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The Signpost, 1 April 2015

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The Wikimedia Foundation this week released a State of the WMF report, a 38-page "snapshot" of where it is and where it wants to go in the future.
TruthRevolt targets another editor; edit stage right; the Nine Best Hoaxes to Have Hit Wikipedia
Six featured articles, first featured lists, and twenty-four featured pictures were promoted this week.
The Report is more of a mix of random topics than usual this week. The top spot is taken by Bhutanese passport, a Wikipedia article which contained a crazed spoken word version which drew widespread attention.
The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) will announce later today that it will begin accepting edits by mail for all of the projects under its scope, including Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Commons.
The Wikimedia Commons' annual Picture of the Year contest has concluded. The first 53 top-voted entries were disqualified because they were all nude.

Talk back

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Hello, Rich Farmbrough. You have new messages at User talk:The Herald/Talkback.
Message added 05:42, 1 April 2015 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

read the whole story - and note how complex things could get

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I was asked which editors had supported what I considered SYNTH in the PNAC article. MrX said he had not supported the SYNTH, and I struck his name - Fyddlestix said he had not supported the edit - and he accused me in several places of "Thanks for the ping, I also had no idea that a dispute I am involved in (and my actions/edits) were being discussed (and grossly misrepresented) here. Fyddlestix (talk) 01:30, 16 March 2015 (UTC)", " Also, this is just petty. Your refusal to accept RS as RS is the reason why that article is over-cited. Fyddlestix (talk) 05:01, 16 March 2015 (UTC) ", "@Collect:, this is not about the article or the AFD. It's about your behavior. You knowingly made false statements about me, Ubikwit, JBH, and Mr X's position on this issue above, behind our backs, without notifying us. " (note that since then I ping anyone whom I mention in any post where remotely applicable). Then

The AFD could land on delete right now and I'd happily accept that - what I cannot accept is your refusal to take responsibility for your own lies, misrepresentations, and insults. misrepresentations. Fyddlestix (talk) 13:52, 16 March 2015 (UTC) sure looks like hFyddlestix directly and specifically accused me of lying - before I suggested that he was, alas, the one who forgot his own stated stance.

Meanwhile MastCell has iterated claims that I charged editors with Anti-Semitism - which is a gross and flagrant accusation one well ought to take umbrage at " Collect has invoked McCarthy here, here, here, here, here, and here (with a bonus implication of anti-Semitism), and that's just in the last couple of days. ... MastCell 17:48, 16 March 2015 (UTC), and the wonderful calumnies iterated as "Collect has kept up a steady drumbeat of comments and edit summaries which backhandedly imply that his opponents are promoting anti-semitism, conspiracy ..." (from Fyddlestix), Mastcell: Ubikwit has edit-warred to restore extremely dubious external links, while Collect has repeated unsubstantiated and irresponsible accusations of anti-Semitism against Ubikwit. MastCell Talk 06:52, 6 February 2015) " which has the exceedingly minor problem that I have never ever accused Ubikwit of anti-Semitism -- which I pointed out to Mastcell at [1].

But since he iterates the same abusive claim that I called anyone "anti-Semitic" I trust you will show as much umbrage as at my use of "lie" where the other party made the specific accusation first. And files an SPI on me when I was unable to respond to the absurd claims made therein. Cheers. If ArbCom would give me sufficient space to answer each "charge" at length - as with the "Collect used the word 'lie'" argument, the case would take me over 60 hours to prepare , and over 10,000 words. Cheers. And please avoid judging anyone on the basis of a single post wrenched from context - it is not a good idea. If you were repeatedly accused of calling someone "anti-Semitic" - would you let it slide with three words? But hell -- MastCell at [2] calls me Charles Pooter, [3] states the PNAC SYNTH (found so at AfD) was not a BLP violation <g>, and the like.

For the harassment allegation - I sent the list of Viriditas diffs to several arbs - which they should certainly know about. Why not to AE? Because I was unable to post at AE as I pointed out to Sandstein. Just as I was unable to answer the SPI accusation made by Fyddlestix. I trust you can see why folks making multiple simultaneous actions against a user might conceivably be viewed as harassment by that user? I have thought you generally of sound judgment, and ask now that you consider this post in the light of a rapid judgment that I was guilty of saying "lie" when the other editor made that precise accusation against me - and no one gives a damn. What I did was use his own claim against him - with diffs. Cheers. Collect (talk) 23:40, 1 April 2015 (UTC)


I found the "lie" quote most applicable:

" Sorry Fyddlestix - you supported the material, and saying I lied when I said you supported it is not precisely accurate. Collect (talk) 07:54, 25 March 2015 (UTC) (please also copy as this is a particularly horrid accusation against me which I suggest my diffs completely demolish. I had long ago corrected my listing of MrX as inapt.) "

from my UT page current. I daresay it is not exactly what you had imagined my language usage to be. Collect (talk) 23:54, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

I'm not sure what this is in response to, maybe my comment at the request for arbitration. I thought I was very clear that I believed there was a prima facie case that there were behavioural issues here. I have been careful not to ascribe blame, for two reasons:
  1. As you say these things are often complicated and need proper investigation to fully understand them.
  2. Secondly there is not always someone to blame. People take statements with a more negative intent than was intended, and often reply in kind.
In this case, for example, "akin to Mc Carthyism" (or whatever the phraseology was) is interpreted as an accusation of Mc Carthyism. It's not an enormous leap, and one that we should be wary of giving other editors the chance to make.
I agree for example, that your statement

I am sure there may be "evil Jews with dual loyalties who would use biological weapons to commit genocide and who would order the US to stand down when under attack on 9/11 in order to make the US an Imperial Power" in this world - but under no circumstances and in no manner should we contribute any such implications or inferences about living persons here or in any article.

does not explicitly accuse anyone of anti-semitism. It can however be read that way. It can also be read as anti-semitic in itself.
These are places we need to choose our words with extreme care. For example we should never " contribute any such implications or inferences about living persons" - or indeed anything. But you seem to want to say (and you should have made it perfectly clear if not) that we should not state such a thing outright.
This I think is the substantive point. If such a thing were attested by reliable sources, as for example in the case of Lord Haw Haw (were he still alive), we would absolutely be right to say so, it would not be a contradiction of BLP. If it were a controversy that was widely noted in reliable sources, we would be absolutely right to report the controversy.
BLP is designed to avoid Wikipedia being the cause of unnecessary suffering through the repetition of unsourced or poorly sourced gossip, and to maintain general accuracy. It is not a protection against well sourced fact, or a tool to cover up the fact that notable allegations were made, when that is widely and reliably sourced. For example the false rape allegation against the Hamiltons are (rightly) documented on Wikipedia.
It would be crazy if we (society/Wikipedia) were to protect people to the extent that we cannot talk about hier associations. That, I think, is why there is no BLP ground to the PNAC/Bush argument. There is certainly a discussion to be had about SYNTH, COATRACK and maybe NPOV (if, for example, many of the PNC signatories ended up working for Obama).
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:14, 3 April 2015 (UTC).

Thank you!

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Hi Rich Farmbrough, thank you very much for your welcome message and for the useful links too. I really appreciate it. I am very new to Wikipedia and I am trying to learn as much as I can. If you have any advice, please do pass this on! I look forward to contributing in the future. All the best, (Amymiller104 (talk) 15:44, 2 April 2015 (UTC))

You are welcome! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:16, 3 April 2015 (UTC).

Speedy deletion nomination of Kutcha house

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Hello Rich Farmbrough,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Kutcha house for deletion, because it seems to be a test. Did you know that the Wikipedia Sandbox is available for testing out edits?

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. ubiquity (talk) 17:04, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

checkY Answered on user's talk page. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:56, 2 April 2015 (UTC).

Reference errors on 2 April

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 Fixed All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:24, 3 April 2015 (UTC).

The Signpost: 01 April 2015

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The Wikimedia Foundation this week released a State of the WMF report, a 38-page "snapshot" of where it is and where it wants to go in the future.
TruthRevolt targets another editor; edit stage right; the Nine Best Hoaxes to Have Hit Wikipedia
Six featured articles, first featured lists, and twenty-four featured pictures were promoted this week.
The Report is more of a mix of random topics than usual this week. The top spot is taken by Bhutanese passport, a Wikipedia article which contained a crazed spoken word version which drew widespread attention.
The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) will announce later today that it will begin accepting edits by mail for all of the projects under its scope, including Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Commons.
The Wikimedia Commons' annual Picture of the Year contest has concluded. The first 53 top-voted entries were disqualified because they were all nude.

Wikidata weekly summary #152

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 15:12, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

Gender gap graphic

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Hey, Rich, you recently put up a graph showing the (increasing) level of female participation over time, I think on Jimbotalk. I need to scarf that for a thread at Wikipediocracy for somebody that has called me on my assertion that the gender gap is actually more like 80-20 than 90-10. Where might that graphic be located? Best regards, —Tim /// Carrite (talk) 15:49, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

File:FM editor ratio over time en WP.png

Murder of Kylie Maybury

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Hi Is it worth trying to obtain contact details for the victim's family, to get their approval for the Wikipedia entry on Kylie? Given that, unlike some other famous cases, there is no Kylie Maybury Foundation or such founded by the family, they may value their privacy. Paul Austin (talk) 09:16, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

I'm sure they do value their privacy, and that's probably a good reason for not contacting them. If they requested it to be deleted or changed, and WP:Policy did not allow that, it might create distress for no reason. On the other hand were they to contact us, any request should be taken seriously.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:00, 8 April 2015 (UTC).

Kurdish main dialects

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Please please don't revert me here. :-) - your last revert restored some content to a redirect, I think you and Fastily got that wrong. Dougweller (talk) 12:48, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

This content was supposed to be merged. I have put it on the talk page of the target article. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:00, 8 April 2015 (UTC).
Ah, thanks for the explanation and for sorting that. Dougweller (talk) 12:30, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

sorry but no talk page where i should say

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got your talk from you being the last to edit the autobiography filter i was pursuing the filter list and decided to look. i came across the new user check in the autobiography filter and it occurred to be that it checks if the user has edited 25 times or more. in this case it looks like all one needs to do is correct grammar 25 times and then they are able to make or edit an autobiography...

wouldn't removing the edit count be not only a good idea but also use one less unit? Qazwiz (talk) 14:34, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

They are able to edit anyway, that edit filter only warns and logs.
If we didn't have some limitation, it might cause eternal problems for a user called "Turtle" who edits turtle articles, or users with very short names.
It uses less compute time, because comparing numbers is very quick, and in most cases we are going to avoid a relatively slow text comparison.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:55, 8 April 2015 (UTC).

The Signpost: 08 April 2015

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Wikipedia has been gravitating towards a vehicle for business and product promotion for too long.
March saw a number of high-level hirings and executive reorganizations in the Wikimedia Foundation.
The venerable CBS news program 60 Minutes profiled Wikipedia and the Wikimedia community.
How appropriate that the theme of Easter week would be resurrection from the dead.
Four featured articles, seven featured lists, and 23 featured pictures were promoted this week.
With Holy Week having recently drawn to a close, it is an apt time to examine WikiProject Christianity, which was created in 2006, and boasts over 200 active members.
The Committee has voted on the 2015 appointments to the Functionary team.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community.

Wikidata weekly summary #153

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 21:02, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

Upcoming attractions in DC

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Hello!

Here are some upcoming DC meetups in April and May:

  • Tuesday, April 14: National Archives Hackathon on Wikipedia Space with American University – 2:30-5pm
    See the latest work on the Wikipedia Space exhibit in the new NARA Innovation Hub and brainstorm on new ideas for a public exhibit about Wikipedia
  • Friday, April 17: Women in Tech Edit-a-thon with Tech LadyMafia – 5-9pm
    Team up with Tech LadyMafia to improve Wikipedia content on women in the history of technology.
  • Saturday, April 25: April Dinner Meetup – 6 PM
    Dinner and drinks with your fellow Wikipedians!
  • Friday, May 1: International Labour Day Edit-a-Thon – 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM
    An edit-a-thon at the University of Maryland

Hope to see you at these events! If you have any questions or require any special accommodations, please let me know.


Cheers,

James Hare

To remove yourself from this mailing list, remove your name from this list. 22:18, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

ISO 3166 templates

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Are the templates documented using {{ISO 3166 conversion template doc}} actually in use? There are an awful lot of them, they're gumming up my results for https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:PrefixIndex&prefix=ISO&namespace=10, and they strike me as something of a maintenance nightmare in their current form. —SamB (talk) 00:54, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Black Lives Matter Entry

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Hi, looking for some rationale as to why you sliced out entire segments of the Black Lives Matter entry which had references? --Aliceba (talk) 15:05, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

The article had become too focussed on a very few people, rather than the national and international grass-roots movement. I plan to re-incorporate most of that material. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:18, 15 April 2015 (UTC).

The Signpost: 15 April 2015

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The Wikimedia Foundation's vice president for engineering, Erik Möller, will leave the WMF on April 30.
Time profiles Lila Tretikov, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, and paints a grim picture of the challenges faced by Tretikov and the encyclopedia.
Later this month, everyone will be able to use the same user name on every wiki, thanks to Single-User Login.
If it wasn't for Easter, Fast and Furious related articles would have taken the top four spots this week. The latest installment of the movie franchise, Furious 7, tops the chart for the second straight week.
Six featured articles, four featured lists, and fourteen featured pictures were promoted this week.

Wikidata weekly summary #154

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 09:52, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 April 2015

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A Signpost investigation of the released data has revealed Sony's corporate practices regarding Wikipedia and uncovered what appears to be undisclosed advocacy editing of Wikipedia by Sony employees and possibly by others.
Wikipedia appears to have been drawn into the drama of the upcoming, hotly contested UK general election.
The Affiliates Committee this week announced the organization of a community referral for comment, currently open on the meta-wiki, to address upcoming changes to the way that the Affiliations Committee will review movement-affiliated user-groups in the future.
2015 will see through the biennial community election for the three community-elected seats on the Board of Trustees—the "ultimate corporate authority" of the Wikimedia Foundation and the level at which the strategic decisions regarding the Wikimedia movement are made.
Six featured articles and fifteen featured pictures were promoted this week.
Couch potatoes rule this week, as 9 of the top 10 slots were taken by either movies, TV, or sports.
The Gallery is an occasional Signpost feature highlighting quality images and articles from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons based on a particular theme.

Wikidata weekly summary #155

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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:00, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

Not so joyful

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You created this page but it appears you meant it to be User:Not so joyful. I have nominated it for deletion to clean up; over to you to re-welcome the user! RichardOSmith (talk) 20:10, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

Many thanks! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:12, 26 April 2015 (UTC).

A cupcake for you!

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Thank You MNBVCXZ (talk) 15:51, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
Yum! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:53, 28 April 2015 (UTC).

Welcoming users

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Hi Rich! Can you use welcoming template from my talkpage? Yours just don't have {{help me}} template wikified. Thanks.--Mishae (talk) 21:24, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Like look on mine and now look at yours. See the difference?--Mishae (talk) 21:27, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

 Fixed All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:29, 28 April 2015 (UTC).

Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend

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I've thought about it before, but just couldn't! Thanks! The world sometimes like to forget what it actually bought (in droves!) at one time.--Milowent • hasspoken 20:17, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

There are surprising gaps in widely held, or "best-selling" coverage. Not having read this, I couldn't write much about it, but I imagine some of its many readers will fill in the article in time. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:55, 29 April 2015 (UTC).


The Signpost: 29 April 2015

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Esino Lario is set to host Wikimania 2016, but volunteers and others have raised a host of concerns that raise serious questions about the town's suitability for hosting such a large conference.
The evaluations reveal that in the last three years, WLM has possibly fallen victim to its own success and seen diminishing returns.
David Coburn, a Member of the European Parliament for the Scotland region for the UK Independence Party, was blocked from editing Wikipedia on April 6.
Ten featured articles, nine featured lists, and twenty-eight featured pictures were promoted this week.
Though the continued predominance of movies, TV, and sports noted in last week's report largely continues, three additional topics joined the Top 10 this week.
Reader demand for some topics (e.g. LGBT topics or pages about countries) is poorly satisfied, whereas there is over-abundance of quality on topics of comparatively little interest, such as military history.

Nomination of Second child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (disambiguation) for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Second child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (disambiguation) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Second child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (disambiguation) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. StAnselm (talk) 10:02, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

Test filter

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Not that it's a big deal, but if you go to use the test filter and see that it's already enabled, that probably means someone is using it. — MusikAnimal talk 15:30, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

checkY Answered on user's talk page. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:40, 2 May 2015 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #156

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Side chain modification

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I noticed you created the side chain modification article recently - any objections to merging and redirecting to post-translational modification?

(BTW, I also cleaned up the nonstandard nucleotide issue on tRNA; thanks for the pointer to it!) Opabinia regalis (talk) 23:42, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

I have no objection - I would have merged it myself if I had been more certain that side chain modification is a proper subset of post-translational modification.
Thanks for cleaning up the tRNA issue. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:07, 5 May 2015 (UTC).
Thanks; merge done. Wow, does post-translational modification need some work. Opabinia regalis (talk) 01:06, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

New question raised regarding Talk:Hillary Rodham Clinton/April 2015 move request

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Some opposers of this move have now contended that there is a "Critical fault in proposal evidence", which brings the opinions expressed into question. Please indicate if this assertion in any way affects your position with respect to the proposed move. Cheers! bd2412 T 04:37, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 May 2015

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The Wikimedia Foundation this week announced the winning grantees in March's "Inspire" grant-making campaign.
Seven articles, three lists, and ten pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week. The second round of the WikiCup has ended.
artnet and The Next Web report (May 6) that the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is releasing a hundred images of works in its collection under Creative Commons licences in conjunction with a May 19 editathon.
Elections have begun for five community members of the Funds Dissemination Committee, the Foundation's volunteer body for judging and recommending millions of dollars worth of annual grants to affiliates in the movement. The election lasts just eight days, from Sunday 3 May until 23:59 UTC on Sunday 10 May, so at the time of publication, voters will need to act promptly.
Like colliding ocean liners, rousing entertainment and harsh reality merged ungainly in this week's top 10 list. The much heralded pay-per-view pummeling of Manny Pacquiao by Floyd Mayweather, Jr. dominated the list's top slots, giving this list one of its highest total view counts in months.

Statue of John Howard, Bedford

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Hello, since you created the page just recently, could you check this diff please. --Midas02 (talk) 18:54, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. Lower Clapton is part of Hackney,so the two statements are not in complete disagreement as far as that goes.
The DNB says "...born most probably in Hackney on 2 Sept. 1726. There is some uncertainty both as to the date and the place of his birth, but in default of absolute proof to the contrary the inscription on his monument in St. Paul's is likely to be correct."
The ODNB (subscription required) is more certain it's uncertainty "...was born in either Hackney or Enfield, probably on 2 September 1726. It is not certain that the inscription on his monument in St Paul's Cathedral, which gives Hackney as his place of birth, is correct."
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:09, 8 May 2015 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #157

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Merge section to

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Template:Merge section to has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Steel1943 (talk) 23:29, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

Little Miss Nobody (American murder victim)‎

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Could you take a looksie at Little Miss Nobody (American murder victim)‎ Paul Austin (talk) 21:17, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 13 May 2015

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Three community-elected seats on the Board of Trustees—the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation—will be decided by Wikimedians in the election to be held 17–31 May.
This week has been a busy one for the Wikidata project, with nearly simultaneous Wikidata contests, both organized by Wikimedia Sweden, now underway.
Casual viewers may think I've posted the same list twice. But no, readers just happen to be really interested in May 2's Big Fight. In fact, last week was just the weigh-in and the trash talk. This week, the numbers actually increased.
Grant Shapps, who was the co-chairman of the UK's Conservative Party until this week, has been accused of maliciously editing the Wikipedia biographies of his party's rivals.
There is a public misconception of Wikipedia: that any anonymous editor can edit Wikipedia at any time, and cannot be tracked or identified.
Eight articles, one list, and five pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia in a slow week.

