Jump to content

User talk:CaptainEek

Page contents not supported in other languages.
Add topic
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Latest comment: 2 days ago by Stephen Garold in topic Question from Stephen Garold (10:01, 8 October 2026)

CaptainEek hunting for vandals.

Editor Feedback, Talk, and Sea Shanty Singing Area

All Hands on Deck! There's conversation to be had with other editors!

Administrators' newsletter – September 2026

[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2026).

Administrator changes

added Dclemens1971
readded
removed

Oversight changes

removed

Guideline and policy news

  • Speedy deletion criteria G15 has been renamed from "LLM-generated pages without human review" to "Unambiguously LLM-generated pages" and has an additional sign of detection added to it following a RfC.

Miscellaneous


Voting for WikiProject Military history coordinators is now open!

[edit]

Voting for the Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history coordinators is now open! A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination year. You can vote here. Voting closes at 23:59 UTC on 29 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:18, 15 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 17

[edit]

MediaWiki message delivery 01:53, 16 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Feedback request: Wikipedia policies and guidelines request for comment

[edit]

Your feedback is requested at Talk:Generative AI pornography on a "Wikipedia policies and guidelines" request for comment. Thank you for helping out!
You were randomly selected to receive this invitation from the list of Feedback Request Service subscribers. If you'd like not to receive these messages any more, you can opt out at any time by removing your name.

SodiumBot (botop|talk|contribs) 02:30, 18 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Question from Spacefaringfaerie (04:48, 23 September 2026)

[edit]

Hello! What are good guidelines on what I should write after making an edit? How detailed do I need to be? Thank you! Your profile is cool! --Spacefaringfaerie (talk) 04:48, 23 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Spacefaringfaerie thanks! I take it you're asking about WP:EDITSUMMARIES? I'd follow that link and read about it there. Let me know if you have follow-up questions :) CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 04:52, 23 September 2026 (UTC)Reply
Thanks! That is helpful! I'm also assuming it's a skill honed with time and with seeing others edits Spacefaringfaerie (talk) 05:03, 23 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Question from Spacefaringfaerie (05:30, 23 September 2026)

[edit]

Hello! May I ask how to remove a header that says there are no sources cited, and change the name of a page to reflect an update to the name of the item the article addresses please? --Spacefaringfaerie (talk) 05:30, 23 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Spacefaringfaerie section tags may simply be deleted when the issue they raised is resolved. If you're using visual editor, just click on them and delete. If you're using source editor, it requires you to understand what the template is named; templates are indicated by double curly brackets in source editor. As for changing the title of a page, we call that moving. See WP:MOVE for details on how to do that. I'm always happy to double check your work if you're not sure you've done something right. CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 06:14, 23 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Question from Spacefaringfaerie (03:14, 24 September 2026)

[edit]

Hello! Thank you for answering the previous questions. I am updating the page of someone who passed today, and there is the notice that it is a biography of a living person (blp). As this person is no longer living, how/does that be changed? The page in question is Kathy Mar. I'm also concerned because I don't have an official "source" for her passing but it has been widely shared and is known in the filker community. It is not inaccurate. Should I wait to change that until there is an obituary posted by her husband (who shared that she passed)? I am not sure there will be an official obituary. --Spacefaringfaerie (talk) 03:14, 24 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Spacefaringfaerie the WP:BLP policy applies to both the living and the recently dead, so the template can probably stay for a bit. As for a source, we tend towards the lax on death sourcing, but a link to a post or an obituary is standard. Like, we'd probably even accept a Facebook post if that's all there was? Though Facebook is not a reliable source. But if you have only word of mouth, then that is truly WP:OR and just can't be verified at all, so we can't include it. CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 04:39, 24 September 2026 (UTC)Reply
There's a Facebook post, but I am not sure if it is public view or if it is only visible because I am in a group where it was shared. Spacefaringfaerie (talk) 04:54, 24 September 2026 (UTC)Reply
@Spacefaringfaerie there isn't a requirement that a source be accessible to all, only that the source could be accessed by others. Citing a book doesn't require it to be on the Internet. Still...a closed FB group rides the line. I'd give it a week or two to see if an obituary gets published, and if not, then ... probably rely on the FB post. CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 04:58, 24 September 2026 (UTC)Reply
I cannot figure out how to link the post where her partner Dean says she passed, both in terms of getting just that link from Facebook and citing it into the "died" box on Wikipedia. This is the link to her page, if that is helpful: https://www.facebook.com/kathy.mar.9 Spacefaringfaerie (talk) 05:24, 24 September 2026 (UTC)Reply
@Spacefaringfaerie it doesn't hurt to try putting that in as a citation, but I can't guarantee it would stand up to scrutiny. Still, sometimes, its the best we have. CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 03:04, 25 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Question from Wteue6eeue6w on Multinational Force in Lebanon (21:15, 24 September 2026)

[edit]

Zdidye --Wteue6eeue6w (talk) 21:15, 24 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Question from Rehan khan tu on Magic: The Gathering video games (21:35, 24 September 2026)

[edit]

300 help me --Rehan khan tu (talk) 21:35, 24 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Question from Oldblue18 (18:36, 25 September 2026)

[edit]

Hello, I just made my first edit. Should it show in my profile? --Oldblue18 (talk) 18:36, 25 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Oldblue18 you can find your contributions at Special:Contributions/Oldblue18. I don't see any other than this question, so it doesn't look like your edit went through. What were you trying to edit? CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 18:38, 25 September 2026 (UTC)Reply
You are right, it didn't register. I was trying to rewrite the first paragraph of the article on Nipple Sparing Mastectomy (NSM) Oldblue18 (talk) 18:42, 25 September 2026 (UTC)Reply
@Oldblue18 hmmm, not sure why it didn't take. I've left some general tips for you on your talkpage that you can peruse. As for the edit in particular, sometimes it will get saved locally and will be restored when you reopen the editor? So that's worth a try. Otherwise, I can try to troubleshoot why it didn't work. If you can't recover that edit, try making a small edit, like fixing a single typo, and see if that takes. CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 18:45, 25 September 2026 (UTC)Reply
I figured it out. I hadn't published the changes. My edit is in. Thanks. Oldblue18 (talk) 18:55, 25 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Feedback request: Politics, government, and law request for comment

[edit]

Your feedback is requested at Talk:Lolicon on a "Politics, government, and law" request for comment. Thank you for helping out!
You were randomly selected to receive this invitation from the list of Feedback Request Service subscribers. If you'd like not to receive these messages any more, you can opt out at any time by removing your name.

