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Question from Rubycheuk (10:01, 3 September 2025)

Hi Utopes, nice to see your message, I am writing a new wiki page for my friend's company Vertex Sky Sports, but I do not have the permission to upload the logo, what do you recommend to do to show the logo in the page? --Rubycheuk (talk) 10:01, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Question from Embeddedsys (22:35, 4 September 2025)

Hi, is it recommended to use less citations or more citations for short articles? For instance for my article I get the feeling that more citations are better but not sure if that is the case:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:RidgeRun --Embeddedsys (talk) 22:35, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

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I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi Utopes. Thank you for your work on Krauszer's. Another editor, Voorts, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

It would be helpful to use citation templates (see WP:IC) and to add links to the sources you're citing so that it's easy to verify the citations.

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|Voorts}}. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

voorts (talk/contributions) 00:45, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Question from ExecutiveXI (02:38, 8 September 2025)

THERE IS A troll who attacking the city of Dunedin Wikipedia page. Please take action or something worse may happen --ExecutiveXI (talk) 02:38, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Question from Ivanleonariproducer (00:46, 9 September 2025)

Hi, I’m a good faith editor trying to edit for the biography from iPhone and says my ip has been blocked from editing wikipidea. Why? Now what can I do? --Ivanleonariproducer (talk) 00:46, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

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Question from Syed Ghayoor Abbas Bukhari (18:36, 12 September 2025)

Hello --Syed Ghayoor Abbas Bukhari (talk) 18:36, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

How to create a page Syed Ghayoor Abbas Bukhari (talk) 18:37, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

Question from Anita Hackley Lambert (21:31, 12 September 2025)

Hi. Where do I place my disclosure on my user page? I don't see it. --Anita Hackley Lambert (talk) 21:31, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

Marked as away

I have marked you as "away" in the mentorship interface since you haven't edited for a while and unanswered mentor questions are piling up. If you return to editing (and I hope you do someday), feel free to reset the away status at Special:MentorDashboard. Thank you. * Pppery * it has begun... 17:16, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

CREditzWiki (Talk to me!!) 00:19, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

regarding the Draft:Mehta (village)

Hello Utopes, A while back, I created a Wikipedia article called Mehta (Village), which was later moved to draft because it lacked enough references — which I completely understand. Since then, I’ve done more research and added proper references to the article. Could you please take a final look and check if there are any other errors or improvements needed. Gamerzer (talk) 02:06, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi, I don't look at drafts on request. A volunteer will see it in due time. Thank you for your patience and understanding. Utopes (talk / cont) 21:47, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Category:Prehistoric hippopotamuses has been nominated for deletion

Category:Prehistoric hippopotamuses has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Hemiauchenia (talk) 22:52, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Double redirect

Hi, it's me, Erikgobrrrr (talk). I wanted to notify you that it seems you and I have made a mistake regarding my redirect request about the page Malfunction 54. We both wanted it to point to THERAC-25, but it seems the page "THERAC-25" is a redirect to the page Therac-25. And since it's a redirect, redirecting to a SECTION of THERAC-25 will not work, since it's a redirect and will instead redirect to the top of Therac-25. Could you please change the redirect from THERAC-25 to Therac-25? Thanks. Erikgobrrrr (talk) 23:58, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, double redirect fixed! Utopes (talk / cont) 00:00, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
No problem, thank *you*! Erikgobrrrr (talk) 00:08, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

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AfC Category:Australian Aboriginal artworks

