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Hello, Peaceray. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:North Creek (Washington), 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) 21:07, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Moved to Talk:Orson Welles § Orson Welles Sources Remain, With Content Removed

 – Peaceray (talk) 18:16, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 03:15, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations, administrator Peaceray! ☆ Bri (talk) 19:50, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Peaceray (talk) 20:03, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

+1 Congratulations! Earned and deserved! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 00:26, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Another Believer: Thank you! Peaceray (talk) 03:22, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

On your election as a new admin! Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:54, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Peaceray (talk) 20:03, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

🫡 Bluerasberry (talk) 20:21, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

+1 I had no doubt you would be among the Chosen! That you were validates the process! Daniel Case (talk) 21:07, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats, Peaceray! ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 21:30, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm very pleased to see Wikipedia has gained an excellent administrator, congratulations! Aoi (青い) (talk) 23:40, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delighted to hear that you have gained the mop. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 22:22, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Bluerasberry, SuperHamster, Aoi, and OhanaUnited: Thank you! Peaceray (talk) 03:22, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A bit late to the celebratory party (family funeral) but pleased as punch to say Congratulations and welcome to the mop club! --Rosiestep (talk) 17:25, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Rosiestep! Peaceray (talk) 20:11, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I may not be able to offer you the baton, but I hope you can savour these bâtonnets as you study all the new admin buttons! Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 21:48, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Significa liberdade: Thank you! Peaceray (talk) 03:23, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats on winning the adminship. Wikibear47 (talk) 01:45, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Wikibear47: Thank you! Peaceray (talk) 03:24, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

	The axe of responsibility
	Shiny new tools might be used to mete out justice, mercy or a dose of reality. Let us commit to not losing our cool when using them. Our only armor is the entire community's trust. We wear it for each other, each new contributor, and each new generation to come. May you ever be the community's champion. BusterD (talk) 14:21, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required
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Thank you for the advice. I believe my contributions before becoming an administrator exhibit the qualities you mention above. I aspire to even handedness, an open mind, compassion, & a protection of Wikipedia within the guidance of its policies & regulations. On my candidacy page, Conlinp asked if I be willing to undergo recall if the community raised concerns about your conduct as an admin & I responded with an emphatic yes. Peaceray (talk) 17:32, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Congrats! Andre🚐 22:56, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

	The new admin baton
	Congratulations on winning the admin election! DoubleGrazing passed the fabled baton to me and, and having given it a twirl or two, I am passing it on to you! Once you are done appreciating its magnificence, do pass it to the next admin. Happy mopping!

Thank you! Peaceray (talk) 16:08, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Friendly nudge to pass this BATON to FOARP :) HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 23:03, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done! Peaceray (talk) 23:14, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You might want to make that indefinite; this edit to their user page indicates they are WP:NOTHERE.   –Skywatcher68 (talk) 14:07, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am new to being an administrator as of 2024-11-04. We will see if Vaibhav 2005 continues to vandalize once the 31 hours are up.

I have met a few experienced & valuable editors who have said that their first edit was vandalism. One of these became a Wikimedian of the Year. I am loathe to completely block someone indefinitely without giving them a second change. I know their are exceptions to that, but I take them on a case-by-case basis. Peaceray (talk) 18:09, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Moved to Talk:Isetta § Was the Isetta manufactured or not in Argentina?

 – Peaceray (talk) 22:36, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Good morning I am fairly new to Wikipedia and I was wondering if you could take a look at my user page and give some feedback on it and if all the information is alright. Some recommendations would also be appreciated. Thank you :D TocaTheFrog (talk) 10:26, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@TocaTheFrog: Good Tuesday! There are a couple of things in the Wikitext of version of your user page that I think need tweaking. I would direct you to two resources first.

• Help:Wikitext (shortcut H:WT) gives the basics for Wiki markup.
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (shortcut MOS:MOS) is the style manual for all English Wikipedia articles (though provisions related to accessibility apply across the entire project, not just to articles).

