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Why did you cut the article about the outstanding world-famous scientist Alexander Bolonkin to small notes?
You have removed all of his achievements in science, his scientific works, biography, links to the sources, sources themselves, the evidence of his significance and leaving only a short introduction to his name?
I beg to recover the article. All links and sources recently tested and true.
ABA888 (
talk) 19:08, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
Long time no .. word. Hafspajen ( talk) 21:56, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Bull of Heaven#Genres. Thanks. Myxomatosis57 ( talk) 11:42, 4 February 2015 (UTC) Thank you. Myxomatosis57 ( talk) 11:42, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The discussion is about the topic Potentially Polemic Userbox. Thank you. -- Mr. Guye ( talk) 00:06, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
I'm confused by your reversion of minor corrections I made on this page. WHAT is wrong with putting the CORRECT title (and link) of the "Amityville" film, instead of using a title and link that REDIRECTS to the correct page? You seem to have an abundance of "attaboys," but they don't trump accuracy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gil gosseyn ( talk • contribs) 05:55, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Then why didn't you institute the legitimate changes that I made? You could see that they were valid, so they should have been included in your changes. Or don't you think that's an Admin's responsibility? You could have at least left me an explanation for the reversion. Gil gosseyn ( talk) 02:53, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
Again, please read the policy you are claiming to enforce. In pertinent part:
A person is typically included in a list of people only if all the following requirements are met:
- The person meets the Wikipedia notability requirement.
- The person's membership in the list's group is established by reliable sources.
[....]
In other cases, editors choose even more stringent requirements, such as already having an article written (not just qualifying for one), or being notable specifically for reasons related to membership in this group. This is commonly used to control the size of lists that could otherwise run to hundreds or thousands of people, such as the List of American film actresses.
"meeting the GNG" != "already having an article". Indeed, one of the principal reasons for using lists is that they allow the presence of redlinks (which categories do not), reflecting the fact that our project is still in its infancy. Which it really is. Give me almost any field, and I can generate a list of hundreds/thousands of unquestionably notable topics that do not yet have any coverage in Wikipedia. -- Visviva ( talk) 05:50, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Lists of "notable people" in an article, such as the "Notable alumni" section in an article on a university, tend to accrue red links, or non-links, listing people of unverifiable notability. Such list entries should often be removed, depending on the list-selection criteria chosen for that list.
Thanks for removing my signature from the psychology entry. I appreciate your correcting my oversight. I have been working all day, on-and-off on a PC, and was trying decide on whether to write a note on the psychology talk page, in which a signature would be called for, and simply enter a change in the psychology page itself. I think my fatigue got to me, and I mistakenly wrote in my signature. Iss246 ( talk) 14:58, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I am Piotr Konieczny ( User:Piotrus), you may know me as an active content creator (see my userpage), but I am also a professional researcher of Wikipedia. Recently I published a paper (downloadable here) on reasons editors participated in Wikipedia's biggest vote to date (January 2012 WP:SOPA). I am now developing a supplementary paper, which analyzes why many editors did not take part in that vote. Which is where you come in :) You are a highly active Wikipedian, and you were active back during the January 2012 discussion/voting for the SOPA, yet you did not chose to participate in said vote. I'd appreciate it if you could tell me why was that so? For your convenience, I prepared a short survey at meta, which should not take more than a minute of your time. I would dearly appreciate you taking this minute; not only as a Wikipedia researcher but as a fellow content creator and concerned member of the community (I believe your answers may help us eventually improve our policies and thus, the project's governance). PS. If you chose to reply here (on your userpage), please WP:ECHO me. Thank you! -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 15:01, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
It seems, the truth explained by SEVERAL users in the talk page for the article /info/en/?search=Universidad_Empresarial_de_Costa_Rica is been ignored. Please read the facts in the talk page shown by SEVERAL WORLWIDE users. The actual article does NOT reflect what has been discussed there. Ramdiesel ( talk) 17:57, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello B, please move Draft:The Taliban Shuffle (film) to The Taliban Shuffle (film) without leaving a redirect, thanks. -- Captain Assassin! « T ♦ C ♦ G» 03:54, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
Concerning the change from {{
cite journal}} (and |author=
) to {{
vcite2 journal}} (and |vauthors=
) in
FGF15, this is not a change in citation style. {{
cite journal}} and {{
vcite2 journal}} produce identical output when
Vancouver style authors are stored in a single author parameter as was uniformly done in this article. Switching to {{
vcite2 journal}}/|vauthors=
maintains this style and hence is compatible with
WP:CITEVAR. In addition {{
vcite2 journal}} (|vauthors=
) produces clean author metadata and is fully compatible with |author-link=
and |displayauthors=
whereas {{
cite journal}} (|author=
) is not. Replacing |author=
with more verbose "first1, last1, first2, last2, ..." parameters would change the format from
Vancouver style to CS1 style authors is hence not compatible with
WP:CITEVAR.
