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I've been looking over your contributions.
I'm impressed.
I wasn't too happy at first with your nomination of the portals for deletion. But, they are in a serious state of neglect, and fixing them will be quite a project. I can see why you thought it best to get rid of them. On the bright side, the discussion has brought supporters and others of talent out of the woodwork, and that has been amazing, and completely makes up for any initial dissatisfaction I may have had. I'll be mining that discussion for contacts from both sides of the debate for months. Plenty of interesting people I want to meet. Including you.
Hi. I'm The Transhumanist.
My interest in portals is peripheral. I worked on them years ago, but saw that developing and maintaining them as Main page correlates for subjects manually was a major time sink, and abandoned all the ones I created, leaving them as static resource pages. So, why am I concerned about Portals? Because they are one of Wikipedia's navigation systems, each a sister project to each other. When one gets attacked, it puts the others in potential danger (see domino effect). Look at Joe's comments in your RfC.
If outlines ever disappeared from Wikipedia, so would I.
Who knows who has major future plans for the portals, or who are struggling to keep them alive because they see potential that others do not? But, the RfC is reminiscent of the disregard or lack of respect RfC'ers and deletion nominators showed me when I was trying to establish the outline system. See:
Oh, that was stressful, which I'm sure many of the portal supporters are feeling now. For me, it's deja vu. Outlines have come a long way since then, but they still have a long ways to go. My goal is 10,000 of them, but at 100 per year, that would take 100 years. So, I've switched over to programming in order to build tools to automate their construction and maintenance. Though, this won't happen overnight.
But, more importantly than being a sister system, the portals have topic lists that I would like to harvest for the outline system. Computer programs can't make those very well (yet), but I am in the process of building scripts to convert the data formats. Those won't do me much good if the pages I wish to convert disappear. Even those portal topic pages that simply transclude navigation templates, serve to identify those templates as topic lists, saving me from having to differentiate them from all the other templates in template space. Yes, I'm building scripts to convert template topic formats too.
Many of the support areas of Wikipedia are suffering from lack of volunteer labor, and it doesn't look like the needed volunteers will become available, ever. That means, we either trim away what we can't develop and maintain, or we automate. I prefer the latter. Due to technology, all the support systems of Wikipedia have an incredible amount of potential. It is impossible to know which ones will inspire future talent and leapfrog the others. And so, I get concerned when people want to make them disappear. In the meantime, each has their own strengths and weaknesses. Yes, the portals are in need of work. But it doesn't have to be human work.
But, enough about portals. Let's move on to other more interesting things: Tech.
I noticed you are technically oriented, and that your common.js is packed. You're a technophile! And perhaps a Wikipediholic. Pleased to meet you.
Many of the cool tricks and techniques for using Wikipedia have been collected by the TOTD department. My favorite is the one that hangs a totd template at the bottom of the page, like this: [1]
I saw that you modified a script. How well do you know JavaScript?
I recently created a user script I'm hoping you will take a look at. It's one of the conversion programs I mentioned above, designed to help build outlines and other lists. But, I've turned it into a generally useful search results enhancer as well. It's called SearchSuite. Let me know what you think of it. Any and all feedback is welcome.
I noticed you are not registered to use AWB. AWB is a Windows program. Are you on a Mac or Linux? If so, JWB is a pretty good alternative. AWB is one of the most powerful tools available to Wikipedia editors. It's a list-maker, auto-page-loader, and semi-automated stream editor with extensive search/replace support, including regex. It also has a list comparer and WP database scanner. And more. You will probably love it. I used its prepend feature to post the 1500 deletion discussion notices.
While over at Fram's talk page, I spotted your post about Short descriptions, and sent PBSouthwood a heads up. He and I are hoping those will be able to be utilized via scripts for developing outlines. Create half a million of them? I'd like to know how you foresee doing that. Very cool.
I look forward to your replies. And if you have any questions related to Wikipedia, please feel free to ask. — The Transhumanist 13:27, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
Here's an update I wrote for someone, which explains things in a bit more detail...
I'm learning JavaScript, so I can automate outline construction and maintenance.
The goal: full automation. That's hard. Within easier reach are interactive tools that can assist editors and increase their productivity: semi-automation.
One approach I've been working on is magical vision for editors who work on outlines. No, not special glasses, but changing how Wikipedia is presented on the screen so that anything that has built-in outline structure, they see as outline material. Shown in wikiformat, without going into an editor first, right there on the screen. From where they can copy and paste it into a wiki editor.
Outline material abounds on Wikipedia all over the place. It's just not noticed as such by most, because it is formatted differently. As you know, outlines are trees, and trees have branches. Those branches can themselves be outlines (i.e., have more branches), or they can be straight lists.
Straight lists are outline material?
A single outline can include many straight lists.
One of the places to find straight lists on Wikipedia are search results. No branches. Just a list of destinations. But cluttered with lots of extraneous data.
So, I started experimenting with reformatting search results, to convert them to a form that is easy to copy/paste.
By the time I was done, it wasn't just useful for outline developers. It was generally useful.
It's a user script called SearchSuite.
It's got several features that modify search results, and each is given a menu item that serves as its on/off switch. Each can work on the output of the others (that was a pain), and the script remembers the setting of each switch between searches. Once you turn a feature on, it stays on. Until you turn it off.
One of the features is sort. Another strips out details, giving you a single-spaced list (showing a lot more results on the screen, which is much faster to browse). Another toggles the sister project results. And another toggles those sometimes annoying redirect/category-based results. The outline developer's feature wikifies the entries, though sort is quite useful to them as well.
So, that's the conversion script for search results. What other areas are slated for conversion?
Well, I'm done writing the conversion scripts for Special:Allpages with prefix, Wikipedia Books, and Categories. I'm about half done with the ones on CatTree, and nav templates (navigation footers and sidebars). Those last two are proving much harder, and are only partially operational.
I've not yet started on All pages, indices, infoboxes, portal topic lists (so many formats), what links here, tables, embedded lists, or article prose content.
Where is this heading?
Somewhere along the way, I'll put them (except article prose) on a switch (the same switch). I think I can do that without combining them into the same script, but they'll all be bundled together in some way at some point (to allow for a single install).
Then, outline developers can click the menu item to instantly see whatever outline material is on whatever page they are on, in a form they can easily transfer. Some will do it the other way around: leave them on, and turn them off when they want to see wikipedia in the normal view. (Right now, they are not on a switch, so I see the outline view all the time).
And as I did with SearchSuite, I'll add other functionality as well, for general users.
Does any of this make sense?
I figure that as I learn more about programming, I'll progress to higher levels of automation.
I've looked for other programmers to get involved, to no avail. So I'm pretty much on my own on this project.
I hope you've found this interesting. Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 13:27, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
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Hello,
There will be some changes to the way wikitext is parsed during the next few weeks. It will affect all namespaces. You can see a list of pages that may display incorrectly at Special:LintErrors. Since most of the easy problems have already been solved at the English Wikipedia, I am specifically contacting tech-savvy editors such as yourself with this one-time message, in the hope that you will be able to investigate the remaining high-priority pages during the next month.
There are approximately 10,000 articles (and many more non-article pages) with high-priority errors. The most important ones are the articles with misnested tags and table problems. Some of these involve templates, such as infoboxes, or the way the template is used in the article. In some cases, the "error" is a minor, unimportant difference in the visual appearance. In other cases, the results are undesirable. You can see a before-and-after comparison of any article by adding ?action=parsermigration-edit to the end of a link, like this: /info/en/?search=Arthur_Foss?action=parsermigration-edit (which shows a difference in how {{ infobox ship}} is parsed).