As per WP:UP#What may I have in my user pages?, your WP:User pages can be whatever you want it to be as long as it does not violate WP:UP#What may I not have in my user pages?. Note that if there is some CSS error, some user, or more likely a WP:BOT may come along & fix it.

Now that said, here are two things that I spotted, the first major, the second minor.

1. Your headings are different from what MOS:GOODHEAD & MOS:SECTIONHEAD recommend for headings. For example, you used = '''<u>Who am I?</u>''' =^[a] & == '''<u>Why am I here?</u>''' ==, whereas the preferred format for page headings would be ==Who am I?== & ==Why am I here?==.
2. Try not to leave newlines between bullet headings. This creates an almost imperceptible greater spacing between *, but if you are using #, then it will restart your numbering sequence.

I hope this is helpful. Fell free to look at the wikitext of this section to see how I formatted things. Also, you can put any shortcut in the search bar to facilitate getting to the associated page. Peaceray (talk) 16:51, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good evening to you, Peaceray. I seek your help with a matter concerning an IP you previously blocked, 141.154.49.21. Said IP has removed pertinent news from the Current Events section of the website earlier this evening. I responded by undoing that change, and their response is that they have reverted my change and informed me that "That is not at all how it works, Danegeld".

My change summary stated that "If it's here, then it's relevant." The news item was properly sourced, and I believe that the editor on the end of that change, may have been acting in bad faith, because the edit was about the recognition of the Palestinian state, by Canadian MPs.

I do not know what to do about this, and wondered if this could be (as the last block was set for), a contentious subject, and whether that block prevented the editor from making those changes. It is news, it is current and in my opinion it should be on that page.

Since this isn't the wiki I'm most used to editing, I'd like to ask for advice on how to handle this topic. I recognise it's not every user's "cup of tea", but if it is newsworthy enough that CBC broadcast it, then it's news, isn't it?

Sorry to tie up your talk with this topic, but I hope you can help. Thank you. Dane|Geld

23:14, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

• The material should be restored & 141.154.49.21 warned with {{uw-ewsoft}} or {{uw-ew}}. It is incumbent upon the disagreeing editors then to try to bring the problem editor to talk pages. I emphasize the WP:BRD & WP:VNT essays (& it helps to mention that they are essays). It is important to work your way through the levels of warnings. Being warned via 1st, 2nd, 3rd, & 4th warnings is important when you are landing complaints on WP:AIV. Really, I should have insisted on it before initially blocking. I would also ask for advice at WP:ANI. I think it would be better to involve another administrator(s) at this point. Peaceray (talk) 05:43, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have not named you, but this AN/I-case might be of interest for you: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents:Margaret Sanger & User:Anotherperson123. The Banner talk 14:09, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It seems I have the serendipity of running into you again! I was looking through a maintenance category and noticed your subscriptions subpage wasn't archiving properly. The specific problem is the |archive= argument isn't set to a valid value. There are a few ways to fix it, but it depends on how you want it to work. If you want it to just create a separate page for every year, you can do the following:

{{User:MiszaBot/config
| algo          = old(366d)
| archive       = User talk:Peaceray/Subscriptions/Archive %(year)d
| archiveheader = {{Annual archive}}
}}

This will create each archive with the page title format "User talk:Peaceray/Subscriptions/Archive year" so that {{Annual archive}} will function as a header for each archive page that detects and lists all the years. Alternatively, if you just want to go the common route where you start counting from 1 and continue counting up from there:

{{User:MiszaBot/config
| algo                = old(366d)
| archive             = User talk:Peaceray/Subscriptions/Archive %(counter)d
| counter             = 1
| maxarchivesize      = 150K
| archiveheader       = {{Archive}}
| minthreadstoarchive = 1
| minthreadsleft      = 4
}}