Boghog (
talk) 05:31, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
|vauthors=
parameter and invisible to the editor, assigns author data to sequential "firstn, lastn, ..." parameters. The computational overhead of this parsing is insignificant.
Boghog (
talk) 06:26, 12 February 2015 (UTC)Thank you for your edit on Zoom Video Communications. I didn't spot those errors. You've just inspired me to be a little more vigilant. Meşteşugarul - U 11:03, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
Roperi looked weird, and I peeked in the revision history. Would this bot edit interest you? -- Sam Sing! 14:30, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
This 's edit message says: "WP:CHECKWIKI error fix for #61. Punctuation goes before References." Instead what the bot did was create named refs, something I don't think should be done without discussion and concensus on the talk page. Paul August ☎ 12:55, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
I went to save half an hour ago after almost 8 hours straight working on the above article and of course we had an edit clash. I think I have fixed it so all your amendments are incorporated but, specially if it is a bot, it might be worth running it again in case I missed a correction. Thanks, Eddaido ( talk) 04:20, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
I note you removed lots of piped links leading to a user page (User:Kskhh) from the article
Revenge Matters. Reading that user-page, it is clear that the user is trying to promote his own film. All the references at
Revenge Matters are to "The Gilgit Express" - which is a "website under construction",
here, clearly created by the same person, and which does not even support the citations in the article.
Am I right that I cannot speedy a film for non-notability, as A7. covers "No indication of importance (individuals, animals, organizations, web content, events" and A9. "No indication of importance (musical recordings)" but films don't fit into either category? -
Arjayay (
talk) 08:55, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
Will you please move Draft:Joy (film) to Joy (film) ? - Thanks. -- Captain Assassin! « T ♦ C ♦ G» 18:28, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
FYI, with this edit, your bot seems to have been tripped up by an earlier bad edit which broke the level-2 header "In science and technology". That may be a contingency you'd want to code for - to check for a broken level-2 header (i.e. a single "==") before changing the levels of other headings. Or not; perhaps it's too obscure an error to bother with. Either way, I thought I'd bring it to your attention. — Swpb talk 14:10, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
Hunter has notable family members and should be included in her infobox. Please do help me in adding the family parameter. :) You can just copy-paste the one I made. Just replace the parentheses with brackets for linking. All references are in the family section of her page already. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!
|family= ((Michael Gow (British Army officer)|Michael James Gow GCB))(maternal grandfather)
((J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone)) (maternal great-great-grandfather)
((Timothy Carlton)) (father-in-law)
((Wanda Ventham)) (mother-in-law)
58.140.17.253 (
talk) 01:12, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
Bgwhite. Your
BG19bot put a {{
no footnotes|section}}
tag in the
External links section of
Gotcha journalism. That produced the flag
This section includes a
list of references,
related reading, or
external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks
inline citations. (February 2014) |
I've deleted it. AFAIK, the External links section of an article isn't expected to have footnotes.
To discuss this, please {{Ping}} me. -- Thnidu ( talk) 07:25, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
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16:28, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Please don't remove the nobots tag from Head-directionality parameter - various different bots are programmed in such a way that they will mess up this article (they see double square brackets and assume they must be marking a link, whereas in many instances in this article they do not). I've tried adding the article to various whitelists, but that has no effect. W. P. Uzer ( talk) 10:38, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Avoid using the template as a blunt instrument. You are using it as a blunt instrument. You are disallowing ALL bots, even though the vast majority do not touch brackets.
Address the root problem with the bot owner or bot communityYou did not do that.
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TRULY appreciate your time, effort and improvements. Still a neophyte to wiki- editing. Your review history did not show at first [program glitch?] so I didn't know who or what or where my edits were going or why. Startarrant ( talk) 13:53, 12 February 2015 (UTC) |
I don't know where to put explanations or replies/questions to edit actions. I thought I was doing so in the update box.
More later -- I TRULY appreciate your help. Startarrant ( talk) 01:01, 13 February 2015 (UTC)startarrant
Startarrant ( talk) 21:43, 24 February 2015 (UTC)startarrant
Your recent editing history at Female genital mutilation shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you get reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.
