![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 | Archive 2 | Archive 3 | Archive 4 |
Welcome!
Hello, RafikiSykes, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Kimber James. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a
Wikipedian! Please
sign your messages on
discussion pages using four
tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out
Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on
my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}}
before the question. Again, welcome!
Tabercil (
talk)
00:31, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to
talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should
sign your posts by typing four
halfwidth
tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You could also click on the signature button
located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you. --
SineBot (
talk)
01:41, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
Yeah, well was I wrong? You've been told not to do that, and you've persisted. It's not necessary to say she still has her penis; saying that someone hasn't gone through with full SRS gives exactly the same information. It's redundant. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい) 01:47, 20 April 2011 (UTC) If that is the only part you have issue with i understand removing it but you reverted corrections to terms within the article eg from biological to cisgendered and the addition of her official twitter link which is displayed on her website. RafikiSykes ( talk) 01:52, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
Speaking as a transsexual woman, I'm not exactly certain how you've come to the determination that the birth name of transgendered people is "acceptable" to be referenced. Unless a transgendered person did major work under their previous name, or they decide the old name is acceptable to be used, it's grossly offensive to refer to that transgendered person as their old name in any way. Your assertion that the old name is accurate implies that the transgendered person is in some way still a person of the opposite gender, and I believe that violates Wikipedia's neutrality policy. Unless a transgendered person publicly states that the old name is acceptable to be used, or a transgendered person did a large amount of public work in the previous gender, you can safely assume that the person the transgendered person was is "dead" to public scrutiny. Or, to simplify, a transgendered person is who they say they are, not who you assume they are.
I demand you undo your edits, or I'll be happy to bring a moderator in to question your reasoning as to why a transgendered person is forced to live under a name that does not apply to them. 69.244.221.134 ( talk) 22:57, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
Wiki only includes facts that can be backed up and information that is already publicly available. Several ts pornstars recently had their names hidden as they came from mediaol leaks not public info so wikipedia is neuttral when it comes to peoples private info.
![]() | On 1 July 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Reportedly haunted locations in Scotland, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that reportedly haunted locations in Scotland include a tenement where bubonic plague victims were quarantined and starved to death by local councilmen? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 16:04, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!
If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom ( talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot ( talk) 19:53, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!
If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom ( talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot ( talk) 00:33, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello. You have
a new message at Joe_Decker#Craig_Vye's talk page.
Please don't use a piped link that goes to a redirect page. This just makes more work for the servers and we aren't supposed to do that without a good reason. You've done this on a couple of articles I have watchlisted (horse-related topics) and it isn't suitable. Thanks. Montanabw (talk) 20:27, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!
If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom ( talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot ( talk) 01:03, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello RafikiSykes. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Charlene Semkin, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The article makes a credible assertion of importance or significance, sufficient to pass A7. Thank you. Salvio Let's talk about it! 13:55, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi RafikiSykes. By all means leave the spelling as is to keep the picture from Paris Is Burning. Feel free to contact me anytime you want. I am Angie's biographer. Thanks!
SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!
If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom ( talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot ( talk) 02:01, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
I changed Demona and David Xanatos I will with withdraw merge requests for those two as they now have credible sources to support those articles. Although I satisfied with the sources I am unhappy with the citation style please follow WP:CITET as the correct way to source articles. I have also removed the Internet Movie Database sources per WP:RS/IMDB
In future I would suggest go to the actual archive of the websites to get the information regarding Gargoyles.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1995/aug/08
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1997/jun/22
Dwanyewest ( talk) 18:05, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
Hey there RafikiSykes, thank you for your contributions! I am a
bot, alerting you that
non-free files are
not allowed in user or talk space. I
removed some files I found on
User:RafikiSykes/Iago.
Thank you, -- DASHBot ( talk) 05:06, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!
If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom ( talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot ( talk) 01:23, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
I can see you don't have a lot of experience loading to Commons, so I have included some help below. If you can get an email with a release statement, there is nothing to stop you uploading on behalf of Harries and then emailing permissions(at)commons.org to have the image independently verified.
Hi RafikiSykes, you can find many images available to use on Wikipedia already uploaded by other contributors on Wikimedia Commons. The best way of uploading your own image or video is to go to Commons:Upload and follow the instructions. Uploaded files must be public domain or creative commons with attribution, see the upload page for links to detailed explanations of what these terms mean. Once uploaded to Commons, images can be shown in Wikipedia and any of the sister projects in the normal way (see Wikipedia:Picture tutorial).
