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Change Name of User

Hi. I created this account so many years ago. now I want to change the name of my profile from "Cheposo" to Risantana how can I make a change of name of my account or profile? help please. I hope you can help me with this.

--Cheposo (talk) 13:21, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

Belloc's "The Catholic Sun"

I believe you edited the Hilaire Belloc page with the addition of a quote from the poem "The Catholic Sun" on 15 Dec 2008. I have not been able to find a source for that widely quoted poem. It's not in the Duckworth 1970 H. Belloc: Complete Verse and I wondered if you did have a firm attribution for "The Catholic Sun." Thanks. JohnGHissong (talk) 09:13, 29 May 2016 (UTC)

Question

Hello Academic Challenger, I found out that you are one of the English Wikipedia Administratos and I've decided to write to you about one irritant user, it's User:Dag13. Please visit his page and review it, I'm really interesting if it is forbidden or not to behave like him. I don't know maybe I also violated some rules, but maybe. If you found out, tell me about them I'll be pleased, I am not well in English Wikipedia rules, but I think what he does it's excessive and trespass. Thank you. --g. balaxaZeႫ 19:03, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Harry potter spam

Has been dealt with by another admin. Thanks. --Roxy the dog (resonate) 10:15, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

View deleted page

Hey, seeing as you are an active English Wikipedia Administrator, I was wondering if there was anyway you could share with me the contents of a deleted Wikipedia page since only admins & a few others have that ability. Please let me know if this would be possible! Thanks. --LSUkingfish (talk) 09:02, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

You're back!?

Hi Academic Challenger. You probably don't remember me; it has been awhile. I've been updating my userspace and I still see the notice you left from when you protected it for me many years ago. I was swinging by and was pleasantly surprised to see some recent editing activity. Does this mean you're back? Mkdw^talk 06:35, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Access to deleted page

Hi, I am a Ph.D. student and I am doing research on Wikipedia Vandalism and vandalism in general. Is there a way to access the following page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Slashdot_trolls. It shows that you have deleted the page. Also, is there a way to get all the wikipedia users who are considered to be vandals? Is there a list anywhere? Thanks Srijan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Srijankedia) 24 Feb 2014.

Second account

I created a account on Wikiquote and brought it over here on accident. It is called Dedicator20. It was done on complete accident and I assure you that I did not intend to create a sock puppet. I am telling you this because I do not want this matter to be guessed or otherwise assumed by any persons, so I am coming right out and admitting the mistake. Informant16 — Preceding undated comment added 18:09, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Restoring your talk

Hi, Academic Challenger. I've just restored your talk page after vandalism by this user and have reported that single-purpose account. Hope you're okay with my intervention. Cheers! --Iryna Harpy (talk) 00:09, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Request for comment

Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:46, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Global account

Hi Academic Challenger! As a Steward I'm involved in the upcoming unification of all accounts organized by the Wikimedia Foundation (see m:Single User Login finalisation announcement). By looking at your your account, I realized that you don't have a global account yet. In order to secure your name, I recommend you to create such account on your own by submitting your password on Special:MergeAccount and unifying your local accounts. If you have any problems with doing that or further questions, please don't hesitate to ping me with {{ping|DerHexer}}. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 22:54, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

My Deleted Article

Hello Academic_Challenger,

I am new to Wikipedia (I just created an account today.) I will be going over the rules to write the article properly etc... and will be redacting the page you deleted. You deleted the page on grounds of Copyright infringement. However, I own the Copyright. I'll be back to read over how to write my first article and go from there. Thanks for your help.

Best,

StarLordGuardian

Existing Promotional Pages

How are you Academic_Challenger? I hope all is well. Thank you for all that you do to keep this community in good standing. Basically, I am puzzled on some other articles that weren't deleted. I actually had a recent article being removed due to issue with promotion and such but I have also seen others who are doing the same but they're still visible and active. I am just wondering if there is some kind of a point system or level of the account registered or something like that to possibly avail the same kind of privilege? I know this is really not a good place to promote or something but I don't think anyone will just post an article here in Wikipedia that is not helpful. I am sure the contents suggested/submitted are, in one way or another, beneficial if not to everyone but at least, I'm sure, 30 people out of the 100 will find it significant. Lastly, I hope it is possible to bring back the page I created that was just removed. :) If it's not, I would be very careful next time and hopefully my article will be approved. This is it for now. Thanks again and take care. --SaryaS90 (talk) 10:16, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Fatoumata Kaba

The article Fatoumata Kaba has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

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English teacher listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect English teacher. Since you had some involvement with the English teacher redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. —Godsy^(TALK_CONT) 06:38, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

Extended confirmed protection

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Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas.