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You are edit warring. Your 30 seconds of discomfort to translate a page to Swahili is more important than millions of blind users ability to read a page is appalling. Because an English Wikipedia template is not available on the Swahili Wikipedia is not a valid reason to engage in bigotry. You never answered why you are more important than blind readers. Next time, try consensus for overturning accessibility when you want to revert. Bgwhite ( talk) 07:31, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Brother Bgwhite is Human! Because he is watching my page to notice what new pictures will be posted! Of course he will never admit that - but he can't fool anyone. Hafspajen ( talk) 10:57, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
OK, I have done my thinking, but I am still nowhere. Cos' I don't understand. Are you trying to say that using {{-}} to correct the alignment on your page is causing the problem with the Archive Bot? And to use {{clear}} instead?
I didn't want the Bot to archive some things so included {{DNAU}} but the bot seems to sometimes ignore it and that's what happened during last night. Should it be {{subst:DNAU}} instead ... or? --
Hafspajen (
talk) 12:46, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen ( talk) 22:14, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
If messages don't go on the bot talk page, please don't tell editors to override the redirect to put them there.
From the bot's instruction page:
To stop this bot until restarted by the bot's owner, edit its talk page. If that page is a redirect, edit that original redirecting page, not the target of the redirect.
MicroPaLeo ( talk) 10:59, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
I posted here. I don't know why you have your bot adding an extra equal sign to each side of an unbalanced header, but you should fix it to ignore unbalanced headers instead of pointlessly editing them to still be unbalanced. Maybe someone there can explain this to you. MicroPaLeo ( talk) 23:24, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
A reference was added that included a period and space after the closing /ref tag, all of which was put before a comma in the sentence. The BOT put both period and comma before the new reference. The reference has now been corrected further, so there is nothing more you need do there, but I thought you might want to be alerted to this anomaly. Be happy! 172.162.6.142 ( talk) 03:45, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi, please check QupZilla again, as far as I can tell it lede before TOC before first section per WP:LEADORDER should be perfectly okay for screen readers, the image to the right of the TOC ("below" from a screen reader POV) is invisible for screen readers, and the old layout was visually ugly/messy. Dropping the image completely is definitely no good plan, it illustrates a feature ("passed ACID3 test") not yet sufficiently covered in the text. – Be..anyone ( talk) 07:02, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
longdesc=
attribute). But the point is that they announce something, and that whatever that "something" happens to be, it cannot be placed between the TOC and the first section heading. --
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talk) 11:23, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
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16:41, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for visiting the page I submitted. Just one note: "General fixes and cleanup" really doesn't provide any guide to what you did to the page. It might be useful to leave a note saying what you worked on, and what the deficiency was. Arnold Rothstein1921 ( talk) 11:42, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Bgwhite,
You made edits to English language today following edits I made to the article after carefully looking at documentation for named references. Named references are expected to have in them only characters that appear on a standard keyboard (for example, the hyphen). Meanwhile, page references in a citation template are expected to use en dashes if a page span is shown. I am trying to be very careful to have named references showing page spans with hyphens, linking to citation templates showing page spans with en dashes. The vague edit summary "(Do general fixes and cleanup. - using AWB (10839))" makes it impossible for me to tell (as does how little en dashes and hyphens differ in wiki markup view) whether human thought was applied along with AWB's automated pattern-matching as you passed through that page. Could you please advise on exactly what you did, and why you did it? I'm just trying to read and follow the documentation here, and I am a user of AWB myself (rarely), but I notice AWB doesn't have all these fine details programmed into it by default and needs human guidance. Please let me know what human decisions, based on what documentation, you were making as passed through English language with AWB. -- WeijiBaikeBianji ( talk, how I edit) 01:09, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
Please consider keeping names simple and restricted to the standard English alphabet and numerals..
