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Featured picture scheduled for POTD

Hi MER-C,

This is to let you know that File:Lime - whole and halved.jpg, a featured picture you nominated, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for January 8, 2025. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2025-01-08. If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! Jay8g [V•T•E] 00:40, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

A lime is a citrus fruit, which is typically round, lime green in colour, 3–6 centimetres (1.2–2.4 in) in diameter, and contains acidic juice vesicles. There are several species of citrus trees whose fruits are called limes, including the Key lime, Persian lime, kaffir lime, finger lime, blood lime, and desert lime. Limes are a rich source of vitamin C, are sour, and are often used to accent the flavours of foods and beverages. They are grown year-round, originally in tropical South and Southeast Asia but now in much of the world. Plants with fruit called "limes" have diverse genetic origins; limes do not form a monophyletic group. This photograph shows two limes grown in Brazil, one whole and one halved, and was focus-stacked from 23 images.

Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus

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Similar to Connecteam

Before filing an SPI with a more detailed report, I wanted to share this here first. I noticed that you blocked almost everyone involved in the Connecteam XfD, but now there is another ongoing XfD that is very similar to the previous situation. This XfD was closed by the same non-admin editor who closed the Connecteam AfD as "keep". I believe that even though all the "keep" voters were SPAs engaging in drive-by voting, you might have missed due to a lack of evidence, that the closer was also part of the UPE farm. It seems highly unlikely that the same closer would be involved in both XfDs, especially considering they have only four NACs in 2 years. Jeraxmoira🐉 (talk) 18:22, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Good spot, but there is insufficient evidence to block the users in this newer AFD. MER-C 12:11, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

I have started a SPI here and I believe we have enough evidence to suggest that the closer may be involved in WP:UPE, although the CU/SPI admin's decision may differ. Jeraxmoira🐉 (talk) 12:38, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Yuvaank's comment provided the evidence I needed to block two of the three suspected accounts at the AFD. MER-C 13:35, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Wishing MER-C a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 05:51, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Protoreaster lincki

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Estrella de mar de espinas rojas (Protoreaster linckii), Zanzíbar, Tanzania, 2024-06-01, DD 06.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 12:59, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Lexias dirtea

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Open wing position of Lexias dirtea (Fabricius, 1793) - Dark Archduke (Female) puddling on rotten Neolamarckia cadamba flowerWLB.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 13:05, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cape Stolbchaty basalt

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Мыс Столбчатый. После заката.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 13:10, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Featured picture scheduled for POTD

Hi MER-C,

This is to let you know that File:Rhinanthus angustifolius inflorescence - Kulna.jpg, a featured picture you nominated, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for January 15, 2025. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2025-01-15. If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! Jay8g [V•T•E] 00:41, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

Rhinanthus angustifolius, the narrow-leaved rattle or greater yellow-rattle, is a species of plant of the genus Rhinanthus, in the broomrape family, Orobanchaceae. It is an annual wildflower, native to temperate grasslands in much of Europe, and north and central Western Asia. The yellow flowers are mostly visited by bumblebees. This R. angustifolius inflorescence was photographed in Kulna, Estonia. The photograph was focus-stacked from 80 separate images.

Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus

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Featured picture scheduled for POTD

Hi MER-C,

This is to let you know that File:Panorama of a green iguana (06643p).jpg, a featured picture you nominated, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for January 16, 2025. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2025-01-16. If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! Jay8g [V•T•E] 07:05, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

The green iguana (Iguana iguana), also known as the American iguana, the common green iguana, or simply the iguana, is a large, arboreal, mostly herbivorous species of lizard of the genus Iguana. The species is native to a large geographic area, from southern Brazil and Paraguay as far north as Mexico. It grows to 1.7 metres (5.6 feet) in length from head to tail, although a few specimens have grown more than 2 metres (6.6 feet) with weights upward of 20 pounds (9.1 kilograms). Green iguanas possess a row of spines along their backs and tails, which helps to protect them from predators. Their whip-like tails can be used to deliver painful strikes, and like many other lizards, when grabbed by the tail, iguanas can allow it to break, so they can escape and eventually regenerate a new one. This green iguana was photographed in Palm Beach County, Florida, where the species has been introduced.

Photograph credit: Rhododendrites

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ustyurt Nature Reserve

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Марсианский пейзаж впадины Карынжарык. Вдали Три Батыра.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 13:18, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/ArtScience Museum

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:ArtScience Museum, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 13:19, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

Additional vios in a CCI

Hello. You asked in December at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20241214 if there were any copyvios after October 2024. I've found some:

• November 23: Small copying/close para in the lead at Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Tamil Li'l Champs season 4 from Adgully
• December 20: The last sentence of the Release first paragraph at Mounam Pesiyadhe (TV series) is a copy from Southmoviez. This was days after the CCI opened.

Thought I should let you know. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 01:41, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I've now blocked the editor. MER-C 17:22, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

You're welcome. Would the CCI be expanded? MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 18:46, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

Yes, it should be. Fortunately there are only three new edits (did a double check to ensure that is correct, unless you find copyvios in minor edits). MER-C 20:02, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

The user has marked minor edits that are actually major, such as these two. Therefore, I think any edits marked as minor with a major byte size should be added then culled. Some minor edits are fine like this one. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 05:10, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Added. (Groan.) MER-C 12:10, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

Featured picture scheduled for POTD

Hi MER-C,

This is to let you know that File:Garlic bulbs and cloves.jpg, a featured picture you nominated, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for January 23, 2025. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2025-01-23. If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! Jay8g [V•T•E] 07:50, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Garlic (Allium sativum) is a species of bulbous flowering plants in the genus Allium. Its close relatives include the onion, shallot, leek, chives, Welsh onion, and Chinese onion. It is native to Central Asia, South Asia, and northeastern Iran. It has long been used as a seasoning and culinary ingredient worldwide, with a history of several thousand years of human consumption and use, including use in traditional medicine. It was known to ancient Egyptians and other ancient cultures for which its consumption has had a significant culinary cultural impact, especially across the Mediterranean region and across parts of Asia. It is produced globally, but the largest producer is China, which produced 73% of the world's supply of garlic in 2021. This photograph shows a bulb and cloves of garlic, and was focus-stacked from 37 individual images.

Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Macrodactyla doreensis

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Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Manannan51 expansion request

Contributor Pblocked from article and draftspace yesterday per ANI report[1]. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 03:11, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

Grumble, grumble. Done. MER-C 11:18, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

G5 Deletion of Page – SIPUR

Hey MER-C, Hope you're doing well!

I'm reaching out regarding a page that you deleted a few months ago, for SIPUR, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SIPUR&action=edit&redlink=1.

I'm writing as a representative of the company and wanted to check if it might be possible to recreate or undelete the page – we feel that there was definite general value to the existence of the page for discovery of multiple films/television series and individuals, and all the information was sourced from and referenced to legitimate notable publications.

Let me know what you think and if there's anything we can do to help out here! If there was some guideline or rule that was violated without our knowledge, please let me know and we'll make sure it doesn't happen again.

Best, Ron.auerbach (talk) 08:37, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

The creator of the article is a sockpuppet of a banned spammer. Wikipedia's readers expect content that is written independent of the subject. If someone believes your company is worthy of being included on its own merits, it will be covered eventually. Covert advertising does not have any value for our readers. MER-C 11:38, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Philip de László - Princess Elizabeth of York - 1933.jpg

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Riyadh

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