Additional points to note...
|
---|
|
A simple standard guide is at Help:Files. If you need more help on getting a suitable photo in the first place, you may find Finding images tutorial helpful. Thanks, Fæ ( talk) 06:32, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
Herbert Art Gallery and Museum Backstage Pass! - You are invited! | |
---|---|
![]() |
The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum is hosting its first Backstage Pass on Saturday 1 October 2011. Attendees will experience behind-the-scenes tours of areas including the on- and off-site stores, archives and galleries (which include local history, geology and paintings by Old Masters). After a complimentary lunch, we will settle down for talks, more tours and an editing session, in which participants will work closely with curators on topics they're interested in. For more information and to sign up, see the event page. We hope you'll join us! The Cavalry ( Message me) 18:30, 7 September 2011 (UTC) |
Dear editor, can you please note the guidelines at WP:CITE, with regards to how to correctly post and include references. In particular I note your posting of raw url in various articles, including Burmese (horse). Rgds, -- Trident13 ( talk) 14:06, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!
If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom ( talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot ( talk) 01:46, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
Dear editor, can you please read with urgency the WP:MOS guidelines with regards WP:ES. Your edit record shows a complete disregard for this import guide, and as such any of your edits can be immediately revert by any editor, registered or anonymous. Rgds, -- Trident13 ( talk) 14:00, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
Your crusade of placing "one source" markers for no other reason than making the comment is not very constructive. In the case of "Manchester Carriage Company", an entry which only consists of 3 lines, how many sources are required. In the case of "History of public transport authorities in Manchester" which actually is a summary of other entries - suitably sourced - how many additional sources are required
Please use some common sense on your rather unconstructive trek!! -- Keith 06:17, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
Please show evidence of the user Knole Jonathan may have connection. The similarity in the name of the property does not have any bearing on ownership - as is indicated within the article itself. Edits by said user do not show any form of personal promotion whatsoever, and cover a number of unrelated topics. -- Keith 16:31, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
Re this diff: could you change the bot to tag these in some way rather than changing them? Perhaps a note on the talk page? The autogenerated names are not something an editor is likely to want to work with, though I appreciate that the bot is finding a real problem. However, it's difficult to work out from the diff how to fix it. I (and I think most editors) would prefer a name that is mnemonic in some way, so the edit is really not very helpful, but pointing out a problem would be. I'm going to revert and see if I can understand exactly what the bot is saying, and then fix it manually. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 22:41, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
Rafiki, while your cleanup is generally helpful, can you run deadlinks FIRST instead of last when you run your bot cleanups? The bots sometimes completely screw up the links, at least your last batch took out a number of named refs and replaced them with the useless "autogenerated1". So if we have to revert, it is easier to revert just the bot edit and it's a huge pain in the but to go add back in the dead links thing. Also, can you put human eyes on these so that if there IS the "autogenerated" link replacing a previously named link, can you fix it manually and change the name to match the others in the article if it really IS a new link? Thanks. Montanabw (talk) 20:56, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
[1] Here's an example where you tried to fix the issue, but did not. Perhaps leaving a note on the talk page would be better. Gimmetoo ( talk) 00:33, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
Can you please change your auto-whatevertool-edit summary to something that has some relation to the actual edit? This diff has an edit summary of "converting bare references" but it's nothing of the sort - it's combining identical references. It's not a good idea to use misleading edit summaries - as that means folks no longer trust what you're doing, and have to check every single one of your edits. That's what edit summaries are for, to allow folks with lots of articles on their watch lists to be able to determine what needs investigating and what is probably a fine change. Ealdgyth - Talk 02:25, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!
If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom ( talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot ( talk) 00:32, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi there,
I appreciate what you are trying to do for those dog breed articles you've recently edited, however, could you please place some rationale in your edit summaries? Twice I've reverted "Cleanup" which was in fact changing the citations from two columns to one. Additionally, you inserted a bunch of accessdates into citebook templates when book citations don't need them - afterall books don't change over time so the accessdate is not required. I'd previously inserted them myself, but was told to remove them during a Featured Article nomination a while back.
Are you checking for deadlinks manually or do you use a program? It's just that I know that the New Zealand Kennel Club, FCI, and in some cases the UKC standard links have all changed in the last year, so most of the dog breed clubs will have at least one dead link on them and it would be worth while highlighting which ones (in particular, the New Zealand links changed only in the last two months or so). I don't know if you can run the program by categories or what, but it would certainly pick up a lot.
