User talk:WikipediholicRat

Question from Mak cranelly (20:59, 31 July 2026)

Hello. The article Pyrola has numerous technical terms with no link to an article defining the term. I made links for two of the terms (racemose and inflorescence). I was looking for a tool that would scan an article and find terms without links and automatically suggest a change. Such a tool apparently exists, but can I get to it in the article? I think I updated my account sufficiently but maybe the tool is just for training? --Mak cranelly (talk) 21:00, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

What's the tool you found called? WikipediholicRat (talk) 22:03, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

"Suggested edits". It looks mostly to be a training tool but might be useful if it takes racemose to [[Raceme|racemose]] and prompts for accept/reject if racemose is bare and if it iterates through the article looking for stuff to do. Google AI may be leading me astray when it claims I should be seeing a magic wand or a sparkles icon when in visual edit. Mak cranelly (talk) 09:59, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

You should be able to use suggested edits. Strange that it says you can't. WikipediholicRat (talk) 00:51, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

Question from Sylv302 (17:59, 2 August 2026)

I do have one question about the Notability rule of wikipedia. My favorite music artist is a smaller artist, around 300k monthly listeners. I would really like to give her an article but it would suck to put time into an article that is removed for not being notable enough. Her name is Issbrokie and currently searches of her name redirect to Danny Brown's album, "Stardust" --Sylv302 (talk) 17:59, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

I've ready the notability guideline wayyy too many times, so I'd be happy to help! The policy says that you need multiple reliable sources that significantly cover the subject (i.e., Issbrokie) and are independent of her. For example: an interview isn't independent, so it doesn't count, and a news article mentioning her name once doesn't either. But a whole news article about her does. It sounds strict, but you should realize that Wikipedia isn't a place for gossip. If there isn't enough information about someone to write about them without some guesswork, then it's good to wait until there is to write an article about them. Now, as mentioned in the little footnote before, there are some good tell-tale signs for musicians to find out whether they're notable. I'm not going to list them all here, as it would be redundant, but I'd recommend you to go check them! I'll say beforehand: I did some research, and I don't think she's notable, sadly. But, this might not always be the case! In the meantime, keep editing! Wikipedia is awesome! WikipediholicRat (talk) 00:50, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

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Question from Alhajiwise2019 (17:10, 3 August 2026)

Note: Alhajiwise2019's mentor Ferien is away.

I am alhajiwise2019, a new user. I want you to guide me on how to use the tools and all what I should know as a new user --Alhajiwise2019 (talk) 17:10, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

Please register yourself as a bot

If you are going to continue to do mass scale automated / semi-automated edits, you should register as a bot, stating precisely what you intend to do. See WP:BOTAPPROVAL and WP:MEATBOT. –jacobolus (t) 22:48, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

@Jacobolus: I believe I'm being more careful about what I do. I do many edits, but I make sure they're correct, and I check if I'm unsure. I don't want to behave like a meatbot, but I don't completely see what the problem with my behavior is. WikipediholicRat (talk) 23:31, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

You're making many hundreds of edits per day, beyond people's capacity to really individually check them. At least some of them don't really make sense to me. For example in special:diff/1366951473 you changed the hyphen in "48-0001" to a dash "48–0001". Why? Why should this one be treated differently than the immediately adjacent "48-0000", "50-0000", "51-0000", and "52-0000", all of which still use hyphens. This is clearly not a range of numbers, so what is the dash supposed to be doing? –jacobolus (t) 23:53, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

It's summer vacation, and I have way too much time on my hands. I had one week where I spent 90 hours editing Wikipedia. My parents are somewhat concerned about me, and my friends are getting annoyed that I haven't had a full conversation without mentioning Wikipedia in the last month. It's probably unhealthy, but it is possible. I'm putting a lot of effort into Wikipedia. It's practically dwarfed every other interest or activity I have. I really do care about Wikipedia, and I'm not trying to put out as many low-effort edits as possible. WikipediholicRat (talk) 00:20, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

Sorry if I'm getting defensive. WikipediholicRat (talk) 00:21, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

I want to say that this isn't me criticizing you, this is me criticizing a strawman of myself that I have in my head, and your completely valid criticism caused me to feel like I was that strawman, getting me defensive. WikipediholicRat (talk) 00:30, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

I can't tell you how to spend your time, but I think you'd find it more rewarding, and it would be in my opinion much more useful to the project, if you spent 90 hours writing 1 or 2 good articles instead of making 1000 edits changing curly quotes to straight quotes or changing from one template shortcut name to another. –jacobolus (t) 00:54, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

I already have plans for that! I have a list of articles I would like to either improve or write (if they don't exist). I have only one GA so far, but hope to write more soon. Also, I might even try to get my first FA soon! WikipediholicRat (talk) 00:59, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

In special:diff/1367543578 you lower-cased the initial letter of a section heading, "The Beatles in Aldershot" -> "the Beatles in Aldershot", which is clearly incorrect. –jacobolus (t) 23:58, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

I apologize for this one. I remember that edit, and I was too focused in making sure that I really touched only the caption and not the filename. After checking a few times, I pushed it through. It seems I forgot to simply looked up; if I remember correctly, I thought the heading was only shown as surrounding text for the diff.

I realize I do make mistakes, but I think I've been making them less and less often. WikipediholicRat (talk) 00:08, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

Question from Leahnelson415 (11:49, 5 August 2026)

Note: Leahnelson415's mentor JayCubby is away.

Hello WikipediholicRat, I am the granddaughter if the subject in question, please help me further memorialize my grandfather, Gary K Nelson, by helping me add an image to show likeness on the list of of AZ AGs section of this page "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_Attorney_General", on which there has never been photo of him. [I tried once before to add a photo of him but it was struck down by wikipedia for something I couldn't understand] I would like to make it as simple and easy as possible and use the photo which is given in his own wikipedia page "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_K._Nelson" The image's use in this article complies with it's source (CSPAN)'s policy. This is laid out in the media data and non-free use rational by a previous user: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gary_K_Nelson.png#file : "Media data and Non-free use rationale Description Gary K Nelson, Arizona Attorney General, during oral argument at the supreme court for the case Miranda v. Arizona. Circa 1966. Author or copyright owner C-Span Source (WP:NFCC#4) https://www.c-span.org/video/?59250-1/miranda-v-arizona-oral-arguments Date of publication June 8, 1996 Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) Gary K. Nelson Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) For visual identification of the object of the article. The article as a whole is dedicated specifically to a discussion of this work. Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1) n.a. Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) Used only on the subject page and maintains the CSPAN logo. Thus, the usage is permitted by Cspans' policy. Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2) n.a. Other information Wikipedia:CSPAN The subject has been dead since 2013. NO free photos could be found." All I want is for a photo of him to appear on the Arizona Attorney General Page, I've read through so many wiki articles about how to do this without violating these rules but it is so confusing, please help! if you need proof that I am actlly his granddaughter I hv plenty --Leahnelson415 (talk) 11:49, 5 August 2026 (UTC)