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Draft: Cavista Holdings

Hello.

Please I noticed that Safariscribe declined my draft of Cavista Holdings, and I want to respectfully request that you give it another look. - Draft:Cavista Holdings

I substantially revised the draft to address prior reviewer concerns about notability, sourcing, and promotional language. I removed or toned down promotional claims and tied each factual statement to independent, secondary sources. Key claims are now supported by inline citations to reputable Grade 1 national media outlets (examples: Nairametrics — Ekiti MOU; Punch and TheCable — Ikogosi redevelopment; The Guardian/Weekend Post — Botswana expansion; BusinessDay/Guardian/Vanguard — legislative recognition).

The article’s main sections (History, Agriculture, Hospitality, Technology, International expansion) each cite reliable sources. Archived copies of the cited pages can be provided on request. Thank you for re-reviewing — I welcome any further guidance Chendii (talk) 12:39, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Chendii, I have some concerns that you have used AI to write the article. Aside from that , I suggest asking MCE89 who reviewed the draft. — Qwerfjkltalk 13:37, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Question from Nnaemeka Humphrey Okonkwo (07:51, 15 September 2025)

I am totally new, and struggling to wrap my hand well around how to do article editing excellently. Few tips from you will be great. Also if you can look at my article on Dr. Boitumelo Ramatsetse, kindly check if it is good to go. Thanks --Nnaemeka Humphrey Okonkwo (talk) 07:51, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Nnaemeka Humphrey Okonkwo, I think the main thing you need to improve is the sourcing. There are a few reliable sources, but they aren't in-depth enough. That said, I suggest asking @Pythoncoder who reviewed the draft for more detailed feedback. — Qwerfjkltalk 11:32, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Here’s the page in question: Draft:Boitumelo Innocent Ramatsetse. I declined it for being AI-generated, and I stand by that. —pythoncoder (talk | contribs) 12:52, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-38

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Question from MrPotatoes01 (19:09, 15 September 2025)

Hello, I've made this wiki page about a hacker group, any feedback about the article? Like, what to fix etc.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?create=Create+new+article+draft&editintro=Template%3AAfC+draft+editintro&preload=Template%3AAfc+preload%2Fdraft&summary=--+Draft+creation+using+the+%5B%5BWP%3AArticle+wizard%5D%5D+--&title=Draft%3ACyber+Jihad+Movement# --MrPotatoes01 (talk) 19:09, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

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Wikipedia Draft – Chefbae Mushroom Products Pvt Ltd

Chefbae Mushroom Products Pvt Ltd is an Indian startup company based in Pathanapuram, Kerala, founded in 2024 by Lalu Thomas. The company specializes in mushroom-based functional foods and operates under the brand name Labae.

History

Chefbae Mushroom Products Pvt Ltd was established to promote healthy and functional foods while supporting local mushroom farmers. The company collaborates with agricultural institutions such as the Kollam Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) to train farmers and develop value-added mushroom products.

Products

Labae Mushroom Coffee: A low-caffeine coffee blend combining Arabica coffee with powdered mushrooms, including lion’s mane, oyster, and turkey tail mushrooms.

Labae Mushroom and Vakyam Facechips: Nutrient-rich mushroom snacks.

Other mushroom-based functional foods aimed at improving nutrition and immunity.

Recognition and Media Coverage

Featured in major newspapers and magazines, including The Hindu, Indian Express, Malayala Manorama, Deepika, Kaumudi, Mangalam, Veekshanam, and Deshabhimani.

Appeared on television channels such as Asianet, Doordarshan, Manorama Channel, 24 News, and Kairali Channel.

Covered by agriculture-focused publications such as Karshakasree, Karshakan, and Krishi Jagarana.

Received Kerala Grow brand recognition and is listed on Amazon, Flipkart, and other e-commerce platforms.

Recognized in initiatives including Startup India and Startup Kerala.

Exhibitions and Collaborations

Participated in the Southern Star Army Academia Industry Interface Exhibition in Thiruvananthapuram (2024).

Supported by Kollam Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) in product development and farmer training programs.

