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Precious anniversary

Precious

Seven years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:22, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Emrikolino (21:46, 18 December 2025)

Hi, so you are my mentor apparently, I have one singular question for you! How do I make my own Wikipedia pages? Do I need to edit stuff before I'm allowed to make my own? --Emrikolino (talk) 21:46, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You can used WP:AfC to develop drafts Kingsif (talk) 12:03, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2025–26 Supercopa de España Femenina

Hi Kingsif, I saw that you created the 2024–25 Supercopa de España Femenina article - would you be able to help me create the 2025–26 Supercopa de España Femenina article? I'm happy to work on it together in a draft or add to the article :) RossEvans19 (talk) 02:13, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I might be able to, but you may have noticed I'm back to not being very active Kingsif (talk) 12:02, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No worries! Enjoy your break :)) RossEvans19 (talk) 01:05, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for The Little Hours

On 22 December 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Little Hours, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Aubrey Plaza got high with the "weed nuns" to promote The Little Hours? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Little Hours. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, The Little Hours), 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 nominate it.

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Question from Abdirahman Abdi Mumin on User:Abdirahman Abdi Mumin (21:24, 22 December 2025)

I have a question about editing the article “Somaliland politics” Ama: I need help with my user page: User:Abdirahman Abdi Mumin --Abdirahman Abdi Mumin (talk) 21:24, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Neither of those exist, if you're looking to create an article, please see WP:AfC Kingsif (talk) 07:09, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Holiday wishes and a happy new year!

	Infinite Possibilities
	Is this real life? Yes! Is this going to be forever? No! Elvis is getting ready to leave the building and 2026 is about to be born, kicking and screaming. They say nothing gold can stay, but I say, don't listen to them, stay golden all the same. Here's to a new year of infinite diversity and beautiful combinations! Viriditas (talk) 21:52, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Global Citizen Live logo.jpg

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Women in Red - January 2026

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New pages patrol January–February 2026 Backlog drive

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Welcome to the 2026 WikiCup!

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Question from Moinget on User talk:~2026-25986 (10:24, 2 January 2026)

Hellooo how can I do to create content --Moinget (talk) 10:24, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

To draft an article, you can use WP:AFC. For other general editing queries, there are editing guidelines available through wp:HELP, and the wp:teahouse is available for such support Kingsif (talk) 10:30, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

January 2026

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is WP:FORUM, personal attacks and aspersions on Talk:2026 United States strikes in Venezuela.. Borgenland (talk) 19:02, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the notice. Kingsif (talk) 19:06, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. Apologies if I failed to clarify the circumstances and probably gave you a heart attack. Borgenland (talk) 19:49, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, one click and all was clear! Kingsif (talk) 21:47, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Question from Townboyeditor (14:13, 5 January 2026)

Hii sir,

I wanna know which sources(media or research papers) I can add in references and can I make some pages? --Townboyeditor (talk) 14:13, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:RS and WP:AfC Kingsif (talk) 13:35, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Breagui (21:21, 9 January 2026)

Hello, I'm trying to translate some pages to gain experience and get some work done so I can work as a freelance translator. Could you give me some advice? --Breagui (talk) 21:21, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think Wikipedia, with no editorial oversight of articles translated between different language Wikipedias, would support your work as a translator. Kingsif (talk) 13:36, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Extra space in archives

Hello, Kingsif. I stumbled upon User talk:Kingsif/Archives/ 1 by accident.

Is the extra space in |format= %%i in the Clue Bot archiving config at the top of your talk page intentional? Usually, when archive subpages with slashes is used, this value doesn't have the extra slash: |format=%%i, so that archive pages become "Talk:Example/Archive/1", "Talk:Example/Archive/2", etc. The extra space in |format= %%i is needed for slash-less subpages: "Talk:Example/Archive 1", "Talk:Example/Archive 2", etc, because the Bot is sensitive to whitespace (it's a side effect of the configuration being split between |archiveprefix= and |format=). —⁠andrybak (talk) 00:52, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of FC Barcelona C 30–0 FC Cerdanyola del Vallès for deletion

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Crowsus (talk) 09:38, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Jeremi0009 (15:06, 22 January 2026)

Can I publish my book --Jeremi0009 (talk) 15:06, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

On Wikipedia? No. Kingsif (talk) 21:37, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Fantastic Phantom (talk) 21:20, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

Hello! Is this the correct format for asking questions on talkpages? In an article I was reading, there's a defunct link in the references. It appears to be viewable through the Wayback Machine, however. So, I was wondering if it's alright to simply replace the link with one for the article in the Wayback Machine. Thanks!

@Fantastic Phantom: - If you sent it through the mentor page, I imagine so, though you didn't seem to sign your comment. As for the link, there's parameters to include in cite templates like "archive-url" and "archive-date" as well as "url-status", to indicate all of the above. Using the visual editor may make this easier, I'm not sure, but you should be able to see examples on many articles which have "archived from" in references. Kingsif (talk) 21:36, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]