In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:

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Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

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A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi Academic Challenger.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:46, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

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Presidential candidate listed at Redirects for discussion

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Protection of Hats Off Productions...

....sorry to drop in here, but actually I do not understand why you protected the article; we had two instances of vandalism today, and no edits at all to the article since July 5th before that. Don't get me wrong, but I really see no case for protection...unless there is something I do not see? Cheers and happy editing. Lectonar (talk) 19:47, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

Both that article and Badi Dooooor Se Aaye Hai have been the targets of a rather devout fan who fervently believes the show will continue. This has been going on for quite a few months. When they first started, I did some basic research (I'm not from India and not familiar with the show) and was able to find several mentions that the show was not restarting, no plans to restart and some obstacles existed. The IP bounces across multiple wide ranges, so a range-block isn't a possibility. Normally I just revert and am done with it, but when the IP edits more frequently, semi-protection is much easier on me and often stops them for a decent amount of time. I'll respect your decision on this, but will request again in a few days if they persist. Ravensfire (talk) 20:31, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

I'd say pending-changes protection should actually do the trick. Persistent the disruption might be....but yes, in olden times I would have said "just watchlist and revert", and not protected. I still like the fact that Wikipedia is the "Encyclopedia that everyone can edit"; if not, we could just semi-protect all the pages (which is actually a perennial proposal), and be done with it. In this case, it seems a bit like shooting with cannon on sparrows. Anyway, it just caught my eye because I had just denied another RFP-request by User:Ravensfire. I will not insist on any change, though. Cheers everyone. Lectonar (talk) 07:07, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

A user is vandalizing articles

Hi there how are you? you may have to take a look at the editing history of Georgepodros, several users have been busy reverting his edits, thank you. Redman19 (talk) 14:30, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

The user seems to be inactive, I will keep you updated when necessary, kind regards. Redman19 (talk) 09:38, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

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Chronic flatulence listed at Redirects for discussion

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Early AFD closes

Why are you closing AFD discussions as delete before the 7-day voting period is up? WP:CLOSEAFD says A deletion discussion should normally be allowed to run for seven full days (168 hours)., and you don't appear to be invoking WP:SNOW in a close rationale. power~enwiki (π, ν) 21:59, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Mea culpa - I should have explicitly invoked WP:SNOW in my close rationale. You're correct that this was my reasoning as the AfDs I closed had a strong consensus in one direction. Thanks for the reminder about WP:CLOSEAFD. Happy editing, Academic Challenger (talk) 23:40, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Why judging without defending?

Hi Academic Challenger,

May I know why Fawzal Number has been delete without giving me chance and time to defend it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Fawzal_number

Please enlighten me on which part it is not following the guideline? All of the reason given for deletion was not convincing. The work has been peer-reviewed by the professionals namely: (1) Three academic reviewers from the IEEE community. They have a strict rule in publication yet has a high impact factor. (2) Three reviewers from Applied Thermal Engineering coming from the various background. (3) The work has been defended in front of experts in flow physics and electrical machine design. Additionally, this work was supervised by four academicians and one industry expert. The four academician has and expertise in: electrical machine, computational fluid dynamic and vehicle dynamic while the industry expert is the founder of YASA topology.

If you look at other dimensionless numbers, you can apply the same comment given by people who vote for my deletion (i.e: reliable source coverage to demonstrate notability User:PohranicniStraze, Insufficient uptake in the literature User:Elmidae, Not enough coverage User:Kraose) 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_number 2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrasekhar_number I am not saying that these two dimensionless numbers are not valid, but my point is, I wish you could have some justice and allow for the room of discussion before making a judgement.

I am waiting for your reply. Thank you. Fawzala (talk) 16:55, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Night of Silence

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Amity-enmity complex

Please delete this article, more detail below. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Amity-enmity_complex</ref>[[User:Udihgi|Udihgi]] ([[User talk:Udihgi|talk]]) 02:16, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

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Kudos on your anti-vandalism Wiki efforts from a fellow SoCal person hello Ventura!

Wow! Nine-thousand plus pages?! Incredible. Kudos! Here's the quote from your User Page Awards sub section: "The Editor's Barnstar For removing 9000+ unencyclopedically unworthy pages from Wikipedia and helping to keep the encyclopedia in a healthy state - As a new admin, I can certainly attest to the unappetizing nature of this hard work (clearing CSD). Regards, Blnguyen" .. Chuckle .. I almost pasted in a screenshot crop of this quote to the Facebook messenger group chat we have going with @DrMel: but well.. You're a member of wiki blind, so.. that wouldn't be such a great idea :) smiley icon.. *wink wink* .. Hugs from your new pal, Peter, aka Vid2vid (talk) 21:17, 28 August 2019 (UTC).