References

Chef bae (talk) 10:35, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

What you have written is not at all suitable for Wikipedia. — Qwerfjkltalk 14:26, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

References

CFDlister

Not sure if you've noticed, but the edit summary for adding NAC requests to WT:CFD/W uses "dicussions listed". — Tenshi! (Talk page) 23:00, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

@Tenshi!, thanks for pointing that out. I fixed the plural as well. Qwerfjkltalk 14:38, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Question from Great Esan (04:20, 17 September 2025)

I published an article on my newly created Wikipedia page, but I can't find the article. How can I access my articles on my Wikipedia page? --Great Esan (talk) 04:20, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Great Esan, you can see at Special:Contributions/Great Esan that prior to this question, you have not made any edits on this account. — Qwerfjkltalk 14:29, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Question from Irishriot9 (06:23, 17 September 2025)

Hi, how do you create a box? --Irishriot9 (talk) 06:23, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

@Irishriot9, what do you mean by a box? Do you mean a navbox? Qwerfjkltalk 14:31, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

I mean a box you'd find on a list article eg Irishriot9 (talk) 18:40, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Irishriot9, I assume you mean the box with the "Part of a series on Terrorism" header. The "V · T · E" at the bottom stands for view, talk, edit, respectively, so clicking on the V link should take you to the template, and the E link should show you the wikitext used to create it. It is however fairly complex. — Qwerfjkltalk 12:32, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

I just wanted to know because i saw something i could add to one of those tables in a differnt article Irishriot9 (talk) 18:30, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Irishriot9, which article? — Qwerfjkltalk 16:33, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

its ok now, ive realised it was mentioned in a different part of the article Irishriot9 (talk) 16:37, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Redirect listed at Redirects for discussion

Redirects you have created have been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 September 15 § The war in Ukraine until a consensus is reached. 1234qwer1234qwer4 13:42, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Question from Nyuonsimon (06:35, 18 September 2025)

where shoul i find the survey section? --Nyuonsimon (talk) 06:35, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

@Nyuonsimon, what survey? Qwerfjkltalk 20:05, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – Arminden

Page: Kibbutz

Diff: Special:Diff/1312041474

Comment/question: Source is RS, but came via Google share (prohibited on Wiki) AND w/o title. If you can help, please do; I tried & didn't succeed. Arminden (talk) 10:25, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Arminden, I suggest using "foreign plural" (including quotation marks) as the title; that is what {{Cite Dictionary.com}} seems to do. Qwerfjkltalk 20:04, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, had done just that in the meantime :) Arminden (talk) 07:25, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – Arminden

Page: Kibbutz

Diff: Special:Diff/1312041474

Comment/question: Sorry, misunderstanding. Fixed. (Prev. comment valid for another source, which I gave up on.) Arminden (talk) 10:29, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Question from Dfdubras (23:00, 18 September 2025)

Hello, I know you guys don't contribute diddly squat to the drivel you print, especially when it involves President Trump. The last President allowed millions of criminals to invade our country, and maybe one of your subscribers should inform the public that the act of crossing our border without documentation is a crime, no matter if their criminal record is clean as a whistle or not. Also, Trump cannot get comedians fired. Bad ratings and hateful speech about assassinated American heroes does. Good luck in 26 and 28. --Dfdubras (talk) 23:00, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Dfdubras, you can discuss content at Talk:Donald Trump. — Qwerfjkltalk 11:47, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Question from Martan fire (00:00, 20 September 2025)

How can I create a new page that isn’t about me --Martan fire (talk) 00:00, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Martan fire, Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing seven million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read Help:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out the tutorial; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing! — Qwerfjkltalk 12:32, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Question from CsxsC (04:39, 20 September 2025)

Hey I am making a draft article and have looked on several articles about this, but what is the proper way to insert and cite a picture (emphasis on cite) ? I probably have just overlooked something but would like some assistance, thanks. --CsxsC (talk) 04:39, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

CsxsC, there is {{Cite image}} which is a redirect to {{Cite AV media}} (AV meaning audio and visual). You can use a link to the image in the url field. — Qwerfjkltalk 12:34, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/massCFDS and edit conflicts

