User talk:TamsaVakaras
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[edit]Welcome, welcome, welcome TamsaVakaras! I'm glad that you are joining the November 2024 drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.
Cielquiparle (talk) 03:10, 5 November 2024 (UTC)
The page Betsafe has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done under section R2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it was a redirect from the article namespace to a different namespace except the Category, Template, Wikipedia, Help, or Portal namespaces.
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November 2024 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award
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This award is given in recognition to TamsaVakaras for collecting more than 28.0 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's NOV24 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing over 8,000 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – DreamRimmer Alt (talk) 17:51, 12 December 2024 (UTC) |
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[edit]Please note that due to WP:RUSUKR, editors who are not extended confirmed are unable to make edits about the Russo-Ukrainian war, broadly construed, but it is still possible to make constructive edit requests on the talk page. Thanks. Mellk (talk) 09:36, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
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The page User:TamsaVakaras has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done for the following reason:
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- I don't understand. Why was my page deleted? How is simply stating "Slava Ukraini" (basically a friendly greeting here in the Baltics) against this policy which I have just learned of? TamsaVakaras (talk) 18:21, 29 December 2024 (UTC)
- Hi TamsaVakaras, if you'd like to add a friendly greeting to your user page, a simple "Hello" or "Welcome" does the job. Slava Ukraini is the battle cry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and I'd be happy if you could at least honestly admit that you had more than a friendly greeting in mind when deciding to use this as the only content of your user page. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:19, 29 December 2024 (UTC)
- Under this "logic", would an American editor who wrote "God Bless America" be stopped or is this selectively applied only to Ukraine? Of course I support Ukraine both in the context of both the current war and would have said this for a long time before the war as well. TamsaVakaras (talk) 03:03, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks. This is about edits related to the Russo-Ukrainian war, not patriotism/nationalism by itself. It would be no problem to, for example, state on your user page which country you live in or come from. The war has led to Wikipedia being used as a battleground by non-Wikipedians, new editors, unexperienced editors, sockpuppet accounts and undeclared paid actors for importing the conflict into Wikipedia and fighting the war on Wikipedia too. Battlecries worsen the situation, are of course related to the war and thus affected by a restriction that is meant to ensure your primary focus is to improve the encyclopedia and only editors experienced with improving the encyclopedia neutrally collaborate in high quality and with great care on the articles about the war. The Task Center and the community portal are full of ideas unrelated to any specific topic that could be used to improve one's experience with the encyclopedia and its community before the most difficult tasks and conflicts are jumped into. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 09:16, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
- Under this "logic", would an American editor who wrote "God Bless America" be stopped or is this selectively applied only to Ukraine? Of course I support Ukraine both in the context of both the current war and would have said this for a long time before the war as well. TamsaVakaras (talk) 03:03, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
- Hi TamsaVakaras, if you'd like to add a friendly greeting to your user page, a simple "Hello" or "Welcome" does the job. Slava Ukraini is the battle cry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and I'd be happy if you could at least honestly admit that you had more than a friendly greeting in mind when deciding to use this as the only content of your user page. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:19, 29 December 2024 (UTC)