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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. GnGn ( talk) 11:29, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
Your attention to the articles is much appreciated; I was curious about the flagicons though, what difference does flagu make? Keith-264 ( talk) 14:09, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
{{flag|England}} displays as England; {{flagu|England}} displays as England
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On 13 April 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Invader (artist), which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Invader's cousin is Mr. Brainwash? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Invader (artist). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
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Good job on the removal of Flag Icons across the project. JOJ Hutton 23:30, 13 April 2014 (UTC) |
The article Olympus scandal you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Olympus scandal for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of LT910001 -- LT910001 ( talk) 11:01, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello. Re this edit: perhaps you could tell your script that "centre half" isn't hyphenated, according to the Oxford Dictionaries. cheers, Struway2 ( talk) 14:35, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
Hey, Ohconfucius. I'm having trouble getting your scripts to work; actually no scripts are working for me right now. If you have a minute, would you mind taking a look? GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 17:24, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
importScript('User:Ohconfucius/script/EngvarB.js'); //[[User:Ohconfucius/script/EngvarB.js]] importScript('User:Ohconfucius/script/MOSNUM dates.js'); // User:Ohconfucius/script/MOSNUM dates.js
importScript("User:GabeMc/vector.js");
" (without the quote marks). It might just do the trick. --
Ohc
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03:12, 30 April 2014 (UTC)I've noticed two instances now where "practicing" is changed to "practiising" - like here (search it). Radiopathy •talk• 03:18, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
The arbitration clarification request, either involving you, or in which you participated (Rich Farmbrough) has resulted in a clarification motion by the Arbitration Committee
The Clarification can be found at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Rich_Farmbrough#Clarifications_by_motion and the complete discussion can be found at Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Rich_Farmbrough#Clarification_request:_Rich_Farmbrough_.28April_2014.29 For the Arbitration Committee,-- S Philbrick (Talk) 16:29, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
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Just a courtesy heads-up, on Aalen and your changes. Whereas, I probably wiki too much, some of the changes you made IMHO, probably should not have been made. Baseball and volleyball are both no-brainers for US editors and most western editors and users; however there are many out there that may wish a wikilink on those. Thanks for cleaning up my litter, I am trying to be a little more tight on my editing, but sometimes I forget what some of the finer things are. speednat ( talk) 05:28, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
I really should not spend so much time on the tedium of cleaning up citations ... but there are so many screwy things with the citations on this article, I felt I should just leap in, where angels fear to tread! It does not help, of course, that there is confusion between the Ministry of Transport and Department of Civil Aviation in Malaysia ... they seem to be interchangeable at times. I suspect the Civil Aviation Ministry is part of the Ministry of Transport, who knows? Anyway, I found one press release that started out on one ministry site, disappeared and reappeared on the other ministry site. I guess this is an example of the kind of confusion that the Chinese relatives are complaining about... Enquire ( talk) 15:28, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
While I appreciate your trying to improve this article, many of the edits you made were unnecessary or flat-out wrong. There is no point, for instance, in reversing the order of listing "|publisher=" and "|work=" in the citation template; where they are listed in the resulting citation isn't relevant to where they are listed in the template. You also were inconsistent with your changes; at times, when both "publisher" and "work" were present, you listed "publisher" first, at other times, you listed "work" first.
You also assigned names to references that were used only once in the article, including a reference that is a dead link with no archive available. This is a waste of time and bytes; if the references wind up being used elsewhere, that is the time to give them names, not before.
Additionally, you deleted valid information in the citations. For example, you changed:
You removed correct information: "publisher=The Washington Post". If anything, "work=Virginia Tech Shootings" is incorrect, as that is not the name of the newspaper/website, but of a series of stories it ran. I saw no other way to include that "subhead" in the template, but I'm still learning about how best to populate the various fields.
The script also converted "[[Engineering science and mechanics|Engineering Science and Mechanics]]" to "[[Engineering science and mechanics]]", rather than the correct "[[Engineering Science and Mechanics]]".
Please have a look at why your script made some of these changes and see if you can correct it. What took you only a few minutes to do will take me many more to correct. Thank you.— D'Ranged 1 talk 08:52, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
I'm pleased to see that you have sided with the conclusion of the Vietnam geonames RfC, even having abstained on the original RfC, it's worth more to have a sensible moderate voice say things. BTW in passing (the thanks was the reason for coming) re "the Cyrillic alphabet because it isn't Roman (and there have been no end of argument over Novak Djokovic)" - indeed, although I think everyone accepts the "Dj" exception for this Đoković, and his brother, as a special case. But as Serbia moves further away from Tito-era Cyrillic and into tabloid Latinica (i.e. Croatian, but don't you dare say I said that) one can expect the 1912 era throwback "Dj" to totally disappear for Serbians traveling abroad and follow those who already pack Belgrade tabloid Đ in their kitbag; the timeline on Novak Djokovic's retirement and Wimbledon investing in non-wooden scoreboards being 5 or more years off. So that article a non-issue, we hope. Thanks again. In ictu oculi ( talk) 03:15, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
Hello Ohconfucius. Following an amendment request you submitted, as of 11:36, 7 May 2014 (UTC) the Arbitration Committee has resolved that:
The Committee resolves that remedy 2 (Ohconfucius topic-banned) in the Falun Gong 2 arbitration case is suspended for the period of one year from the date of passage of this motion. During the period of suspension, any uninvolved administrator may, as an arbitration enforcement action, reinstate the topic ban on Ohconfucius should Ohconfucius fail to follow Wikipedia behavior and editing standards while editing in the topic area covered by the suspended restriction. In addition, the topic ban will be reinstated should Ohconfucius be validly blocked by any uninvolved administrator for misconduct in the topic area covered by the suspended restriction. Such a reinstatement may be appealed via the normal process for appealing arbitration enforcement actions. After one year from the date of passage of this motion, if the ban has not been reinstated or any reinstatements have been successfully appealed, the topic ban will be repealed.
For the Arbitration Committee, Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 11:49, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
So back in February 2013 your script changed the ENGVAR of Lolita from American English to British English. This is incorrect, per WP:TIES, as the novel was written in the US by a naturalized American citizen and is set entirely in the US. More importantly, the ENGVAR or the article was established in AmEng before you changed it, incorrect per WP:RETAIN. Others have brought the issue up on the talk page, but I think, as the one to make the initial change, that you should reverse it. oknazevad ( talk) 23:33, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
Hello Ohconfucious, a moment of your time please. You said we shouldn't run this on the front page. It is claimed that, since you added your opinion, the article is seriously improved. I would like to ask you to revisit the discussion and, at the bottom, (briefly) state if you are still opposed. It is a matter of some contention, to put it mildly. Thanks in advance, Drmies ( talk) 22:14, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
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[ here] you bot replaced "http://parovoz.com/library/ria.08.02.96.html" to "http://parovoz.com/library/ria.8 February 1996.html". it seems to be a bug.
