User talk:grapesurgeon

Submitting of Draft:Yoo Ji-ae

Hi @Grapesurgeon. I'm back again here to tell you that I have submitted the draft of Yoo Ji-ae, in which I have proved with reliable sources that she is separately notable from her group due to her solo debut with the single "Delight" and her solo acting roles. I'd like you to take a look at it if you can. Thank you! Techgamer534 (talk) 21:42, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

Hello, please do not post on my talk page with review requests. I review hundreds of drafts, you will have to wait until someone gets around to it. grapesurgeon (talk) 01:13, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

About

english is not my native lanaguge and i had grammar issues by --Sunuraju (talk) 08:36, 26 August 2026 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Is English not your native language? If so, you'll probably have an easier time contributing to the Wikipedia in your native language. Every other Wikipedia is smaller than this one, so I'm sure they'd appreciate it. guninvalid (talk) 08:50, 26 August 2026 (UTC)

Edit request at Talk:Boston Korea

Hello, and thank you again for reviewing and accepting Boston Korea at AfC. As a COI editor I have posted a small edit request on the article's talk page (two NBC-sourced sentences and three images). If you have a moment, I would appreciate a review, but no pressure at all. Thank you! Chang at Boston Korea (talk) 21:36, 26 August 2026 (UTC)

Request for Draft Review

Hello Grapesurgeon, thank you for your review and feedback. I’ve updated the draft. Could you please check whether this version meets all four of these criteria and whether it would be okay to submit? I really appreciate your help. Thank you!　 Xakiyoto (talk) 12:09, 27 August 2026 (UTC)

Hong Jin-ki

Hello. Why have you removed the infobox from Hong Jin-ki? Thanks, ~2026-43728-44 (talk) 13:23, 27 August 2026 (UTC)

The user who added it is a WP:LTA who's been incredibly annoying and burdensome to other people. We don't allow blocked users to dodge their blocks and edit Wikipedia. grapesurgeon (talk) 13:25, 27 August 2026 (UTC)

OK, saw that they were editing logged out there, but didn't realise they were an LTA. I'll keep my mitts off it for now, thanks. ~2026-43728-44 (talk) 13:28, 27 August 2026 (UTC)

Editwars

Hi! How do you discover editwars? You might like User:Polygnotus/Scripts/Editwars. If you have any feedback, please let me know. Thanks, Polygnotus (talk) 07:09, 28 August 2026 (UTC)

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DYK for Kim Seon-tae

On 30 August 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Kim Seon-tae, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a South Korean civil servant made his city's YouTube channel go viral by ignoring instructions from his superiors? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kim Seon-tae. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (Kim Seon-tae), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.

Gatoclass (talk) 12:03, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

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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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