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Thank you for all the good things you do for the English Wikipedia. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 21:18, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
You need to notify every WikiProject linked from the talk page of every portal (via the project banners at the top of those talk pages) of this discussion since you're trying to get every portal deleted. Yes, that's a lot of projects, but you must make sure that every project is aware of them. I only found out what you were doing because someone else left a notice on the WT:JA page. Please make sure you notify every project affected by this discussion. ··· 日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 07:10, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
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You are doing a great job at trimming the fat from the Donald Trump article. Keep it up! MelanieN ( talk) 21:26, 20 April 2018 (UTC) |
Hi. Can template editors edit fully protected pages? I see you edited WP:PERM. —usernamekiran (talk) 06:02, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
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For saving today's featured article from a template vandal. Good work! Paris1127 ( talk) 05:50, 25 April 2018 (UTC) |
Reads 'This is a high level category for deletion sorting. It is strongly recommended you do not add discussions directly to it. Instead, please add them to a more specific category, such as a state and/or relevant subject area. Please review the list of available deletion categories.' Your addition of AFDs for Reliv and Scentsy to have page have been removed since those companies are obviously from Missouri and Utah/Idaho respectively. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 18:41, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi. Can you please link Ankit Rajpoot in the Man of the Match section for Match 22? Many thanks in advance. Cricket246 ( talk) 05:35, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
I reverted your edits to Template:Short descriptionto stop it trying to populate the non-existent and pointless Category:User pages with short description.
I see you wanted to expand the scope of pages categorised but please you make it exclude user pages? -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 19:49, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
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Thanks, Anythingyouwant ( talk) 23:15, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
Thanks. I was really beginning to despair about admin quality, great to see someone who is AGF for newbies, not jumping to conclusions and not seeing every problem as a nail in need of banhammering :)
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Discussion here has not been helpful Galobtter ( pingó mió) 15:50, 30 April 2018 (UTC) |
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Galobtter, "talking to a brick wall" is right. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 15:38, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
Reunion (Westworld)How were you able to move this? Can you move Journey into Night as well? Valoem talk contrib 15:24, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
I support move back to main space. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 15:29, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
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I have no clue what this is supposed to mean, or or if it was supposed to lighten the mood, but if that was the intent, it didn't. TonyBallioni ( talk) 16:32, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
thanks for doing the needful
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Hi. Thanks again for the help today. Lugnuts apologised and I replied to him to clear out the animosity. Can you please see his talkpage once in your free time to see if I was okay in my approach towards him? Cricket246 ( talk) 18:40, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi dude. my native language isn't english, but i'm improving it. my level is nearly intermediate (despite my grammer is awful). does learning french and latin vocabulary help to improve en etymology or i shouldn't waste my time in this route ? -- Dandamayev ( talk) 11:49, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
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Could you please reopen {{
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{{
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Quick suggestion, dunno how feasible -- a character counter kinda like Mediawiki now has for summaries/subject lines, either inside the inputbox or besides it. I know there's no hard policy yet but 40chars remains a general target and a character counter would make it a lot easier! Just my 2¢ :) Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 02:06, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
Thought I'd move a fairly valid discussion to a venue that isn't a PERM page. For reference, the rest of the thread ( permalink):
I'd be more than happy to be pinged with an occasional request of this sort, and I'm sure several other TEs would as well. Perhaps we need a list/category of TEs willing to do these sort of jobs, rather than relying solely on the edit-request system? -- RexxS ( talk) 14:49, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
- I mean I'd do it too; but I don't see a need for a seperate system; most edit requests are simple like this; I/one can just watchlist User:AnomieBOT/TPERTable and respond to the requests as they popup there; there aren't that many requests honestly Galobtter ( pingó mió) 14:57, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
- I know you would, as would some others. I'm aware of the ability to watchlist, but I was thinking more that editors might be happier knowing that they can ping an actual person as well, rather than having to rely solely on making an edit request – which may appear to them a bit like a castaway throwing a message in a bottle out to sea. You know what human nature is like. -- RexxS ( talk) 16:38, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for your approval work on draft pages! <3
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That is all. SiliconRed ( talk) 01:26, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
I hope it was a mistake. Doug Weller talk 14:25, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi, Galobtter!
To be honest, I am not sure if I understand the sense of the message you sent me "Assuming the ZQ in your username stands for Zeroqode, declare your connection with the company" What exactly I need to do and for what this actions? I've read Wiki help, but there are a lot of confusing phrases.
I am working at Zeroqode and of course, our company wants to be presented in Wikipedia. Is this a problem? Do I need to pay something after that? What I need to expect after disclosure? As I understand in my case employer and client are the same entity. How to indicate this on my main page?
Regarding our wiki post about Zeroqode is there any problems with references or the only one problem is in disclosure policy?
Waiting for your reply. Thanks in advance.
Tanya ZQ ( talk) 13:30, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
How do you know they aren't an experience unregistered Wikipedier? Part of the immense downside of IP editing. ― Mandruss ☎ 03:24, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I deleted the references that you cited and added a new one to a New York Post article that had better coverage of the company. Can you please review.
MrBernardKendall ( talk) 18:36, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
world progress....walkind dead...T...sSh Eymrise France ( talk) 06:26, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
Glad to have a page mover step in and do this so quickly.
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Turns out the issue was a duplicated parameter on the acupuncture article. Not in the ICD10PCS template. (Must increase sample size in future!) Thanks, Little pob ( talk) 14:21, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
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Hi, Galobtter!
I've disclosed the COI. Could you please check Zeroqode's talk page and say if everything is ok?
And also, I need help with references.
Do we have appropriate references? :)
As I understand TechCrunch is a reliable source, so we can use reference on this source?
Can we use in references our own links, such as, "Learning Courses". Zeroqode? We use this because this is an explanation for this sentence "Zeroqode has brought together various providers of courses[14] that teach how to create web and mobile applications without code."
Tanya ZQ ( talk) 14:48, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi. I needed a bit of help. A certain user is persistently disruptively reverting my edits to an incorrect version even after repeated explanation in edit details in the page 2018 Indian Premier League. It is creating real troubles as he is just continuing it again and again. What should I do?? Cricket246 ( talk) 17:32, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi. The user is back with his disruptive edits. Please help. Cricket246 ( talk) 18:48, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
I get what you're trying to do, but these two really aren't the same thing. While both of the current titles are definitely POV (the articles even state the names are a variety of "political framing"), there is no consensus on where each of them ought to end up. I attempted to close the first one, but lacked the necessary permissions to implement the close, so I reverted. The second one still needs more discussion to determine the correct title, and the place for that discussion is at the "pro-choice" talk page, not at "pro-life". Brad v 16:33, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing that. I caught it and was correcting it at the same time that you were, apparently. Strikerforce Talk 14:25, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
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In the above RfD, my biased mind sees consensus in favor of deletion. It's probably not a good idea to close a contentious discussion like that one as "no consensus" without an explanation for why you feel there isn't one. Regardless, it's probably best to back out of it and let an admin close it, keeping
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I've gone and closed it. I did't mean to bully you out of the close, so if you're unconvinced by my explanation there, let's chat. ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 22:26, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Galobtter,
I submitted a new wiki page earlier in Jan 2018 on Kalaari Capital but it was rejected by you based on notability guidelines. I have taken another attempt at creating a wiki page and chose a topic which is more notable than the previously chosen topic. You can check the submission here: /info/en/?search=Draft:The/Nudge_Foundation
I was here seeking your advice on whether this seems acceptable considering Wikipedia's strict notability guidelines and policy on new articles. Let me know if you feel something is amiss and if I can improve anything here. As discussed earlier, I am looking to contribute more on Wikipedia and guidance from senior members would be helpful.
