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Hey, John. Remember a while back when you helped me remove a bunch of unwanted images from a bunch of lists of prehistoric life with an automated process? Well, those drafts have finally gone live. They need some more work, though. Specifically I need to caption the images in the articles. Since many of the images are shared across the articles, I was wondering if you might be available to use an automated process to bulk find-and-replace the code for the images once in a while as I update their captions. Thanks for your time. Abyssal ( talk) 23:48, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
@ Abyssal: OK, I've made some progress with this, and have made a test edit at List of the Cenozoic life of California. Using regular expressions and AWB, I can...
[[File: ... ]]
statement, perhaps with a trailing HTML commentFor testing, I used List of the Cenozoic life of Alabama as the master page, and used the images there to update List of the Cenozoic life of California. You'll see that I changed a few captions and some of the image sizing and placement. I didn't check whether these changes were improvements, so undid my edit immediately.
I'm trying to use regular expressions as a programming language, which is not ideal, so my method has some limitations:
If this is acceptable then you need to identify a "master" page containing the "correct" size, placement, caption and HTML comment for each image. I suggest a new page in your user space. And, of course, I'll need the list of pages that you want me to update.
Also, I'm on holiday next week, so I won't be able to take this forwards until August 28th at the earliest. -- John of Reading ( talk) 08:09, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
[[File:
to ]] <!-- the comment -->
even if they aren't on the same line of wikitext. --
John of Reading (
talk)
17:52, 16 August 2018 (UTC)Hey, John. Hope you had a nice vacation. I've compiled a list of articles and a list of corrected image captions. What more do we need before we can take this baby out for a spin? Abyssal ( talk) 23:46, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
@ Abyssal: OK, I've got the method working, I hope, and have made the first five edits. Everything in those diffs looks reasonable, but I can't easily tell whether I have failed to make some of the requested changes. Since you are familiar with the subject matter, I imagine that you will be able to look through the articles and quickly spot any captions that I have failed to update. Two other queries:
-- John of Reading ( talk) 08:00, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
I've updated the image captions list so you can run it again whenever you get the chance. Abyssal ( talk) 04:36, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
Once more, please. Abyssal ( talk) 20:36, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
Once more, please. Abyssal ( talk) 18:25, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
Once more, please. Abyssal ( talk) 00:38, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
Once more, please. Abyssal ( talk) 01:43, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
Once more, please. Abyssal ( talk) 03:05, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
Hey, John. That last round of image caption corrections was the last I'll need for a while. I have another favor to ask, though. Some of the lists contain multiple entries of the same genus and species but at different levels of confidence. I was wondering if you could scan the lists for these entries with duplicates and remove all but the ones with the highest priority in the given ranking:
Thanks for all the help so far. Abyssal ( talk) 22:31, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
@ Abyssal: Done, I hope. Miscellaneous comments:
ex gr.
with no hyphen. Should a hyphen be inserted?sensu lato
with no hyphen. Should a hyphen be inserted?sensu lato
. I left them in place, since I don't know what priority it has. It's probably simplest for you to fix these:-- John of Reading ( talk) 13:47, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
Hey, John. Could you rig a process that would scan these lists for non-commented out images then cut-and-paste the image and the little comment tag that shows what article they came from between the bullet and the actual list entry mentioned in the comment tag. If there is no exact equivalent you can put the image and tags in with whatever preceding entry had one. In either one of the preceding cases add another comment tag that says <!-- moved --> Here's an example of what I mean...
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Abyssal ( talk) 17:08, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
If there is no exact equivalent you can put the image and tags in with whatever preceding entry had one- that's a tough one, probably too hard for regular expressions. But most of the image captions have an italicised wikilink, which I could try to match with the entries in the following list. That would be a better result for the Accipiter striatus image in the test data here, as I could move it into its own list entry. I'm unlikely to be able to re-arrange anything based on what I did with the previous image, so any images that I couldn't match by either the HTML comment or the caption would stay where they were at the head of the list. -- John of Reading ( talk) 18:40, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
@
Abyssal: I copied
List of the Cenozoic life of Alabama to
User:John of Reading/X3 and made an AWB-assisted edit there. The first defect is that
Argyrotheca and a few others are coded as Image:
not File:
, and I didn't think to check for that, so didn't try to move them. I'll add a preliminary step to switch them all to say File:
. Otherwise, it worked fairly well - I managed to move all but eight of the images. I've labelled those eight with an HTML comment <!-- stationary -->
so that you can find them easily.