Wikidata weekly summary #158

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  • Discussions
  • Events/Blogs/Press
    • Using Wikidata to Improve the Medical Content on Wikipedia
    • Past: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) spoke about authority control in Wikidata (and sister projects) at the World Digital Library's Arab Peninsula Regional Group Symposium, organised in conjunction with the Qatar National Library, in Doha on 13 May. His slides, with an Arabic translation, will be online soon.
    • Past: Wikidata editing workshop at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
    • Past: Wikidata workshop for archivists of Catalan City of Justice
    • Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Prepared for deployment of arbitrary access on more wikis
    • Graph extension will be enabled on Wikidata later today
    • Improvements to calendar handling
    • More work on RDF export for query service
    • Continued work on usage tracking and arbitrary access for multilingual wikis
    • Addshore investigated and started fixing abuse filter issues
  • Monthly Tasks
    • Hack on one of these.
    • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
    • Help develop the next summary here!
    • Contribute to a Showcase item
    • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
    • Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

The Signpost: 20 May 2015

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The Wikimedia Foundation's bi-annual Board of Trustees election is open for voting. Of the ten seats on the board, three are elected representatives of the global Wikimedia community—you.
The article counts of many Wikimedia wikis suddenly changed on 29 March 2015: as the Signpost reported at the time, sixty-five wikis fell below milestones tracked at the Wikimedia News Meta page, and three increased to new milestones.
The list is topped this week by Danish scientist Inge Lehmann, thanks to a Google Doodle celebrating her 127th birthday. Lehmann discovered in 1936 that the Earth has a solid inner core. It is sometimes surprising to realize how recently such basic scientific knowledge of the Earth, which we now take for granted, was discovered.
Wikipedia editors logging in on May 19 found themselves walking into an unexpected amount of anti-vandal work to keep the site in line with its extensive biographies of living persons policy. A plethora of Wikipedia articles related to the United States House Committee on Appropriations, and the fifty-one representatives serving on it, have been hit by a raft of anonymous editors making often vulgar edits referencing "chicken fucker," or more creative combinations: "sexual conduct", "sexual congress", "fornicator", "intimate relations", or "trysts with chickens."
Three articles, seven lists, and seven pictures were featured on the English Wikipedia.
Jimmy Wales and five others accepted the 2015 Dan David Prize at Tel Aviv University on May 17. The prize comes with US$1 million, ten percent of which goes to doctoral and postdoctoral scholarships.
This week, we had the pleasure of interviewing WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology, which has come a long way since our last interview in 2008. Like most projects, it has a long member list, but only a small subset of that group regularly contributes. With 28 featured articles and 58 top-importance start class ones, the project has clearly had some success, but has a ways to go. We talked to three regular project contributors.
The Arbitration Committee has an unusually large case load at present. Although perhaps not on a par with the high-profile, multi-party cases seen towards the end of last year and the beginning of this year, with five open cases the arbitrators are likely to be kept busy for the next several weeks.

Wikidata weekly summary #159

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  • Events/Blogs/Press
Wikimedia Hackathon 2015

Nomination for deletion of Template:Ref name added

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Template:Ref name added has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. NSH002 (talk) 09:07, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Statue of George Palmer

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Hello! Your submission of Statue of George Palmer at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! '''tAD''' (talk) 18:02, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 May 2015

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The Wikimedia Foundation recently switched to a quarterly report structure to better align reporting with the generally quarterly planning and goal-setting processes.
British media reports on Wikipedia editing to articles of Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom prior to the May 7 United Kingdom general election from IP addresses assigned to Parliament.
To many, Internet Relay Chat is an old relic, but not to Wikipedia. Wikipedia currently has an IRC help channel designated to help and assist editors with editing Wikipedia.
Fifteen featured articles, four featured lists, and six featured pictures were promoted this week.
Wikipedia's articles on drugs are pretty good – good enough to impress even doctors. A new research study adds some substance to that impression.
As usual for the time of year, pop culture rules this week. The start of summer vacation in the US means a focus on summer movies, particularly blockbuster sequels Avengers: Age of Ultron, Pitch Perfect 2 and Mad Max: Fury Road.
...allegedly. In a post to wikitech-l, Steven Walling pointed out that the TV show CSI: Cyber had used a screenshot of MediaWiki's HTML output and claimed it was responsible for blowing up printers.

Wikidata weekly summary #160

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Wiki Loves Pride!

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You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!

  • What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
  • When? June 2015
  • How can you help?
    1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here
    2.) Upload photographs or other media related to LGBT culture and history, including pride events, and add images to relevant Wikipedia articles; feel free to create a subpage with a gallery of your images (see examples from last year)
    3.) Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Or, view or update the current list of Tasks. This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. Visit the group's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome!

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's main talk page.


Thanks, and happy editing!

User:Another Believer and User:OR drohowa

Undated 06:14, 31 May 2015


Your signature

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Hello! Are you using ~~~~ when signing? Wouldn't that use your sig configured at Special:Preferences and add the datestamp? I ask because it appears the datestamp in your signature is wrapped in a <small> tag, and it uses &nbsp; entities as spaces, and finally adds a <br/> tag at the end. This is not good because bots and scripts are not able to interpret it as a valid wiki-inserted datestamp (e.g. archiving bots, timezone changing scripts, etc). On some pages this could conceivably cause bots to malfunction entirely. Please consider allowing the software to insert the datestamp for you. Thanks! — MusikAnimal talk 11:37, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

Some bots and scripts are not that smart, it is true. I have always believed that the answer to this is to make the software as smart as it needs to be, though opportunities to remove non-functional anomalies should be taken. This seems broadly to be consensus. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:12, 2 June 2015 (UTC).
I'm not sure what you mean by this. Just allow me to ask, what is the rationale for retaining your nonstandard date format? You just want it to be smaller than the rest of your signature? This seems trivial considering the implications. We allow for custom signatures, so the bots have only the datestamp to reliably determine where a comment ends and when it was posted. I am very confused because I see that you are using Lowercase sigmabot III for archiving on your talk page, which I also use, yet your post from 2 May on my talk page was never archived. I have removed the added formatting from your datestamp to see if the bot will now archive it. — MusikAnimal talk 12:29, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
I've removed the non-breaking spaces in the timestamp. Let us see if the lowered intelligence requirement triggers a change in behaviour. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:00, 4 June 2015 (UTC).

Hell yeah!

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Hi there. Thanks for the info! Cani get a hell yeah — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.255.233.247 (talk) 11:45, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

I guess you got it! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:55, 5 June 2015 (UTC).

Reference errors on 4 June

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Hello, I'm ReferenceBot. I have automatically detected that an edit performed by you may have introduced errors in referencing. It is as follows:

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can </noinclude>:REVISIONUSER}}&section=new report it to my operator. Thanks, ReferenceBot (talk) 00:24, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

 Fixed All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:30, 5 June 2015 (UTC).

can you look into this?

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I tried to clean up Soybean Car but other editors thought I was a vandal. All of the refs in the Sources section are already refs in the body of the article. I also tried to get rid of dead links and blog posts etc. Can you check it out. 118.93.90.74 (talk) 02:53, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

  • I have replicated some of the minor changes.
  • The blog in external links may well be appropriate even if it is not suitable for a reference.
  • Dead links should not be removed unless an alternative source is supplied, sometimes this is an archive version of the dead link.
  • The conversion to "sfn" would remove the duplication. This was proposed on the talk page a little while ago, and is in progress now. You can discuss on the talk page.
  • You should at all costs avoid edit wars, even, and perhaps especially if you are right.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:55, 6 June 2015 (UTC).

The Signpost: 03 June 2015

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The Wikimedia Foundation's volunteer election committee has announced the election results for the three vacant seats on the Board of Trustees. Dariusz Jemielnak, James Heilman, and Denny Vrandečić are set to take up their two-year terms on the Board. They will replace the three incumbents, all of whom stood this time unsuccessfully: Phoebe Ayers, Samuel Klein, and María Sefidari.
Caitlyn Jenner—the American hero of the 1976 Olympics, a film actor, and prominent member of Keeping Up with the Kardashians—may now be the most famous openly transgender person in the world.
Since the dawn of Wikipedia, or at least since 22 December 2005, the template named Persondata has existed.
Two featured articles and ten featured pictures were promoted this week.
Over the past few weeks, developers have been working on improving Wikimedia's performance when users connect to it using SPDY.
Wikipedia appears to be the single most used website for health information globally, exceeding traffic observed at the NIH, WebMD, WHO et al..
More UK government vandalism; legend has it; minding the gender gap
The traffic report is nothing unusual this week, with a Google Doodle for astronaut Sally Ride topping the list, the accidental death of famous mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. at #2, and the normal fare of recent popular American movies and television.

Wikidata weekly summary #161

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Comments at Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/American politics 2/Proposed decision

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At Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/American politics 2/Proposed decision, with the exception of arbitrators and clerks, all editors must create a section for their statement and comment only in their own section. Therefore, please move your comments into your own section. Thank you. L235 (t / c / ping in reply) 18:00, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

Hi Rich, my apologies on spelling your name "Frambrough". L235 (t / c / ping in reply) 03:18, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
NP, probably gave anyone who saw it a giggle. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:47, 8 June 2015 (UTC).

The Signpost: 10 June 2015

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This week saw the publication of the Chapter-wide Financial Trends Report 2013, a now-completed research project that examines the finances and outlays of the 36 movement-affiliated chapters.
"Happy families are all alike," Leo Tolstoy said, "but unhappy families are unhappy after their own fashion."
UK media covers Wikipedia Arbitration case; Lila Tretikov visits Israel.
Four featured articles, two featured lists, one featured topic, and twenty-eight featured pictures were promoted this week.
Today it was announced that Wikimedia sites are going to become HTTPS only, finishing up 10 year effort of rolling out HTTPS.
The Medical Translation Project, an ambitious attempt to improve and translate Wikipedia’s medical content from English into other languages, began in 2012.

Daisy (advertisement)‎

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I asked Daniel Case but i trust you as well. Can you take a look at Daisy (advertisement)‎? An IP edited the article and has messed things up - i tried to fix it but i could use help - especially because the IP seemed to think the Daisy girl messing up her numbers was scripted - it wasn't, it was just the child actress being a three year toddler and toddlers don't know their numbers that well and do not have the ability to truly act or follow a script. Paul Austin (talk) 14:46, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

I didn't see any issue after your edit there. User:Daniel Case reverted to the version before the IP. I have reinstated the further reading. If someone has the book, it might be easier to check minor details such as the actor's age at the time of shooting. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:04, 13 June 2015 (UTC).

Special:AbuseFilter/686

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Hi Rich. Is this filter being monitored? It seems to be a bit too broad currently for any disallow/warn actions to be taken, but I was wondering if you're checking the caught edits. Thanks, Sam Walton (talk) 20:01, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

This was based on a request at Village Pump (IIRC). I have browsed the log a few times and caught a few things. I really need to present the filter log to the BLP noticeboard, and see if they can make regular use of it.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:11, 14 June 2015 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #162

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

WMCA

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This article is largely uncited and uses emotional POV language such as "reliable". Can you take a hacksaw to it? Paul Austin (talk) 18:51, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

The article would certainly benefit from more citations. It should also cover New World A'Coming. I don't find the language that POV, maybe more of a tone issue. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:18, 19 June 2015 (UTC).

The Signpost: 17 June 2015

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The Princess of Asturias Foundation announced that Wikipedia would be the recipient of the 2015 Princess of Asturias award in the category of International Cooperation.
The Arbitration Committee delivered its final decision in a case that reached the attention of the UK national press.
This would end a long-standing tradition in many countries that the skyline and the public scene should belong to everybody.
We need to be ever-diligent in ensuring that articles remain of high quality.
The rollout of HTTPS only has now been completed across all Wikimedia wikis.
We interviewed an Australian veteran who deployed to the region as a peacekeeper and now writes articles on the region's history to help him understand what he encountered there.
A more than usually severe outage Wikimedia Labs occurred after a massive database corruption implosion on June 17.
Six featured articles, seven featured lists, and seven featured pictures were promoted this week.
Author's note: This might be a violation of WP:BEANS; read at your own risk.
It wouldn't be the WikiProject report if we didn't feature an Australian topic once in a while, so this week we're looking at the left side.

SP interview

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Hey Rich, how are you seeing three-word lines on your screen? For me, it only makes the blockquote a little narrower, but I still have 24 words on the first line. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 23:13, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
A formatting problem on Signpost

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:21, 19 June 2015 (UTC).

Ah, a narrow screen. How does it look now? I've used upright= instead, so that it (should) sync to the size of your default image, rather than be hardcoded. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 23:23, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
Well it's a 24 inch screen...

I now see something like:

[I saw] carcasses of slaughtered
pigs in the kitchens of Muslim
houses, mines in the driveways of
Croat houses, [and] booby-trapped
Serb houses. But what really
affected me was the random

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:29, 19 June 2015 (UTC).

That's a 24-inch screen? I wouldn't have guessed that based on the image dimensions. To replicate what you're seeing on my 15.6-inch screen, I have to increase my font size to 30. What resolution are you at? 1920x1080? Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 23:56, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
1920x1200. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:58, 19 June 2015 (UTC).

Adminship

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Hi Rich! I see you're one of the top five editors on Wikipedia, with over a million edits. You've been around over a decade — and you're still not an admin? That's unbelievable! With your permission, I'd like to nominate you :-) David Cannon (talk) 13:17, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

David, you are welcome to nominate me. You should be aware that I had adminship removed a few years ago, see WP:ARBRF. The finding that said I had used my admin-tools incorrectly was vacated a short while later.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:19, 19 June 2015 (UTC).
  • Hey Rich. Where was the discussion that vacated that finding? It's a bit annoying that a link to that discussion was not placed on that page (I know that's not your fault). I find it darkly humorous that your arb case has it's own shortcut. --Hammersoft (talk) 19:25, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
I created the short-cut a few minutes ago. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:29, 19 June 2015 (UTC).
That's great. In that case, I'll put your name forward as soon as another nomination of mine has been processed (i.e. in a few days). Just a question — if the Arbcom ruling was vacated, why weren't your admin privileges restored automatically? In my book, they should have been! David Cannon (talk) 08:27, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
To answer that I would have to put myself in the mind of ArbCom, at which endeavour I have been moderately unsuccessful. They might well reply that RFA is always available, that I didn't ask, that my other sins are so egregious they could not consider it, that it didn't occur to them, or any of a thousand other reasons. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:57, 20 June 2015 (UTC).

Good points...

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Just wanted to chime in that your comments here were spot on. Sorry if this disturbs your drama free days notice on the page, but wanted to let you know I agree with at least your original statement.--MONGO 05:54, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

Does not disturb at all! And your message is much appreciated, I don't know if it is wise to bring up these points, but it reassures me that it is right. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 10:40, 21 June 2015 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #163

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • German language Wikipedia closed its RfC on usage of Wikidata data. As a result Wikidata data can be used on the project as long as it happens through a template and it has a non-Wikimedia reference.
  • Events/Blogs/Press
    • Past: Office hour on IRC. We talked about cool things that happened around Wikidata over the past 3 months got an update on upcoming developments and Freebase and more. You can read the log.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Made a small API breaking change to wbeditentity and wbgetclaims modules. Details can be seen in the commit message of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/217885/
    • Worked more on unit support
    • Fixed an issue where you'd sometimes select the wrong value when entering a statement unintentionally (phabricator:T98471)
    • Switched the whole code base to make use of DataModel 3.0
    • The concept of “claims” no longer exists in Wikibase, as all places in the software work with statements. We are making this more and more explicit in the code.
    • The autoloading mechanism of the extension changed, see phabricator:T100813
    • More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for deployment. They'll improve constraint checking and provide checks against 3rd party databases.
    • Special:UnconnectedPages had to be reworked (thanks Amir!) because of huge performance issues. Because of this it loses some functionality (being able to specify where the list starts and limiting the list to pages that have local interwiki links). We're working on bringing functionality back without the performance penalty.
    • Bene* created a SPARQL abstraction layer for PHP called Asparagus: https://github.com/Benestar/asparagus
    • Enabled arbitrary access on arwiki, cawiki, eswiki, huwiki, kowiki, rowiki, ukwiki, viwiki, and usage tracking on dewiki, ruwiki, cswiki and all s3 wikis. (ruwiki and cswiki get arbitrary access on June 23)
    • Finishing work on improved handling “invalid” values and statements with deleted properties.
    • Small breaking DOM change: Wikibase no longer adds its own h1 tag but uses MediaWiki's default .firstHeading element. (phabricator:T93534)
  • Monthly Tasks
    • Hack on one of these.
    • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
    • Help develop the next summary here!
    • Contribute to a Showcase item
    • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
    • Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Former Naval Person listed at Redirects for discussion

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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Former Naval Person. Since you had some involvement with the Former Naval Person redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. The Theosophist (talk) 09:40, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of GreenFacts for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article GreenFacts is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/GreenFacts_(2nd_nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Jacques de Selliers (talk) 13:18, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

Co-op Pilot Results & Mentoring

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Hey there! The Co-op has been on a hiatus for a bit, but we are planning on opening up shop again soon. When you're able, please read over and respond to this update on our talk page. We have favorable results from our final report regarding the pilot, and we are interested in seeing who is available to mentor when we reopen our space and begin to send out invites again. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:16, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 24 June 2015

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Over more than a decade of weekly publication, The Signpost has accumulated an incredibly lengthy and detailed record about the issues, controversies, successes, and failures of the English Wikipedia community and the movement at large.
The Wikimedia Foundation's Language Engineering team plans to introduce Content Translation—a tool that makes it easier to translate Wikipedia articles into different languages—as a beta feature on the English Wikipedia.
During 2009–2011 Google ran the Google Translation Project (GTP), a program utilising paid translators to translate most popular English Wikipedia articles to various Indian language Wikipedias.
Four articles and nine pictures were promoted to featured status this week.
One paper looks at the topic of Wikipedia governance in the context of online social production.
This past week saw the kick-off of the 2015 MediaWiki architecture focus of improving our content platform.
The Board of Trustees is the "ultimate corporate authority" of the Wikimedia Foundation and the level at which the strategic decisions regarding the Wikimedia movement are made ...
The Hürriyet Daily News reports that the Turkish Wikipedia has posted banners on the top of the encyclopedia to warn users that a number of articles are being blocked by the Turkish government.
After six years of work, a residency in the Canadian Rockies, endless debugging, and more than a little help from my friends, I have made Print Wikipedia.
Clausewitz' pithy summary of warfare as "politics by other means" seems to be the motto of some Wikipedia editors.

Invitation

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Hello! I'm Jacqueline Yeung, currently a Carnegie Mellon Researcher at the Human Computer Interaction Institute. The Wikipedia Number of Edits page has referred you as a candidate to connect with regarding our current study.

We'd would like to invite you to our research study by editing the Hummus page via Skype while thinking aloud and answering questions regarding the experience of a top contributor of Wikipedia.

As a newcomer to Wikipedia, I am interested in understanding what it takes to become a top contributor. Our goal is to create a tool that will provide more historical and discussion information about articles to editors that are aware of where they are editing.

I'm so excited to meet you and learn about your experiences with Wikipedia. Please contact me at hcicmuresearch@gmail.com if you're interested in contributing to our research.

Regards JMyraYeung (talk) 19:25, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

Adminship

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It's humbling to have been supported in my RfA by someone with the depth and breadth of your experience on these shores. I'm grateful for your kind words, and shall do my best to live up to them. Many, many thanks.--Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 02:44, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #164

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Nifty template

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This template Template:Establishment category by year by country looks pretty useful compared to template:estcatCountry, it seems to work correctly where it has been used for example at Category:2014 establishments in Thailand. Did you find any problems or is it ok to roll out more generally? Thanks, Tim! (talk) 09:35, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. I hesitated to spend more time on it because it would have caused conflict at the time to "roll it out" (and would have been very labour intensive). Potential issues I can see are:
  • It could do with some user documentation, even if it's just one line.  Done
  • It doesn't automatically support establishments by year by continent, which would be nice.
  • It might be better to suppress or change the "See also: 2013 disestablishments in Foo" line where the category does not exist. On the other hand this may be considered a valuable hint to get that category created (and populated).
  • It might be worth considering what we should do if the category is empty. A tracking category could perhaps be added.
  • It might be worth creating a parallel "disestablishments" template.  Done at the time...
I'm not aware of any problems where the category name is well formed.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:29, 28 June 2015 (UTC).
It does assume that certain parent categories exist. They probably should exist if the category itself does. This is not the case, for example with Category:2013 establishments in Rivers State.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:33, 28 June 2015 (UTC).
Also it may have issues with BC/BCE years. This could be fixed pretty easily.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:20, 28 June 2015 (UTC).
Thanks Rich, I'll have look if I can try it out. The problems you highlight exist with the other template anyway - in fact I spent a bit of time yesterday filling in red categories from Wikipedia:Database reports/Categories categorized in red-linked categories/5 where it had been used. Tim! (talk) 05:56, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Minor edit request

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Your comment at Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Rich_Farmbrough_2#Questions_for_the_candidate included a reference to User:NewYorkBrad. The red color of that link left me concerned. I'm relieved to see that you meant (I assume) User:Newyorkbrad. Could you change it? I would, but I'm extremely careful about editing comments of others especially given the small possibility that you deliberately intended the red link for some reason.--S Philbrick(Talk) 13:36, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

 Done Thanks for pointing that out. You are welcome to make spelling/typo corrections to any of my comments. I have, in the distant past, attempted subtle subtexts on Wikipedia. These attempts have all been dismal failures. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:43, 29 June 2015 (UTC).

Thank you for helping out at the Teahouse

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I mean that sincerely. You were brave to agree to be nominated for RfA, and you are handling things with aplomb. I wish you well. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 07:05, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

Much appreciated. Feedback is not only supportive, but useful. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:46, 30 June 2015 (UTC).

