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Hey

Thanks for deleting my picture. It was only for my userpage. I hope deleting it brightened your day. - Serious Cat 08:38, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

FAR for Galveston Hurricane of 1900

Galveston Hurricane of 1900 has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here.--Nilfanion (talk) 23:33, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Suggestion

I just ran across Category:Wikipedia administrators open to recall. Were you aware of this? I think it's neat, but i'm not an admin, so i figured i'd pass it along to the only admin i know. Foobaz·o< 18:26, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

P.S. I recently passed 3000 edits. :-)

/quit message

I keep forgetting to tell you on IRC,so I'll tell you here; I love your /quit message. :D IceKarmaॐ 04:09, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Pending deletion

Template:Pending deletion has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Marlith ^T/C 05:10, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Arbitration Filed in the "Hacker" article

In accordance with clause (4) of the Arbitration Filing Procedure, you are hereby being notified that you have been mentioned as a contributing party to the article and you can make a statement.

You can find the claim, and make your statement here.

I am required to tell you this information I am the filing party for the arbitration claim.

Andrew81446 (talk) 06:28, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Berlin Wine Tastings

An article that you have been involved in editing, Berlin Wine Tastings, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Berlin Wine Tastings. Thank you. Nunquam Dormio (talk) 11:50, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Image

Okay, thanks for the info, that should be sufficient. Cirt (talk) 20:25, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Mobile phone documentation

You might want to add some documentation to explain the distinction between "memory" and "storage" - and update the example to use "storage", as the phone in question is running Windows Mobile and thus arguably "computery". (For extra credit, appropriately update other pages using that template. :-)) Guy Harris (talk) 23:48, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Texas Barnstar

For your help in creating Wikipedia:WikiProject Texas, I award you the first Texas Barnstar: Paxsimius (talk) 03:38, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Homestar Runner logo.png)

Thanks for uploading Image:Homestar Runner logo.png. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

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Christian the lion

Thanks but someone else made it anyway. I think outright deletion is kind of harsh simply because someone pasted part of it from an article. All I did was dig the page out of the google cache from the last time you guys deleted it. Knowledge will be free, rules or no rules. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Onsen (talk • contribs) 16:14, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Userpage katz

YOUR USERPAGE WAS BELOW THE MINIMUM KAT QUOTA, BUT I HAZ FIXED IT FOR YOU. Ceiling Cat (talk) 21:25, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Kick the ass of anyone who renominates GNAA for deletion before 2007

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FAR

I have nominated 2004 Atlantic hurricane season for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. –Juliancolton ^{Happy Holidays} 01:26, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

NowCommons: File:Brazil hurricane.jpg

File:Brazil hurricane.jpg is now available on Wikimedia Commons as Commons:File:Brazil hurricane 2004-03-26.jpg. This is a repository of free media that can be used on all Wikimedia wikis. The image will be deleted from Wikipedia, but this doesn't mean it can't be used anymore. You can embed an image uploaded to Commons like you would an image uploaded to Wikipedia, in this case: [[File:Brazil hurricane 2004-03-26.jpg]]. Note that this is an automated message to inform you about the move. This bot did not copy the image itself. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 16:05, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

RfD nomination of List of animals that explode

I have nominated List of animals that explode (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you.  – iridescent 08:49, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Pending deletions

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Speedy deletion nomination of Talk:A Different Drum

 Ciphers (talk) 08:12, 4 October 2009 (UTC) -->

sure! I had better check the history of the page. thanks for your comment, and sorry for inconvenience. best --Ciphers (talk) 06:10, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

USPS Acronym Issue

Please see the talk article (Talk:USPS).

Jfiander (talk) 01:51, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Re: Eathquake

Not a problem! —  Cargoking  talk  08:51, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Save wikipedia

hello sir,from last 2 months an administrator spaceman spiff is blocking my account,whenever i make any new account she block it.sheis using his rights in a wrong way.i was simply edited indian epic article first.she blocked me because she cannot see improved indian epic articles.she made a trick that she blocked my 1 account and after it whenever i made any new account she blocked it for sockpupettry.she now doesn'tallow me to talk on discussion page,this is not fair we all give donation to wikipedia not for giving admin priviledge s to user like spaceman,wikipedia is for all not for her only —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.240.111.235 (talk) 10:24, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

User talk:Tbsdy lives

Please undelete User talk:Tbsdy lives. User talk pages are not speedy deleted, if deletion is desired, MfD is the place to go, and even then policy is generally against deletion. DuncanHill (talk) 21:52, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