Hi Qwerfjkl. Would you mind taking a look at this edit made by Mclay1 using User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/massCFDS? The edit removed a post I added to the same page at almost the same time. I didn't get a edit conflict message when I made my post, and it went through the same any post normally goes through. I only noticed the removal when I tried to go back at copyedit a link. FWIW, both edits are showing up in the page history as being recorded at the same time, but the one I made is listed first; so, perhaps this is just an odd case of two edits being by different users seconds apart not being recognized by the script. I was also editing a subsection of the page, whereas the Mclay1 (i.e. the script) seems to have used the edit button for the the entire page. Anyway, when I posted about this on Mclay1's user talk page, they responded that this is something to take up with the maker of the script because the automated script does not have a preview option; so, that's what I'm doing now. If this is something you're already aware of and working on, then perhaps it might be helpful to make mention of that on the script's Wikipedia page. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:34, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Marchjuly, this happens because how the script works is it fetches the page text, runs a regex replacement to insert the new nomination, and then saves the edit by overwriting the page with the updated text. I can fix this issue by also passing in the timestamp of when the wikitext was fetched, so that the api will reject the edit if any edits are made afterwards. The reason I didn't do this previously is because it's quite unlikely to happen (it's happened once, to my knowledge, in the year since I wrote the script). — Qwerfjkltalk 13:05, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

I've updated the script and this shouldn't happen again. — Qwerfjkltalk 13:05, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for taking the time to look at this and then for figuring out a stop it from happening again. What happened really did seem to be out of the ordinary, but I thought you should know anyway. FWIW, although I personally don't use scripts or the like when editing, I do realize how helpful they can be, particularly with clearly defined mundane types of edits, and appreciate those like yourself who make them. Have you ever thought of adding some language or a template like {{Tool warning}} to top of your script pages to politely remind those using them that they're ultimately responsible for any edits they make using your scripts? Just curious about this because I know sometimes those using user scripts or other tools can be quick to blame the script/tool for any errors made while using it despite the fact they're the one making the actual edit. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:11, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Marchjuly, well, common sense dictates who is responsible for the edit. I don't think a disclaimer will prevent human nature. — Qwerfjkltalk 13:32, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

For some, though, things might not be so clear-cut. Anyway, thanks again for figuring out what happened here and then figuring out a way to stop it from happening again. -- Marchjuly (talk) 19:55, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors – September 2025 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors – September 2025 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the September newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June. Election news: Project coordinators play an important role in our WikiProject. Following the mid-year Election of Coordinators, we welcomed GoldRomean to the coordinator team. Dhtwiki remains as lead coordinator, and Miniapolis and Mox Eden return as coordinators. If you'd like to help out behind the scenes, please consider taking part in our December election – watchlist our ombox for updates. Information about the role of coordinators can be found here. June 2025 blitz: 10 of the 12 editors who signed up for the June 2025 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited a total of 26,652 words comprising 13 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. July 2025 drive: 30 of the 54 editors who signed up for the July 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive copy edited a total of 379,557 words comprising 151 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. August 2025 Blitz: 11 of the 17 editors who signed up for the August 2025 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited a total of 65,601 words comprising 25 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. September 2025 Drive: Sign up here to earn barnstars in our month-long, in-progress September Backlog Elimination Drive. Progress report: As of 06:43, 20 September 2025 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 222 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,010 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we do without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Tech News: 2025-39

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• On September 24th at 15:00 UTC, all Wikimedia sites users will experience a brief read-only period due to a scheduled datacenter server switchover. The Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team will redirect all traffic from one primary server to its backup. You can listen to the switchover using the "Listen to Wikipedia" tool, where you will hear edits stop for a few minutes during the read-only phase, then resume. This twice-yearly datacenter server switchover ensures reliability by testing the backup datacenter, so that our sites can stay online even if the primary datacenter fails. You can read more about the process on the Diff blog.