ParadiseStark ( talk) 20:51, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
May I ask why you created this module instead of relying on Module:Labelled list hatnote like the template did before/ {{3x|p}}ery ( talk) 20:15, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
The contributions by this author > Roxy, the dog. shows his writing is NOT based on neutral view standards and the various topics he contributes shows that although he deploys and cites sources and information to substantiate his arguments -- that the basis of his contributions is slanted opinion. Please see the version history for yourself of his contributions where he starts off not by educating people on what exactly is Crystal Healing from a neutral view tone but starts with trying to compare the topic of Crystal Healing to pseudo-science or science which means absolutely nothing. The comparison has no basis because one is not inherently even part of the same discipline, the analogy here is it's like comparing a car to an apple. I came in to help edit the actual article and then he tried to claim edit wars when wikipedia is supposed to be editable by ANYONE. This is nothing but intimidation techniques that clearly shows lack of respect and neutral view which is the basis of wikipedia's guidelines. And attempted to revert back to his biased changes. CristieJ ( talk) 10:09, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
Galobtter Please note the following:
Roxy, the dog. In compliance with reporting this author for reverting my request for review -- Please reference the Talk section of the reverted article that shows clear bias, which has been reported for the following:
Crystal Healing: [ [7]]
1. Lack of Neutral point of view in content and language to show bias for science and scientific study in an article clearly about: Crystals and Crystal healing. This is an opinion piece thinly disguised as educating people on Crystal healing. 2. Requests an editorial and admin POV check on the the entire article for using very strong biases in wording to substantiate it's claims that Crystal healing is not a science even though it doesn't claim it is a science... 3. Claiming editorial wars when wikipedia guidelines show that ANYONE can edit the articles and author in attempting to maintain opinion and bias by reverting edited content that was addressing the topic from a neutral perspective.
See referenced, the violations noted 1, 2 in dispute : [ [8]]
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Hi Galobtter, you recently edited Module:Redirect hatnote and Module:Hatnote list, indicating your familiarity with these modules, which are both used by {{ Redirect}}. I recently observed a strange problem where using {{ Redirect}} and {{ R from ambiguous term}} created unreasonable transclusion links showing up in article edit preview (below the edit window) and in "What links here?". We are discussing the issue at User talk:Paine Ellsworth#Interesting transclusion effect - any idea? and given your familiarity with those modules I thought perhaps you could shed some light on it as well in an attempt to further narrow down and fix the behaviour. Thanks. -- Matthiaspaul ( talk) 22:41, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I have brought the unfruitful Sarah Jeong discussion to dispute resolution and am notifying you because you have commented on the Talk page since August 3. You can find a link here: Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#Talk:Sarah_Jeong. All the best, Ikjbagl ( talk) 12:09, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
You should really stop vandalizing my edits. Nergaal ( talk) 08:55, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
Your renaming of article and redirects relation to silicic acid and silicic acids is just plain wrong. I have been at some pains to explain the difference, but clearly you have not understood. The issue arises because the chemical entity silica, formula SiO2, can, for historical reasons, be called "silcic acid", though it is better to call it "silicon dioxide". The "silicic acids" (plural} are completely different chemical compounds, like Si(OH)4. That's why they had an article to themselves.
Please restore the status quo that obtained before you made the changes. Petergans ( talk) 21:37, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
Todays edit is an improvement. However, the title is not correct because the article deals with more than one silicic acid. The pictures show 2 examples. The chemical compound "Silicic acid" is perhaps better named as monosilicic acid. This will make it clearer that "silicic acid" is a generic term, not the name of an individual chemical compound. Moreover the term "silicic acid" is in common usage with the meaning silicon dioxide. This is why I originally used the title "Silicic acids". The distinction must be made clear. Petergans ( talk) 13:27, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
I added a comment apparently about the time you collapsed a section. Probably a good collapse. If you'd like to move my comment inside the bottom of the collapse or to be more precise, move the bottom of the collapse below my comment fee please feel free.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 17:13, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
I don't know if you noticed but he reverted my final warning. I brought him to WP:AN3, the guy doesn't listen. -- 1l2l3k ( talk) 19:56, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for your vigilance. I would not be opposed to sending them to ANEW because they've just been running roughshod though the page history and clearly ignoring all warnings. If you don't want to do the ANEW, I'd be fine with doing it. Etzedek24 ( I'll talk at ya) ( Check my track record) 19:57, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
Talk:Sealioning#RfC about the inclusion of suggested ways to deal with sealioning
(Notifying everyone who participated in the previous RfC.) -- Guy Macon ( talk) 01:45, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
I have no conflicts of interest. Use AFD if you want to get rid of the article. It has tons of reliable sources and you are out of line. 98.113.141.247 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 00:09, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
Of interest may be this thread, in case your recent edit gets reverted. Thanks, — Paleo Neonate – 05:08, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
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There has been a recent response to you on the Tranny Talk page. 71.91.178.54 ( talk) 17:46, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
You accidentally added
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to the template. It causes the output CANCanada when It should be Canada (for example) - BrandonXLF (t@lk) 20:33, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
Hey there Galobtter. I came across a couple pages you edited today SOHO 3Q and 2015 Bonnaroo Music Festival through Special:NewPagesFeed. I wasn't sure if you'd intentionally left these unpatrolled hoping for another pair of eyes on them or if it was oversight after you or another editor undid the redirect. In case it was the latter I thought I'd drop this note so that I (or another NPP) didn't duplicate efforts you'd already done. Best, Barkeep49 ( talk) 23:01, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
I'm not a very regular user compared to others, nor am I very comfortable in using talk pages to argue contentious points so it might be worth getting a pool of editors aware of these pages so a consensus can be found on how it's going to phrased if at all. Sometimes I see things in a different way to others so I want to make sure that A) there is no reliable basis for these accusations, B) There's no point mentioning such a trivial thing. Could this be compared to,for example, Illuminati symbol theories [9] that shouldn't even be given any serious consideration at all? Anarcho-authoritarian ( talk) 18:23, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
What are you doing reverting my edits? I have experience editing Big Brother articles and am knowledgeable in the subject and you aren't by the looks of it. Did you take time to view the video in the source and see if he was making a joke? He is not making a joke in the source, he is unaware and uneducated of the movement. This has nothing to do with personal opinions, which you have accused me of. Computer40 «» (talk) 22:17, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Great British Mobility. Since you had some involvement with the Great British Mobility redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. DBig Xrayᗙ 13:23, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
Yesterday editions were made to my Wikipedia page. (removed per WP:BLP) I am now reading the article is being considered for deletion. I hope you will permanently delete from Wikipedia that all edited version from September 12, 2018. As you know I was Miss Venezuela, Miss South America and 2nd Runner up in Miss Universe Pageant in 1984. I am a Journalist and Broadcaster. I worked for Television in Venezuela and here in the USA for Telemundo. I graduated Magna Cumlaude form ETSU. I had have a long Charitable career that expanded from Venezuela to Ecuador, Peru and USA, since I moved here. I am now a Speaker for Domestic Violence awareness.
I recently run for US Congress and lost by 83 votes in a Run Off. I will do it again in 2 years, as I have already been contacted by the Party for that.
All formers Miss Venezuelas have Wikipedia.
I would like to request, to lock my account so what happened yesterday doesn’t happen again. Probably you can assign me as Webmaster. I would like to have the "Marriage Location" erased since I am no longer married. I would like to have my Children's name links removed from Wikipedia. They are not Public Figures and I respect and protect their privacy.
I would like to request to be allow to submit an up to date CV to you and for you to make the up dated information to Wikipedia. I will put my Children's name there with no links, please.