Bgwhite, Through your recent edits on the Tabs of the United States Army page, it has become apparent that you do not like how some add videos to Wikipedia pages. Your removal and comment to my addition of a Department of the Army (DA) video explaining why they have tabs is not enough for me to make corrections; "Do it right" is neither constructive nor educational. The way I included this DA video is the same way many videos have been added to pages. For example, look at how a video was added to the Theora page. If you feel there is a better way to add a video to a page, please point me to an exemplar that I can use to educate myself. If not, I can only conclude your new contributions to the "Tabs of the United States Army" page are personal preference edits vise Wikimedia best practices. As they say, "There's more than one way to skin a cat." -- McChizzle ( talk) 15:26, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
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Hi I would like to inform you that the article Roberto Zambia that was deleted today at 06:50, 10 March 2015 was my own work and research and not a copy paste. yes it might have some similarities but it was not a copy paste story. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Icem4k ( talk • contribs)
Your bot made this change to the article Minsk II. Yobot did the same thing the other day. In both cases, the change broke the numbering of the list of measures. I'd like to know how to prevent the bots from doing this, so I don't have to fix it each time one comes around. RGloucester — ☎ 20:04, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Your bot moves the references beyond the punctuation, but when applying it to lists, like in this edit, you end up with the reference on the next item of the list, which seems confusing at best. Look into the Customer section of the article how the references in the Inmarsat line look out of place. Baldusi — ☎ 13:16, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
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This proposal has been made,perhaps you can add yoour 2 cents? Wikipedia_talk:Noticeboard_for_India-related_topics#WikiProject_India_En_workshop (Note: your posting or supporting/endorsing does not guarantee your selection, specially non-Indian participation is very much uncertain at this moment). -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 16:31, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi, just spotted this edit by the bot that inserted the References section in the wrong place after the templates rather than before. Keith D ( talk) 12:27, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
Dear Bgwhite,
I've missed you! You have always been such an inspiration to me! I'm being nice so that you won't block me. You see, I noticed that most likely an old friend of mine was editing the Harp Twins article (based on the IP address, and he then confessed it on his talk page). I swear that he and I had had no communication for months, so it's not like I wrote to him and told him to do something with the article. If I had wanted to add anything, I would have asked for your help, as always, because you are very generous, but I'm quite disenchanted with those ladies. So I noticed that this friend was trying to add singles to a table but he messed it up, making it disappear, so after seeing him struggle for a while, I fixed a tiny formatting mistake. That's all. Oh, and now I'm all excited about the Redhead Express! I created that article! I'm feeling so proud... until it gets deleted! LOL
All the best, since you are the best! Dontreader ( talk) 03:20, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
I would like your input on an edit that is currently being discussed. Specifically, the Proposed formatting change for the article List of Presidents of the United States. Since you have edited numerous lists of officeholders, I thought you could share insights and information that may be pertinent to this discussion. The edit that is being discussed is this. Thank you. Mitchumch ( talk) 10:45, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
This is the first time I have used Wiki Talkpage, apologies for format/technique. I believe Bgwhite edited this page: /info/en/?search=Ben_K._Green On this line: "...according to records from the Texas State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners.[1]" When I click the link to the letter "1", the letter I posted previously is not presented; the letter is 'gone'. Would there be any way to replace it please? 2. There was also a similar letter from University of Cornell but I see no reference to it, nor the letter itself. Kind regards Dave Taylor WestTexasDave ( talk) 02:15, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
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Please move Draft:Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur to Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur - Thanks. -- Captain Assassin! « T ♦ C ♦ G» 03:32, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
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This was actually a mistake on your part, and I reverted it. See explanation on User talk:Magioladitis#Mistaken fix to reference after punctuation in At Freddie's where Yobot made the exact same mistake. The colon involved is not punctuation, although it looks like punctuation, but instead it is wiki markup. Following Magioladitis's fix (fool the bot) I introduced a comment even, so that not even humans will make that mistake! Oh, well. Thanks for your good try. Choor monster ( talk) 22:09, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
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Back in 2012 you PRODded this, and it was deleted. Undeletion has now been requested at WP:REFUND, so per WP:DEL#Proposed deletion I have restored it, and now notify you in case you wish to consider AfD. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 14:49, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
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My email was unrelated with his blocks. It was about something else. OccultZone ( Talk • Contributions • Log) 22:16, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Bgwhite - Thank you for your help in editing the entry for my great-grandfather, Charles Aubrey Eaton. Please feel free to contact me with any other suggestions, etc. BTW I cannot use an AWB editor because I own a Mac. (I believe AWB is only compatible with Windows, correct?) - All good wishes, Nathaniel Albert Eaton — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nathaniel Albert Eaton ( talk • contribs) 23:53, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
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Why did you cut the article about the outstanding world-famous scientist Alexander Bolonkin to small notes?
You have removed all of his achievements in science, his scientific works, biography, links to the sources, sources themselves, the evidence of his significance and leaving only a short introduction to his name?