Nominated for adminship

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Hi Rich! I've nominated you for restoration of adminship. (About time I kept my promise to do so:-)) David Cannon (talk) 12:14, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. It will be instructive to see what happens. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:22, 27 June 2015 (UTC).
Good luck. --Fæ (talk) 12:25, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi Rich, I'll lend my support. Good luck! Audit Guy (talk) 12:48, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
Thank you both. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:44, 27 June 2015 (UTC).
  • @Davidcannon: The new RfA was reverted shortly after it was initiated as it was located on the page of Rich's old RfA. I have copied the nomination to Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Rich Farmbrough 2 and formatted it. When ready for !voting, please transclude this RfA to the main RfA page and follow the instructions at the top of the request page. Thine Antique Pen (talk) 15:45, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
    Thanks. I have accepted the nom, and answered the standard questions. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:46, 27 June 2015 (UTC).
    Would you like me to transclude the nomination? Thine Antique Pen (talk) 21:35, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
    That would be good, thanks. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:51, 27 June 2015 (UTC).
    Done, good luck! Thine Antique Pen (talk) 00:00, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
    well it was unanimous last time, it is unanimous so far this time! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 02:40, 28 June 2015 (UTC).
    Hi Rich, So sorry to note the negative trend. I wanted to contribute but I don't think my supporting vote would make a difference! Perhaps, should things change......My best wishes to you though. Audit Guy (talk) 05:09, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
    Well, I've put in my bit. Hope it helps. Best wishes Rich! Audit Guy (talk) 09:47, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
    Thanks, your !vote is important. If there is a broadly 50/50 split that is valuable data - in fact whatever the result is the information is useful. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:40, 29 June 2015 (UTC).
  • Perhaps this came a little too early for some people ... try again in maybe 2022 ;) — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:59, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
    To paraphrase John Maynard Keynes, to influence current affairs it is better to do something while we are still alive to do it. --Fæ (talk) 10:12, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
    I'll second that! Audit Guy (talk) 10:45, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
    There are certainly one or two "opposes" who suggest another year or two would change their minds. While a "pass" seems incredibly unlikely, the current balance is far more positive than certain people have suggested it would be. Admin tools are useful, but not essential. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:49, 30 June 2015 (UTC).
    It isn't so much that it came too early, but that there is a bloc of voters at contentious RFAs who will oppose the first time and support the second almost irrespective of the gap since the last incident. Hopefully this RFA will pass, but if it doesn't another in 2016 will probably pass and certainly do much better than this, whereas I'm pretty sure that if Rich had waited another year before running there would have been some people opposing because in effect it was his first attempt to regain the tools. Sad that this sort of thing is necessary, but if you let people vent their spleen in this RFA and then keep your nose clean for a few months the next RFA will be much easier. Nothing really negative is being diffed from the last 24 months, and unless someone finds something recent then I would hope the percentage of support will steadily rise, probably to more than 60% but it could even end in the discretion zone. ϢereSpielChequers 13:50, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

Undoing a move you made back in 2008

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Hi Rich, could you move Good manufacturing practice back to Good Manufacturing Practice? The capitalization is pretty much standard worldwide. Thanks, Heaviside glow (talk) 18:33, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for asking:
  • Ngrams says otherwise (area under blue curve plus area under red curve > area under green curve).
  • Wikipedia style is to "Use lowercase, except for proper names: Titles are written in sentence case." See WP:LOWERCASE.
  • I think you would need an admin to move the page, since the redirect has been edited.
Sorry I can't be of more help.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:09, 30 June 2015 (UTC).


Samantha Smith

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(also asking others who could help)

Can you take a look at Samantha Smith? It's a featured article but a fresh pair of eyes is always good. I'm concerned that with the 30th anniversary of her death in August, there'll be increased articles in the press and we'll have "Saint Samantha" vs "Soviet stooge" edit wars. Paul Austin (talk) 12:00, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

FWIW I have added the article to my watch-list. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:37, 1 July 2015 (UTC).

Your quotes of the day

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Hi, Rich. One of your quotes of the day is "Editors are allowed to make many mistakes, administrators relatively few, checkusers and arbitrators almost none, and that is as it should be." (Rich Farmbrough) Since it's by you, and thereby you don't have to hold the wording sacrosanct, have you thought of souping it up with the addition "checkusers and arbitrators almost none, the Founder again many"? I realize you'd run into trouble with the "that is as it should be" bit… yeah. Never mind, then. Bishonen | talk 19:14, 30 June 2015 (UTC).

We all have our takes on Mr. Jimbo, and I have remonstrated with him more than once. But, though I won't change the quote, I do think he has a license to screw up on-wiki a little. He is not heavily involved with the project in a hands-on way, and yet people expect him to make pronouncements and "take action" on whatever their particular issue is. Inevitably if these were simple issues the community would have fixed them already. The best we can do is hope that all our future mistakes are small ones, with no lasting ill effect. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:25, 30 June 2015 (UTC).
That is a perceptive comment, Rich, and I thank you for it. All the best to you. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 05:49, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

Template:DecadesAndYears/addepoch listed at Redirects for discussion

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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:DecadesAndYears/addepoch. Since you had some involvement with the Template:DecadesAndYears/addepoch redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 15:56, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

You can {{g7}} these if you wish. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:48, 3 July 2015 (UTC).

The Signpost: 01 July 2015

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Very Strong Support

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Hello Rich,

I voted for you - Very Strong Support! You will be an outstanding Administrator. Very respectfully, Tiyang (talk) 17:41, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Thank you! Every vote is much appreciated. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:35, 1 July 2015 (UTC).
I too !voted support. Whatever the outcome of the RfA I hope that it will not diminish your enthusiasm for the project. Many can't see past your past difficulties, but I can't see them affecting your trustworthiness with admin tools, hence my !vote. --Jules (Mrjulesd) 13:43, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
Thank you, I can assure you I am encouraged by not just the support !votes, but by the supportive things both neutral and oppose voters have said. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:40, 2 July 2015 (UTC).
I am personally glad to see the trend is going from oppose / neutral to support. Hopefully, the balance will tip enough into the "bureaucrat's discretion" range and you'll get your tools back. Good luck! Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 12:40, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
Thank you.
Requests for adminship and bureaucratship update
No current discussions. Recent RfAs, recent RfBs: (successful, unsuccessful)
According to the tool I would need another 20/21 [30!] supports without any opposes to get into the usual "discretion" area. I am not holding my breath.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:57, 3 July 2015 (UTC).
I share the same sentiments as Ritchie333. I truly hope that this Rfa will be treated differently in that a separate committee can deliberate fairly based on the facts and merits of the nomination for a fully informed decision, i.e. "a net positive". Very best wishes and good luck! Audit Guy (talk) 13:06, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
What I think is wrong with RfA is that you can get twice as many support votes as oppose and yet still garner only 67% of the vote, below the 70% suggested. But hopefully bureaucrat discretion will come into play which something approaching that sort of result. --Jules (Mrjulesd) 15:43, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
What's significant is that people who were opposing (eg: Laser Brain) have changed their mind and switched to support. There have been quite a few of those, and I think a few more of that will tip the balance. At least now I would expect a close as "no consensus", definitely not a fail. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 11:42, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
There are also some "not yet"s, at a guess about 10 "not yet"s would put it in the usual discretion zone, whether would then count as as a "not yet" close I cannot say. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:54, 4 July 2015 (UTC).

Incomplete DYK nomination

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Hello! Your submission of Template:Did you know nominations/Statue of George Palmer at the Did You Know nominations page is not complete; see step 3 of the nomination procedure. If you do not want to continue with the nomination, tag the nomination page with {{db-g7}}, or ask a DYK admin. Thank you. DYKHousekeepingBot (talk) 00:53, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

Thank you bot. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:55, 4 July 2015 (UTC).
The bot gave it to many in error today ;) - I wondered if I should campaign for your RfA but it's to hot, - the next one will succeed, if not this one. I asked several people how to phrase "victim of an institution" more politely, - there is even a barnstar for it. I remember your support on top of my talk, - thank you, lone supporter ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:45, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
I think if you campaign you automatically loose.... Helpful Pixie Bot was awarded a Purple Star, by User:Emmette Hernandez Coleman. Note that it's role in world peace means that it has both an Islamic and a Jewish barnstar. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:47, 4 July 2015 (UTC).
I think you are right that if the candidate campaigns it's an automatic loss. As I am not the most respected woman, my support may also foster protest votes. The last one for whom I spoke collected not enough trust but took it with grace. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:07, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

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Talk Back

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Sir, Talk Back @ Talk:Battle of Longewala MCIWS (talk) 15:28, 5 July 2015 (UTC) MCIWS (talk) 15:28, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Rich, you did brilliantly well in your RFA. Regardless of whether in the next few hours the 'crats decide whether to accept you are worthy, or decline this time on a technicality, you deserve a round of applause from the community for your efforts and resilience in tough circumstances. Fæ (talk) 13:37, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
Thanks, the level of support (including moral support among opposes and neutrals) was very heartening. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:46, 5 July 2015 (UTC).
Hi Rich, I would like to add that you fought the RfA battle well and I hope that it works out. Even if it doesn't, may I offer you my best wishes going forward! Audit Guy (talk) 01:53, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

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No idea which way the RfA is going to go, but judging by the process so far, I'm guessing you need some kitten.

Stuartyeates (talk) 22:42, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

Thank you! The process has been much better than I was lead to believe it might be. Very few crossed the floor from "nice " to "nasty" and even they had their reasons, insufficient though they may have been. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:44, 5 July 2015 (UTC).
I will remember that phrasing ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:18, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Samuel Judah

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FYI I'm pretty sure he was born in 1798. That is what is listed for him at Ancestry, and it cites: American National Biography. 24 volumes. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. (AmNatBi); Dictionary of American Biography. Volumes 1-20. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928-1936. (DcAmB) The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Volume 24. New York: James T. White & Co., 1935. Use the Index to locate biographies. (NatCAB 24) Who Was Who in America. A component volume of Who's Who in American History. Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Revised Edition. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1967. —МандичкаYO 😜 03:23, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

User:Wikimandia I suspect there is confusion with Samuel Judah (b. 1799). However the source that gave two alternative dates is, on it's face, reliable, and the provision of day and month indicates that they were looking at conflicting sources. IIRC Judah graduated in 1816 which would make 1798 more likely. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:41, 5 July 2015 (UTC).

See comment on Mr. Posen page.Mr. Posen (talk) 16:33, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

RfA close

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Please bear with us. Some might say we effectively get elected for being cooperatively-minded, and hating drama and controversy, so forgive us if we live up to it. --Dweller (talk) 13:40, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

I've gone ahead and closed the RfA in light of your comments. Good luck if you decide to have any go in the future. WJBscribe (talk) 16:29, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
My thanks to all of you. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:41, 6 July 2015 (UTC).

fwiw

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Stats show the latter half of the RfA had 81% support for you. Collect (talk) 18:19, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

That is interesting. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:23, 6 July 2015 (UTC).

Hello Sir

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Just to remind you, if you forget about the Talk:Battle of Longewala MCIWS (talk) 17:04, 6 July 2015 (UTC) MCIWS (talk) 17:04, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

User above is the sock of Knightwarrior25. Zadon19 (talk) 17:15, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
It is generally a better idea to find constructive ways of dealing with editing disputes.
I am currently interested in getting a good outcome for the article. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:46, 6 July 2015 (UTC).


Rich Sir, Facts are in front of you, Although I have explained you yesterday at @Talk Page. It is indeed necessary to edit the article as per as talk page. Regards MCIWS (talk) 18:11, 6 July 2015 (UTC)


I deleted his comments as is he is just attacking me personally from the start and other editors too, I have to revert his unconstructive edits on various articles and hence just because of him a case is been going on see this Moreover he is a sock of any pro-pakistani account that was recently banned, he himself is a sock and attacking me personally while I've challenged him to prove on SPA that I have any sock MCIWS (talk) 18:17, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

I choose to keep his comments on my talk page, because they make the conversation clear. If you disrupt my talk page, I will not be able to carry out a constructive conversation with you.
It is generally a better idea to find constructive ways of dealing with editing disputes.
I am currently interested in getting a good outcome for the article. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:24, 6 July 2015 (UTC).

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Speedy deletion nomination of Elias Neau

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Hello Rich Farmbrough,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Elias Neau for deletion, because it doesn't appear to contain any encyclopedic content. Take a look at our suggestions for essential content in short articles to learn what should be included.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Fitnr 18:26, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Rescued - notable Huguenot, notable in US slave history, notable as person sentenced to life as a galley slave - all of which took two minutes to determine. Next time please do at least a cursory search before labelling anything as "unencyclopedic." Collect (talk) 19:08, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
It's really my fault, I posted the talk-page banner there in error, (and of course don't have delete powers!) before I could fix it Fitnr had tagged it. I guess if our paths had crossed he might have not done that, but just left me a note. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:11, 7 July 2015 (UTC).
I was just amused that anyone would think you needed to be directed to "info for noobs" <g>. Cheers. Collect (talk) 19:16, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of David Mintz for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article David Mintz is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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User:COIBot/EditSummary

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hi.

please look at special:Diff/670748306. the diff may look subtle, but if you look at the "before", you'll notice that the spam report somehow belongs to "Category:Computer architecture", which is of course bogus (i found this perversion when i looked for stuff in the category, and was surprised to find this spam report there).

the reason is that the report contains unchecked [[{{{pagename|}}}]], and if the pagename happens to be "Category:XXX", the report belongs to this category.

the remedy is to test if parameter pagename begins with "Category:", and if it does, prepend it with colon.

since you are the last editor that touched this page, i'm asking that you will fix it - i'd rather not muck with something that complex, that is precluded in so many pages.

thanks, peace - קיפודנחש (aka kipod) (talk) 00:02, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for that! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:00, 10 July 2015 (UTC).
 Fixed. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:41, 10 July 2015 (UTC).

A kitten for you!

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Hi Rich - Sorry to see how the RFA went. I was impressed by your tact and clear-mindedness throughout the whole thing, which was, in part, the reason why I switched from oppose to support. Thank you for your continued contributions to this crazy place, and hopefully we will see you with the mop sometime in the future!

Pax Verbum 20:04, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks I might need one to control all these kittens! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:12, 6 July 2015 (UTC).
Kittens don't take control anyway, don't worry ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:20, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
Sorry about the NC finding - did you really want to herd cats? GregJackP Boomer! 01:29, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
Sorry it didn't work out for you. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:21, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

365 drama-free days today! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:45, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Yay! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:49, 10 July 2015 (UTC).

Introducing the new WikiProject Ghana!

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Greetings!

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I am happy to introduce you to the new WikiProject Ghana! The newly designed WikiProject features automatically updated work lists, article quality class predictions, and a feed that tracks discussions on the 3,474 talk pages tagged by the WikiProject. Our hope is that these new tools will help you as a Wikipedia editor interested in Ghana.

Hope to see you join! Harej (talk) 20:48, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Blocked account (not yours...)

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Just letting you know that I've indeffed User:Richfarm with a spamublock. It's an Indian business, whose aim is "To deliver exceptional quality True Wellness organic foods and products", and very obviously nothing to do with you. I thought you might be interested, though... Peridon (talk) 08:25, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Interesting. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 10:56, 10 July 2015 (UTC).
I wonder if that company uses automation in the production of its products. Sorry, couldn't resist :) --Hammersoft (talk) 13:27, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
Well we've been using it since time immemorial, so I'm sure they do! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:15, 10 July 2015 (UTC).

The Signpost: 08 July 2015

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Frequently used words

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Hi! I would be interested in getting such list for Latvian Wikipedia. We have much, much more smaller Wikipedia than this one (have 61tk articles, from which nearly half are marked as stubs), so it would be much more faster. Could you make it (when you have free time, of course)? --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 12:21, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

List here. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:14, 10 July 2015 (UTC).
Thanks, that was fast :) Those results are quite interesting. If you missed it, there are problems with encoding --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 13:24, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
Yes, but not with decoding - in other words it's reading the dump correctly. I'm not sure if I introduced the encoding errors by using notepad to open the file, but I think they are there natively. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:29, 10 July 2015 (UTC).
Lets take 18th result lietot. Next symbols should be ājs (or āja or something like that, I think). So symbols after the error are ignored (or interpreted as another word, for example - ctecis). I understand that you don't want to make extra efforts for this, because it's not your Wikipedia etc., but maybe this can be fixed? --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 13:38, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
Hmm yes I noticed that they are end-of-word (correctly or incorrectly). 80% of any programming these days seems to be dealing with Unicode! I am using the posix regular expression to match letters, and I had to upgrade perl to get this to work (first time I've actually encountered a perl bug). I've tried this with three encoding schemes "<:" "<:utf8" and "<:encoding(UTF8)", they all produce the same results. Opening the output with Open Office gives a slightly different result but not really an improvement. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:52, 10 July 2015 (UTC).

OK this is an obscure bug, probably related to the CPAN bz2 library, because if I run the program on the unzipped XML it gives good results like:

  1. piemēram 108
  2. futbola 90
  3. latviešu 84
  4. spēles 81

So I can re-run for Latvian, and investigate updating the perl IO::Uncompress::Bunzip2 library. But it's annoying that the English one (3 days run time estimate) will have bugs, even if they don't show, and I can't tie that machine up for another three days. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:23, 10 July 2015 (UTC).
 Done All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:44, 10 July 2015 (UTC).

 Bug squished. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:18, 10 July 2015 (UTC).
List tweaked slightly so that the order of words with the same count will remain constant between runs. This is important for regression testing as much as anything. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:45, 10 July 2015 (UTC).
The Technical Barnstar
Thank you very much for the word by frequency list for Latvian Wikipedia! Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 08:24, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

A. Primcock

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You appear to have redirected this page to itself, which looks like a mistake, so I thought I should let you know. Rubbish computer 14:29, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks!  Fixed All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:33, 11 July 2015 (UTC).

No problem. Congratulations on getting 1,000,000 edits, I hope one day to do the same. Rubbish computer 14:34, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

HELP ME!!!!!

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Please help me create my user page because I do not currently have one. Thank you!! TheTwilightSagaFanatic! TheTwilightSagaFanatic (talk) 04:23, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

checkY Answered on user's talk page. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:45, 11 July 2015 (UTC).

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Wikidata weekly summary #166

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THANK YOU!!!

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You are so much help!! Thank you for creating my page!! My favorite book in the Twilight series is the first book and the last book. Not really a Hunger Games fan,so I prefer the Divergent trilogy. I love those books! Anyway, thanks again!! Bye. TheTwilightSagaFanatic (talk) 04:00, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

  • You can change the favourite book. And improve the page too. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:32, 12 July 2015 (UTC).

Could you help me?

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I saw you help TheTwilightSagaFanatic create a user page and I was wondering if you could help me,too? Thanks!! Flashyypantts (talk) 04:48, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

Since these are your only edits, perhaps it would be good practice to start editing by copying TheTwilightSagaFanatic's page and changing it to suit yourself. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:34, 12 July 2015 (UTC).

HELP!!!!?!

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How do I copy TheTwilightSagaFanatics' page?Flashy pants (talk) 16:57, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

Just edit it copy the text then edit your own page and paste it there. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:06, 12 July 2015 (UTC).

Help!?!

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How do I copy TheTwilightSagaFanatics' page? I am stuck on that. Flashyypantts (talk) 17:04, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

Just edit it copy the text then edit your own page and paste it there. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:06, 12 July 2015 (UTC).

Thank you.

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Thank you for helping me create my page. Can you help me add some templates so my interests have pictures? Thanks Flashyypantts (talk) 17:28, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi!

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Can you add some templates to my user page? I would like to have pictures in the interests spot,like the apple for the Twilight books, that would be good. If you could put a picture of the Chicago Navy Piers' Ferris wheel (like in the movie Divergent)where the Divergent stuff is it will be perfect!! TheTwilightSagaFanatic (talk) 17:38, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

Hunt around the categories. Or look at the examples I put on Flashypants' page, and make your own. If you use images check that they are not "Fair use" images WP:FUR or someone will come along and remove them. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:54, 12 July 2015 (UTC).

Your e-mail concerning your block of 25 March 2013

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Hi, you wrote to me asking me to review your one-year block of 25 March 2013. I can't remember what that was all about, but the block has expired for more than a year now. The matter is therefore, I think, very much moot. If you think that the block needed review, the year during which it was active would have been ample time for that.  Sandstein  21:48, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for your (non-)consideration. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:52, 12 July 2015 (UTC).
... one-year block ... I can't remember what that was all about. Naturally; it is but an everyday occurrence. ;-) Alakzi (talk) 22:13, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

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Thanks!!

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Thank you very much for the pictures added to my interests! It helps me so much!!! THANK YOU!!!!!! TheTwilightSagaFanatic (talk) 13:30, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Special:AbuseFilter/686

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Hey Rich. Just going through some edit filters to trim back ones we might not need since we're hitting the cap. Are you tracking this filter or planning to use it for something? It seems pretty unwieldy for just log tracking. Thanks, Sam Walton (talk) 00:17, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

I have informed the BLP people of the log. It should be a very cheap filter too. Maybe we should add tagging. It seems to be a very accurate filter, and every time I look at the log there are things that need citation or reversion. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:27, 14 July 2015 (UTC).
Tagging might be a good idea, but I wouldn't want to tag all the various small changes being made. I've upped the edit_delta requirement to 200 to see if that better filters for users adding substantial writing to the article. Sam Walton (talk) 00:30, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
I can't add tags since I don't have access to create tag messages. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:32, 14 July 2015 (UTC).
I'll keep an eye on the log and add one if it seems appropriate. Drop me a message if it seems like I've forgotten! Sam Walton (talk) 00:35, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
OK, there's a few old abuse filters we could maybe disable, I mentioned one at the talk page. Also I will drop another note about filters that could be public. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:37, 14 July 2015 (UTC).

Speedy deletion nomination of Traffic police (disambiguation)

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A tag has been placed on Traffic police (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G6 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an orphaned disambiguation page which either

  • disambiguates two or fewer extant Wikipedia pages and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic); or
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If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Widefox; talk 02:13, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

Widefox: I always appreciate a note before a speedy template is left, especially if a page has been around a long time. It's much easier to see what's going on before the page is speedied. In this case history has been lost, needlessly. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:06, 14 July 2015 (UTC).

