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Hi Rusalkii! Just a friendly ping to let you know I replied to your feedback to my request on the Erik Ramanathan Talk page. Let me know if you have any questions. Danilo Two (talk) 16:26, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Rusalkii! In case you missed it (and you're still interested), I posted a request for some straightforward edits to the remaining sections of the Erik Ramanathan article at Talk:Erik_Ramanathan#Updates_to_introduction,_Education,_and_Personal_life. Danilo Two (talk) 14:02, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Rusalkii: I just wanted to ping this one last time to see if you still have any interest in taking a look at my last request to update the Erik Ramanathan article. If so, you can find that request here. Thanks! Danilo Two (talk) 13:21, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hopping on here to say this request has been done. I didn't want you to waste any time going over there just to see that's it has been completed. I appreciate all your time reviewing requests for the article. Danilo Two (talk) 14:34, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Just a heads up I got you a belated reply with a bit more context in response to your comment on my previous edit request for Sidley Austin. No worries if you're not interested; just wanted to give you a chance to look first before I incorporate into a future request.

Side note: I had seen and been delighted by depthsofwikipedia's post about you sourcing the Mpreg image, but didn't connect the dots until seeing your talk page just now that that was you! Makes me laugh what a small Wiki world it is. Thank you for the incredible diversity of your contributions. :) Mary Gaulke (talk) 18:15, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Answered there.

I hadn't realized it made depthofwikipedia! And I had a bit of a laugh adding the mpreg hook to my user page with the contrast between my much more Serious Business COI work, glad I'm not the only one. Rusalkii (talk) 18:54, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again! In case you missed it, got you another reply over at Talk:Sidley Austin with some proposed language. Thank you kindly. Mary Gaulke (talk) 11:30, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Rusalkii thanks so much for giving me the go ahead on Talk:Minouche Shafik - unfortunately I am a lowly autoconfirmed editor and I can't actually go ahead because of the topic protection on the article - would you be able to help? Thanks again for the fast response, and if I can help in any way please let me know! Seeksend (talk) 10:27, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

And done. Rusalkii (talk) 18:27, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You're amazing, thank you! I've responded to your comment there regarding the other mention in-text with a citation which I hope suffices. In the meantime, I don't know if I'm permitted to grant branstars to say thanks for taking the time, so please accept this star from the special character menu: ☆ Seeksend (talk) 11:30, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Barnstars are not officially anything, there aren't any rules about who can grant them, but it might be in somewhat poor taste, so I'll take my tiny star :) Rusalkii (talk) 17:17, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again for reviewing that final source! Seeksend (talk) 18:06, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Thank you for updating and adding short descriptions to articles on Wikipedia. With your help, the WikiProject's top 3000 list has been cleared for March 2025 already! Your work has made Wikipedia better :-). LR.127 (talk) 02:03, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, we've made fast progress this month! Thank you. Rusalkii (talk) 02:05, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Your submission of Greater bamboo bat at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Nrco0e (talk • contribs) 00:11, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I have responded to your feedback in the Nomination for Giselle Mather. Thank you for providing it.Kwib (talk) 10:09, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, thank you so much for reviewing the nomination. Now that it is good to go for DYK is there anything proactive that I need to do or does it just automatically flow through the next steps?Kwib (talk) 12:56, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A promoter should get to it eventually, there's sometimes a delay but nothing you need to do unless they find an issue with the nomination. Rusalkii (talk) 18:25, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent. Many thanks for responding. Kwib (talk) 15:19, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there Rusalkii! You kindly said you would take a look at my pending COI request last month on the Vladimir Stolyarenko talk page but you unfortunately fell unwell. Is there any possibility you would be happy to take another look if you are feeling better?

Sorry to chase as you clearly help a lot in this area - it is just quite unusual to find someone kind enough to look at requests who also speaks Russian, so I'd be extremely grateful. Cebuharks (talk) 14:05, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, I did say I'd review that, sorry. Looking right now. Rusalkii (talk) 22:11, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just wanted to let you know I replied to your review on the Arrow-class oil tanker DYK page. Tried to ping you but it didn't work. Thanks, PhoenixCaelestis • Talk • Contributions 19:43, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, 18 days ago you apparently somehow sent me a message stating a page I previously worked on "has been reviewed". I'm not actually sure where or how you sent that message, because the only sign I could find of your message was in my inbox itself.

