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Revised draft for Draft:Yang Jung-won

Hello @Grapesurgeon:

Thank you for taking the time to review my draft and appreciate your inputs. I have updated the draft to address the sourcing issues you mentioned and resubmitted it. I'd love your feedback if you have the time!

Wndw2thewrld (talk) 20:04, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

Your Articles for Creation review on Yoo Ji-ae

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A barnstar for you!

	The Civility Barnstar
	You did absolutely hand my ass to me in the drive lol, heres your prize for winning the mini competition Froglord (Finnfrog99) (talk) 16:40, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

☺️ thank you, I am known for being very civil so I'm glad you acknowledged that grapesurgeon (talk) 17:35, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

Draft:Novympia - AfC review question

Hi Grapesurgeon. Thank you for reviewing [[Draft:Novympia]] and for the additional sourcing comment. I have a disclosed conflict of interest with the subject and want to avoid repeatedly resubmitting the draft without resolving the issue. Could you clarify whether you considered the NewNowNext and bigFM articles to constitute significant independent coverage of the subject, or whether you regard those as insufficient/passing coverage as well? I had understood those two in particular to be the strongest sources for establishing notability, so knowing how you assess them would help me understand whether further improvement is realistically possible. I won’t resubmit again unless the sourcing issue can actually be addressed. Thanks. Aza123neon (talk) 17:55, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

Oh I didn't realize you were one of the members; thank you for disclosing that and being patient with us.

Being honest, the NewNowNext and bigFM pieces imo feel like churnalism; they're just a couple of lines of text and reporting on what's going on in social media. If you look at Wikipedia's reliable sources cheatsheet, we normally frown on sources that do those kinds of things. Granted, that cheatsheet has degrees of flexibility, but in this case I think those are cut and dry weak sources for proving notability.

If you have a hard time finding stronger sourcing, I think honestly it may be tough to get the article approved. grapesurgeon (talk) 18:41, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

Thank you so much for explaining, I really appreciate your time. Aza123neon (talk) 19:12, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

Sungjeonggiwon

@Grapesurgeon I have been working on a draft on Sungjeonggiwon, and since you specialize in Korean history and related fields, I would greatly appreciate it if you could take a look and provide your feedback. Min968 (talk) 13:48, 7 September 2026 (UTC)

Randy Kryn at AN/I

Hello! I have posted some thoughts at the AN/I thread. I am concerned that your aggressive advocacy may be skewing the conversation, and seems to be approaching WP:Bludgeoning the conversation. While my opinion differs from yours, I would like to see this reach fruition and for a real consensus to arise, even if it is not the way I would personally like it to go. I wanted to write here as well in the spirit of collegial discussion, as I do not want to be aggressive or otherwise unkind. Hiobazard (talk/contribs) 15:12, 7 September 2026 (UTC)

Hello, I'm happy to step back a bit more in that discussion. Thanks for trying to be collegial about this. grapesurgeon (talk) 15:22, 7 September 2026 (UTC)

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Work on Thomas Massie

Hey there Grapesurgeon! I noticed that you recently edited the Wikipedia page designated as Thomas Massie. In your edits, you removed a video of Massie addressing the house naming various Epstein co-conspirators. This was an addition made by myself. I would prefer it if you would address the reasoning for the removal of the video and the removal of various other images, such as his former congressional portrait, an image of him speaking, and others. Until then, I will be inserting the video once again. Thank you. Dr. Jerome (talk) 23:47, 12 September 2026 (UTC)

@Dr. Jerome I didn't make those edits; check the history again. grapesurgeon (talk) 23:54, 12 September 2026 (UTC)

I apologize, after further searching, I realize that these edits were not in fact made by you, but instead the user who edited your revisions, CMBGAMER 2018. Once again, I apologize. Dr. Jerome (talk) 00:02, 13 September 2026 (UTC)

I did that to clean up the page. Don't want too many files on a page CMBGAMER 2018 (talk) 19:24, 13 September 2026 (UTC)

Pŏp of Paekche

Hi. Why rename this when all the other kings of Baekje are named according to the revised romanization? This makes the whole thing utterly confusing to readers and inconsistent for an encyclopedia. Either have all kings according to RR OR MR, but don't randomly use the romanization system. Xia ^{talk to me} 12:25, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

WP:KOREANNAME is the reason. I was in the midst of having most pages about Korean history moved to MR. However I'm regretting that; I'm considering having Wikipedia policy push to deprioritize MR and move to RR, as that's become more common among the general public

RR was set on Wikipedia arbitrarily long before it ever became common, way back in like 2002. I think this had massive global influence in making RR more popular among the general public. But I think it was probably against site-level Wikipedia policy even at the time; less popular system for romanization. grapesurgeon (talk) 12:27, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

See also: User talk:CountHacker#Weighing push to RR for historical topics ~2026-49702-76 (talk) 15:21, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

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August 2026 AfC backlog drive barnstars

		The Articles for Creation Barnstar
		This is awarded to Grapesurgeon for accumulating more than 338 points during the August 2026 AfC backlog drive. Thank you for sharing your time, knowledge and dedication; together, we reviewed over 12,700 drafts during the drive and brought the 3+ month backlog down to just a single week, which we couldn't have done it without you. Tenshi! (Talk page) 22:52, 15 September 2026 (UTC)

And persuant to your request...

		Brownie
		This is awarded to Grapesurgeon for accumulating more than 338 points during the August 2026 AfC backlog drive. Thank you for sharing your time, knowledge and dedication; together, we reviewed over 12,700 drafts during the drive and brought the 3+ month backlog down to just a single week, which we couldn't have done it without you. Tenshi! (Talk page) 22:52, 15 September 2026 (UTC)

Thank you ☺️ grapesurgeon (talk) 22:53, 15 September 2026 (UTC)

Revised Draft for Draft:2026 National Premier Leagues Men's

Hi grapesurgeon. I have resubmitted the draft, with more comprehensive edits and referencing to all major sections. It is more or less as 'complete' as the equivalent articles from the previous few seasons, although it will eventually require some additional articles to be made (e.g. 2026 Football West season, in order to further improve by setting up transclusions. Are you able to cast your eye over this and comment please? Matilda ^talk 08:51, 20 September 2026 (UTC)