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January 2024

Please refrain from making constructive edits to Wikipedia. Your edits appear to constitute helping to build the encyclopedia and have been kept. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Repeated constructive editing may result in Wikilove. Thank you. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 08:44, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just kidding. Thank you so much for tagging articles that are lacking sources. The {{more citations needed}} tag sorted them to Category:Articles lacking sources from January 2024 which is a backlog I'm currently trying to deal with by citing sources. If you're interested, you can find me and others at Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 08:47, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Courtesy ping - sock accusation

See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jedediah78, an account you've been involved with. Thanks. 10mmsocket (talk) 15:44, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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A bowl of strawberries for you!

Thank you for cleaning up Moshe Reuven. COI clean up can be a real time sink! I'm guessing you saw that both editors have been blocked. Netherzone (talk) 20:39, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to the drive!

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Fix a random page lacking sources

Cielquiparle (talk) 03:55, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Year's Best Short Science Fiction Novels

Are you interest in taking this to WP:AfD? Ping me. Bearian (talk) 21:06, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question about edit revert

Hello there, I’m a student doing research and edits on artists’ Wikipedia pages and noticed that you just reverted the edits I made this morning. I’m definitely new to this so I’m just wondering if you can let me know why you reverted the edits? YiyangMikeLiu (talk) 19:55, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@YiyangMikeLiu, You added content without citations or citations to WP:PRIMARY sources such as Talwar Gallery. Your removed maintenance templates without justification. The tone of your additions was extremely promotional. Most significantly, artists associated with Talwar Gallery have a long, long history of paid editors adding unreferenced promotional content and so it is unlikely at best that your edits are in good faith. Vegantics (talk) 20:00, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I just googled your username. Tell your bosses to knock off the promotional editing. Vegantics (talk) 20:01, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your feedback. As unfriendly as your response is I do appreciate you getting back to me quickly and I’m just wondering if there’s any constructive feedback on making edits to the artist page? I do believe that it is fair to have an artist’s latest exhibitions updated and as for sources I’m just wondering if other art journals online also count as primary? I’d assume that art journals written by critics would count as secondary. Thank you so much! YiyangMikeLiu (talk) 20:09, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@YiyangMikeLiu Let me be very clear: you cannot edit articles related to Talwar gallery. Doing so will get your account banned if it isn't going to be already. That being said, art journals not connected to the artist in question are absolutely okay. The goal of WP:SECONDARY is to ensure that information is notable enough to merit inclusion on Wikipedia and is not biased through a connection to the article subject. Vegantics (talk) 20:13, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

June 2025 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award

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		This award is given in recognition to Vegantics for collecting more than 47.0 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's JUN25 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing over 9,500 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – DreamRimmer Alt ■ 15:53, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Lists of downloadable PlayStation games

I found that you added the Unreferenced template into Lists of downloadable PlayStation games, which is a list of lists that wouldn't need any references and as such wouldn't need to be tagged. Please keep in mind. Go D. Usopp (talk) 09:11, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Go D. Usopp, per MOS:LISTS, lists “must be supported with references like any article.” I didn’t see guidance excepting lists of lists from that requirement— is there somewhere else that clarifies this? Thanks. Vegantics (talk) 09:50, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Per Wikipedia:List of lists, these lists may have references, but not mandated. Go D. Usopp (talk) 09:58, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also from sourcing rules per WP:LISTVERIFY, there are no statements that would warrant inline citations as references in this list of lists. Go D. Usopp (talk) 10:01, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Go D. Usopp, I'm not seeing where in WP:LoL it says that references are optional. If this is a policy across all lists of lists I'd like to respond accordingly. However, without citations it becomes much more difficult to demonstrate WP:NLIST.

As for Lists of downloadable PlayStation games, video games are by no means my domain. I assumed that the information about these games being originally released for PlayStation and later being made available for download (as well as the relevant consoles) would require citations to verify. If this is such obvious knowledge that it does not require a citation, I defer to you. Vegantics (talk) 13:34, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Pinball barnstar for Spooky Pinball

Great article, filling one of the gaps of pinball manufacturers.

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Wilbers (talk) 15:05, 18 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

space.com

It looks like maybe in your purge of Willamette Weekly citations you inadvertently deleted a space.com citation. Or was that intentional? The article in question is Hakuto-R Mission 2. Feel free to follow up on the talk page there, or ping me. Best regards, (— 𝐬𝐝𝐒𝐝𝐬 — - talk) 21:34, 19 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Sdsds, While removing the Willamette Weekly citations from Hakuto-R Mission 2, I also tried to combine duplicated citations and accidentally replaced the space.com article with one the ispace-inc.com citation from the preceding sentence. Thank you for bringing it to my attention-- I moved the ispace-inc.com citation back to the correct spot. Vegantics (talk) 21:58, 19 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Draft:Five Star Final (pinball)

Hello again, I've been trying to improve the referencing on Draft:Five Star Final (pinball) as Mindstrm has abandoned it for now.

