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If you are watching Strauss's user page, you may have noticed that I expressed annoyance at JJMC89 for reverting the non-close close of the 25 music portals. Because it wasn't really a close, I didn't think that involved applied. The background is that in the 1980s in the United States, there were financial institutions known as non-bank banks. They paid higher interest rates than regular banks, but were not protected by government bank insurance. This sort of usage has vaguely caught on in North American English, so that there can be things like non-paper papers. Maybe the usage is an Americanism. Robert McClenon ( talk) 21:37, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, I'm here to ask for your input regarding a matter as you are an admin and the talk pages of the relevant pages are empty and both pages have few people editing them. I have added the matter to the page 2019 in the United Kingdom a few days ago - as it is a related page - but have yet to hear any respones. I have also seen you have been very good at being able to go around fixing pages that have been consisttantly formatted incorrectly e.g. updating links to UK party leadership elections.
The page 2019 in Wales and the page 2019 in British music have their dates linked. I have tried to remove these date links due to it breaking the MOS:OVERLINK and WP:DATELINK rules. However another editor is reverting me arguing the dates should be linked simply because the previous years have done so. However, I'd argue if something does not follow Wikipedia's rules it should be corrected, just because something is wrongly done elsewhere in a consistent fashion does not make it correct.
Your thoughts on the matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time. Helper201 ( talk) 12:40, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
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Would it be possible to look at the portal deletion nominations again shortly? I realize that you are also working on other things besides portals, and, besides, the WMF Office business has gone crazy. You had said a few days ago that you would look at Portal:Civilizations. Other than that, things are calmer than usual, but there has been some discussion that could use your perspective. I have nominated one country portal for deletion as completely out-of-date, and SmokeyJoe has said it is worse than useless,with which I agree, and I have nominated three unmaintained little-viewed US state portals for deletion. Thank you. Robert McClenon ( talk) 21:49, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
In this edit, you introduced a link to 1835 Spouth Devon by-election. I do not have the time to check all your edits. DuncanHill ( talk) 16:28, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
Rather more seriously, in this edit and ion this edit you turned a bluelink red. DuncanHill ( talk) 16:36, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi BrownHairedGirl,
Noticed the wiki category created by Bryce Cameron, Coffee Table Book. There is also an index of several publications listed with this category, a directory of sorts.
Representing several fan club members of West Coast Midnight Run™ we thought you may want to add the title of the publication to your Coffee Table Book page. The publication is along the lines of an art book/coffee table book with strong qualities influenced by lifestyle and entertainment magazines. We invite you to look them up and contact their editors for more information if they qualify. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:A886:7500:9842:2D27:82F4:E21C ( talk) 04:12, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
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The long section for comments at WP:VP/P has me thinking about a different way of doing these, where the section is divided by subsections which each have a well-written summary of the argument. Are you going to compress the arguments from the given comments into something short? - ApexUnderground ( talk) 14:56, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
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Thanks for improving so many articles in so little time, keep up the good work! Vif12vf/Tiberius ( talk) 11:21, 17 June 2019 (UTC) |
At least when a bot does huge numbers of changes very fast I can hide it from my watchlist. At the moment my watchlist is pretty much useless owing to your bot-like, but not bot, edits. There is no need to update these links. DuncanHill ( talk) 13:51, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
Hello BHG. enjoyed reading your profile page, especially the correspondence highlighted in this section. I noticed that there was a typo (intentional?), in case you wanted to change it. Vauxhall Bridgefoot ( talk) 11:38, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed you recently moved pages in relation to Australian referendums, Australian referendum, 1928, Australian referendum, 1951 & Australian referendum, 1948 to put the year first per WP:NC-GAL. Maybe I am missing something, but it looks to me like each of those pages was already redirect to the relevant articles, which follow current naming conventions 1928 Australian referendum (State Debts), 1951 Australian Communist Party ban referendum and 1948 Australian rents and prices referendum & that what has been created are double redirects. It's no big deal, but I am bringing it to your attention because I thought you would want to know if there is some glitch in your processes. Find bruce ( talk) 20:49, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
While close inspection showed me that WP:NOTBROKEN does not apply, a different edit summary template might make this more obvious. Maybe this comment belongs at Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser; I don't use AWB and can't tell from Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/User manual#Edit summary whether this is default or user-configured. jnestorius( talk) 12:00, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
@ jnestorius, this is a cleanup exercise after the RFC last year which changed the WP:NC-GAL convention for election names from "Foo election, YYYY" to "YYYY Foo election". I weakly opposed the change, largely because of the large amount of cleanup it would involve, but there was a clear consensus to change the convention, and I accept that consensus. Now I am trying to make it work by doing that cleanup.
This run of edits has three primary purposes:
[[Foo election, YYYY]]
. It is much more readable to have [[YYYY Foo election]]
.[[Foo election, YYYY|YYYY Foo election]]
. The wikicode is much more readable as [[YYYY Foo election]]
.When I started on this job a fortnight ago, I was initially doing a very restricted set of use cases. But the more examples I encountered, the more I realised that there was no advantage in doing only a sub-set, when each edit could resolve a much wider set of issues.
So the effect of what I am doing is to fix a set of redirects, some of which may be broken, but where identifying only the broken ones is massively more work than just standardising the lot. AWB just handles text patterns, and can't identify whether a link is red, so unless someone wants to handcode a whole bot which does squillions of system calls to identify only redlinks, this is the neatest way of doing it.
