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Hello, my guess is you won't see this since you haven't been active for awhile, but I am notifying you anyways. I 2007/8, you made edits to Gifted Education Programme (Singapore) that appear to be identical to a published article. I made note of it on the Talk page, too.It is possible that either you were copying the article or it was copying you, so if you do happen to see this, clarification would be appreciated. In the meantime, I've blanked the relevant section out of an abundance of caution.

Thanks for your message - I replied on the article talk page! aoxiang翱翔^(user)(talk) 01:09, 2 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I really appreciate your quick response, thanks so much. Given your willingness to clear things up even after a period of inactivity, it seems very reasonable to assume good faith. Thank you for not taking it personally, and I apologize for the mistake! WhinyTheYounger (talk) 03:56, 2 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! WhinyTheYounger (talk) 00:21, 2 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks, Simonm223 (talk) 17:35, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On 5 July 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Zelensky Effect, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was that the authors of The Zelensky Effect analysed material from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's entertainment career in the context of the development of civic national identity in Ukraine? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Zelensky Effect. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, The Zelensky Effect), 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.

Schwede66 03:54, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! :) Helpful Cat🐈(talk) 05:05, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can you fix this map File:Control of Oblasts of Ukraine.png? The current captions here are implying that only the dark blue area is "real" Ukraine and the rest are not Ukraine but only "under Ukrainian control" as if Ukraine was an occupier of non-Ukrainian land despite the fact that the land in the other colors except for red is part of Ukraine under international law. If you can, can you fix it to better captions such as for dark orange be labeled something else, perhaps "under complete Russian occupation" or something? Most importantly, the blue needs to be labeled in a way that it is clear that the Ukrainian territory is not just the blue area. You're a lot better at being concise than me so whatever you can do would be great. Thank you!--CitationAuditor (talk) 16:04, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I don't have graphic design skills, but my sister does and is willing to help. However, my sister says that it is very difficult to change the text on top of the map (particularly the bottom part of the legend, which is on top of many small islands). I think the best way may be to contact the uploader and ask for the original layered version, which would let us modify the text freely.

I definitely think these labels should be changed - I think the biggest issue (as you point out) is that all of Russia is labelled as "Russia" (the red area), but only unoccupied parts of Ukraine are labelled as "Ukraine" (the blue area), implying that areas of Ukraine under partial or full Russian occupation are in some sort of limbo rather than being part of Ukraine. What would you think about these labels instead?

• Russia
• Ukrainian territory fully occupied by Russia
• Ukrainian territory almost fully occupied by Russia
• Ukrainian territory mostly occupied by Russia
• Ukrainian territory almost fully controlled by Ukraine
• Ukrainian territory fully controlled by Ukraine

It looks like this map isn't currently used in any articles, so this at least isn't too urgent, I think. Also, since this map is from February 2024, we might want to make sure it's still up-to-date before using it as the base for any revisions.

Thanks! :) Helpful Cat {talk} 17:23, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Those labels sound great!--CitationAuditor (talk) 17:38, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Let me know if you manage to get the original layered version from the uploader. Alternatively, my sister suggested that we could crop out most of where the legend currently is (since the grey parts are not relevant to the war anyway), and put the legend over Russia instead (since it's a large solid-colour area). That might still result in some sea borders in the grey region getting skewed by a pixel or so, but should mostly sidestep the difficulty of modifying the legend while it's on top of the map. Helpful Cat {talk} 18:21, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think there is much point in asking for the original from the uploader because they are inactive and the map is their only upload. I would assume though that they got the template from one of the svg maps of europe on Commons, so maybe your sister could use one of those as a template?--CitationAuditor (talk) 18:23, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That's an idea too. My sister says cropping out the original legend and placing a new one elsewhere would be easier than tracing the borders of each region onto a blank map. I'll let you know once there's an update! Helpful Cat {talk} 16:43, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

See here: File:Control of Oblasts of Ukraine (updated labels).png. I hope this works! Helpful Cat {talk} 17:51, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wonderful! The labels are so much better. I do think that pink was an interesting color choice for the key, but it's not material to the information. I've nominated the bad map for deletion and pointed to the map you uploaded as the proper replacement.--CitationAuditor (talk) 23:10, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That's great! Thanks! :) Helpful Cat {talk} 04:18, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]