I beg to recover the article. All links and sources recently tested and true.
ABA888 (
talk) 19:08, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
Long time no .. word. Hafspajen ( talk) 21:56, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Bull of Heaven#Genres. Thanks. Myxomatosis57 ( talk) 11:42, 4 February 2015 (UTC) Thank you. Myxomatosis57 ( talk) 11:42, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The discussion is about the topic Potentially Polemic Userbox. Thank you. -- Mr. Guye ( talk) 00:06, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
I'm confused by your reversion of minor corrections I made on this page. WHAT is wrong with putting the CORRECT title (and link) of the "Amityville" film, instead of using a title and link that REDIRECTS to the correct page? You seem to have an abundance of "attaboys," but they don't trump accuracy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gil gosseyn ( talk • contribs) 05:55, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Then why didn't you institute the legitimate changes that I made? You could see that they were valid, so they should have been included in your changes. Or don't you think that's an Admin's responsibility? You could have at least left me an explanation for the reversion. Gil gosseyn ( talk) 02:53, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
Again, please read the policy you are claiming to enforce. In pertinent part:
A person is typically included in a list of people only if all the following requirements are met:
- The person meets the Wikipedia notability requirement.
- The person's membership in the list's group is established by reliable sources.
[....]
In other cases, editors choose even more stringent requirements, such as already having an article written (not just qualifying for one), or being notable specifically for reasons related to membership in this group. This is commonly used to control the size of lists that could otherwise run to hundreds or thousands of people, such as the List of American film actresses.
"meeting the GNG" != "already having an article". Indeed, one of the principal reasons for using lists is that they allow the presence of redlinks (which categories do not), reflecting the fact that our project is still in its infancy. Which it really is. Give me almost any field, and I can generate a list of hundreds/thousands of unquestionably notable topics that do not yet have any coverage in Wikipedia. -- Visviva ( talk) 05:50, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Lists of "notable people" in an article, such as the "Notable alumni" section in an article on a university, tend to accrue red links, or non-links, listing people of unverifiable notability. Such list entries should often be removed, depending on the list-selection criteria chosen for that list.
Thanks for removing my signature from the psychology entry. I appreciate your correcting my oversight. I have been working all day, on-and-off on a PC, and was trying decide on whether to write a note on the psychology talk page, in which a signature would be called for, and simply enter a change in the psychology page itself. I think my fatigue got to me, and I mistakenly wrote in my signature. Iss246 ( talk) 14:58, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I am Piotr Konieczny ( User:Piotrus), you may know me as an active content creator (see my userpage), but I am also a professional researcher of Wikipedia. Recently I published a paper (downloadable here) on reasons editors participated in Wikipedia's biggest vote to date (January 2012 WP:SOPA). I am now developing a supplementary paper, which analyzes why many editors did not take part in that vote. Which is where you come in :) You are a highly active Wikipedian, and you were active back during the January 2012 discussion/voting for the SOPA, yet you did not chose to participate in said vote. I'd appreciate it if you could tell me why was that so? For your convenience, I prepared a short survey at meta, which should not take more than a minute of your time. I would dearly appreciate you taking this minute; not only as a Wikipedia researcher but as a fellow content creator and concerned member of the community (I believe your answers may help us eventually improve our policies and thus, the project's governance). PS. If you chose to reply here (on your userpage), please WP:ECHO me. Thank you! -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 15:01, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
It seems, the truth explained by SEVERAL users in the talk page for the article /info/en/?search=Universidad_Empresarial_de_Costa_Rica is been ignored. Please read the facts in the talk page shown by SEVERAL WORLWIDE users. The actual article does NOT reflect what has been discussed there. Ramdiesel ( talk) 17:57, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello B, please move Draft:The Taliban Shuffle (film) to The Taliban Shuffle (film) without leaving a redirect, thanks. -- Captain Assassin! « T ♦ C ♦ G» 03:54, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
Concerning the change from {{
cite journal}} (and |author=
) to {{
vcite2 journal}} (and |vauthors=
) in
FGF15, this is not a change in citation style. {{
cite journal}} and {{
vcite2 journal}} produce identical output when
Vancouver style authors are stored in a single author parameter as was uniformly done in this article. Switching to {{
vcite2 journal}}/|vauthors=
maintains this style and hence is compatible with
WP:CITEVAR. In addition {{
vcite2 journal}} (|vauthors=
) produces clean author metadata and is fully compatible with |author-link=
and |displayauthors=
whereas {{
cite journal}} (|author=
) is not. Replacing |author=
with more verbose "first1, last1, first2, last2, ..." parameters would change the format from
Vancouver style to CS1 style authors is hence not compatible with
WP:CITEVAR.