Is that close enough for you to do the rest of the work by hand? Would you like me to add the "stationary" comments when making the real edits? -- John of Reading ( talk) 09:48, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
Hey, John. Could the original image captioning operation be modified to work with the multiple image template found at the bottom of this section? Some portions of the lists are crowded now that the images are in position. I don't actually need it done very quickly because manually moving the unmoved images will take a while, but I need to know if it's at least feasible before I start relying on the template to tidy things up. Abyssal ( talk) 03:27, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
* {{multiple image <new innards>}} ''[[MatchMe]]''
and use that to update each entry in the list articles that looks like * {{multiple image <old innards>}} ''[[MatchMe]]''
. Is that what you have in mind? --
John of Reading (
talk)
08:37, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
[[File:MatchThisName.Ext| <old innards> ]] <!-- MatchThisComment [[MatchThisLink]] -->
and replaces the whole of the matched line. This has had the benefit of copying over your changes to the image sizes and positioning, as well as the captions. I don't know how to pick up only the caption using regular expressions, the only tool I know how to use. The caption doesn't necessarily come last, and the caption may contain embedded square brackets and sometimes more |
characters embedded in piped wikilinks and template calls. --
John of Reading (
talk)
20:57, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
| imageY =
or at the standard HTML comment that precedes it, and the last captionX ends at }} †''[[
, the list entry that follows the images [yes, the dagger is optional].captionN
field? Something like...*{{multiple image | width = <!-- displayed width of each image in pixels (an integer, omit "px" suffix); overrides "width[n]"s below --> <!--image 1--> | image1 = Bluefieldius fig-3-full-b.png | width1 = 220 | alt1 = | caption1 = Fossilized skeleton found in Mercer County; the holotype of the Carboniferous bony fish ''[[Bluefieldius]]''. Close-up view of the skull at right.<!-- [[Bluefieldius]]: Speciesbox --> <!--image 2--> | image2 = Bluefieldius fig-3-full-a.png | width2 = 165 | alt2 = | caption2 = <!-- [[Bluefieldius]]: lead section --> }} †''[[Bluefieldius]]''
@ Abyssal: OK. I have the method working, I think. I've added the HTML comments to the example at User:John of Reading/X3, and used those to copy in the matching new captions from User:John of Reading/X2. I haven't saved the edit, though, as I'm still testing.
But trying this out in the real articles, the only change that the new code wants to make is at Petalodus in List of the Paleozoic life of Alabama, where you've asked me to remove the extra square brackets. Are there other instances where I should have found a caption in a {{ multiple image}} that needs updating? -- John of Reading ( talk) 09:12, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
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Hello John of Reading. I've seen that you've edited Help:IPA/Italian in the past, so I thought you could help me to understand a thing. Note 5 says: "the n in /nɡ/~/nk/ is a velar [ŋ], and the one in /nf/~/nv/ is the labiodental [ɱ]". I was wondering why in the symbol list does appear ŋ but ɱ doesn't, but I've read in the same note: "but for simplicity, ⟨m⟩ is used here". Why such a distinguo is made here? In Italian a nasal always assimilates to the following consonant, so ŋ can be found just before k and g while ɱ can be found just before f and v. If it's for simplicity, then also ŋ should be transcribed as n (since, unlike in other languages, in Italian this sound can't be found elsewhere). But this makes the transcription less accurate. Then, why doesn't ɱ have its own place in the list? It's weird to me such a different treatment... Could you enlighten me about this issue, please? Foniasin ( talk) 09:27, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
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Hi John,
' but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source, so I removed it.'.....the reliable source is myself watching the repeat today of 'The Chaser: Celebrity Special' episode where all this happened. (shown as Series 5, Episode 8 in my TV guide) The programme originally aired in 2015, I think.
As the entire prize money on this show all went to 4 charities, it should probably also be under Charity Work rather than the existing 'Reality television' heading.
