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Please comment on Talk:New York

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 Done — OwenBlacker (Talk) 11:47, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Two years ago ...
languages + liberté
... you were recipient
no. 1093 of Precious,
a prize of QAI!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:47, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

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Please comment on Talk:Macedonia (ancient kingdom)

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✗ Not done There's plenty of feedback there already; I don't have anything useful to add. — OwenBlacker (Talk) 11:54, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

New Wikiproject!

Hello, OwenBlacker! I saw you recently edited a page related to the Green party and green politics. There is a new WikiProject that has been formed - WikiProject Green Politics and I thought this might be something you'd be interested in joining! So please head on over to the project page and take a look! Thanks for your time. Me-123567-Me (talk) 18:43, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

@Me-123567-Me: Thanks for letting me know, but I'm pretty busy with WP:WikiProject AIDS and WP:WikiProject Former countries at the moment so I'm not likely to be able to put much effort in on Green topics, I'm afraid. I'll drop in when I can, but I doubt that'll be very often, sorry. Good luck! 😊 — OwenBlacker (Talk) 21:43, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
I completely understand! Break a leg! Me-123567-Me (talk) 21:45, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-01

Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

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Our goal to add filters to the Recent Changes page is going well. We will contact soon some communities - the ones where ORES is available as a Beta feature - to plan a possible trial.

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  • Revert notifications were not received on Wikidata. This is now fixed. [1]

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  • We plan to change Flow's URLs to make them more human readable. Your feedback is welcome.
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18:16, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

MOSDAB

Hi OwenBlacker, Really, time to stop pushing your desired edit through against consensus (of the MOS). You could at least try to justify per the explicit exception wording (3rd time I've suggested). Hey, you may want to check out other dab pages, but just drop trying to push without recognising it is against consensus, and we work by consensus around here. Hope that helps, I really am dropping this now until there's more opinions. Widefox; talk 14:22, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

@Widefox: I don't believe it is against consensus — I don't think the issue has been considered. There is no explicit exception wording, as I pointed out. I know we work on consensus here — I've been an editor for a similar length of time to you; you don't need to patronise me over a discussion I thought we were both having in good faith. If you would like to continue with this conversation, we can do it on Talk:MD — where I should point out you appear to be the one wikilawyering and opposing consensus (and WP:BRD, as has been pointed out). Kindly continue the debate there, not here. — OwenBlacker (Talk) 14:27, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
Agreed - more opinions have solved it. I was wrong. Sorry and thanks, as hopefully we'll get this sorted in MOSDAB now. (see talk, let's continue on dab talk) Widefox; talk 14:34, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Principality of Erfurt

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Principality of Erfurt you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of 10W40 -- 10W40 (talk) 14:01, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

@10W40: Awesome; thanks for letting me know. Are you done with your first pass? If so, I can take a look at the comments you've raised and either make corrections or discuss them with you further :) — OwenBlacker (Talk) 13:58, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
Go ahead and reply now. My comments are mostly about reducing the use of German and extending the lead section. Many readers will read only the lead, so this section should include all the important points you make. 10W40 (talk) 15:23, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

The article Principality of Erfurt you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Principality of Erfurt for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of 10W40 -- 10W40 (talk) 20:41, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

(I've put the GAN on hold myself, to allow myself time to incorporate improvements from 10W40's feedback without needing to hurry it through while I'm in the last 2 weeks of a project in my dayjob 😊) — OwenBlacker (Talk) 20:50, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:British Empire

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✗ Not done — OwenBlacker (Talk) 14:01, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-02

Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

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Flow satisfaction survey’s results are available. The survey provides useful data on what users like and don't like about Flow. This information will be helpful in discussions recently begun as part of the editing team's Annual Plan process. As the editing team investigates its priorities for next fiscal year (which begins in July), many ideas for improvements have been suggested, including projects to research the future of wiki discussions and to fix Flow's shortcomings.