After discovering eLibrary Museum of the Game which I have added to the Pinball Wikiproject page I've added more references from contemporary periodicals which gets it a bit nearer. I know there is something about it in the first of the pinball compendiums because the index for that is included in the second volume (which I have). Can you have a look and see if you can find anything else useful, maybe including newspapers as you seem to find some things there that I miss?

I think some of the Components and Gameplay features sections that is unsourced but seen to be true from the photo in the infobox don't necessarily need to be specifically referenced. Should be able to get the draft ready for submission between us. Wilbers (talk) 23:52, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Wilbers, I'd love to help. I should be able to pull together more references in the next couple of days. I'll let you know when I have something. Vegantics (talk) 14:36, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Wilbers I added a bunch of possible references to the draft talk page. I think much of the information on layout and gameplay can be cut because there aren't sufficent references and WP:NOTHOWTO, but there's also some interesting info I found on Five Star Final playing a role in the rise of pinball/arcade culture and being banned/unbanned as part of the backlash against pinball. Let me know if you want help with writing/edits. Vegantics (talk) 15:36, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I have used some of those. I have removed the gameplay features section entirely, but left what is now a much shorter gameplay section in there, but only have 3 references for that part. Odd sentence here and there that should probably be changed but makes more sense for you to have a go at it now rather than a polish edit from me, Wilbers (talk) 15:48, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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@Vegantics: (pinging you to guarantee a reply) yes, I have some regulations I (or we) would like to pass on, with there also being an option for us to simply cut the edit-a-thon short by banning #MEUG25 through an edit filter until there is a more satisfactory response, which may well be the best option as this would just mean cutting it short to prevent further disruption. We could also: (as conditions to pass on)

1. Use correct and accurate edit summaries
2. Stop them from using AI to add to the articles
3. Allow them (once the article has been thoroughly expanded) to remove stub templates, but not just remove them if they make an edit.

Kind regards, Theeverywhereperson (talk here) 17:03, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You can trust me with this. I am a native Ugandan. it even says so on my user page. Theeverywhereperson (talk here) 17:10, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Theeverywhereperson These all make sense to me and I also support adding an edit filter until there are better controls in place from the group of editors. I'm not sure who to reach out to with authority to filter the hashtag, but will keep looking into it. I've also reached out to MichealKal on his talk page to try to get some response. Vegantics (talk) 17:27, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. If you were an admin, then this may be easier. Theeverywhereperson (talk here) 17:29, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, this is unfortunately well beyond my regular scope. Vegantics (talk) 17:32, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

November 2025 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award

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Potential resolution of AI usage on recent articles

Hi Vegantics! Apologies for the back and forth regarding Barwon Park! I have since added some further citations and removed unsupported sections in an effort to remove the machine-generated label. I have also done the same for "Thomson Memorial Presbyterian Church" which also had similar issues. I also hoped to clarify in a talk page note on "All Saints' Anglican Church, Derrinallum", that that article was not machine-generated and why it may have been confused as one, given Barwon Park and Thomson Memorial contained machine-generated text. Hopefully this message clears things up! I think the lesson has been learnt regarding AI and the plethora of issues it creates. Kind Regards and happy further editing! Ethan (1geelOng1) 1geel0ng1 (talk) 01:20, 7 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @1geel0ng1, thank you for reaching out. I think you've made good improvements to Barwon Park and demonstrated that you've reviewed the content to ensure it is appropriately sourced. I will remove the AI maintenance template. Regarding the draft for Thomson Memorial Presbyterian Church, I can see that you have made similar improvements but the article relies heavily on self-published materials and so I think it would benefit from going through AfC review.

I'll address my concerns regarding All Saints' Anglican Church, Derrinallum on the draft talk page, but there are several inaccuracies/inconsistencies that made it believe that it was AI generated. Generally when trying to determine if a work was AI generated I check if the text is verified by the in-line citations and found that it was not accurate in this article. I appreciate your thoughtful reply and hope this helps to improve your Wikipedia editing journey. Vegantics (talk) 16:07, 7 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Welcome to the drive!

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Fix a random page lacking sources

Cielquiparle (talk) 21:59, 4 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

A Barnstar for you!