I also wanted to apologise for a couple of rude editing summaries I've included where I've reverted your edits, I was having a bad day yesterday. Regards, Miyagawa (talk) 12:24, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
If you try any random article with plenty of references at the link you should get a good idea of how it works. RafikiSykes ( talk) 18:35, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I'm afraid I don't know how to send you a message so I'm writing this on here (please delete as soon as you like). You have written to me and I've replied on the discussion page for Knole. Knole Jonathan ( talk) 10:19, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
You know how you once said you would be willing to create some HO actor profiles? Would you be willing to look into Anna Shaffer and Lucy Dixon? RaintheOne BAM 17:59, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!
If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom ( talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot ( talk) 00:36, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rafiki, I have just finished undo-ing your bot edits to Akita (dog). The bots you have been using are generating false positives. Cheers, Keetanii ( talk) 10:23, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
I notice that many of your last few edits shave been placing tags on small articles in Argyll and environs. You are perfectly at liberty to do so, and I am very much in favour of improving articles but I wonder who you think is going to actually do the work required? If you look at the edit history of Strachur for example, you will see that few of the editors who have contributed to it are still active and that nothing has been added this year. As Wikipedia has become larger and larger I fear that large swathes of it are simply unattended. It's up to you of course. Ben Mac Dui 16:34, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!
If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom ( talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot ( talk) 04:35, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the cleanup with extra care on the pony articles. One comment is that if you switch stuff from US to UK English, maybe get a Brit to proofread to be sure you got it all. ThatPeskyCommoner is a good one to ask, she's fond of proofreading and knows horses. Montanabw (talk) 21:59, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I've reverted your addition of the Miszabot archiver to the Juliet Landau talk page. For one, it's not really useful to archive a short discussion page-- even if the topics are old; but also, it contains pertinent discussion on the verifiability of her birth date, that are periodically questioned. Additionally, it appears the bot may be incorrectly set, or somehow broken, as it archived everything except one section from 2009, and failed to create a topic index-- so there was no way for a reader to reach the archived materials [2]. In short, it isn't a necessity to archive this page (yet) -- HidariMigi ( talk) 02:38, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
A consensus about publishing Juliet Landau's date of birth was reached on the article's talk page. Please discuss the information there before adding it again to the article. While secondary sources can be cited, complaint via OTRS and the subject's own claims make publishing any date sensitive. 71.234.215.133 ( talk) 04:48, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!
If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom ( talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot ( talk) 12:03, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!
If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom ( talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot ( talk) 20:57, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 | Archive 2 | Archive 3 | Archive 4 |
Welcome!
Hello, RafikiSykes, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Kimber James. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a
Wikipedian! Please
sign your messages on
discussion pages using four
tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out
Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on
my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}}
before the question. Again, welcome!
Tabercil (
talk)
00:31, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to
talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should
sign your posts by typing four
halfwidth
tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You could also click on the signature button
located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you. --
SineBot (
talk)
01:41, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
Yeah, well was I wrong? You've been told not to do that, and you've persisted. It's not necessary to say she still has her penis; saying that someone hasn't gone through with full SRS gives exactly the same information. It's redundant. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい) 01:47, 20 April 2011 (UTC) If that is the only part you have issue with i understand removing it but you reverted corrections to terms within the article eg from biological to cisgendered and the addition of her official twitter link which is displayed on her website. RafikiSykes ( talk) 01:52, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
Speaking as a transsexual woman, I'm not exactly certain how you've come to the determination that the birth name of transgendered people is "acceptable" to be referenced. Unless a transgendered person did major work under their previous name, or they decide the old name is acceptable to be used, it's grossly offensive to refer to that transgendered person as their old name in any way. Your assertion that the old name is accurate implies that the transgendered person is in some way still a person of the opposite gender, and I believe that violates Wikipedia's neutrality policy. Unless a transgendered person publicly states that the old name is acceptable to be used, or a transgendered person did a large amount of public work in the previous gender, you can safely assume that the person the transgendered person was is "dead" to public scrutiny. Or, to simplify, a transgendered person is who they say they are, not who you assume they are.
I demand you undo your edits, or I'll be happy to bring a moderator in to question your reasoning as to why a transgendered person is forced to live under a name that does not apply to them. 69.244.221.134 ( talk) 22:57, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
Wiki only includes facts that can be backed up and information that is already publicly available. Several ts pornstars recently had their names hidden as they came from mediaol leaks not public info so wikipedia is neuttral when it comes to peoples private info.
![]() | On 1 July 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Reportedly haunted locations in Scotland, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that reportedly haunted locations in Scotland include a tenement where bubonic plague victims were quarantined and starved to death by local councilmen? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 16:04, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!
If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom ( talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot ( talk) 19:53, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!
If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom ( talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot ( talk) 00:33, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello. You have
a new message at Joe_Decker#Craig_Vye's talk page.
