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Where's the bot gone?

Last edit 31 March! Secretlondon (talk) 01:27, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've left a note on AmandaNPs talk page. Nobody (talk) 05:17, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's gone again :( Secretlondon (talk) 21:22, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Would probably make sense to set up the task for the Bot activity monitor, so AmandaNP get's notified automatically when it stopps. Nobody (talk) 05:20, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

How to create a username?

how do I make up this username?? 49.197.239.160 (talk) 13:16, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please read Wikipedia:Username policy#Guidance for new users and the following section on lnappropriate usernames. - Donald Albury 15:07, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

QuantumComputingMedia

I am on the fence with this one, QuantumComputingMedia. The name comes across to me as a group to me but on their user page they do make a paid declaration and state the "account is managed by a representative from Atom Computing Inc". If it were QuantumComputingMediaRep I would fine but maybe that's nitpicky. S0091 (talk) 17:19, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Response to Cabayi

@Cabayi: Regarding Special:Diff/1303135854, it is quite common for shared role account to go dormant but the login kept by the organization/company and to be brought back to life when the company wants to change contents on the page. Over time, I've seen this many times. What this prevents is send a clear message that company curating their own page isn't allowed. Graywalls (talk) 16:16, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]