Hello, GommehGaming101, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
Hi GommehGaming101, I've noticed you around quite a bit and wanted to say you are doing a great job, thank you.
Keep you eye out on the talk page warning levels, I've noticed a few times that you have issued the same level warning that another editor has already issued. Hope this helps and keep up the GREAT work. Knitsey (talk) 13:49, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ha, I get into a lot of edit clashes. I sometimes hit revert, then I post the warning, only to find someone got there a second before I did on the revert. It doesn't matter, as long as the job is done. Knitsey (talk) 13:54, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I usually let them witter away for a bit on the talk page. Although, if they start with the serious insults, I might ask the blocking admin to yank talk page access. I NEVER respond to them, I just revert. They seem to love it when they get a response, so I usually just leave them. Knitsey (talk) 14:06, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think they seem to love it when they get a warning. If I give them a helpful/friendly response with links to the policies I don't think they'll enjoy it as much Gommeh (t/c)14:07, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
You removed my edit on his page about Sousa Mendes because I didn't add a source. This is wrong because it's a simple edit and the page of Aristides de Sousa Mendes also says "thousands" instead of 30000. Benji1207 (talk) 18:49, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I removed your edits because they did not cite a reliable source. The edits were in violation of Wikipedia guidelines - #1, sources should not be cited in the edit summary but rather in the articles themselves, and #2, Wikipedia articles should not be used as sources per WP:CIRCULAR. Please see WP:RSP for a list of reliable sources. Gommeh(pls talk to me i need friends)18:51, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for treating the MFD with good grace; it sucks to have something you wrote deleted (it's happened to me too). Since you asked at the MFD...
Thanks for providing the link to me. Problem is, I asked for people's opinions on this article at least a handful of times (can't find the links). Anyone have any idea why this issue is only being brought up now? And where would I go to ask for help/collaboration on writing a humor article in the future?
On the first question - how to put this nicely. In general, getting people's help even for "core" Encyclopedia stuff like finding sources, copyediting, etc. is tricky. Wikipedia is a volunteer site. Nobody's beholden to anyone; if they provide support, it's because they enjoy helping people. But asking for help on humor is... not likely to get bites. Not that many people will consider this a worthwhile way to spend their time, and those that are may not be eager to help you. Humor, like art, is also intensely personal. A good art teacher won't try to force all their students to paint exactly like them; there are tons of styles that work, and it's more holistic feedback of "this result was good" and "this result was bad" that can be provided, but micromanaging the way to get there is hard. Same with comedy. People can't fix your jokes for you, they can just tell you what worked and what bombed.
In the specific case of that essay, the problem was something like - go read the subreddit Your Joke But Worse. In the age of social media, some people can't help themselves but pile on and retell the same joke over and over despite the original being right there. That's fine in real life where kids on the bus or coworkers at the bar share cool jokes they've heard without retelling the previous one, but the result is, uh, "cringe" on the Internet. You did Your Joke But Worse on Wikipedia:Please bite the newbies, just escalating it in a way that is actually less funny. Biting newbies is inherently silly (and accurate to the real essay Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers). Murdering newbies is not funny and sounds more twisted. Like, if a joke involves rating something zero out of a million, it doesn't become funny to say it's actually negative infinity out of a million.
As for why it was brought up? Beats me. Usually it's when someone actually notices. The Wikipedia space has a lot of Wild West bad content that goes unnoticed, so it's random when it does get noticed. The usual way it does get noticed is when the essay creator or someone else adds some links to it, others see the additions on their watchlist, and they look at the link and say "this is kinda crap."
More generally, I'd say to take it slow with trying to write humor. If you do write humor, keep it to userspace and try testing it out on real-life friends first. Good humor is often about expressing some true fact that others haven't noticed in a cutting way. Maybe after you get some more experience, you'll have such insights that are worth making some laughs on. SnowFire (talk) 05:51, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Gommeh. After reviewing your request, I have enabledrollback on your account. Please keep the following things in mind while using rollback:
Being granted rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle or Ultraviolet. It just adds a [rollback] button next to a page's latest live revision. It does not grant you any additional "status" on Wikipedia, nor does it change how Wikipedia policies apply to you.