Updates for editors

• Editors of 60 more Wiktionaries will soon be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them into their pages. A function takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, like adding numbers, converting miles to meters, calculating elapsed time, or declining a word into a case. They will join the other 65 Wiktionary language editions, which already have access to embedded Wikifunctions calls. Later this year, plans are in place to expand to more Wiktionaries and the Incubator.
• A new parser function has been added: {{#contentmodel}}. Template editors and admins can use it to get the localized or canonical name of the content model of a specific page. The function makes it easier to create and edit system messages, such as MediaWiki:editinginterface, even when you switch types of pages, like wiki, JavaScript, CSS or JSON page. [7]
• Adding or editing a DISPLAYTITLE for an article using VisualEditor will no longer be broken. Editors who use VisualEditor mode to modify the {{DISPLAYTITLE}} would no longer have the literal text "DISPLAYTITLE" or its localized variant added to their articles. A list of pages that may have been affected and might need cleanup is documented in this ticket.
• Beta users of the Wikipedia Android app can now try the redesigned Activity tab, which replaces the Edits tab. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.
• View all 12 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• Wikifunctions users can now import many essential facts involving geo-coordinates, quantities and time values from Wikidata. This is made possible by the creation of Wikifunctions types for these values, which makes them available for use by functions in Wikifunctions. Learn more about how this works in this video and Wikifunctions' August 1 newsletter (for quantities) and August 22 newsletter (for geo-coordinates).

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Question from CondorLeadFSO (14:25, 23 September 2025)

Good morning!

I'm looking to make my first edit to a fairly inactive page, what are some things I should be aware of prior to this? --CondorLeadFSO (talk) 14:25, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

CondorLeadFSO, it depends on both the edit and the page. If the edit's just a simple typo fix, the answer is probably nothing, so long as you are fluent in English. If the page is a biography of a living person, you should be more careful when editing the article, particularly adding new information. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:31, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Question from Sonaminz (08:31, 24 September 2025)

How can I add new references related to updates? --Sonaminz (talk) 08:32, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

Sonaminz, see Help:Referencing for beginners. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:12, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – MichielN

Page: Dracut (software)

Diff: Special:Diff/1310761716

Comment/question: There is a title in its Wikidata item, which is now shown on the Wikipedia page. There have not been other edits to the Wikidata item since, so I assume this was a false positive.

MichielN (talk) 09:28, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

MichielN, there have been edits to the Wikidata item, by you. At the time you used the wikidata item on the article, the wikidata item looked like this, and the latest version was missing a title in the reference. You then corrected this about 4 hours later. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:18, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

Question from RusskieVperediVsex (12:19, 25 September 2025)

how can I edit wiki pages? I really want to Improve wiki community! --RusskieVperediVsex (talk) 12:19, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

RusskieVperediVsex, you might want to have a look at Help:Getting started. — Qwerfjkltalk 12:34, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Question from Holly Praise on Registered user (22:07, 25 September 2025)

How do i create citation --Holly Praise (talk) 22:07, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Holly Praise, see Help:Referencing for beginners. — Qwerfjkltalk 13:02, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

The announcement

The Malawian's will be cerebrating and supporting one other to end up the spirit of lazzness and theft Holly Praise (talk) 22:10, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Question from Steve Kemp-King (04:34, 26 September 2025)

Hi, I did a trial edit some weeks ago and was welcomed aboard but have done none since then. I logged on today after entering the code sent to my email and tried to do another practise edit only to see that for some reason I have been banned for two years due to violations from my IP address. As I have only edited one piece on a trial basis does this mean I have been hacked or something? I feel I have a lot to contribute in a number of areas. Thank you for reading this, With best wishes Stephen Kemp-King. --Steve Kemp-King (talk) 04:35, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Steve Kemp-King, IP addresses are often shared between multiple people, as ISPs rotate IPs. You should be able to edit as normal when logged in (that's how you asked this question, I assume). — Qwerfjkltalk 13:03, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Question from Walnut Tree Cottage (10:30, 26 September 2025)

Hello, how do I edit deliberate misinformation on your site? --Walnut Tree Cottage (talk) 10:31, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Walnut Tree Cottage, if there's no reference, you can just edit the article and change the information, making sure to use a reference to back up what you are saying. If there is a reference, check if the reference supports what's said in the article, and if the reference is a reliable source. If it's contentious, it may be better to discuss on the talk page before making the edit. If you give more details I can give more specific advice. — Qwerfjkltalk 13:06, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Question from Francisco Tadeo Ruiz Aguilar (23:35, 27 September 2025)

Hello I want to post and article how do I publish one? --Francisco Tadeo Ruiz Aguilar (talk) 23:35, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Francisco Tadeo Ruiz Aguilar, Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing seven million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read Help:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out the tutorial; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing! — Qwerfjkltalk 13:10, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

Question from Nomanbinanowar7423 (22:48, 28 September 2025)

Noman Bin Anwar (born 12 September 2006, Chakaria, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh) is a student leader. He is a member of the Islami Chhatra Andolan Bangladesh and the general secretary of the Chakaria Municipality branch. He is active in political and social activities.

