Wikiversity:Request custodian action/Archives/2025

Bad translations

It seems that User:TG-article is doing a rather bad job at translating things. There are two pages they have fully translated. Wikiversity:Secondary research/pdc is meant to be written in Pennsylvania Dutch, instead it's a carbon copy of the Standard German version. And Wikiversity:Language select/it seems to be a machine translation of the Spanish version (given it uses idioma in place of lingua for "language"). The rest of their "translations" are limited to translating some headings. I think these "contributions" should be deleted. Besides, the user is already banned on several wikis; clearly, some sanctions are due here as well. Pinging @ꠢꠣꠍꠘ ꠞꠣꠎꠣ, Sotiale: AtUkr (talk) 21:07, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@ꠢꠣꠍꠘ ꠞꠣꠎꠣ: thank you. Please delete their "translations" too. Meta-Wiki had the same issue, and they've already nuked those. AtUkr (talk) 22:10, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Temporarily blocked the user from pages in the Wikiversity namespace. Currently, I am not a translation administrator. For the remaining actions, we will need to wait for a translation administrator. --

(talk) 22:12, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies, I didn't realise only translation admins could do this. Asked Minorax on Meta. AtUkr (talk) 22:21, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It appears that there are no active Translation administrators on this platform. As per the guidelines, I will designate myself as a translation administrator and proceed to clear the queue. --

(talk) 21:08, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done

(talk) 21:46, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiversity:Nospam

Old maintenance page that is no longer needed. Unfortunately it's protected so I can't place a template. Please delete it together with the subpage. AtUkr (talk) 23:19, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done. --Sotiale (talk) 15:05, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiversity:Protected against recreation

Same as above. AtUkr (talk) 23:36, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done. --Sotiale (talk) 15:06, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Old experimental templates

Very obvious candidates for deletion. Please get rid of them, as well as their subpages and User:Countrymike/Beach. AtUkr (talk) 00:18, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Additions:

AtUkr (talk) 00:21, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done. --Sotiale (talk) 15:12, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Vandal

Ufukgöçmensartmahmut (Talk | Email | Contribs | SulUtil)

Block the user, nuke the content. @Sotiale, @ꠢꠣꠍꠘ ꠞꠣꠎꠣ. AtUkr (talk) 18:25, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done --

(talk) 22:59, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Promotion account

Binoy raba (Talk | Email | Contribs | SulUtil)

This account has been promoting some Indian footballer, see Mahroos siddiquee Nadim.

@ꠢꠣꠍꠘ ꠞꠣꠎꠣ please block offenders indefinitely, or at least for longer than 1 day.

AtUkr (talk) 07:58, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done --

(talk) 23:28, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Update to Template:Main page

Hello! Serbian and Croatian main pages were recently translated and unified under Serbo-Croatian. This is done in accordance with the comments within the Language Committee (mailing list). According to modern linguistic science, Serbo-Croatian is considered a pluricentric language with four mutually intelligible standard varieties. There is no reason to separate these standard varieties when it comes to content, and, in line with the new Language proposal policy, separate variants will not be approved. Therefore, the links listed below (currently redirects) should be removed.

First link:

<!-- hr -->[[Glavna stranica|{{#language:hr}}]] |

Second link:

<!-- sr -->[[Главна страна|{{#language:sr}}]] |

Thank you in advance, Aca (talk) 23:55, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done by AtUkr. Дякую! :) – Aca (talk) 21:20, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Aca: note that the Serbo-Croatian project's main page is currently a translation of betaWV's main page. That's not what it should be. Main Page/sh is where the translation should be, and Glavna stranica is supposed to be the main page of the future separate project's website. For example, in Ukrainian there's Main Page/uk and Головна сторінка. AtUkr (talk) 04:25, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@AtUkr Agreed. I just removed translated material mostly related to Wikiversity Beta. – Aca (talk) 10:26, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Unused States of Wikiversities pages

Heyo, another batch of pages for deletion.

AtUkr (talk) 01:18, 21 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@ꠢꠣꠍꠘ ꠞꠣꠎꠣ thank you, but what about the rest of the pages? They're just as unused. AtUkr (talk) 18:50, 21 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for the follow up. I’ve deleted the pages that clearly met the criteria under the deletion policy. However, some of the remaining pages or templates are still linked from other pages (see here) and may require further review.--

(talk) 09:04, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There are only three pages which have links to them from pages other than this one: the footer has a redirect to it which is also not used anywhere and should be deleted, and the two remaining templates on the list are transcluded in the "Historical record/2" page and nowhere else, so they can also be safely deleted. AtUkr (talk) 00:38, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]