User talk:MerelyPumpkin

Welcome MerelyPumpkin!

Hi! I'm Thanoscar21. I noticed that on your userpage, you said that you're still figuring things out here, so you might want to check out this list. It's a list of all articles that have been tagged as having poor grammar; since grammar is an easy and simple way to contribute, I highly recommend starting there! Once you've gained about 200 edits (you can check your edit count here), you can join the Counter Vandalism Unit's Academy. That's basically reverting edits that vandals make — since anyone can edit Wikipedia, we get a lot of those. Hope this helped, Thanoscar21^talk_{contributions} 22:16, 2 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the suggestion and warm welcome, I'll check it out! MerelyPumpkin (talk) 22:34, 2 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Was that guy who wrote Michael Trump vandalizing the late great Rodney Dangerfield’s page?? Thanks for catching that!

		The Original Barnstar
		For your Eagle Eye! Elvisisalive95 (talk) 00:36, 11 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I better go tell my ophthalmologist that I have eagle eyes, maybe she'll let me stop wearing glasses... MerelyPumpkin (talk) 02:25, 11 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

User:MerelyPumpkin Haha, yes tell her you won’t be needing the spectacles anymore! And you’re welcome my friend ! Elvisisalive95 (talk) 05:14, 11 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I would just like to take a moment to thank you for reporting User:87.74.41.203 to AIV. I was about to do the very same thing, but I'm glad to see that someone else got there before me. Cheers! JeffSpaceman (talk) 21:56, 15 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi MerelyPumpkin! Just a small comment, but this edit needed an edit summary and a more specific user warning because—as you might be surprised to hear—the IP was just genuinely adding a real quote from Petrosian (everything from "Are you kidding ??? What the **** are you talking about man ?" to "Liers will kicked off" is a real quote from a chess Grandmaster). There is, however, an issue of verifiability and of using an overly long quote, so I reverted the IP's reinstatement with a summary. Thanks! — Bilorv (talk) 19:59, 22 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Bilorv: Oh jeez, thanks for that catch! Yeah, I had a hard time believing that quote, but that's on me for not checking the reference more closely. Thanks! MerelyPumpkin (talk) 20:12, 22 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, no doubt a difficult case and no-one ever manages vandal-fighting with 100% accuracy. — Bilorv (talk) 20:16, 22 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello MerelyPumpkin. Please leave my edits of History of Immigration to USA. I think its debatable whether or not if Puerto Rico is really part of the United States. If we include Puerto Rico we also need to include Guam. Thank you (Previous comment was unsigned by JFerrell007)

@JFerrell007: Hi there! I have not reverted any of your edits to that page, although I did previously revert an IP editor for removing content from the lead without any explanation. Judging by the revision history of History of immigration to the United States, those edits are contested and should be discussed on the talk page first. Also, please sign your posts with ~~~~. MerelyPumpkin (talk) 16:59, 1 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi MerelyPumpkin! I've been running into you while patrolling logs and recent changes, and I happened to notice that you don't have the rollback or pending changes reviewer user rights. I hope you don't mind, but I went through your contributions and I noticed that you're quite active in recent changes patrolling, and that you consistently view and undo vandalism and bad faith disruption. I believe that these user rights would be useful for you to have and that you'd make good use of both tools. Instead of having you formally request these user rights at WP:PERM, I went ahead and just gave them to you. These user rights allow you to review edits that are pending approval on pages currently under pending changes protection, as well as to quickly revert the edits of other users in cases of blatant vandalism.

Rollback permissions

Please keep these things in mind at all times when using rollback to revert edits:

• Being granted rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle. It just adds a "[Rollback]" button next to a page's latest edits - that's all. It does not grant you any additional "status" on Wikipedia, nor does it change how Wikipedia policies apply to you (obviously).
• Rollback should be used to revert clear and unambiguous cases of vandalism only, and never used to revert good faith edits.
• Rollback should never be used to edit war, and it should never be used in a content-related dispute to restore the page to your preferred revision. If rollback is abused or used for this purpose, the rights will be revoked.
• Use common sense. If you're not sure about something, ask.

For more information on how to use rollback, see this tutorial page.

Pending changes reviewer permissions

Please keep these things in mind regarding the tools or when you're reviewing any pending changes:

• A list of articles with pending edits awaiting review can be viewed at Special:PendingChanges, and a list of the articles currently under pending changes protection can be viewed at Special:StablePages.
• Being granted and having these rights does not grant you any additional "status" on Wikipedia, nor does it change how Wikipedia policies apply to you (obviously).
• You'll generally want to accept any pending changes that appear to be legitimate edits and are not blatant vandalism or disruption, and reject edits that are problematic or that you wouldn't accept yourself.
• Never accept any pending changes that contain obvious and clear vandalism, blatant neutral point of view issues, copyright violations, or BLP violations.

You may find the following pages useful to review:

• Wikipedia:Reviewing pending changes, the guideline and tutorial on using the rights and reviewing pending changes.
• Wikipedia:Pending changes, a summary of pending changes protection, the pending changes user right, and how it applies.
• Wikipedia:Protection policy#Pending changes protection, the policy section on pending changes protection and its appropriate application and use by administrators.

I'm sure you'll do fine with these user rights - they're pretty straight-forward and they don't drastically change the interface that you're used to already. Nonetheless, please don't hesitate to leave me a message on my user talk page if you run into any questions, get stuck anywhere, run into any issues or problems, or if you're not sure if the use of either tool is appropriate or not and need my input or advice - I'll be more than happy to help you any time you need it. If you no longer want one or both of these user rights, let me know and I'll be happy to remove them for you. Thank you for helping to locate, revert, and remove vandalism, as well as review and keep disruptive edits off of Wikipedia - it's a very thankless job to perform and I want you to know that it doesn't go unnoticed and that I appreciate it very much. Happy editing! :-D ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 01:59, 11 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, wow! Thanks Oshwah! These permissions are sure to help me a lot, but it somehow never occurred to me to request them. I'll let you know if I have any questions, but like you said, they're pretty straight-forward. Thanks again! :) MerelyPumpkin (talk) 16:30, 11 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You bet. Keep up the excellent work! :-) ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 16:38, 11 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, in the section physiological and social consequences, you have biased positive views, even though the lower middle half of the paragraphs indicate each study is flawed and poorly controlled, i fixed these pages and you remove my edits. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.40.135.204 (talk) 03:34, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi IP user! You are correct, I did remove your edits, though not because I have "biased positive views." I reverted your edits because you removed citations and changed the positive descriptive words into negative descriptive words without providing a source. MerelyPumpkin (talk) 03:41, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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