195.147.32.238 ( talk) 21:52, 16 January 2019 (UTC) Frank
Hi, John! Thank you so much for fixing that! Since you seem to know your way around, could you maybe have a look at this issue some time? Unfortunately, I didn't get any comments neither on HD nor at VP. Thanks in advance for any support! Best wishes-- Hildeoc ( talk) 13:59, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
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This is incorrect. H is prefaced by an because it is an aspirant. Hence an Henschel, not a Henschel. MarkRS53 ( talk) 05:10, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
What can I say, English grammar is going to hell! The question is, do we go with the majority or the authority? MarkRS53 ( talk) 05:02, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
FYI, Dabmaster8 is still adding maps to city articles in many states. This person hasn't responded to your comment or my comment. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 05:36, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, although I would write "a eutherian", because I now pronounce the "eu" as the word "you", the problem is that those who speak other dialects of English don't. Those that pronounce the "eu" as the "oo" in "boo" (as I did when was younger and still spoke with the local accent) naturally and correctly write "an eutherian". In plant articles we have this problem endlessly with "a/an herb..." It seems to me that the advice at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Plants#"A" or "an" with "herb..." applies here too; rather than changing "an" to "a" (which will inevitably later be reversed), re-word to avoid the indefinite article. Peter coxhead ( talk) 14:19, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
eu-
prefix. The
Eutheria article begins with its IPA pronunciation, and both
Oxford Dictionaries (UK) and
Merriam-Webster (US) agree.
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Hi: Apologies in advance if I'm not submitting this query properly. There is a book currently being used as a source on both the Jack Pickford and Olive Thomas pages: Stardust and Shadows Canadians in Early Hollywood by Charles Foster. This book does not use sources (no footnotes, endnotes, nothing) for its information and has been called out by others for appearing to mix fact with fiction and to repeat many of the rumours that circulated in the tabloids at the time in Hollywood. When mentioning Olive Thomas' death, the entry on Jack's page currently reads: "She was intoxicated and tired, and took a large dose of mercury bichloride, prescribed to topically treat sores caused by Pickford's chronic syphilis." On Olive's page, it currently reads: "An intoxicated and tired Thomas ingested mercury bichloride liquid solution. It had been prescribed to Pickford to topically treat sores caused by his chronic syphilis." Both use Foster's book as a source. There has never been any confirmation of Jack having this disease so at least the entries should include "rumoured to have been prescribe." Could this please be fixed? The last time I tried (a few years ago), I was told I couldn't change it because of the Foster book being used as a source. Thanks for your help! Madcapheiress25 ( talk) 21:08, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
According to Charles Foster, ... [14] but this has been disputed.[15]Then readers will be aware of the conflicting sources and can look at the reference section to decide on their relative worth. -- John of Reading ( talk) 07:45, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for fixing the typo!
Ridebuilder5 ( talk) 14:51, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Frank_Stamp&oldid=877446844 – Talk about confusing ( talk) 10:38, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi @ John of Reading:, I noticed your edit to Hollywood Presbyterian and was wondering if you could explain to me the change to state's and hospital's? I can't see the difference between what was there before and what you changed it to, and it's driving me nuts. :) Schazjmd ( talk) 21:59, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
’
to a straight apostrophe '
. This is recommended by the Wikipedia manual of style at
MOS:PUNCT. I wouldn't bother saving an edit where that was the only change, but if I am fixing a "real" spelling mistake in an article, I allow
AutoWikiBrowser to make those tiny changes at the same time. --
John of Reading (
talk)
06:57, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
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I have re-looked at my Crockfords. He went to both!
Magdalene College Cambridge BA 1989 Magdalen College Oxford MA 1990 Crockford's on-line
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You are invited to join the discussion at
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Hi there, its me again. You said i can sent you another call for help. Can you have a look at my new article? Thanks -- Tronje07 ( talk) 13:01, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello, John. I'm happy to say that I've nearly prepared those lists of prehistoric life by US state for more attention from you. I expect to finish sometime early next week. Will you have time to help me out again with these? Abyssal ( talk) 16:52, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
You seem to have been the main contributor for the Lincrusta page. I have two images of a rare example of Lincrusta wall art that was found behind a mirror above the fireplace in my house when I renovated. I have no idea how to upload them in an edit. I tried twice and the system said it couldn't verify that the images were 'mine'. They are. Most of the examples of this type of Lincrusta were destroyed in renovations. My house was built custom in 1920, and there's a good chance that it's been there since then, or shortly thereafter. I will try to attach them here, but have no idea if it will work. They are located in a private home in Bellevue, Pennsylvania. And even though it totally altered my living room plans, I didn't have the heart to destroy it. This may be one of the only examples of Lincrusta as wall art that exists. I tried attaching and the system won't accept. How can I get them to you?