Thanking you for your kind attention,
Carmen Maria Montiel — Preceding
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To answer your concern, on my talk page you wrote "In response to your query about new "issues of wikipedia policy"; no, your main reason for requesting the move, that dictionaries order the definitions differently, directly contradicts policy - wikipedia is not a dictionary, and doesn't care about dictionaries in determining what the title is." This is ordinarily true- However, it is quite remiss of an encyclopedia to make a main entry that doesn't adhere to the most accepted dictionary definitions of terminology. The mere fact that one is using what the dictionary makes clear is a secondary and slang sense of terminology (as such is the case with "Tranny"), it becomes quite intellectually dishonest and is direct evidence of political motives in editing in order to make one's political movement more visible, which is NOT what Wikipedia is about. In my opinion the suggestion that the move was proper is outright frivolous, regardless of how one wishes to frame policy. It would be much appreciated if you and everyone else would stop using policy to further your political agendas. 71.91.178.54 ( talk) 02:50, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
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Sudden switch to and interest in Meghan Trainor articles, Galobtter? Or just WP:HOUNDING? I doubt it's the former since you've not shown an interest in these types of article previously so I'm assuming it's the latter. I'm going to hope you don't know that when one edits boldly, they need to do it (1) without an WP:OWN mentality (which MF's edit summary admits to) and (2) then follow the WP:BRD cycle, which your reversion subverted. Further, "controversial" is not the point - when you have an article that's been stable with particular wording and style for an extended period of time, cutting and pasting one's preferred version is neither wise nor collaborative, it's disruptive. All the above is why MF's edit was reverted, and it should have stayed that way with MF starting a talk page discussion to support policy and commonsense reasoning why his/her edits were appropriate and beneficial to readers as well as the encyclopedia as a whole. So, unless you have something to add to the article talk page, and don't want to appear to be hounding me and reverting my edits for no reason other than to WP:POKE, I'd appreciate you butting out at an article you've never edited before and an article genre you have never shown an interest in previously. -- ψλ ● ✉ ✓ 16:04, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
Thanks! Just got the curation tools a couple weeks ago and foolishly assumed that TW and it functioned the same. I'm going to assume it is a non-starter, but has anyone looking into creating a shared library of functions that could be used for various tools so that things were done in a consistent way tool to tool? {{u|
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20:11, 21 September 2018 (UTC)Hi, regarding your revert: if you notice 2017 does not have a value... same ref as before and listed at Template:Inflation-fn. Waddie96 ( talk) 16:02, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
[10] - open season for RfCs on sourcing, it seems! Guy ( Help!) 17:36, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
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Thanks for picking up on my suggestion at the Kavanaugh hearings talk page :) ! Sean Heron ( talk) 22:10, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
Please explain your statement that "I can't see that quote" in the Washington Times article that was the basis for reverting me [11]. To aid you, here is the article in question with the quote highlighted: (copyright violation removed) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Obsidi ( talk • contribs) 04:00, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi Galobtter, I just saw that you removed the "special visitor note" ( [12]) at the redirect " Genie (feral child" [sic]. In the edit summary you mention two links which according to you are pointing to this redirect. Perhaps I am blind (or it is hidden in some JavaScript stuff not showing in my browser) but I can only find links to the actual article page " Genie (feral child)" there, not links to the redirect (which was the whole point of the RfD). Am I missing something? Thanks and greetings. -- Matthiaspaul ( talk) 22:32, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
The BBC source incorrectly cited him, they mention he said: "Curie etc. only welcomed after showing what they can do, got Nobels..."
and cited him in quotation marks. But the presentation doesn't include only.
No, they have now changed the title of the BBC article. It's not cherrypicking, is actually completing the sentence written in the slides.
Also, I think we should include this, from the BBC article: Prof Strumia has since defended his comments, saying he was only presenting the facts.
DanyelCavazos ( talk) 13:59, 2 October 2018 (UTC)DanyelCavazos — Preceding unsigned comment added by DanyelCavazos ( talk • contribs) 13:51, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
Sorry I am a bit confused here this report was released on October 1 [14] it is the official report from a legal standpoint. There in the report it mentions that her lifelong friend denies ever knowing Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh denies ever meeting Ford. This information is must be added for NPOV. Charges were declined to be pressed due to lack of evidence why would we continue portray him as under allegations? Valoem talk contrib 12:50, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
This is a legal finding from a public committee hearing.no it is not. Find a source that says that. It is, as I just quoted to you above, a letter to the senate republicans from Rachel Mitchell. Galobtter ( pingó mió) 13:28, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
Could you explain to me where I need to add that {{#invoke:string|match|s = {{:13 (number)}}|pattern = {{lessthan}}div class="shortdescription.->(.-)<}}
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"TV episode"
, "TV episode" (TV Series)
and "TV episode" (TV Series episode)
. I've also seen exceptions like
World Wharf II: The Wharfening (or How Bob Saves/Destroys the Town – Part II) so there probably should be another field added to the template of "ignore parenthesis" (true/false) which in this situation will treat that as part of the title; and
A Game of Pool (The Twilight Zone, 1959) which is not actually discussed in WP:NCTV so no idea what the proper way is, but from the few episodes of the Twilight Zone that use this, the style is consistent of <TV series>, <4 digit year>
- but I guess for scenarios as The Twilight Zone this can be manually overwritten until/if a clear style is written into the guidelines. --
Gonnym (
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21:06, 19 September 2018 (UTC)Thanks for your fix, but why does replace not exist when I see it at
Module:String (function str.replace( frame ))? Also, do you have any idea why line 9 (if (disambiguation == "false") then
does not work? Articles without disambiguation apparently move through). --
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13:52, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
This was finally managed! Module:Extract short description is now available to extract short descriptions from templates such as infoboxes. -- Gonnym ( talk) 00:04, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
The Infobox television episode and the templates that extend now auto generate a short description. Thanks for your help in starting me with this.
I have a question which you might have an answer, should episode redirects (such as Into the Ring) have an infobox added to them (with the basic info needed) so that those would get short descriptions? I've tested this out and it does work if it's allowed. -- Gonnym ( talk) 16:57, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
Galobtter,
I am new to Wikipedia, so must admit I am learning at the moment. I can confirm I am not affiliated with the people in question, and I am editing the article as requested.
All the best, LennyBunko
LennyBunko ( talk) 17:29, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
bsd. Hi! I saw you reverted an edit of promotional nature on Canad Inns by user Winnie Pegger. I had reverted only the logo, because I don't have the expertise to assess promotion. Said user is back, reverting part of the reverts, including the logo, which by all appearances is the exact same as on their website. (By the way, these two edits are his only ones). I think the page should be reverted to before his fist edit, as nothing of significance has been added, besides for his edits. Do you have experience dealing with this kind of improper editing? Thank you. -- Ben Stone 21:05, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for your welcome and for your help in the mess around the mistake done a couple of weeks ago with the voice "Italian colonists in Albania". I am going to try to create asap the voice "Italians in Albania". Thanks again.-- Esauster ( talk) 18:36, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
I award to Galobtter the "Mediator Barnstar" because he served very well as a mediator between heated debates on the talk pages of articles and users, related to the voices " Italians in Albania" & " Italian colonists in Albania". -- Esauster ( talk) 23:09, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Galobtter,
you recently declined the Wikipedia draft on the Taiwanese company C.C.P. Contact Probes saying, it doesn't have enough independent sources. I am a bit puzzled: The article cites several independent sources for every statement made. Sources are recognized Data networks such as Bloomberg or Reuters. The company is stock listed, therefore its annual report is also done by an independent auditor: PWC. It also cites buyers (Siemens) and Distributers. Could you be more concrete which kind of sources would qualify and which aspects of the article are not sufficiently documented
Thank you in advance! Jole222 ( talk) 04:06, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hi, Can you please add Shortdesc helper on Urdu Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by BukhariSaeed ( talk • contribs) 05:14, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
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I've been looking over your contributions.
I'm impressed.