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  • Flow notifications category in the Notification Preferences page will be changed from (in English) "Flow" to "Flow Discussion". Messages that have to be updated on TranslateWiki are echo-category-title-flow-discussion and echo-pref-tooltip-flow-discussion. [4]
  • Mentions were not recognized when more than one section is added during the same edit or when an new section was added and a change (new message or deletion) was done in another section. This is now solved. [5]

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  • Rich text mode is now the default in Flow replies. Some inconsistencies used to exist. Now the preference between visual mode and wikitext mode is updated when a content change is made in the selected editor, literally when it is typed in, not when it is saved or when the editor is switched. [6]
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Please comment on Talk:Far-left politics in the United Kingdom

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 Done — OwenBlacker (talk) 20:29, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Bobbi Campbell (1)

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Bobbi Campbell you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of JulieMay54 -- JulieMay54 (talk) 02:01, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

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Please comment on Talk:Attack on Pearl Harbor

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Talk:Bobbi Campbell/GA1

OwenBlacker, I'm sorry that your GA reviewer is unable to continue work on the review. You might want to post a request at WT:GAN to see whether someone would be willing to take over the existing review. If not, you can either wait for the posted second opinion request to bear fruit—though it may not bring in someone who wants to conduct the rest of the review—or the nomination can be put back into the pool of articles waiting for a review with no loss of seniority. Please ping me at any time to let me know if you'd like the nomination to be put back. Best of luck! BlueMoonset (talk) 22:07, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

@BlueMoonset: If you wouldn't mind putting me back in the original queue, that would be very much appreciated, thank you. — OwenBlacker (talk) 22:40, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
OwenBlacker, per your request, it's back in nominations pool. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:30, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-03

Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

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We have focused all our efforts on the New filters for edit review. You will discover these filters on your wiki soon (see below).

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]

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  • We will release the ⧼eri-rcfilters-beta-label⧽ beta option on Portuguese and Polish Wikipedias March 28. This beta option adds powerful filtering and other tools as well as an improved filtering interface to the Recent Changes page (and Recent Changes Linked). To try out these new tools on these two wikis, go to the Beta tab of the Preferences page (after the 28th) and select ⧼eri-rcfilters-beta-label⧽.
  • In the weeks following the initial release to Polish and Portuguese Wikipedias, the New Filters for Edit Review beta will go out to the following list of Wikipedias in waves (schedule to be done):
    • Persian, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Czech Wikipedias and Wikidata. [7]
    • English Wikipedia. [8]
    • All other wikis. [9]

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  • Flow has been removed from Metawiki. [11]

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17:02, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:List of violent incidents in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, January–June 2016

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✗ Not done — OwenBlacker (talk) 16:18, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox treaty/TemplateData

Template:Infobox treaty/TemplateData has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Pppery 21:51, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

✗ Not done. No objections here — OwenBlacker (talk) 19:01, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Shakya

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 Done — OwenBlacker (talk) 19:01, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-04

Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

The fourth fiscal quarter began the first of this month, and Collaboration Team has begun work on our new quarterly goals. In the coming months, we'll be working to release the New Filters for Edit Review beta on all wikis and then to improve the beta as much as possible based on user feedback. On that score, we're planning a round of user interviews on the new tools in May to get detailed information about usability and usefulness. If you've tried the new features and have thoughts, please share them with us in any language.

Our other focus right now is to look at what changes will be needed to spread the new filtering interface to other review pages, especially Watchlist. We're also exploring how to incorporate the tools we didn't include in the new interface in this round, like the Tag Filters, time-frame selector and Namespace filter.