I love you

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I love you. You have saved me a lot of work. Thanks a lot! The Quixotic Potato (talk) 17:01, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Welcome Quixotic Potato. I will try to run an up-to-date list late today. What is the smallest count to go to? What is the maximum number of words on the list? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:05, 7 July 2015 (UTC).
Thank you. Is 10,000 reasonable as a maximum number of words on the list? The list from 2010 contains 10k words and I deleted all words that were less than 6 characters long; there were about 6500 words left. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 17:21, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
Yes that's fine. V1 of the software counted everything, but only puts out the first 10k. A possible difficulty is if the vocabulary of Wikipedia has increased too much, I might get an out-of-memory error. There are simple fixes for this of course, but let us see. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:26, 7 July 2015 (UTC).
I just noticed that you wrote an article about the Shetland Black! If I could kiss you I would. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 20:29, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

There was a bug in perl. So I upgraded. 7 years of upgrades in one go. At the third attempt to clear the old version out properly it all seems to work. Now  running... All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:42, 8 July 2015 (UTC).

Still  running... Probably because I am using " "<:encoding(UTF8)" instead of "<:utf8", the former is safer the latter much faster, apparently. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:24, 8 July 2015 (UTC).
Thanks again. I hope this isn't inconvenient for you. You are saving me months of work. It will be interesting to see how the list has changed compared to the list that was made in 2010. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 13:10, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
It's no problem. There are 844,482,155 lines in dump, apparently, so it will take some time to run. Surprisingly it is compute-bound. If I was re-running it I would perhaps limit the time it runs for, since the statistics shouldn't change too much from 20% of the data to 100%. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:44, 8 July 2015 (UTC).
Out of memory :( Will re-run with a 12 hour time limit. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:46, 10 July 2015 (UTC).
Is it a good idea to do just the article namespace? I'm not sure if that is possible. I was in a similar situation, I downloaded the most recent dump (pages-articles.xml.bz2) and I used the AWB database scanner to search for Regexp Typos. According to the AWB database scanner that would take about 30.000 minutes (~21 days)! I am not sure what the bottleneck was; none of the cores were at 100% and there was plenty of RAM free, maybe I need to upgrade to an SSD. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 17:17, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
I was running on pages-articles. And yes, namespace limitation is a good idea. I attached the process to core 3, and, as I said, it was CPU bound, so for speed I could probably multi-task it somehow. Seems faster working on the xml than the bz2, presumably bz2 uses an adaptive dictionary for compression/decompression, but I doubt it grows to 100s of Mb. The data structure was a simple hash, if I used some smarter structure I could cut the data size a lot. I could also cull if I assume that anything not in, say, the top 100k items after the first 10% will never make the top 10k. The last possibility is to process the file in chunks and store results for each chunk, then add them together. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:31, 10 July 2015 (UTC).
We should probably form a team and conquer the planet; my evil and your genius are a perfect combo. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 20:37, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

For your amusement, here is an image of some heavy-weight data processing using 8 cores (on another machine, far far away and a long time ago): All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:43, 10 July 2015 (UTC).

That reminded me of a song by one of my favorite rappers [4]. Have you ever heard nerdcore before? [5] What kind of music do you like? The Quixotic Potato (talk) 20:37, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
I like a lot of different types of data... I mean music. One of the London editors gave me a link to this. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:12, 12 July 2015 (UTC).
Ah, cool, I love UK hiphop [6] (although the mainstream braggadocio stuff is quite boring to me) but I also love jazz & classical music. The database scanner is finally finished (and it didn't take 21 days, I limited it to 30k results) so now I am preparsing the results with AWB. Your userpage gave me the inspiration to look for old excrement. I was able to find some that dated back to December 2011! update: March 2007 Why are vandals so obsessed with poop? I don't think Sigmund Freud was able to fully explain this. I am currently writing a script that can help me with the new most frequently used words list. When do you think the new list will be ready? The Quixotic Potato (talk) 04:06, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
Here is a current list based on the first 21 million lines of the most recent dump. It should be good for your purposes, but not for statistical purposes as it's skewed by the User:Ram-bot articles. Note that it includes wiki-markup and urls, in short everything that occurs on a source page except named HTML entities (which are mostly, if not all, shorter than 6 letters). All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:36, 13 July 2015 (UTC).
Awesome! Thanks a lot! It will take a very very long time to fix all the typos that I can find based on those 10.000 words. I will manually delete all the markup and urls. Is there something I can do to help you? The Quixotic Potato (talk) 00:18, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
You are welcome. The markup and urls show in things like "Category" and "accessdate" being in the top few words. If they are mis-spelled they too need to be fixed. I noticed an unusual word "cathen" - we have an article on a place with this name, but the bulk of the uses are in a widely referenced biblical website's uuls.
And thanks for the offer I will bear it in mind. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:05, 14 July 2015 (UTC).

Nomination of Traffic police (disambiguation) for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Traffic police (disambiguation) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Hi Rich, I'm getting the feeling you really want a dab page, and I agree there may be merit in something as the two dabs are intertwined and could be combined even. I just don't see it this minute, so I'd appreciate your input at the AfD, and the primary topic discussion. You may have inadvertently removed the AfD banner by accident. Widefox; talk 11:52, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

It is a complex situaiton. Am commenting there. Whoops. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:01, 15 July 2015 (UTC).

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Speedying a page when I have explicitly just asked for a prior note before speedy seems a little rude, to day the least. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 10:34, 15 July 2015 (UTC).
Hi Rich, only just saw your reply here. What was it you asked for? I even withdrew my speedy myself as soon as I saw your objection on the dab's talk. Widefox; talk 08:33, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
In the majority of cases when someone wants to delete a page I created either I will G7 it myself or I can explain why it shouldn't be deleted.
For this reason XfD is often a waste of everyone's time.
With speedies however, there is always a good chance that the page will be deleted before the person notified sees the message. Even if they see it they may not have time to consider all the factors and compose a substantive comment before it goes.
For these reasons it's worth extending WP:Don't template the regulars to deletion.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:47, 16 July 2015 (UTC).
Thanks for explaining. I've honestly not heard that before though, care to put it into an essay (if not already). Quick sniff around gives {{Don't template me}}, and WP:DTTR#AGF. If I've understood the timeline, the content is a duplicate from the history of the dabconcept? Widefox; talk 12:27, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

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Bummer about your RfA and thank you for the cookies. I have actually been thinking about running that gauntlet myself, and have asked some people what they think, but I'm rather concerned that after nine years on-wiki, I've sometimes ben too candid and made a few too many enemies. I've also been told that my AfD stats aren't good enough, that I'm too snarky, and other things that seem to me to be kind of irrelevant, but apparently matter a lot to those who !vote at RfA. Yet I have also had numerous people say that I'm just the sort of person who should run. What are your thoughts? Should I consider throwing my hat in the ring? Montanabw(talk) 20:35, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

If you absolutely feel you have a chance, then by all means you should run. The process may seem intimidating but really isn't. You've got nothing to lose and lots to gain from it. If it's not a promotion, then valuable community feedback. If you do decide to run, take a deep breath, prepare to be assaulted with questions, and do your best, and don't ever feel bad if you fail. During the process try to keep the RfA off of your mind for the most part, it will keep you from getting anxious and going nuts, which ultimately allows you to maintain a level head, but also pay attention to it enough so you know what's going on and answer questions that arise. You don't want end up ignoring the RfA either. The best suggestion is to continue on with your Wikipedia work and real life as you normally do and check in to this page as you would other pages. Take your time answering questions, and try not to count the days. :p The first day of the process is always the most stressful, but manageable if your prepared for it. This is some of my recent RfA experience. I hope this helps.—cyberpowerChat:Online 21:29, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Excellent advice; I'm happy to give you some more detailed feedback on my thoughts on your chances if you like, but just as a quick thought as I read Cyber's response; do whatever you want that keeps you sane through the process. I had the RSS feed for the page set up on my phone so I got buzzed every time someone posted but that's reflective of my behaviour on Wikipedia generally! Sam Walton (talk) 21:41, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the cookies. You were close. You should make it next time. I think the opposers were in good faith, but too stuck in the past and not looking at the big picture and what really relates to being a good administrator (such as a good record as an administrator which most candidates can't even have). Some of them even seem willing to support after a little more time. Donner60 (talk) 21:47, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Yes, a lot of the oppose votes were morally supportive. That certainly made it a far more pleasant process than it would have been otherwise. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:58, 16 July 2015 (UTC).
It is certainly not the three ring circus that it used to be. Apart from the surprise at the initial 4 opposes with 0 supports, I was generally gratified with the response. It had been suggested to me at the London Wikimania that it would be a very bad experience.
You should certainly consider standing. Choose a time when you have some free time for answering questions, and maybe prepare answers to the standard questions.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:58, 16 July 2015 (UTC).

Disappearance of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon

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Hi I've created Disappearance of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon and I'd like help in fleshing it out/keeping it as for South Australians, the Ratcliffe-Gordon disappearance is second only to the Beaumont children disappearance in such things. Paul Austin (talk) 15:54, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

I added a further reading link which should be enough for notability, together with news coverage. If not there's more out there. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:15, 17 July 2015 (UTC).

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Note: tag was placed in error. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 10:32, 25 July 2015 (UTC).

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Wow that was slow! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:23, 26 July 2015 (UTC).

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Probably only academic at this point but I wonder what the outcome might have been if all the trolls and socks had been officially discounted from the tally before the crats started their chat. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 00:17, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

Yes I wondered. I think there were at least 2 socks opposing, but I won't say how many trolls. I could have !voted for myself too I suppose.
Only one person rejected my note of thanks, that I am aware of. People by and large seemed as reasonable as could be expected without extensive research.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:22, 20 July 2015 (UTC).
Incidentally I am not that bothered about not "being an admin", it is merely a little irritating not to have the tools when I need them. For example I am working on a long term abuse issue, and can't block the socks myself.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:25, 20 July 2015 (UTC).
D'oh. Wished I'd seen it in time, would have voted for you. Free free to ping me in e-mail if you do another one. (For the record: Not a suggestion to canvass, I'm asking for a single personal notice because I don't watch RfA closely, and keep missing good candidates).  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  11:35, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
Thanks! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:41, 20 July 2015 (UTC).
That is an interesting point, the canvassing rules: You can only allow the RfA regulars to !vote and can't let others know? I mean, seriously, call friends and enemies equally, whats the problem?? Montanabw(talk) 23:29, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

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Hello to you, Rich.

Thank you for making a Wikipedia article about competitive badminton for 2015. I have written to "myself" about the controversy the 2015 in sports article is making from some editors. Which competitive sports should get their own Wikipedia topics? For example, how about a "2015 in combat sports" article? Rockies77 (talk) 00:51, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

I simply chose a sport that had a large section. It is 35k, which is quite a reasonable chunk. (We used to reckon 64k was about as big as articles should go!) I would be inclined to pick out some of the other sports that have large sections. Bear in mind that we are still in July! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:11, 22 July 2015 (UTC).

The News (Adelaide)

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The name of the article in the namespace should be in dark italics for the part with the name of the newspaper, but it isn't. I'm not an admin so i can't fix it. Paul Austin (talk) 19:42, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

Yes you can - do what I just did. But just italics (and even that we should check the WP:MoS) not bold please! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:48, 22 July 2015 (UTC).

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Proposed deletion of Scriptish

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Windows XP is unmaintained so that part does not hold water. The question of coverage is relevant however. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:34, 26 July 2015 (UTC).
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1st Indian Cavalry Brigade

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Rich, you have just reverted me on 1st Indian Cavalry Brigade. Can you tell me why? Hamish59 (talk) 07:59, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

Yes! My browser crashed giving me a largely black screen! I was after the "Thanks" button.  Fixed All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:34, 23 July 2015 (UTC).
(Maybe we should have an "Apologies" button too... ) All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:37, 23 July 2015 (UTC).
Thanks for that, Rich. Hamish59 (talk) 14:13, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

Rich, given that there has been no objections on the talk page Talk:1st Indian Cavalry Brigade, are you able to move 1st Indian Cavalry Brigade to 1st (Risalpur) Cavalry Brigade? Hamish59 (talk) 07:20, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Unfortunately I can't, you will need to list it at WP:RM for an admin to move. Normally it would be an uncontested technical move, but this "relist" business might complicate matters. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:02, 28 July 2015 (UTC).
Thanks for that, Rich. I did list it at WP:RM. I have now figured out that the "relist" basically pushes it back a week. No idea why, I will ask User:George Ho who did the relisting. Hamish59 (talk) 14:49, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

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Hello. In this edit you added this sentence- "Kotaku retroactively disclosed certain relationships between Patricia Hernandez and Anna Anthropy and Christine Love." I was wondering if you could elaborate on what 'certain relationships' meant in this context, and if you had a transcript or convenient timestamps for the youtube video you used as a source for it? Thanks in advance. PeterTheFourth (talk) 09:25, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

  • Not sure its worth that level of detail. However a search shows what the disclosed relationships were:
  • The disclosed relationship with Anthropy is: (Update: full disclosure...Anthropy, was housemates with me and a mutual friend in the summer of 2012.)
    1. [7]
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    6. [12] (dated October 2012)
  • For Love (Update: full disclosure...Love and I are friends.)
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    2. [14]
Also for Quinn (Update: full disclosure, Quinn and I are friends.)
One other review is also tagged with "Quinn and I are friends"
Of course there are a number of other disclosures you can find on Kotaku that might be of interest. Google is your friend.
As for the timecode, I put a rough timecode in an HTML comment. I don't remember if the interview included more public information about the relationships than the disclosures.
Interestingly I got a bad certificate on Kotaku.com

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All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:19, 1 August 2015 (UTC).
Cheers! I might look at clarifying the relationships- might the current wording might lead readers into thinking it's more than just friendships. PeterTheFourth (talk) 16:10, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

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Hey, Rich. I noticed you attempted here to open a Request for Arbitration Enforcement regarding Mass killings under Communist regimes. We are (or mostly I am) currently trying to do the same thing at the talk page here. I was advised to alert all active users that associated with the subject, so I feel your presence would be appreciated. Bataaf van Oranje (talk) 05:09, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

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Hi! I'm leaving you this note because you recently particpated in a discussion that resulted in a deletion request which you may be interested in. NickCT (talk) 14:39, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

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At Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Depression Quest, you wrote "Quiz question What well known piece of GamerGate vernacular might be used to support deletion?" What's the answer? — Bilorv(talk)(c)(e) 17:00, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

"Literally who?" I beleive it stems from an attempt to follow up a claimed connection between a person and an organization '... and they said, literally "who?"' It is used to try and distance GamerGate from any interest in Quinn, Wu, etc, who as a result are sometimes referred to collectively as "the Literally Whos". Ain't language fun? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:06, 3 August 2015 (UTC).

When did you join?

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Top of your page currently says: " has been a Wikipedian for about 136 months", but at the bottom says: Joined on:12:33, Tuesday, March 3, 2015 (UTC). Some timezone wirdness perhaps? (I'm at NZST, GMT+12) - hmm, on further checking, looks like a bug in whatever magic is behind Wikipedia:Co-op. Snori (talk)

Yes the second date is when I joined Wikipedia:Co-op. I believe the template may be Lua controlled, and hence not amenable to subst: and fix. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:58, 3 August 2015 (UTC).
Well I have sort-of subst: and fixed it. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:02, 3 August 2015 (UTC).

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Hey there! This is trivial, and sorry for even bringing this to your attention: On discussion pages, I notice you're apparently editing the last section and then adding your new section within it. This is a problem because from the watchlist it looks like you edited the previous section when really you've created a new one. Instead consider using the "New section" button at the top the page. It will generate an automated edit summary "Section title: New section", making it very clear what's happened. The added bonus is you don't need to bother with the == Section heading == markup, there's a convenient text field available to enter the section heading. Finally, you won't run into edit conflicts! Just thought I'd let you know, thanks — MusikAnimal talk 14:08, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. I actually have a .js fix for this, but I am not permitted to use it. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:10, 5 August 2015 (UTC).

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Moving Burma to Myanmar - new 2015 poll

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You participated in a Burma RM in the past so I'm informing you of another RM. I hope I didn't miss anyone. New move attempt of Burma>Myanmar Fyunck(click) (talk) 09:48, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

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Reference errors on 15 August

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Just a thought.

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Consider getting more involved with a sister project like Wiktionary, Wikiquote, or Wikisource, and seeking adminship there. Nothing signifies trust with the tools like already having them and using them wisely elsewhere in Wikimedia. Not that I've been snooping your edits or anything, but you have an edit history on Wiktionary that goes back eleven years, so if you were more active in that community for a few months, you would be a strong candidate. Cheers! bd2412 T 14:27, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

B... but... Wiktionary is hard! (Having said that there are a couple of projects I have been planning there for some time.) ~~
Everything is hard until you get yourself accommodated with it. Poke around Wiktionary's Beer Parlour and Requests for Deletion a bit and you'll see the big issues needing attention. bd2412 T 14:38, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the suggestion! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:43, 10 August 2015 (UTC).
Actually, just to revise it slightly, you have a great history at Wikisource. bd2412 T 14:48, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:49, 10 August 2015 (UTC).

Speedy deletion nomination of S. P. A. M.

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on S. P. A. M. requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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If evidence that the speedy system is broken were needed this is it. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:41, 10 August 2015 (UTC).
A redirect deleted as G3 and A1 in under a minute? One of the poorest decisions I've seen in a while. I've restored the history if only so that everyone can see what a bizarre deletion it was. Jenks24 (talk) 19:07, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
Thanks. It's just stuff that happens under the current system. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:10, 10 August 2015 (UTC).
Conversely, given the 'spammy' name and lack of #REDIRECT in the original Old revision of S. P. A. M., nor a categorisation {{R from …}} or anything similar to suggest it might have been intentional, it is perhaps a reflection of the efficiency of WP's mechanisms. On a slightly wider issue of WP:V, I haven't been able to turn up any obvious references to the initials S.P.A.M. being a pen-name of Jonathan Swift—it's isn't in the WP:LEAD of the article either—and the only mention I have found so far is the recent uncited addition[17] to the spam disambiguation page. For the time-being at least, I have tagged[18][19][20][21] the redirects with {{Redirect from pen name}}. —Sladen (talk) 19:20, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
I know you have, but thanks for telling me anyway. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:22, 10 August 2015 (UTC).
My Google-fu has failed on this occasion, please could you assist myself and others by sharing whatever WP:RSes you had found which lead to the creation of the redirects. —Sladen (talk) 19:40, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
I don't believe redirects require RS, however for your delectation I refer you to Joseph F. Clarke (1977). Pseudonyms. BCA. p. 144.. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:43, 10 August 2015 (UTC).
Thank you. I've added this to Talk:Jonathan Swift#S.P.A.M. so that it is kept somewhere safe and can be introduced into the relevant places. Would you be willing to expand the {{cite}} on that Talk page with a short quotation of the relevant paragraph for the benefit of those without a paper copy? —Sladen (talk) 19:57, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
Swift was the ultimate anonymiser and pseudonymiser. While people like Addison and Steele, and Pope may have been prolific, Dean Swift takes the biscuit. He even wrote a pangyric against himself, and a response to it. He used "Cadenus" an anagram of the Latin for "dean". Isaac Bickerstaff, Abel Roper, T. H. Philomath, Martinus Scriblerus (Martin==Swift) the which he shared with other worthies, Student of Astrology, Simon Wagstaff, Esq. and many many more. One might indeed be hard put to find a name Swift didn't use, relying, perhaps on some variation of The Engine to generate them. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:35, 10 August 2015 (UTC).
Brilliant, thank, could you check that the extent of the quote has been transferred correctly (or ideally make any corrections required directly): Talk:Jonathan Swift#S.P.A.M. —Sladen (talk) 20:46, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
Sorry that wasn't a quote, just me talking. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:48, 10 August 2015 (UTC).
Thank you for removing the incorrect citation[22]. Would you be able to assist by providing (a quote from) the direct original cite? —Sladen (talk) 20:52, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks dude

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Not sure what I was doing wrong but showing the cost was the problem? Thanks anyway. Luka.J350 ‎

No problem. I think that combined with the focus on Amazon. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:24, 13 August 2015 (UTC).

Thanks

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Thanks for the email tip about the edit filter / Alrasheed socks! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 21:01, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:22, 13 August 2015 (UTC).

Use of "paywall" sources

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Hello Rich, several days ago, I removed three "paywall" sources from Fox & Friends. The very first sentence contains the word "conservative" with four sources - two behind a paywall and one not supporting the claim. I replaced them with one New York Times source which succinctly supported the statement. That edit has been undone by an editor who says "Don't remove academic resources simply because they're behind a paywall or in print. Especially when you replace them with online opinion journalism." I don't want to get into an edit war with anyone, but it seems counter-productive to insist on using paywall sources that cannot be seen by non-subscribers (or print-only sources) when credible, current online sources (like NYT) are available. Can you please take a look and give me your opinion on the matter? Thanks SchoolMarm101 (talk) 01:37, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

I'll take a look. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:05, 13 August 2015 (UTC).
Here's my take on it:
  1. The ref that doesn't mention conservatism, is not useful.
  2. Refs in print only or behind paywalls should only be replaced by equal or better quality non-paywalled or on-line sources.
  3. In general four references would be too many. However there have been considerable disputes over these type of statements, I would be happy leaving four refs here.
  4. Any paywalled items should be tagged with {{Subscription needed}}  Done
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:33, 13 August 2015 (UTC).