I was wondering where I could find the review mentioned. It seems that the page in question is now being redirected to that of its parent org., which is a change I don't disagree with, but I'd like to see where the discussion happened, as I cannot locate it. Cheers! --Sauronjim (talk) 12:24, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Sauronjim when redirects are reviewed, you generally just get a notification (and possibly email, depending on how your settings are configured) - no talk page message. I'd have done this through WP:NPP, which is generally reviewed unilaterally, so there's no discussion. If instead you think that I reviewed the article, as an article rather than a redirect, then that's somewhat strange because I very rarely review articles, and I'd appreciate a link to the article in question. (Though in that case there probably wouldn't be discussion as well, regardless of whether it was me or someone else). Rusalkii (talk) 06:15, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

To be honest, I'm not really sure what happened. The notification I got said, verbatim:

> The page British International School Ho Chi Minh City has been reviewed.

>

> Rusalkii

Clicking it took me to this URL: https://teknopedia.ac.id/w/index.php?title=British_International_School_Ho_Chi_Minh_City&redirect=no --Sauronjim (talk) 08:37, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Huh. Well, I think I remember seeing that when reviewing, which is about as much as I can say here unfortunately. It was redirected by User:Allan Nonymous, so perhaps ask them? Rusalkii (talk) 21:15, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I've been going through these articles and redirecting them to the parent org from time to time. Virtually all lack sufficient sourcing per WP:GNG, and there have been changes to WP:NSCHOOL since these articles were written. Allan Nonymous (talk) 14:06, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry Allan, I replied on your user talk page with the intent of not bothering Rusalkii on their page. I don't know if you saw it, because there was no reply. --Sauronjim (talk) 03:39, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Your submission of Desert musk shrew at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! The issue is mainly with the choice of image. I think it would be fine without one (and more appealing to click through to find out exactly where this distribution is). A shame there aren't any photos out there, even copyrighted ones. Reconrabbit 14:25, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Vanamonde93 (talk) 22:58, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Vanamonde93 I have been meaning to switch my email to one that does not immediately dox me on replying and I suppose now I've got an impetus, please stand by while I do that... Rusalkii (talk) 23:17, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Rusalkii, i saw recently you declined my submission for Draft:Sadhan Samar article. I respect your decision. You mentioned that it needs reliable references. Can you help me in doing that. Can you let me know how and what type of references are required so that article gets approved. What type of references do I need. I don't have too much references. I have some publishers who mentions about the topic and books are sold. How to proceed ahead. Sadhan Samar is a famous text but online its not much available. So that it becomes famous online that's why I'm creating this article. I will try to add more references time by time whenever I get more sources. It would be really helpful if the article gets published for now so that it can help people dive into spiritual truth.

Looking for your further assistance. Thank you. Ankeshav (talk) 07:48, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Ankeshav. You may want to review the guidelines on reliable sources and on the criteria for which subjects should have articles. My notes on some kinds of sources that aren't great might also help. Overall, you want a couple sources which are independent from the subject (so not by them or people associated with them), published and reliable (so not blogs or social media), which have significant coverage (so more than a couple sentences) about the person. If you don't have those sources, then this person isn't a great fit for an article. If there are sources like this that are print only, that's fine - cite those and then a reivewer will take a look. If there aren't, Wikipedia generally isn't for making someone famous - we cover people once there's already some things written about them. Rusalkii (talk) 22:26, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, it has been a few days since you marked the draft Draft:Tropical Depression 26W (2017) under review, and waiting for the deletion of the initial title. The title was deleted two days ago. Is it possible to review it now? A1Cafel (talk) 07:33, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done, thanks for the reminder! Rusalkii (talk) 16:16, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for reviewing several edit requests lately. I have submitted a few requests for the Trendyol article, based on a draft I've shared on the article's Talk page, if you have any interest in reviewing. I don't feel the requests are particularly controversial, since they are focused on funding, ownership, and operations, but I'm struggling to get editor feedback. Either way, thanks again for your help. Inkian Jason (talk) 20:25, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Inkian Jason, while I don't mind being pinged for requests that are directly related to ones that I have already reviewed, since I might have context on them that other editors don't have, I would rather not be pinged for random requests you're involved in. I'd be worried that could shade very easily into the appearance of "Rusalkii working with PR firm Beutler Ink", which I'd like to avoid even if everyone involved has the best of intentions.