As to WP:NOTBROKEN, it doesn't adequately address the myriad complex issues raised by a change in naming convention for a broad set. If we interpreted it as forbidding any change other than to redlinks, then the job would be impossible and we would leave all these unresolved. I think that would be very bad for Wikipedia, both for readers who encounter redlinks and for the editors who try to fix them manually.
I hope that makes sense. User:BD2412 has also done a lot of work on these article sets, so may want to add something. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 15:53, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
[[Foo election, YYYY|alias]]
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example). If I understand correctly you accept that this is redundant but that it's quicker to do it mechanically (albeit unneccessarily) than to spend time calculating whether it would be redundant?"cleanup, Election links"
text it could replace, thus not exacerbating the limitations of point #2How does changing one redirect for another, as here, help? Also, I am seeing rather more new redlinks popping up in my watchlist than I would hope for. With the best will in the world, given both the enormous number of edits and the shortness of the edit summaries, I find it hard to believe that these will all be picked up and fixed by you. I did above ask how long it would go on for, and it has already been going on much longer than you suggested at that time. I have a watchlist filled with multiple passes of renaming categories or changing links - see for example here. How many more weeks will it take? DuncanHill ( talk) 17:23, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
It appears that you were busy on other matters for about a week and now have changed your primary focus to be the cleanup of election articles, but that you are also keeping up with the portals. I am surveying the portals in a somewhat random way to see which ones need attention. As you can see, I have nominated a few portals, mostly lightly populated US states, for deletion, and the ones that have been nominated recently either have been deleted or are waiting for final close on deletion. We still have a few large bundles that are stalled. When they are closed somehow, and I think that Procedural Keep is an honorable resolution, we will know better how to proceed further, but I think that the pace of the portal cleanup has slowed down.
Everything went berserk about ten days ago with the decision by the Office to ban Fram, and at this point I am waiting to see what the next major step is in the area of governance, and whether this is the beginning of a new phase for governance, or whether Fram is a one-off that accomplishes nothing other than to anger editors.
Enjoy 17 hours of sunlight (through the clouds) for a little while. Robert McClenon ( talk) 16:27, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
Can you find the right person to answer this question: How do I stop Huggle from adding IP talk pages to my watchlist? Interstellarity T 🌟 12:50, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
I am unsure of the rules for this sort of thing (I only use AWB for things I already know there's approval for), but could I run WP:ELLINKS on the articles in my watchlist and a few more Connecticut-related ones? – MJL ‐Talk‐ ☖ 03:35, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
WP:ELLINKS (9/11)". That summary indicates that 11 matches were found, and that 9 titles were changed. But the summary displays only 3 titles, so some some checking is needed.
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... it only leads to trouble, and in my last edit summary autocorrect turned "soz" into "son", which isn't what I wanted to call you! --- Sluzzelin talk 20:32, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
Subject: Cherished World Champion voting system
I propose the following voting system as a much fairer alternative to our present one, Its name refers to the hope that Britain should set a good example to the rest of the world in its democratic practice, to help shame the dictatorships and biased systems of the world into putting their people's needs first before their own pathetic and malevolent selfishness.
My late father's initials were C.W.C. Clarence Wilson Clough and he strongly believed in fairness.
At the next Election.......
Firstly a citizen's manifesto should be compiled as a result of unbiased questions suggested and approved by the public and parliament.This could be filled in on-line or even at the polling stations during elections (refreshments being greatfully provided to the willing participants for their voluntary effort!)
When it comes to voting the only change would be that the voting paper would have an empty box at the bottom in which the voter could put a number.
The number would refer to a name on display in the polling station,and perhaps as many as 50 candidates would be standing as national representatives with their numbers next to them,(a bit like dishes are printed out in a Chinese takeaway restaurant.)
These representatives would represent a constituency of opinion, and in picking one, the voter would automatically abstain from being able to vote for their local choice.
Every Vote Will Count!
When the votes are counted there will be four kinds of representation
One : The person with the most votes will be the local M.P.
Two : The unsuccessful local candidates will be able to vote on behalf of the voters who chose them in each debate in the House of Commons.(This would be via an internet connection to the speaker).They would enjoy this privilege no matter how few voted for them,they would not however be allowed to speak or act as an M.P.in any other way (unless perhaps the legitimate M.P.hired them as a locum, in the case of ill health e.t.c.)
Three: Any individual will be able to vote on their own behalf if they register with the speaker via the speakers office (as opposed to picking a representative.)
Four: The national representatives will be able to vote on behalf of everyone who voted for them and take part in the life of the House of Commons (just like the traditional/geographical M.P.'s).
Finally,votes will be proportional with support i.e.(If 6 million people vote for a national candidate they would have a vote 100 times greater than a local M.P. who only got 60,000 votes.)
These votes would be individually recognised by a kind of credit card voting system on the floor of the commons.(A graphic display of the vote could also be exhibited to interest children and adults with learning difficulties.)
The speaker would vote for or against any motion according to the electronic poll her or his computer would register, (as a result of the contact of the unsuccessful local candidates) and individual (one vote voters).