Please stop removing the nationalities from the squad lists. There is no consensus for your changes, and they will be reverted shortly. The matter has also been raised at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football. Thanks, Number 5 7 08:11, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
I do need to apologize for the way that my edit sounded and looked on the Albert Einstein Talk Page. I didn't mean to make it sound so course. I had wanted to soften it up a bit originally but I forgot to do so, with all the other things I was trying to convey in that post. I really do commend your efforts to try and not change MDY to DMY. I agree that any article with strong ties to the English speaking countries of the UK, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, and others should use DMY, but on the other hand, the articles with the stronger ties to the English speaking countries of the United States and Canada (per MOS), should use MDY. Cheers and have a great day.-- JOJ Hutton 02:17, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
To recap: the films whose articles I put to dmy were in line with how I and a few others would define a film's nationality. While some editors in Wikipedia would hold fast in defining Aliens as an American film because of the studio, it is almost invariably referred to as "Ridley Scott's Aliens" and oftentimes referred to British. By the same notion, I may class Quartet as an "American film" because the director is thoroughly American, but it may be classed as a "British production" overall because of the studio. Am I the only one bothered that some Alfred Hitchcock films are classed as British whilst others American? Your refactored comment that my behaviour has "improved" implies I was perhaps trying to make a point but was stopped by public condemnation. In truth, it is because I participated in the relevant discussion, and I yielded to consensus. -- Ohc ¡digame! 02:44, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
The article Demerara rebellion of 1823 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Demerara rebellion of 1823 for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Hchc2009 -- Hchc2009 ( talk) 06:21, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi, take a look at Ann Heberlein. A article I created a few days ago. Thanks-- BabbaQ ( talk) 21:36, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
I can simply remove the Hong Kong's note, if that is your main issue, and add more about the mainland China. I don't really think that your opinion is incorrect, we do treat Hong Kong to be different than China, for example, we do have Human trafficking in Hong Kong and Human trafficking in the People's Republic of China. OccultZone ( Talk) 07:32, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
A longer section about the history of kidnapping would be good if you can find more information; the mention of studies is too brief and these can be used to greater effect. I'd also suggest that you have a separate part of the introduction that analyses/segments the different types of kidnapping motive, such as outright child abduction, commercial kidnapping, blackmail/ransom. -- Ohc ¡digame! 08:20, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
The Crackdown section could do with expansion, and I would like to see more than arrest figures. Any information on how these gangs operate would be of interest to the article. To substantiate the efforts at combating kidnapping, perhaps you could elaborate on any efforts taken against adoption agencies operating in this sector. -- Ohc ¡digame! 03:00, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
I undid your recent edits to List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation because what it was changed too doesn't make sense. I get that MOS:Flag argument and don't disagree with the concept of your changes just the final result. I was actually wondering if you could modify the script (easily) such that it just removes the flag from all places it appears on List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation. I believe that would be better but making the changes manually would be unfun. Just one more person complaining about your removing flags. XFEM Skier ( talk) 15:46, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
First, if you know anything current about Soka Gakkai, that article and related articles have been a bit of a battleground for some time now, and I think that more eyes would definitely be useful. Also, FWIW, now that you can edit FG again, (editorial comment begins) like you always should have been able to do (editorial comment ends), it might be worth while to look over msybe asking for some accounts from Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library. I know that WorldCat says there was an All about Falun Gong published in Delhi a few years ago available on one databank, and a few others listed on WorldCat as well. I've asked that the Delhi site be contacted to maybe give some free accounts, and if it can the information from it might be useful. I am more or less retired from wikipedia right now because of making more efforts on lists of articles in reference works and working on wikisource, but am more than willing to at least see if I can get any sources you can't at request. John Carter ( talk) 16:18, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for your "thanks" concerning to the Turkish Airlines destinations, as I've also received from Jetstreamer, though it was my mistake to make again the links for the countries (this is because I publish in Portuguese, Spanish and Italian Wikipedias too (mainly) and there the rules are a bit different). I have an updated map about the Turkish Airlines destinations too, in the articles of 10 wikipedias. And I noticed, with 1 week of delay, that Benghazi was suspended, not from Wikipedia, but from other media (The Young Turks channel of Youtube, to be honest) that all the airspace over Benghazi was a no-flight zone now! And I confirmed by checking the Turkish Airlines sources (including flight info from Atatürk Airport). By the way, according to the sources, the Benghazi Airport article is not updated. I thank any advice from you about further updates about the Benghazi Airport and other destinations from Turkish Airlines (or from TAP Portugal that I also update usually), so I can be more efficient about its updates. Mondolkiri1 ( talk) 02:37, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
can you help me to get GA nomination on Johor Darul Takzim F.C. article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pakcikfarhan ( talk • contribs) 04:27, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
HI. Can you point to where the convention is that clubs should be referred to as "F.A." or "F.C." as opposed to FA or FC? I cannot find one and the Manual of Style seems to prefer FC. Fenix down ( talk) 09:21, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi Ohconfucius. I'm aware of some tussle going on about flagicons; everyone, including you, would be wise to give it a breather for a little while. It's difficult to know what to do about it when an editor who clearly does speak English utterly refuses to engage with others who have seen fit to revert his/her edits. I see you've made considerable efforts on that user's talkpage to discuss the matter; it's because of his/her failure to respond and explain over many days that I've posted a 3RR template there. Tony (talk) 16:53, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
hi ohcofucius... i know you wanna help to improve about malaysian football pages but you must understand most club in the malaysia did not have official website... so wikipedia only source information to malaysia football fans... i hope u can stop delete about managerial staff.. about the flag icon i did not understand why u wanna to remove it? if u see MUFC they do the same thing. i hope understand why i always reverts the pages.. Bangface ( talk) 17:45, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article LS3/5A you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Jamesx12345 -- Jamesx12345 ( talk) 20:21, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
I notice you have taken the flag icons out of the Peterborough page. What was the thinking behind doing this? RoyalBlueStuey ( talk) 08:06, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
Some editors obviously feel strongly attached to those pretty icons, and would point to their pervasiveness in other football clubs' articles. I do not believe that in itself justifies us continuing to tolerate breaches to our guidelines to the point of them being flagrant. I notice that someone has restored the flags for the players as some sort of compromise. It's something I could live with in the short term because I am not out to create conflict, but I feel editors need to come up with better rationale and agree to sensible use harmonised across the project. -- Ohc ¡digame! 08:31, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Yamaha NS-10 you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Viriditas -- Viriditas ( talk) 01:21, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
Sir, I am obliged to bring this to your attention: [3] -- TheSoundAndTheFury ( talk) 00:43, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
Please take a look at Battle of the elms when you get time for it.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 14:09, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
Please consider making a response at WP:ARCA#Amendment request: Falun Gong 2. At least one of the diffs provided by TheSoundAndTheFury puts you in a bad light. If you continue to edit but make no response, you seem to be confirming that your behavior was correct, which I find hard to justify. Thank you, EdJohnston ( talk) 17:42, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
Have you considered asking for a temporary suspension of the case, and not editing until you are able to return to it? — Neotarf ( talk) 19:02, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
As a side note, if you are interested in China topics, you may also be interested in the recent (June 2) NYT article (apologies in advance for the length of the quote, the bolding is mine): [unfree content redacted - see Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2014 June 10]
Regards, — Neotarf ( talk) 19:02, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi ohc, I have a quick favour to ask you. Is it alright to ask that the date format for " Tiananmen Square protests of 1989" to be changed to “m-d-y” rather than the current “d-m-y”? The reason I ask is because in almost all the literature I have read, including SCMP, NYT, and the Economist, the date format used to this event is “June 4” instead of “4 June”. Date auto formatting makes the format inconsistent with the way it is commonly rendered. Moreover it creates awkward phrases such as the “26 April Editorial” in the article body when the standalone article title is “April 26 editorial”. Please let me know, Colipon+( Talk) 20:28, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Stefan2 ( talk) 13:44, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
How is it that you get the authority to solely decide who is the culprit in initiating an edit war? The section in question was there on 16th Lok Sabha for a long time. It was User:Iryna Harpy who performed the reverting edit without even opening any discussion on the talk page of the 16th Lok Sabha article. If anyone is initiating an edit war, it is Iryna Harpy (and it seems really strange that you got to know about this event so soon, even though she does not seem to have left any message on your talk page).
