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:@[[User:Princy eliza|Princy eliza]]: Hello! You can take a look at [[WP:RS|Wikipedia:Reliable sources]] to find what we define a reliable sources are. Too intimidating? You might want to take a look at [[Help:Referencing for beginners#Reliable sources]] instead.

:@[[User:Princy eliza|Princy eliza]]: Hello! You can take a look at [[WP:RS|Wikipedia:Reliable sources]] to find what we define a reliable sources are. Too intimidating? You might want to take a look at [[Help:Referencing for beginners#Reliable sources]] instead.

:Happy editing, ~ [[User:Rusty Cat|rusty]] ^{[[User talk:Rusty Cat|”meow”]]} ~ 00:43, 21 January 2026 (UTC)

:Happy editing, ~ [[User:Rusty Cat|rusty]] ^{[[User talk:Rusty Cat|”meow”]]} ~ 00:43, 21 January 2026 (UTC)

== Question from [[User:Ivorymimosa|Ivorymimosa]] (13:03, 21 January 2026) ==

Hi Rusty Cat, I work for the Courtauld and someone has pointed out that the Courtauld Gallery has an old logo. I’d like to upload a recent logo to the Courtauld Gallery page, and have the permission of the Courtauld Gallery, but I can only do it by relinquishing the copyright. This is a non-free file / the Courtauld would like to keep the copyright. How can I do this? Thanks –[[User:Ivorymimosa|Ivorymimosa]] ([[User talk:Ivorymimosa|talk]]) 13:03, 21 January 2026 (UTC)

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Hello Rusty Cat! —Karmel Humphrey (talk) 21:10, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Karmel Humphrey: Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! Call me Rusty. Feel free to ask if you have any questions! ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 23:30, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

First question. I submitted an article to AfC. It says it is not pending review. What does that mean exactly? Is there anything else I need to do? Thanks in advance. Karmel Humphrey (talk) 07:20, 16 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Karmel Humphrey: That means you created the draft, but haven’t actually submitted it for review yet. There will be a “Submit” button in the bottom left of the box at the top of the page you can click on to submit.

Happy editing, ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 01:34, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Got it. Submitted, now waiting review. Thanks Rusty! Karmel Humphrey (talk) 21:54, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You’re welcome! ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 01:33, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Rusty! Article approved! Thanks for your help. One other question. I want to provide the actual birthday for the person in the article. What is the best way to do that? Karmel Humphrey (talk) 03:54, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Karmel Humphrey: Congrats on the article being approved!

If you can find a (reliable) source that states the person’s birthday, you can use that. Otherwise, there’s not really a way add their birthday into the article, unfortunately. ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 04:00, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That’s what I thought but I was checking other articles and wonder if there was another way. Thanks! Karmel Humphrey (talk) 04:01, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey mentor,
Sorry to bother you.
Below is an article i have written. Please let me know if it can be further improvise and is the tone neutral or not.
Thank you —Mirjist (talk) 16:40, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Manastha is an India-based online mental health platform which provides counselling, therapy, and psychiatric consultation services through online and offline channels. The platform aims to make mental health support more accessible and affordable. According to an article in ED Times, Manastha offers services internationally and has corporate employee assistance programs, while providing consultations to large numbers of people during the COVID-19 pandemic. The platform has also been mentioned in The Economic Times as one of the online mental health services used by individuals seeking psychological support in the context of the #MeToo movement in India.

References

Manastha: India’s Best Online Psychologist & Psychiatrist Consultation Platform, ED Times.

The movement to expose sexual harassers appears to have caused a surge in people seeking therapy, The Economic Times. Mirjist (talk) 16:45, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Mirjist: It’s not exactly neutral; I see phrases like “offers services internationally” which feel promotional. You could add more sources as well. The ED times source looks promotional at a glance and the Economic Times article only mentions Manastha briefly, and doesn’t talk about it in detail.

Also, please take a look at Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners on how to properly add sources.