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Recent changes

  • New Filters for Edit review are now available on Polish, Portuguese, Persian, Russian and Turkish Wikipedias as a Beta feature. French Wikipedia and Mediawikiwiki have the filters as a Beta feature too, but without the quality and intent filters. [13]
  • Special:RecentChangesLinked now displays a message when no results are found for a given combination of filters. [14]

Problems

  • Polish Wikipedia is experiencing an issue with predictions (quality and intent filters using ORES). The different predictions are in conflict. An edit can be considered as "good" and "bad" at the same time, and the filter levels are somewhat redundant. We have formulated a plan to address this and are working on a fix, which is deployed progressively on Polish Wikipedia. [15]
  • The issue on Polish Wikipedia is shared by a few other wikis: Dutch, Czech and Hebrew, and Wikidata. The deployment for those wikis has been postponed to Tuesday, May 9. Wikis without this predictions problem have been deployed or will be deployed with no change on the schedule. [16]
  • Interestingly, the "problem" with those wikis is that they perform better than we anticipated. Once the fix is in place, the tools will work with particular simplicity on these wikis.

Future changes

  • English Wikipedia and all wikis without ORES prediction services will get the New Filters for Edit review on Monday, April 24. [17]
  • All remaining wikis will get the New Filters for Edit review on Tuesday, May 9. [18]
  • Wikidata edits will be added as a type of change on New Filters for Edit review. [19]

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  • Notifications badges were overlapping other tabs on Internet Explorer 11 and Firefox 3.6, using MonoBook skin. This is now fixed. [20]

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  • Flow is now available as a Beta feature on French Wikiversity. [21]
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Please comment on Talk:Anti-fascism

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 Done — OwenBlacker (talk) 17:06, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

Jonathan Demme

Hi Owen. Thanks for your edits at Jonathan Demme. I wonder would you consider adding your support for an RD posting at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates? Many thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 21:26, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

@Martinevans123: Done; thanks for pinging me on it; I've never looked at ITN stuff before. — OwenBlacker (talk) 21:32, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
Many thanks, Owen. As long as the article is good enough, any RD will be posted. That's the way RD works these days. But your support rationale makes perfect sense. Martinevans123 (talk) 21:35, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Principality of Erfurt (2)

The article Principality of Erfurt you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Principality of Erfurt for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of 10W40 -- 10W40 (talk) 19:02, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Ooh, I'd totally forgotten this was in the queue. Thank you so much, @10W40:, that's made my weekend! — OwenBlacker (talk) 17:10, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

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Please comment on Talk:Intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine

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Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-05

Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

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  • “New Filters for Edit Review” beta released: As of May 9, the New Filters for Edit Review beta has been released to all wikis. The beta lets users review edits on Recent Changes using an easier and more powerful interface and many new tools, including user-defined highlighting and, on some wikis, predictive filters powered by ORES, a machine-learning program. You must opt in to the beta to try it out.
  • More features coming soon: The New Filters are still very much in development. In addition to fixing bugs and making adjustments (here’s our current to-do list), we’re actively adding new features, many at users’ request. A few notable additions you can look for this month: A cool tool for saving filter settings; a “Watchlisted pages” filter; a “Flagged Revisions” filter (for some wikis only); a “Last revision” filter.
  • Tell us your ideas—but don’t wait: The team is focused right now in making changes to the New Filters beta. But in a few months, we’ll be moving on to other projects. So now is the time to give the new tools a try and then tell us what you think. What works well? What could make things better for you?
  • In the medium-term: By the end of summer, we plan to complete a suite of improvements that will, among other things: incorporate all the remaining Recent Changes tools into the new filtering interface; create new ways for reviewers to move back and forth through the filter queue; implement a “Reverted” filter; and, finally, bring the New Filters UI and tools to Watchlist.
  • Have time for a talk? We're looking for people we can interview about their experiences with the new beta. If you’re a regular user of Recent Changes and have tried the new features—and if you can spare an hour to chat in English with our design researcher—please email dchen@wikimedia.org with the subject line “user interview.” Let us know how to get in touch with you and what time zone (city, country...) you’re in.
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Recent changes

