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Sometimes messages slip through the cracks. Sorry about that! I keep this list to let me know what I still need to respond to – feel free to add your own name and message here if you're still looking for a response from me.

1. 13:21, 31 October 2024 – TheNuggeteer
2. 00:32, 3 January 2025 – BusterD

LA Wildfire edit-a-thons January 26 and February 2

Upcoming edit-a-thons focused on the Los Angeles Wildfires

In response to the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, WikiLA has organized three edit-a-thons to create or improve articles about the historically, culturally, and/or architecturally significant structures that were destroyed or damaged during the fires, and the organizations and entities that stepped up to help. Please join us. Sunday, January 26, at the Ebell of Los Angeles in mid-Wilshire from 11:00–4:00. (Details and sign up here.) Sunday, January 26, at the Live Oak Library in Arcadia from 11:00–4:00. (Details and sign up here.) Sunday, February 2, at the Hammer Museum in Westwood from 11:00–4:00. (Details and sign up here.) To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list.

JSFarman (talk) 19:55, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

2025

story · music · places

2025 opened with trumpet fanfares that first sounded OTD in 1725 (as the Main page had). Today I had a composer (trumpeter, conductor) on the main page who worked closely with another who just became GA, - small world! To celebrate: mostly flowers pics from vacation ;) - Thank you for improving article quality in January! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:26, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

PSHAW not working for moving prep 2 to queue

It is stuck at "moving to Template:Did you know/Queue/2... clearing Template:Did you know/Preparation area 2... updating prep counter..." SL93 (talk) 20:06, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

It just worked. SL93 (talk) 20:08, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

my bad! broke it this morning testing a change :) fixed now theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 20:10, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

PSHAW discussion closing signature

Hey @Theleekycauldron, in my promotion of Template:Did you know nominations/Elisheva Biernoff, the closing comment has a weird no brackets signature, which was also not the one set to my ~~~~ sig. Is this intentional, if can can you chnage it to just subst our ~~~~? Thanks in advance! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:41, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

Hey, Bunnypranav! I think that's inherent to the way {{DYKsubpage}} is set up, it has nothing to do with PSHAW. iirc, we don't use normal signatures because Echo interprets that as us trying to ping everyone who was involved with the nomination upon closure. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 20:13, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

Ah, thanks for the clarification, and your helpful script :) ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 02:21, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

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Hello, I have a question that can be answered by a checkuser, I'm asking you because I found your name in the recently active checkusers list but in case you haven't got time I can ask another checksuer. I've read that a user can register and use just 1 account, if a user creates more there's a violation of the rules and the other accounts may be considered sockpuppets and, in case, blocked. So, I've noticed a certain username which is most of the time sleeping and is active solely to make a specific kind of edits in certain periods. I find this a bit strange, I think that it's possible that such a username is a sockpuppet of another account which is normally used unless when the user needs to make that specific kind of edits that he does't want to be related to his main account. My question is the following: should this be the case, is the original user doing something against the rules (so that he might deserve a check to find a relation between 2 or more accounts) or is he acting legally? Let me know your opinion please, thanks for yout time. 151.82.71.178 (talk) 12:12, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

My gut feeling would be that it really depends on what the accounts are doing, but you should probably tell this to someone who has more CU experience than I do. RoySmith, any interest? theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 20:12, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

There are some legitimate reasons for creating alternate accounts. As a common example, mamy people create a second account to use on mobile or public access devices. I've got one of those myself (RoySmith-Mobile). As long as these are disclosed, they're fine. See WP:SOCKLEGIT for more examples. And for comparison, WP:ILLEGIT gives some examples of inappropriate reasons to create additional accounts. RoySmith (talk) 22:05, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

Thank you both. I don't think that account is used in good faith for causes of force majeure, or it wouldn't be used just to make 1 kind of edits. It's more likely that account is used somehow to mislead, or to circumvent something. His acting could be considered a bit suspicious in my opinion but if I were all wet an eventual check would prove he's doing nothing wrong. 151.82.74.223 (talk) 14:46, 26 January 2025 (UTC)