Rollback should be used to revert clear and unambiguous cases of vandalism only. Never use rollback to revert good faith edits. For more information about when rollback is appropriate, see Wikipedia:Rollback § When to use rollback.
Rollback should never be used to edit war, and it should never be used in a content-related dispute to restore the page to your preferred revision. If rollback is abused or used for this purpose or any other inappropriate purpose, the rights will be revoked.
Use common sense. If you're not sure about something, ask!
If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into trouble or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! ~Loftyabyss19:46, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This isn't a warning or anything and I made the same mistake, but your reverts at National Public School, Banashankari were restoring vandalism and BLP violations. We all need to make sure that we're checking what we're restoring without just seeing a chunk of text being removed and assuming it was disruptive. Thanks for your work fighting vandalism. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 14:59, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Got it - the IP should have said so in their edit summary if that's what they were doing though, because to me that looked like an unexplained content removal which is in itself vandalism/disruptive editing. Gommeh➡️Talk to me15:04, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think this was a situation where someone who wasn't an editor, likely a school staff member, saw the vandalism and didn't know about edit summaries or anything. I agree an edit summary would have been good, and like I said, I made the same mistake. We all make mistakes, and we can all improve. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 15:10, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah. The article isn't a BLP either and I thought the "disgrace" that was added in quotes next to the name Grace could be a nickname the person uses as well. I see a few other editors were thrown off by this as well so your reasoning makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the heads up! Gommeh➡️Talk to me15:16, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I don't mean to butt in, but I think if you proceed with the RfA then it's likely to be a point of concern that Gommeh has fewer than 5,000 edits, and has been nominated by an editor with barely 2K edits of their own. While there's no prohibition against nominating anyone with at least 500 edits, I think many of the RfA regulars are likely going to be skeptical that Gommeh is ready for adminship when they don't have more experience.
By all means, you're welcome to proceed regardless; I just had a bruising experience at RfA myself once upon a time, and wanted to sound a cautionary tone rather than risk seeing another editor go through a similar experience to my own. Best wishes! DonIago (talk) 16:19, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Faster than Thunder Please don't open another RFA for someone else like this - it's not how it works, and Floquenbeam already pointed that out to you on your talk page. For context Gommeh - FTT opened an RFA yesterday for someone else while making it clear they don't know how RFA works - I'd recommend not going down this route as it'll likely be a big headache (RFA is not a friendly place!) BugGhost🦗👻16:21, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Personally I think you shouldn't nominate anyone at all until you have a strong grasp on how WP:RFA works. Your heart is in the right place by telling people that they would be good admins, but RFA's are difficult week-long events that take a lot of planning and can cause a lot of stress. I recommend holding back on nominating anyone for now (but obviously feel free to keep complimenting editors you think are doing a good job!) BugGhost🦗👻16:29, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Admittedly I also had no idea how the process worked and was just about to go do some research on it. I have no problem with people nominating me for adminship if they think I've made good contributions to the site, even if the chances are slim. I never asked FTT to do that and they took the initiative, not me. Worst thing people can say is no, after all.
But if people don't think the RFA should be submitted at this time then I don't think it should be either. It can always be done again later. Gommeh➡️Talk to me17:23, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Understood. Thank you @Faster than Thunder but I really don't think I'm ready for adminship now, but I (admittedly, slightly selfishly) think I'm on the right track to becoming one in the future. I just received rollback rights yesterday, which I think is enough of an indication that I'm doing the right thing. I have no plans to stop my efforts to undo harmful editing on Wikipedia any time soon. Your heart is in the right place though. Gommeh➡️Talk to me17:39, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