Any so-called consensus that may have been reached on the talk page of the Indian general election, 2014 article's talk page does not automatically apply to other articles. If you have some problem with any content being displayed (or not being displayed) on the 16th Lok Sabha article, please discuss it on Talk:16th Lok Sabha. -- EngineeringGuy ( talk) 01:51, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
Please do not change lakhs and crores into hundred-thousands or m/b/trillions on India-related articles. The former are perfectly accepted in Indian English, which is what these articles are written in. An India-related number in m/b/trillions (Rs. 27 billion) is largely indecipherable to the Indian reader and forces him to convert mentally into lakhs and crores.— indopug ( talk) 03:16, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
Just realised that we have a MoS guideline on the matter: "Use the Indian numbering system of lakhs and crores. Give their equivalents in millions/billions in parentheses. For monetary figures, use the Indian numbering system but also give their US dollar equivalents in parentheses."— indopug ( talk) 04:50, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
There's nothing counter-intuitive about "western" notation of millions, billions, trillions... zeros are regularly grouped, in threes; separators in Indian numbers are not regular. For those like me who are familiar, it's one of the easiest conversions to do, easier than lakh alone or crore alone; but most others seeing "Rs 1.76 lakh crores" will do a triple take, and still say "WTF?". They have to look up lakh and then crore, and then count the combined zeros. Don't get me talking about those Indian commas that follow your lakh/crore numbering convention – those are definitely not allowed here, however hard it is for you folk to convert. Wikipedia doesn't revolve around Indian readers even if the subject is Indian. If you can cope with the notion of $1 billion, you can cope with Rs. 1 billion.
And just why wouldn't we have "11 September terrorist attacks" in a British English article? It's perfectly natural; the Americans don't have a monopoly on date formats. ;-) -- Ohc ¡digame! 01:27, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I suggested a new structure in the talk page of the article. Please tell us your idea. Thanks.-- Seyyed( t- c) 06:18, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
Every matches of hockey coverage are split by a horizontal line and you remove it, also remove is nations that player representing, we will revert your edit and making necessary changes. Advice also that you don't make blind edit. Thank you. -- Aleen f1 14:38, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
Hello Ohconfucius, I noteced you had been removing flag icons recently from several national basketball tems in similar edits such as this one. I do not agree at all that flags should be removed from the club rosters indicating the country the club is from per WP:WORDPRECEDENT. Do you have a consensus for the removal? FkpCascais ( talk) 04:25, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
PLEASE STOP DELETING CONTENT JUST BECAUSE YOU DO NOT LIKE IT. If you do not agree, why don't you just go ahead and remove all soccer (football) flag icons at the football national team sites?
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When I saw your original message, I thought you were taking issue with one removal that I have since reinstated – one or two similar ones may have escaped. Looking at those articles you reverted, I see many flag icons used purely decoratively, that is to say a flag " does not improve comprehension of the article subject and serves no navigational function". In the context of national team articles, clearly the only nationality of importance or relevance is of the country whose team it is. Nationalities may in addition be relevant in tables where other national teams are involved. Of course, coaches' and chairmen's nationalities are of no relevance whatsoever – there seems to be no disagreement on this point, yet flags have multiplied in sporting articles against coaches' and chairmen's names too, like mushrooms after a rainstorm. The way flags have been used here as you insist seemed unclear or contrived, and far removed from indicating " representative nationality". Players are naturally employed by a club based in one country or another. There seems to be little connection between the national team and the nationality of the club to which the individual player is signed. No such league club can be said to represent the country, or at least no such valid connection that would perhaps justify use of the flags has been demonstrated in the article. As such even mentioning or displaying the country in the article appears unnecessary; borderline encyclopaedic. Guidelines are applicable to all articles across all project spaces, and there is no opt-out for such global consensus nor can it be trumped by an individual project. -- Ohc ¡digame! 02:42, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
Club nationality is a fact that is almost never relevant, except for the club concerned. The assertion that "Clubs represent leagues they play in, and leagues are directly linked with countries" is rather contrived. Yes, clubs form part of a country's league, but they rarely "represent" the country. The contrived argument akin to saying "[Sportsman] endorses [Volvo], and [Volvo] is a Swedish company owned by the [Chinese], so the fact that [Sportsman] works for the [Chinese] is relevant to the article about [Sportsman's] national football team". But assuming that even if one wishes to find out in which country Leo Messi's current club is based, it's more effective for the reader to click on the club link, than rely on a flag icon that you can click on or hover over. Anyone interested in the specifics would go directly to that club's article (and avoid the largely irrelevant country that the flag points to). Only they would not need to play at "know your flag". -- Ohc ¡digame! 09:36, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
Your module is working anymore? I had never used it before, and let me know if you can make it work. Thanks OccultZone ( Talk • Contributions • Log) 08:21, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
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Simply completely deleting a paragraph without any replacement doesn't count as "simplify" for me. Are you also on the payroll?-- Kulandru mor ( talk) 06:51, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