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Stable version

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A barnstar for you!

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I would like to award you this for reaching 1,000,000 edits--and still contributing! Thank you. Rubbish computer 18:42, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Opinions on Edit Warring

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Hi Rich, hope you are well. I would really value your Opinion on User:WereSpielChequers/Edit Warring, especially if you could use your IT powers to come up with some stats as to how many people get blocked for edit warring and how often that loses us editors. ϢereSpielChequers 16:03, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

I wasn't that good this morning which is why I didn't attend Oxford. I'll take a look. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:28, 16 August 2015 (UTC).
Thanks, my excuse was that the trains were in a mess. ϢereSpielChequers 16:36, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
So things were less than equal? You were missed, but half a dozen still turned up, including two first-timers. We gossiped about you extensively. --RexxS (talk) 23:01, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
Yes things were slightly less than equal. Good to hear that you had a fascinating topic of conversation. I progressed with fixing my election fire though, discovering that standard switch sizes aren't standard. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:11, 16 August 2015 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #171

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Edit filter question

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You said that Special:AbuseLog/12869359 was just the filter working properly: are you sure? I can't imagine a filter that's supposed to do this, and I've already performed the edit that it prevented this other user from performing. Nyttend (talk) 13:05, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

The problem is the user's name, as the warning message states. They are now blocked on that basis as well. I'm not sure if they were simply unable to spell "fascinator", or were indulging in a little trolling. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:11, 19 August 2015 (UTC).

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Thanks for your nice comment on my talk page. Really appreciate you keeping an eye on my stuff as I am still quite new to Wikipedia and so learning the ropes as I go! BestWakelessGrub (talk) 19:03, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Wackypedia listed at Redirects for discussion

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Category:Commons category template with no category set nominated for deletion

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Hi Rich. FYI, Category:Commons category template with no category set, which you created, has been nominated for deletion. The deletion discussion is here. Regards. DH85868993 (talk) 10:24, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Gensis

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Wikidata weekly summary #172

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Gertz v. Robert Welch

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Not surprising, as you put it. Back when I wrote it (a long time ago, but in this galaxy ) I was depending entirely on the SCOTUS opinion as a source; it was things like this that taught me that you're better off reading the whole published case history where and when you can.

I'll be interested to see how you improve it. Daniel Case (talk) 23:24, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

SCOTUS opinions (and indeed UK Supreme Court opinions) make good and informative reading. But I'm sure you are right that they are often insufficient for full coverage. Notably the rulings sometimes have unintended consequences, in which case the weight given in the ruling is distorted for the purposes of the article.
I won't do a lot more, since I only have the Googlebooks view of Gertz's book, but I have yet to read the entire judgement. I will bring out the change in emphasis on the crime and communism libels, which is an interesting sidelight - Gertz avoided the implied "obstruction of justice" libel in his first case, as it Nuccio was appealing the murder charge, and the three civil cases were pending. However the SCOTUS justices drew Wayne (Geertz's representative) on the point in the SC verbal arguments. In this it seems they erred - Gertz says "One assumes that each justice has read all of the briefs. One hopes that he .. has gone through the whole record." The hope, at least, seems to have been a little optimistic.
I will also have to put something about the Seventh Circuit case when I get a better idea of what happened.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:37, 25 August 2015 (UTC).
Powell was sort of infamous for only reading the briefs before oral argument (But at least he read them all the way through). Brennan used to read the trial record and all the evidence as well (See his dissent from the per curiam opinion (believed to have been written by Powell) in Snepp v. United States for an excellent demonstration of the benefits of being that thorough). Daniel Case (talk) 14:35, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of Elliptio congaraea for deletion

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Invitation to WikiProject TAFI

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Contested PROD and AfD

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Hello, Rich. Your PROD of the article 2147483659 (number) has been removed, without explanation, so I have taken it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2147483659 (number). The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 10:43, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

I didn't PROD it, that was the redoubtable User:David Eppstein. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:02, 28 August 2015 (UTC).
Yes, I see you are right. Silly me. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 19:59, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Redirects

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I just wanted to let you know I redirected a number of redirects you created from Great Britain and Ireland to Ireland–United Kingdom relations per Talk:Great Britain and Ireland#"Ireland and the United Kingdom". I'm going to assume you disagree that Ireland–United Kingdom relations is the primary topic of those phrases, however that is the consensus. Having different versions of very similar phrases redirecting to different pages should be avoided. I recommend you open a discussion to redirect all of the phrases if you wish. I've already explained my reasoning for redirecting to that article.
Regards,
Rob984 (talk) 09:34, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

They are redirects, a long as they go somewhere reasonable, that's fine by me. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:11, 29 August 2015 (UTC).

19th Battalion (United States Marine Corps)

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As mentioned in my last edit, the article the way it is formatted with {{commons category}}, is part of an on-going so please do not revert the edit that changes the {{commons category}} until the discussion is finished. Thank you. Semper Fi! FieldMarine (talk) 18:55, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

That's fine. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:37, 29 August 2015 (UTC).

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ANI about User:Tortle

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Interested in your thoughts

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@Rich Farmbrough: further to the debate at Talk:Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine, do you think it would be a good idea to investigate creating or amending Wikipedia policy so editors are prevented from giving a religion to young children, especially if the children are or were forced to perform religious beliefs and actions out of fear or terror of consequences or punishment (such as in Princess Marie's era)? Paul Austin (talk) 14:56, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

Re: Thanks

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Glad to be of help :) 82.11.165.242 (talk) 18:20, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

Edit filter noticeboard

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Hi! I am asking this here so I don't risk derailing the conversation `on the noticeboard. You mentioned "They have "abusefilter" on testwiki so they do not need it here". I have been considering getting more involved in abuse filters (right now I do mostly microcontroller programming in assembly and C) and could use a sandbox of some sort to use while learning. Would it be a good idea to ask for abusefilter on testwiki? This leads to a more general question; how does a person with programming skills but no Wikipedia filter experience learn the ropes without screwing something up while learning? --Guy Macon (talk) 01:37, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

Testwiki is a good idea, provided they are happy giving you the right over there. (It's really for testing the software. But it does get used for trying stuff out that, for example, requires junk in article space.)
We have been discussing that: there are really only two things one can do wrong:
  1. Block/tag a lot of innocent edits - solution, only create "log" filters, and test changes on a test filter as "log only" for sufficiently long.
  2. Create a filter that costs too much,and causes other filters not to run. Sub problems:
    1. by overrunning the condition count. This is an arbitrary , buggy, but at least predictable metric, special to edit filters. By dint of keeping the condition count down on all our filters we rarely overrun them, despite a significant number of new EFs being added.
    2. by overrunning the execution time limit. This is caused by well formed regex, usually greedy ones, that take exponential time to run.
The only defence against the second pair of errors (apart form not making them) is to put the new EF at the end of the list, which is where new EFs naturally go. However our test filters are 1 and 2.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:52, 6 September 2015 (UTC).

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[[23]] --huggi - never stop exploring (talk) 03:54, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Singapore is a little far for me, unless you are sending plane tickets! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 04:05, 7 September 2015 (UTC).

Userboxes

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Do you know how I can sort out my userboxes? They told me to use a template at the Teahouse that I'm already using. Also, is there a userbox for the total number of edits a user has made on all wiki projects? Thanks in advance, Rubbish computer 01:10, 7 September 2015 (UTC) Rubbish computer 01:10, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

I love being naughty, I hate being nice, so just to be naughty, I'll sign my name twice!
I have a count of edits on my user page - but the data is on a sub-page, and manually updated (about once a year). I have contemplated something like "adminstats" for regular users, but I would not be able to support it myself, as I once said "tosh" to an arbitrator.
I'll have a look at your userboxes presently. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:49, 7 September 2015 (UTC).
Here's my thoughts.
  • The {{Userbox top}} is floating the whole thing right, but centring it within the div
  • The {{Thank You IP/User box}} provides a float right which, without the Userbox top it will misalign. You can maybe overcome this with {{Thank You IP/User box|center}}
  • The userboxes are all the same width, but they are not all the same height.
Here is another way of doing it, simpler but has a wide right margin for me. You could set the overall width of the table and of each cell.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 02:49, 7 September 2015 (UTC).

@Rich Farmbrough: Thanks. Rubbish computer 06:49, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

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Invitation to subscribe to the edit filter mailing list

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Hi, as a user in the edit filter manager user group we wanted to let you know about the new wikipedia-en-editfilters mailing list. As part of our recent efforts to improve the use of edit filters on the English Wikipedia it has been established as a venue for internal discussion by edit filter managers regarding private filters (those only viewable by administrators and edit filter managers) and also as a means by which non-admins can ask questions about hidden filters that wouldn't be appropriate to discuss on-wiki. As an edit filter manager we encourage you to subscribe; the more users we have in the mailing list the more useful it will be to the community. If you subscribe we will send a short email to you through Wikipedia to confirm your subscription, but let us know if you'd prefer another method of verification. I'd also like to take the opportunity to invite you to contribute to the proposed guideline for edit filter use at WP:Edit filter/Draft and the associated talk page. Thank you! Sam Walton (talk) and MusikAnimal talk 18:22, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Template:Facts/doc

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A tag has been placed on Template:Facts/doc requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

Unused template doc

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If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Mahdy Saffar (talk) 16:50, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

wayback param for cite_web (and friends)

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You thread-jacked insightfully commented that it would be helpful to have a |wayback= param.  :-)

I kinda-sorta agree, but I think that it would be better just to have auto-detection of the use of archive.org in the |archiveurl= param. The point of adding the |wayback= param, is that you can paste in the YYYYMMDDHHMMSS portion of the archive.org URL, and then elide the |archive-date= param.

However, if the template can simply detect and parse the contents of the |archiveurl= field, it would be possible to elide the |archive-date= param *and* the |url= param, too, since both are encoded in the full |archiveurl= contents. I also think it is simpler to cut-n-paste the entire URL of the archive.org snapshot (which is alt+d ctrl+c ctrl+tab ctrl+v for my tabbed browsing), than it is to cut-n-paste just the YYYYMMDDHHMMSS portion (which needs the mouse).

Anyways, figured I would leave a note here on your usertalk, with my suggested parse-the-existing-param-more-intelligently suggestion, in case you decide to further pursue an upgrade to the way that archiveurl is handled. 75.108.94.227 (talk) 21:54, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Good point. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:00, 9 September 2015 (UTC).
I've also proposed a maybe-not-too-process-heavy thing over at the Edit-Filter-draft-page. If you have time to look, that would be appreciated. But mostly what I came back to say was, this made me chuckle.[24] "Since theoretically you might have had your password compromised, we're blocking you just in case, until the off-chance has been 100% ruled out." 75.108.94.227 (talk) 19:05, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

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Answered All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:06, 11 September 2015 (UTC).

Darryl Hanah

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FYI... you created a redirect to itself. Bgwhite (talk) 07:18, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

The ultimate walled garden! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:46, 13 September 2015 (UTC).

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Email

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Ping! Thou hast email :) ϢereSpielChequers 18:48, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Huh?

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Thanks for your thanks but I have not edited the Sweet Briar page in at least a week (just checked--it's been nearly two weeks). Must've been somebody else.ElijahBosley (talk ☞) 18:41, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks were for the talk page encouragement to a new user - and 5 weeks ago! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:04, 15 September 2015 (UTC).

User:Magicsan

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Hi,

I see that from User talk:Magicsan that you are Magicsan's mentor. I don't really want to engage with him myself, so I'm hoping you can. Could you please talk to him about his deletion nominations? He has nominated several articles for speedy deletion, but has given reasons that clearly don't apply, and also has started a couple AFDs while giving almost no explanation of why he thinks the articles should be deleted (e.g., just saying "totally useless" or "its a stub"). He doesn't seem to have a good understanding of when the deletion policies apply or which articles should be deleted. Calathan (talk) 18:42, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Certainly. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:43, 17 September 2015 (UTC).

shoe size

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I wear size 11 steel toecaps. What do you wear?

My Totectors are a mere size 10 but I have two pairs (one is anti-static, the other fire-resistant with a steel mid-sole). I suppose they add to make size 20.
Rich Farmbrough, 22:57, 18 September 2015 (UTC).

The Signpost: 16 September 2015

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Help us improve wikimeets by filling in the UK Wikimeet survey!

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Hello! I'm running a survey to identify the best way to notify Wikimedians about upcoming UK wikimeets (informal, in-person social meetings of Wikimedians), and to see if we can improve UK wikimeets to make them accessible and attractive to more editors and readers. All questions are optional, and it will take about 10 minutes to complete. Please fill it in at:

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ARCA appeal

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You are involved in a recently-filed request for clarification or amendment from the Arbitration Committee. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment#Imposition of an Arbitration Enforced Sanction against me by Bishonen and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. Additionally, the Wikipedia:Arbitration guide may be of use.

Thanks, Soham321 (talk) 20:10, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanking script?

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Rich, someone told me you have a script to run that thanks everyone who !voted in your RfA... I'd like to do that for everyone on all sides who !voted in mine, the participation rate was very high, and I'm actually glad for all the feedback, even the stuff that was, well, meh. How does one do a mass send but not piss off people by spamming? Montanabw(talk) 23:29, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

They are mistaken. I did it manually, and made one or two errors, dishing out excess cookies to one or two !voters who commented in a different section.
I think RfA acknowledgements/thanks are sufficiently part of the culture not to be considered spam. I monitored mine a little bit, and I think the worst response I got was a summary deletion.
It's very easy to copy the list of !voters (I hadn't seen that tool!) fix the errors, and make it into a talk page list. You can then open them in a new browser window, say 50 at a time, and add your message to each and save. Closing the window saves closing the individual tabs.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:52, 25 September 2015 (UTC).
Oh if you have AWB you could do it using that. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:54, 25 September 2015 (UTC).

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Proposed deletion of Margaret Hannan

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The article Margaret Hannan has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Margaret Hannan

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A tag has been placed on Margaret Hannan requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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GeoffreyT2000@ please do not speedy pages that have a prod notice on them. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:26, 26 September 2015 (UTC).
  • Hi, I have restored Margaret Hannan. But it does need a claim of importance very soon, and references in the near future. Otherwise this could be a draft instead if you don't have time to do anything now. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:45, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

India-Pakistan arbitration amendment request archived

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Speedy deletion nomination of Nicholas Bowen

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A tag has been placed on Nicholas Bowen requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person, a group of people, an individual animal, an organization (band, club, company, etc.), web content, or an organized event, but it does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Tonyinman@ Replied on talk page. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:13, 30 September 2015 (UTC).


A barnstar for you!

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The Original Barnstar
Thank you, Rich, for cleaning up the Wikipedia:WikiProject Women/Women in Red/Metrics‎ lists, which is important to our project. Your contributions are appreciated. Rosiestep (talk) 14:30, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
Most welcome! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:58, 2 October 2015 (UTC).

Nomination of Nicholas Bowen for deletion

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Find My Past and similar

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(Moved from my talk page. Rich Farmbrough, 18:38, 12 October 2015 (UTC).)
User:Primefac doesn't like them. Philafrenzy (talk) 23:25, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

That is not true, and it'd be nice if you didn't put words in my mouth. I am simply removing completely useless refs like http://www.findmypast.co.uk/birth-indexes-search-start.action , which is a) a dead link, and b) when it was live, only went to the generic search page. When is referencing a Search ever RS? I am leaving well alone any reference to an actual document. So please, Philafrenzy, chill out. Primefac (talk) 23:38, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
Well I'm glad we cleared that up!
Quick question, do you remove links like "http://www.findmypast.co.uk/birth-indexes-search-start.action=go&params=Bloggs%20Fred" - because on a lot of web sites (and this is not necessarily a good thing) that might well be the (an) url for an actual document.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:53, 11 October 2015 (UTC).
At this particular moment I am only removing links that are clearly to the generic search page with no extra information attached to them. Since I do not feel like paying for a subscription, I am leaving anything that may be ambiguous alone for now. Primefac (talk) 23:56, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
What about this, this, and this? All to specific pages in their site. (there are another 5 or 6) It doesn't matter, incidentally, that they are now dead. You can tag them for that if necessary. We need to retain the source of the information. Philafrenzy (talk) 00:19, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
(edit conflict)At that particular time I was following the guidelines of WP:FMP and removing bare URLs. Even the ones using the naming parameter just used the generic "England Births XXXX-YYYY" title, so it's not much better than a bare URL.Primefac (talk) 00:28, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Perhaps a list could be created and a mini-project to correct these URLs instituted - maybe under the auspices of WikiLibrary? Presumably they were added in good faith, so there should be something there to support the claim - if not another reference should be looked for. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:59, 12 October 2015 (UTC).

Melty listed at Redirects for discussion

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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Melty. Since you had some involvement with the Melty redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Mabalu (talk) 09:46, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Aticles for deletion/1369 Coffeehouse

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correct ur page move — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.6.159.82 (talk) 17:50, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

mv rqstd. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:26, 6 October 2015 (UTC).
Maybe time for this to be re-created. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:31, 6 October 2015 (UTC).

Thanks, but I have a problem with what you did here. I see the you moved Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1369 Coffeehouse to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1369 Coffeehouse (2nd nomination) and then requested an admin move of Wikipedia:Aticles for deletion/1369 Coffeehouse to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1369 Coffeehouse. Don't you think this would mis-direct links? All links that were supposed to point to one nomination are now pointing to another nominaion. 103.6.159.76 (talk) 00:01, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

For example, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2005 September 30 transcludes the wrong page. I'll go ahead and request a repair of thi mess. 103.6.159.76 (talk) 00:06, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
That's the only link there. And these pages get almost zero views, see stats.grok.se. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:05, 7 October 2015 (UTC).
And you broke it. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:45, 9 October 2015 (UTC).

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STiki

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Hello, do you know where the log of nonconstructive edits for STiki users is? I have STiki and I can't find it anywhere. Thanks, --Rubbish computer 17:11, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

I was under the impression that the STiki database lives off on some third party server at a university. It may have moved since I used it. You can find the whitelist of users on your own computer, but the main db is probably too large to distribute, and too difficult to synchronise. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:17, 6 October 2015 (UTC).
Thanks, but I thought you picked edits out of a big list. Can you help me with this? --Rubbish computer 18:05, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
I'm not sure what you mean. If you mean "how do you see the list on STiki", I am not allowed to use STiki per ArbCom, therefore I don't have ability to run the software up and remind myself of the user interface. I only knew about the whitelist because it got thrown up at on recent disk-search. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:14, 12 October 2015 (UTC).

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Category:Kazakhstani wrestlers

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I noticed you created Category:Kazak wrestlers but Category:Kazakhstani sport wrestlers, Category:Kazakhstani wrestlers and Category:Kazakhstani martial artists. The organisation is a mess bu I thought you should know.Peter Rehse (talk) 18:21, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks:

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:25, 12 October 2015 (UTC).

Find My Past and similar

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Moved to WPT:FMP All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:36, 12 October 2015 (UTC).

I am in need of help!!!!

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I made a article called Draft:Samuel Fairgood and it is now in draft into the article is ready. I just did some changes to it and was wondering can you take a look at it to see if I can move the article to the main site. Thank you. Kingsamhippy (talk) 17:02, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

The main problem is that there is no indication that this person meets the requirements for a Wikipedia article. You (or someone else) will need to find "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." See WP:GNG for what this means in detail.
This would help fix the second issues - the lack of references in the article.
The third issue is the non-neutral language. "nowadays the music we hear on the radio and media is overrated with negativity and nonsense" is not something we should be saying in Wikipedia's voice, it needs a source - who says that?
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:15, 13 October 2015 (UTC).

replying

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Hi Rich. Two things.

  1. I did a simple count on the three parts of the OFAC SDN list, iterating over the program acronyms using 'grep -Fc', and expanded the table on the Wikipedia page accordingly. It turns out that the "program acronyms" seem to correspond to specific sanctions authorizations rather than sanctions programs, so there are multiple results for each program (look at Iran!). I kept everything down to simple counting, as you suggested that doing so would not run afoul of OR restrictions.
  2. Pretty please, in the future, when replying to me on a talk page, use something like the {{reply to}} template, so that I get the message promptly, if at all.