Happy editing! ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 21:16, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is really helpful. Thank you Mirjist (talk) 21:17, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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How do I submit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Paris_Commune-Vatican_relations —PapalCommunard (talk) 17:20, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@PapalCommunard:

Hello! To submit the draft you want to click the “Submit the draft for review!” button in the bottom right corner of that box in the top of the page. ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 01:16, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. PapalCommunard (talk) 02:34, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You’re welcome! Happy editing, ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 04:50, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello,
I am new to Wikipedia and yesterday was my first day contributing. I tried to translate an article into Urdu, but it was not published. I am still learning how to translate properly and follow Wikipedia guidelines. I can work continuously for many hours and want to contribute sincerely to serve my community through Urdu translations.

I would like to know where my translated draft is saved so that I can continue working on it. Also, I want to ask whether my translated articles will be published once they meet the required standards.

Thank you for your guidance. —Muhammad Ishtiaq ishii (talk) 11:01, 29 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings. I don’t see any other edits from your account, so unfortunately it might have been lost. The recommended process is to save it as a Draft article, for example, if the article Cat was not ready for publishing it would be at Draft:Cat.

The blue button might say “Publish changes”, but you’ll use it whenever you want to just save any kind of changes, such as on a draft.

Additionally, you have to manually request review of your draft once you feel it is ready; it will not be automatically published.

Thank you, ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 15:38, 29 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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I don’t have a particular area I want to start assisting in yet, but is there an area of Wikipedia that needs particular attention now?

I am currently a recently out of work editor for a national media org, so I’m pretty strict with my verification work. I just wanted to help out Wikipedia, because I’ve been donating for a little while and feel like I should also donate my time. —Leeminhotep (talk) 13:33, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Leeminhotep: Welcome to Wikipedia!

Wikipedia is always in need of attention. You can check the Task Center for some more beginner-friendly tasks to do. You might also want to read up on guidelines such as Reliable sources, verifiability, and neutral point of view, should those differ from what you’re used to.

Happy editing! ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 17:24, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Do you know where I can start? I’ve edited some other wikis in the past, but I would like to get familiarised with the rules, etc. Please and thank you. 🙂 —BrokenBuilder (talk) 20:14, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@BrokenBuilder: Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! Our introduction page would be a great place to start. Happy editing! ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 22:21, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Aw that’s perfect! That really helps a lot! Also, I hope you don’t mind, but I took your Header and edited it on my own pages. I can remove it or credit you if you wish.

Also, how can I get a unique username in the four ~ like yours? Thank for your help! I really appreciate it! BrokenBuilder (talk) 15:20, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@BrokenBuilder:

You’re welcome! It’s called a signature, and you can change it in your preferences- make sure to check the “Treat as wiki markup” box and include a link to your user page!

For reference, here’s mine:

~ [[User:Rusty Cat|Rusty]]&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Rusty Cat|''meow'']]</sup> ~

Oh, and by the way, you’re free to use the header however you like 🙂

~ Rusty ^meow ~ 16:42, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Oh! It uses HTML! Awesome! Thank you so much for your help Mr. Cat. 🙂 BrokenBuilder (talk) 19:10, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@BrokenBuilder: No problem! And please, call me Rusty. ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 01:14, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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@Volten001: Thank you!! ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 22:21, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Rusty, good to meet you.

I was trying to submit a new topic about Alan Sparrow of The UK Picture Editors Guild. Can you help?

Cheers

Bret —Thebinliner (talk) 15:29, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I recently updated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bokurano_episodes to use {{Episode table}} and removed {{Convert to Episode table}}. A few hours later RustyBot 4 re-added {{Convert to Episode table}} despite the article having one.

The bot uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alex_21/sandbox/No_episode_table to decide which articles to check. This seems to be a manually maintained list. Might it be possible to use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_lacking_Episode_table_templates instead? This at least is automatically updated based on the presence of {{Convert to Episode table}}, though it may lag the article changes a bit.

