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Hi there, if you can spare a moment to review and possibly do basic cleanup on this article Maritza Chan, I'd appreciate. Cameremote (talk) @gonisulaimann 20:55, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Cameremote:  Done! GoingBatty (talk) 22:24, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for your help GoingBatty !!! Cameremote (talk) 12:29, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Can you please help and make my draft go live Thank you Regards --ShubhamKumarVats28 (talk) 20:07, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@ShubhamKumarVats28: I've made some tweaks to Draft:Suresh Sharma (Indian politician) for you, including reinstating the template at the top of the draft that will allow you to resubmit the draft when you're ready. I also added some maintenance templates to show you where better sources are needed. Photographs are not appropriate to be used as references. Instead of using photographs of newspaper articles, cite the newspaper articles themselves using {{cite news}}. I've nominated the scans of the newspaper articles to be deleted, as they are likely protected by copyright.

When writing a draft, you should first collect the independent published reliable sources, and then summarize those sources. I suggest you do not use self-published sources or sources written by family members. There's lots of good information for you at Help:Your first article. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 00:44, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey,

can you please show me an example with my newspaper articles

how should i write and add, {{cite news}}: Empty citation (help)

Thank you in advance ShubhamKumarVats28 (talk) 02:39, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@ShubhamKumarVats28: You can use {{cite news}} the same way you used {{cite web}}, but you don't need to include a URL. You already have some {{cite news}} templates in the References section. However, you should use those as footnotes. GoingBatty (talk) 02:58, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@ShubhamKumarVats28: Well, since your draft has been deleted, I cannot do so. GoingBatty (talk) 22:37, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I want teach English online for young learners --Mr.gamal sedik (talk) 18:19, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Mr.gamal sedik: Wonderful! I don't know what that has to do with Wikipedia, but I wish you luck with your endeavour. GoingBatty (talk) 23:29, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! COI: I'm a writer at Crutchfield.

I'd like help/guidance for removing the flags at the top of the page, so accurate information about Crutchfield doesn't look questionable. The citations above can verify information currently credited to the company website. Here are some specifics: References #1, 2, and 3 can be verified by these news stories: " 50 years in business: Crutchfield has made it half a century without any debt or a single layoff" — Daily Progress https://dailyprogress.com/news/local/business/article_c79268ba-d341-11ee-91ed-2bfdba969b67.html#tracking-source=in-article "Sales in 1974 totaled just $6,084. Fifty years later, Crutchfield Corporation has just wrapped the 2023 fiscal year with $436 million in sales. Over the same period, the business has grown from an office of one to a corporation of 675, with locations throughout Virginia and into Canada, where the company expanded in 2007." "Crutchfield Corporation celebrates 50 years and is recognized by the General Assembly" — CBS 19 News "It first operated out of his mother's basement, but over time, he established its new headquarters, diversified its inventory, and reinforced the core values, watching the company grow from one employee to more than 650. 'I don't think it's necessarily what we sell, but I think it's the way we behave. We have a wonderful group of employees; we've never had a layoff in 50 years,' Crutchfield said. During Wednesday's event, [Virginia] State Senator Creigh Deeds presented a bipartisan resolution that expresses the General Assembly's admiration for the company's contributions to Virginia." In an ideal world, I'd like to see the credit that Bill Crutchfield has gotten as an innovator, and the excellence of the company. (The history and awards sections were removed and/or scaled down.) But it is reflected in the sources above, along with bipartisan Virginia Senate Joint Resolution # 216: https://legacylis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SJ216 But I want to be respectful of the Wikipedia process, so I'm trying to be informative without overstepping. Jmill070988 (talk) 14:28, 2 July 2025 (UTC) Jmill070988 (talk) 20:39, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jmill070988: Hi there! I see that you posted a request at Talk:Crutchfield Corporation#Citations/sources update, but the request was declined. Now that you've posted a clarification, I've reopened the request for you. I also made some tweaks to the existing references and the categories. GoingBatty (talk) 22:19, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help!!! I really appreciate it Jmill070988 (talk) 22:42, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I'm Ali Hassan and I want to create my own profile page? How I can --Hassanaliakram (talk) 08:58, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Hassanaliakram: Hi there! Wikipedia doesn't have "profile pages". It has "user pages" (where Wikipedia editors can write about what they like to do on Wikipedia) and "articles" (where Wikipedia editors write about notable topics). To learn how to edit, I recommned Help:Introduction. Once you've mastered editing existing articles, then you can move on to Help:Your first article. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 23:55, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just a curiosity based on this edit BattyBot did. Nothing wrong with what it did, I just see something that could be improved due it interacting with human error circumstances. Would it be possible for the bot to look ahead on external links that it is adding a bullet to, and IF there's a navbox template (improperly) following the external link on the same line, drop that template down to a new line away from the newly bulleted external link? Navboxes can't be on bulleted lines and trigger a Multiline HTML table in list error in those events. The Bot's edit was correct in the actions it was doing, but the Ali Khamenei navbox in the example above should have been on a new line by itself, and the bot walked into this MHTIL error scenario. While I'm not seeing this error occur with any known frequency from Battybot, seeing this example made me wonder if this was a simple check to add to BattyBot to prevent this error from occurring. If this isn't something easy to check or do, no worries, thought it was worth asking about.

Cheers, Zinnober9 (talk) 05:19, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Zinnober9: Hi there! BattyBot uses the AutoWikiBrowser software, and adding bullets for External links is one of AWB's general fixes. If we were to ask the developers to make this fix, I can envision them asking how would the software should determine whether the template is a navbox that should be on a new line vs. a template that's OK to be on the same line (e.g., {{in lang}}). Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 22:15, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, that sounds like more trouble than it's worth. If it were happening multiple times a day I might feel differently, but once in a while isn't objectionable. Thanks for the reply! Zinnober9 (talk) 23:00, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi I wanted to add my Grandad as a Birkdale Lancs notable but can't cos nowhere else on Wiki. He was a musician at the Royal College of Music and I have his Birkdale address on his ARCM certificate dated April 1920. If there is no record of him I should quite like to offer one. He played harpsichord continuo in London at the Albert Hall on a number of occasions and was a survivor of the Great War like the composer Vaughan Williams whom he knew. They both took part in a recital in memory of the fallen from the Royal College of Music, VW having been a stretcher bearer and Charles Thornton Lofthouse having been discharged with a head wound from the Hebuternes area in 1918 before the Arnistice. --BarnThorn (talk) 12:00, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@BarnThorn: Hi there! I don't know what a "Birkdale Lancs" is or which Wikipedia article you're referring to. However, there are many Wikipedia articles containing lists of people (e.g. List of Royal College of Music people) where the list is limited to those people who meet Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, called "notability". GoingBatty (talk) 22:51, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello GoingBatty. I noticed that BattyBot's userpage is in the template cleanup category which should only contain subcategories. Is this by mistake, or you intend to link to that category but forgot to type the colon? It's caused by line 570 of the userpage's code. Xzkdeng (talk) 05:58, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I've written up (using Microsoft Word) a lengthy (about 30 pages, with photos) article on the history Sky Haven Airport which used to exist in Brookfield, Wisconsin. It was run by my dad, Burney Peters, who passed away over 30 years ago. I'm his son, so know most about the history of this airport. I'd like to make this history available to the public. Is Wikipedia a good tool to do this? --Don R Peters (talk) 06:28, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]