I hope you are interested in my system, I would be very happy to discuss it with you or see it surpassed by a better or fairer idea
Yours Sincerely Elton S.P.Clough — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elton Sydney Paschal Clough ( talk • contribs) 10:27, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
July 2019, Volume 5, Issue 7, Numbers 107, 108, 126, 127, 128
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What is meant by this category? What in particular is broken about these portals, and does it affect whether deletion is in order? Robert McClenon ( talk) 01:31, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi BrownHairedGirl, I saw you were recently active and was wondering if you could unblock this account. I've verified their identity in OTRS. Thanks! -- Cameron11598 (Talk) 18:05, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
I agree with your general conclusion that usually sub-national entities are not the sorts of broad subject areas that can support portals. There are exceptions, such as Portal:California and Portal:Texas, which at least are viewed more than some national portals. A Texan could point out that Texas was a nation briefly. However, Vermont was also a nation briefly, and its portal has been nominated for deletion. As you know, I have nominated three national portals for deletion, two of which have been deleted. I think that the Sun never sets on the areas of the portals that we have deleted. But I am also looking at some underutilized portals with entirely different sunsets because they are worlds. Robert McClenon ( talk) 00:18, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
Hello, BHG,
You recently created two new tracking categories, Category:CanElecResTopTest with nil value and Category:CanElecResTopTest with month year that are currently empty. You might tag them with {{emptycat}} to get them exempted from appearing on the Empty category list. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 03:16, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
Please see my proposal to upmerge: Hugo999 ( talk) 09:04, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
Category:Football in the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. gidonb ( talk) 13:34, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
So, I started the article for
Katherine Hughes (activist). It was listed on DYK earlier this month, but I wish I had more content in the article that was related to the hook. It seems that a lot of Katherine's work related to Irish activism was done by a pseudymn: Caitlín Ní Aodha. There's probably more sources out there that refer to that name instead of hers, but I'm not really sure where those sources might be. Since you've edited a lot of articles about Ireland, I was wondering if maybe you had a secret list suggestions about where I might be able to find reliable sources.
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Look at that! BrownHairedGirl is all over my watchlist this morning!
Thanks very much for your work in cleaning up Canadian election links in the various and sundry articles you've worked on over the past few days.......Cheers! PK T(alk) 12:26, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
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Thanks for the cleanup you do on articles. I have learned about some of the formatting mistakes I make from watching your edits. AWB looks intimidating to me, but I hope to help with your election link cleanups as I come across them in the future. Take care and all the best. Wallyfromdilbert ( talk) 23:22, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
I added nationalities (mostly from the user page, or from evidence in the RfC) to User:Oculi/sandbox3. The closer is from Queensland; all 12 of the Aus/NZ contributors were of one mind (10 post-canvas). UK editors were about 50:50 (although post-canvas all but 1 from the UK were opposes). Oculi ( talk) 11:40, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
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Category:Civil awards and decorations of Andhra Pradesh, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle ( talk) 06:32, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
I have a question. What event and what day is celebrated in the Republic of Ireland as an Independence Day from England? Robert McClenon ( talk) 17:12, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
I see you created the page for Celtics assistant coach Jay Larranaga, however, his name according to his official work, as well as multiple other online sources, his last name does not have a tilde over the "n." Would it be possible for you, as an admin, to fix this?
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Please leave me alone. Thank you very much, Buaidh talk contribs 20:09, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
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There are other errors in the personal attack besides the ones that you refuted, but I will address them when I !vote, and I am doing analysis on the related portals first. He seems to say that these are the only religions with 100 million followers on the African continent. There are more than five hundred million African Christians and more than five hundred million African Muslims, but you knew that. There have been Christians and Muslims in Africa since the founding of both religions, since Joseph took Mary and the child Jesus to Egypt and since Muhammad sent followers to Ethiopia, but you knew that. Robert McClenon ( talk) 21:00, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
Moving note: I have moved this here because I now believe I made an error in appending this comment to the TfD and then asking you to respond elsewhere. I would request that this not be moved back to the TfD discussion because it is unrelated to the template being discussed. Retro ( talk | contribs) 16:18, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
For the same reason that I have collapsed the above section, I must also strongly request that you strike your first two paragraphs in your original reply to Cactus.man as being unproductive for furthering this discussion. We should not have to stoop to ad hominem and references to unrelated discussions to dispute other's arguments; doing so is disruptive to the goal of achieving a workable consensus by leading to acrimony and pointless arguments. Even if they started it, that doesn't mean you have to continue it.
If you think this request is unreasonable, I would be happy to discuss this further on my or your talk page (i.e. not here). Retro ( talk | contribs) 00:54, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
Even if they started it, that doesn't mean you have to continue it.This philosophy is further substantiated in policy with WP:NOTBATTLEGROUND, which states something similar:
Every user is expected to interact with others civilly, calmly, and in a spirit of cooperation. Do not insult, harass, or intimidate those with whom you have a disagreement. Rather, approach the matter intelligently and engage in polite discussion. If another user behaves in an uncivil, uncooperative, or insulting manner, or even tries to harass or intimidate you, this does not give you an excuse to respond in kind. Address only the factual points brought forward, ignoring the inappropriate comments, or disregard that user entirely. If necessary, point out gently that you think the comments might be considered uncivil, and make it clear that you want to move on and focus on the content issue. If a conflict continues to bother you, take advantage of Wikipedia's dispute resolution process.(emphasis mine)
A relatively high percentage of portals were created by blocked or banned users. They were typically blocked either for disruptive editing and battleground editing, or for sockpuppetry. Sockpuppet masters were usually either blocked for disruption or are trolls. So maybe there is a correlation between creating portals and being too stubborn to fit in to Wikipedia. Just a thought. -- Robert McClenon ( talk) 20:19, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
Would you oppose, be neutral to, or support an unblock of Legacypac as having served enough time? I don't expect him to apologize. The question is what you would think of allowing him to edit.
