User talk:World Metro

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31st National Geographic Bee moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, 31st National Geographic Bee, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 03:40, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: 31st National Geographic Bee (April 10)

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

Thank you for your submission, but the subject of this article already exists in Wikipedia. You can find it and improve it at 31st National Geographic Bee instead.

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 when they have been resolved.

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Smartyllama (talk) 10:25, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Hello, World Metro! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Smartyllama (talk) 10:25, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Re:Userbox request

Please, see Wikipedia_talk:Userboxes/Ideas#New_Userbox_requests_#13-18 (permalink). —⁠andrybak (talk) 11:46, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

For your interest

Recently, you’ve been replacing presumably dead links to references with archived versions from websites such as the Wayback Machine. There’s an easier way to do this, I would recommend reading the guide for using a bot to do this. Give the bot the title of the article, and one click later, it’s fixed all the dead links in that article. Fork99 (talk) 22:05, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

June 2023

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at List of time travel works of fiction. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. You cannot intentionally disrupt an article just to provoke a response, and not expect one - so here it is. If you must call for help, use the talk page or the help desk. Chaheel Riens (talk) 17:02, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

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CS1 error on 1995 Australian Open

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page 1995 Australian Open, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

• A generic name error. References show this error when author or editor name parameters use placeholder names. Please edit the article to include the source's actual author or editor name. (Fix | Ask for help). Below are the references causing this error:
  • Times, Julie Cart Julie Cart is a former environmental reporter for the Los Angeles; Sportswriter, Where She’s Also Been a; In 2009, a national correspondent; Cart; in 2015, colleague Bettina Boxall won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting She left The Times (1995-01-27). "Agassi, Sampras to Meet in Final : Australian Open: Krickstein retires in third set against Agassi before court is flooded". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2026-07-02. {{cite web}}: |first3= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 15:33, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

Share your perspective in a WMDE user interview

Hi World Metro, I'm Johannes from Wikimedia Deutschland's Technical Wishes team. We would like to invite you to participate in our user research to help us learn more about current community needs and wishes.

We are looking for editors who are 18+ years old and willing to do a ~45min video call with our UX researchers about their editing processes. Participation is compensated.

You can sign-up regardless of your experience level or technical knowledge. The interview will be conducted in English and will be recorded. Interview time slots are available every other Wednesday starting September 2. More information is available on our project page.

Please sign up and choose your time slot if you want to support us: https://greatquestion.co/wikimediadeutschland/gBDkkfeL

P.S. You've been randomly selected to receive this invitation. We won't contact you again unless you'd like to participate.

Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 15:09, 11 September 2026 (UTC)