Ohc: yes, you should not "play at silly buggers". Which includes calling others' logic and arguments "absurd". Now please note: I would not bother commenting here if I thought you were in anyway malicious, a useless jerk, or a total idiot. But please also consider that some of your comments are, indeed, "ill-judged". Your bandying about of "absurd", for one thing, and also your summarization that "JJ thinks his argument is perfect...." As to the latter, no, I don't think my argument is "perfect". I do think that your understanding of my argument is faulty, but certainly that is correctable. As correcting this would greatly facilitate the discussion at OVERLINK (which you seem inclined to continue), I ask: would it be worthwhile to attempt this? I think I could explain reductio ad absurdum to your satisfaction, but should I? Would you attend? ~ J. Johnson (JJ) ( talk) 23:54, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
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Thousands of pages have been changed with your scripts. I liked that you are well dedicated and you never give up. Thanks a lot! Hope to see more innovations from you. OccultZone ( Talk • Contributions • Log) 09:39, 29 June 2014 (UTC) |
Hi, would you mind not doing your delinking efforts on the OTD pages? Some of theme are fine, but for others you're introducing redirects where they're not necessary, and you're also removing links that are customary to have. For example, Second World War redirects to World War II, so there was no need to remove the piped link, and July 3 should be linked, even though we don't normally do that in article pages. Thanks. — howcheng { chat} 17:05, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
The article LS3/5A you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:LS3/5A for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Jamesx12345 -- Jamesx12345 ( talk) 21:42, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi there. I notice you've made a number of edits using a script to articles about national roller derby teams, including removing color boxes from infoboxes, and I'm wondering if you can point me to the policy that suggests doing that, since I can't find it. I note that articles on national men's hockey teams, such as Canada men's national ice hockey team - not to pull a WP:OTHERSTUFF but I imagine those articles are more heavily viewed, and certainly if this was a breach of style they would have been removed there, too, no? You've also changed date formats per MOS, even though MOS clearly states that the existing format (month date year) is acceptable, and given that a) these articles include teams for nations where the original format is preferred and b) the sport as a whole may be of greater interest within North American than without, I wanted to check in for clarifications from you before I reverted some of these edits. I can see the removal of linking country names (while I guess that people should be able to understand what Canada is, for example, I'm not sure I agree with it but I could see MOS applying there) and certainly fixing the dashes. Echoedmyron ( talk) 15:29, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi, could you amend your script to take note of when {{bots|deny=Citation bot}} is used in an article? This change swapped some {{ citation}} templates to {{ cite book}}, though this is not often an issue, when Harvard templates are being used in footnotes, if these supplementary references are included, then most editors would be confused as to why the automated links would fail to work. For this reason, when consistently using Harvard style, I would prefer all citations stick to the standard citation template rather than the derivatives that do not support this cross-linking functionality. I'll swap them back for the moment, feel free to discuss on the article talk page if you feel there is some guideline that needs to be reviewed. Thanks -- Fæ ( talk) 12:52, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
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I'm afraid you've caught me in a work exhaustion-induced grump – eg this revert of your change – but you might want to be more careful with the changes you're making – eg this revert that another editor had to make recently at the same article. I'm not sure why you're delinking rock music, for instance, but you're then leaving behind an incorrect, capitalised "Rock" every time. JG66 ( talk) 14:20, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
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Thank you for your copyedits at Benjamín Galván Gómez's article. Glad to see you on my Watchlist. Happy editing! ComputerJA ( ☎ • ✎) 22:05, 4 July 2014 (UTC) |
Hello Ohconfucius. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of List of software that uses Subversion, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Apache Subversion has an article, and this is a list about applications that interact with it. To AfD? Thank you. Shirt58 ( talk) 09:32, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
Ohconfucius, thanks for your recent edit of the article on Bhaktivinoda Thakur. I noticed, however, that you've also converted it to the British spelling system. I find it slightly problematic, though, because (1) most, if not, all of the article's sources use American spelling, and (2) not implying any ownership, I happen to be the article's main contributor and am used to the American spelling system. With still a lot of work ahead, ensuring spelling consistency will now be an unnecessary challenge for me. Do you think this justifies my request to please help revert the article back to American spelling without undoing your many fine tweaks in it? Regards, Cinosaur ( talk) 13:04, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
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Hello. I noticed that this "Script-assisted" edit by you broke the ISBN of a reference by changing the hyphen character used. I've fixed this particular case but I suggest you look into what happened and see if there is anything you can change to try to stop it happening again. It doesn't seem to be a universal problem, similar edits like this and this didn't cause any issues with the ISBNs in those articles. TuxLibNit ( talk) 21:52, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
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Hi
I have just partly reverted your script-assisted edit to Theobald Jones.
Most of your changes were trivial, but one them was not: [[Member of Parliament|Members of Parliament]] (MPs)
→ members of parliament (MPs)
.
That was wrong on two accounts. First, "Member of Parliament" is a proper noun in this usage, because it is a specific job title. (See the UK Parliament's own website).
Secondly, the link is to the article about the position to which he was elected. It is a directly relevant link, and shoukd not have been unlinked.