Have a look at the table. Some of the results surprised me. For example, I found no one on sanctions for blood-diamonds. Regards, —Boruch Baum (talk) 05:30, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Boruch Baum@ good move, it avoids the complexities. The article comments on the diamonds. I am a little "old-school" - I generally expect people to check back, either using their memory or watchlist. But I'll make an exception. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:56, 13 October 2015 (UTC).
BTW I emailed you the script I used. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:55, 13 October 2015 (UTC).
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Hi Rich. Your thoughts are welcome at WT:RFA#Two proposed RfCs on the viewdeleted userright. (P.S. This isn't canvassing, since you're one of the people in the target demographic ... you'll see what I mean.) - Dank (push to talk) 17:27, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

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Good luck

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I hope they accede to your request. I think enough time has passed. Guy (Help!) 15:21, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. One can never tell. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:59, 8 October 2015 (UTC).
Rich, can I encourage you to retract/heavily amend this[25], in its present form it probably doesn't help the discussion, or the overall case being put. —Sladen (talk) 16:48, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
Thank you![26] —Sladen (talk) 18:51, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
Rich Could this perhaps be worded more clearly? "6. It would be nice to be able to use … Hotcat" and then "Hotcat: really I would doubt that I would use it more than …".[27] It is perhaps a confusing juxtaposition in its present form. —Sladen (talk) 22:19, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
Probably. The point I was trying to make is that the restriction hamstrings me at every turn. It not only means that I can't run bots, can't do assisted editing of the type that AWB, Huggle and Stiki enable, it denies me the minor tools and gadgets - and nominally cut and paste, search and replace. I say nominally, but I was blocked for a year for possibly using search and replace - maybe just search I can't really remember.* User:Worm That Turned vouchsafed an opinion on where the line might be drawn - but made it clear - quite rightly, that it was merely an opinion. Any attempt to negotiate or gain clarity is met with accusations of "pushing the envelope".
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:46, 12 October 2015 (UTC).
  • I might even have been using "Highlight all" on Firefox! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:06, 12 October 2015 (UTC).
Thank you![28] The positive spin is to state that the restrictions and year-block have allowed exploring other ways of contributing to Wiki*.* (without automation), that these have allowed the (re)growing of relationships with other editors, and this period of reflection was used to work on the points raised during the Arbitration processes. The key phrase in the request, for me, is "one [FoF] suggested that I was "not responsive". … since that date I have been responsive." because it shows recognition+acceptance+addressing+changing. —Sladen (talk) 06:09, 13 October 2015 (UTC) PS. try not to enumerate ways that [29] could have been done—it can be perceived as petty, evasive, and detracting from the wider story about your learning and changing from the experience, which is what people really want to hear about and which will determine your success.
Well of course, that edit is hardly relevant unless it is brought up as "recalcitrance" - but yes the claim is fairly clear, and I thought compelling. I haven't done what was claimed in the 3 1/2 years since and have no intention of so doing. You're right I should have drawn attention to my content work, perhaps its a bit late for that now.
On the positive side Corcelles has suggested a loosening that would be valuable.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:25, 15 October 2015 (UTC).

Good way, bad way

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The good way to bring notice to someone's (e.g. an arbcom clerk's) typo is to fix it and leave them a note on their personal talk page. The bad way is to make a fuss on a widely watched noticeboard. Please do more of the former and less of the latter. NE Ent 02:15, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Please feel free to change it. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 02:17, 16 October 2015 (UTC).

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Hi, you were mentioned, along with the rest of the Top 10 Wikipedians by edit count, in this news piece: http://priceonomics.com/the-most-prolific-editor-on-wikipedia/. Thanks, ––Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 16:26, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

That's interesting, thanks. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:38, 16 October 2015 (UTC).
No problem. --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 09:38, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

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You have a hell of a lot of updating to do here, 3/4 of the stuff on here is totally wrong!! How do you people get away with allowing Courtney Love write most of this stuff via fake names. It's so obvious, please Fix this bullshit now!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:80:4300:FF40:148A:861D:F8FD:B6CA (talk) 06:54, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Perhaps you could be a little more specific? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:02, 20 October 2015 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #180

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done, I think, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:13, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

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Talk:Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War#Requested move 12 October 2015

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Another RM started and has been ongoing; I invite you to improve consensus. --This is George Ho actually (Talk) 00:34, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Alice Coomaraswamy

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Charles S. Strong

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Now exists - looks like you have info to add to it, thank goodness. He also wrote science fiction, and lots of steamy romance novels ... but documenting everything is a pain and I did not easily find some of what you found. Thanks. Collect (talk) 18:00, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

Thank you! I knew he deserved an article. I have moved my resources to the article or the talk page. Feel free to use as you see fit. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:43, 25 October 2015 (UTC).

Vested contributors arbitration case opened

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Vested contributors retitled Arbitration enforcement 2

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ARCA

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Just wanted to thank you for your supporting the lifting/easing of my restriction. :) GoodDay (talk) 20:26, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Most welcome. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:13, 29 October 2015 (UTC).

You're invited! Women in Red World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Science

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You are invited! Join us remotely!

World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Science

  • Dates: 8 to 29 November 2015
  • Location: Worldwide/virtual/online event
  • Host/Facilitator: Women in Red (WiR) in collaboration with Women scientists: Did you know that only 15% of the biographies on Wikipedia are about women? WiR focuses on "content gender gap". If you'd like to help contribute articles on women and women's works, we warmly welcome you!
  • Sponsor: New York Academy of Sciences
  • Event details: This is a virtual edit-a-thon hosted by WiR in parallel with a "phyisical" event during the afternoon of Sunday, November 22 in New York City. It will allow all those keen to improve Wikipedia's coverage of women in science to participate. As the virtual edit-a-thon stretches over three weeks, new participants will be able to draw on the assistance of more experienced editors while creating, translating or improving articles on women who are (or have been) prominent in the field. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome.
  • RSVP and learn more: →here←--Ipigott (talk) 10:38, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

Halloween cheer!

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Happy Halloween!

Hello Rich Farmbrough:
Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia, and have a happy and enjoyable Halloween!
    – Rubbish computer (Trick: or treat?) 20:20, 31 October 2015 (UTC)



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Celebrate 7&6=thirteen (☎) 13:41, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:59, 1 November 2015 (UTC).
I remembered your support last year here, which I think improved the project. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:48, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #182

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Duchess of Richmond's ball

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Floorplan. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:38, 4 November 2015 (UTC).

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AWB

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I would like to use AWB to fix typos and perform cleanup, but am worried that the wider community would not allow me access to it. What do you think I should do? Thanks, --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 15:47, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Read the rule and the guide - be sure you understand why the various restrictions are there, then provided you are happy with that apply. There are some 4000 accounts approved so I doubt there should be much difficulty.
When using AWB be aware that a lot of people consider an error made with AWB far more serious than one made by hand. (Of course if you made 300 copies of the same error and no good edits, they would have a point - but that's not what I mean.) I did an experiment to establish this, though I haven't fully analysed the results. A good deal of the time you save by using AWB will need to be re-invested into quality control.
If you do decide to do typo fixing let me know and I will try and write up a few notes about how I approached that task.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:18, 4 November 2015 (UTC).
Thanks! --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 16:23, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
Sorry, just another thing: is it possible it could knacker my computer? --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 16:29, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
Hmm, well it is technically possible, but very unlikely, especially if you are just using it in the normal way. The only thing that I would be even remotely concerned about are intense disk activity or long and intense CPU usage. The first is only likely if you are doing a lot of work with data dumps, and the second if you were doing that or true bot-work. I have used AWB extremely intensively in the past, with no apparent ill effect.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:38, 4 November 2015 (UTC).
Okay, thanks again! --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 16:41, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Collateral damage from rangeblock

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Hi Rich Farmbrough,

I'm writing on your talk page because you took part in the discussion about the extension of a range IP block, there're less than 2 hours left for the new block to start and yesterday I added some information making a summary at the end of the section: may you please join back the discussion and give your final opinion about the matter?

Thank you in advance!

Centocinquantuno (talk) 09:24, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Need to comment

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All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:28, 5 November 2015 (UTC).

MfD nomination of User:Rich Farmbrough/Final Fantasy (video game)

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Your email

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What I had in mind actually had nothing to do with the check list page, but is probably still susceptible to the same vulnerability. --Izno (talk) 23:09, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Q3163213 listed at Redirects for discussion

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Nomination of Timothy Allan for deletion

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Nomination of Simon Denny (professor) for deletion

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Nomination of Murdoch MacLeod for deletion

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Nomination of Kenneth Nelson (businessman) for deletion

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Nomination of Paul Davidson (business) for deletion

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Nomination of Maureen Milgram Forrest for deletion

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Nomination of George Douglas Scott for deletion

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Nomination of Ederyn Williams for deletion

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You're invited! Women in Red World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Science

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World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Science

  • Dates: 8 to 29 November 2015
  • Location: Worldwide/virtual/online event
  • Host/Facilitator: Women in Red (WiR) in collaboration with Women scientists: Did you know that only 15% of the biographies on Wikipedia are about women? WiR focuses on "content gender gap". If you'd like to help contribute articles on women and women's works, we warmly welcome you!
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Nomination for deletion

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Hi Rich, an article you created, Male hysteria, has been nominated for deletion by [[User:Codeofdusk|.. The discussion is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Male hysteria. Graham87 03:21, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. Looks like it is pretty safe... All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 03:38, 8 November 2015 (UTC).

What (disambiguation) listed at Redirects for discussion

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Precious again

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A year ago, you were recipient no. 1015 of
Precious, a prize of QAI!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:48, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Gerald

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I think you've got it! I found this which says he was with Fleming for a time in China, and this confirms he was with Reuters. Many thanks - I shall have to look out his book, he sounds like an interesting character. DuncanHill (talk) 02:14, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

A little detective work is always fun. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 02:15, 9 November 2015 (UTC).

2015 Arbitration Committee Candidate Statement

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Hello,

After reviewing your election statement it appears that you have exceeded the maximum limit of 400 words. Could you please reduce the statement length at the earliest opportunity? You are welcome to provide links to an extended statement if you so desire. On behalf of the Election Commission, Mike V • Talk 02:27, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

There's a word limit? No problem I can précis. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 02:29, 9 November 2015 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #183

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Highlights of 3 years of Wikidata by Madgalena Wiegner
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:25, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Arbitration case accepted

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Nomination for deletion of Template:R to other namespace

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Nomination for deletion of Template:ISO 3166 name DE-HB

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Beaumont children disappearance

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Hi,

The 50th anniversary of the Beaumont children disappearance is in two months. Would you like to help me with the article so something special and important can be done with it for the anniversary? Also asking other old friends. Paul Benjamin Austin (talk) 13:04, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

Not sure I'll have time to look at this. Good luck with it. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:41, 13 November 2015 (UTC).

Squeeze paper

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Hi. Please do not use a edit summary of "undid revision by ..." when you are actually adding new content and not undoing anything, as you did in Squeeze paper. It is not nice for the involved editor. Thank you - Nabla (talk) 10:01, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Apologies. I started with an undo to restore the external links section, then added the external link and restored the stub type. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:40, 13 November 2015 (UTC).
Rich, please try to look at the edit again. AFAICS, the stub was corrected by Nabla. —Sladen (talk) 14:19, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
Sladen, please try to read what I wrote again, slowly, and you will see that I never said otherwise. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:26, 13 November 2015 (UTC).
Thank you, and yes, I often use a similar technique. In such cases I try and to be extra careful (because of the potential for upset) to include something that makes it clear that it's a positive development eg. "partial rv; […rationale…]. Undid … ". Would that be useful positive solution? —Sladen (talk) 17:21, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
Quite possibly. I have had a bunch of these in the past few days, where someone or something has removed a section merely because it was empty. Believe it or not having to redo something because someone removed it is also "upsetting" and "not nice for the editor involved." I have great respect for stub-sorters, and would not wish to upset any of them. My assumption that they would understand what I did was clearly misplaced, but I don't think it was an unreasonable assumption. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:51, 13 November 2015 (UTC).
Accepted. Thanks. I'd like to point that I am not "a stub sorter" I am user:Nabla, that happens to sort stubs once in a while. As I am not "them" in anyway, I do not know if "they" do understand something or not. Please do not assume anything about "them" based on me. I think I understood what you did, the point is that your summary does not reflect what you did, instead reflected badly on another editor. Please don't take me wrong, I do not want to pick any kind of fight. I also could have done better. Usually when I am sorting stubs I disconnect that from any other activity - that is, I do not correct or tag an article in the same edit. This time I did it, and so I am also responsible for the ensuing confusion. My apologies for that. Enjoy. - Nabla (talk) 02:04, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
Thank you. And thank you for sorting the stub, as well as everything else you do! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 02:06, 14 November 2015 (UTC).

DYK nomination of The Industrial Christian Home for Polygamous Wives

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Proposed deletion of Karen Arnold

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The article Karen Arnold has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

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ArbCom

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Hi Rich Farmbrough, just thought I'd stop by and say good luck in the upcoming elections samtar {t} 15:06, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you! Much appreciated. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:26, 12 November 2015 (UTC).
  • Best of luck from me also, Rich (sincerely). FYI, I referred to your candidacy as an example here. –xenotalk 14:12, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
  • Thanks! Now to go and check for more questions. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:26, 15 November 2015 (UTC).

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Wikidata weekly summary #184

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Edit filters

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Hi! I'm trying to get some good edit filter for lvwiki, that catches vandalism. Wanted to ask - could you send me email with these filters code: 384, 279, 260, and 354. That will help catch some more besides those which are public - English phrases are common vandalism in Latvian. And want to take a look at the technical part of those filters. You don't need to worry - that information won't be used to screw up or make some big vandalisms at enwiki :) --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 17:55, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 11:18, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
Most welcome. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:22, 17 November 2015 (UTC).

Strange behavior of tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-ec

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Hello. Are you aware of the fact that

https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-ec/?user=Rich+Farmbrough&project=en.wikipedia.org

answers with zeroes in each place ? (at least on my computer...) Pldx1 (talk) 11:22, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Yes. It used to time out. Someone was good enough to post some statistics - the SUL figures are more accurate though not as comprehensive. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:20, 17 November 2015 (UTC).

Nomination of John May (executive) for deletion

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Nomination of Michael Leithrow for deletion

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Nomination of John Jennens for deletion

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Nomination of Brian Dunsby for deletion

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Rich, I've emailed you via Meta, since my daily allowance here has been reached. Tony (talk) 05:10, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

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Your comment on ANI

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Hi. Your comment on the ANI thread seems to have somehow gotten cut off in the middle. You probably want to go back and finish the thought and sign. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 05:36, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

You get the "more efficient than Bracketbot" barnstar. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 05:47, 19 November 2015 (UTC).

Slow Blind Driveway listed at Redirects for discussion

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Persistance

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I will not cease from Mental Fight!
I thought you might appreciate a bit of cheer-leading, in recognition of your patience in handling all those ugly little devils in the detail. Keep focusing on the woods rather than the twigs being thrown around in the wind. You're doing just fine. Fæ (talk) 14:47, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
Nils illegitimus ..' eh? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:19, 20 November 2015 (UTC).

Nomination of Finding water for deletion

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This redirect is tagged as RFD; I invite you for discussion. --George Ho (talk) 21:54, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

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Nomination for deletion of Template:OW/OW

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Using AWB

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Hi, I've downloaded AWB but I don't understand how to use it or take furher steps to set it up. Thanks, --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 16:49, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

OK the basic steps are:
  1. decide on a task
  2. log in (probably not needed if you use IE)
  3. make a list of articles
  4. set the options
  5. run the task

Detailed example

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So suppose we decide to fix "perogative" -> "prerogative"
  • Click on "file" -> "log in" and do the necessary
Now make the list:
  • In the Source area (bottom left) select Wiki search (text)
  • Type "perogative" (without quotes) into the box, and click make list
You should get a list of about 6 or 7 articles. (Only 3 have mis-spellings. The others have redirects from misspelling.)
Now under "options" check find and replace and click the "normal" button: You should get a table.
In the first row enter "perogative" and "prerogative" in the first two cells. All the check boxes except "enabled" and "case sensitive" should be blank.
That is the "rule" for this run.
For the sake of simplicity uncheck "auto tag" "apply general fixes" and "unicodify..."
Now go to the start tab, enter an edit summary such as "spelling - prerogative"
Press "Start"
AWB will fetch the first article and apply your rule. Seeing that there is no change it will display "No Change".
Either press "skip" or - go to the options tab and check "skip if no replacement made" and then press start again.
After a few skips, you will come to an article where the rule does make a change, and the diff will be displayed.
If you are happy, press "save" and move to the next article.
Normally you would have the "General fixes", "Auto tag" and "Unicodify" on, of course these may make the diffs harder to read, but they are mostly a "Good Thing".
Hope that helps.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:45, 21 November 2015 (UTC).
Thanks, but I don't know what you mean by log in, as I am logged in. I also don't know how to make a list of articles. Is something supposed to appear somewhere? Where are the options? Thanks, --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 19:02, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
At Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/User manual#Login it says "choose File / Login (the sixth item from the top)". Where is it talking about? That and the example screenshots lokk diferent to what's on my computer. --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 19:11, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
The number was wrong, unless they were counting from zero... but you see the "File" button near the top left? And when you click it you get a drop down? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:18, 21 November 2015 (UTC).
  • When you log in to Wikipedia your browser talks to the web server and they exchange a cookie (basically a random number) that confirms it's still you every time you request a new page or press save. If, like me, you use multiple browsers, you will need to log in on each of them. AWB is just another browser so you need to log in there too. (Except that it uses code libraries "and stuff" that IE uses, so you might find if you use IE you are already logged on in AWB.)
  • How to make this sample list of articles is explained in my post. I have bolded the point where that explanation starts.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:19, 21 November 2015 (UTC).
I've got it now, thank you so much! --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 19:50, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
Most welcome! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:01, 21 November 2015 (UTC).
Hi, how do you stub sort with AWB? Thanks, --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 23:51, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
I also replaced "transexual" with "transsexual" because I thought it was a misspelling, but Wiktionary defines it as a [[:wikt:Transexual|"rare alternative spelling"], so I won't be replacing this again. Is this a problem? Thanks, --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 23:53, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
I doubt that anyone will complain about that. I would have "fixed" that spelling if I saw it, and I'm sure many people would have. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:58, 24 November 2015 (UTC).
I don't think you can stub sort using AWB super-fast - unless perhaps the stubs are already categorised. Stub sorters usually have an intricate knowledge of the stub category tree (or so it seems).
Certainly you can use the listmaker to select articles that transclude {{Stub}}, you can then use the "find" to quickly get to the stub template and add the actual qualifier manually.
(You could automatically replace {{Stub}} with {{-stub}} to save a few keystrokes.)
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:58, 24 November 2015 (UTC).
Okay, thanks again. --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 02:13, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Harlan Howard Thompson

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I think the woods are full of forgotten but major authors of westerns for children <g>. Have you ever seen his name before? (or as 'Stephen Holt) Collect (talk) 21:52, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Doesn't ring any bells with me, I'm afraid. Currently on women scientists (or was it Chaucer?) when I get a break from stalky XfD's and ACE questions.
There is definitely a lack of coverage of (particularly fiction) authors. Not sure if there are systematic ways of getting refs, maybe with one of the paid services that will have archived book reviews - but even book reviews are scarce in some cases.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:38, 24 November 2015 (UTC).
Thank you -- just finished voicing my opinions on a few AfDs about "women authors" whose articles were possibly created by a "disfavoured person" on Wikipedia - even though the women clearly are notable. Strong is in the DYK queue at least -- quite a character <g>. Collect (talk) 22:58, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:ISO 3166 name Canada

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Clean up categories from year

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Proposed deletion of Brain Test

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The article Brain Test has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Other than a bit of coverage about it being malware, I really can't see where this app is notable enough for an entry. There was a small flurry of coverage around the end of September, but not really much past that point in time. Most of the coverage past that point is like this and is in places that would be dubious as a source for Wikipedia's purposes, given that the site appears to offer media packages for coverage.

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Parent monthly clean-up category progress

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Template:Parent monthly clean-up category progress has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Jackmcbarn (talk) 17:19, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

Something that stayed too long

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See here It's not exactly egregious but I was shocked to see that I removed this after almost a decade. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:41, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

Yes redirects are very low maintenance, and no-one would have seen that it the normal course of events. It's certainly true that we are deleting perfectly correct and probably notable information by the bucket-load while clean-up and maintenance falls mainly to a few dozen people. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:44, 27 November 2015 (UTC).

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Template:Covert listed at Redirects for discussion

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DYK for The Industrial Christian Home for Polygamous Wives

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Unable to log in to use AWB

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Hi, I am currently unable to log in using AWB because it is stated that the account "Rubbish computer" already exists. I am using the correct password and I have tried closing and reloading the tab. Please advise. Thanks, --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 13:05, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

If you look at the bottom right does it say "not logged in" or "Rubbish Computer"? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:43, 28 November 2015 (UTC).
It says "not logged in". --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 15:01, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
OK. AWB maintains profiles for your various accounts on various wikis. I suspect that for some reason it's trying to make anew profile where one already exists. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:04, 28 November 2015 (UTC).
Okay: I somehow fixed it by not clicking "Save this account". Thanks, --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 15:06, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
Good. When you click "Log in/Profiles " a little window should come up, headed profiles. If "Rubbish Computer" is item 1 (or 2...) , double click it. You may then be prompted for your password, depending on whether you elected too store it. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:08, 28 November 2015 (UTC).
Okay, thanks again. --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 15:18, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

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Nomination of Child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Wikidata weekly summary #186

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Monthly maintenance category

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Speedy deletion nomination of The Queen's Awards for Enterprise (2009)

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A tag has been placed on The Queen's Awards for Enterprise (2009) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person, a group of people, an individual animal, an organization (band, club, company, etc.), web content, or an organized event, but it does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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G7'd All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:30, 2 December 2015 (UTC).

Nomination for deletion of Template:Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Use mdy dates

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Note from Claire

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Hi Rich, I am really sorry as I'm very new to Wikipedia and know I am probably doing this completely wrong! My name is Claire and I'm a graphic design student. I am currently working on a film project and am making my film about the subject of Wikipedia and the people behind it. I was wondering if you could help me by answering a few questions? I would really appreciate it.

Thanks for reading this and sorry again for my poor wikipedia talk page etiquette - I have a lot of learning to do!