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Hi John of Reading, many thanks for your cleaning up of the typos I leave behind. After one of your catches I usually take the opportunity to recheck the articles further. I often find other typos (I am pretty good at making them), or opportunities to update things, introduce templates, etc. Bit by bit the articles and WP get better. Regards, Acad Ronin ( talk) 18:53, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Portal:Freedom of The Press. Since you had some involvement with the Portal:Freedom of The Press redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. UnitedStatesian ( talk) 02:12, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi John of Reading -- back in 2015 your bot converted many portals to use a mobile-compatible format. This worked ok on my two portals, but appears to have broken others such that they are permanently single column. I'm trying to understand what happened to Portal:Amusement parks, so that I can set it back to the intended two-column style. I and others have tried various things but to no avail, so I wonder if you could troubleshoot? Espresso Addict ( talk) 14:32, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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Hello,
I had edited the 1826 page with the dissapearance of William Morgan. I'm not that skilled at the technical aspect of editing.
/info/en/?search=William_Morgan_(anti-Mason) This is the page of William Morgan (anti-Mason)
This is the source of his dissapearance.
Regards.
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if i do not know how to say a certain word or word in english, then is it allowed to help yourself in using google translate? i know that some websites are against rules, is that so? (i'm really right now so if there is no permission then please avoid punishment. Atlantic Channel ( talk) 21:25, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
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Hey, John. Remember a while back when you helped me remove a bunch of unwanted images from a bunch of lists of prehistoric life with an automated process? Well, those drafts have finally gone live. They need some more work, though. Specifically I need to caption the images in the articles. Since many of the images are shared across the articles, I was wondering if you might be available to use an automated process to bulk find-and-replace the code for the images once in a while as I update their captions. Thanks for your time. Abyssal ( talk) 23:48, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
@ Abyssal: OK, I've made some progress with this, and have made a test edit at List of the Cenozoic life of California. Using regular expressions and AWB, I can...
[[File: ... ]]
statement, perhaps with a trailing HTML commentFor testing, I used List of the Cenozoic life of Alabama as the master page, and used the images there to update List of the Cenozoic life of California. You'll see that I changed a few captions and some of the image sizing and placement. I didn't check whether these changes were improvements, so undid my edit immediately.
I'm trying to use regular expressions as a programming language, which is not ideal, so my method has some limitations:
If this is acceptable then you need to identify a "master" page containing the "correct" size, placement, caption and HTML comment for each image. I suggest a new page in your user space. And, of course, I'll need the list of pages that you want me to update.
Also, I'm on holiday next week, so I won't be able to take this forwards until August 28th at the earliest. -- John of Reading ( talk) 08:09, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
[[File:
to ]] <!-- the comment -->
even if they aren't on the same line of wikitext. --
John of Reading (
talk)
17:52, 16 August 2018 (UTC)Hey, John. Hope you had a nice vacation. I've compiled a list of articles and a list of corrected image captions. What more do we need before we can take this baby out for a spin? Abyssal ( talk) 23:46, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
@ Abyssal: OK, I've got the method working, I hope, and have made the first five edits. Everything in those diffs looks reasonable, but I can't easily tell whether I have failed to make some of the requested changes. Since you are familiar with the subject matter, I imagine that you will be able to look through the articles and quickly spot any captions that I have failed to update. Two other queries:
-- John of Reading ( talk) 08:00, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
I've updated the image captions list so you can run it again whenever you get the chance. Abyssal ( talk) 04:36, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
Once more, please. Abyssal ( talk) 20:36, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
Once more, please. Abyssal ( talk) 18:25, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
Once more, please. Abyssal ( talk) 00:38, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
Once more, please. Abyssal ( talk) 01:43, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
Once more, please. Abyssal ( talk) 03:05, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
Hey, John. That last round of image caption corrections was the last I'll need for a while. I have another favor to ask, though. Some of the lists contain multiple entries of the same genus and species but at different levels of confidence. I was wondering if you could scan the lists for these entries with duplicates and remove all but the ones with the highest priority in the given ranking:
Thanks for all the help so far. Abyssal ( talk) 22:31, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
@ Abyssal: Done, I hope. Miscellaneous comments:
ex gr.
with no hyphen. Should a hyphen be inserted?sensu lato
with no hyphen. Should a hyphen be inserted?sensu lato
. I left them in place, since I don't know what priority it has. It's probably simplest for you to fix these:-- John of Reading ( talk) 13:47, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
Hey, John. Could you rig a process that would scan these lists for non-commented out images then cut-and-paste the image and the little comment tag that shows what article they came from between the bullet and the actual list entry mentioned in the comment tag. If there is no exact equivalent you can put the image and tags in with whatever preceding entry had one. In either one of the preceding cases add another comment tag that says <!-- moved --> Here's an example of what I mean...