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Hi BHG, the CFD for presidential candidates went your way at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2019_May_10#Presidential_candidates.
Are you willing to follow this up for the unmatching grandchild-cats for Abkhazia, Philippines & US within Category:Vice-presidential candidates? – Fayenatic London 17:39, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi. As you know I agreed that Category:New Christians (conversos) as the Christian POV on WP can remain because we can have Category:Crypto-Jews as the Jewish POV as well on WP for Category:Conversos. If you feel my actions are too arbitrary, then please help me re-open a review discussion to enable Category:New Christians not to be a redirect but rather be a full-fledged parent category of its own for both Category:New Christians (conversos) but also for Category:New Christians (Moriscos) -- which I don't know why you blanked it since it was not under discussion, I just pointed out that it was needed -- and I have identified a few articles/biographies from Category:Moriscos that legitimately belong in Category:New Christians (Moriscos) such as Beatriz de Padilla, Aben Humeya, Monfi, Young Man of Arévalo. Thanks a lot for your patience and understanding. IZAK ( talk) 20:13, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for your help with New Christian (disambiguation). No offense meant but I have been away for a couple of years, guess you can call it a WP:BREAK, and am not aware of every last scintilla of WP rules. IZAK ( talk) 21:12, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi, BHG. Why is ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:1973 in Guinea-Bissau redirected to ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:1974 in Guinea-Bissau? -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 10:04, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
Please correct the area wise rank of haryana in india 22 to 21 in starting of page — Preceding unsigned comment added by 106.198.250.96 ( talk) 18:17, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
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Why are you doing this? The correct form (per the W3C, WHATWG, and MDN) is <br>. This doesn't change the output, so I don't know what the value is in adding the XHTML-style, self-closing <br/>. Is there something I'm missing? ― Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 16:53, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
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19:21, 13 July 2019 (UTC)Hi BHG, this an urgent message could you go to Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Duplicate_categories_by_User:Shadowbryan25 and it's about User:Shadowbryan25 have misuse edits by add the people from categories. For more details please go to the administrators' noticeboard and go to "Duplicate categories by User:Shadowbryan25" and investigate Shadowbryan25's edits. If you see a People from category remove it immediately. I hope you are the one to investigate. Thank you. 24.80.117.27 ( talk) 02:03, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
No like, you were in the right venue though. Per
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Hi. I didn't notice it at first reading, but it seems that there is an out of place word "ignore" in your
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BrownHairedGirl, I hope you don't mind me invading your talk page and posting a message: I just wanted to say, in case you haven't seen it, that I struck the final paragraph of my opening comment on Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2019_July_9#Template:Featured_portal yesterday.
After a message from User:Retro suggesting that I strike it, I slept on it overnight and, after further reflection, I do agree that it's a bit too personalised and unnecessarily strident. I hope you'll accept my apology, because it was not meant to be personal in any way. The only mitigation (if one can even justify that term) I have is that, unfortunately, you seem to have become the official spokesperson for the PDT (that's my joke acronym for the "Portal Deletion Team", to counter "Portal Squadron"), and any situation where I become exasperated and want to make a point about the activities of the PDT, your Username seems to emerge from my keyboard. Witness the "Sloppygate incident". It's not much of an excuse, I know, but it's genuinely what happens. I'll try to be more careful in future.
So I hope you can accept my apology and take it as an olive branch of good faith. It's hard enough working here without racking up enemies and acrimony.
All the best. -- Cactus.man ✍ 19:01, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
Sunday, 14 July 2019
I was at a new job at a strange location, and hadn't been given timesheets for the past two two-week pay periods, and needed to fill them out and turn them in. Something was said to the effect that we had standard timekeeping and that it wasn't necessary to fill in the timesheets, although I was concerned that I hadn't worked full hours and was wondering how vacation would be charged. I was given a sort of pay stub that took the place of a pay check, and was told that I could deposit it at an ATM in the same manner as a pay check. I then put the stub, which was a small piece of paper that was torn off, into the ATM. Apparently either the ATM or the bank knew how much it was worth. At this point the ATM screen was covered with some sort of greasy crud that would have to be cleaned off with a household cleaning spray, and I think it was cleaned off.
Then there was talk about how thousands of visitors were coming to the island, which happened every now and then for some sort of festival or gathering, and made it a difficult place to be. I thought that the alternatives would be to live on the large island of Great Britain and drive to and from the small island that sometimes was overcrowded with visitors. The island, where the work was being done, was in the Strait of Dover and was a waypoint on the channel crossing between England and France. The island was part of England, but was not part of the big island that is Great Britain. The other side was France, but the problem with living there was that would involve crossing the international border to drive to and from work. It occurred to me that I should have my household goods kept in storage rather than delivered. I would be able to go home and find a job in the United States at the next opportunity for home vacation, and then I could have the household goods delivered to a more permanent location in the United States.
Es war ein Traum.
This island wasn't one of the Channel Islands, because they aren't part of England.
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If you are watching Strauss's user page, you may have noticed that I expressed annoyance at JJMC89 for reverting the non-close close of the 25 music portals. Because it wasn't really a close, I didn't think that involved applied. The background is that in the 1980s in the United States, there were financial institutions known as non-bank banks. They paid higher interest rates than regular banks, but were not protected by government bank insurance. This sort of usage has vaguely caught on in North American English, so that there can be things like non-paper papers. Maybe the usage is an Americanism. Robert McClenon ( talk) 21:37, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, I'm here to ask for your input regarding a matter as you are an admin and the talk pages of the relevant pages are empty and both pages have few people editing them. I have added the matter to the page 2019 in the United Kingdom a few days ago - as it is a related page - but have yet to hear any respones. I have also seen you have been very good at being able to go around fixing pages that have been consisttantly formatted incorrectly e.g. updating links to UK party leadership elections.