Claire Claire.graphicdesign (talk) 13:52, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for participating

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Logo of Women in Red
Thank you for your participation in the Women in Science Virtual Edit-a-thon, 8 to 29 November 2015, hosted by Women in Red together with Women scientists. It was held in parallel with a meet up at the New York Academy of Sciences on 22 November. In addition to improvements, we created well over 300 new articles. Your contributions are appreciated!

Hope you will also join us for the WiR Women in Religion Virtual Edit-a-thon from 5 to 15 December.--Ipigott (talk) 12:08, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

Summary

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  1. Timothy Allan (AfD) Draft
  2. Simon Denny (professor) (AfD)
  3. Murdoch MacLeod (AfD)
  4. Kenneth Nelson (businessman) (AfD)
  5. Paul Davidson (business) (AfD)
  6. Maureen Milgram Forrest (AfD)
  7. George Douglas Scott (AfD)
  8. Ederyn Williams (AfD)

Part 2

  1. John May (executive) (AfD)
  2. Michael Leithrow (AfD)
  3. John Jennens (AfD)
  4. Brian Dunsby (AfD)

Part 3

  1. Karen Arnold (AfD)
Full version. Queens Award bio AFDs

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:13, 7 November 2015 (UTC).

Notes archived. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:03, 13 November 2015 (UTC).
New ones added. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:32, 17 November 2015 (UTC).
And another. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:54, 22 November 2015 (UTC).
Getting there. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:27, 3 December 2015 (UTC).

You're invited! Women in Red World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Religion

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You are invited! Join us remotely!

World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Religion

  • Dates: 5 to 15 December 2015
  • Location: Worldwide/virtual/online event
  • Host: Women in Red (WiR): Did you know that only 15% of the biographies on Wikipedia are about women? WiR focuses on "content gender gap". If you'd like to help contribute articles on women and women's works, we warmly welcome you!
  • Event details: This is a virtual edit-a-thon hosted by WiR. It will allow all those keen to improve Wikipedia's coverage of women in religion to participate. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome.
  • RSVP and learn more: →here←

--Rosiestep (talk) 05:36, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

Michael Leithrow

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Maybe it doesn't matter, but when I click on isfutile:P the one who nominated this AfD, I get redirected to Tonyinman. Since you created the article, and I don't understand what's going on exactly, I thought I'd ask you. Hopefully you'll know since you've been here longer than me! --MurderByDeletionism"bang!" 19:26, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

It is just how he sets his signature up - same person. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:58, 5 December 2015 (UTC).
Thanks! Guess I did that to mine too, but that one was so different it flew right over my head. Doh! --MurderByDeletionism"bang!" 03:37, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

FAC

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Rich, it has been quite awhile since we spoke for the last time. I hope you're doing well. I recently nominated Juan Manuel de Rosas for FAC, but the article is often ignored because of its obscure topic. If you have time and interest, could you review it? I'd be truly grateful. The link to the Featured Article Candidacy page is here. Regards, --Lecen (talk) 13:18, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

I've never done a FA review - I am somewhat hazy about the process, and should probably start with getting an article through GA myself. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:19, 6 December 2015 (UTC).

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AWB

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Hi, I've seen users do specific cleanup with a number labelled in the edit summary before: do you know how this is done? Thanks, --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 16:36, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

If you mean things like "Checkwiki error 4" I think they simply set the edit summary on the "Start" tab. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:12, 6 December 2015 (UTC).
Okay, thanks. --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 21:40, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #187

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Speedy deletion nomination of Until the End (band)

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A tag has been placed on Until the End (band) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a band or musician, but it does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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This is a redirect and the speedy was declined. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:20, 16 December 2015 (UTC).

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Boxing MOS

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Hello Rich Farmbrough, there is an ongoing discussion about professional boxing record tables and I would appreciate if you could share your opinion or at least voice you support or opposition. It would be great if you could voice your opinion here in the "RfC: Flag icons in professional boxing record tables" and "MoS:Boxing Final call" section. Cheers!--Fallengrademan (talk) 19:38, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Ellen Coolidge Burke

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Hi! This has been languishing at WP:SCV for a while now. I've just looked at it, and I find the amount of direct copy-pasting from the single source to the initial version to be quite unacceptable. I've blanked the page and listed it at WP:CP for review. Sorry about that, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:12, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

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Commiserations/congratulations!

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Not bad figures at all, Cheers Johnbod (talk) 03:38, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Yu did better than I did and had my vote. I didn't think either of us would pass, but at least we put up some competition. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 08:04, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Thank you both! I was pleased to get (that we both got) a positive score - but somewhat relieved not to be appointed. I felt I had to offer. Nine worthies of different types were appointed, so we can hope they will do better, but I'm not holding my breath. My main concern is that the same pressures will result in the same results as previously.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:37, 10 December 2015 (UTC).
  • Yes, Rich, I was surprised you had received so many opposes, after all the extensive help you have provided to Wikipedia (1 million real edits!), plus promoting the fast-cite templates which would have made large pages format 2x faster (4 years ago!). So I am stunned by the way some people think; however, I have seen many other intelligent people frustrated in committee work, so I am actually glad your talents would not be wasted in that manner. Meanwhile, we need smarter templates, and I see people want a type of Template:Inflation to handle larger expenditures, such as capital investments, so we need to see if our templates can be improved or expanded (and not deleted by a small core of opposes). -Wikid77 (talk) 16:42, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
I also just want to say that within my general voting I supported you. We didn't talk before but I saw some cases-discussions, I noticed you with giving professional comments - knowledgeable and pleasant. I think you would have been great for this committee, hope you may want to try again in the future. Best wishes. אומנות (talk) 15:36, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
Thanks! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:44, 14 December 2015 (UTC).

Please provide input

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Please provide your invaluable input at Template_talk:Complete_list#Category:Articles_containing_potentially_dated_statements. Debresser (talk) 16:27, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

I posted a follow-up question there. Debresser (talk) 20:39, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of 2100

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Hello Rich Farmbrough,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged 2100 for deletion, because it's too short to identify the subject of the article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Joel.Miles925 (talk) 16:11, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

  • @Joel.Miles925: You made a mistake here. There was vandalism to the article a few hours before you tagged it for speedy deletion [32]. Rich hasn't edited it since 2004. --Hammersoft (talk) 17:25, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
    • There's a regular trickle of these sorts of things. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:28, 18 December 2015 (UTC).

I didn't know that it was vandalized... it came through the new page feed, and so naturally I thought that was a new page. I apologize.

Season's Greetings

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To You and Yours!

FWiW Bzuk (talk) 03:50, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

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Yo Ho Ho

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Jim Carter is wishing you Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!

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Allow others to flood your page with seasonal greetings because Christmas is coming... Jim Carter 13:09, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Season's Greetings!

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Hello Rich Farmbrough: Enjoy the holiday season and upcoming winter solstice, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, North America1000 21:10, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

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Complete list

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Long time, no post on your talk page — hope you're doing well. Just wanted to drop in quickly to ask a question about an edit you made recently, to {{Complete list}}. The edit was the inclusion of the Articles containing potentially dated statements category. This category tree is built at the year and month level, however some uses of the template went right down to the day because that level of accuracy was possible, which broke the categorization when that was included.

Wondering if you had any thoughts on how that could be resolved without losing the specificity, short of creating sub-categories for every day of every month going forward? Mlaffs (talk) 13:31, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

I don't think it did. Can you give an example? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:24, 21 December 2015 (UTC).
OK I found one. I will attend to this when I get in, in a few hours. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:30, 21 December 2015 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #189

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Technical Help

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Hey, I need your help with this Template:Quote_Quran_translation. Can you please edit this template and make the text begins from the left side instead of the center? Also, it would be better if you remove this site: http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/quran/ and add this site: http://www.islamawakened.com/index.php/qur-an because this website has much more translations. And there's another thing – the template gives the "Translatornumber" for a specific number of translators, and when I replace the number with name of translator it shows "translated by error", for example:

The Quran, chapter 2 (Al-Baqara), verse 164:[1]

Surely in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the alternation of night and day (with their periods shortening and lengthening), and the vessels sailing in the sea with profit to people, and the water that God sends down from the sky, therewith reviving the earth after its death and dispersing therein all kinds of living creatures, and His disposal of the winds, and the clouds subservient between sky and earth – surely there are signs (demonstrating that He is the One God deserving worship, and the sole Refuge and Helper) for a people who reason and understand.
— translated by Ali Ünal

I really hope that you can help me with this. Thanks in advance!--65.111.173.161 (talk) 22:22, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Most of this is overstyled for Wikipedia. I have made some of the changes you suggest, and replaced the "pull quotes" with "block quote". The translator number seems to be based on a table now long gone, I can't see that it has any academic or reference basis. I have provided {{{translator}}} to override this.
I will look at this again presently in more detail. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:05, 22 December 2015 (UTC).

Closer (Tegan and Sara song)

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Can you protect the page to persistent unsourced content. 123.136.106.185 (talk) 00:18, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, not an admin. Try WP:AN/I. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:20, 23 December 2015 (UTC).

Amendment request

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Regarding your amendment request, a motion has been proposed. For the arbitration committee, Liz Read! Talk! 00:28, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! I saw. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:29, 23 December 2015 (UTC).

Clarification request archived

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Hello. This is a message to inform you that a clarification request that you were involved in, pertaining to the Privatemusings arbitration case (t) (ev / t) (w / t) (pd / t), has been archived with no action. You can now find it here. For the Arbitration Committee, Kharkiv07 (T) 01:21, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Season's greetings!

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Hello Rich Farmbrough: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Esquivalience t 21:22, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

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Ash'ari

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You seem happy about the socks' edits there, why? Doug Weller (talk) 05:52, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

And not just at this article. Doug Weller (talk) 06:00, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
Happy? I have no idea what the sock added or deleted. Nor have I recently edited (on this browser on this machine at least) any other pages that this user has edited, except the ISIL page. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:30, 23 December 2015 (UTC).
Sorry, false assumption. I've reverted back and protected. I'll probably add a note to the talk page about using sources and avoiding quotes from primary sources. Doug Weller talk 07:13, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
No problem. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:56, 24 December 2015 (UTC).

Solstice & Season's greetings

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Merry Christmas and happy New Year
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Merry Christmas!

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 Rich Farmbrough, I hope you have a Merry Christmas and hope your day is full of the true spirit of the day.
Plus, good food, good family and good times. :) Have a Great Day! :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 01:00, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

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Arbitration enforcement 2 case closed

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A Merry Christmas to All Our Readers!

And a Happy New Year! Rich Farmbrough, 23:44, 25 December 2015 (UTC).


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Rich Farmbrough case amended

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The committee has resolved by motion that:

Remedy 2 of the Rich Farmbrough case shall not apply in Rich Farmbrough's user space, his user talk space, or any subpage of Wikipedia:Database reports. Subject to the normal bot policy Rich Farmbrough may use automation in these exempted areas.

For the Arbitration Committee, Mdann52 (talk) 09:03, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi

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Can you help fix this ref error, as the page has since been edited? I'm usually too careful to mess up like this with AWB. Thanks and have a great New Year, --Rubbish computer (Merry Christmas!: ...And a Happy New Year!) 18:12, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

A cupcake for you!

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Cheers! Rubbish computer (Merry Christmas!: ...And a Happy New Year!) 18:18, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
Thanks! Here's three useful tips:
  1. Often you can undo edits that are not the most recent, using the "undo" function.
  2. If AnomieBot (or one day Helpful Pixie Bot) are dating tags, you can undo that with no worries, the bot will reapply its edit after a decent interval.
  3. You are quite competent enough to have fixed this yourself.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:21, 27 December 2015 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #190

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Romans 12:17 listed at Redirects for discussion

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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Romans 12:17. Since you had some involvement with the Romans 12:17 redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. --BDD (talk) 17:00, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi

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Thanks for the tea! I enjoyed it:) Flabsterpal (talk) 22:17, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

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Happy New Year!

Rich Farmbrough,
Have the best New Year in the whole wide world, and thanks for your hard work on Wikipedia for the past 11⅓ years! From 2602:306:CF2A:5580:B4A1:AD04:ACF9:4A0A (talk) 19:47, 30 December 2015 (UTC)TheGreatEditor

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Note: I was not able to put the picture on the left into the message because I hadn't uploaded it to Wikipedia yet.
I look forward to the time-travelling image. Which reminds me I have to photograph an inertial damper I made yesterday. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:58, 30 December 2015 (UTC).

Happy New Year 2016!

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2016

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Happy New Year 2016!
Did you know ... that back in 1885, Wikipedia editors wrote Good Articles with axes, hammers and chisels?

Thank you for your contributions to this encyclopedia using 21st century technology. I hope you don't get any unneccessary blisters.
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Happy New Year, Rich Farmbrough!

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Happy New Year!

Rich Farmbrough,
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Happy New Year, Rich Farmbrough!

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Happy New Year!

Rich Farmbrough,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Rubbish computer (Merry Christmas!: ...And a Happy New Year!) 23:53, 31 December 2015 (UTC)


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78.26's RFA Appreciation award

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The 78.26 RFA Appreciation award
Thank you for the participation and support at my RFA. It is truly appreciated. I hope to be of further help around here, and if you see me doing something dumb, you know where to find me. Again, I thank you. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 24:53, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 24:53, 23 December 2015 (UTC)


2016 year of the reader and peace

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2016
peace bell

Thank you for your support and thoughts, with my review, and the peace bell by Yunshui! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:55, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Let's hope it's not the Cloister bell! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:46, 31 December 2015 (UTC).
Yes, click on bell for the soft sound of peace (and jest) ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:20, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Rich Farmbrough and a question...

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It appears that there has been enough work on references to delete the tag. What do you think?

Ella Bully-Cummings

Cheers, --Beth Wellington (talk) 16:49, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

I think so. However the text did not reflect the references in a number of cases I looked at. The most egregious was saying that three people called the traffic stop a setup, when in reality only one of them is cited as saying it "looked like a setup".
The section tag on the personal life should stay though.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:18, 4 January 2016 (UTC).

File:Portrait-Beard Andrew Jackson.jpg listed for discussion

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A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Portrait-Beard Andrew Jackson.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Fram (talk) 17:15, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I wonder who could have done such a thing? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:56, 4 January 2016 (UTC).

Invitation to a virtual editathon on Women in Music

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Women in Music
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Congrats and please help!

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Dear Rich, great to see you unleashed again! would it be possible to update Wikipedia:Articles with UK Geocodes but without images and ideally set some sort of regular refresh on it? The current list is extremely stale because of the Arbcom problem, and it would be much simpler for newbies if we didn't have to ask them to manually remove ones where they'd added an image. I was also wondering if it could perhaps be subdivided into two or three separate lists, the current one includes Bermuda and also British South Atlantic territories despite them not being covered by the Geograph. Ideally I would like two lists, one covering the UK and the other Eire - that would give us some good exercises for newbies with a high proportion of articles having images already on commons. ϢereSpielChequers 15:16, 5 January 2016 (UTC)::

Unleashed is a relative term. It's more like I have managed to wriggle my big toe free! But I will see what I can do. Will probably recode from scratch, I have some ideas. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:26, 7 January 2016 (UTC).
Great. Instructions for it are currently at User:WereSpielChequers/image adding - at least one step drops out if we can get the list regularly refreshed. One of the risks of the current system is that people can easily choose the wrong river or village if the names are duplicated; The Geograph has a lovely facility for finding nearby images - I don't know if their code is as openly licensed as their images. If we can get something based on geocoding and nearby images then we could make this more than the UK. Another possible route would be to look at articles which lack images but which have intrawiki links to articles illustrated from commons. ϢereSpielChequers 19:56, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #191

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Yo Ho Ho

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ϢereSpielChequers is wishing you Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:WereSpielChequers/Dec15a}} to your friends' talk pages.

04:36, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Parker

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Just to let you know that your comments re: A. Parker may have been somewhat misplaced. DS (talk) 21:14, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. I thought I was very careful in what I said.... Maybe not careful enough. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:16, 12 January 2016 (UTC).

History merge?

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should we merge the history of CountryAbbr into Country abbreviation? Frietjes (talk) 15:05, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

I'm not sure if we should. If you look at {{Country abbreviation/sandbox}} there is nothing left of the original. However I have no objection. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:57, 12 January 2016 (UTC).

2016 Istanbul bombing

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Hi- any chance of some semi-protection? I know I should go to the heavilly-backlogged WP:RPP, but we're getting caned by IP vandals atm. Check recent history. Cheers. Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi 18:47, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Sadly (or otherwise) not an admin. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:53, 12 January 2016 (UTC).
On consideration, you may consider that a lucky escape perhaps! Apologies for bothering you; hopefuly there is a compliment in there somewhere, though... cheers! Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi

Help decide the future of Wikimania

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The Wikimedia Foundation is currently running a consultation on the value and planning process of Wikimania, and is open until 18 January 2016. The goals are to (1) build a shared understanding of the value of Wikimania to help guide conference planning and evaluation, and (2) gather broad community input on what new form(s) Wikimania could take (starting in 2018).

After reviewing the consultation, we'd like to hear your feedback on on this survey.

In addition, feel free to share any personal experiences you have had at at a Wikimedia movement conference, including Wikimania. We plan to compile and share back outcomes from this consultation in February.

With thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF) (talk), from Community Resources 23:46, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Cross-namespace redirects

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I couldn't help but to notice what you were working on in Lua. I wrote what I think it is you're trying to do in Module:Sandbox/Jackmcbarn. Jackmcbarn (talk) 01:30, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Please tag misspelled new template redirects with G7

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Could you please, when you "manually" create 17 misspelled template redirects in a row (Template:ISO 3166 code Yemen Ḩajjah Governerate and the like) and then have to move all 17 a few minutes later, either uncheck the "leave a redirect behind" box when moving them, or tag them for G7 deletion? Keeping these around serves no purpose. Fram (talk) 11:48, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

@Fram: Only administrators, bots and global rollbackers can move without redirect. Rich is in none of those groups. --Izno (talk) 12:10, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
Thanks, I had forgotten that that box was admin-only. Rich, Could you please tag them as G7 or is it fine by you if an admin simply deletes them as recent implausible redirects? A RfD discussion for these seems like overkill. Fram (talk) 12:35, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
You may delete them if you wish. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:23, 14 January 2016 (UTC).
Incidentally, four days isn't a few minutes... All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:27, 14 January 2016 (UTC).
Oops, you're right, I was misled by the double redirect thing somehow. I'll delete them now. Fram (talk) 08:11, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
  • 17 creations in 9 minutes is well, well within the capabilities of a human not using any automation other than ctrl-c/ctrl-v. Since many of these titles are similar, using ctrl-c/ctrl-v for much of it would be a natural thing to do. --Hammersoft (talk) 16:39, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
    • Yes, but creating the same misspelling seventeen times in a row? Fram (talk) 10:26, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
      • You're right, if the first one was correct, he would have performed 16 correct ctrl-c/ctrl-v actions, however, if he would have typed the first wrong because he thought that spelling was correct, he would probably have typed the same typo 16 times. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:50, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
        • The ctrl-c / ctrl-v argument was surely about the body of the pages, not about the title though? In any case, all rather academic, pages are deleted, right ones created (by Rich), and all discussion done here, on his user talk page. Fram (talk) 11:05, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
          • Ctrl-c/ctrl-v can be done with titles just as well as with bodies. I see no reason to believe this was not done manually. --Hammersoft (talk) 21:07, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Route 10 (MTA Maryland)

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Hello, in your edit of 16 October 2009 of Route 10 (MTA Maryland), user:SmackBot introduced inconsistent definitions of <ref name="btco.net">. Would you kindly sort this out? —Anomalocaris (talk) 23:23, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

 Done All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:35, 13 January 2016 (UTC).

Need checking

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  1. Al-Shirqat
  2. Biescas
  3. Novska
  4. Ogulin
  5. Pleternica
  6. San Buenaventura, Francisco Morazán
  7. Slatina, Croatia
  8. Tampines

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:43, 15 January 2016 (UTC).

The Signpost: 13 January 2016

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A look at movement coverage "in the media"
Liam Wyatt shares his thoughts in "community view"
Our co-editor-in-chief, Gamaliel, shares his thoughts on the 15th anniversary of Wikipedia
William Beutler discusses problems inside the WMF.
James Heilman talks about why he was removed from the WMF board.
What was the most-viewed article of 2015? Read to find out!
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A review of the featured content promoted this week
We sat down with both incoming and outgoing arbitrators to get their thoughts on the committee.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community.

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Wiki Loves Nigeria Writing Contest

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Hello RF, and happy Wikipedia @ 15. This is to notify you of Wiki Loves Nigeria Writing Contest organized by the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria to commiserate the 15th anniversary of Wikipedia. The contest will start on 28 January 2016 and end on 29 February 2016. Please help to suggest articles on notable Nigeria-related topic here and if you like to be part of the jury, add your name here. Thanks for your participation. Warm regards Wikic¤l¤gyt@lk to M£ 08:13, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

Adding images

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hi Rich, Whixley made the list despite having a couple of images in a gallery. ϢereSpielChequers 14:31, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

Ah, gotta love galleries. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:32, 23 January 2016 (UTC).
Incidentally I now have a nice list of UK places (well including one French place) that just needs trimming by those with images. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:34, 23 January 2016 (UTC).
Thanks, look forward to it. ϢereSpielChequers 19:27, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
User:Rich Farmbrough/temp127 and User:Rich Farmbrough/temp138 is the untrimmed list. Too big for one wiki-page. Probably has some bugs still. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:18, 23 January 2016 (UTC).
Although saving 127 is giving:

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Sigh. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:26, 23 January 2016 (UTC).
T124564 applies. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:37, 23 January 2016 (UTC).
There are many advantages to having multiple smaller lists, if they can be done geographically they are more likely to prompt photographers to visit places we have no pictures for, and they should also be of interest to wikiprojects. at the same time they can be transcluded together to give the appearance of large lists. ϢereSpielChequers 04:06, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
They load faster too! But many of these have images so until I've pruned the list decisions on chopping it up can't be made. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:54, 24 January 2016 (UTC).