Axad12, who'd reviewed a lot of edit requests, has not been reviewing lately (there was a whole mess at ANI, as anything at ANI tends to rapidly become), so the backlog's been growing. I know it's very frustrating to throw things into the void and not get a response for months and months. Rusalkii (talk) 20:57, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Of course, I understand. Thanks for your reply, Inkian Jason (talk) 13:58, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On 11 April 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Puna mouse, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the mammal species found at the second-highest known altitude may be either the puna mouse or the eastern puna mouse? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Puna mouse. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Puna mouse), 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.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:03, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On 11 April 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Eastern puna mouse, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the mammal species found at the second-highest known altitude may be either the puna mouse or the eastern puna mouse? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Puna mouse. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Eastern puna mouse), 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.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:03, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Johnlock you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of DaniloDaysOfOurLives -- DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 02:05, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Rusalkii! Just a little heads up that I replied to our conversation at Talk:Ankit_Fadia#Early_life_and_education_section. I'm happy to talk more over there if you have time. Afadia (talk) 05:23, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I love the colour you chose for you signature. But.. I think it doesn't meet the minimum contrast requirements for accessible signatures. Would you be willing to check using this contrast checker tool? And make the colour a bit darker? Thanks in advance! —Femke 🐦 (talk) 07:59, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm. I use specifically this color lots of places and this change feels very weird. Perhaps I'll tweak to some entirely different color area rather than an uncanny valley version of this green.

Newly signatured, Rusalkii (talk) 17:23, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Testing testing? Rusalkii (talk) 17:33, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely not. Let's try this for now. Rusalkii (talk) 17:37, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Love the boldness :). The contrast can be slightly less when you've got bold text. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 17:49, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Core Contest has now begun! Evaluate your article's current state, gather sources, and have at it! You have until May 31 (23:59 UTC) to make eligible changes; although you are most welcome (and encouraged) to continue work on the article, changes after May 31 will not be considered for rankings and their prizes. Good luck and happy editing! Cheers from the judges, Femke, Casliber, Aza24. – Aza24 (talk) 00:00, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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On 15 April 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Siphonochilus aethiopicus, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that African ginger is used by the Zulu people to protect against lightning and snake bites? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Siphonochilus aethiopicus. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Siphonochilus aethiopicus), 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.

SL93 (talk) 00:03, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The article Johnlock you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Johnlock for comments about the article, and Talk:Johnlock/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of DaniloDaysOfOurLives -- DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 19:44, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Because the word "crackers" is used in the context of "defacing" your interpretation is wrong here.

Defacing websites is hacking them and replacing their contents with an often rather vulgar message. Crackers in this context likely refers to cracking computer security measures. Cracking lists Another name for security hacking; the practice of defeating computer security.. "Cracker" as a slur is a derogatory term for a person of white European descent; not people from Pakistan. Polygnotus (talk) 21:10, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ooooh. That makes sense, yes. Will fix once I'm at my computer again. Rusalkii (talk) 21:23, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also, would you be so kind to look at the last sentence of I Am Gay and Muslim#Kyrgyzstan_ban? In the article it looks like the court used that as their reason but in the source it is unnamed "religious experts". This may be of use. Thanks, the infamous nitpicker Polygnotus (talk) 22:00, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You're entirely right, the "inciting religious hatred" thing was from the complaint by the State Committee on Religious Affairs, not the court. Fixed. Rusalkii (talk) 22:28, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Though goodness, that article's a deep cut. Rusalkii (talk) 22:29, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again! Polygnotus (talk) 22:34, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]