Extended content
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Abyssal ( talk) 17:08, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
If there is no exact equivalent you can put the image and tags in with whatever preceding entry had one- that's a tough one, probably too hard for regular expressions. But most of the image captions have an italicised wikilink, which I could try to match with the entries in the following list. That would be a better result for the Accipiter striatus image in the test data here, as I could move it into its own list entry. I'm unlikely to be able to re-arrange anything based on what I did with the previous image, so any images that I couldn't match by either the HTML comment or the caption would stay where they were at the head of the list. -- John of Reading ( talk) 18:40, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
@
Abyssal: I copied
List of the Cenozoic life of Alabama to
User:John of Reading/X3 and made an AWB-assisted edit there. The first defect is that
Argyrotheca and a few others are coded as Image:
not File:
, and I didn't think to check for that, so didn't try to move them. I'll add a preliminary step to switch them all to say File:
. Otherwise, it worked fairly well - I managed to move all but eight of the images. I've labelled those eight with an HTML comment <!-- stationary -->
so that you can find them easily.
Is that close enough for you to do the rest of the work by hand? Would you like me to add the "stationary" comments when making the real edits? -- John of Reading ( talk) 09:48, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
Hey, John. Could the original image captioning operation be modified to work with the multiple image template found at the bottom of this section? Some portions of the lists are crowded now that the images are in position. I don't actually need it done very quickly because manually moving the unmoved images will take a while, but I need to know if it's at least feasible before I start relying on the template to tidy things up. Abyssal ( talk) 03:27, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
* {{multiple image <new innards>}} ''[[MatchMe]]''
and use that to update each entry in the list articles that looks like * {{multiple image <old innards>}} ''[[MatchMe]]''
. Is that what you have in mind? --
John of Reading (
talk)
08:37, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
[[File:MatchThisName.Ext| <old innards> ]] <!-- MatchThisComment [[MatchThisLink]] -->
and replaces the whole of the matched line. This has had the benefit of copying over your changes to the image sizes and positioning, as well as the captions. I don't know how to pick up only the caption using regular expressions, the only tool I know how to use. The caption doesn't necessarily come last, and the caption may contain embedded square brackets and sometimes more |
characters embedded in piped wikilinks and template calls. --
John of Reading (
talk)
20:57, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
| imageY =
or at the standard HTML comment that precedes it, and the last captionX ends at }} †''[[
, the list entry that follows the images [yes, the dagger is optional].captionN
field? Something like...*{{multiple image | width = <!-- displayed width of each image in pixels (an integer, omit "px" suffix); overrides "width[n]"s below --> <!--image 1--> | image1 = Bluefieldius fig-3-full-b.png | width1 = 220 | alt1 = | caption1 = Fossilized skeleton found in Mercer County; the holotype of the Carboniferous bony fish ''[[Bluefieldius]]''. Close-up view of the skull at right.<!-- [[Bluefieldius]]: Speciesbox --> <!--image 2--> | image2 = Bluefieldius fig-3-full-a.png | width2 = 165 | alt2 = | caption2 = <!-- [[Bluefieldius]]: lead section --> }} †''[[Bluefieldius]]''
@ Abyssal: OK. I have the method working, I think. I've added the HTML comments to the example at User:John of Reading/X3, and used those to copy in the matching new captions from User:John of Reading/X2. I haven't saved the edit, though, as I'm still testing.