  • Many Recent Changes pages have on top a list of links. We plan to integrate those links in a collapsible menu. You are invited to comment the 3 proposals we have drafted on Phabricator.
  • On wikis where Flagged Revisions are used, an edit highlighted as bad by ORES will not be highlighted anymore when the edit is reviewed by someone. [23]
  • You can highlight pages that are in your Watchlist in Recent Changes. 3 different filters are available: in watchlist, not in watchlist, new changes in watchlist. [24]
  • Wikidata, Dutch, Czech, Hebrew, Estonian and Finnish Wikipedia now have the new filters available as a Beta feature, and ORES is enabled by default on those wikis. [25]
  • All wikis now have the Recent changes Filters as a Beta feature. [26]
  • Users are invited to opt in to the Recent changes Filters beta when they visit the Recent Changes page. [27]
  • On wikis that have ORES predictions enabled by default, it is now possible to choose how to display the predictions in watchlist and recent changes pages. [28]

Future changes

  • It will be possible soon to save and retreive your favorite filters combinations. [29]
  • We are working on adding filter groups for last revisions, edits from Wikidata and reverted edits. [30][31][32]

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  • Special:Notifications tabs is now set to "Unread" if there are any unread messages. [34]

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15:19, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Liberalism in Iran

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Wiki Loves Pride 2017

You are invited to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects throughout the month of June as part of the fourth annual Wiki Loves Pride campaign. Feel free to add new and expanded content on the project's Results page. Happy editing! ---Another Believer (Talk) 14:52, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

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Missing lead

This is a few months past due, but I just discovered the issue today: what prompted you to tag Catholic Church and HIV/AIDS with a {{lead missing}} template? The article had a very well-developed two-paragraph long lead section. It was missing a sentence that contained the specific words "Catholic Church and HIV/AIDS", but an exact recapitulation of the article title in the lead is not required. (See WP:BEGIN.) WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 18:49, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

@WikiDan61: I agree that a lead doesn't need to catalogue all the points in the article, but the pre-heading section is so long that it doesn't all fit on my laptop screen. The point I was hoping to make was that the lead could do with being substantially more concise. — OwenBlacker (talk) 21:29, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
This is a long and complex article. A lead of three paragraphs is not unduly long. (WP:MOSLEAD recommends up to four paragraphs.) But if you truly feel the lead needs to be pared down, the template for that is {{lead too long}}. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 21:33, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
@WikiDan61: Oh indeed. But they're very long paragraphs. A much shorter lead would definitely be helpful. — OwenBlacker (talk) 22:05, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
I'm not sure, given the content of that template, that it is the most appropriate tag, but I've tagged it thus nonetheless :) — OwenBlacker (talk) 22:07, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

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Please comment on Talk:First Cameron ministry

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✗ Not done. Too late, though I'd have agreed with the eventual result in any case. — OwenBlacker (talk) 17:51, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

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Please comment on Talk:Badme

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✗ Not done — OwenBlacker (talk) 11:25, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

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Typography in article title

While doing cleanup in album articles I came across a page move you performed way back in 2005:

Intergalactic Sonic 7’’s → Intergalactic Sonic 7″s

I can see the paired single-quotes are admittedly weird, but I'm a MOS:CURLY advocate and don't like seeing non-standard quotes. This seems like a typographic choice to me. Or was there an issue with putting a double quote in a title? (I was going to list this at Requested Moves.) – Reidgreg (talk) 17:41, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

@Reidgreg: Hey, thanks for pinging me. The change I made wasn't to a smartquote, but to a double-prime symbol — the title is referring to 7-inch vinyl. WP:TITLESPECIALCHARACTERS has the prime symbols down as "avoid them", but doesn't forbid them and doesn't include them in the list of forbidden characters (so the same as a double-quote would be). It's a bit pedantic, but 7" is incorrect whereas 7″ is correct here. Does that make sense? :) — OwenBlacker (talk) 18:33, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
Ah, I'm glad I asked. (I should be more familiar with this!) I guess I grew up with metric and never realized it should be prime and double-prime for feet and inches. Boy, you learn stuff every day on the wiki. Thanks for the info! – Reidgreg (talk) 19:45, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
@Reidgreg: Haha, it's a "benefit" of growing up in the UK during the generation or 2 where the changeover between Imperial and metric was occurring. No problem; have a good weekend :) — OwenBlacker (talk) 19:52, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

