User talk:CostalCal/Archive 2

Deletion discussion about 2025 California wildfires

Hello CostalCal, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia.

While your contributions are appreciated, I wanted to let you know that I've started a discussion about whether an article that you created, 2025 California wildfires, should be deleted, as I am not sure that it is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia in its current form. Your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2025 California wildfires.

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TheTechie@enwiki (she/they | talk) 00:54, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

Dexton Crutchfield moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Dexton Crutchfield. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability and the sources need to be significantly more reliable than those already added. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit for review" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. BoyTheKingCanDance (talk) 07:40, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

2025 Maryland wildfires moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to 2025 Maryland wildfires. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit for review" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Hey man im josh (talk) 16:34, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

2025 South Carolina wildfires moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to 2025 South Carolina wildfires. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit for review" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Hey man im josh (talk) 16:35, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

Nomination of Minnesota Timberwolves-Detroit Pistons brawl for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Minnesota Timberwolves-Detroit Pistons brawl 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/Minnesota Timberwolves-Detroit Pistons brawl 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.

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Natg 19 (talk) 19:09, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: 2025 South Carolina wildfires (May 14)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by ToadetteEdit was:

The proposed article does not have sufficient content to require an article of its own, but it could be merged into the existing article at 2025 Southeastern United States wildfires. Since anyone can edit Wikipedia, you are welcome to add that information yourself. Thank you.

 The comment the reviewer left was:

Even though this article is quite unprepared, 2025 Southeastern United States wildfires covers the state and has more information.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

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ToadetteEdit (7M articles) 06:51, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

Nomination of 2025 Somerset–London tornado for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article 2025 Somerset–London tornado 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/2025 Somerset–London tornado 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.

^EF⁵ 21:25, 17 May 2025 (UTC)

AFD comment

Please do not attack other editors' motives or actions, as you did at this comment on the recent AFD discussion above. Comments such as [w]hoever deletes this article, I will find a way to ban them from Wikipedia forever, [i]f you delete the article, you will regret it, [j]ust to find out, some loser deleted the article, and Why? Cause they like drama! are widely interpreted as personal attacks, which should be avoided. Please find a way to comment on content, not the contributor. Repeated instances personal attacks may lead to editing sanctions. Thank you. Departure– (talk) 18:44, 18 May 2025 (UTC)

Hello, CostalCal,

I came to say that your comment in this edit is just self-destructive. I'm glad you took some time off from editing the project because if you had stayed in this frame of mind, you were heading for a block.

I know it can be devastating to have your work changed or deleted but it's a part of our work here at a collaborative editing project. Nothing is guaranteed to be permanent. I'm sorry you feel unappreciated but longtime editors have to do the work because they enjoy it, not for barnstars or thank yous. It's also not healthy to think of your writing as a "work of art", all we are doing here is writing articles on the internet, not building one of the Seven Wonders of the World. If there was a consensus, almost any article on this project could be deleted.

I think you should be heartened by the fact that this article was just moved to Draft space as TOOSOON, it was not deleted. Depending on how things go, it could be back in main space if that's where opinion lies. I hope you will continue to contribute to this project, producing quality work. If you find yourself getting upset again, please log off before you say something you might have to apologize for. Every editor here gets angry, you have to find a way to deal with it constructively. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:21, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:2024 Santa Cruz Wharf Collapse

Hello, CostalCal. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:2024 Santa Cruz Wharf Collapse, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 23:07, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:2024 Santa Cruz Wharf Collapse

Hello, CostalCal. This message concerns the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "2024 Santa Cruz Wharf Collapse".

Drafts that go unedited for six months are eligible for deletion, in accordance with our draftspace policy, and this one has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply , and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! DreamRimmer bot II (talk) 22:26, 29 June 2025 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Wildfire Barnstar
		For expanding the 2025 United States wildfires article and writing other fire season articles! Hurricane Wind and Fire (talk) 04:51, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of 2025 New York wildfires

A tag has been placed on 2025 New York wildfires requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section R2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect from the article namespace to a different namespace except the Category, Template, Wikipedia, Help, or Portal namespaces.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:12, 20 July 2025 (UTC)

Removal of tag

Why did you remove the {{cn}} tag in this edit? There was no source given in the article for his birth date: it appeared, unsourced, in the lead and was not mentioned at all in the text.