The page 2019 in Wales and the page 2019 in British music have their dates linked. I have tried to remove these date links due to it breaking the MOS:OVERLINK and WP:DATELINK rules. However another editor is reverting me arguing the dates should be linked simply because the previous years have done so. However, I'd argue if something does not follow Wikipedia's rules it should be corrected, just because something is wrongly done elsewhere in a consistent fashion does not make it correct.
Your thoughts on the matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time. Helper201 ( talk) 12:40, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
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Would it be possible to look at the portal deletion nominations again shortly? I realize that you are also working on other things besides portals, and, besides, the WMF Office business has gone crazy. You had said a few days ago that you would look at Portal:Civilizations. Other than that, things are calmer than usual, but there has been some discussion that could use your perspective. I have nominated one country portal for deletion as completely out-of-date, and SmokeyJoe has said it is worse than useless,with which I agree, and I have nominated three unmaintained little-viewed US state portals for deletion. Thank you. Robert McClenon ( talk) 21:49, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
In this edit, you introduced a link to 1835 Spouth Devon by-election. I do not have the time to check all your edits. DuncanHill ( talk) 16:28, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
Rather more seriously, in this edit and ion this edit you turned a bluelink red. DuncanHill ( talk) 16:36, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi BrownHairedGirl,
Noticed the wiki category created by Bryce Cameron, Coffee Table Book. There is also an index of several publications listed with this category, a directory of sorts.
Representing several fan club members of West Coast Midnight Run™ we thought you may want to add the title of the publication to your Coffee Table Book page. The publication is along the lines of an art book/coffee table book with strong qualities influenced by lifestyle and entertainment magazines. We invite you to look them up and contact their editors for more information if they qualify. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:A886:7500:9842:2D27:82F4:E21C ( talk) 04:12, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
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The long section for comments at WP:VP/P has me thinking about a different way of doing these, where the section is divided by subsections which each have a well-written summary of the argument. Are you going to compress the arguments from the given comments into something short? - ApexUnderground ( talk) 14:56, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
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At least when a bot does huge numbers of changes very fast I can hide it from my watchlist. At the moment my watchlist is pretty much useless owing to your bot-like, but not bot, edits. There is no need to update these links. DuncanHill ( talk) 13:51, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
Hello BHG. enjoyed reading your profile page, especially the correspondence highlighted in this section. I noticed that there was a typo (intentional?), in case you wanted to change it. Vauxhall Bridgefoot ( talk) 11:38, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed you recently moved pages in relation to Australian referendums, Australian referendum, 1928, Australian referendum, 1951 & Australian referendum, 1948 to put the year first per WP:NC-GAL. Maybe I am missing something, but it looks to me like each of those pages was already redirect to the relevant articles, which follow current naming conventions 1928 Australian referendum (State Debts), 1951 Australian Communist Party ban referendum and 1948 Australian rents and prices referendum & that what has been created are double redirects. It's no big deal, but I am bringing it to your attention because I thought you would want to know if there is some glitch in your processes. Find bruce ( talk) 20:49, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
While close inspection showed me that WP:NOTBROKEN does not apply, a different edit summary template might make this more obvious. Maybe this comment belongs at Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser; I don't use AWB and can't tell from Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/User manual#Edit summary whether this is default or user-configured. jnestorius( talk) 12:00, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
@ jnestorius, this is a cleanup exercise after the RFC last year which changed the WP:NC-GAL convention for election names from "Foo election, YYYY" to "YYYY Foo election". I weakly opposed the change, largely because of the large amount of cleanup it would involve, but there was a clear consensus to change the convention, and I accept that consensus. Now I am trying to make it work by doing that cleanup.
This run of edits has three primary purposes:
[[Foo election, YYYY]]
. It is much more readable to have [[YYYY Foo election]]
.[[Foo election, YYYY|YYYY Foo election]]
. The wikicode is much more readable as [[YYYY Foo election]]
.When I started on this job a fortnight ago, I was initially doing a very restricted set of use cases. But the more examples I encountered, the more I realised that there was no advantage in doing only a sub-set, when each edit could resolve a much wider set of issues.
So the effect of what I am doing is to fix a set of redirects, some of which may be broken, but where identifying only the broken ones is massively more work than just standardising the lot. AWB just handles text patterns, and can't identify whether a link is red, so unless someone wants to handcode a whole bot which does squillions of system calls to identify only redlinks, this is the neatest way of doing it.
As to WP:NOTBROKEN, it doesn't adequately address the myriad complex issues raised by a change in naming convention for a broad set. If we interpreted it as forbidding any change other than to redlinks, then the job would be impossible and we would leave all these unresolved. I think that would be very bad for Wikipedia, both for readers who encounter redlinks and for the editors who try to fix them manually.