Your words are truly appreciated Vid2vid! Academic Challenger (talk) 00:11, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

"Pennylvania" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Proposed deletion of Mike Siegel

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Status of Republic of Artsakh

Hello. In my opinion, the status of the unrecognized Republic of Artsakh article is incorrect. If the state does not recognize it, the country to which it belongs must also be written in its status. For example, unrecognized Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Transnistria are not like Arsakh in the article. Arsakh's status was written by three non-UN member states. Sorry, is this important? Does it matter? However, they are unrecognized separatist organizations. Even four countries have recognized the independence of those separatist organizations. But Arsakh was not recognized by any state. Excuse me, why isn't the Republic of Artsakh article the same as the 3 unrecognized states article? Don't you think this is a double standard? Sword313 (talk) 00:04, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

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Just a hello Skylar and hope you're doing amazingly!!

Just hello @Academic Challenger: - oh man, not a fan at ALLLLLLL of userID's with a space in them, having come from a Unix/Linux background but oh well. Oh my god, these two Wood Ducks I think, on your user page, are gorgeous. I wish you could see them. Are you partially sighted? Hugs and happy holidays Skylar to you and Yours. --From Peter {a.k.a. Vid2vid (talk | contribs)} 00:31, 17 December 2020 (UTC).

Aha, the ducks are either Wood Ducks, Ruddy Ducks, or Common Merganser. I google images'ed (verb) it lol. Sending my best my Friend. Look forward to meeting you once the COVID-19 vaccine is in full swing, maybe summer 2021! --From Peter {a.k.a. Vid2vid (talk | contribs)} 00:33, 17 December 2020 (UTC).

thank you my friend

	It’s a maze of twisty passages all around here. Sometimes, it’s hard to feel appreciated, and you deserve some love! This Heart-shaped Labyrinth is to say Thank YOU for all your hard work. I appreciate you being here - I really do - and so do these peeps!
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with love always, DrMel (talk) 01:49, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

ps - I’m sending you one of these in the mail! DrMel (talk) 07:04, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Courtesy ping

Note that Draft:Skylar Covich has been created. User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 02:43, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

The article I created was moved to "draft"

Dear Academic Challenger, Thank you for your message and your concern about Marcus Sheridan. I left the following response on my own "talk" page, but I'm not sure if I was supposed to leave it on your page as well, so I'm taking the liberty of doing so. I was not compensated directly or indirectly to create this page. Instead, I am trying to become an active contributor here, and I am starting with people and organizations I know best. Please let me know what I can do to set things right. Thanks so much. Uxh76 (talk) 21:54, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

potential threat.

I am here to give you a heads up on an potential threat, on the article for Omar Mateen there was a pending revision by the IP address 38.142.176.26 stating this: "(OPENLY DEGRADING AN AMERICAN CITIZEN OF MUSLIM FAITH BY STATING HOMESEXUAL TENDENCIES AND ACTS, COMPLETELY UNTRUE AND PATHETIC. CHANGE THIS IMMEDIATELY OR I WILL ATTACK WIKI AND DELETE ALL FILES.)". I am sure that this threat by the user is empty but I thought that I should go ahead and alert an admin either way just incase. Discount Horde (talk) 14:48, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

Whoa, what? And hello, you have a Wikipedia login, you can edit the article yourself. Would you like pointers how to do so? -From Peter {a.k.a. Vid2vid (talk | contribs)} 18:53, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

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Dear Skylar hello hello, long time no talk, hope all is great

Hello hello there Skylar - long time no talk - just saw a Facebook messenger pop-up that you were active right now; how is your new position or job going? We miss you on the Facebook Messenger / S.D. or San Diego or so-Cal wiki messenger instant message group. Hope all is well with you. I think we're going to try to start up having a once-monthly / slash / every month, 40 or 42 minutes Zoom online video chat to catch up about all things related to Wikipedia or wikimedia or wiki in general, and I would love for you to be a part of those; we're probably going to have it on a Saturday or a Sunday at some point - would you like to be invited if I hear about it? Again hope all is great with you. -From Peter {a.k.a. Vid2vid (talk | contribs)} 18:51, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

Vandal

An anonymous user using an IP address changed Libya's Chairman of the Presidential Council to "Rawad Derbal", and I have no proof and barely have any existence of the Rawad Derbal guy. Please warn or block him. Thanks. Icantthinkofanamexd (talk) 09:24, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

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