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Fortune 1000 does not exist: PROD

Proposed Deletion notice

Education maps

I removed the map (File:Michigan Colleges.webp) you added to Michigan#Education and List of colleges and universities in Michigan because it is illegible. The gray text on a dark gray background is very hard to read. It looks like you've uploaded similar maps for other states, and all of them have the same coloration issues. I would suggest that something be done to either fix the maps or remove them. Imzadi 1979 → 18:58, 7 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, these maps are illegible and also not well curated, as they seem to be indiscriminate lists generated from IPEDS or a similar database, without even being filtered to match the lists that they are illustrating (e.g. our college lists don't include non-degree-granting institutions such as vocational schools). Toohool (talk) 19:31, 7 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Ditto and ditto. Please remove them so that others won't have to. —RCraig09 (talk) 19:59, 7 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

It is a list of colleges and universities, those are community ‘colleges’. Wikideas1 (talk) 10:12, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Since you have refused to remove the maps, others have had to do it. If you add any more illegible maps we will be discussing it at WP:ANI. Sundayclose (talk) 23:01, 7 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

We will have to keep an eye on this.....we also have maps for post offices, bus routes, mines etc. Moxy🍁 23:16, 7 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

3 months later they decide its no good, if your manager was that late at work for quality control, they'd probably get fired. I think this is in retaliation to the Venezuela map, and putting up the colleges maps is somewhat political. I think wikipedia has officially become anti-information with this one. Wikideas1 (talk) 08:17, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

How long it took for everyone to notice the problem is irrelevant. The maps are bad whether they were done today or 10 years ago. And this has nothing to do with "retaliation" or "political". It has everything to do with legibility and quality. You do not own the maps or any of the articles in which you put them. You're welcome to make constructive contributions, or even create maps that are legible. But if you think Wikipedia is "anti-information" then by all mean feel free to stop editing. Sundayclose (talk) 15:27, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Wikideas1, please stop restoring these images (regardless of the inconsequential colour changes) - you clearly do not have consensus for their inclusion.-- Ponyo^{bons mots} 17:19, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I think more people should weigh in on this. Wikideas1 (talk) 17:21, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Fine, start an RfC somewhere. In the meantime, you have multiple editors here on this page asking you to stop adding the maps, representing a clear consensus against their use. The onus is on you to get consensus for inclusion before restoring the disputed content. This is basic editing protocol.-- Ponyo^{bons mots} 17:24, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I am among those asking Wikideas to stop posting images of such poor quality (color, font size, contrast, legibility, etc.). Among those independent of the maps, the reasoned consensus seems unanimous. —RCraig09 (talk) 18:00, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop adding these maps back to articles. File:Michigan Colleges.webp is illegible. The colors are better, but except for the title text, none of the text can be read. This is true at full size, and triply true at thumbnail sizing. I have removed that from List of colleges and universities in Michigan, and I will continue as long as you are creating maps that are useless for us. Imzadi 1979 → 17:58, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I concur with User:Imzadi1979. This family of graphics is grossly inappropriate for an encyclopedia. There is a Wikipedia guideline that text in graphics should be about as large as text in articles' surrounding narrative text. —RCraig09 (talk) 18:15, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I looked through a sampling of the rest of the states, about half of them, and the maps all have the same problems. They've been removed from every state article. Please do not put maps back in these articles without addressing all of the concerns. Imzadi 1979 → 18:15, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Justapedia moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Justapedia. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing as a live article at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability. I have converted it to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit the draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Children Will Listen (🐄 talk, 🫘 contribs) 18:24, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Mathethon

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Drafts that go unedited for six months are eligible for deletion, in accordance with our draftspace policy, and this one has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission, and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Administrative divisions of Iran

In the graphic you added to the Administrative divisions of Iran, can you add within the caption what's being pictured? Obviously you see provincial boundaries, but is it also showing county boundaries? Criticalthinker (talk) 12:27, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Separately: There is a guideline that the text in graphics should be about the same size as the surrounding text within Wikipedia articles. —RCraig09 (talk) 16:03, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:Learn to Program (book)

Hello, Wikideas1. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Learn to Program (book), a page you created, has not been edited in at least five 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.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 07:07, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Sidebars about programming languages

Wikideas1, thank you for working on sidebar templates. Could you please clarify where did you find the approach of wrapping every list item into template {{left}} with a tag <br>? I've had to overhaul it twice already: Special:Diff/1333975119 and Special:Diff/1333324858.

Also, please take a look at guidelines for categorization of templates. Wikitext for categories should be inside <noinclude>...</noinclude> tags (examples: Special:Diff/1333324418, Special:Diff/1333974846). —⁠andrybak (talk) 20:59, 20 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I think it is easiest to read that way, since it is alphabeitcal, and it is always hidden untill you click on it. But apparrently you don't agree, and thats ok. Wikideas1 (talk) 02:44, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

If that's the intention then the parameter |listclass=hlist should be replaced with |listclass=plainlist + CSS |liststyle=text-align:left. Constructing a fake list layout with <br> tags and manually aligning every list item is a bad idea. —⁠andrybak (talk) 02:56, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hey thanks, yeah that looks like a way better way to do it. Wikideas1 (talk) 03:15, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

January 2026

Hello, I'm Zackmann08. Thank you for your recent contributions to Template:C sidebar. When you were adding content to the page, you added duplicate arguments to a template which can cause issues with how the template is rendered. In the future, please use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find these errors as they will display in yellow at the top of the page. Thanks. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 03:47, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]