But trying this out in the real articles, the only change that the new code wants to make is at Petalodus in List of the Paleozoic life of Alabama, where you've asked me to remove the extra square brackets. Are there other instances where I should have found a caption in a {{ multiple image}} that needs updating? -- John of Reading ( talk) 09:12, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
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Hello John of Reading, Early in A Child's Christmas in Wales the young Dylan and his friend Jim Prothero witness smoke pouring from Jim's home. After the conflagration has been extinguished Dylan writes that My thanks to you for your efforts to keep the 'pedia readable in case the firemen chose one of our articles :-) Best wishes to you and yours and happy editing in 2019. MarnetteD| Talk 01:56, 19 December 2018 (UTC) |
Hello John of Reading. I've seen that you've edited Help:IPA/Italian in the past, so I thought you could help me to understand a thing. Note 5 says: "the n in /nɡ/~/nk/ is a velar [ŋ], and the one in /nf/~/nv/ is the labiodental [ɱ]". I was wondering why in the symbol list does appear ŋ but ɱ doesn't, but I've read in the same note: "but for simplicity, ⟨m⟩ is used here". Why such a distinguo is made here? In Italian a nasal always assimilates to the following consonant, so ŋ can be found just before k and g while ɱ can be found just before f and v. If it's for simplicity, then also ŋ should be transcribed as n (since, unlike in other languages, in Italian this sound can't be found elsewhere). But this makes the transcription less accurate. Then, why doesn't ɱ have its own place in the list? It's weird to me such a different treatment... Could you enlighten me about this issue, please? Foniasin ( talk) 09:27, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
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Since you helped me link to Jimbo's more welcoming page about donations, I was hoping you could help with something related.
A couple of Help Desk questions were from people who had donated and were still getting the message that they should donate, and of course they were told no one has any way to know who donated and prevent those banners from appearing. The only way is to register for a username and add that to their preferences.
I looked at WP:FAQ and didn't see anyplace to put that type of information.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 23:00, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
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Hi John,
' but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source, so I removed it.'.....the reliable source is myself watching the repeat today of 'The Chaser: Celebrity Special' episode where all this happened. (shown as Series 5, Episode 8 in my TV guide) The programme originally aired in 2015, I think.
As the entire prize money on this show all went to 4 charities, it should probably also be under Charity Work rather than the existing 'Reality television' heading.
195.147.32.238 ( talk) 21:52, 16 January 2019 (UTC) Frank
Hi, John! Thank you so much for fixing that! Since you seem to know your way around, could you maybe have a look at this issue some time? Unfortunately, I didn't get any comments neither on HD nor at VP. Thanks in advance for any support! Best wishes-- Hildeoc ( talk) 13:59, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
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Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 17:41, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
This is incorrect. H is prefaced by an because it is an aspirant. Hence an Henschel, not a Henschel. MarkRS53 ( talk) 05:10, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
What can I say, English grammar is going to hell! The question is, do we go with the majority or the authority? MarkRS53 ( talk) 05:02, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
FYI, Dabmaster8 is still adding maps to city articles in many states. This person hasn't responded to your comment or my comment. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 05:36, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
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Thanks for being so helpful everywhere! Elfabet ( talk) 19:05, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi, although I would write "a eutherian", because I now pronounce the "eu" as the word "you", the problem is that those who speak other dialects of English don't. Those that pronounce the "eu" as the "oo" in "boo" (as I did when was younger and still spoke with the local accent) naturally and correctly write "an eutherian". In plant articles we have this problem endlessly with "a/an herb..." It seems to me that the advice at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Plants#"A" or "an" with "herb..." applies here too; rather than changing "an" to "a" (which will inevitably later be reversed), re-word to avoid the indefinite article. Peter coxhead ( talk) 14:19, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
eu-
prefix. The
Eutheria article begins with its IPA pronunciation, and both
Oxford Dictionaries (UK) and
Merriam-Webster (US) agree.
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— Preceding unsigned comment added by SighV3TO ( talk • contribs) 18:26, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
@John_of_Reading. You're welcome. You deserve it. -SighV3TO
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For continuing to clean up my grammar and spelling mistakes many thanks.-- Navops47 ( talk) 07:19, 27 February 2019 (UTC) |
Hi: Apologies in advance if I'm not submitting this query properly. There is a book currently being used as a source on both the Jack Pickford and Olive Thomas pages: Stardust and Shadows Canadians in Early Hollywood by Charles Foster. This book does not use sources (no footnotes, endnotes, nothing) for its information and has been called out by others for appearing to mix fact with fiction and to repeat many of the rumours that circulated in the tabloids at the time in Hollywood. When mentioning Olive Thomas' death, the entry on Jack's page currently reads: "She was intoxicated and tired, and took a large dose of mercury bichloride, prescribed to topically treat sores caused by Pickford's chronic syphilis." On Olive's page, it currently reads: "An intoxicated and tired Thomas ingested mercury bichloride liquid solution. It had been prescribed to Pickford to topically treat sores caused by his chronic syphilis." Both use Foster's book as a source. There has never been any confirmation of Jack having this disease so at least the entries should include "rumoured to have been prescribe." Could this please be fixed? The last time I tried (a few years ago), I was told I couldn't change it because of the Foster book being used as a source. Thanks for your help! Madcapheiress25 ( talk) 21:08, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
According to Charles Foster, ... [14] but this has been disputed.[15]Then readers will be aware of the conflicting sources and can look at the reference section to decide on their relative worth. -- John of Reading ( talk) 07:45, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for fixing the typo!
