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I just noticed that your Module:Request for permission links causes {{rfplinks}} to show if there are other permission requests by the same user on other RFPP subpages. This is brilliant. I saw it on a permission request page and first thought a bot was doing it; creating this functionality inside the wiki itself is a fantastic job. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 23:37, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I am adding a teaspoon to this @SilverLocust, you did wonders there. Kudos! Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 08:27, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@ToBeFree and SafariScribe: Thanks, both. Note that anything I manage to do in Lua is not very difficult, as coding is not my thing. SilverLocust 💬 04:28, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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DYK for Department of State v. Muñoz

On 24 July 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Department of State v. Muñoz, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 2024 U.S. Supreme Court case Department of State v. Muñoz decided that the fundamental right to marry does not give a U.S. citizen a right to challenge their spouse's visa denial? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Department of State v. Muñoz. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Department of State v. Muñoz), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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New page reviewer granted

Hi SilverLocust, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the new page reviewer user right to your account. This means you now have access to the page curation tools and can start patrolling pages from the new pages feed. If you asked for this at requests for permissions, please check back there to see if your access is time-limited or if there are other comments.

This is a good time to re-acquaint yourself with the guidance at Wikipedia:New pages patrol. Before you get started, please take the time to:

You can find a list of other useful links and tools for patrollers at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Resources. If you are ever unsure what to do, ask your fellow patrollers or just leave the page for someone else to review – you're not alone! Hey man im josh (talk) 21:30, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, josh. SilverLocust 💬 21:37, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Of course! Be sure to check out WP:NPPSORT and ask on the NPR talk page or the NPP Discord if you have any questions :) Hey man im josh (talk) 21:51, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"top level domain range"?

The redirect was to {{Page range too broad}} (i.e. the maintenance tag for a citation made unverifiable by citing an excessive volume of text in the source material), not {{top level domain range}}, unless I am missing something from your edit summary. jp×g🗯️ 20:51, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I was just about to say on your talk page that I misread what you retargeted it to as "IP range too broad", since I was thinking about sockpuppet investigations at the time. (Not that a top-level domain would make sense for referring to a wide IP range.) Still, I don't agree with making {{tldr}} go somewhere different than {{TL;DR}}, both referring to "too long; didn't read". Just use {{prtb}} or something else. SilverLocust 💬 20:55, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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