From reading the bot source at https://github.com/rustykitty/rustybot-mw/blob/master/task_3/bot.py I don’t see any checking if the article has {{Episode table}} before adding {{Convert to Episode table}}. Adding such a check seems like a good idea. I suspect it can’t be done in a 100% reliable way (there may be multiple lists in an article) but most articles could be handled automatically and the remainder flagged for manual checking.

Also, and purely my opinion on a cosmetic issue, adding an end-of-line to the ‘{{Convert to Episode table}}’ string would make it clearer that any following tags are unrelated. I accidentally removed {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2022}} from the Bokurano article, though that’s more to do with my inexperience than the bot.

Regards, ~2026-22963-2 (talk) 00:04, 12 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@~2026-22963-2:

The thing with Category:Articles lacking Episode table templates is that it’s placed by {{Convert to Episode table}} itself.

Regarding checking if there’s an episode table on the page already, I could check if it already has {{Episode table}}-I’ll post this on the BRFA page though, not sure if it’s significant enough a change to warrant consensus

I did just push out a change though, making sure to add a newline after the template.

Thanks! ~ rusty ^meow ~ 01:19, 12 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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How do i start? —Metalurgen (talk) 19:50, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Metalurgen: Hello! Welcome to Wikipedia! See the page Help:Introduction for an introduction to editing Wikipedia. Don’t hesitate to ask if you have any questions! ~ rusty ^meow ~ 00:15, 17 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I added a question to the teahouse before I realized that wiki assigns mentors. I thought I might just ask if you had any input for me on the question I asked there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse#Combining_pages_and_adding_sources —ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 16:24, 17 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@ScrubbedFalcon: Merging all three articles is definitely a good idea! If you’re not sure about whether there will be consensus to perform the merge, you can start a discussion, as @DMacks also suggested in your Teahouse post. On preserving the edit history, one way to do it would be to just blank and redirect the other pages (e.g. if you merge the articles for the double and triple knot into the Fisherman’s knot article, you could redirect the former two into the latter).

Happy editing, ~ rusty ^meow ~ 23:12, 17 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I put the draft here: Draft:Fisherman’s Knot Merge Page any feedback would be appreciated! ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 00:30, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@ScrubbedFalcon: I honestly don’t have much experience with writing articles (I focus more on maintenance tasks) but I like how it’s coming along! ~ rusty ^meow ~ 23:02, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

بدي كوينز في بياس —RAYANMANAS (talk) 19:31, 17 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@RAYANMANAS: Sorry, I don’t understand you. Could you try to ask your question again in English? ~ rusty ^meow ~ 23:08, 17 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki message delivery 20:28, 19 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, Rusty Cat, just visiting about Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/RustyBot 3, saw the latest edits performed by the bot via Special:Contributions/RustyBot. Just noticed a false positive in the bot’s edits here, in which the bot added {{Convert to Episode table}} despite the article already using the correct episode table (albeit via using the module directly with {{#invoke:Episode table|main}} rather than {{Episode table}}). Perhaps just an additional case to add to the bot’s checking? — Alex_21 _TALK 22:52, 19 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Alex 21: Hello! Per this reason the bot does not check whether {{Episode table}} is already being used on the page. Thanks! ~ rusty ^meow ~ 01:31, 20 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

How to find the sources listed are reliable or not —Princy eliza (talk) 05:44, 20 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Princy eliza: Hello! You can take a look at Wikipedia:Reliable sources to find what we define a reliable sources are. Too intimidating? You might want to take a look at Help:Referencing for beginners#Reliable sources instead.

Happy editing, ~ rusty ^meow ~ 00:43, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Rusty Cat, I work for the Courtauld and someone has pointed out that the Courtauld Gallery has an old logo. I’d like to upload a recent logo to the Courtauld Gallery page, and have the permission of the Courtauld Gallery, but I can only do it by relinquishing the copyright. This is a non-free file / the Courtauld would like to keep the copyright. How can I do this? Thanks —Ivorymimosa (talk) 13:03, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]