Nightscream

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Belief in God and credulity

Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything. — C. S. Lewis ~2026-97769 (talk) 19:17, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

@~2026-97769: Untrue. There is no correlation between degree of credulity and belief in God or lackthereof. You can easily find people who "will believe anything" among both the most die-hard religionists, and the most die-hard atheists and agnostics. As an adherant of scientific skepticism, I certainly do not "believe anything." I give credence to ideas for which there are robust evidence and reason-based arguments, and which can survive the scrutiny of critical analysis.

But in any event, what does your message pertain to? Does this pertain to some article you or I have worked on? Nightscream (talk) 20:51, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

CS1 error on Red-light district

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I do not see any date error when I look at the diff of the edit, so perhaps whoever programmed this bot should consider doing so in a way that highlights or describes the error in question. Nightscream (talk) 02:13, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

Jubilant Sykes and section headings

story · music · places

Thank you for expanding and fixing Jubilant Sykes. I don't know what you mean about section headers by "consistency with other biographical headers, - there is little consistency across Wikipedia, and I know many biographies with level 2 headers for life, work and others, and level 3 headers within those major sections, such as Mozart. Why change such things? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:45, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: You're welcome. And thank you for the kind message. As to your question, there is certainly not total consistency across all categories of articles, but that's not to say that there isn't some modicum of consistency within certain categories, such as biographical articles of modern entertainers. Those typically separate Early life, Career, and Personal life sections. You can see this by looking any number of the Featured articles in the Media biographies section of the FA list. Nightscream (talk) 23:13, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

Thank you and understand. I come from opera (Jessye Norman), and he did both. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:27, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: I'm sorry, I'm not following. Nightscream (talk) 23:48, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

I tried to explain that I see more opera singer articles, which look like Jessye Norman (as an example for what I tried to describe in my comment). He did both, opera and "entertainment", so it takes a decision to be consistent with one format or the other. Both seem valid, and I see no reason to switch from one to the other. Can you follow? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:53, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Oh, okay, I get it now. Thanks. :-) Nightscream (talk) 01:15, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (TV series) edit

I felt that was too much. It for instance lost why Caleb stayed behind, making it seem it was simply something he wanted to do rather than begging for it and being allowed.Doug Weller talk 18:41, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

@Doug Weller: The passage does not "imply" anything about why he stayed on campus one way or another, though a reader could certainly infer that he did so because he chose to. Whether he begged for it and had his request granted is not needed for a reader's understanding of the plot, which is what these capsule-sized reviews are for. Even in an article dedicated to the episode, it would not be necessary to specify this, beyond simply mentioning that he requested it. Far more relevant are characters' thoughts, motivations, conflicts, etc., like the fact that he is worried about Tarima, and is reluctant to compose a message to her. To be fair, I did omit that bit, which would illustrate how the fact that he eventually does so serves as the payoff, so I just added that setup now. Hope that helps. Nightscream (talk) 21:16, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

Jim McCann

Hi Nightscream. Thank you for your work on Jim McCann. Another editor, Mariamnei, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

Thank you for your work on this article. Please establish notability as per WP:NSPORT. Thanks and have a great day!

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|Mariamnei}}. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

Mariamnei (talk) 13:25, 23 February 2026 (UTC)

@Mariamnei: Thanks, but I have no interest in that article's topic, or in establishing notability for it, as my only involvement with it was to disambiguate it from Jim McCann (writer). Nightscream (talk) 17:11, 23 February 2026 (UTC)

Ok, I will nominate it for deletion. Have a great day! Mariamnei (talk) 06:36, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

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Mariamnei (talk) 06:37, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

"Topps Appliance City" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Hypocrisy regarding accusation of edit warring

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@Polygnotus: Please explain how you yourself are not guilty of this. Nightscream (talk) 14:04, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Because I didn't editwar? Did you really need to have that explained to you? See also WP:TALKHEADPOV.

And you haven't answered here.

Please read WP:EDITWAR. Thanks, Polygnotus (talk) 14:18, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

I have. You should try it yourself, since you're the one who tried to strong-arm the split, even after another editor made it clear to you that he was against this. 20:24, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

Are you OK? Polygnotus (talk) 16:33, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

Yes. Are you? Nightscream (talk) 17:24, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

WP:CANVAS is satisfied

Thread retitled from Potential canvassing.

Please be careful when sending a large amount of notifications to user talk pages soliciting input for the discussion at Talk:List of suicides, because it could be seen as canvassing. Thanks. SuperPianoMan9167 (talk) 03:46, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

@SuperPianoMan9167: It cannot, because I adhered to all four criteria specified at WP:CANVASS. But tell me, which of those four standard do you think it "could be seen as' violating? Nightscream (talk) 04:12, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

Just checking. I apologize for the inconvenience. My main concern is that it's not immediately clear what connection to the article each editor you notified has, which would violate the first point's prohibition against notifying users with no significant connection to the topic at hand. I would make sure to indicate why you chose to notify those specific editors (expertise, contributors to the article, etc.) SuperPianoMan9167 (talk) 05:20, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

@SuperPianoMan9167: If it was not immediately clear, then why didn't you just ask me? Nightscream (talk) 17:31, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

Yeah, I could have worded my initial message in a better way. I'm sorry. SuperPianoMan9167 (talk) 18:40, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

@SuperPianoMan9167: No worries. But in case you wanted to know, I went through the page of most recent editors to have worked on the article in its page history, and just selected those. I did not contact anonymous IP editors, nor any account whose username was displayed in red. I think I then went to the next page after that, and selected one or two more editors. It then occurred to me to look at who the most frequent contributors to the article have been, using that edit count page I posted in the discussion, and contacted one or two more. The only editors I contacted that I recall interacting prior to this were (and I'm going off memory here) are User:ExRat, User:Gavia immer, and I think User:Neozoen and User:Davidgoodheart. I have no idea how they would "vote" in the discussion, and Gavia immer and I actually had a conflict when we last interacted, since I wanted each entry in the list to have citations, and remove those that did not, and as I recall, he opposed this. So there was no attempt on my part to steer the discussion through select contacts. Nightscream (talk) 20:22, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation! SuperPianoMan9167 (talk) 21:11, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Talk:List of suicides/unsourced list

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"AntiSemite" listed at Redirects for discussion

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