Please do not remove tags without explanation, and without remedying the problem identified. Thanks. PamD 09:26, 24 July 2025 (UTC)

Sorry. Won't do it again. CostalCal (talk) 09:28, 24 July 2025 (UTC)

But why? I'm intrigued - you don't seem to be a regular editor of that page, so how did you find and decide to revert my edit? PamD 09:30, 24 July 2025 (UTC)

I was looking at Special:RecentChanges for vandalism. CostalCal (talk) 09:34, 24 July 2025 (UTC)

Please take more care, and please use edit summaries to explain why you think something is vandalism and needs to be reverted. Thanks. PamD 09:38, 24 July 2025 (UTC)

July 2025

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed maintenance templates from Prince Alemayehu. When removing a maintenance template, please either ensure that the problem that the template refers to has been resolved, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as this change has been reverted. Take a look at getting started to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. . Adding this formal warning for the record, in case this is not an isolated incident. PamD 09:28, 24 July 2025 (UTC)

"2026-27 North American winter" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect 2026-27 North American winter has 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 July 24 § Future North American winters until a consensus is reached. PamD 15:13, 24 July 2025 (UTC)

"2025–26 North American winter" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect 2025–26 North American winter has 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 July 24 § Future North American winters until a consensus is reached. PamD 15:14, 24 July 2025 (UTC)

Unsourced content

If you find apparently unsourced but uncontentious material, please tag it with {{cn}} rather than deleting it as you did here. The formation date was easily found in one of the existing sources, and the end date differed from that in the infobox and text, but was well sourced in the text albeit to a different year.

Removing uncontentious content is often unhelpful, while tagging it with {{cn}} will encourage other editors to improve the article by finding sources or by highlighting where it is sourced in the existing references. PamD 15:34, 24 July 2025 (UTC)

It didn't look like there was a source if you looked over the text. Sorry, I apologize. I should have checked for a source more thoroughly. Next time I will at least tag it with . CostalCal (talk) 15:55, 24 July 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. Tagging for improvement is much more constructive than removal of content, in a case like this where there's no issue of BLP content or anything controversial. In something like this with no likely WP:COI I think we can WP:AGF that the editor who added the dates hadn't plucked them out of thin air but had a source, whether or not they'd yet added their source to the article (as they had, in this case). PamD 23:00, 24 July 2025 (UTC)

IP Address

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

CostalCal (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log) • SI)

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Request reason:

Caught by an open proxy block but this host or IP is not a web host. My IP address is 195.68.61.241.

Accept reason:

I have granted you IP block exemption for 6 months which should allow you to edit normally. PhilKnight (talk) 16:04, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

CostalCal (talk) 14:26, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

IP block exempt

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Please read the page Wikipedia:IP block exemption carefully, especially the section on IP block exemption conditions. Inappropriate usage of this user right may result in revocation. I hope this will enhance your editing, and allow you to edit successfully and without disruption. PhilKnight (talk) 16:04, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

Draft:2021 Idaho wildfires

I saw you were looking to improve this draft, and I think you could use Watch Duty to find the missing fires. If haven't already, you go to "layers", then to the drop-down "general" (which may already be open), then press "fire perimeters" and turn on "historical". It will show you perimeters of the historic fires with the names and years over the gray perimeters. You would need to find separate sources for the fires, but this could be pretty useful for finding missing fires. Thanks, Hurricane Wind and Fire (talk) 17:24, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

Just updated fires and moved to an article. The Wayback Machine on the fires posted on InciWeb saved me. CostalCal (talk) 18:43, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

By the way, on Draft:Deer Creek Fire, I will complete it in segments with one edit every 12-24 hour period, that's how I start out all my drafts (see the Forsyth Fire or Little Valley Fire revision history). Hurricane Wind and Fire (talk) 22:29, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

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Concern regarding Draft:Dexton Crutchfield

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 07:05, 9 August 2025 (UTC)

IP Pinging

Saw you tried to ping an IP user. IP pinging doesn't work, you can just leave a message on their talk page. Thanks, Hurricane Wind and Fire (talk) 01:10, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

On a separate note, you've done really well with the seasonal summaries. In my opinion, you're one of the most important wildfire season editors active on the project. You've made some great contributions that are going to change the scope of wildfire season articles on Wikipedia. Hurricane Wind and Fire (talk) 02:17, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for that. I was kind of dumb for pinging an IP user. I probably should've known that. CostalCal (talk) 02:48, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Wildfires in Routt County, Colorado

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Broadcasted > Broadcast

Please see this explanation as to why Broadcasted should be replaced, as per WP:COMMONALITY - Thank you - Arjayay (talk) 21:34, 19 August 2025 (UTC)

Sorry, it looked like incorrect in grammatical terms. I didn't read User talk:Arjayay#brodcasted. Do you live in the United Kingdom where the uses of brodcasted are different? CostalCal (talk) 21:39, 19 August 2025 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

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	I am greatly appreciative of your oversight on the wildfire pages! Thank you! RRFWTommartin (talk) 19:28, 24 August 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for the barnstar! CostalCal (talk) 23:29, 24 August 2025 (UTC)

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