Please amend your script to prevent this happening again, and fix any other such changes you have made. Thanks! -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 12:23, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
Just like you, [5] I've been delinking overlinked or unnecessary geolocations on persondata, now there was a discussion on my talk page. No idea that how we can ignore persondata or if you had any issues with delinking on persondata, you can inform me. Thanks OccultZone ( Talk • Contributions • Log) 18:55, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
There is an RfC now at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#RfC:_Should_Persondata_template_be_removed_from_articles.3F. Possibly, you won't need any change to your code. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:31, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Your recent edit caused display problems and an empty citation in Paddy Chew. This was the fix. Be careful out there. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 08:27, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
I reverted you recent edits on Singapore Math. Again. The change you are pursuing requires consensus. Please take it to the talk page. Thanks. danielkueh ( talk) 16:22, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
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I've noticed your GA nomination Knife attack on Kevin Lau, is above the article I nominated, Murder of Leigh Leigh, in the Law section of GA nominations. You're the first editor I have decided to contact regarding a quid pro quo. Don't want to wait another several months for someone to review your article? How about i'll start reviewing yours and you start reviewing mine? I am assuming that is allowed, please advise if you know if there is some kind of rule against that. If you're not interested/too busy to review an article, no worries, i'll just ask someone else. Just so there is full disclosure, I have only started reviewing my first GA nomination, another article nominated in the Law section: Talk:Ashley Smith inquest/GA1. I didn't contact the nominator of that article trying to arrange a exchange of review; I figured I should do at least one for free :). Let me know if you're interested in my proposal. Have a nice day. Freikorp ( talk) 13:41, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
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The "KISS" in the edit summary was not needed. I've always treated you in a respectul manner. I've reverted your edit. The site parameter in {{ infobox airliner accident}} is intended for "Accident/incident's location (e.g. placename, nearest city/town, country)".-- Jetstreamer Talk 10:20, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
Please do not remove flags from tables of victims in aircrash articles. These are specifically allowed per WP:MOSFLAG and are a standard way of displaying such information. Mjroots ( talk) 07:33, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello Ohconfuciius. Please note this [6]. I needed to revert your edit so I could reinstate a previous version of the article. You're kindly invited to make the edit again. Hope you understand. Thanks.-- Jetstreamer Talk 15:01, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. GnGn ( talk) 11:29, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
Your attention to the articles is much appreciated; I was curious about the flagicons though, what difference does flagu make? Keith-264 ( talk) 14:09, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
{{flag|England}} displays as England; {{flagu|England}} displays as England
This edit broke a |doi=
value by replacing a hyphen with a dash. It also replaced a hyphen with a dash in an article title; the original title at the source appears to use a hyphen. Can you please adjust your script to avoid that error in the future? Thanks! –
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17:32, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
On 13 April 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Invader (artist), which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Invader's cousin is Mr. Brainwash? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Invader (artist). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
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Good job on the removal of Flag Icons across the project. JOJ Hutton 23:30, 13 April 2014 (UTC) |
The article Olympus scandal you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Olympus scandal for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of LT910001 -- LT910001 ( talk) 11:01, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello. Re this edit: perhaps you could tell your script that "centre half" isn't hyphenated, according to the Oxford Dictionaries. cheers, Struway2 ( talk) 14:35, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
Hey, Ohconfucius. I'm having trouble getting your scripts to work; actually no scripts are working for me right now. If you have a minute, would you mind taking a look? GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 17:24, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
importScript('User:Ohconfucius/script/EngvarB.js'); //[[User:Ohconfucius/script/EngvarB.js]] importScript('User:Ohconfucius/script/MOSNUM dates.js'); // User:Ohconfucius/script/MOSNUM dates.js
importScript("User:GabeMc/vector.js");
" (without the quote marks). It might just do the trick. --
Ohc
¡digame!
03:12, 30 April 2014 (UTC)I've noticed two instances now where "practicing" is changed to "practiising" - like here (search it). Radiopathy •talk• 03:18, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
The arbitration clarification request, either involving you, or in which you participated (Rich Farmbrough) has resulted in a clarification motion by the Arbitration Committee
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Just a courtesy heads-up, on Aalen and your changes. Whereas, I probably wiki too much, some of the changes you made IMHO, probably should not have been made. Baseball and volleyball are both no-brainers for US editors and most western editors and users; however there are many out there that may wish a wikilink on those. Thanks for cleaning up my litter, I am trying to be a little more tight on my editing, but sometimes I forget what some of the finer things are. speednat ( talk) 05:28, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
I really should not spend so much time on the tedium of cleaning up citations ... but there are so many screwy things with the citations on this article, I felt I should just leap in, where angels fear to tread! It does not help, of course, that there is confusion between the Ministry of Transport and Department of Civil Aviation in Malaysia ... they seem to be interchangeable at times. I suspect the Civil Aviation Ministry is part of the Ministry of Transport, who knows? Anyway, I found one press release that started out on one ministry site, disappeared and reappeared on the other ministry site. I guess this is an example of the kind of confusion that the Chinese relatives are complaining about... Enquire ( talk) 15:28, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
While I appreciate your trying to improve this article, many of the edits you made were unnecessary or flat-out wrong. There is no point, for instance, in reversing the order of listing "|publisher=" and "|work=" in the citation template; where they are listed in the resulting citation isn't relevant to where they are listed in the template. You also were inconsistent with your changes; at times, when both "publisher" and "work" were present, you listed "publisher" first, at other times, you listed "work" first.
You also assigned names to references that were used only once in the article, including a reference that is a dead link with no archive available. This is a waste of time and bytes; if the references wind up being used elsewhere, that is the time to give them names, not before.
Additionally, you deleted valid information in the citations. For example, you changed:
You removed correct information: "publisher=The Washington Post". If anything, "work=Virginia Tech Shootings" is incorrect, as that is not the name of the newspaper/website, but of a series of stories it ran. I saw no other way to include that "subhead" in the template, but I'm still learning about how best to populate the various fields.
The script also converted "[[Engineering science and mechanics|Engineering Science and Mechanics]]" to "[[Engineering science and mechanics]]", rather than the correct "[[Engineering Science and Mechanics]]".
Please have a look at why your script made some of these changes and see if you can correct it. What took you only a few minutes to do will take me many more to correct. Thank you.— D'Ranged 1 talk 08:52, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
I'm pleased to see that you have sided with the conclusion of the Vietnam geonames RfC, even having abstained on the original RfC, it's worth more to have a sensible moderate voice say things. BTW in passing (the thanks was the reason for coming) re "the Cyrillic alphabet because it isn't Roman (and there have been no end of argument over Novak Djokovic)" - indeed, although I think everyone accepts the "Dj" exception for this Đoković, and his brother, as a special case. But as Serbia moves further away from Tito-era Cyrillic and into tabloid Latinica (i.e. Croatian, but don't you dare say I said that) one can expect the 1912 era throwback "Dj" to totally disappear for Serbians traveling abroad and follow those who already pack Belgrade tabloid Đ in their kitbag; the timeline on Novak Djokovic's retirement and Wimbledon investing in non-wooden scoreboards being 5 or more years off. So that article a non-issue, we hope. Thanks again. In ictu oculi ( talk) 03:15, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
Hello Ohconfucius. Following an amendment request you submitted, as of 11:36, 7 May 2014 (UTC) the Arbitration Committee has resolved that:
The Committee resolves that remedy 2 (Ohconfucius topic-banned) in the Falun Gong 2 arbitration case is suspended for the period of one year from the date of passage of this motion. During the period of suspension, any uninvolved administrator may, as an arbitration enforcement action, reinstate the topic ban on Ohconfucius should Ohconfucius fail to follow Wikipedia behavior and editing standards while editing in the topic area covered by the suspended restriction. In addition, the topic ban will be reinstated should Ohconfucius be validly blocked by any uninvolved administrator for misconduct in the topic area covered by the suspended restriction. Such a reinstatement may be appealed via the normal process for appealing arbitration enforcement actions. After one year from the date of passage of this motion, if the ban has not been reinstated or any reinstatements have been successfully appealed, the topic ban will be repealed.