Boghog (
talk) 05:31, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
|vauthors=
parameter and invisible to the editor, assigns author data to sequential "firstn, lastn, ..." parameters. The computational overhead of this parsing is insignificant.
Boghog (
talk) 06:26, 12 February 2015 (UTC)Thank you for your edit on Zoom Video Communications. I didn't spot those errors. You've just inspired me to be a little more vigilant. Meşteşugarul - U 11:03, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
Roperi looked weird, and I peeked in the revision history. Would this bot edit interest you? -- Sam Sing! 14:30, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
This 's edit message says: "WP:CHECKWIKI error fix for #61. Punctuation goes before References." Instead what the bot did was create named refs, something I don't think should be done without discussion and concensus on the talk page. Paul August ☎ 12:55, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
I went to save half an hour ago after almost 8 hours straight working on the above article and of course we had an edit clash. I think I have fixed it so all your amendments are incorporated but, specially if it is a bot, it might be worth running it again in case I missed a correction. Thanks, Eddaido ( talk) 04:20, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
I note you removed lots of piped links leading to a user page (User:Kskhh) from the article
Revenge Matters. Reading that user-page, it is clear that the user is trying to promote his own film. All the references at
Revenge Matters are to "The Gilgit Express" - which is a "website under construction",
here, clearly created by the same person, and which does not even support the citations in the article.
Am I right that I cannot speedy a film for non-notability, as A7. covers "No indication of importance (individuals, animals, organizations, web content, events" and A9. "No indication of importance (musical recordings)" but films don't fit into either category? -
Arjayay (
talk) 08:55, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
Will you please move Draft:Joy (film) to Joy (film) ? - Thanks. -- Captain Assassin! « T ♦ C ♦ G» 18:28, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
FYI, with this edit, your bot seems to have been tripped up by an earlier bad edit which broke the level-2 header "In science and technology". That may be a contingency you'd want to code for - to check for a broken level-2 header (i.e. a single "==") before changing the levels of other headings. Or not; perhaps it's too obscure an error to bother with. Either way, I thought I'd bring it to your attention. — Swpb talk 14:10, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
Hunter has notable family members and should be included in her infobox. Please do help me in adding the family parameter. :) You can just copy-paste the one I made. Just replace the parentheses with brackets for linking. All references are in the family section of her page already. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!
|family= ((Michael Gow (British Army officer)|Michael James Gow GCB))(maternal grandfather)
((J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone)) (maternal great-great-grandfather)
((Timothy Carlton)) (father-in-law)
((Wanda Ventham)) (mother-in-law)
58.140.17.253 (
talk) 01:12, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
Bgwhite. Your
BG19bot put a {{
no footnotes|section}}
tag in the
External links section of
Gotcha journalism. That produced the flag
This section includes a
list of references,
related reading, or
external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks
inline citations. (February 2014) |
I've deleted it. AFAIK, the External links section of an article isn't expected to have footnotes.
To discuss this, please {{Ping}} me. -- Thnidu ( talk) 07:25, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
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16:28, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Please don't remove the nobots tag from Head-directionality parameter - various different bots are programmed in such a way that they will mess up this article (they see double square brackets and assume they must be marking a link, whereas in many instances in this article they do not). I've tried adding the article to various whitelists, but that has no effect. W. P. Uzer ( talk) 10:38, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Avoid using the template as a blunt instrument. You are using it as a blunt instrument. You are disallowing ALL bots, even though the vast majority do not touch brackets.
Address the root problem with the bot owner or bot communityYou did not do that.
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TRULY appreciate your time, effort and improvements. Still a neophyte to wiki- editing. Your review history did not show at first [program glitch?] so I didn't know who or what or where my edits were going or why. Startarrant ( talk) 13:53, 12 February 2015 (UTC) |
I don't know where to put explanations or replies/questions to edit actions. I thought I was doing so in the update box.
More later -- I TRULY appreciate your help. Startarrant ( talk) 01:01, 13 February 2015 (UTC)startarrant
Startarrant ( talk) 21:43, 24 February 2015 (UTC)startarrant
Your recent editing history at Female genital mutilation shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you get reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.