Early life: Noman Bin Anwar was born in Chakaria Upazila of Cox's Bazar district. He completed his Hifz from Markazur Rahmah Hifz Madrasa.

Political activities: Noman Bin Anwar is an active politician of the Islami Chhatra Andolan Bangladesh. He participates in various local political activities and public awareness programs.

Notable contributions:

• Led the 2024 anti-fascist movement from the front lines.

Personal life:

• Place of birth: Chakaria, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
• Born: 12 September 2006 (age 19)
• Political party: Islami Andolan Bangladesh. --Nomanbinanowar7423 (talk) 22:48, 28 September 2025 (UTC)
  • Please don't self-promote on Wikipedia. — Qwerfjkltalk 10:53, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – Beemer98455

Page: 2025_Asia_Cup

Diff: Special:Diff/1313967891

Comment/question: All sources were properly added, so it was a false positive. Beemer98455 (talk) 01:58, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Beemer98455, You used a duplicate |url= instead of |title= when you added

<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.news18.com/cricket/asia-cup-ends-without-suryakumar-yadav-lifting-trophy-despite-indias-win-9602453.html|url= Asia Cup Ends Without Suryakumar Yadav Lifting Trophy Despite India's Win}}</ref>

— Qwerfjkltalk 10:53, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-40

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• A major software upgrade has been made to Phabricator. The update introduces performance improvements, a refreshed search interface, enhancements to Maniphest task search, updates to user profile pages and project workboards, new Herald automation features, as well as general text input, mobile experience improvements and more. [8]

Updates for editors

• The Community Tech team will release the new Community Wishlist extension on October 1, that will improve the way wishes will be submitted. The new extension will allow users to add tags to their wishes to better categorise them, and (in a future iteration) to filter them by status, tags and focus areas. It will also be possible to support individual wishes again, as requested by the community in many instances. The old system will be retired. There will be a brief period of downtime while the extension is deployed and wishes are migrated to the new system. You can read more about this in the latest update or you can consult the current documentation on MediaWiki.
• As announced on Diff blog, the production trial of the hCaptcha service for bot detection has begun. The trial is currently using hCaptcha to protect account creation on Chinese, Persian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Japanese, and Turkish Wikipedias, where it will replace our existing CAPTCHA (FancyCaptcha). The goal with the trial is to better block bots while also improving usability and accessibility for users who encounter CAPTCHA challenges.
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Question from Liamneeso0n (22:18, 1 October 2025)

How can generate a link on my posts --Liamneeso0n (talk) 22:18, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

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[[like this]]

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Qwerfjkl (bot) – Dingolover6969

Page: The_Capitalist_Manifesto_(Norberg_book)

Diff: Special:Diff/1314633096

Comment/question: It asked me to report if there was a false positive, which there was, because I only made a type of graphical fix and didn't touch any citations which would then miss titles.

Dingolover6969 (talk) 13:30, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Dingolover6969, the error is because you removed |title= from

<ref>{{Cite web |title=In Defense of Global Capitalism |url=https://www.cato.org/books/capitalist-manifesto |access-date=2023-11-30 |website=www.cato.org}}</ref>

Your edit seems to have several problems though - it messes with random citation templates, removes three paragraphs without justification, adds the phrase "billionares hated by many" which is not an appropriate tone and probably violates BLP, and removes the DEFAULTSORT for no apparent reason. I've reverted the edit - feel free to redo any copyediting. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:34, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Oh, that must have been a mistake on my part springing from trying to "undo" an edit and then having to make the undo manually instead, I suppose. Thanks for reverting it! Dingolover6969 (talk) 17:44, 2 October 2025 (UTC)