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Please stop deleting their messages. It makes it difficult to understand what is going on. You should be very careful about deleting messages on another user's talk page, even when those messages are LLM-deriven. β€”&nbsp;<b style="font-family:Papyrus;color:DarkSlateGrey;">rsjaffe</b>&nbsp;πŸ—£οΈ 18:24, 4 January 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for helping out clear vandalism



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A barnstar for you!



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Why are B12 not relevant enough?



I have reposted the B12 album article several times. Each time adding in new references including from Bandcamp, Soundcloud and Ebay yet I am told that I have made no changes and that B12 (a seminal electronic artist) is un-noteworthy. What else can I provide?

Regards

M. Maxwell Tetraplex1984 (talk) 20:01, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

:Those aren't reliable sources β†—. In fact, they are so blatantly unreliable that I'd argue they are examples of the exact opposite of the type of sourcing that Wikipedia requires. Taking Out The Trash (talk) 01:06, 28 February 2026 (UTC)
::You should listen to the music. You might become a fan. Tetraplex1984 (talk) 08:57, 1 March 2026 (UTC)
:::That is 100% irrelevant to whether the topic is suitable for a Wikipedia article or not. Taking Out The Trash (talk) 18:34, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

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Hello



Not too familiar with you, but I love the username! Will def support based on what I know1 πŸ₯€ β†—<span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-family: 'Brush Script MT', cursive;"><span style="color:#D43943">Spravato!</span></span></span>πŸ’ β†—/<span style="color:#EE959E">πŸ§‹</span> 03:05, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

Hi, friend



I see you've removed your name from the Admin election list. That shows good decision-making and will help in your next attempt. Give it another two years or so of steady work and if the toolbox still seems like something worthwhile for you and the project, please do try again. best regards, β€”tim /// Carrite (talk) 23:01, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

Hi! About my Color of Neptune β†— article



I see you've tagged this article I recently made as "Essay-like". If, I may ask, how is it essay like? Joseph The Dalmatian (talk) 12:12, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

:I flagged it as essay-like because the prose does in fact read like the introduction to or an abstract of an academic essay or piece of literature. That's not how Wikipedia articles should be written. The article should not begin with a description of a drawn-out thought like it does now, but rather it should begin with a concrete definition and explanation of the topic. So in this case, the beginning of the lead should be something like "The '''Color of Neptune''' is/was...<add your text here>". See WP:MOS β†— for a detailed instruction guide on how to write and format articles correctly. Taking Out The Trash (talk) 21:39, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

AFC



Hi. I changed the draft name to something more specific, as you requested.

Draft:May 2, 2024 Interstate 95 tanker fire and bridge collapse β†—

Thanks, and please leave a message on my talk page so I can know. Cheers! '''''Jetwindy'''''-☎️-✈️ 20:18, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

:Thanks. Usually the automated script used to review submissions will leave a talk page message when a comment is added, I don't know why it didn't this time around (and I even tried it twice).
:Unfortunately, upon further review and consideration, I'm not totally convinced that this incident has WP:LASTING β†— significance and thus I'm going to decline it for now on those grounds. When compared to the aforementioned similar incident in Philadelphia, the Connecticut article is rather quite skimpy on the content overall. If you can expand the submission to be more detailed, along the same lines as 2023 Interstate 95 highway collapse β†—, while still maintaining appropriate referencing/sources, I'd probably accept it. Taking Out The Trash (talk) 20:25, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!



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Encyclopedic tone



Please may you explain to me how this article's β†— tone or style does not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia? GoldenBootWizard276 (talk) 13:58, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

:At the time, the prose was written rather informally and carried a sense of being a "rough draft" or otherwise written quickly without much thought being put into the writing style. Wikipedia is serious business and anything published in mainspace needs to be written professionally and formally, like it would be in a real newspaper or physical encyclopedia. That being said, it appears the issues have been corrected and the tag has already been removed by someone else. Taking Out The Trash (talk) 13:17, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

Review for Draft:Rosenberg station (Texas)



Hey taking out the trash, it has been over 24 hours, is everything ok? Tick bonk (talk) 02:18, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

:Sorry about that, been super busy with other stuff. Honestly I'm of two minds on this one: on the one hand, the sourcing is still rather quite skimpy, and the prose is also written very informally β†—, almost tersely in a few spots. On the other hand, I'm of the opinion that any Amtrak station, past, present, or future, where it can be verified that some form of passenger infrastructure once existed at the location, is worthy of at least an explicit mention in a related article if not its own article. This is especially true for former stations that were located along routes that still operate today, as this one is. Given that Rosenberg Railroad Museum β†— is also a stub that could use expansion, and considering the fact that the museum and the former passenger station are practically in the same location (just on opposite sides of the street/tracks, I believe), I'd recommend merging the content of your draft into the preexisting musuem article. See WP:PROMERGE β†— for detailed instructions on how to go about this. When merging, be mindful of the rather informal/"rough draft" tone that the submission currently carries (including what appear to be several typos) and also bear in mind that the history section does not need to be broken up into so many subsections when each section is barely one or two sentences long. Let me know if you have any questions. Taking Out The Trash (talk) 13:13, 30 May 2026 (UTC)
::wow I didn't think of that! thanks for the information! Tick bonk (talk) 17:13, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

Oppose votes



I suggest removing your joke oppose votes in the ongoing RfAs or at least moving them to the discussion section. A lot of people take the vote counts really seriously and it's likely to get a lot of pushback. '''<span style="color:#0c4709">Thebiguglyalien</span>''' (<span style="color:#472c09">talk</span>) 01:05, 30 June 2026 (UTC)

:I removed it as the RfA closes in an hour, hope that’s okay Kowal2701 (talk, contribs β†—) 09:11, 30 June 2026 (UTC)