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You are edit warring. Your 30 seconds of discomfort to translate a page to Swahili is more important than millions of blind users ability to read a page is appalling. Because an English Wikipedia template is not available on the Swahili Wikipedia is not a valid reason to engage in bigotry. You never answered why you are more important than blind readers. Next time, try consensus for overturning accessibility when you want to revert. Bgwhite ( talk) 07:31, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Brother Bgwhite is Human! Because he is watching my page to notice what new pictures will be posted! Of course he will never admit that - but he can't fool anyone. Hafspajen ( talk) 10:57, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
OK, I have done my thinking, but I am still nowhere. Cos' I don't understand. Are you trying to say that using {{-}} to correct the alignment on your page is causing the problem with the Archive Bot? And to use {{clear}} instead?
I didn't want the Bot to archive some things so included {{DNAU}} but the bot seems to sometimes ignore it and that's what happened during last night. Should it be {{subst:DNAU}} instead ... or? --
Hafspajen (
talk) 12:46, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen ( talk) 22:14, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
If messages don't go on the bot talk page, please don't tell editors to override the redirect to put them there.
From the bot's instruction page:
To stop this bot until restarted by the bot's owner, edit its talk page. If that page is a redirect, edit that original redirecting page, not the target of the redirect.
MicroPaLeo ( talk) 10:59, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
I posted here. I don't know why you have your bot adding an extra equal sign to each side of an unbalanced header, but you should fix it to ignore unbalanced headers instead of pointlessly editing them to still be unbalanced. Maybe someone there can explain this to you. MicroPaLeo ( talk) 23:24, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
A reference was added that included a period and space after the closing /ref tag, all of which was put before a comma in the sentence. The BOT put both period and comma before the new reference. The reference has now been corrected further, so there is nothing more you need do there, but I thought you might want to be alerted to this anomaly. Be happy! 172.162.6.142 ( talk) 03:45, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi, please check QupZilla again, as far as I can tell it lede before TOC before first section per WP:LEADORDER should be perfectly okay for screen readers, the image to the right of the TOC ("below" from a screen reader POV) is invisible for screen readers, and the old layout was visually ugly/messy. Dropping the image completely is definitely no good plan, it illustrates a feature ("passed ACID3 test") not yet sufficiently covered in the text. – Be..anyone ( talk) 07:02, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
longdesc=
attribute). But the point is that they announce something, and that whatever that "something" happens to be, it cannot be placed between the TOC and the first section heading. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 11:23, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
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16:41, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for visiting the page I submitted. Just one note: "General fixes and cleanup" really doesn't provide any guide to what you did to the page. It might be useful to leave a note saying what you worked on, and what the deficiency was. Arnold Rothstein1921 ( talk) 11:42, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Bgwhite,
You made edits to English language today following edits I made to the article after carefully looking at documentation for named references. Named references are expected to have in them only characters that appear on a standard keyboard (for example, the hyphen). Meanwhile, page references in a citation template are expected to use en dashes if a page span is shown. I am trying to be very careful to have named references showing page spans with hyphens, linking to citation templates showing page spans with en dashes. The vague edit summary "(Do general fixes and cleanup. - using AWB (10839))" makes it impossible for me to tell (as does how little en dashes and hyphens differ in wiki markup view) whether human thought was applied along with AWB's automated pattern-matching as you passed through that page. Could you please advise on exactly what you did, and why you did it? I'm just trying to read and follow the documentation here, and I am a user of AWB myself (rarely), but I notice AWB doesn't have all these fine details programmed into it by default and needs human guidance. Please let me know what human decisions, based on what documentation, you were making as passed through English language with AWB. -- WeijiBaikeBianji ( talk, how I edit) 01:09, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
Please consider keeping names simple and restricted to the standard English alphabet and numerals..