WP:CSD criteria U1, which you gave as the criterion for deletion, specifically excludes user talk pages. "U1. User request. Personal user pages and subpages (but not user talk pages) upon request by their user. In some rare cases there may be administrative need to retain the page. In exceptional cases user talk pages may be deleted via Miscellany for Deletion (see right to vanish); they are not eligible for speedy deletion under this criterion." DuncanHill (talk) 21:56, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

• I've done this per WP:DELTALK. Tbsdy should feel free to email Oversight if there is anything in particular he wants redacted. –xeno^talk 21:56, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

• Thanks Xeno. Tbsdy was already aware that user talk pages are not speedied, as it was raised as an issue when he reclaimed his admin tools. DuncanHill (talk) 21:58, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

I didn't see any reason to try to make him stick around in order to attempt to have his stuff deleted. He just wants to go away. Keeping his talk page serves little purpose except to aggravate him and cause more bad feelings. -- Cyrius|✎ 22:07, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Invitation to join WikiProject United States

Hello, Cyrius! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

--Kumioko (talk) 03:53, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Acspsg unblock request

If you check in anytime soon, could you review this unblock from a block you made over three years ago? The user says he's grown up and has some specific areas where he wants to contribute. Daniel Case (talk) 18:52, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

As you can see he's explained this. I also have no problem with that ... it can be seen in the future that he had a shaky start, which will help deter vandalism. Daniel Case (talk) 15:22, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Template:PD USGov listed at Redirects for discussion

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December 2011

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to List of LNG terminals, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Mifter (talk) 23:26, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

MSU Interview

Dear Cyrius,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
• All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
• All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at [email protected] (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at [email protected]. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chlopeck (talk • contribs) 14:06, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia Loves Libraries Seattle

Decemmber 8 - Wikipedia Loves Libraries Seattle - You're invited

Seattle Public Library

Date Saturday, December 8, 2012 Time 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Location Seattle Public Library Meeting Room 1 on Level 4, Central Library, 1000 4th Avenue, Seattle WA, 98104 Event An editathon on Seattle-related Wikipedia articles with Wikipedia tutorials and Librarian assistance on hand. Hashtag #wikiloveslib or #glamwiki. Registration http://wll-seattle.eventbrite.com or use on-wiki regsistration. Yours, Maximilianklein (talk) 04:19, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Articles deletion

Dear Cyrius,

I apologize for the inconvenience, but have no other way than appealing for administrators’ help recover a deleted article.

I published a film article entitled Drits (Derivas), a film by Portuguese director Ricardo Costa. It is the second film from an autobiographic trilogy, Faraways. The article was kept untouched by several months. To my surprise, it was recently eliminated and redirected to the director’s page with no discussion. I undid the redirection, but saw the article was proposed to deletion. Reason: independent, verifiable, secondary resources. I argued that the article couldn’t have but primary sources (the producer’s ones) as it is an upcoming film, like many others listed at upcoming films. A film that has not yet been premiered or distributed may not be commented. Besides, none of the films so listed has ever been deleted or even contested.

At last, in discussion, user User:reddogsix proposed that the article should be renamed to Drifts (film) or similar, and at the same time put at the disambiguation page of Dritf this reference «Drifs, unreleased film by Ricardo Costa (filmmaker). I created a new page for the same article entitled Drifts (Portuguese film). As the semantic root “drift” seemed to be the problem, I replaced the article name to Derivas (Drifts) and published it once more with some improvements. As a result, the article was fast deleted and I blocked for three days.

In the meantime, a new article about the trilogy was published: Faraways, which was proposed to fast deletion as well by the same user, User:reddogsix.

Although unreleased, although having no reliable secondary sources, Drifts is unquestionably an outstanding film for its uniqueness and characteristics: autobiography, comedy, docufiction, metafiction in one. I guess that “outstanding” may be a synonym for “notable” in such cases and that articles like this shouldn’t be deleted without previous cared analyses: important information may be lost.

This sequence of interventions is clearly a personal attack by User:reddogsix, supported by two or three user friend. It has no other explanation. It contributes in nothing to improve articles quality. Mists article, which I created on 10 September 2010, is the latest example. The article structure was unreasonably modified, loosing clarity and useful content.

NOTE: sent to 30 administrators.