I wasn't too happy at first with your nomination of the portals for deletion. But, they are in a serious state of neglect, and fixing them will be quite a project. I can see why you thought it best to get rid of them. On the bright side, the discussion has brought supporters and others of talent out of the woodwork, and that has been amazing, and completely makes up for any initial dissatisfaction I may have had. I'll be mining that discussion for contacts from both sides of the debate for months. Plenty of interesting people I want to meet. Including you.
Hi. I'm The Transhumanist.
My interest in portals is peripheral. I worked on them years ago, but saw that developing and maintaining them as Main page correlates for subjects manually was a major time sink, and abandoned all the ones I created, leaving them as static resource pages. So, why am I concerned about Portals? Because they are one of Wikipedia's navigation systems, each a sister project to each other. When one gets attacked, it puts the others in potential danger (see domino effect). Look at Joe's comments in your RfC.
If outlines ever disappeared from Wikipedia, so would I.
Who knows who has major future plans for the portals, or who are struggling to keep them alive because they see potential that others do not? But, the RfC is reminiscent of the disregard or lack of respect RfC'ers and deletion nominators showed me when I was trying to establish the outline system. See:
Oh, that was stressful, which I'm sure many of the portal supporters are feeling now. For me, it's deja vu. Outlines have come a long way since then, but they still have a long ways to go. My goal is 10,000 of them, but at 100 per year, that would take 100 years. So, I've switched over to programming in order to build tools to automate their construction and maintenance. Though, this won't happen overnight.
But, more importantly than being a sister system, the portals have topic lists that I would like to harvest for the outline system. Computer programs can't make those very well (yet), but I am in the process of building scripts to convert the data formats. Those won't do me much good if the pages I wish to convert disappear. Even those portal topic pages that simply transclude navigation templates, serve to identify those templates as topic lists, saving me from having to differentiate them from all the other templates in template space. Yes, I'm building scripts to convert template topic formats too.
Many of the support areas of Wikipedia are suffering from lack of volunteer labor, and it doesn't look like the needed volunteers will become available, ever. That means, we either trim away what we can't develop and maintain, or we automate. I prefer the latter. Due to technology, all the support systems of Wikipedia have an incredible amount of potential. It is impossible to know which ones will inspire future talent and leapfrog the others. And so, I get concerned when people want to make them disappear. In the meantime, each has their own strengths and weaknesses. Yes, the portals are in need of work. But it doesn't have to be human work.
But, enough about portals. Let's move on to other more interesting things: Tech.
I noticed you are technically oriented, and that your common.js is packed. You're a technophile! And perhaps a Wikipediholic. Pleased to meet you.
Many of the cool tricks and techniques for using Wikipedia have been collected by the TOTD department. My favorite is the one that hangs a totd template at the bottom of the page, like this: [1]
I saw that you modified a script. How well do you know JavaScript?
I recently created a user script I'm hoping you will take a look at. It's one of the conversion programs I mentioned above, designed to help build outlines and other lists. But, I've turned it into a generally useful search results enhancer as well. It's called SearchSuite. Let me know what you think of it. Any and all feedback is welcome.
I noticed you are not registered to use AWB. AWB is a Windows program. Are you on a Mac or Linux? If so, JWB is a pretty good alternative. AWB is one of the most powerful tools available to Wikipedia editors. It's a list-maker, auto-page-loader, and semi-automated stream editor with extensive search/replace support, including regex. It also has a list comparer and WP database scanner. And more. You will probably love it. I used its prepend feature to post the 1500 deletion discussion notices.
While over at Fram's talk page, I spotted your post about Short descriptions, and sent PBSouthwood a heads up. He and I are hoping those will be able to be utilized via scripts for developing outlines. Create half a million of them? I'd like to know how you foresee doing that. Very cool.
I look forward to your replies. And if you have any questions related to Wikipedia, please feel free to ask. — The Transhumanist 13:27, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
Here's an update I wrote for someone, which explains things in a bit more detail...
I'm learning JavaScript, so I can automate outline construction and maintenance.
The goal: full automation. That's hard. Within easier reach are interactive tools that can assist editors and increase their productivity: semi-automation.
One approach I've been working on is magical vision for editors who work on outlines. No, not special glasses, but changing how Wikipedia is presented on the screen so that anything that has built-in outline structure, they see as outline material. Shown in wikiformat, without going into an editor first, right there on the screen. From where they can copy and paste it into a wiki editor.
Outline material abounds on Wikipedia all over the place. It's just not noticed as such by most, because it is formatted differently. As you know, outlines are trees, and trees have branches. Those branches can themselves be outlines (i.e., have more branches), or they can be straight lists.
Straight lists are outline material?
A single outline can include many straight lists.
One of the places to find straight lists on Wikipedia are search results. No branches. Just a list of destinations. But cluttered with lots of extraneous data.
So, I started experimenting with reformatting search results, to convert them to a form that is easy to copy/paste.
By the time I was done, it wasn't just useful for outline developers. It was generally useful.
It's a user script called SearchSuite.
It's got several features that modify search results, and each is given a menu item that serves as its on/off switch. Each can work on the output of the others (that was a pain), and the script remembers the setting of each switch between searches. Once you turn a feature on, it stays on. Until you turn it off.
One of the features is sort. Another strips out details, giving you a single-spaced list (showing a lot more results on the screen, which is much faster to browse). Another toggles the sister project results. And another toggles those sometimes annoying redirect/category-based results. The outline developer's feature wikifies the entries, though sort is quite useful to them as well.
So, that's the conversion script for search results. What other areas are slated for conversion?
Well, I'm done writing the conversion scripts for Special:Allpages with prefix, Wikipedia Books, and Categories. I'm about half done with the ones on CatTree, and nav templates (navigation footers and sidebars). Those last two are proving much harder, and are only partially operational.
I've not yet started on All pages, indices, infoboxes, portal topic lists (so many formats), what links here, tables, embedded lists, or article prose content.
Where is this heading?
Somewhere along the way, I'll put them (except article prose) on a switch (the same switch). I think I can do that without combining them into the same script, but they'll all be bundled together in some way at some point (to allow for a single install).
Then, outline developers can click the menu item to instantly see whatever outline material is on whatever page they are on, in a form they can easily transfer. Some will do it the other way around: leave them on, and turn them off when they want to see wikipedia in the normal view. (Right now, they are not on a switch, so I see the outline view all the time).
And as I did with SearchSuite, I'll add other functionality as well, for general users.
Does any of this make sense?
I figure that as I learn more about programming, I'll progress to higher levels of automation.
I've looked for other programmers to get involved, to no avail. So I'm pretty much on my own on this project.
I hope you've found this interesting. Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 13:27, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
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Hello,
There will be some changes to the way wikitext is parsed during the next few weeks. It will affect all namespaces. You can see a list of pages that may display incorrectly at Special:LintErrors. Since most of the easy problems have already been solved at the English Wikipedia, I am specifically contacting tech-savvy editors such as yourself with this one-time message, in the hope that you will be able to investigate the remaining high-priority pages during the next month.
There are approximately 10,000 articles (and many more non-article pages) with high-priority errors. The most important ones are the articles with misnested tags and table problems. Some of these involve templates, such as infoboxes, or the way the template is used in the article. In some cases, the "error" is a minor, unimportant difference in the visual appearance. In other cases, the results are undesirable. You can see a before-and-after comparison of any article by adding ?action=parsermigration-edit to the end of a link, like this: /info/en/?search=Arthur_Foss?action=parsermigration-edit (which shows a difference in how {{ infobox ship}} is parsed).