For the Arbitration Committee, Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 11:49, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
So back in February 2013 your script changed the ENGVAR of Lolita from American English to British English. This is incorrect, per WP:TIES, as the novel was written in the US by a naturalized American citizen and is set entirely in the US. More importantly, the ENGVAR or the article was established in AmEng before you changed it, incorrect per WP:RETAIN. Others have brought the issue up on the talk page, but I think, as the one to make the initial change, that you should reverse it. oknazevad ( talk) 23:33, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
Hello Ohconfucious, a moment of your time please. You said we shouldn't run this on the front page. It is claimed that, since you added your opinion, the article is seriously improved. I would like to ask you to revisit the discussion and, at the bottom, (briefly) state if you are still opposed. It is a matter of some contention, to put it mildly. Thanks in advance, Drmies ( talk) 22:14, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
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[ here] you bot replaced "http://parovoz.com/library/ria.08.02.96.html" to "http://parovoz.com/library/ria.8 February 1996.html". it seems to be a bug.
Please stop removing the nationalities from the squad lists. There is no consensus for your changes, and they will be reverted shortly. The matter has also been raised at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football. Thanks, Number 5 7 08:11, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
I do need to apologize for the way that my edit sounded and looked on the Albert Einstein Talk Page. I didn't mean to make it sound so course. I had wanted to soften it up a bit originally but I forgot to do so, with all the other things I was trying to convey in that post. I really do commend your efforts to try and not change MDY to DMY. I agree that any article with strong ties to the English speaking countries of the UK, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, and others should use DMY, but on the other hand, the articles with the stronger ties to the English speaking countries of the United States and Canada (per MOS), should use MDY. Cheers and have a great day.-- JOJ Hutton 02:17, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
To recap: the films whose articles I put to dmy were in line with how I and a few others would define a film's nationality. While some editors in Wikipedia would hold fast in defining Aliens as an American film because of the studio, it is almost invariably referred to as "Ridley Scott's Aliens" and oftentimes referred to British. By the same notion, I may class Quartet as an "American film" because the director is thoroughly American, but it may be classed as a "British production" overall because of the studio. Am I the only one bothered that some Alfred Hitchcock films are classed as British whilst others American? Your refactored comment that my behaviour has "improved" implies I was perhaps trying to make a point but was stopped by public condemnation. In truth, it is because I participated in the relevant discussion, and I yielded to consensus. -- Ohc ¡digame! 02:44, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
The article Demerara rebellion of 1823 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Demerara rebellion of 1823 for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Hchc2009 -- Hchc2009 ( talk) 06:21, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi, take a look at Ann Heberlein. A article I created a few days ago. Thanks-- BabbaQ ( talk) 21:36, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
I can simply remove the Hong Kong's note, if that is your main issue, and add more about the mainland China. I don't really think that your opinion is incorrect, we do treat Hong Kong to be different than China, for example, we do have Human trafficking in Hong Kong and Human trafficking in the People's Republic of China. OccultZone ( Talk) 07:32, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
A longer section about the history of kidnapping would be good if you can find more information; the mention of studies is too brief and these can be used to greater effect. I'd also suggest that you have a separate part of the introduction that analyses/segments the different types of kidnapping motive, such as outright child abduction, commercial kidnapping, blackmail/ransom. -- Ohc ¡digame! 08:20, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
The Crackdown section could do with expansion, and I would like to see more than arrest figures. Any information on how these gangs operate would be of interest to the article. To substantiate the efforts at combating kidnapping, perhaps you could elaborate on any efforts taken against adoption agencies operating in this sector. -- Ohc ¡digame! 03:00, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
I undid your recent edits to List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation because what it was changed too doesn't make sense. I get that MOS:Flag argument and don't disagree with the concept of your changes just the final result. I was actually wondering if you could modify the script (easily) such that it just removes the flag from all places it appears on List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation. I believe that would be better but making the changes manually would be unfun. Just one more person complaining about your removing flags. XFEM Skier ( talk) 15:46, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
First, if you know anything current about Soka Gakkai, that article and related articles have been a bit of a battleground for some time now, and I think that more eyes would definitely be useful. Also, FWIW, now that you can edit FG again, (editorial comment begins) like you always should have been able to do (editorial comment ends), it might be worth while to look over msybe asking for some accounts from Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library. I know that WorldCat says there was an All about Falun Gong published in Delhi a few years ago available on one databank, and a few others listed on WorldCat as well. I've asked that the Delhi site be contacted to maybe give some free accounts, and if it can the information from it might be useful. I am more or less retired from wikipedia right now because of making more efforts on lists of articles in reference works and working on wikisource, but am more than willing to at least see if I can get any sources you can't at request. John Carter ( talk) 16:18, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for your "thanks" concerning to the Turkish Airlines destinations, as I've also received from Jetstreamer, though it was my mistake to make again the links for the countries (this is because I publish in Portuguese, Spanish and Italian Wikipedias too (mainly) and there the rules are a bit different). I have an updated map about the Turkish Airlines destinations too, in the articles of 10 wikipedias. And I noticed, with 1 week of delay, that Benghazi was suspended, not from Wikipedia, but from other media (The Young Turks channel of Youtube, to be honest) that all the airspace over Benghazi was a no-flight zone now! And I confirmed by checking the Turkish Airlines sources (including flight info from Atatürk Airport). By the way, according to the sources, the Benghazi Airport article is not updated. I thank any advice from you about further updates about the Benghazi Airport and other destinations from Turkish Airlines (or from TAP Portugal that I also update usually), so I can be more efficient about its updates. Mondolkiri1 ( talk) 02:37, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
can you help me to get GA nomination on Johor Darul Takzim F.C. article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pakcikfarhan ( talk • contribs) 04:27, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
HI. Can you point to where the convention is that clubs should be referred to as "F.A." or "F.C." as opposed to FA or FC? I cannot find one and the Manual of Style seems to prefer FC. Fenix down ( talk) 09:21, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi Ohconfucius. I'm aware of some tussle going on about flagicons; everyone, including you, would be wise to give it a breather for a little while. It's difficult to know what to do about it when an editor who clearly does speak English utterly refuses to engage with others who have seen fit to revert his/her edits. I see you've made considerable efforts on that user's talkpage to discuss the matter; it's because of his/her failure to respond and explain over many days that I've posted a 3RR template there. Tony (talk) 16:53, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
hi ohcofucius... i know you wanna help to improve about malaysian football pages but you must understand most club in the malaysia did not have official website... so wikipedia only source information to malaysia football fans... i hope u can stop delete about managerial staff.. about the flag icon i did not understand why u wanna to remove it? if u see MUFC they do the same thing. i hope understand why i always reverts the pages.. Bangface ( talk) 17:45, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article LS3/5A you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Jamesx12345 -- Jamesx12345 ( talk) 20:21, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