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Come back to the Bernard discussion, please. There is a small group of editors that insists on the host label even though its inaccurate and badly placed.FP2C (talk) 07:58, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

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Sorry if I gave you some grief over your edit to the {{WikiProject banner shell}}. I've been misreading WP:BRINT all along, and I'm glad you've set me straight on it.  Paine Ellsworth  put'r there  13:24, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

@Paine Ellsworth: No problem; I hope you don'think I was too standoffish in my reply. It was late and I was grumpy, so sorry if I was an arse about it :) — OwenBlacker (talk) 14:20, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
And here I also thought I was being less than friendly. You did the right thing, which made me go back and check BRINT. I slightly altered that bullet and hopefully it won't be misread by others as I misread it. As old as I am, I can still learn, so thank you for that!  Paine Ellsworth  put'r there  14:24, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
Hah, it's always good for us all to remember not to let our skins be too thin. That is definitely a clearer wording on BRINT; thank you. And we can all always still learn — where would be the fun in not doing? :) Have a good evening! — OwenBlacker (talk) 16:34, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

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Owen Blacker, you've been active since I began this review: are you going to be able to get to my comments soon? While I am happy to keep an article on hold if you are busy because of real life, keeping a review open for a long time without any justification is not particularly fair to other nominators. Regards, Vanamonde (talk) 08:42, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

@Vanamonde93: Sorry, I rarely get an opportunity to spend much time on Wikipedia things during the week; I should be able to take a proper look at your comments over the weekend. I wouldn't expect to be able to make all the necessary adjustments to the article over this weekend, but I should certainly be able to ping you with my responses before Sunday evening. Thanks! — OwenBlacker (talk) 10:02, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
That's quite alright, so long as it hasn't fallen off your radar. Regards, Vanamonde (talk) 10:12, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
@Vanamonde93: Nope, I'm on it, don't worry :) I've not quite finished with my edits, thoughts and feedback and it's time I should head to bed now, but I should have an update for you within the next day or so. Thanks for your help! — OwenBlacker (talk) 22:00, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

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Please reopen this discussion; I was in the midst of a reply to clear up some misunderstandings, as many keeps are based on wrong suppositions (and some others simply on personal animosity). Fram (talk) 20:32, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

@Fram: Sorry, but it seems clear to me that there's not going to be a consensus at this time. I can only suggest relisting in a week, making things clearer to avoid mistaken suppositions. — OwenBlacker (talk) 21:09, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
I'll sleep about it, perhaps I'll file a deletion review tomorrow. I don't blame you though, it's mainly due to my own poor presentation, believing that people would either know what they were talking about or would do some research instead of insta-posting. Oh well... Fram (talk) 21:16, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

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Hi Owen- Just curious, what is all that language tagging on place- and family names for in Fribourg#Middle_Ages? Eric talk 13:56, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

@Eric: It helps assistive technologies (such as screenreaders) handle text where the language is different from the language of the page-content. As it mentions at MOS:LANG, Non-English words or phrases should be encased in {{lang}} and there's a little more information at Template:Lang/doc#Rationale. — OwenBlacker (talk) 13:59, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
Oh, I thought it might be something like that. Thanks for letting me know. Does the MOS call for that on proper names? Eric talk 14:04, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
No problem, Eric. The MOS is not explicit around proper names, but the accessibility rationale still holds, so I add it and others don't. I don'think I've seen anyone remove it, though — the disbenefits are minimal, after all. — OwenBlacker (talk) 14:05, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
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