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Thank you for all the good things you do for the English Wikipedia. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 21:18, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
You need to notify every WikiProject linked from the talk page of every portal (via the project banners at the top of those talk pages) of this discussion since you're trying to get every portal deleted. Yes, that's a lot of projects, but you must make sure that every project is aware of them. I only found out what you were doing because someone else left a notice on the WT:JA page. Please make sure you notify every project affected by this discussion. ··· 日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 07:10, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
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You are doing a great job at trimming the fat from the Donald Trump article. Keep it up! MelanieN ( talk) 21:26, 20 April 2018 (UTC) |
Hi. Can template editors edit fully protected pages? I see you edited WP:PERM. —usernamekiran (talk) 06:02, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
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For saving today's featured article from a template vandal. Good work! Paris1127 ( talk) 05:50, 25 April 2018 (UTC) |
Reads 'This is a high level category for deletion sorting. It is strongly recommended you do not add discussions directly to it. Instead, please add them to a more specific category, such as a state and/or relevant subject area. Please review the list of available deletion categories.' Your addition of AFDs for Reliv and Scentsy to have page have been removed since those companies are obviously from Missouri and Utah/Idaho respectively. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 18:41, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi. Can you please link Ankit Rajpoot in the Man of the Match section for Match 22? Many thanks in advance. Cricket246 ( talk) 05:35, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
I reverted your edits to Template:Short descriptionto stop it trying to populate the non-existent and pointless Category:User pages with short description.
I see you wanted to expand the scope of pages categorised but please you make it exclude user pages? -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 19:49, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
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Thanks. I was really beginning to despair about admin quality, great to see someone who is AGF for newbies, not jumping to conclusions and not seeing every problem as a nail in need of banhammering :)
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Galobtter, "talking to a brick wall" is right. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 15:38, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
Reunion (Westworld)How were you able to move this? Can you move Journey into Night as well? Valoem talk contrib 15:24, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
I support move back to main space. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 15:29, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
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I have no clue what this is supposed to mean, or or if it was supposed to lighten the mood, but if that was the intent, it didn't. TonyBallioni ( talk) 16:32, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
thanks for doing the needful
Thank you for articles such as Sebastiano Vigna, for welcoming new users, fighting vandalism and dealing with articles for creation, for help improving infobox templates such as infobox settlement, and importing short descriptions, for standing by your vote and " Thanks for doing the needful, - speaker of "English at a godlike level", you are an awesome Wikipedian!
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Hi. Thanks again for the help today. Lugnuts apologised and I replied to him to clear out the animosity. Can you please see his talkpage once in your free time to see if I was okay in my approach towards him? Cricket246 ( talk) 18:40, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi dude. my native language isn't english, but i'm improving it. my level is nearly intermediate (despite my grammer is awful). does learning french and latin vocabulary help to improve en etymology or i shouldn't waste my time in this route ? -- Dandamayev ( talk) 11:49, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
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but without relying Fb team templates, thanks.
Hhhhhkohhhhh (
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10:12, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
{{
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as the same result, or reopen this TfD until {{
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closes.
Hhhhhkohhhhh (
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10:24, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
Quick suggestion, dunno how feasible -- a character counter kinda like Mediawiki now has for summaries/subject lines, either inside the inputbox or besides it. I know there's no hard policy yet but 40chars remains a general target and a character counter would make it a lot easier! Just my 2¢ :) Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 02:06, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
Thought I'd move a fairly valid discussion to a venue that isn't a PERM page. For reference, the rest of the thread ( permalink):
I'd be more than happy to be pinged with an occasional request of this sort, and I'm sure several other TEs would as well. Perhaps we need a list/category of TEs willing to do these sort of jobs, rather than relying solely on the edit-request system? -- RexxS ( talk) 14:49, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
- I mean I'd do it too; but I don't see a need for a seperate system; most edit requests are simple like this; I/one can just watchlist User:AnomieBOT/TPERTable and respond to the requests as they popup there; there aren't that many requests honestly Galobtter ( pingó mió) 14:57, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
- I know you would, as would some others. I'm aware of the ability to watchlist, but I was thinking more that editors might be happier knowing that they can ping an actual person as well, rather than having to rely solely on making an edit request – which may appear to them a bit like a castaway throwing a message in a bottle out to sea. You know what human nature is like. -- RexxS ( talk) 16:38, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for your approval work on draft pages! <3
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That is all. SiliconRed ( talk) 01:26, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
I hope it was a mistake. Doug Weller talk 14:25, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi, Galobtter!
To be honest, I am not sure if I understand the sense of the message you sent me "Assuming the ZQ in your username stands for Zeroqode, declare your connection with the company" What exactly I need to do and for what this actions? I've read Wiki help, but there are a lot of confusing phrases.
I am working at Zeroqode and of course, our company wants to be presented in Wikipedia. Is this a problem? Do I need to pay something after that? What I need to expect after disclosure? As I understand in my case employer and client are the same entity. How to indicate this on my main page?
Regarding our wiki post about Zeroqode is there any problems with references or the only one problem is in disclosure policy?
Waiting for your reply. Thanks in advance.
Tanya ZQ ( talk) 13:30, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
How do you know they aren't an experience unregistered Wikipedier? Part of the immense downside of IP editing. ― Mandruss ☎ 03:24, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I deleted the references that you cited and added a new one to a New York Post article that had better coverage of the company. Can you please review.
MrBernardKendall ( talk) 18:36, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
world progress....walkind dead...T...sSh Eymrise France ( talk) 06:26, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
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Turns out the issue was a duplicated parameter on the acupuncture article. Not in the ICD10PCS template. (Must increase sample size in future!) Thanks, Little pob ( talk) 14:21, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
ACTRIAL:
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Hi, Galobtter!
I've disclosed the COI. Could you please check Zeroqode's talk page and say if everything is ok?
And also, I need help with references.
Do we have appropriate references? :)
As I understand TechCrunch is a reliable source, so we can use reference on this source?
Can we use in references our own links, such as, "Learning Courses". Zeroqode? We use this because this is an explanation for this sentence "Zeroqode has brought together various providers of courses[14] that teach how to create web and mobile applications without code."
Tanya ZQ ( talk) 14:48, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi. I needed a bit of help. A certain user is persistently disruptively reverting my edits to an incorrect version even after repeated explanation in edit details in the page 2018 Indian Premier League. It is creating real troubles as he is just continuing it again and again. What should I do?? Cricket246 ( talk) 17:32, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi. The user is back with his disruptive edits. Please help. Cricket246 ( talk) 18:48, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
I get what you're trying to do, but these two really aren't the same thing. While both of the current titles are definitely POV (the articles even state the names are a variety of "political framing"), there is no consensus on where each of them ought to end up. I attempted to close the first one, but lacked the necessary permissions to implement the close, so I reverted. The second one still needs more discussion to determine the correct title, and the place for that discussion is at the "pro-choice" talk page, not at "pro-life". Brad v 16:33, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing that. I caught it and was correcting it at the same time that you were, apparently. Strikerforce Talk 14:25, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
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In the above RfD, my biased mind sees consensus in favor of deletion. It's probably not a good idea to close a contentious discussion like that one as "no consensus" without an explanation for why you feel there isn't one. Regardless, it's probably best to back out of it and let an admin close it, keeping
WP:BADNAC in mind: Non-admin closure is not appropriate (when) the outcome is a close call (especially where there are several valid outcomes) or likely to be controversial. Such closes are better left to an administrator.
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I've gone and closed it. I did't mean to bully you out of the close, so if you're unconvinced by my explanation there, let's chat. ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 22:26, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Galobtter,
I submitted a new wiki page earlier in Jan 2018 on Kalaari Capital but it was rejected by you based on notability guidelines. I have taken another attempt at creating a wiki page and chose a topic which is more notable than the previously chosen topic. You can check the submission here: /info/en/?search=Draft:The/Nudge_Foundation
I was here seeking your advice on whether this seems acceptable considering Wikipedia's strict notability guidelines and policy on new articles. Let me know if you feel something is amiss and if I can improve anything here. As discussed earlier, I am looking to contribute more on Wikipedia and guidance from senior members would be helpful.