Ridebuilder5 ( talk) 14:51, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Frank_Stamp&oldid=877446844 – Talk about confusing ( talk) 10:38, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi @ John of Reading:, I noticed your edit to Hollywood Presbyterian and was wondering if you could explain to me the change to state's and hospital's? I can't see the difference between what was there before and what you changed it to, and it's driving me nuts. :) Schazjmd ( talk) 21:59, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
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to a straight apostrophe '
. This is recommended by the Wikipedia manual of style at
MOS:PUNCT. I wouldn't bother saving an edit where that was the only change, but if I am fixing a "real" spelling mistake in an article, I allow
AutoWikiBrowser to make those tiny changes at the same time. --
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Thank you for the help with my bot and fixing its edits! DannyS712 ( talk) 09:34, 21 March 2019 (UTC) |
I have re-looked at my Crockfords. He went to both!
Magdalene College Cambridge BA 1989 Magdalen College Oxford MA 1990 Crockford's on-line
Bashereyre Bashereyre ( talk) 18:56, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Wikipedia_talk:Tutorial#Headings.
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Hi there, its me again. You said i can sent you another call for help. Can you have a look at my new article? Thanks -- Tronje07 ( talk) 13:01, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello, John. I'm happy to say that I've nearly prepared those lists of prehistoric life by US state for more attention from you. I expect to finish sometime early next week. Will you have time to help me out again with these? Abyssal ( talk) 16:52, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
You seem to have been the main contributor for the Lincrusta page. I have two images of a rare example of Lincrusta wall art that was found behind a mirror above the fireplace in my house when I renovated. I have no idea how to upload them in an edit. I tried twice and the system said it couldn't verify that the images were 'mine'. They are. Most of the examples of this type of Lincrusta were destroyed in renovations. My house was built custom in 1920, and there's a good chance that it's been there since then, or shortly thereafter. I will try to attach them here, but have no idea if it will work. They are located in a private home in Bellevue, Pennsylvania. And even though it totally altered my living room plans, I didn't have the heart to destroy it. This may be one of the only examples of Lincrusta as wall art that exists. I tried attaching and the system won't accept. How can I get them to you?
William in Bellevue — Preceding unsigned comment added by Timoria63 ( talk • contribs) 00:25, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi John of Reading, many thanks for your cleaning up of the typos I leave behind. After one of your catches I usually take the opportunity to recheck the articles further. I often find other typos (I am pretty good at making them), or opportunities to update things, introduce templates, etc. Bit by bit the articles and WP get better. Regards, Acad Ronin ( talk) 18:53, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Portal:Freedom of The Press. Since you had some involvement with the Portal:Freedom of The Press redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. UnitedStatesian ( talk) 02:12, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi John of Reading -- back in 2015 your bot converted many portals to use a mobile-compatible format. This worked ok on my two portals, but appears to have broken others such that they are permanently single column. I'm trying to understand what happened to Portal:Amusement parks, so that I can set it back to the intended two-column style. I and others have tried various things but to no avail, so I wonder if you could troubleshoot? Espresso Addict ( talk) 14:32, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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Hello,
I had edited the 1826 page with the dissapearance of William Morgan. I'm not that skilled at the technical aspect of editing.
/info/en/?search=William_Morgan_(anti-Mason) This is the page of William Morgan (anti-Mason)
This is the source of his dissapearance.
Regards.
Repentingjudas — Preceding unsigned comment added by Repentingjudas ( talk • contribs) 21:11, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
if i do not know how to say a certain word or word in english, then is it allowed to help yourself in using google translate? i know that some websites are against rules, is that so? (i'm really right now so if there is no permission then please avoid punishment. Atlantic Channel ( talk) 21:25, 17 May 2019 (UTC)