Happy First Edit Anniversary Fabrickator 🎉

Hey @Fabrickator. Your wiki edit anniversary is today, marking 17 years of dedicated contributions to English Wikipedia. Your passion for sharing knowledge and your remarkable contributions have not only enriched the project, but also inspired countless others to contribute. Thank you for your amazing contributions. Wishing you many more wonderful years ahead in the Wiki journey and a blessed New Year. 🙂 -❙❚❚❙❙ GnOeee ❚❙❚❙❙ ✉ 15:24, 6 January 2026 (UTC)

Three-strike law edit: not link spam

Hello,

I just wanted to contact you about your feb 24 edit on https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Three-strikes_law. You reverted my edit for link spam. I wanted to ask, what indicated this? I made the edit in good faith to inform readers about updated Calif. Law. No affiliation with legalclarity.

Sincerely, Ethan Ethan.764 (talk) 04:06, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

@Ethan.764: The domain "legalclarity.org" was associated with link spam. If you did not intend it as link spam, then you simply happened across a website that was in fact being used for link spam. Trust me, there are a variety of reliable sources discussing the changes in the updated California three strikes law. You shouldn't have a problem finding a reliable source to support the applicable claims. Fabrickator (talk) 05:09, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Tense Question

The "was"/"is" question in leads is becoming a problem that probably needs ventilating and addressing by a broader group of editors. Historically, most articles used "was." Many of the top articles still do, such as Marbury and Bush v. Gore. This is a sensible practice. Supreme Court decisions are events that occurred at a specific time in the past. Articles are about decisions as historical events, not about the continuing doctrines they represent. Linking the choice of tense to overruling status is asking for trouble. Most editors do not have a law degree. The precedential status of any given decision can change over time. It's often a complicated question and rarely involves a binary "good law"/"bad law" choice. More recent articles have started to use "is", as you say, and last week an editor went through and changed dozens en masse. A broader discussion, perhaps at the WikiProject, to seek some consensus would probably be a good idea.  White Whirlwind  17:01, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Gwendal

Hi @Fabrickator, I saw that you placed the wd tag for Gwendal on the Stone Age (band) page (thanks!) I've been planning to create an enwiki page for Gwendal, but it's sort of on the backburner for me at the moment. If you ever decide to do so, please loop me in, as I'd love to contribute to that project. Cheers! Revirvlkodlaku (talk) 08:56, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

@Revirvlkodlaku: Heh heh! Thanks for noticing ... I'm not actually working on Gwendal or on French folk music or anything like that. Rather, I have come to the realization that the biggest impact I can have in terms of improving Wikipedia is to add links, particularly interlanguage links (so the effect is quite similar to translating articles but with a tradeoff as to being restricted to machine translation vs. human translation), and though I get pushback from some quarters, I haven't let that deter me. Keep in touch! Fabrickator (talk) 10:02, 24 March 2026 (UTC)