User talk:ShadowBallX

RfA

Congratulations on your successful RfA! Please take this time to re-familiarise yourself with the relevant policies, and let anyone of us know if you have any questions.

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Chenzw  Talk  15:43, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Congratulations and welcome to the team!! Ternera (talk) 15:55, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Congrats on your RfA! Wishing you all the best moving forward! Saroj (talk) 17:01, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! ShadowBallX (talk) 17:56, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Hello, congrats on the status change, I hope you like your new role. To be able to add you to the admin mailing list, I need you to send me a mail; I will then use that mail address to add to the malilng list. Eptalon (talk) 07:16, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, ShadowBallX. You have new messages at Esteban McKeever's talk page.
Message added 21:02, 13 December 2025 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

You have to redo and recreate "Anime-influenced animation" article again, thanks for continue vandalizing to the user, User:Passengerpigeon. There goes our warning. Esteban McKeever (talk) 21:02, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!

⯎ Asteralee ⯎ is hoping you have a very happy holiday! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a happy holiday, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy New Year, ShadowBallX! Asteralee's note: Also, congratulations on your successful admin request (although it's extremely late now)!

Spread the cheer by adding {{subst:Happy holidays}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

⯎ Asteralee ⯎ 20:50, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! ShadowBallX (talk) 21:19, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

Happy holidays!

Hello ShadowBallX: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it is occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 20:00, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

Thank you! ShadowBallX (talk) 22:12, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

Warning for vandalism

Please warn Cypriot37484 (talk · contribs · count) for vandalism. That user has been changing random words to "Muslims". ~2025-42200-39 (talk) 22:27, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

 Done Thanks for the heads up. ShadowBallX (talk) 22:36, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

Vandal

Can you block Salaksks please? PieWriter (talk) 03:52, 28 December 2025 (UTC)

 Done. ShadowBallX (talk) 03:53, 28 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you PieWriter (talk) 03:54, 28 December 2025 (UTC)

@ShadowBallX I also wanted to ask why there is Lua error on some talk pages, like Talk:Blinkit etc. PieWriter (talk) 04:03, 28 December 2025 (UTC)

Simple English

sorry, got carried away lol.

I'd say AKA is a pretty common abbreviation, no?

I don't really care about that tho, this is the main thing:

Shouldn't the first sentence contextualize the topic?

I personally know nothing about the second biggest stadium in Manchester but I'm sure everybody in Manchester knows that Ethiad (or whatever) is the second largest stadium in Manchester. I don't how to write that sentence in Basic English (British) but I think its good to point out early that Manchester City Stadium is or isn't the largest stadium in manchester. You know, manchester? The city in England? That one. JonThomBen (talk) 00:59, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Per MOS:ABBR, Do not assume that your reader knows the acronym or abbreviation you are using. As for your other point, while it would potentially be good to point out, the opening already mentions how it's the sixth largest stadium in the Premier League and the eleventh largest in the United Kingdom. ShadowBallX (talk) 05:03, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Why does your name sound like something PeterTheil would make up

same JonThomBen (talk) 01:07, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

I genuinely had to look up who this even was. And to answer... I honestly have no idea. ShadowBallX (talk) 05:08, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Airline spammer

Hi, would you mind blocking this user?

• Adwewdq (talk • contribs • CA • deleted contribs • nuke contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log)

It's an airline spammer who's been creating many accounts for months. They usually create articles with contact information for airlines in various languages. canadachick (talk) 20:27, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

VGA promoted

I have closed your proposal as successful. I feel the article is well-written and you did hard work. Congratulations for promoting the article to VGA! Raayaan9911 21:43, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Thank you! ShadowBallX (talk) 07:11, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

You're welcome! Raayaan9911 10:38, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

Help

How do I upload files? Darrrrmilk (talk) 23:53, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

Per our image use policy, you're not supposed to upload images directly to Simple English. Instead, you'd have to upload it through Wikimedia Commons first. ShadowBallX (talk) 00:41, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

Notice

~2026-18812-32 (talk) 05:09, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

Deleted, thanks for the heads up! ShadowBallX (talk) 05:18, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

Deletion of Octophobia

Hello, you deleted Octophobia as A1. The article had already been brought up at RFD, Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2026/Octophobia, so I don't think this was right. I can't go back and look, but I remember the article having meaning. Would you restore the page so the RFD discussion can continue? Garsh (talk) 20:16, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

Ah, completely missed the RfD template when I deleted it. Just restored it. ShadowBallX (talk) 20:29, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

Game coverage

I had a question here and wondered if you had any input to give, since I'm supportive of video game coverage (being a gamer myself) and wondered about the fine compromise between that and a traditional encyclopedic resource is, as I notice some things may go on here unnoticed for a long time whilst being immediately removed from Wikipedia where there's stricter and less arbitrary notability guidelines. 2005-Fan (talk) 01:57, 17 April 2026 (UTC)

Protect the article

Hello @ShadowBallX Please protect the article List of programs broadcast by Cartoon Network Arabic, MBC 1, MBC Group, MBC Action, MBC Drama, List of programs broadcast by MBC 1, MBC 3, etc. ~2026-27656-48 (talk) 19:40, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

Pillar of the Word

I think you have the wrong conclusion about who this user is a sock of. To me, they're clearly part of the Bautista sock family. See the history at Bea Millan - Windorski, for example. Compare this change summary with this one. This is also not the first time one of the socks targeted Ieditandyes in some way. Having "spent some time" with both users/socks, I have to disagree with the conclusion here. Is there other evidence I'm not seeing? CountryANDWestern (talk) 10:05, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

I was just about to come over and say the same thing - I posted originally to say I thought they were the same person thanks to a retired template, but I had second thoughts and undid my edit so I could double check things.

I saw their appeal was declined and presumed they were linked after all, but it looks like Pillar of the World was sending them out to random editors around the same time as Ieditsandyes. Check out these edits from around the same time:

I'm not sure whether their appeal should be accepted, but I think it might have been declined for the wrong reason. Blue-Sonnet (talk) 10:51, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

Just woke up maybe 45 minutes ago, so am only just getting to this now. I've gone over everything again, and honestly looking at it a second time, yeah I think I did mess up with my conclusion last night. I've retracted the unblock denial from their talk page, and am requesting another admin handle the unblock request. ShadowBallX (talk) 18:53, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

Great, thank you! I'm really sorry for any confusion that I caused by my first post Blue-Sonnet (talk) 19:41, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

Blocking

Hi, ShadowBallX. When you block a user, as you did with 441dots, please consider leaving a block message on their talk page. That message gives them information they might need to appeal the block. Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 21:31, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

June 2026

Hi @ShadowBallX Do you have article protection on the Simple English Wikipedia or no? ~2026-34497-51 (talk) 21:58, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

If you need an article protecting ask on WP:AN fr33kman 22:09, 20 June 2026 (UTC)