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Hi! I took a look at the list of recently active admins and your name came up. Would you happen to have the time to take care of WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Roqui15, considering the user in question admitted to it? TompaDompa (talk) 15:19, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
- @TompaDompa: heh, I hate that list :) I would take a look if I wasn't due at the bank in a few minutes. I'll try to follow up later today if nobody else gets to it. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:21, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
- Alright, thanks! I'll keep asking around in the meantime. TompaDompa (talk) 15:24, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
- Changed my mind, I hate trolls. But I guess I'll head to the bank now anyway. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:29, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
- Alright, thanks! I'll keep asking around in the meantime. TompaDompa (talk) 15:24, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
Greg O'Connor
Thanks for the advice about Greg O'Connor. My proficiency in locating archived sources is limited to clicking the link for the archive in a citation. Is there another way? Thanks. Sundayclose (talk) 16:25, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
- @Sundayclose: the way I do it is to copy the URL out of the citation source, and paste it into the lookup field at archive.org. You'll usually get a page showing you all the dates that they've taken a snapshot of the original page, although sometimes the snapshots have errors. I try to find a snapshot around the time of the access-date. It's pretty reliable for article text, but not so great for multimedia, and some sites just aren't archived. It's usually worth a shot, anyway, if a citation has a broken link. There's some more info at WP:LINKROT, especially the WP:DEADLINK section. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:27, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
I saw where you deleted this article. There is a season 2 of The Challenge:USA that will be debuting in September, and the cast was announced. What prompted the speedy deletion? Bgsu98 (Talk) 22:02, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
- @Bgsu98: I was mass-deleting a number of drafts that the creator of this one made, because I checked enough of them to see a pattern of creating drafts on movies and shows that ranged from entirely speculative to completely made up. If you say that this one actually exists then I'll go ahead and restore it, but it would be helpful if you could add a source. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 22:04, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
- I will do that as soon as it's restored. Thank you so much! Bgsu98 (Talk) 22:06, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
- Ah I see what happened here, I seem to have been fooled by a redirect and an early page revision. I shouldn't have deleted this in the first place, and thanks for pointing out my error. It has been restored. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 22:07, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
- When there was only one season, the original article was simply entitled The Challenge: USA. When a second season was confirmed, I renamed (ie. moved) that original article to The Challenge: USA (season 1). It's possible that someone else may have created a more general article (now called The Challenge: USA), plus a specific article for season 2. Either way, thank you for restoring it! Bgsu98 (Talk) 22:11, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
- I see where you moved it to "season 1". Someone else a few weeks after that recreated The Challenge: USA as an article about the series, and there are now that main article and the two seasons articles, The Challenge: USA (season 1) and The Challenge: USA (season 2). That all looks fine to me. What led me to it was a batch of G3 deletion requests that were all drafts about things like a double-digit sequel to the film Avatar which were all clearly made up, and all made by the same IP editor. I should have realized when I clicked on your article that I had been redirected to a mainspace article, but I was deleting too quickly, and that's entirely on me. I also got the request below about a draft that another editor had adopted and put quite a bit of work into which I also should have realized, and that led me to take a look through the other pages I deleted to see if there were any more that I shouldn't have, but all the rest seem to be okay. Always happy to reverse an obvious error I've made, anyway, although of course I prefer not to make those mistakes in the first place! Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 22:19, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
- When there was only one season, the original article was simply entitled The Challenge: USA. When a second season was confirmed, I renamed (ie. moved) that original article to The Challenge: USA (season 1). It's possible that someone else may have created a more general article (now called The Challenge: USA), plus a specific article for season 2. Either way, thank you for restoring it! Bgsu98 (Talk) 22:11, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
- Ah I see what happened here, I seem to have been fooled by a redirect and an early page revision. I shouldn't have deleted this in the first place, and thanks for pointing out my error. It has been restored. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 22:07, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
- I will do that as soon as it's restored. Thank you so much! Bgsu98 (Talk) 22:06, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
Draft:The Voice (American season 25)
Good Day!
I have been notified that the draft for The Voice (American season 25) has been deleted, citing WP:G3. I would like to refute this, as a cursory search shows that the season is very much real, and from recollection, multiple reliable sources support the article. While it may be too early to move the draft to article space, deleting it would just rob the eventual article of detailed coverage that may not be reproduced when started later. EdrianJustine (talk) 22:06, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
- Happy to oblige, and my apologies. The draft has been restored. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 22:09, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you. EdrianJustine (talk) 22:12, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
Foster Cummings
Why would you remove prolifically documented allegations of corruption from his page? There are many newspaper articles corroborating these allegations which are supported by extensive documentation. He may not have been prosecuted for his financial crimes, but neither have many ruling tyrants of the world who repress their judiciaries - neither should he nor should other tyrants be above criticism on wikipedia. Websurfer868 (talk) 19:55, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
- Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a free speech forum for the airing of grievances or the righting of perceived wrongs. Please see WP:RGW first of all, and then please join the discussion on the article's talk page. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 19:57, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
- It is a fact that Foster Cummings uses his political influence to procure lucrative government contracts for his personal businesses, and while he is able to use his influence to evade prosecution, his misconduct has been documented by our 57 year old newspaper, The Trinidad Express, which I cited, among other national newspapers. Which do you take issue with, my source or the allegations? Websurfer868 (talk) 20:22, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
- I am not going to respond about this here. See the discussion on the article's talk page. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 20:23, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
- It is a fact that Foster Cummings uses his political influence to procure lucrative government contracts for his personal businesses, and while he is able to use his influence to evade prosecution, his misconduct has been documented by our 57 year old newspaper, The Trinidad Express, which I cited, among other national newspapers. Which do you take issue with, my source or the allegations? Websurfer868 (talk) 20:22, 2 August 2023 (UTC)