SodiumBot (botop|talk|contribs) 18:31, 26 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 18

[edit]

MediaWiki message delivery 01:50, 30 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Women in Red - October 2026

[edit]
Women in Red | October 2026, Vol 12, Issue 9, Nos 358, 359, 384, 385, 386

Events:

More ...


Announcements:

Tip of the month:

  • Who are/were the leaders of national organizations in your field? How about national award winners? That's a great place to start looking for article subjects you'd be well-suited to work on.

Other ways to participate:

--Rosiestep (talk) 17:24, 30 September 2026 (UTC) via MassMessagingReply

Question from Azisik (18:20, 1 October 2026)

[edit]

Hello, I am working on my first ever wikepedia article "Heart of the Sunrise" adding some context and citations. I noticed however under the "Live Versions" tab the previous author makes an assertion that a band called LCD Soundsystem played a tribute to "Heart of the Sunrise" in their final performance. I assume its true considering the name of the song on the song list was "Tired/Heart of the Sunrise - Live at Madison Square Garden" but there are no other sources actually talking about this the Wikipedia page is the only source asserting that. Should I delete the sentence or is it fine to just leave with a comment or something? --Azisik (talk) 18:20, 1 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Azisik if you can't find a source for it, and it has no source, it probably shouldn't be included. Sometimes you can include something and put a citation needed tag (using Template:CN). But the particular issue here strikes me as original research. CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 19:15, 1 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Administrators' newsletter – October 2026

[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2026).

Administrator changes

removed

Oversight changes

removed

Guideline and policy news

  • Following an RfC, the good article criteria have been amended to add accessibility requirements.
  • Following an RfC, late signatures added to administrator recall petitions after 720 hours from opening are reverted or struck and do not count towards the threshold, even if the petition has not yet been formally closed.
  • The post-May 2026 administrator elections RfCs concluded with consensus for election monitors to curate blatantly inappropriate questions after posting, and to remove or merge true duplicates, clearly marking merged questions. Calls for candidates will include advisory guidance that users with less than one year’s experience or 5,000 edits generally lack a realistic chance of success.

Technical news

  • Interface administrators no longer need to specify the ResourceLoader option in the definitions for gadgets on MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition as gadgets are always loaded through ResourceLoader. (T298199)
  • The list=abusefilters API module now supports formatversion=2 and includes breaking changes to its responses. In particular, the actions property is now a JSON array rather than a string, regardless of the format version. Maintainers of user scripts and other code using this module should check compatibility and update their code as needed. (T435828)

Arbitration

Obituaries

  • Doug Weller passed away on 30 September 2026. Doug Weller began editing Wikipedia in 2006 and became an administrator in 2008, making nearly 275,000 edits over two decades. He served on the Arbitration Committee from 2015 through 2018 and was also a longtime CheckUser and Oversighter.

Miscellaneous



uploaded document

[edit]

hey i have uploaded a document and it said it would be on a review and i am wondering how can i track the progress Justfacts123 (talk) 08:59, 8 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Justfacts123 I don't see that you've made any edits? What did you upload and where? CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 18:21, 8 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Question from Stephen Garold (10:01, 8 October 2026)

[edit]
Note: Stephen Garold's mentor Oshwah is away.

Hello Oshwah,

I created a page about Canadian-British actor, musician and filmaker Kenton Hall some days ago, but another editor tagged it ai-generated due to some messy text phrasing from a draft machine translations tool i used before (I apologize).

I checked all the facts and references, rewritted in sandbox later by my own hand and searched the sourced without using an AI.

Since I can't edit right now due to my semi-rest, could you please take a look at my text, verify its quality, or help me update the page if anything doesn't comply with the guidelines? I really do not want to see this page to keep the AI-Generated tag.

Thanks. --Stephen Garold (talk) 10:01, 8 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Stephen Garold well AI translator use is AI use, which we regulate fairly strictly; see WP:LLMTRANSLATE. Though I don't see any foreign language sources in the article so I'm a bit confused as to what you were translating? CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 18:24, 8 October 2026 (UTC)Reply
Hi @CaptainEek,
English is not my native language, but ukrainian is.
I sometimes used Google Translate to help express my own drafts and thoughts into english, rather than translating foreign-language sources. I did it for first.
At the time, I didn't realize that Google Translate now utilizes Gemini, thats why it's inserts LLM formatting artefacts behind the scenes. From that moment i decided to cut usage of this instrument and tackle grammar on my own, even if it isn't perfect.
Thanks for clarifying! Stephen Garold (talk) 19:31, 8 October 2026 (UTC)Reply
And I forgot to clarify: I actually found about a connect between Google Translate and Gemini a bit earlier and was already in the process of phasing it out. Now I write all of my texts only with my own thoughts to make sure I strictly follow the Wikipedia guidelines. Stephen Garold (talk) 19:39, 8 October 2026 (UTC)Reply