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Cliff Chenfeld submission

Hello! I saw that you had taken a look at my latest submission of a page about entrepreneur Cliff Chenfeld, which was marked by another editor as "not written from a neutral point of view" and which I have now resubmitted with some edits. Honestly I did not get their criticism, as it was a "just the facts" article, but I have stripped out some of the facts about how his two brands (Kids Bop and Razor & Tie) became huge.

Another mystery is why an old page about him, which was up for years, had been deleted in the first place, especially since his business partner Craig Balsam has had more or less the same career with the same accomplishments for the same two brands and has had a detailed page up for many years. Anyway, sorry for going on like this, I just wanted to see if you might have time to give the latest submission a look. Thanks! PSPazW (talk) 18:47, 25 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @PSPazW, thanks for reaching out. While your article isn't the most egregious example of promotional tone that I've seen, you're going to face extra scrutiny as a paid contributor and because the article was deleted in the past. Trimming vaguely promotional mentions ("billions of streams and win multiple Grammy Awards," "enormous success," "numerous popular artists") was the right call. There are some current tone choices that I wouldn't consider very encyclopedic ("the legal profession they had left behind," "a catalog-driven record label," "full-service entertainment company") but I also don't know if a reviewer would consider them to be a major issue.

I do want to flag your references as an area of concern. Wikipedia expects an article to primarily consists of reliable, independent sources that demonstrate notability through significant coverage of the subject, not just passing mentions. Of your 14 sources you have: 1 article actually about Chenfeld, 1 interview, 4 primary sources, 3 that only make a passing mention of Chenfeld, 2 about companies that he founded but not actually about Chenfeld, and 3 that don't have links so I didn't review.

Regarding why the older article was deleted, you can read the deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cliff Chenfeld. The fact that an article about Craig Balsam exists isn't really a good argument for having an article about Chenfeld-- it may be equally bad and just nobody has noticed it yet (you can learn more at WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS). Vegantics (talk) 20:54, 25 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I appreciate the feedback! PSPazW (talk) 20:59, 25 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

FarSight Studios

I wonder if you could take a look at this page which was redirected in July. FarSight Studios - Wikipedia I saw it and made some edits less than a day before it was redirected and didn't find enough at the time for notability. The big yes/no part of the table doesn't help it either. There are lots of sources about the games, but not much about the company specifically. Can you see if you can dig up enough for it to pass WP:NCORP? Only bringing it up now because someone looking for that page has asked me why its a redirect. Wilbers (talk) 18:23, 30 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

These sources may be useful: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-26018682, https://www.newspapers.com/article/big-bear-grizzly-its-not-all-fun-and-ga/194526303/, https://www.newspapers.com/article/lexington-herald-leader-farsight-studios/194526400/, https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-stern-takes-full-tilt-sh/194526493/, https://kotaku.com/the-painstaking-process-behind-the-best-pinball-video-g-5886736, https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2012/06/interview_farsight_studios_pinball_on_wii_u_3ds_and_kickstarter, https://www.pinballnews.com/news/sternfarsight.html, https://www.newspapers.com/article/saskatoon-sun-pinball-hall-of-fame-best/194526676/, https://www.polygon.com/2018/5/8/17333300/pinball-arcade-bally-williams-license/, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Big_Bang_Disruption/FT-MDQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Farsight+studios%22&pg=PA94&printsec=frontcover

About specific games: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-17/video-game-firm-started-by-congressman-debuts-pickleball-title, https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2013/07/farsight_studios_aiming_to_have_the_pinball_arcade_released_this_september_on_wii_u Vegantics (talk) 18:47, 30 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Wilbers Based just on the first three sources, I feel pretty confident that this passes WP:GNG.Vegantics (talk) 18:49, 30 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Do I revert the edit that turned it into a redirect and then add as many of those sources that seem useful, or do I need to do something else first as it went through AfD? (albeit only the last 12 hours had my edits in the article, so likely no one other than the closer saw those). Wilbers (talk) 19:25, 30 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Wilbers I think since it was redirected, not deleted, you should be good to revert the edit and then make your edits from there, adding a note on the talk page explaining your decision. I would also strongly support deleting the table or trimming it extensively since I don't think it adds to the article. Vegantics (talk) 19:33, 30 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I've had a go at getting it to something more useful, table doesn't look as bad as before after the superfluous stuff has been trimmed - I expect a source could be added for each game, though I haven't done that in the table itself. Whilst it still needs more editing, does it look like its OK for notability? Wilbers (talk) 23:16, 30 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Wilbers I think it looks a lot better. I'm going through to improve the flow of the prose and I'll add more citations where I can. I think it's in good shape and substantially different from the article that was redirected, but we'll see if someone nominates it again. Vegantics (talk) 15:34, 31 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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List of European number-one hits of 1959

