talk:Jophiel. —*Fehufangą (✉ Talk · ✎ Contribs) 06:59, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
- Technically, it's a contribution debate I had with a user named Archangel53. In the article page of Johphiel, he changed her and she to just Jophiel, explaining that angels are neither male nor female. Although it's true, most of the angels' names sound male while some are female. I changed it back the way it was because I don't think it counts as misinformation if the angels' names either sound male or female. However, Archangel53 changed it back the way he wanted again. Mreci1 (talk) 01:43, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
Question from Mrharry871
Hi how are you? Mrharry871 (talk) 10:32, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
- @Mrharry871: I am doing fine. What do you want to ask?—*Fehufangą (✉ Talk · ✎ Contribs) 10:33, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
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- An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.
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Article Page: Jophiel
Hello, Fehufanga. I tried to talk to Archangel53 about the contributions of Jophiel, but he didn't answer. And recently, another user named NebY did the same changes as him. I could try to talk with NebY about letting Jophiel remain a female, but he would ignore me or disagree. He has joined longer than me, but I can try to find reliable sources of Archangel Jophiel being a female. Mreci1 (talk) 02:08, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
- @Mreci1 Sorry for the late response; I can only repeat my previous advice: taking it to the talk page of the article. When disagreements happen, the best way to resolve it is through the talk page. It's great that you are looking for reliable sources, but beyond this, I cannot help you at all. —*Fehufangą (✉ Talk · ✎ Contribs) 21:51, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
Re: Roma quanta fuit
If you can't get the article from the resource request, you can try contacting Martina Topp on Facebook and Instagram. She is very active on those platforms and would probably respond quite fast to your request. Viriditas (talk) 21:16, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
- @Viriditas Thanks, I'll try that too. —*Fehufangą (✉ Talk · ✎ Contribs) 03:22, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
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DYK for Franz Jakob Späth
On 29 February 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Franz Jakob Späth, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Franz Jakob Späth's fortepianos were a favorite of Mozart, but Beethoven refused to play them? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Franz Jakob Späth. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Franz Jakob Späth), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:04, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
Precious
historic personalities
Thank you for quality articles about people in cultural history such as Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, Franz Jakob Späth and Christian Ernst Friederici, for the split to List of compositions by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, for fighting vandalism on a large scale, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
You are recipient no. 2916 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:38, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt Thank you so much, as someone who is still trying out content writing on the English Wikipedia, this means a lot. —*Fehufangą (✉ Talk · ✎ Contribs) 12:45, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
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Books & Bytes – Issue 61
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Issue 61, January – February 2024
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There is a mop reserved in your name
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You are a remarkable editor in many ways. You would be a good administrator, in my opinion, and appear to be well qualified. You personify an administrator without tools and have gained my support already! |
As you are a trusted oversighter and admin on simplewiki, I hereby agree that nobody will object on you becoming an admin and edit filter manager here on the English Wikipedia. Codename Noreste 🤔 talk 02:28, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
- Absolute +1; thought you were one for a long time. DD (main account | talk) 00:50, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Codename Noreste @Queen of Hearts Thank you for the kind words. I appreciate it. I will give it some thought. —*Fehufangą (✉ Talk · ✎ Contribs) 23:42, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
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