Please don't use a piped link that goes to a redirect page. This just makes more work for the servers and we aren't supposed to do that without a good reason. You've done this on a couple of articles I have watchlisted (horse-related topics) and it isn't suitable. Thanks. Montanabw (talk) 20:27, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!
If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom ( talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot ( talk) 01:03, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello RafikiSykes. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Charlene Semkin, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The article makes a credible assertion of importance or significance, sufficient to pass A7. Thank you. Salvio Let's talk about it! 13:55, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi RafikiSykes. By all means leave the spelling as is to keep the picture from Paris Is Burning. Feel free to contact me anytime you want. I am Angie's biographer. Thanks!
SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!
If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom ( talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot ( talk) 02:01, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
I changed Demona and David Xanatos I will with withdraw merge requests for those two as they now have credible sources to support those articles. Although I satisfied with the sources I am unhappy with the citation style please follow WP:CITET as the correct way to source articles. I have also removed the Internet Movie Database sources per WP:RS/IMDB
In future I would suggest go to the actual archive of the websites to get the information regarding Gargoyles.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1995/aug/08
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1997/jun/22
Dwanyewest ( talk) 18:05, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
Hey there RafikiSykes, thank you for your contributions! I am a
bot, alerting you that
non-free files are
not allowed in user or talk space. I
removed some files I found on
User:RafikiSykes/Iago.
Thank you, -- DASHBot ( talk) 05:06, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!
If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom ( talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot ( talk) 01:23, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
I can see you don't have a lot of experience loading to Commons, so I have included some help below. If you can get an email with a release statement, there is nothing to stop you uploading on behalf of Harries and then emailing permissions(at)commons.org to have the image independently verified.
Hi RafikiSykes, you can find many images available to use on Wikipedia already uploaded by other contributors on Wikimedia Commons. The best way of uploading your own image or video is to go to Commons:Upload and follow the instructions. Uploaded files must be public domain or creative commons with attribution, see the upload page for links to detailed explanations of what these terms mean. Once uploaded to Commons, images can be shown in Wikipedia and any of the sister projects in the normal way (see Wikipedia:Picture tutorial).
Additional points to note...
|
---|
|
A simple standard guide is at Help:Files. If you need more help on getting a suitable photo in the first place, you may find Finding images tutorial helpful. Thanks, Fæ ( talk) 06:32, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
Herbert Art Gallery and Museum Backstage Pass! - You are invited! | |
---|---|
![]() |
The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum is hosting its first Backstage Pass on Saturday 1 October 2011. Attendees will experience behind-the-scenes tours of areas including the on- and off-site stores, archives and galleries (which include local history, geology and paintings by Old Masters). After a complimentary lunch, we will settle down for talks, more tours and an editing session, in which participants will work closely with curators on topics they're interested in. For more information and to sign up, see the event page. We hope you'll join us! The Cavalry ( Message me) 18:30, 7 September 2011 (UTC) |
Dear editor, can you please note the guidelines at WP:CITE, with regards to how to correctly post and include references. In particular I note your posting of raw url in various articles, including Burmese (horse). Rgds, -- Trident13 ( talk) 14:06, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!
If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom ( talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot ( talk) 01:46, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
Dear editor, can you please read with urgency the WP:MOS guidelines with regards WP:ES. Your edit record shows a complete disregard for this import guide, and as such any of your edits can be immediately revert by any editor, registered or anonymous. Rgds, -- Trident13 ( talk) 14:00, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
Your crusade of placing "one source" markers for no other reason than making the comment is not very constructive. In the case of "Manchester Carriage Company", an entry which only consists of 3 lines, how many sources are required. In the case of "History of public transport authorities in Manchester" which actually is a summary of other entries - suitably sourced - how many additional sources are required
Please use some common sense on your rather unconstructive trek!! -- Keith 06:17, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
Please show evidence of the user Knole Jonathan may have connection. The similarity in the name of the property does not have any bearing on ownership - as is indicated within the article itself. Edits by said user do not show any form of personal promotion whatsoever, and cover a number of unrelated topics. -- Keith 16:31, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
Re this diff: could you change the bot to tag these in some way rather than changing them? Perhaps a note on the talk page? The autogenerated names are not something an editor is likely to want to work with, though I appreciate that the bot is finding a real problem. However, it's difficult to work out from the diff how to fix it. I (and I think most editors) would prefer a name that is mnemonic in some way, so the edit is really not very helpful, but pointing out a problem would be. I'm going to revert and see if I can understand exactly what the bot is saying, and then fix it manually. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 22:41, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
Rafiki, while your cleanup is generally helpful, can you run deadlinks FIRST instead of last when you run your bot cleanups? The bots sometimes completely screw up the links, at least your last batch took out a number of named refs and replaced them with the useless "autogenerated1". So if we have to revert, it is easier to revert just the bot edit and it's a huge pain in the but to go add back in the dead links thing. Also, can you put human eyes on these so that if there IS the "autogenerated" link replacing a previously named link, can you fix it manually and change the name to match the others in the article if it really IS a new link? Thanks. Montanabw (talk) 20:56, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
[1] Here's an example where you tried to fix the issue, but did not. Perhaps leaving a note on the talk page would be better. Gimmetoo ( talk) 00:33, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
Can you please change your auto-whatevertool-edit summary to something that has some relation to the actual edit? This diff has an edit summary of "converting bare references" but it's nothing of the sort - it's combining identical references. It's not a good idea to use misleading edit summaries - as that means folks no longer trust what you're doing, and have to check every single one of your edits. That's what edit summaries are for, to allow folks with lots of articles on their watch lists to be able to determine what needs investigating and what is probably a fine change. Ealdgyth - Talk 02:25, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!