I notice you have taken the flag icons out of the Peterborough page. What was the thinking behind doing this? RoyalBlueStuey ( talk) 08:06, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
Some editors obviously feel strongly attached to those pretty icons, and would point to their pervasiveness in other football clubs' articles. I do not believe that in itself justifies us continuing to tolerate breaches to our guidelines to the point of them being flagrant. I notice that someone has restored the flags for the players as some sort of compromise. It's something I could live with in the short term because I am not out to create conflict, but I feel editors need to come up with better rationale and agree to sensible use harmonised across the project. -- Ohc ¡digame! 08:31, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Yamaha NS-10 you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Viriditas -- Viriditas ( talk) 01:21, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
Sir, I am obliged to bring this to your attention: [3] -- TheSoundAndTheFury ( talk) 00:43, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
Please take a look at Battle of the elms when you get time for it.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 14:09, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
Please consider making a response at WP:ARCA#Amendment request: Falun Gong 2. At least one of the diffs provided by TheSoundAndTheFury puts you in a bad light. If you continue to edit but make no response, you seem to be confirming that your behavior was correct, which I find hard to justify. Thank you, EdJohnston ( talk) 17:42, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
Have you considered asking for a temporary suspension of the case, and not editing until you are able to return to it? — Neotarf ( talk) 19:02, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
As a side note, if you are interested in China topics, you may also be interested in the recent (June 2) NYT article (apologies in advance for the length of the quote, the bolding is mine): [unfree content redacted - see Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2014 June 10]
Regards, — Neotarf ( talk) 19:02, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi ohc, I have a quick favour to ask you. Is it alright to ask that the date format for " Tiananmen Square protests of 1989" to be changed to “m-d-y” rather than the current “d-m-y”? The reason I ask is because in almost all the literature I have read, including SCMP, NYT, and the Economist, the date format used to this event is “June 4” instead of “4 June”. Date auto formatting makes the format inconsistent with the way it is commonly rendered. Moreover it creates awkward phrases such as the “26 April Editorial” in the article body when the standalone article title is “April 26 editorial”. Please let me know, Colipon+( Talk) 20:28, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Stefan2 ( talk) 13:44, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
How is it that you get the authority to solely decide who is the culprit in initiating an edit war? The section in question was there on 16th Lok Sabha for a long time. It was User:Iryna Harpy who performed the reverting edit without even opening any discussion on the talk page of the 16th Lok Sabha article. If anyone is initiating an edit war, it is Iryna Harpy (and it seems really strange that you got to know about this event so soon, even though she does not seem to have left any message on your talk page).
Any so-called consensus that may have been reached on the talk page of the Indian general election, 2014 article's talk page does not automatically apply to other articles. If you have some problem with any content being displayed (or not being displayed) on the 16th Lok Sabha article, please discuss it on Talk:16th Lok Sabha. -- EngineeringGuy ( talk) 01:51, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
Please do not change lakhs and crores into hundred-thousands or m/b/trillions on India-related articles. The former are perfectly accepted in Indian English, which is what these articles are written in. An India-related number in m/b/trillions (Rs. 27 billion) is largely indecipherable to the Indian reader and forces him to convert mentally into lakhs and crores.— indopug ( talk) 03:16, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
Just realised that we have a MoS guideline on the matter: "Use the Indian numbering system of lakhs and crores. Give their equivalents in millions/billions in parentheses. For monetary figures, use the Indian numbering system but also give their US dollar equivalents in parentheses."— indopug ( talk) 04:50, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
There's nothing counter-intuitive about "western" notation of millions, billions, trillions... zeros are regularly grouped, in threes; separators in Indian numbers are not regular. For those like me who are familiar, it's one of the easiest conversions to do, easier than lakh alone or crore alone; but most others seeing "Rs 1.76 lakh crores" will do a triple take, and still say "WTF?". They have to look up lakh and then crore, and then count the combined zeros. Don't get me talking about those Indian commas that follow your lakh/crore numbering convention – those are definitely not allowed here, however hard it is for you folk to convert. Wikipedia doesn't revolve around Indian readers even if the subject is Indian. If you can cope with the notion of $1 billion, you can cope with Rs. 1 billion.
And just why wouldn't we have "11 September terrorist attacks" in a British English article? It's perfectly natural; the Americans don't have a monopoly on date formats. ;-) -- Ohc ¡digame! 01:27, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
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Every matches of hockey coverage are split by a horizontal line and you remove it, also remove is nations that player representing, we will revert your edit and making necessary changes. Advice also that you don't make blind edit. Thank you. -- Aleen f1 14:38, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
Hello Ohconfucius, I noteced you had been removing flag icons recently from several national basketball tems in similar edits such as this one. I do not agree at all that flags should be removed from the club rosters indicating the country the club is from per WP:WORDPRECEDENT. Do you have a consensus for the removal? FkpCascais ( talk) 04:25, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
PLEASE STOP DELETING CONTENT JUST BECAUSE YOU DO NOT LIKE IT. If you do not agree, why don't you just go ahead and remove all soccer (football) flag icons at the football national team sites?
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When I saw your original message, I thought you were taking issue with one removal that I have since reinstated – one or two similar ones may have escaped. Looking at those articles you reverted, I see many flag icons used purely decoratively, that is to say a flag " does not improve comprehension of the article subject and serves no navigational function". In the context of national team articles, clearly the only nationality of importance or relevance is of the country whose team it is. Nationalities may in addition be relevant in tables where other national teams are involved. Of course, coaches' and chairmen's nationalities are of no relevance whatsoever – there seems to be no disagreement on this point, yet flags have multiplied in sporting articles against coaches' and chairmen's names too, like mushrooms after a rainstorm. The way flags have been used here as you insist seemed unclear or contrived, and far removed from indicating " representative nationality". Players are naturally employed by a club based in one country or another. There seems to be little connection between the national team and the nationality of the club to which the individual player is signed. No such league club can be said to represent the country, or at least no such valid connection that would perhaps justify use of the flags has been demonstrated in the article. As such even mentioning or displaying the country in the article appears unnecessary; borderline encyclopaedic. Guidelines are applicable to all articles across all project spaces, and there is no opt-out for such global consensus nor can it be trumped by an individual project. -- Ohc ¡digame! 02:42, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
Club nationality is a fact that is almost never relevant, except for the club concerned. The assertion that "Clubs represent leagues they play in, and leagues are directly linked with countries" is rather contrived. Yes, clubs form part of a country's league, but they rarely "represent" the country. The contrived argument akin to saying "[Sportsman] endorses [Volvo], and [Volvo] is a Swedish company owned by the [Chinese], so the fact that [Sportsman] works for the [Chinese] is relevant to the article about [Sportsman's] national football team". But assuming that even if one wishes to find out in which country Leo Messi's current club is based, it's more effective for the reader to click on the club link, than rely on a flag icon that you can click on or hover over. Anyone interested in the specifics would go directly to that club's article (and avoid the largely irrelevant country that the flag points to). Only they would not need to play at "know your flag". -- Ohc ¡digame! 09:36, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
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Simply completely deleting a paragraph without any replacement doesn't count as "simplify" for me. Are you also on the payroll?-- Kulandru mor ( talk) 06:51, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
