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Hello, Apteva, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! - Darwinek (talk) 08:22, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A discussion you may be interested in

I have just made a new nomination for renaming categories for those U.S cities where the article doesn't include the state name. Since you participated in a recent discussion about this, you may want to express your opinion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 September 6#Major US cities. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 16:15, 6 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Standard greeting

Note to all editors. Feel free to use this and customize it to your hearts content. Please leave a link if you see something that needs to be changed, and please first take out the parenthetical "some of it I wrote" if you can not find at least one word that you know that you added to one of the articles linked from the welcome message, and of course make sure the welcome message does appear on that users talk page. Also feel free to make a template out of this with options that will customize it for certain types of users, etc. My goal is not to get rid of bad editors but to help everyone become a good editor. You will probably have to take out the bit about getting edits to stick or reword it if none of your friends have mentioned this. People who have been blocked need something to do other than fume, and helping them learn to edit usefully can take considerable time. Often editors in their early teens simply lack the maturity to edit productively and will grow out of it as they mature.

Greetings. Your current block will be expiring in a couple of days and I would like to reach out to you to see what I can do to help you become a quality editor for Wikipedia. Before you respond anywhere, please take the time to read all of the content of each of the links in the Welcome message above (some of what you will read was added by me). There is a learning curve to learn how to even be an acceptable editor, and in talking with my friends the most common comment they have made is they finally made an edit that was not reverted. The reason for that is simple. It is the wishes of the roughly 3,000 regular editors of Wikipedia, myself included, to create a world class encyclopedia and related other references, that will be a powerful resource for all to use. So lets say you as an expert on a subject know something, and want to add it, or as anyone, wish to make any edit, or see anything that needs to be added, changed, or removed.

The first question to ask, is is it verifiable? Can you provide a link or reference to a book where the rest of us can check what you have added to verify that it was entered correctly, and does not transpose a number or something like that.
The second question is is it relevant? Is this the best article where this information should be added? Is this the best place in this article? Is this the best way to provide this information? All of us are here to help you in that and will quickly revert any mistakes. But that takes up our time and we will give you a "time out" as you have seen, if we see that one or more of your edits does not fit. As a wiki anyone can edit, and all edits are saved, although some can be permanently deleted if needed.
The third question to ask is is the language appropriate? Is it collegiate? Does it belong in an encyclopedia that is being read by everyone from the first grade through post graduate study?

This is not by any means the only project you can contribute to and if English is not your native language I would strongly recommend starting out in the sister project of your native language of which we have roughly 200 and keep adding more. Those encyclopedias tend to need a lot more editors than this one. And the rules for each can be slightly different, although for the most part are very similar. All new user accounts are SUL accounts, meaning you can log into any of them using your same username and password. We also have projects like Wiktionary for dictionary entries, Wikibook for books, and Commons for pictures and graphics.

After you have read everything in each of the Welcome links, and if you are not blocked, I welcome you to try to learn how to make edits that will "stick" and become useful knowledge for all to see. Cheers. ~~~~

--Apteva (talk) 02:41, 30 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Apteva. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

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If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Photovoltaic power station

I have started an individual good article reassessment of Photovoltaic power station which was rated "good" in 2013 and I think it needs modernizing. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Chidgk1 (talk) 15:30, 1 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Rancho Cielo Solar Farm

The article Rancho Cielo Solar Farm has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Non-notable cancelled project

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Proposed deletion of Solenha

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Apparently unsuccessful proposal lacks notability

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Proposed deletion of Western Systems Power Pool

The article Western Systems Power Pool has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Notability not established with substantive independent sources

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Reywas92^Talk 05:13, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]