ParadiseStark ( talk) 20:51, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
May I ask why you created this module instead of relying on Module:Labelled list hatnote like the template did before/ {{3x|p}}ery ( talk) 20:15, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
The contributions by this author > Roxy, the dog. shows his writing is NOT based on neutral view standards and the various topics he contributes shows that although he deploys and cites sources and information to substantiate his arguments -- that the basis of his contributions is slanted opinion. Please see the version history for yourself of his contributions where he starts off not by educating people on what exactly is Crystal Healing from a neutral view tone but starts with trying to compare the topic of Crystal Healing to pseudo-science or science which means absolutely nothing. The comparison has no basis because one is not inherently even part of the same discipline, the analogy here is it's like comparing a car to an apple. I came in to help edit the actual article and then he tried to claim edit wars when wikipedia is supposed to be editable by ANYONE. This is nothing but intimidation techniques that clearly shows lack of respect and neutral view which is the basis of wikipedia's guidelines. And attempted to revert back to his biased changes. CristieJ ( talk) 10:09, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
Galobtter Please note the following:
Roxy, the dog. In compliance with reporting this author for reverting my request for review -- Please reference the Talk section of the reverted article that shows clear bias, which has been reported for the following:
Crystal Healing: [ [7]]
1. Lack of Neutral point of view in content and language to show bias for science and scientific study in an article clearly about: Crystals and Crystal healing. This is an opinion piece thinly disguised as educating people on Crystal healing. 2. Requests an editorial and admin POV check on the the entire article for using very strong biases in wording to substantiate it's claims that Crystal healing is not a science even though it doesn't claim it is a science... 3. Claiming editorial wars when wikipedia guidelines show that ANYONE can edit the articles and author in attempting to maintain opinion and bias by reverting edited content that was addressing the topic from a neutral perspective.
See referenced, the violations noted 1, 2 in dispute : [ [8]]
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Hi Galobtter, you recently edited Module:Redirect hatnote and Module:Hatnote list, indicating your familiarity with these modules, which are both used by {{ Redirect}}. I recently observed a strange problem where using {{ Redirect}} and {{ R from ambiguous term}} created unreasonable transclusion links showing up in article edit preview (below the edit window) and in "What links here?". We are discussing the issue at User talk:Paine Ellsworth#Interesting transclusion effect - any idea? and given your familiarity with those modules I thought perhaps you could shed some light on it as well in an attempt to further narrow down and fix the behaviour. Thanks. -- Matthiaspaul ( talk) 22:41, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I have brought the unfruitful Sarah Jeong discussion to dispute resolution and am notifying you because you have commented on the Talk page since August 3. You can find a link here: Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#Talk:Sarah_Jeong. All the best, Ikjbagl ( talk) 12:09, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
You should really stop vandalizing my edits. Nergaal ( talk) 08:55, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
Your renaming of article and redirects relation to silicic acid and silicic acids is just plain wrong. I have been at some pains to explain the difference, but clearly you have not understood. The issue arises because the chemical entity silica, formula SiO2, can, for historical reasons, be called "silcic acid", though it is better to call it "silicon dioxide". The "silicic acids" (plural} are completely different chemical compounds, like Si(OH)4. That's why they had an article to themselves.
Please restore the status quo that obtained before you made the changes. Petergans ( talk) 21:37, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
Todays edit is an improvement. However, the title is not correct because the article deals with more than one silicic acid. The pictures show 2 examples. The chemical compound "Silicic acid" is perhaps better named as monosilicic acid. This will make it clearer that "silicic acid" is a generic term, not the name of an individual chemical compound. Moreover the term "silicic acid" is in common usage with the meaning silicon dioxide. This is why I originally used the title "Silicic acids". The distinction must be made clear. Petergans ( talk) 13:27, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
I added a comment apparently about the time you collapsed a section. Probably a good collapse. If you'd like to move my comment inside the bottom of the collapse or to be more precise, move the bottom of the collapse below my comment fee please feel free.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 17:13, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
I don't know if you noticed but he reverted my final warning. I brought him to WP:AN3, the guy doesn't listen. -- 1l2l3k ( talk) 19:56, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for your vigilance. I would not be opposed to sending them to ANEW because they've just been running roughshod though the page history and clearly ignoring all warnings. If you don't want to do the ANEW, I'd be fine with doing it. Etzedek24 ( I'll talk at ya) ( Check my track record) 19:57, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
Talk:Sealioning#RfC about the inclusion of suggested ways to deal with sealioning
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I have no conflicts of interest. Use AFD if you want to get rid of the article. It has tons of reliable sources and you are out of line. 98.113.141.247 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 00:09, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
Of interest may be this thread, in case your recent edit gets reverted. Thanks, — Paleo Neonate – 05:08, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
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There has been a recent response to you on the Tranny Talk page. 71.91.178.54 ( talk) 17:46, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
You accidentally added
{{#invoke:ISO 3166|code|{{{1}}}|codetype=alpha3}}
to the template. It causes the output CANCanada when It should be Canada (for example) - BrandonXLF (t@lk) 20:33, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
Hey there Galobtter. I came across a couple pages you edited today SOHO 3Q and 2015 Bonnaroo Music Festival through Special:NewPagesFeed. I wasn't sure if you'd intentionally left these unpatrolled hoping for another pair of eyes on them or if it was oversight after you or another editor undid the redirect. In case it was the latter I thought I'd drop this note so that I (or another NPP) didn't duplicate efforts you'd already done. Best, Barkeep49 ( talk) 23:01, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
I'm not a very regular user compared to others, nor am I very comfortable in using talk pages to argue contentious points so it might be worth getting a pool of editors aware of these pages so a consensus can be found on how it's going to phrased if at all. Sometimes I see things in a different way to others so I want to make sure that A) there is no reliable basis for these accusations, B) There's no point mentioning such a trivial thing. Could this be compared to,for example, Illuminati symbol theories [9] that shouldn't even be given any serious consideration at all? Anarcho-authoritarian ( talk) 18:23, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
What are you doing reverting my edits? I have experience editing Big Brother articles and am knowledgeable in the subject and you aren't by the looks of it. Did you take time to view the video in the source and see if he was making a joke? He is not making a joke in the source, he is unaware and uneducated of the movement. This has nothing to do with personal opinions, which you have accused me of. Computer40 «» (talk) 22:17, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Great British Mobility. Since you had some involvement with the Great British Mobility redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. DBig Xrayᗙ 13:23, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
Yesterday editions were made to my Wikipedia page. (removed per WP:BLP) I am now reading the article is being considered for deletion. I hope you will permanently delete from Wikipedia that all edited version from September 12, 2018. As you know I was Miss Venezuela, Miss South America and 2nd Runner up in Miss Universe Pageant in 1984. I am a Journalist and Broadcaster. I worked for Television in Venezuela and here in the USA for Telemundo. I graduated Magna Cumlaude form ETSU. I had have a long Charitable career that expanded from Venezuela to Ecuador, Peru and USA, since I moved here. I am now a Speaker for Domestic Violence awareness.
I recently run for US Congress and lost by 83 votes in a Run Off. I will do it again in 2 years, as I have already been contacted by the Party for that.
All formers Miss Venezuelas have Wikipedia.
I would like to request, to lock my account so what happened yesterday doesn’t happen again. Probably you can assign me as Webmaster. I would like to have the "Marriage Location" erased since I am no longer married. I would like to have my Children's name links removed from Wikipedia. They are not Public Figures and I respect and protect their privacy.
I would like to request to be allow to submit an up to date CV to you and for you to make the up dated information to Wikipedia. I will put my Children's name there with no links, please.