Ohc: yes, you should not "play at silly buggers". Which includes calling others' logic and arguments "absurd". Now please note: I would not bother commenting here if I thought you were in anyway malicious, a useless jerk, or a total idiot. But please also consider that some of your comments are, indeed, "ill-judged". Your bandying about of "absurd", for one thing, and also your summarization that "JJ thinks his argument is perfect...." As to the latter, no, I don't think my argument is "perfect". I do think that your understanding of my argument is faulty, but certainly that is correctable. As correcting this would greatly facilitate the discussion at OVERLINK (which you seem inclined to continue), I ask: would it be worthwhile to attempt this? I think I could explain reductio ad absurdum to your satisfaction, but should I? Would you attend? ~ J. Johnson (JJ) ( talk) 23:54, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, would you mind not doing your delinking efforts on the OTD pages? Some of theme are fine, but for others you're introducing redirects where they're not necessary, and you're also removing links that are customary to have. For example, Second World War redirects to World War II, so there was no need to remove the piped link, and July 3 should be linked, even though we don't normally do that in article pages. Thanks. — howcheng { chat} 17:05, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
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Hi there. I notice you've made a number of edits using a script to articles about national roller derby teams, including removing color boxes from infoboxes, and I'm wondering if you can point me to the policy that suggests doing that, since I can't find it. I note that articles on national men's hockey teams, such as Canada men's national ice hockey team - not to pull a WP:OTHERSTUFF but I imagine those articles are more heavily viewed, and certainly if this was a breach of style they would have been removed there, too, no? You've also changed date formats per MOS, even though MOS clearly states that the existing format (month date year) is acceptable, and given that a) these articles include teams for nations where the original format is preferred and b) the sport as a whole may be of greater interest within North American than without, I wanted to check in for clarifications from you before I reverted some of these edits. I can see the removal of linking country names (while I guess that people should be able to understand what Canada is, for example, I'm not sure I agree with it but I could see MOS applying there) and certainly fixing the dashes. Echoedmyron ( talk) 15:29, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi, could you amend your script to take note of when {{bots|deny=Citation bot}} is used in an article? This change swapped some {{ citation}} templates to {{ cite book}}, though this is not often an issue, when Harvard templates are being used in footnotes, if these supplementary references are included, then most editors would be confused as to why the automated links would fail to work. For this reason, when consistently using Harvard style, I would prefer all citations stick to the standard citation template rather than the derivatives that do not support this cross-linking functionality. I'll swap them back for the moment, feel free to discuss on the article talk page if you feel there is some guideline that needs to be reviewed. Thanks -- Fæ ( talk) 12:52, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
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I'm afraid you've caught me in a work exhaustion-induced grump – eg this revert of your change – but you might want to be more careful with the changes you're making – eg this revert that another editor had to make recently at the same article. I'm not sure why you're delinking rock music, for instance, but you're then leaving behind an incorrect, capitalised "Rock" every time. JG66 ( talk) 14:20, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
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Hello Ohconfucius. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of List of software that uses Subversion, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Apache Subversion has an article, and this is a list about applications that interact with it. To AfD? Thank you. Shirt58 ( talk) 09:32, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
Ohconfucius, thanks for your recent edit of the article on Bhaktivinoda Thakur. I noticed, however, that you've also converted it to the British spelling system. I find it slightly problematic, though, because (1) most, if not, all of the article's sources use American spelling, and (2) not implying any ownership, I happen to be the article's main contributor and am used to the American spelling system. With still a lot of work ahead, ensuring spelling consistency will now be an unnecessary challenge for me. Do you think this justifies my request to please help revert the article back to American spelling without undoing your many fine tweaks in it? Regards, Cinosaur ( talk) 13:04, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
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Hello. I noticed that this "Script-assisted" edit by you broke the ISBN of a reference by changing the hyphen character used. I've fixed this particular case but I suggest you look into what happened and see if there is anything you can change to try to stop it happening again. It doesn't seem to be a universal problem, similar edits like this and this didn't cause any issues with the ISBNs in those articles. TuxLibNit ( talk) 21:52, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
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Hi
I have just partly reverted your script-assisted edit to Theobald Jones.
Most of your changes were trivial, but one them was not: [[Member of Parliament|Members of Parliament]] (MPs)
→ members of parliament (MPs)
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That was wrong on two accounts. First, "Member of Parliament" is a proper noun in this usage, because it is a specific job title. (See the UK Parliament's own website).
Secondly, the link is to the article about the position to which he was elected. It is a directly relevant link, and shoukd not have been unlinked.
Please amend your script to prevent this happening again, and fix any other such changes you have made. Thanks! -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 12:23, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
Just like you, [5] I've been delinking overlinked or unnecessary geolocations on persondata, now there was a discussion on my talk page. No idea that how we can ignore persondata or if you had any issues with delinking on persondata, you can inform me. Thanks OccultZone ( Talk • Contributions • Log) 18:55, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
There is an RfC now at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#RfC:_Should_Persondata_template_be_removed_from_articles.3F. Possibly, you won't need any change to your code. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:31, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Your recent edit caused display problems and an empty citation in Paddy Chew. This was the fix. Be careful out there. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 08:27, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
I reverted you recent edits on Singapore Math. Again. The change you are pursuing requires consensus. Please take it to the talk page. Thanks. danielkueh ( talk) 16:22, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
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I've noticed your GA nomination Knife attack on Kevin Lau, is above the article I nominated, Murder of Leigh Leigh, in the Law section of GA nominations. You're the first editor I have decided to contact regarding a quid pro quo. Don't want to wait another several months for someone to review your article? How about i'll start reviewing yours and you start reviewing mine? I am assuming that is allowed, please advise if you know if there is some kind of rule against that. If you're not interested/too busy to review an article, no worries, i'll just ask someone else. Just so there is full disclosure, I have only started reviewing my first GA nomination, another article nominated in the Law section: Talk:Ashley Smith inquest/GA1. I didn't contact the nominator of that article trying to arrange a exchange of review; I figured I should do at least one for free :). Let me know if you're interested in my proposal. Have a nice day. Freikorp ( talk) 13:41, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
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The "KISS" in the edit summary was not needed. I've always treated you in a respectul manner. I've reverted your edit. The site parameter in {{ infobox airliner accident}} is intended for "Accident/incident's location (e.g. placename, nearest city/town, country)".-- Jetstreamer Talk 10:20, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
Please do not remove flags from tables of victims in aircrash articles. These are specifically allowed per WP:MOSFLAG and are a standard way of displaying such information. Mjroots ( talk) 07:33, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello Ohconfuciius. Please note this [6]. I needed to revert your edit so I could reinstate a previous version of the article. You're kindly invited to make the edit again. Hope you understand. Thanks.-- Jetstreamer Talk 15:01, 31 July 2014 (UTC)