User talk:CommissarDoggo

Hello!

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A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diplomacy
	Took steps that stopped an editing war involving the spelling of the subject's name. Kiwatts (talk) 14:29, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

William Henry Harrison Seeley

Under the B-class criteria, the article needs two more citations at the end of "The straits separated the islands of Honshū and Kyūshū, providing a passage between the Seto Inland Sea and the Sea of Japan" and "Despite retaliatory actions from the treaty partners, another attack occurred in July 1864, when rebels fired upon the US steamer Monitor." I will wait rather than immediately assess the article as C-class. I realize that the first sentence is probably verified in the articles but the criteria require a citation at the end of each paragraph for facts stated after the previous citation. If you can provide citations for the two sentences, I will assess the article as B-class. Good work. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 05:28, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

I have put a brief message on the request for assessment page. If someone thinks this is a completed assessment and deletes it, please relist it if you add the two citations or ping me and I will assess it as B class. If you wish to leave it as is, let me know and I will rate it C. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 07:38, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

@Donner60 I've now clarified where I mentioned the retaliatory attacks, they were the retaliatory attacks performed by the US and French for the attacks on their shipping - that was my mistake, I misinterpreted the source. As for the SS Monitor, I was quite lucky to find a source for it from a newspaper of the time which went into far more detail. Hopefully this'll sort the need for citations. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 10:27, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. Good work. Now rated B class. Donner60 (talk) 23:33, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Welcome to the drive!

Welcome, welcome, welcome CommissarDoggo! I'm glad that you are joining the drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

Fix a random page lacking sources

CactiStaccingCrane (talk)18:44, 1 February 2024 UTC [refresh]via JWB and Geardona (talk to me?)

ITN recognition for Barry John

On 7 February 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Barry John, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. PFHLai (talk) 13:02, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Completionist Barnstar
		For your work on 2020-2022 catalytic converter theft ring.

Queen of Hearts (talk • stalk • she/they) 21:02, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

I second this! I was astonished to see how much you expanded that article over the past 24 hours. Of course, I expected some expansion but I never thought of a huge expansion! It's definitely one of the quickest and biggest expansions I've seen. I appreciate your time to expand this article; I'm impressed and grateful you've completed this article in Vami's honor. Thanks, ~ Tails Wx (🐾, me!) 21:24, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

I'm honestly pretty surprised at how much I expanded it as well, especially in just 24 hours. I'm also really glad to have had @Epicgenius helping, everyone else helping out with Americanising everything and yourself for archiving everything and reviewing the page so quickly. Thanks @Queen of Hearts as well for doing the honours of moving it to mainspace, couldn't think of anyone else that I'd rather to do it.

It's been a long 24 hours, but more than well worth it for Vami. With those archives it'll hopefully live on forever in their memory. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 21:34, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Willy's Chocolate Experience

Thanks for all your work on the article! The new Connell interview is a great insight into what went down, but I do think it's better used to flesh out the timeline of events, than to run as a duplicated sidebar to it. The other stuff he was saying was colourful but I'm not sure it added that much to the article, the basic wonderland/warehouse disjunct is already very vivid, I think, without Connell repeating his perspective on it.

Let me know if you think I'm pushing back too much on this! Belbury (talk) 19:27, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Oh god no, you're fine. I mainly whacked the whole quote in there because I was afraid of getting edit-conflicted if I were to try and link it into the article, which happened either twice or three times earlier today. It looks a lot better without such a long box. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 19:31, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Rube Goldberg page

Hi.

In regard to my minor edits that you reverted, I left what you did in place, but:

The first comma you re-introduced is unnecessary. It separates an independent clause prior to the comma and a dangling phrase after the comma. If the piece after the comma started with "and he took" instead of just "and took", then the comma would be fine.

The second comma you re-introduced is also unnecessary and interrupts the flow of the text. It's after a single two-word prepositional phrase ("In 1911") and is not needed.

In the clause "each of his sons was|were heading off to college", the subject is "each" (singular), not "sons" (plural). So the verb should be "was". The word "sons" is the object of a preposition, and that can never be a subject.

And I changed "antisemitic" to "anti-Semitic" on the recommendation of the Wikipedia editor itself. The word "antisemitic" was underlined in red (as it is now as I'm typing this) with "anti-Semitic" being the recommended change. Venango (talk) 14:19, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

I actually had to go back quickly and check what I did, as this was around 5 months ago. Looking back on the reversion, it seems rather hasty, I doubt I would've made the same reversion nowadays and have made some changes based on that. Feel free to check them.

As for the last bit, while it does get underlined by spellcheck, looking at the article for antisemitism, antisemitic is widely used across the page without a hyphen; when "anti-Semitic" is used, it's either in quotes or as part of a citation. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 14:34, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Trout!

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

WP:COMMON NAME Babysharkboss2 was here!! ^{King Crimson} 19:05, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Oh god I definitely deserved that... CommissarDoggo^Talk? 19:08, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

February 2024 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award

		Citation Barnstar
		This award is given in recognition to CommissarDoggo for collecting more than 5 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's FEB24 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing 14,300 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:58, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Mexia Supermarket

On 9 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Mexia Supermarket, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when Mexia Supermarket was abandoned because of its owners' bankruptcy, all of the food inside was left to rot for more than three months? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mexia Supermarket. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Mexia Supermarket), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Z1720 (talk) 00:03, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Welcome

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A barnstar for you!

