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September 2026

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your recent edits to Poppo, Duke of Thuringia when you modified the page, you introduced unknown parameters. Specifying |some_param=some_variable does not always mean that variable will display. The |some_param= needs to be defined in the template in order to work. You can look at the documentation for the template being used, but it is also helpful to use the preview button before saving an edit; this helps find any errors that have been made and ensures that the values added are displaying correctly. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show what the page will look like without actually saving it. It is highly recommended that editors use this before saving. Note I have likely fixed the error by now so check the history of the page to see how it was fixed. If you have any questions of if I can help explain further, please let me know! You can also contact the help desk for assistance. Thank you. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 02:02, 4 September 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing it. You are right, info boxes can be tricky and there are a lot of deprecated parameters out there. I do use preview when editing them, but this must have slipped through. It was an interesting read and thanks for setting me straight. MerlinsCodex (talk) 04:41, 4 September 2026 (UTC)

Of course! These things happen, just a good way to learn. Keep up the good work! Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 04:56, 4 September 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your recent edits to Royal New Zealand College of Urgent Care (RNZCUC) when you modified the page, you introduced unknown parameters. Specifying |some_param=some_variable does not always mean that variable will display. The |some_param= needs to be defined in the template in order to work. You can look at the documentation for the template being used, but it is also helpful to use the preview button before saving an edit; this helps find any errors that have been made and ensures that the values added are displaying correctly. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show what the page will look like without actually saving it. It is highly recommended that editors use this before saving. Note I have likely fixed the error by now so check the history of the page to see how it was fixed. If you have any questions of if I can help explain further, please let me know! You can also contact the help desk for assistance. Thank you. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 00:45, 20 September 2026 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (September 9)

Draft declined

Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. Your draft submission to Articles for creation has been reviewed but not accepted at this time.

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The reviewer, Bobby Cohn, left the following feedback:

This draft duplicates another submission, Theo Wylie, currently submitted for review. To save time, we will review the other submission only. Any future edits or improvements should be made on that submission, not here.

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Bobby Cohn 🍁 (talk) 14:17, 9 September 2026 (UTC)

Yeah, I just found out. I have made a couple of edits to that one, including the details of his catch today at Edgbaston. MerlinsCodex (talk) 15:18, 9 September 2026 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Theo Wylie has been accepted

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Jishara (please ping upon response) (talk) 12:25, 18 September 2026 (UTC)

Great, can you take a look at my Walking Cricket article as well, its been stuck in Afc for a couple of weeks MerlinsCodex (talk) 12:39, 18 September 2026 (UTC)

Nomination of Royal New Zealand College of Urgent Care for deletion

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Moarnighar (talk) 12:36, 21 September 2026 (UTC)

Dr Beare

My apologies for not checking more carefully! Rwood128 (talk) 11:56, 24 September 2026 (UTC)

No problems, did you put him back on the Alumni page? MerlinsCodex (talk) 12:35, 24 September 2026 (UTC)

Catholicoi articles

Hi, thank you for creating articles for the Armenian Catholicoi! Overall, you've been doing a fine job of creating them, but I wanted to offer you a few quick pointers that will ease the burden of patrollers such as myself.

• Please verify that the dates you are adding are consistent with the source. I found that you incorrectly listed the period of Solomon I's catholicate; I have corrected that.
• Please swap in the following format for the citation of the 1827 translation of Chamich:

{{cite book |last=Chamich |first=Michael |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofarmenia01cham/ |title=History of Armenia |date=1827 |publisher=[[Bishop's College, Calcutta|Bishop College Press]] |volume=I |location=Calcutta |translator-last1=Avdall |translator-first1=Johannes |via=[[Archive.org]]}}

• Please avoid adding "of Armenia" to article names, especially when there is no one else with the same name and the subject does not take that title. See Wikipedia:Disambiguation for more details.

Thank you for your hard work! Best, ~ Pbritti (talk) 20:31, 25 September 2026 (UTC)

Glad you noticed it, I was working through several of the patriarchs who didn't really trouble the chroniclers, which is why they were left out. I didn't change any of the names of the pages, they had already been chosen by the author of the main list (List of catholicoi of all Armenians), I didn't want to change any of them in case they appeared on other pages. This is where I got the dates from as well, although I may have transcribed a few incorrectly. If I knew more about wiki scripts I'd automate it.

I can swap that citation if you wish.