Hey Utopes, you declined my request at AfC for Category:Australian Aboriginal artworks, could I get some feedback? I don't hang around the categorization side of Wikipedia much, so I thought this may just be a simple request for a subcategory, but you declined it saying it was redundant to art. I'm not sure how that works, as work of art is distinct from art? I'm also not sure why you went looking for other equivalent categories, is that a policy thing? When I requested it, I was writing Fruit Bats (sculpture) and I wanted to look at how other Australian Aboriginal artworks were handled on Wikipedia (for example their sourcing and templates), and I found the process of working through Category:Australian Aboriginal art tedious. I feel like works of art is a natural subcategory of art, like galleries, artists, movements. 128.250.0.221 (talk) 10:52, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello! Yes, the page for "art" is very broad in scope, and covers a lot of material. Art is distinct from works of art. However, from a category point of view, it seems to be a different story, and uses a different definition of "art". I.e., the "Australian Aboriginal art" seems to be for works of art, and some pages in it might currently be miscategorized. When creating categories, it is important to be looking at how the new category fits into the overall category tree. If every unique population of people conducted their categorization differently, it would be confusing and cumbersome to navigate through the topic as a whole, which is why it's useful to check for local categorization practices in the specific topic area, before creating a new category/new category system/standard practice within that topic area.
It seems to me that this, and nearly all similarly constructed "Foo art" categories, are dedicated to artworks. If it weren't, we would see more categories that contain the word "artwork" in them. Upon investigating this, there are only a handful of categories on all of Wikipedia that catch "artworks" (containing "art"), per this search: ("Destroyed artworks" is a redirect to Category:Lost works of art). And for these "artworks" categories, a lot of the time, it seems to be a slightly warped definition of "artwork", such as how Mandelbrot set is in "mathematical artworks", even though it's not an artwork in the sense of the word you and I use. Similarly, non-fungible token is a part of "digital artworks". There is only one category that is similarly constructed to the Australian Aboriginal suggestion, being "Category:Indianapolis Art Center artworks", as a location ending with the "artworks". Still, this category exists in a tree where "Category:Indianapolis Art Center art" does not exist as a parent, so it's still a different situation.
To this end, based on this investigation, if Category:Australian Aboriginal artworks were to be created as a category, it would be completely uncharted territory to have a subcat with this naming convention, because there are no other populations or cultures which have an "artworks" category on Wikipedia beneath an "art" category. For all other tribes and peoples, the status quo seems to be that the works of art go in the "Foo art" category, while the artists go in the "Foo artists" category. I didn't see a reason why this tribe would need to deviate beyond the status quo at this moment, however, the status quo can definitely be changed! In general though, it seems that the art categories on Wikipedia are mainly for works of art, but that's just been how I've seen it be used. Utopes (talk / cont) 03:08, 6 October 2025 (UTC)
Thankyou so much, this makes a lot of sense, especially the stuff about consistency assisting navigation. I think part of what confused me was that the Category:Group art pages I looked at (like Category:Australian art) didn't contain works of art, because they were separated off into subcategories for paintings and sculptures. I thought for a smaller category it made sense to have a broader subcategory like works of art that you could then break up as it got bigger, but it makes sense that such a category would have poorly defined boundaries. Maybe for now categories for sculpture and paintings could be broken off? I can think of Yininmadyemi - Thou didst let fall, Aboriginal Memorial and Fruit Bats (sculpture) for the first, and Earth's Creation, Gulgardi and Warlugulong for the second. 2405:6E00:280C:4EA7:7B59:E7B2:E41:DC5C (talk) 09:27, 6 October 2025 (UTC)
If there's enough pages to support it, I think "Category:Australian Aboriginal sculpture" could be a good subcat belonging to both Category:Australian Aboriginal art and Category:Australian sculpture. Similarly, Category:Australian Aboriginal paintings would be good as a subcat of Category:Australian Aboriginal art and Category:Australian paintings. These examples would be built on the framework that's already in place, without adding new terminology ("artwork" categories in general). I would be likely to create that at AfC/C if it had 3+ pages listed for it. Utopes (talk / cont) 09:34, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Upcoming EFL Championship Season

I understand you would like to delete the redirect. But it might be necessary to keep it, it won't murder you to keep it, will be used by May next year anyways :/ Idkreally6969696 (talk) 14:54, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Please see WP:CRYSTALBALL. There's no rush to make these, and only when the time is right. Utopes (talk / cont) 01:19, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Explorer Yacht

I have removed all references to manufacturers to leave just the definition of an explorer yacht. This is a recognised category of vessels, so should have a page on Wikipedia. Hope you agree. WDMGray1 (talk) 13:44, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

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The Court of the Dead

Hello, Utopes! Would you mind marking the article The Court of the Dead as reviewed so that the article appears in search engine results? The book has topped multiple bestseller lists, so should qualify! Justthefacts (talk) 20:49, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

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Template:Polonium compounds

Dear Utopes, Done an addition in Polonium dichloride dibromide. There are a lot of red issues in this template. Since i am not sure of what I did is allowed it is only one edit so easily removed. If you like it however, I can make additional edits to fullfil the red issues. Please let me know. Yours truly Harold Foppele (talk) 12:18, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

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There is a backlog of over 3000 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:07, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

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