The chart didn't exist back then, so you think this qualifies for the hoax list? Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 16:52, 1 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Based on my efforts to find sources, the lists were all created by copying ukmix.org forum posts, like this one.[1] While the post-1967 lists seem to pull directly from the Europarade list, for the earlier years a forum user combined the charts from several countries to create their own original ranking that became the basis for the list published on Wikipedia. Not a hoax necessarily, just a bad reproduction of original research. Vegantics (talk) 17:03, 1 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Alleging AI use on Love, Love, Love (Stephen Sanchez album)

Hello, I see you recently added a notice on an article I created, Love, Love, Love (Stephen Sanchez album), alleging the use of AI in the article. I personally wrote the entire article, and all the research and citations I put in are 100% authentic. I don't know how you came to the conclusion of AI use, but nevertheless I am more than happy to help prove otherwise in any way I can, as AI use has never once played a role in my editing on Wikipedia.

Thank you. Ivyydoeswiki (talk) 23:43, 14 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Ivyydoeswiki, the citations that you used show that they were provided via ChatGPT. That’s why I added the AI template. Vegantics (talk) 01:27, 15 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure how that came to be.

Nevertheless, I have since made revisions, and expanded the article with even more sources and removed some of my original sources, and will modify as necessary to get the notice removed, feel free to look through the article so we can come to a resolution and get that notice removed. Ivyydoeswiki (talk) 01:32, 15 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Ivyydoeswiki, I’ll take a look tomorrow but it sounds like you’re confident about the lack of AI use so I fully support you removing the template directly if you don’t want to wait until then. Vegantics (talk) 02:00, 15 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I will go ahead and do so, but I nevertheless would still appreciate any review to validate the decision. Thanks for the discussion and consideration. Ivyydoeswiki (talk) 02:02, 15 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Ivyydoeswiki I reviewed the article and everything looks good. I also added some references and information that I found interesting/relevant, but feel free to pull it if you don't think it's in scope. Thanks for reaching out to me about this article, I really enjoyed looking into it. Also my only guess for why the URLs may read as being source from ChatGPT would be if you first found them as links in another article/source and the person there had sourced them via ChatGPT. Good luck in your ongoing editing! Vegantics (talk) 13:36, 15 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I very much appreciate it, thank you! Ivyydoeswiki (talk) 13:41, 15 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

March 2026 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award

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I don't understand why it was necessary to remove all my changes to the page. The product is very obviously operating under a new name if you Google it, which is what I was trying to correct. Also I curated the best citation I could find for the historical milestones, but there aren't a lot of verbatim links for happenings before the 2000s. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Christiney189 (talk • contribs) 01:33, 5 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Christiney189, As I mentioned on your talk page, I reverted your edit because it was AI generated, which is against Wikipedia policy. The edit that you made was very very large and due to its nature, very likely to include fabricated or incorrect information (in fact, of the citations I reviewed, none led to the sources that they said they were for). In instances like that, it is easier to revert an edit entirely than review and revise sentence by sentence. It would likely take longer to fix your edit than it took you to write it. Vegantics (talk) 03:04, 5 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

How is one supposed to improve this if there are no digital citations available to validate the history section? Also how do I go about incorporating the name change properly? ~2026-27281-43 (talk) 05:03, 5 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Citations do not necessarily need to be digital, but if there aren’t reliable sources to verify information, it probably shouldn’t be included. Regarding the name change, are you trying to change the name of the article itself? Vegantics (talk) 16:16, 5 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

May 2026

Hello, I'm VanFinda. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Michael Birawer, but you didn't provide a reliable source. On Wikipedia, it's important that article content be verifiable. If you'd like to resubmit your change with a citation, your edit is archived in the page history. If you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. vanfinda (talk) 15:24, 11 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @VanFinda, I removed unreferenced material from the article Michael Birawer because it was unreferenced BLP info. I also removed the sentence saying he had been interviewed in Forbes because, per, WP:FORBESCON, pieces published by Forbes contributors are self-published and lack editorial oversight. What information was I supposed to provide a reliable source for? Vegantics (talk) 15:27, 11 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

That's my mistake - sorry! I saw the name change to Birawer and didn't notice that it's the surname - I thought you changed the person... I have undone my revert. vanfinda (talk) 15:29, 11 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, thank you for clarifying! Vegantics (talk) 15:30, 11 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]