Thanks for your attention, User:Tertulius 21:16, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

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Ways to improve National Cathedral

Hi, I'm Mduvekot. Cyrius, thanks for creating National Cathedral!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. This page appears to be a machine translation (google translate) of the Russian version. The resulting translation is at times incomprehensible.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse. Mduvekot (talk) 15:00, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Hurricane Hermine listed at Redirects for discussion

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Extended confirmed protection

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A new user right for New Page Patrollers

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A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

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Newyork listed at Redirects for discussion

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2019 US Banknote Contest

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Draft:Credit Card Competition Act of 2022

Hi there. You deleted this page as a copyright violation just as I was about to decline the nomination. The draft was identified as being copied from https://legiscan.com/US/bill/SB4674/2021, but I suspect that the material on that LegiScan page originally came from https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4674, which is in the public domain. What do you think? - Eureka Lott 00:12, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

Your suspicion appears to be correct, undeleted. Cyrius|✎ 00:48, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

/Bibliography

Hi Cyrius, thanks for taking care of this CSD. Did you notice the salt request I added? The page is being continuously created in error by new WikiEd editors. ––FormalDude (talk) 03:20, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

CSD Deletions

Hello, Cyrius,

You have certainly returned to working as an admin with gusto, you are very busy deleting pages tagged for speedy deletion. I just encourage you to carefully review the tagged pages and make sure the taggings are appropriate. I probably untag at least 1 out of 10 CSD-tagged pages I come across because the criteria doesn't apply. There is an editor who is tagging pages over the past hour who is clearly mixed up on what qualifies as a speedy deletion criteria such as tagging drafts based on notability or tagging drafts as deletable because they are in a foreign language, neither of which is a valid reason for speedy deletion. Although you have clearly been an admin for a long time, I encourage you to slow down and evaluate all of the pages you anticipate deleting and make sure that the tagging editor has posted a notice on the talk page of the page creator letting them know that the page will likely be deleted. This is particularly important for speedy deletion because there is no review process other than the admin who is considering deleting the page. As long as it is not an attack page or BLP violation, there is no rush to delete a page that is tagged for speedy deletion, you can spend a minute or two considering them.

I hope you take this in the spirit intended which was to be helpful to an admin who is returning to active service. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:35, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

A goat for you!

Thanks for killing my typo :)

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The Kung Fu Kid page

I'll explain the chain of events there. I happened to land at that page under the title "Kung fu kid". I saw that all the instances of the title were title-case, so my intent was to move the page to "Kung Fu Kid", without noticing that there was a video game with the same name as primary topic. Somehow I managed to move it to Kung Fu Did, which you deleted.

Because of this I want to apologize and also  Self-trout. Oh, well! Dsuke1998AEOS (talk) 04:03, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

Deletion of Prakash Neupane

I saw that you speedy deleted the page which I've re-created using new reliable sources where it passes WP:MUSICBIO and was alrey reviewed. Do you've any comment to pass regarding the speedy deletion of an article which was previously deleted before more than a year. DIVINE (talk) 15:41, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

General

Hi, I moved the page from Anjali Phougat to Anjali Phougat Dhingra because her name is Anjali Phougat Dhingra as mentioned in multiple secondary and independent reliable news source. Draft:Anjali Phougat Hukumat Namanzoor (talk) 08:53, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

You moved it from Draft space to Article space when the original had been deleted for notability concerns. That made the page eligible for speedy deletion.

And even if you hadn't done that, you "moved" the article by copying and pasting the draft and blanking the original. For future page moves, please follow the instructions at Help:How to move a page. It's easier to use the actual move function and importantly, the move function preserves page history. Page history is required to fulfill the attribution requirements of Wikipedia's licensing.

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Article deletion

	Article deletion
	Hello, Why did you remove the following article called "Goleszów-Wisła Głębce Line" article? GrandContimentalRailways (talk) 18:23, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

The article was moved to Draft:Goleszów-Wisła Głębce Line. I merely deleted the cross-namespace redirect, as per policy. @GrandContimentalRailways — Cyrius|✎ 18:30, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

Ok, Thank you. GrandContimentalRailways (talk) 07:32, 11 December 2022 (UTC)

Draft:Mangrovia deletion

There has been a very big misunderstanding about my draft article. I can further explain anything about it if you want, it is completely valid in it's information. I also didn't mean to use it as a test page, I published the words (testing) to check if I could preview the page. Thanks, regards Theodore. MangrovianMite (talk) 03:36, 11 December 2022 (UTC)

I'm new here

Hi, I'm mainly active in Hebrew Wikipedia' and I'm new here. Where do I find the policy? Eitanbb (talk) 21:48, 11 December 2022 (UTC)

تراجم شعراء السودان

Please undelete تراجم شعراء السودان. I can't figure out where it pointed, but as a general rule being in a foreign language is not a valid reason for speedy deletion. If the foreign language does not have an affinity to the subject, then sometimes it's a valid reason for deletion at RFD, but that sort of thing should be discussed first since RfD regulars' definitions of "affinity" vary widely.