I hope that makes sense. User:BD2412 has also done a lot of work on these article sets, so may want to add something. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 15:53, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
[[Foo election, YYYY|alias]]
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example). If I understand correctly you accept that this is redundant but that it's quicker to do it mechanically (albeit unneccessarily) than to spend time calculating whether it would be redundant?"cleanup, Election links"
text it could replace, thus not exacerbating the limitations of point #2How does changing one redirect for another, as here, help? Also, I am seeing rather more new redlinks popping up in my watchlist than I would hope for. With the best will in the world, given both the enormous number of edits and the shortness of the edit summaries, I find it hard to believe that these will all be picked up and fixed by you. I did above ask how long it would go on for, and it has already been going on much longer than you suggested at that time. I have a watchlist filled with multiple passes of renaming categories or changing links - see for example here. How many more weeks will it take? DuncanHill ( talk) 17:23, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
It appears that you were busy on other matters for about a week and now have changed your primary focus to be the cleanup of election articles, but that you are also keeping up with the portals. I am surveying the portals in a somewhat random way to see which ones need attention. As you can see, I have nominated a few portals, mostly lightly populated US states, for deletion, and the ones that have been nominated recently either have been deleted or are waiting for final close on deletion. We still have a few large bundles that are stalled. When they are closed somehow, and I think that Procedural Keep is an honorable resolution, we will know better how to proceed further, but I think that the pace of the portal cleanup has slowed down.
Everything went berserk about ten days ago with the decision by the Office to ban Fram, and at this point I am waiting to see what the next major step is in the area of governance, and whether this is the beginning of a new phase for governance, or whether Fram is a one-off that accomplishes nothing other than to anger editors.
Enjoy 17 hours of sunlight (through the clouds) for a little while. Robert McClenon ( talk) 16:27, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
Can you find the right person to answer this question: How do I stop Huggle from adding IP talk pages to my watchlist? Interstellarity T 🌟 12:50, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
I am unsure of the rules for this sort of thing (I only use AWB for things I already know there's approval for), but could I run WP:ELLINKS on the articles in my watchlist and a few more Connecticut-related ones? – MJL ‐Talk‐ ☖ 03:35, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
WP:ELLINKS (9/11)". That summary indicates that 11 matches were found, and that 9 titles were changed. But the summary displays only 3 titles, so some some checking is needed.
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... it only leads to trouble, and in my last edit summary autocorrect turned "soz" into "son", which isn't what I wanted to call you! --- Sluzzelin talk 20:32, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
Subject: Cherished World Champion voting system
I propose the following voting system as a much fairer alternative to our present one, Its name refers to the hope that Britain should set a good example to the rest of the world in its democratic practice, to help shame the dictatorships and biased systems of the world into putting their people's needs first before their own pathetic and malevolent selfishness.
My late father's initials were C.W.C. Clarence Wilson Clough and he strongly believed in fairness.
At the next Election.......
Firstly a citizen's manifesto should be compiled as a result of unbiased questions suggested and approved by the public and parliament.This could be filled in on-line or even at the polling stations during elections (refreshments being greatfully provided to the willing participants for their voluntary effort!)
When it comes to voting the only change would be that the voting paper would have an empty box at the bottom in which the voter could put a number.
The number would refer to a name on display in the polling station,and perhaps as many as 50 candidates would be standing as national representatives with their numbers next to them,(a bit like dishes are printed out in a Chinese takeaway restaurant.)
These representatives would represent a constituency of opinion, and in picking one, the voter would automatically abstain from being able to vote for their local choice.
Every Vote Will Count!
When the votes are counted there will be four kinds of representation
One : The person with the most votes will be the local M.P.
Two : The unsuccessful local candidates will be able to vote on behalf of the voters who chose them in each debate in the House of Commons.(This would be via an internet connection to the speaker).They would enjoy this privilege no matter how few voted for them,they would not however be allowed to speak or act as an M.P.in any other way (unless perhaps the legitimate M.P.hired them as a locum, in the case of ill health e.t.c.)
Three: Any individual will be able to vote on their own behalf if they register with the speaker via the speakers office (as opposed to picking a representative.)
Four: The national representatives will be able to vote on behalf of everyone who voted for them and take part in the life of the House of Commons (just like the traditional/geographical M.P.'s).
Finally,votes will be proportional with support i.e.(If 6 million people vote for a national candidate they would have a vote 100 times greater than a local M.P. who only got 60,000 votes.)
These votes would be individually recognised by a kind of credit card voting system on the floor of the commons.(A graphic display of the vote could also be exhibited to interest children and adults with learning difficulties.)
The speaker would vote for or against any motion according to the electronic poll her or his computer would register, (as a result of the contact of the unsuccessful local candidates) and individual (one vote voters).
I hope you are interested in my system, I would be very happy to discuss it with you or see it surpassed by a better or fairer idea
Yours Sincerely Elton S.P.Clough — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elton Sydney Paschal Clough ( talk • contribs) 10:27, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
July 2019, Volume 5, Issue 7, Numbers 107, 108, 126, 127, 128
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What is meant by this category? What in particular is broken about these portals, and does it affect whether deletion is in order? Robert McClenon ( talk) 01:31, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi BrownHairedGirl, I saw you were recently active and was wondering if you could unblock this account. I've verified their identity in OTRS. Thanks! -- Cameron11598 (Talk) 18:05, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
I agree with your general conclusion that usually sub-national entities are not the sorts of broad subject areas that can support portals. There are exceptions, such as Portal:California and Portal:Texas, which at least are viewed more than some national portals. A Texan could point out that Texas was a nation briefly. However, Vermont was also a nation briefly, and its portal has been nominated for deletion. As you know, I have nominated three national portals for deletion, two of which have been deleted. I think that the Sun never sets on the areas of the portals that we have deleted. But I am also looking at some underutilized portals with entirely different sunsets because they are worlds. Robert McClenon ( talk) 00:18, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
Hello, BHG,
You recently created two new tracking categories, Category:CanElecResTopTest with nil value and Category:CanElecResTopTest with month year that are currently empty. You might tag them with {{emptycat}} to get them exempted from appearing on the Empty category list. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 03:16, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
Please see my proposal to upmerge: Hugo999 ( talk) 09:04, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
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So, I started the article for
Katherine Hughes (activist). It was listed on DYK earlier this month, but I wish I had more content in the article that was related to the hook. It seems that a lot of Katherine's work related to Irish activism was done by a pseudymn: Caitlín Ní Aodha. There's probably more sources out there that refer to that name instead of hers, but I'm not really sure where those sources might be. Since you've edited a lot of articles about Ireland, I was wondering if maybe you had a secret list suggestions about where I might be able to find reliable sources.
