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Hi, I noticed you removed numerous image requests. I noticed this for a couple of pages on my watchlist and the requests there seem reasonable to me. Please explain your reason of removals. --Altenmann >talk 18:52, 4 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Altenmann: Thanks for allowing me to explain myself. Per Template:Image requested, the image requested template is "not a general-purpose "no image present" indicator ... Editors placing this template on a talk page should provide information about what images or photographs are wanted". Apparently in 2014, a user added these requests to around 50,000 talk pages, to the talk pages of (apparently) every single Iranian village article that lacked an image (see this category as an example). So, while some of these requests can be viewed as valid (we don't always explain our reasons for adding the imagereq template to talk pages), your average user at least doesn't add them to thousands upon thousands of talk pages en masse using the same edit summary, disregarding the usage guidelines in the process. The massive number of image requests dilutes the template's importance (it isn't intended to be added en masse), and also goes against the usage guideline. Also according to those guidelines, Template:Improve images should be added instead as a ""no image present" indicator". Nythar (💬-🍀) 22:53, 4 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Guild of Copy Editors June 2026 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June 2026 newsletter, a quarterly-ish digest of Guild activities since April. Election news: Nominations for the mid-year coordinator election ends at 23:59 on 15 June. Voting will last from 00:00 on 16 June to 23:59 on 30 June. Results will be announced on the election page. April Blitz: 18 of the 21 editors who signed up for the April 2026 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited 122,993 words in 56 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. May Drive: 34 of the 66 editors who signed up for the May 2026 Backlog Elimination Drive copy edited 543,972 words in 211 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. June Blitz: Our June 2026 Copy Editing Blitz will start on 14 June and finish on 30 June. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 22:40, 11 June 2025 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 132 requests since 1 January, and the backlog stands at 1,691 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Hello how could I add my guru wikipedia --Abbu2005 (talk) 06:29, 12 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Abbu2005, could you please clarify your question? Regards, Nythar (💬-🍀) 06:38, 17 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hello Nythar Added the tag to the top of the page, hope that i did the right thing, am a bit new to this all.

Best --Mabior (talk) 17:25, 13 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Unggrabb, to mark your draft for review, click the blue "Resubmit" button located on the banner at the top of the page. Regards, Nythar (💬-🍀) 06:35, 17 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

How does STL work exactly, I'm facing an issue where a Station on the PRT, (Potomac, Red Line) suddenly Unlinked from the pages of the line and adjacent stations, despite the page not being deleted, and I don't know how to get it back while staying in the STL format. --Stereowavey (talk) 18:31, 18 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hello @Stereowavey, could you link me to the pages involved so I can check them out? Regards, Nythar (💬-🍀) 20:51, 18 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

Red Line (Pittsburgh), <- Line the station is on

Dormont Junction station / Stevenson Station <- Adjacent Stations

Potomac Station <- Station that should be linked in question Stereowavey (talk) 23:11, 18 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Stereowavey: Bit of a lengthy technical explanation but here goes. On the page Red Line (Pittsburgh), the link to Potomac station used to be Potomac (PAT station), which redirects to the correct page, until someone replaced that with the stl template, going from [[Potomac (PAT station)|Potomac]] to {{stl|PRT|Potomac}}. {{stl}} invokes Template:Station link, and PRT refers to Pittsburgh Regional Transit. PRT's page is located here: Module:Adjacent stations/Pittsburgh Regional Transit. I believe the station names you'll find on the module page are placed there because of some specific issue that needs an override from the default. The default is simply the name of the station followed by "station". For example, you won't find Stevenson station and Castle Shannon station at the PRT module page because the titles of both articles end in "station", even though, just like Potomac, they are listed in the Red Line page as {{stl|PRT|Stevenson}} and {{stl|PRT|Castle Shannon}}, respectively. This is because the module automatically takes care of this: "%1 station", covers anything you place into the template {{stl|PRT|station-name}}. It automatically adds "station" at the end of station-name, and links you to that page. Unless the page's title does not simply end in "station". For instance, you'll find "Gateway" in the module page because the article's title is "Gateway station (Pittsburgh)", which differs from the default.

For this specific case (Potomac), since it's title also doesn't match the default, it is listed in the module page, but incorrectly so. The title, being "Potomac station (Pittsburgh Regional Transit)", should not have been listed as ["Potomac"] = pittsburgh, in the module page, because pittsburgh is defined as "%1 station (Pittsburgh)", which you can find at the top of the list. Meaning, pittsburgh automatically makes the title become this: station-name station (Pittsburgh). The solution here is either to rename the article to "Potomac station (Pittsburgh)" or edit the module page directly. Regards, Nythar (💬-🍀) 03:33, 19 July 2026 (UTC)Reply