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Okay, I've had to oversight the revisions you rev-del'ed earlier today. I've also removed your sections on AN and ANI because we do not discuss things such as this on the noticeboards (see the big red boxes). To answer your general questions, you must revdel all revisions with the offending content, to do otherwise is less than worthless, as the revdel draws even more attention than just letting it lie where it was. Use the same reasons for the revdel of the revisions that contained the offending content as you do for the revision that added it. Second, if there is general doubt about the content and where the revdel/oversight line lies, please drop a note to the oversight team, not asking questions on AN or ANI. Courcelles 15:35, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
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09:05, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
Anome, you blocked Ilikebigbutts@icannotlie for a username violation. The consensus on the UAA page was there was no issue with his user name. The only individual who had one (and screamed loud as hell about it ) was Hammersoft. This user has yet to edit, and has a handle that matches the lyrics of "Baby got back". They recieved no communication about that name, nor were they given the chance to change it first. I'd say that block isn't right. (In case your'e wondering, it's not me, and I don't know who it is either ). Would you consider reconsidering,or allowing them to change their name ? KoshVorlon Angeli i demoni kruzhyli nado mnoj 16:59, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
THe coordinates are linked to the wrong webiste and location. How do I fix this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mwa101 ( talk • contribs) 01:03, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
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09:44, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi The Anome,
I was very happy to find your graphs regarding Ebola growth for countries on linear and logarithmic scale. I soon entered the data in to a spreadsheet to have ad diagram with more, and more recent data available. The graph I made for the rates are therefore based on yours, because I find you presentation good, and also to prevent confusion.
Your last update is from September 14th. Do you plan to update the graphs, or shall I do this? I can easily upload graph with more recent data. Either in a new file, or by updating yours. What do you think about this?
As now the first patient is reported in the US, it will probably be required to add the US also. In the moment there are heavy discussions in the talk page, because US and Senegal are similar. Either they remove both countries, or add the US. I would present in the graphs only countries that are presented in the table below. Due to layout issues I would add the US probably only in the logarithmic rate graph. I would then change colouring, black for Total/World, dark blue for US. It would be good, if we keep the colours in the graph consistent. What do you think?
Kind Regards, Malanoqa -- Malanoqa ( talk) 06:14, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
In this edit, Anomebot2 added a {{ coord missing}} template with scope “United States”. Less than an hour later, the bot updated the scope of its own template ( here) to the state of Georgia. Five years passed, during which Anomebot2 was content to leave the article alone. But when I updated that template manually to focus it on the city of Atlanta ( here), Anomebot2 changed its mind and deleted the template outright ( here).
So at one point, the bot decided that an article needed coordinates which had not been provided, or even suggested, by any editor; but then at a later point, the bot decided to delete a more specific coordinate region which had been provided by an editor. Does this seem inconsistent?
Moreover, I cannot avoid the impression that Anomebot2 would have left the article alone had I not upgraded that template. I've invested some time in sorting a number of US {{ coord missing}} articles into more specific geographic regions, and it is discouraging to think that a bot may delete any or all of that work for no stated reason.
Is there a pattern to this activity that isn't obvious, something that might make the Anomebot2 behavior more understandable, and hopefully more predictable?
Unician ∇ 09:48, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
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06:10, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
The difference between Sawyer and any other potentially scared EVD patient was that he was asked on several occasions, if he had ever been in contact with anyone infected but he continued denying all despite being on quarantine in Liberia. He wanted to even depart the hospital for Calabar, thank God for the heroics of Doctor Ameyo Adadevoh who risked her life to keep him in the medical facility. I understand that anyone will probably be having a cold feet in such situation, but no right thinking person should allow his/her death to be the cause of thousands of others. If I have EVD, I rather die alone (and go to Heaven) than take a risk that will certainly allow many other people die with me. I did not want to digress at the Afd that was why I did not leave my comment there. Darreg ( talk) 21:56, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
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08:54, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
I'm just dropping by for feedback on the addiction, sexual addiction, drug addiction, etc articles. Is the distinction with what I was talking about on my talkpage earlier clear now? Seppi333 ( Insert 2¢ | Maintained) 20:54, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
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13:48, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
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05:21, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
Sorry for my reccent on ebola that did not have any sources, but I fixed it now and it has the proper citations. I uploaded it to wikipedia again with the corrections. Thanks for helping me edit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.98.31.48 ( talk) 21:22, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
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17:28, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for editing List of railway_stations in Pakistan#All stations in Pakistan, with codes (alphabetically). Yes, Now it is much better than before. I want some more guidance from you. I want insert categories in all pages of this list, i mean i want insert category of District and Provices on each page. Is there any way to insert this without editing page. Is there any user rights or permissions about inserting categories quickly. Second, can you please tell me about NavBox format in which i need three columns. First Column for Province, Second for District and Third for name of railway stations. I want to change NavBox template. Thanks Ameen Akbar ( talk) 17:52, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
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15:00, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
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18:28, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
There's already a page for this hospital, here. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B4pital_d%27instruction_des_arm%C3%A9es_B%C3%A9gin
Is there any easy way to make a wikilink to wikipage in French?