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Look at that! BrownHairedGirl is all over my watchlist this morning!
Thanks very much for your work in cleaning up Canadian election links in the various and sundry articles you've worked on over the past few days.......Cheers! PK T(alk) 12:26, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
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Thanks for the cleanup you do on articles. I have learned about some of the formatting mistakes I make from watching your edits. AWB looks intimidating to me, but I hope to help with your election link cleanups as I come across them in the future. Take care and all the best. Wallyfromdilbert ( talk) 23:22, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
I added nationalities (mostly from the user page, or from evidence in the RfC) to User:Oculi/sandbox3. The closer is from Queensland; all 12 of the Aus/NZ contributors were of one mind (10 post-canvas). UK editors were about 50:50 (although post-canvas all but 1 from the UK were opposes). Oculi ( talk) 11:40, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
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I have a question. What event and what day is celebrated in the Republic of Ireland as an Independence Day from England? Robert McClenon ( talk) 17:12, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
I see you created the page for Celtics assistant coach Jay Larranaga, however, his name according to his official work, as well as multiple other online sources, his last name does not have a tilde over the "n." Would it be possible for you, as an admin, to fix this?
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Please leave me alone. Thank you very much, Buaidh talk contribs 20:09, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
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There are other errors in the personal attack besides the ones that you refuted, but I will address them when I !vote, and I am doing analysis on the related portals first. He seems to say that these are the only religions with 100 million followers on the African continent. There are more than five hundred million African Christians and more than five hundred million African Muslims, but you knew that. There have been Christians and Muslims in Africa since the founding of both religions, since Joseph took Mary and the child Jesus to Egypt and since Muhammad sent followers to Ethiopia, but you knew that. Robert McClenon ( talk) 21:00, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
Moving note: I have moved this here because I now believe I made an error in appending this comment to the TfD and then asking you to respond elsewhere. I would request that this not be moved back to the TfD discussion because it is unrelated to the template being discussed. Retro ( talk | contribs) 16:18, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
For the same reason that I have collapsed the above section, I must also strongly request that you strike your first two paragraphs in your original reply to Cactus.man as being unproductive for furthering this discussion. We should not have to stoop to ad hominem and references to unrelated discussions to dispute other's arguments; doing so is disruptive to the goal of achieving a workable consensus by leading to acrimony and pointless arguments. Even if they started it, that doesn't mean you have to continue it.
If you think this request is unreasonable, I would be happy to discuss this further on my or your talk page (i.e. not here). Retro ( talk | contribs) 00:54, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
Even if they started it, that doesn't mean you have to continue it.This philosophy is further substantiated in policy with WP:NOTBATTLEGROUND, which states something similar:
Every user is expected to interact with others civilly, calmly, and in a spirit of cooperation. Do not insult, harass, or intimidate those with whom you have a disagreement. Rather, approach the matter intelligently and engage in polite discussion. If another user behaves in an uncivil, uncooperative, or insulting manner, or even tries to harass or intimidate you, this does not give you an excuse to respond in kind. Address only the factual points brought forward, ignoring the inappropriate comments, or disregard that user entirely. If necessary, point out gently that you think the comments might be considered uncivil, and make it clear that you want to move on and focus on the content issue. If a conflict continues to bother you, take advantage of Wikipedia's dispute resolution process.(emphasis mine)
A relatively high percentage of portals were created by blocked or banned users. They were typically blocked either for disruptive editing and battleground editing, or for sockpuppetry. Sockpuppet masters were usually either blocked for disruption or are trolls. So maybe there is a correlation between creating portals and being too stubborn to fit in to Wikipedia. Just a thought. -- Robert McClenon ( talk) 20:19, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
Would you oppose, be neutral to, or support an unblock of Legacypac as having served enough time? I don't expect him to apologize. The question is what you would think of allowing him to edit.
Robert McClenon ( talk) 20:19, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi BHG, the CFD for presidential candidates went your way at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2019_May_10#Presidential_candidates.