I really have learnt about Armenia and its relationship with the Caliphate, fsacinating! MerlinsCodex (talk) 21:39, 25 September 2026 (UTC)

I didn't change any of the names of the pages, they had already been chosen by the author of the main list When you're creating the articles, are you clicking on the red link on that list and creating the new article there? If so, that's an acceptable approach, but there are better options. You can create articles first in your user space (for example, User:Pbritti/sandbox) and move them to a name that reflects current Wikipedia naming policy once they're ready for publication. That list is decent, but it's also dated by a number of current policies' standards. Otherwise, you deserve to be proud of your work here. Best, ~ Pbritti (talk) 22:53, 25 September 2026 (UTC)

Yes, that's what i though was best practice. I'll move that one with the odd Catholicos prefix in his page name, and set up a redirect. MerlinsCodex (talk) 23:04, 25 September 2026 (UTC)

Figured it out Stephen I already redirected to some other guy, so the list maker give our Patriarch a longer name. So I converted what was a redirect into a disambiguation page Stephen I of Armenia, and putting "not to be confused with" on those pages MerlinsCodex (talk) 23:11, 25 September 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello MerlinsCodex! Your additions to Kotmale Dam have been removed in whole or in part, because they contained copyright violations. While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, we take copyright very seriously. You cannot copy text from your sources. Everything you contribute needs to be written in your own words, and avoid too close paraphrasing. If you own the copyright of the content you want to use, please see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.

Continuing to violate our copyright policy may lead you to be blocked from editing. If you have any questions, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 15:27, 26 September 2026 (UTC)

Thanks, did not know that kind of page would be copyrighted, will be more careful in future. MerlinsCodex (talk) 16:04, 26 September 2026 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Walking Cricket (October 4)

Draft declined

Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. Your draft submission to Articles for creation has been reviewed but not accepted at this time.

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The reviewer, Vestrian24Bio, left the following feedback:

This draft's references do not show that the subject meets Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion for organizations and companies. The draft requires multiple published secondary sources that:

• provide significant coverage: discuss the subject in detail, excluding routine coverage like product launches, staff appointments, or financial reports and listings in databases or listicles;
• are reliable: from reputable outlets with editorial oversight;
• are independent: not connected to the subject, such as press releases, the subject's own website, or sponsored content.

Please add references that meet all three of these criteria. If none exist, the subject is not yet suitable for Wikipedia.

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Vestrian24Bio 14:44, 4 October 2026 (UTC)

Drafts

Hello, MerlinsCodex, I'm Bearcat. Please note that pages in draft space, such as Draft:Walking Cricket are not allowed to be categorized alongside finished articles in mainspace, per WP:DRAFTNOCAT. The page must stay out of any categories so long as it is outside mainspace, and this is not an optional rule that you're free to disregard or ignore.

You can provisionally list categories in your draft without affecting content categories by using one of the methods described here.

As the page has had to be pulled out of categories twice in one month, do not readd it to categories again, because draft and sandbox pages are not allowed to be in content categories. Note as well that there can be consequences for disruption if it doesn't stop, such as page protection or deletion and/or the temporary or permanent suspension of your editing privileges.

You are not "fixing" categories by enabling them on a draft, as you claimed in your edit summary. Drafts are not allowed to be in categories, so enabling categories on a draft is broken and disabled categories are what's fixed. The reverse only becomes true in mainspace, and not in draftspace or userspace. Bearcat (talk) 15:18, 4 October 2026 (UTC)

Got it, my mistake, will revert MerlinsCodex (talk) 15:31, 4 October 2026 (UTC)

Its in mainspace now, so colons removed, and categories look OK MerlinsCodex (talk) 15:41, 4 October 2026 (UTC)

@Bearcat: this is an AI user, there's incontrovertible proof in the filter logs. ‑‑gurkubondinn 18:09, 5 October 2026 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for October 4

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October 2026

Please refrain from making edits generated using a large language model (an "AI chatbot" or other application using such technology) to Wikipedia pages, such as those you made to Abraham I of Armenia, as LLM-generated content is prohibited on Wikipedia. Your edits have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Thank you. ‑‑gurkubondinn 18:08, 5 October 2026 (UTC)

Got it. I have now fully read the WP:LLM policy. My use of Gemini to generate the wiki format for citations is not allowed, as per the policy this use of AI has put a question on my other contributions.

Remediation:

No longer use Gemini to create "convenient" blocks of wiki text such as tables, infoboxes or citations.

Rework the Piano article again, working in the draft space, then resubmit for approval (not sure how to do that).

Rewrite the Abraham Armenia article, working in my sandbox, starting from scratch. MerlinsCodex (talk) 11:55, 6 October 2026 (UTC)

No, "wikiformat" is a part of the article and you may not paste Gemini output into wikipedia. Read H:WIKITEXT instead or use the WP:VISUAL editor if you want a WYSIWYG approach. ‑‑gurkubondinn 11:57, 6 October 2026 (UTC)

Moór-Duplex piano moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Moór-Duplex piano. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing as a live article at this time because it consists of AI-generated text. I have converted it to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit the draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. ‑‑gurkubondinn 18:13, 5 October 2026 (UTC)

I'm a bit confused. The LLM message was triggered by the edits to Abraham I of Armenia, I will certainly look at that. But I don't understand why this page (the piano one) has been moved to Drafts. I got a warning a week ago, and totally rewrote it. I documented this on the Talk page of the article.

When I look at the log Special:AbuseLog/45297780 I don't see anything about this piano at all. MerlinsCodex (talk) 18:36, 5 October 2026 (UTC)