Thanking you for your kind attention,
Carmen Maria Montiel — Preceding
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To answer your concern, on my talk page you wrote "In response to your query about new "issues of wikipedia policy"; no, your main reason for requesting the move, that dictionaries order the definitions differently, directly contradicts policy - wikipedia is not a dictionary, and doesn't care about dictionaries in determining what the title is." This is ordinarily true- However, it is quite remiss of an encyclopedia to make a main entry that doesn't adhere to the most accepted dictionary definitions of terminology. The mere fact that one is using what the dictionary makes clear is a secondary and slang sense of terminology (as such is the case with "Tranny"), it becomes quite intellectually dishonest and is direct evidence of political motives in editing in order to make one's political movement more visible, which is NOT what Wikipedia is about. In my opinion the suggestion that the move was proper is outright frivolous, regardless of how one wishes to frame policy. It would be much appreciated if you and everyone else would stop using policy to further your political agendas. 71.91.178.54 ( talk) 02:50, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
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Sudden switch to and interest in Meghan Trainor articles, Galobtter? Or just WP:HOUNDING? I doubt it's the former since you've not shown an interest in these types of article previously so I'm assuming it's the latter. I'm going to hope you don't know that when one edits boldly, they need to do it (1) without an WP:OWN mentality (which MF's edit summary admits to) and (2) then follow the WP:BRD cycle, which your reversion subverted. Further, "controversial" is not the point - when you have an article that's been stable with particular wording and style for an extended period of time, cutting and pasting one's preferred version is neither wise nor collaborative, it's disruptive. All the above is why MF's edit was reverted, and it should have stayed that way with MF starting a talk page discussion to support policy and commonsense reasoning why his/her edits were appropriate and beneficial to readers as well as the encyclopedia as a whole. So, unless you have something to add to the article talk page, and don't want to appear to be hounding me and reverting my edits for no reason other than to WP:POKE, I'd appreciate you butting out at an article you've never edited before and an article genre you have never shown an interest in previously. -- ψλ ● ✉ ✓ 16:04, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
Thanks! Just got the curation tools a couple weeks ago and foolishly assumed that TW and it functioned the same. I'm going to assume it is a non-starter, but has anyone looking into creating a shared library of functions that could be used for various tools so that things were done in a consistent way tool to tool? {{u|
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20:11, 21 September 2018 (UTC)Hi, regarding your revert: if you notice 2017 does not have a value... same ref as before and listed at Template:Inflation-fn. Waddie96 ( talk) 16:02, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
[10] - open season for RfCs on sourcing, it seems! Guy ( Help!) 17:36, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
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Thanks for picking up on my suggestion at the Kavanaugh hearings talk page :) ! Sean Heron ( talk) 22:10, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
Please explain your statement that "I can't see that quote" in the Washington Times article that was the basis for reverting me [11]. To aid you, here is the article in question with the quote highlighted: (copyright violation removed) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Obsidi ( talk • contribs) 04:00, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi Galobtter, I just saw that you removed the "special visitor note" ( [12]) at the redirect " Genie (feral child" [sic]. In the edit summary you mention two links which according to you are pointing to this redirect. Perhaps I am blind (or it is hidden in some JavaScript stuff not showing in my browser) but I can only find links to the actual article page " Genie (feral child)" there, not links to the redirect (which was the whole point of the RfD). Am I missing something? Thanks and greetings. -- Matthiaspaul ( talk) 22:32, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
The BBC source incorrectly cited him, they mention he said: "Curie etc. only welcomed after showing what they can do, got Nobels..."
and cited him in quotation marks. But the presentation doesn't include only.
No, they have now changed the title of the BBC article. It's not cherrypicking, is actually completing the sentence written in the slides.
Also, I think we should include this, from the BBC article: Prof Strumia has since defended his comments, saying he was only presenting the facts.
DanyelCavazos ( talk) 13:59, 2 October 2018 (UTC)DanyelCavazos — Preceding unsigned comment added by DanyelCavazos ( talk • contribs) 13:51, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
Sorry I am a bit confused here this report was released on October 1 [14] it is the official report from a legal standpoint. There in the report it mentions that her lifelong friend denies ever knowing Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh denies ever meeting Ford. This information is must be added for NPOV. Charges were declined to be pressed due to lack of evidence why would we continue portray him as under allegations? Valoem talk contrib 12:50, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
This is a legal finding from a public committee hearing.no it is not. Find a source that says that. It is, as I just quoted to you above, a letter to the senate republicans from Rachel Mitchell. Galobtter ( pingó mió) 13:28, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
Could you explain to me where I need to add that {{#invoke:string|match|s = {{:13 (number)}}|pattern = {{lessthan}}div class="shortdescription.->(.-)<}}
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Gonnym (
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18:15, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
"TV episode"
, "TV episode" (TV Series)
and "TV episode" (TV Series episode)
. I've also seen exceptions like
World Wharf II: The Wharfening (or How Bob Saves/Destroys the Town – Part II) so there probably should be another field added to the template of "ignore parenthesis" (true/false) which in this situation will treat that as part of the title; and
A Game of Pool (The Twilight Zone, 1959) which is not actually discussed in WP:NCTV so no idea what the proper way is, but from the few episodes of the Twilight Zone that use this, the style is consistent of <TV series>, <4 digit year>
- but I guess for scenarios as The Twilight Zone this can be manually overwritten until/if a clear style is written into the guidelines. --
Gonnym (
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21:06, 19 September 2018 (UTC)Thanks for your fix, but why does replace not exist when I see it at
Module:String (function str.replace( frame ))? Also, do you have any idea why line 9 (if (disambiguation == "false") then
does not work? Articles without disambiguation apparently move through). --
Gonnym (
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13:52, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
This was finally managed! Module:Extract short description is now available to extract short descriptions from templates such as infoboxes. -- Gonnym ( talk) 00:04, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
The Infobox television episode and the templates that extend now auto generate a short description. Thanks for your help in starting me with this.
I have a question which you might have an answer, should episode redirects (such as Into the Ring) have an infobox added to them (with the basic info needed) so that those would get short descriptions? I've tested this out and it does work if it's allowed. -- Gonnym ( talk) 16:57, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
Galobtter,
I am new to Wikipedia, so must admit I am learning at the moment. I can confirm I am not affiliated with the people in question, and I am editing the article as requested.
All the best, LennyBunko
LennyBunko ( talk) 17:29, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
bsd. Hi! I saw you reverted an edit of promotional nature on Canad Inns by user Winnie Pegger. I had reverted only the logo, because I don't have the expertise to assess promotion. Said user is back, reverting part of the reverts, including the logo, which by all appearances is the exact same as on their website. (By the way, these two edits are his only ones). I think the page should be reverted to before his fist edit, as nothing of significance has been added, besides for his edits. Do you have experience dealing with this kind of improper editing? Thank you. -- Ben Stone 21:05, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for your welcome and for your help in the mess around the mistake done a couple of weeks ago with the voice "Italian colonists in Albania". I am going to try to create asap the voice "Italians in Albania". Thanks again.-- Esauster ( talk) 18:36, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
I award to Galobtter the "Mediator Barnstar" because he served very well as a mediator between heated debates on the talk pages of articles and users, related to the voices " Italians in Albania" & " Italian colonists in Albania". -- Esauster ( talk) 23:09, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Galobtter,
you recently declined the Wikipedia draft on the Taiwanese company C.C.P. Contact Probes saying, it doesn't have enough independent sources. I am a bit puzzled: The article cites several independent sources for every statement made. Sources are recognized Data networks such as Bloomberg or Reuters. The company is stock listed, therefore its annual report is also done by an independent auditor: PWC. It also cites buyers (Siemens) and Distributers. Could you be more concrete which kind of sources would qualify and which aspects of the article are not sufficiently documented
Thank you in advance! Jole222 ( talk) 04:06, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hi, Can you please add Shortdesc helper on Urdu Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by BukhariSaeed ( talk • contribs) 05:14, 21 October 2018 (UTC)