Are you willing to follow this up for the unmatching grandchild-cats for Abkhazia, Philippines & US within Category:Vice-presidential candidates? – Fayenatic London 17:39, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi. As you know I agreed that Category:New Christians (conversos) as the Christian POV on WP can remain because we can have Category:Crypto-Jews as the Jewish POV as well on WP for Category:Conversos. If you feel my actions are too arbitrary, then please help me re-open a review discussion to enable Category:New Christians not to be a redirect but rather be a full-fledged parent category of its own for both Category:New Christians (conversos) but also for Category:New Christians (Moriscos) -- which I don't know why you blanked it since it was not under discussion, I just pointed out that it was needed -- and I have identified a few articles/biographies from Category:Moriscos that legitimately belong in Category:New Christians (Moriscos) such as Beatriz de Padilla, Aben Humeya, Monfi, Young Man of Arévalo. Thanks a lot for your patience and understanding. IZAK ( talk) 20:13, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for your help with New Christian (disambiguation). No offense meant but I have been away for a couple of years, guess you can call it a WP:BREAK, and am not aware of every last scintilla of WP rules. IZAK ( talk) 21:12, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi, BHG. Why is ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:1973 in Guinea-Bissau redirected to ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:1974 in Guinea-Bissau? -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 10:04, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
Please correct the area wise rank of haryana in india 22 to 21 in starting of page — Preceding unsigned comment added by 106.198.250.96 ( talk) 18:17, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Robert McClenon ( talk) 18:47, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
Why are you doing this? The correct form (per the W3C, WHATWG, and MDN) is <br>. This doesn't change the output, so I don't know what the value is in adding the XHTML-style, self-closing <br/>. Is there something I'm missing? ― Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 16:53, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
<br>
. So when I'm doing an AWB run for other purposes, I add a line to close the <br>
tags as <br />
. I have it flagged as a minor edit, so the page will be skipped if that's the only change.<br/>
, <hr/>
, <wbr/>
(but it's not clear whether Linter flags these if unclosed), and a few more in the Notes section.<hr/>
& <wbr/>
to your piggybacked minor changes? I have an ever-growing list of 'global' minor changes that I will add these two to too. ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
dgaf)
14:06, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
<br>
without the / breaks syntax highlighting, so should be avoided.". That seems to me to be a clear endorsement of my replacement of <br>
with <br />
. --
BrownHairedGirl
(talk) • (
contribs)
19:01, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
<br />
, but doesn't suggest templates. --
BrownHairedGirl
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contribs)
19:21, 13 July 2019 (UTC)Hi BHG, this an urgent message could you go to Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Duplicate_categories_by_User:Shadowbryan25 and it's about User:Shadowbryan25 have misuse edits by add the people from categories. For more details please go to the administrators' noticeboard and go to "Duplicate categories by User:Shadowbryan25" and investigate Shadowbryan25's edits. If you see a People from category remove it immediately. I hope you are the one to investigate. Thank you. 24.80.117.27 ( talk) 02:03, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
No like, you were in the right venue though. Per
WP:TFD#NOT, Userboxes should be listed at
Miscellany for deletion, regardless of the namespace in which they reside.
–
MJL
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18:08, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi. I didn't notice it at first reading, but it seems that there is an out of place word "ignore" in your
. It's very rare to find a closer who will
. —
andrybak (
talk)
18:03, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
ignore actually uphold
WP:NOTVOTE
BrownHairedGirl, I hope you don't mind me invading your talk page and posting a message: I just wanted to say, in case you haven't seen it, that I struck the final paragraph of my opening comment on Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2019_July_9#Template:Featured_portal yesterday.
After a message from User:Retro suggesting that I strike it, I slept on it overnight and, after further reflection, I do agree that it's a bit too personalised and unnecessarily strident. I hope you'll accept my apology, because it was not meant to be personal in any way. The only mitigation (if one can even justify that term) I have is that, unfortunately, you seem to have become the official spokesperson for the PDT (that's my joke acronym for the "Portal Deletion Team", to counter "Portal Squadron"), and any situation where I become exasperated and want to make a point about the activities of the PDT, your Username seems to emerge from my keyboard. Witness the "Sloppygate incident". It's not much of an excuse, I know, but it's genuinely what happens. I'll try to be more careful in future.
So I hope you can accept my apology and take it as an olive branch of good faith. It's hard enough working here without racking up enemies and acrimony.
All the best. -- Cactus.man ✍ 19:01, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
Sunday, 14 July 2019
I was at a new job at a strange location, and hadn't been given timesheets for the past two two-week pay periods, and needed to fill them out and turn them in. Something was said to the effect that we had standard timekeeping and that it wasn't necessary to fill in the timesheets, although I was concerned that I hadn't worked full hours and was wondering how vacation would be charged. I was given a sort of pay stub that took the place of a pay check, and was told that I could deposit it at an ATM in the same manner as a pay check. I then put the stub, which was a small piece of paper that was torn off, into the ATM. Apparently either the ATM or the bank knew how much it was worth. At this point the ATM screen was covered with some sort of greasy crud that would have to be cleaned off with a household cleaning spray, and I think it was cleaned off.
Then there was talk about how thousands of visitors were coming to the island, which happened every now and then for some sort of festival or gathering, and made it a difficult place to be. I thought that the alternatives would be to live on the large island of Great Britain and drive to and from the small island that sometimes was overcrowded with visitors. The island, where the work was being done, was in the Strait of Dover and was a waypoint on the channel crossing between England and France. The island was part of England, but was not part of the big island that is Great Britain. The other side was France, but the problem with living there was that would involve crossing the international border to drive to and from work. It occurred to me that I should have my household goods kept in storage rather than delivered. I would be able to go home and find a job in the United States at the next opportunity for home vacation, and then I could have the household goods delivered to a more permanent location in the United States.
Es war ein Traum.
This island wasn't one of the Channel Islands, because they aren't part of England.
Robert McClenon ( talk) 19:28, 15 July 2019 (UTC)