{{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis}} might also be another option, though I'm less familiar. Retro (talk | contribs) 07:58, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I have replaced the malfunctioning code with the Sequential solution. Peaceray (talk) 17:14, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Peaceray, and congrats; didn't realize you just made admin! I noticed this edit at User talk:141.154.49.21 undoing declining a block appeal, after Fathoms Below pointed out the procedural issue involved. A self-revert is normally okay, but this went further than that. I believe in this case your edit was a violation of WP:TPO for two reasons: first, because your decline had already been responded to (namely, by FB), and secondly, because you not only self-reverted, but you removed another editor's comment (FB's), which is not permitted. (Ironically, the only user who could have legitimately removed FB's post is IP 141 themself, per WP:OWNTALK—but note that this does not also apply to the possibility of IP removing *your* post, which would have been excluded by the exception that forbids users from removing declined block appeals.) The way this should have been handled, imho, is that instead of removing your own post, you should have WP:REDACTed it by <s> striking it out </s>, and then <u> adding new, underlined comments </u> to explain the reason for the redaction. Had FB not responded before you changed your mind about the decline, you could have just self-reverted; but not after there was a follow-up comment replying to yours. HTH, and best of luck with the mop! Mathglot (talk) 07:55, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Mathglot: Yes, you are correct & I will use the strikethough moving forward. Still new to adminship, so I will inevitably make mistakes while learning my way around. Thank you for your feedback! Peaceray (talk) 17:50, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Moved to Talk:Larry Collins (guitarist) § Larry Collins (guitarist)

 – Peaceray (talk) 18:58, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please look into why cus I couldn't find anything as there is no info I can find and also I saw something on tea house a few months ago of blocking India idk details and the block is 2 years😶 Yaboibro! (talk) 07:24, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:WikiProject Medicine/proposed doc has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 10:24, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings Peaceray. I'm always glad for constructive criticism; I don't want to overlook things. To assist me in not making such a mistake in the future, can you tell me where on the Margaret Sanger page it is that "if you had truely [sic] read the full article, would have seen that the fuller (& correct quote) was already in . . ." (reference given). I looked at that reference and didn't find it. I did a text search for the phrase "her goal was to eliminate the Negro race" that was in my quote in didn't find it; yet you said I would find it if I read the full article. I want to be a better, and fair, contributor to Wikipedia. To that end, can you tell me what I am doing wrong so that I missed the quote that you said was there, on the Sanger page? Chronic2 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 16:34, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Chronic2: You failed to search for the relevant string where I told you to look. I have further responded to the original thread at User talk:Chronic2#December 2024.

If you want me to respond to the original comment, please use the {{ping}} template, as in {{ping|Peaceray}}.

Please remember to sign your comments. This is a requirement as per WP:Signatures. You should not rely on SineBot to do this for you.Peaceray (talk) 17:19, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Moved to User talk:2600:1008:B160:54A0:5E0:52F:C254:544C § December 2024

 – Peaceray (talk) 19:49, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding this edit, that "evidently a spambot or a compromised account" is, apparently, one of the choices in the drop-down menu Huggle or Twinkle offers when making the report. A lot of users often don't think too clearly about what that says (and in any event you were right to decline the report). Daniel Case (talk) 18:07, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Daniel Case: Thanks! Yes, it seems important to know when to say no, & also to educate errant reporters. I am still learning, as they must be still learning as well. I sometimes wonder if I should also be pinging them, since some of the users might be drive-by reporters. Peaceray (talk) 18:20, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, sometimes I've done that. I also watch out for people using the drop-down menu for "evidently a vandalism-only account" when they report IPs (of course, the better fix would be to amend the code so that option is not available when an IP is being reported (something beyond my capabilities). Daniel Case (talk) 18:23, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

You just reverted my edits of the article on R since you interpreted my edits as a "test" that should be performed in the Wiki Sandbox. However, these edits were genuine and not a test. Please restore my edits unless you have any criticism against the contents of the edits.

Best, DoctorAro DoctorAro (talk) 16:27, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In fact, another editor did that reversion. And I probably should have used the {{uw-mos1}} warning rather than the {{uw-test1}} template. Since you messaged me both here & on your talk page, I have added a more detailed discussion at User talk:DoctorAro#December 2024. Peaceray (talk) 17:21, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2025!

Hello Peaceray, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2025. Happy editing, Abishe (talk) 23:53, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply] Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.