If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom ( talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot ( talk) 00:32, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi there,
I appreciate what you are trying to do for those dog breed articles you've recently edited, however, could you please place some rationale in your edit summaries? Twice I've reverted "Cleanup" which was in fact changing the citations from two columns to one. Additionally, you inserted a bunch of accessdates into citebook templates when book citations don't need them - afterall books don't change over time so the accessdate is not required. I'd previously inserted them myself, but was told to remove them during a Featured Article nomination a while back.
Are you checking for deadlinks manually or do you use a program? It's just that I know that the New Zealand Kennel Club, FCI, and in some cases the UKC standard links have all changed in the last year, so most of the dog breed clubs will have at least one dead link on them and it would be worth while highlighting which ones (in particular, the New Zealand links changed only in the last two months or so). I don't know if you can run the program by categories or what, but it would certainly pick up a lot.
I also wanted to apologise for a couple of rude editing summaries I've included where I've reverted your edits, I was having a bad day yesterday. Regards, Miyagawa (talk) 12:24, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
If you try any random article with plenty of references at the link you should get a good idea of how it works. RafikiSykes ( talk) 18:35, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I'm afraid I don't know how to send you a message so I'm writing this on here (please delete as soon as you like). You have written to me and I've replied on the discussion page for Knole. Knole Jonathan ( talk) 10:19, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
You know how you once said you would be willing to create some HO actor profiles? Would you be willing to look into Anna Shaffer and Lucy Dixon? RaintheOne BAM 17:59, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!
If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom ( talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot ( talk) 00:36, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rafiki, I have just finished undo-ing your bot edits to Akita (dog). The bots you have been using are generating false positives. Cheers, Keetanii ( talk) 10:23, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
I notice that many of your last few edits shave been placing tags on small articles in Argyll and environs. You are perfectly at liberty to do so, and I am very much in favour of improving articles but I wonder who you think is going to actually do the work required? If you look at the edit history of Strachur for example, you will see that few of the editors who have contributed to it are still active and that nothing has been added this year. As Wikipedia has become larger and larger I fear that large swathes of it are simply unattended. It's up to you of course. Ben Mac Dui 16:34, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!
If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom ( talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot ( talk) 04:35, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the cleanup with extra care on the pony articles. One comment is that if you switch stuff from US to UK English, maybe get a Brit to proofread to be sure you got it all. ThatPeskyCommoner is a good one to ask, she's fond of proofreading and knows horses. Montanabw (talk) 21:59, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I've reverted your addition of the Miszabot archiver to the Juliet Landau talk page. For one, it's not really useful to archive a short discussion page-- even if the topics are old; but also, it contains pertinent discussion on the verifiability of her birth date, that are periodically questioned. Additionally, it appears the bot may be incorrectly set, or somehow broken, as it archived everything except one section from 2009, and failed to create a topic index-- so there was no way for a reader to reach the archived materials [2]. In short, it isn't a necessity to archive this page (yet) -- HidariMigi ( talk) 02:38, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
A consensus about publishing Juliet Landau's date of birth was reached on the article's talk page. Please discuss the information there before adding it again to the article. While secondary sources can be cited, complaint via OTRS and the subject's own claims make publishing any date sensitive. 71.234.215.133 ( talk) 04:48, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!
If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom ( talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot ( talk) 12:03, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!
If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom ( talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot ( talk) 20:57, 24 November 2011 (UTC)