Robertpedley ( talk) 13:07, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
[[:fr:Hôpital d'instruction des armées Bégin]]
- notice that this starts with a colon, then the language code, then another colon, after which the full page name is given. This produces
fr:Hôpital d'instruction des armées Bégin; the first colon isn't displayed, but its presence is necessary. You can hide the language code and second colon as well by using [[:fr:Hôpital d'instruction des armées Bégin|Hôpital d'instruction des armées Bégin]]
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Hôpital d'instruction des armées Bégin. There is more on this at
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19:31, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
Thanks. I'd figured that's what it was; it just seemed a little too long even assuming a country code was at the beginning. Good job following up—it was very late and I knew I wouldn't be able to manage it. Daniel Case ( talk) 20:48, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
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17:11, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
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thank you mr bot Saadkhan12345 ( talk) 04:37, 13 December 2014 (UTC) |
Hi there. Your bot recently added a missing coordinates template to the Autonomous spaceport drone ship. I'm not an expert on how that template is used, but it begs the question: "Is such a template really appropriate for ships?" Ships obviously move locations all the time, so it is not clear how geodata could be current, unless there were some sort of GPS beacon on the ship, with that data publically accessible, and a bot regularly updating wiki-articles for where the ship was most recently.
Net, if it turns out to be not applicable for ships, you should update your bot to watch for that indicator; as well as go back and fix this article manually. Cheers. N2e ( talk) 16:05, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
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16:44, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2015!!! | |
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16:52, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
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16:52, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
Ok, I agree will remember from now on, what to do. D Eaketts ( talk) 20:02, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
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16:47, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
You placed a blocking template on a user's talk page. However, you forgot to block the user!-- 5 albert square ( talk) 22:46, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
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18:13, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi Anome, the TfD bot isn't removing dec 17 and dec 19 from the TfD list, probably because of the grouping I did there. What is the proper way to group discussions or close grouped discussions so that the bot will still pick them up? I could archive them manually, but I'd rather just know the right way to do this.
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talk) 13:31, 21 January 2015 (UTC) Wrong Anome. Oops.
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16:08, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
Hey, thanx, Anome! I could see that it was fu cked up, but I didn't know how to fix it. Verdana♥Bøld 23:41, 28 January 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Verdana Bold ( talk • contribs)
Hello, i was reading the article Sexual desire of which you are a contributor,Sir..Under the para PHYSICAL FACTORS AFFECTING SEXUAL DESIRE i was expecting the find something about the 'time that has passed from the previous ejaculation in men'(being the reason that during the short term abstinence in sexually active men, they feel a high urge to indulge in sexual activities) affects their sexual desire..but there is no mention of the specific thing in the article..i have been anxious about this as i have to continue my research project on libido.. Sir, can you please help me find out the reason for why could i not find this fact here..many thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ed beerman ( talk • contribs) 08:28, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Henry flipper.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Stefan2 ( talk) 18:06, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
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16:31, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's appearance, the coming Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.
The Wikimedia Foundation has named its top priorities for this quarter (January to March). The first priority is making VisualEditor ready for deployment by default to all new users and logged-out users at the remaining large Wikipedias. You can help identify these requirements. There will be weekly triage meetings which will be open to volunteers beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC). Tell Vice President of Engineering Damon Sicore, Product Manager James Forrester and other team members which bugs and features are most important to you. The decisions made at these meetings will determine what work is necessary for this quarter's goal of making VisualEditor ready for deployment to new users. The presence of volunteers who enjoy contributing MediaWiki code is particularly appreciated. Information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins.