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History of Sentence Spacing

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Added a comment on the Talk page for this article, about your recent edits. Please take a look, thanks. Battling McGook (talk) 22:07, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

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History of Islam

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Hey, Rich, since you were involved in this discussion last December, and the editor involved seems to me to be renewing the exact same editing behavior discussed there, could you take a look at current discussion on the article's Talk page and its recent edit history and see if you think further action is needed? Thanks ... General Ization Talk 00:34, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to an online editathon on Black Women's History

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Invitation

Black Women's History online edit-a-thon

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Board turmoil gets the attention of journalists.
Current research involving Wikipedia.
Some things never change.
Newly promoted content.

Wikipedia:London Gazette Index update request

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Hi, I'm a user from Wikipedia in Italian language. I casually discovered some minutes ago that all the links in Wikipedia:London Gazette Index (created by you 5 years ago) needs to be updated. For example, the current link to the 5 November 1688 issue (http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/2396/pages/1) now redirects to the home page of The Gazette website (https://www.thegazette.co.uk/), but fixing like this (http://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/2396/page/1) it can be easily restored. In brief: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/ must be replaced with http://www.gazette.co.uk/London/ and the final 's' of words like "issues", "pages", "supplements" (and so on) must be removed from the old URL addresses. Good luck! --Mess (talk) 23:00, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Thank you I will see if this can be corrected. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:26, 28 January 2016 (UTC).


Wikidata weekly summary #194

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FemtoBot

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Hi,

I know you are again permitted to run bots (with limitations), so no complaint about that. It looks though as if the current setup for Femtobot doesn't produce the wanted result, if I see it correctly. Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Femto Bot 7 is about UK places needing pictures, but taking at random 6 pages from the list you produced gives five with images (2LO, Jubilee Walkway, Holborn, Blackfriars Rotunda and Surrey Institution) and only one without an image (Lyon's Inn, which was demolished in 1863). The remainder of the list seems to have a similar rate of articles with images already, and also contains things like Asant\u00e9 Academy of Chinese Medicine or Bromley & Sheppard\u2019s Colleges which is probably an accent gone wrong, or Luxury real estate which isn't really a place in England, and Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics and so on. As it stands, it doesn't look to be a very useful list yet. Fram (talk) 18:50, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

See User:Femto Bot#7. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:52, 1 February 2016 (UTC).
Thanks, hadn't checked there. Fram (talk) 18:59, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for supporting my RfA

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Hawkeye7 RfA Appreciation award
Thank you for participating in and supporting my RfA. It was very much appreciated. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:39, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Category:Minor planet redirects

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Hi. I posted a question/suggestion at Category talk:Minor planet redirects#How important is this category?. Since the cat doesn't appear to fall under the jurisdiction of WP:Astronomy (its parent is Category:Main namespace redirects), and you're its creator, I thought I'd let you know. If that talk page isn't the appropriate venue for discussion, please let me know where and I'll gladly move it. Thanks.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  17:32, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

How does relisting work in an article for deletion debate?

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Hi Rich, an article I was editing listed for deletion Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Electrical_Impedance_Tomography_Reconstruction_Software. It was 'relisted' to gain more of a consensus. Does that give it another 7 days before the debate is closed? Thanks Billlion (talk) 10:12, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Loosely speaking, yes. AfDs can be closed at any time given consensus, but the standard is seven days - really I don't like "relisting" because "lack of consensus to delete" has traditionally been interpreted as "keep". All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:48, 3 February 2016 (UTC).
Thanks Rich, and for your contribution to the debate. Billlion (talk) 16:54, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Million Man Barnstar

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The Special Barnstar
You edit a lot and not in a spammy bot-like way either but like a regular kilo-amount man. Mr. Magoo and McBarker (talk) 13:25, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
Many thanks! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:29, 3 February 2016 (UTC).
I take my barnstar back, I just noticed you had ran a bot in the past. --Mr. Magoo and McBarker (talk) 13:32, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
Bots are people too! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:43, 3 February 2016 (UTC).
The Half Barnstar
The barnstar for still being a good editor regardless of not having a million edits by human means. Mr. Magoo and McBarker (talk) 13:44, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
Thanks! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:18, 7 February 2016 (UTC).

Template help needed

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Hi Rich.

I am active on another wiki, and there is template there that doesn't behave like I would want it to. I copied it onto User:Debresser/Testcases, and called it on User:Debresser/Sandbox.

Is there an easy way to make unused fields disappear? For example, if there is no page number available, I wouldn't need that field to be rendered at all. Please note that a relatively easy solutions is needed, because many templates from Wikipedia are not available on that wiki. Debresser (talk) 21:24, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Example implemented. You only need {{!}}. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:45, 7 February 2016 (UTC).
I though of something like that , but didn't believe it would work. Thanks a lot.
You may have noticed the category it adds, using SUBPAGE. It works on Wikipedia, as you can see at Category:X4, but on that wiki, the same code doesn't work. Do you have an explanation? I though perhaps they haven't enabled subpages on all namespaces. Could that be it? Debresser (talk) 12:41, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
Presumably the sort order doesn't work. And I think you have the correct reason, for example if you preview M/F with the code for SUBPAGENAME it display "M/F" not "F". All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:15, 7 February 2016 (UTC).
Thanks. Debresser (talk) 08:20, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

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Towards a New Wikimania results

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February events and meetups in DC

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Metrics

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Thank you! --Rosiestep (talk) 14:04, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Rich, Can you help me with Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Metrics? I think I've doubled up a lot of names for January and February. Can you sort them out and remove the duplicates? Thank you. --Rosiestep (talk) 07:07, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

 Done All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:28, 12 February 2016 (UTC).

Template:WikiProjectBanner Shell listed at Redirects for discussion

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Multiple issues/message

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Lang

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I'd encourage you to keep sandboxing your changes to {{Lang}} and keep it in synch with any updates to that template. We'll need the functionality you built eventually even if there's one stonewaller for now. The upcoming User:SMcCandlish/WikiProject English Language will have a use for them. PS: Please feel free to sign on as a participant at the draft project. I'd like to arrive at WP:WikiProject Council/Proposals already with the needed number of participants for passage to be ensured. (It seems like a no-brainer, but a similar project was created and never promoted, and was stillborn, and someones with anti-diacritics agenda tried to have a "WikiProject English" before it was MfDed as WP:POLEMIC, so there might be lingering prejudice against it).  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  08:37, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

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Help & Advice

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Hi,

I am a new contributor to Wikipedia. Contributed an article on Tax which needs to be reviewed. Advice. Ifabi2016 (talk) 13:17, 16 February 2016 (UTC) ---

Christopher Zeeman

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Hi Rich, the bio now says that he died3 days ago. I can't find any independent corroboration. Have you seen anything? Billlion (talk) 20:31, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

Just got confirmation http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/news/sir-christopher-zeeman-frs Billlion (talk) 20:43, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
That's sad, I think of him from time to time. I worked with him on the Maths Master Classes at the Royal Institution one year. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:57, 16 February 2016 (UTC).

Redirect categorization

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Hi Rich Farmbrough! You've been interested in redirect categorization and the This is a redirect template in the past, so I wanted to let you know that there is a discussion at Template talk:This is a redirect#One parameter that might interest you.  Good faith! Paine  20:40, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

Please, your feedback is required

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Hello. Yesterday, I wrote Category_talk:Pages_where_template_include_size_is_exceeded#User_pages_modified_in_2016 but nobody answered: probably due to some overflow of the messaging system. Therefore, I made a smaller second try with Category_talk:Pages_where_template_include_size_is_exceeded#User_pages_modified_in_2016_.282nd_attempt.29. Please tell me if you received a ping for the first attempt, and/or a ping for the second one. Thanks in advance. Pldx1 (talk) 12:49, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

I received the second message. BTW "greetings" is the correct spelling. I changed a bunch of them, but not all. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:13, 18 February 2016 (UTC).

HTML comments

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<!-- this is a comment -- but this isn't --> However the renderer/parser treats the whole thing as a comment and strips it out.


<!-- this is a closed comment -- > But neither the renderer nor the browser treat it as such.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:24, 19 February 2016 (UTC).

The Signpost: 17 February 2016

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Speedy deletion nomination of Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital

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Invitation

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Hello, Rich Farmbrough.

You are invited to join WikiProject Food and drink, a WikiProject and resource dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of food, drink and cuisine topics.
Please check out the project, and if interested feel free to join by adding your name to the member list. North America1000 09:59, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

Women's History Month worldwide online edit-a-thon

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You are invited...

Women's History Month worldwide online edit-a-thon

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Adding list and finishing off the Global names Index?

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Hey Rich, thank you for helping with the Global Names Index and changing the first few letters with the newer more appropriate search. I was thinking of adding the rest of the letters from the source Raul created for me: [35], however they are set using the old search feature. Has it been easy for you to change the list with the letters A? I was thinking of adding the rest of the letters from the list but I was wondering if you have scripts or an easier method to change them to the newer method? Otherwise I would be happy to add them myself and then maybe you can change them the way you did with the first 10 A pages? Maybe you can make a suggestion? Kind regards.Calaka (talk) 01:12, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

OK, there are various ways of approaching this. The {{Search species}} template is a bit of a hack, because uses (apart from Wikispecies) mainly plant sources.
What we really need are selective searches based on the appropriate resources. This would have to be decided at the granularity of genus. I am thinking of sources such as the Bulbophyllum checklist (http://bulbophyllum-checklist.bulbophyllum.at/) or Compagno for sharks (which is now online! http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/ad122e/ad122e00.HTM).
And hence the template size issue will return, probably. It might also be worth looking at the GBIF to see if it has changed over the years.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:28, 21 February 2016 (UTC).
Ah excellent, would any of the ones from the GNI be appropriate as a search feature (see this list: [36]).
Further to this, I would be happy of shortening the number of species per page (as I feel there doesn't have to be so many in a page if it makes the page sluggish and bad to access).Calaka (talk) 01:33, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
Yes, I had WoRMS and Fishbase in mind, as well as EOL. There are also many other resources, including taxonomic scratchpads at the Natural History Museum. I probably have some more listed somewhere, and who knows there may be a Wikipedia article List of taxonomic databases or some such. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:35, 21 February 2016 (UTC).
I have a note for yeasts, but it seems this is paywalled. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:49, 21 February 2016 (UTC).
And here is the Index Fungorum. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 02:19, 21 February 2016 (UTC).
Ok I am going to be bold and touch up the template. I will let you know how I go. :)Calaka (talk) 03:05, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
Okay I added a whole bunch, might need help with the syntax in the template so each species can be searched in the website.Calaka (talk) 03:45, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Bluerinse listed at Redirects for discussion

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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Bluerinse. Since you had some involvement with the Bluerinse redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Si Trew (talk) 13:49, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

A kitten for the helpful pixie bot

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Bots need kittens too

Coolabahapple (talk) 15:46, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you! I'm sure HPB will appreciate some frolicking as it awakes from slumber. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:48, 21 February 2016 (UTC).

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Ref

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Sorry, not entirely sure what I did.

Mcoles92 (talk) 16:51, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

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Thanks

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Ah my bad. Cheers bro

Mcoles92 (talk) 16:53, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Mildred Masterson McNeilly

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Are you sure about the pseudonym? I've found a book source giving "Glenn Kelly" - two ns, no e in surname. PamD 13:24, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

Yes you are correct. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:04, 27 February 2016 (UTC).
But you've now removed my sourced version from the text of the article - did you mean to remove your earlier version? PamD 16:46, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
I meant to do this. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:36, 27 February 2016 (UTC).

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Wikiproject Food and Drink Newsletter – March 2016

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    Favor to ask

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    Rich F,

    I notice that you edit at the page Wikipedia:Edit_filter/False_positives/Reports page. I've never been on that page before, but my interest is in Wikipedia:Edit_filter/False_positives/Reports#MaxBioHazard. I do a bit of statistical work see, e.g. User:Smallbones/1000_random and User:Smallbones/1000_random results (check out the graph!)

    Max is trying to help me do something similar on ruwikipedia and apparently needs to access my page with his Russian(?) bot to deposit the data. Anything you can do to help would be appreciated.

    All the best,

    Smallbones(smalltalk) 13:00, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

    I saw the graph! Incidentally the shelves should be expanded, since the original graphic demonstrated the potential size of a printed Wikipedia.
    I'm sure we can resolve this. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:19, 5 March 2016 (UTC).

    Duplicated content removed after 5 years

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    [37]. It goes to the Hall of Shame. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:04, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

    March events and meetups in DC

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    Library fire in Northam Devon?

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    Back over a decade ago (!) you added a mention of "sun's rays setting fire to leaflets through the action of a hands-free magnifier in a library in Northam Devon." I'm trying to track down more details about this -- do you remember any more about it? For example, what year (or even decade) it happened? Thanks. JesseW, the juggling janitor 02:59, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

    I believe it was at the time fairly recent. It may have been sourced from a local paper, or possibly something related to fire prevention. I have commented on the talk page. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:40, 10 March 2016 (UTC).
    There's a mention here. 3. Northam Library, Devon, England Total loss of building and 90% books. Fire thought to have started by sun’s rays setting fire to leaflets through action of a hands-free magnifier. The Times 17 June 2005 --Cavrdg (talk) 15:53, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
    Excellent work! Thank you! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:13, 10 March 2016 (UTC).
    Great, thanks to you both! JesseW, the juggling janitor 01:53, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

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    Igbo wiki

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    Hi and good day, thank you for ur work at Igbo wikipedia! And - if you might have some spare time... you know, as I'm a technical blockhead it would be helpful to get your opinion on some problems there... Best wishes --Tschips (talk) 15:14, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

    Hi, saw you visited igbo wiki. Would you like to help with some template staff? Greets, --Tschips (talk) 16:03, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
    Sure, let me know what you need. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:04, 15 March 2016 (UTC).
    Hi and - thanks for your positive answer! Here we are:
    You know, when using the coordinate's template like here it always shows 'minutes and seconds, therefore I didn't add it to the west african country articles yet where degrees would be sufficient. Besides I couldn't modify it to show up at the top right of the article above the country box, therefore put it in the text which appears to be kind of "raw".
    Recently I started to add the navigation board to country articles like in Togo or Senegal. I added the whole table which was a source for copy and paste mistakes, moreover it appeared to be a bit confusing when editing the article. Do you know how to create a "one line expression" to add to the article.
    Furthermore I didn't find country boards for other continents - or a board for the nigerian states - don't know how to create them....
    Would be nice if you could give some advice or even technical support... Greets, --Tschips (talk) 11:09, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
    I have changed - the navigation box is simply transcluded with {{Ala no n'ime Afrịka}} the same as any other template.
    All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:54, 16 March 2016 (UTC).
    Ya, great!!! To you it might look simple, but to me it is such a great help... :-) Thanks so much!!! Greets, --Tschips (talk) 18:15, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
    • I fixed the Coords template so it will work with just degrees and minutes. The display probably needs a change to the .css file.
    • {{Sovereign_states_of_Europe}} is another continent:

    There's a good list in the following navbox:


    All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:55, 16 March 2016 (UTC).

    Hey, that was great work you did yesterday! Thanks a lot! For the Europe-template: I tried to fit it into Poland, but it showed like
    Àtụ:Sovereign states of Europe
    Did I make a mistake? And thanks for the coordinate modification. Looks better now. Might be tricky to work on that? It's seems to be fixed to north / east..., is it? Greets, --Tschips (talk) 16:31, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
    We need a tech fix over there. I will contact you there. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:18, 18 March 2016 (UTC).
    Hey Rich Farmbrough, ok, we can go on at my talk page. By the way: I tried to create a navigation board for the european countries, hope it didn't crush the system... :-) If you have some spare time could you change the country names to Igbo language? I will sort the table later then. Greets, --Tschips (talk) 23:44, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

    categorization of people

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    Could you show me where "and converted to decimal ("Sr"=0, Jr"=1) usually one digit will suffice" was discussed? Bgwhite (talk) 22:08, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

    No, however it is used, and for good reason. The first five Mr. Fred Bloggs will otherwise sort as:
    • Bloggs, Fred, III
    • Bloggs, Fred, IV
    • Bloggs, Fred, Jr.
    • Bloggs, Fred, Sr.
    • Bloggs, Fred, V
    All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:12, 18 March 2016 (UTC).
    It should, of course, read ("Sr"=1, Jr"=2), though either method should have the same effect. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:18, 18 March 2016 (UTC).
    Then you'll need to discuss this somewhere. Roman numerals are already converted to numbers. Sr. and Jr. are not and this follows convention put out by the indexing people. 99% of Sr and Jr don't have a follow on to III, defaultsort has been this way for years, and thus tons of articles follow this. It's a very minor point when there are a couple in the list. Bgwhite (talk) 23:15, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
    Who are "the indexing people"? The citations to Chicago Manual of Style mix up how items should be written with how they should sort, two different things. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:18, 18 March 2016 (UTC).
    I proposed this, to no opposition here. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:48, 19 March 2016 (UTC).

    Sheila Fox - possible candidate for an article?

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    Is this girl worth an article - http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/732dfuk.html , http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1374545.stm , http://www.historicbolton.yolasite.com/sheila-fox.php Paul Benjamin Austin (talk) 08:33, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

    There are probably enough sources - newspaper coverage at the time of the disappearance, and the more recent BBC article. The Historicbolton site is probably not a RS.
    All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:13, 19 March 2016 (UTC).

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    Salmine Sophia Pedersen

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    Hi, why did you do this move? Apart from the title Salmine Sophia Pedersen everythig else is just a bio template about 'subject'. Cheers KylieTastic (talk) 14:06, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

    Thanks, fixed. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:10, 20 March 2016 (UTC).

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    Please support

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    …efforts at Shire (pharmaceutical company), and elsewhere, to use a standard form of complete citation, including author, date, title, and (if web) data of content access. In engaging others, please remind them that URL-only citations, and other incomplete, and unstable ways of providing sources, are disallowed by WP:VERIFY, and that use of self-published and non-independent sources are likewise limited to very small roles. Cheers, and thank you. Leprof 7272 (talk) 15:14, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

    This is not true. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:17, 22 March 2016 (UTC).
    Please, somewhere, tie your opinions to the content of WP:VERIFY, WP:CITE, WP:OR, etc. Chapter and verse, please. It is one thing to say "I would rather" to it's my opinion. It is quite another, to declare "This is not true." Make clear the basis of what you argue, please. (Thank you.) Leprof 7272 (talk) 17:03, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
    Where in VERIFY does it say that URL only citations are disallowed? If it does say that it should be removed immediately. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:33, 22 March 2016 (UTC).
    here you go: WP:KDL: "Do not delete a URL just because it has been tagged with [dead link] for a long time." you realize there are more than 69,870 bare urls on this site? [38] Duckduckstop (talk) 19:13, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
    I am not surprised (actually it's more because of multiple bare links in an article). I will do something about it if those nice people at Arbcom will let me.
    And thanks, that does support my position.
    All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:03, 22 March 2016 (UTC).
    yes, we had some tools, but they need a refresh. tags are not enough. i see there is User:cyberbot II doing some #IABot: i.e. [39], but it needs some citation formating help. cheers Duckduckstop (talk) 20:10, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

    Stockton-on-Tees

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    Hi Rich. This edit changed a valid link to that of a redirect to a dab page. Redirects don't need images, nor do dab pages. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:09, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

    Not sure that dab pges might not benefit... All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:43, 25 March 2016 (UTC).

    Request for help with TLS article

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    Dear Mr Farmbrough,

    Apologies for contacting you out of the blue. I am currently writing a book review for the Times Literary Supplement on the history of encyclopaedias, and was hoping to use the example of the Wikipedia page on best-selling books of all time as an extended example of the benefits and perils of Wikipedia. I was wondering whether you might be willing to have a brief email correspondence about the history of the page-edits (esp. the sales figures for Tale of Two Cities)? I'd be very grateful, if so. My email address is peter.thonemann@wadh.ox.ac.uk.

    With all good wishes,

    Peter Thonemann Wadham College, Oxford. Peter Thonemann (talk) 10:40, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

    Replied by email. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:42, 25 March 2016 (UTC).

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    Speedy deletion nomination of BoostedBoards

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    Proposed deletion of Pan Am Flight 841

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    The article Pan Am Flight 841 has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

    Unrefrenced. No proof of notability. Hijackings in the 60s and 70s were common.

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    @WilliamJE: Improved, template removed. General Ization Talk 16:56, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
    Thanks. I was somewhat distracted by the above speedy, followed by a little work off-wiki. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:18, 30 March 2016 (UTC).

    Pan Am Flight 841

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    Thanks for creating that, as I meant to do so yesterday and completely forgot to! Kevin Rutherford (talk) 19:35, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

    Most welcome! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:37, 30 March 2016 (UTC).

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