(I asked the first admin to delete the page the same request, and then they complied, followed by you deleting it seven minutes later) * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 22:31, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

Draft:Akinyele Tobi

Hi there. This one stumped me for a bit. But then I realized that the article's subject is also the holder of the external website is also the person who wrote this article. The website has been altered since I ran the initial copyvios report. I've actually never run across this before. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 22:02, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

Shockingly, I ran into that situation on another page yesterday. That case was even more flagrant than the one paragraph here.

And of course as I was looking into this someone else nuked it for self-promotion. Which I was tempted to do the first time around but didn't. @Onel5969 – Cyrius|✎ 22:48, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

Now deleted by User:Seraphimblade. VickKiang (talk) 23:40, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

Draft:Sai Madhukar

Hi Cyrius. Perhaps you could help answer WP:THQ#Creating a new article since your the admin who deleted Draft:Sai Madhukar? The OP seems confused as to why the draft was deleted. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:12, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for commenting. — Marchjuly (talk) 20:38, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

G7

I see that you have deleted Draft:Tayzee under speedy deletion criterion G7 (creator of the page has requested deletion or blanked the page). However, the account which blanked the page was not the one which created it. JBW (talk) 23:24, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

I think I got hung up on the person adding the tag not being the blanker and didn't look that hard at the very first edits so the red text just blurred together. Just another thing to be careful about. @JBW — Cyrius|✎ 00:14, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

109 and 110 countries

Hey, what's happening Cyrius. I noticed that you deleted my redirects for 109 countries and 110 countries under the guise of them being "Recently created, implausible redirect[s]." However, these are both terms that are commonly used as a dogwhistle by anti-semites when referring to how the Jews were expelled. This IMHO is not an implausible redirect, but one that will help confused readers when they encounter these dogwhistsles. Knightoftheswords281 (talk) 19:59, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

Anyone who's confused by those terms and looking for an explanation will just be more confused by being pointed at an article about Jewish history. One that doesn't explain why they've been redirected there.

I know I was initially confused because I was not aware of those dogwhistles.

The best redirect target I can think of that would actually be informative is List of symbols designated by the Anti-Defamation League as hate symbols#Numerical, and even that's not great. @Knightoftheswords281 — Cyrius|✎ 22:39, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks so much for dealing with the copyvio on B.C. Home Owner Mortgage and Equity partnership! :D ~ Eejit43 (talk) 22:07, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

2022 post-Roe cause-célèbre

Why did you delete "2022 post-Roe cause-célèbre"? --Jax 0677 (talk) 15:40, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

I thought the deletion reason was clear enough. It was tagged as an implausible redirect. The reason seemed sound enough to me. Nobody looking for the article is going to be searching for a relatively uncommon French loan term.

And that's without wading into the drama of the now-blocked user who suggested that title to "put some panache on it" in the first place. @Jax 0677 — Cyrius|✎ 21:32, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

Adermakh‎

Cyrius, Hello WikiEditor1234567123 — Blocked forgery of information, conducting edit wars. The author of the article is a vandal. Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dzurdzuketi Товболатов (talk) 21:40, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Draft:Marnovation (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion)

Can you please guide me on where I went wrong with this article. As I am new here and didnt post it, for the reason mentioned by the deleter Marvinks.wellsltd (talk) 11:53, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

Casa del Cabildo (Cartagena, Colombia)

Why did you delete the Cabildo de Cartagena de Indias article if after I summarized it?, just leave the date of the article, I demand that you return the article, what you did was because you wanted it because it no longer had a copyright vio. This was very ugly and you only did it because you don't like my additions on wikipedia. I want to know how I could file a complaint so that the other administrators can see it.--BrugesFR (talk) 16:12, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

You are invited to participate in the complaint I made about the deletion of Cabildo of Cartagena article on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard--BrugesFR (talk) 17:23, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

How Can I Add a new Page

Hello, I am Nilesh Kumar. From India, I want my bio on Wikipedia. I am the owner of a website Called TheMoviesz.com. With 4 million+ hits, how can I add myself to Wikipedia ? Nileh65 (talk) 08:56, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

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