Bgwhite, Through your recent edits on the Tabs of the United States Army page, it has become apparent that you do not like how some add videos to Wikipedia pages. Your removal and comment to my addition of a Department of the Army (DA) video explaining why they have tabs is not enough for me to make corrections; "Do it right" is neither constructive nor educational. The way I included this DA video is the same way many videos have been added to pages. For example, look at how a video was added to the Theora page. If you feel there is a better way to add a video to a page, please point me to an exemplar that I can use to educate myself. If not, I can only conclude your new contributions to the "Tabs of the United States Army" page are personal preference edits vise Wikimedia best practices. As they say, "There's more than one way to skin a cat." -- McChizzle ( talk) 15:26, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
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15:18, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
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Hi I would like to inform you that the article Roberto Zambia that was deleted today at 06:50, 10 March 2015 was my own work and research and not a copy paste. yes it might have some similarities but it was not a copy paste story. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Icem4k ( talk • contribs)
Your bot made this change to the article Minsk II. Yobot did the same thing the other day. In both cases, the change broke the numbering of the list of measures. I'd like to know how to prevent the bots from doing this, so I don't have to fix it each time one comes around. RGloucester — ☎ 20:04, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Your bot moves the references beyond the punctuation, but when applying it to lists, like in this edit, you end up with the reference on the next item of the list, which seems confusing at best. Look into the Customer section of the article how the references in the Inmarsat line look out of place. Baldusi — ☎ 13:16, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
{{
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, like this:Customer | Satellites | Comments |
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Inmarsat |
References
This proposal has been made,perhaps you can add yoour 2 cents? Wikipedia_talk:Noticeboard_for_India-related_topics#WikiProject_India_En_workshop (Note: your posting or supporting/endorsing does not guarantee your selection, specially non-Indian participation is very much uncertain at this moment). -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 16:31, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi, just spotted this edit by the bot that inserted the References section in the wrong place after the templates rather than before. Keith D ( talk) 12:27, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
Dear Bgwhite,
I've missed you! You have always been such an inspiration to me! I'm being nice so that you won't block me. You see, I noticed that most likely an old friend of mine was editing the Harp Twins article (based on the IP address, and he then confessed it on his talk page). I swear that he and I had had no communication for months, so it's not like I wrote to him and told him to do something with the article. If I had wanted to add anything, I would have asked for your help, as always, because you are very generous, but I'm quite disenchanted with those ladies. So I noticed that this friend was trying to add singles to a table but he messed it up, making it disappear, so after seeing him struggle for a while, I fixed a tiny formatting mistake. That's all. Oh, and now I'm all excited about the Redhead Express! I created that article! I'm feeling so proud... until it gets deleted! LOL
All the best, since you are the best! Dontreader ( talk) 03:20, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
I would like your input on an edit that is currently being discussed. Specifically, the Proposed formatting change for the article List of Presidents of the United States. Since you have edited numerous lists of officeholders, I thought you could share insights and information that may be pertinent to this discussion. The edit that is being discussed is this. Thank you. Mitchumch ( talk) 10:45, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
This is the first time I have used Wiki Talkpage, apologies for format/technique. I believe Bgwhite edited this page: /info/en/?search=Ben_K._Green On this line: "...according to records from the Texas State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners.[1]" When I click the link to the letter "1", the letter I posted previously is not presented; the letter is 'gone'. Would there be any way to replace it please? 2. There was also a similar letter from University of Cornell but I see no reference to it, nor the letter itself. Kind regards Dave Taylor WestTexasDave ( talk) 02:15, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
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Please move Draft:Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur to Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur - Thanks. -- Captain Assassin! « T ♦ C ♦ G» 03:32, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
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15:14, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
This was actually a mistake on your part, and I reverted it. See explanation on User talk:Magioladitis#Mistaken fix to reference after punctuation in At Freddie's where Yobot made the exact same mistake. The colon involved is not punctuation, although it looks like punctuation, but instead it is wiki markup. Following Magioladitis's fix (fool the bot) I introduced a comment even, so that not even humans will make that mistake! Oh, well. Thanks for your good try. Choor monster ( talk) 22:09, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
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care of biographies
Thank you for the care you give to biographies, without tiring, at least so it seems, - you are an
awesome Wikipedian!
-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:57, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
Three years ago, you were the 65th recipient of my Pumpkin Sky Prize, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:11, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Life Is Real Only Then, When 'I Am'#Consensus check. Thanks. - Mr X 22:45, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
Back in 2012 you PRODded this, and it was deleted. Undeletion has now been requested at WP:REFUND, so per WP:DEL#Proposed deletion I have restored it, and now notify you in case you wish to consider AfD. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 14:49, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
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15:09, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
My email was unrelated with his blocks. It was about something else. OccultZone ( Talk • Contributions • Log) 22:16, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
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Hafspajen ( talk) 08:01, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi Bgwhite - Thank you for your help in editing the entry for my great-grandfather, Charles Aubrey Eaton. Please feel free to contact me with any other suggestions, etc. BTW I cannot use an AWB editor because I own a Mac. (I believe AWB is only compatible with Windows, correct?) - All good wishes, Nathaniel Albert Eaton — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nathaniel Albert Eaton ( talk • contribs) 23:53, 24 March 2015 (UTC)