	The Teamwork Barnstar
	Congratulations! 14 novembre (talk) 23:30, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, CommissarDoggo. Thank you for your work on Grigory Sverdlin. Wikisteveb4, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

Well cited

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Wikisteveb4 (talk) 21:08, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

2024 Crocus City Hall attack

Hey,

HTB are an official news organization and this is their official channel (NTV (Russia)) Mgfdhsrhe (talk) 00:22, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

That may be so, but a Telegram link is unfortunately not acceptable as it's classed as a WP:SOCIALMEDIA source. I can't be sure, but I'm assuming you'll be able to find a corresponding article from them on the Telegram source to cite. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 00:24, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Video games and electronic lit

Hi, Thank you for your help in the Tearoom. I see you are interested in videogames, and I wondered if you might extend that interest to electronic literature. Some of our works are based on or told through video games, so it is a "next door" field. We have a new project page at Wikipedia:WikiProject Electronic literature. I confess, I failed at retirement and have two fullish time gigs now so I have not devoted myself as much as I could to learning how Wikipedia works...

We could really use your help and expertise! Thank you 01:13, 26 March 2024 (UTC) LoveElectronicLiterature (talk) 01:13, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

DYK for 2020–2022 catalytic converter theft ring

On 27 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 2020–2022 catalytic converter theft ring, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that an interstate catalytic converter theft ring generated US$545 million in revenue? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/2020–2022 catalytic converter theft ring. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, 2020–2022 catalytic converter theft ring), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:03, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of William Henry Harrison Seeley

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article William Henry Harrison Seeley you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Asilvering -- Asilvering (talk) 22:21, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the ping! I'm so sorry, I totally forgot about this!! I keep my in-progress reviews on my userpage and never put this one up. I'm really behind on everything right now, so I'll return it to the queue in hopes it can pick up another reviewer. If no one's grabbed it in a month, can you ping me about it? Sorry again! -- asilvering (talk) 19:39, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

No worries, I was thinking it'd been a little while since you popped up, I hope you get caught up with everything soon. Thanks anyway! CommissarDoggo^Talk? 19:44, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Get Lost (organisation)

Hello! Your submission of Get Lost (organisation) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! 4meter4 (talk) 04:13, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Nomination of Mexia Supermarket for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Mexia Supermarket is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mexia Supermarket until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

FOARP (talk) 21:03, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Shared Interest

Hello. I gave you a friend request on Discord. You can probably figure it out because I gave myself a certain name. It is very hard apparently to reach users on Wikipedia. Benmac1089 (talk) 20:00, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Depends on the person, I tend to respond to messages quite quickly on my talk page.

Would you be the person who sent me a friend request a couple of days ago, Mexia Store? If so, I declined the friend request when I received it as we didn't share a server. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 20:02, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Yes that was me. I could find the server that was mentioned on your page. Benmac1089 (talk) 22:41, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

I mean couldn't. Benmac1089 (talk) 22:41, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Oh, that's alright, you just click on the link, then hit "Join Server", it's the big blue box a little bit down. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 22:42, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Get Lost (organisation)

On 12 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Get Lost (organisation), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that as of December 2023, Get Lost claimed to have helped nearly 20,000 people avoid conscription in Russia? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Get Lost (organisation). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Get Lost (organisation)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:03, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of William Henry Harrison Seeley

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article William Henry Harrison Seeley you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Asilvering -- Asilvering (talk) 20:04, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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Hi! Thank you so much for helping me with that Picture! So here is a barnstar for you! Again Thank you! HermoineGranger54 (talk) 16:29, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

No worries, just glad I could help. If you have any other questions then feel free to drop by the Teahouse or head over to the Wikipedia Discord server. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 16:31, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

new page

I found a new page with some advertising issues related to Ukraine's Dragon Capital (company), which has had previous problems with deletion. Perhaps you should consider paying for a professional review of it. 2603:7000:60F0:1E0:5923:94E6:5529:305A (talk) 08:10, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

It doesn't immediately come off as promotional to me, some errors in translation sure and some niggling issues, but not the major issues I somewhat expected.

Are you looking for someone to look through it or to improve it? CommissarDoggo^Talk? 08:13, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

@CommissarDoggo yes, exactly. I think a review by a third-party could be beneficial. I'm not sure if including the entire range of investments made by this company in the article is a good idea. I believe you could provide more help. Thanks for your prompt reply. 2603:7000:A200:4F08:8C4C:7DCB:4027:7BC4 (talk) 09:18, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Ok, I'll tell you what: I'll be out for a couple of hours, but when I get back I'll look up some more info about the company. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 09:21, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Ok, I've basically just removed a bunch of the "we bought x, then sold it" stuff. It'll need improvements from someone, but I'm not at all interested in doing that. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 15:01, 23 April 2024 (UTC)