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16:27, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
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17:57, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
The Founding Foremothers Award | |
Hello, The Anome, I've added a copy-and-paste citation to your redlinks page in preparation for the DC Meetup at Howard University. It's clear you deserve an award for all the forward-looking work you've done here! Do stop by a social meetup sometime, and let us thank you in person. -- Djembayz ( talk) 19:30, 17 February 2015 (UTC) |
Hello. Your recent revdel didn't have the effect that I assume you intended. Since there were two edits after yours, the edit was still visible, but I have taken care of those for you. Cheers — DoRD ( talk) 15:44, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
Never Mind, Problem dealth with. RainingPain17 ( talk) 14:11, 21 February 2015 (UTC)RainingPain17
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16:29, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I've been created some stubs, Category:Montenegro articles missing geocoordinate data needs addressing :-) I've only done two municipalities too! Also somebody needs to add the interlinks to the other wikis like Slovene and French wikis.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:36, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
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16:41, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
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15:19, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
The Anome you might remember me from Ebola/west Africa article, I have a GA nomination for Dyslexia and have finished , however it would be good if someone looked at it,(remember to hit start review) I would appreciate any feedback-- Ozzie10aaaa ( talk) 23:05, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
Most of my comments about The Anomebot2 seem to have been nitpicking (though I appreciate the bot immensely; most of the work I do here is a direct result of its existence), so here's another nit. Over the years, I've noticed that it tends to add {{coord missing|Denmark}} to articles with Greenland categories, but since we have Category:Greenland articles missing geocoordinate data, populated by {{coord missing|Greenland}}, wouldn't it be better for the bot to add the latter template directly? Deor ( talk) 12:27, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
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15:16, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for helping on the article "0.999...". I see that you undid my edit, but there was a reason for those tags. The statement "accepted by mathematicians" is a weasel statement. Who accepted 0.999... = 1? It does not include an example when it should. "general mathematical education", where? Algebra 1, 2, 3? it does not specify. "some students" who? in which grade level? "Such skepticism is common enough that the difficulty of convincing them of the validity of this identity has been the subject of numerous studies in mathematics education." Too many "of"s in that sentence. "Common enough"? says who? That statement alone needs a citation. I see that you were trying to help also. Can we come to a compromise that we can both agree on? Thanks! The f18hornet ( talk) 18:45, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
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15:10, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
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On 26 March 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Fritchley Tunnel, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Fritchley Tunnel is believed to be the oldest surviving railway tunnel in the world? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Fritchley Tunnel. 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. |
— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 12:01, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
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The same IP-user (I have a strong suspicion as to his sockpuppet identity) also created your User page on PL with similar language, which I {delete}-ed and it has already been removed.
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15:19, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
OK, here's the problem with Wikidata. A while back, someone on Turkish Wikipedia created a bunch of articles about villages in in the Ardahan district of Ardahan Province. That editor, however, included exactly the same coordinates in each article—probably because he copied the infobox from article to article without making the necessary changes. These coordinates then got imported, without correction, to Wikidata, and now your bot is adding them to en.wp articles. (The bot was previously using GNIS data rather than Wikidata to geotag these village articles, which, while not precise, at least didn't give them all the same damn coordinates.) Now I, or other editors, have to go through Category:Ardahan District, correcting the coordinates, and go to Wikidata to correct them there in order to forestall the further spread of the incorrect coordinates. (They've apparently already been imported to the Vietnamese Wikipedia, so someone else will have to correct them there.) One person's inattention on one Wikipedia is spreading misinformation far and wide, thanks to the power of Wikidata. Not your fault, I know, but I need to vent my frustration somewhere, and I don't have a dog to kick. I hope that the Turkish editor didn't do this sort of business more extensively than I've yet discovered, but I suspect that this is unlikely to be an isolated incident of inaccuracy in Wikidata's information. Deor ( talk) 23:41, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's performance, the Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.
The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, each Wednesday at 11:00 (noon) PDT (18:00 UTC). You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the Editing team's Q4 blocker project with the bug. Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal.
VisualEditor is now substantially faster. In many cases, opening the page in VisualEditor is now faster than opening it in the wikitext editor. The new system has improved the code speed by 37% and network speed by almost 40%.
The Editing team is slowly adding auto-fill features for citations. This is currently available only at the French, Italian, and English Wikipedias. The Citoid service takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections by contributing to the Citoid service's definitions for each website.
Citoid requires good TemplateData for your citation templates. If you would like to request this feature for your wiki, please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.
The special character inserter has been improved, based upon feedback from active users. After this, VisualEditor was made available to all users of Wikipedias on the Phase 5 list on 30 March. This affected 53 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh.
Work continues to support languages with complex requirements, such as Korean and Japanese. These languages use input method editors ("IMEs”). Recent improvements to cursoring, backspace, and delete behavior will simplify typing in VisualEditor for these users.
The design for the image selection process is now using a "masonry fit" model. Images in the search results are displayed at the same height but at variable widths, similar to bricks of different sizes in a masonry wall, or the "packed" mode in image galleries. This style helps you find the right image by making it easier to see more details in images.
You can now drag and drop categories to re-arrange their order of appearance on the page.
The pop-up window that appears when you click on a reference, image, link, or other element, is called the "context menu". It now displays additional useful information, such as the destination of the link or the image's filename. The team has also added an explicit "Edit" button in the context menu, which helps new editors open the tool to change the item.
Invisible templates are marked by a puzzle piece icon so they can be interacted with. Users also will be able to see and edit HTML anchors now in section headings.
Users of the TemplateData GUI editor can now set a string as an optional text for the 'deprecated' property in addition to boolean value, which lets you tell users of the template what they should do instead ( T90734).
The special character inserter in VisualEditor will soon use the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki will also have the option of creating a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Instructions for customizing the list will be posted at mediawiki.org.
The team is discussing a test of VisualEditor with new users, to see whether they have met their goals of making VisualEditor suitable for those editors. The timing is unknown, but might be relatively soon.
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15:42, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
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16:41, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi The Anome! I moved
Tea bag (sexual act) back per
WP:TITLEFORMAT, specifically this section:
Nouns and noun phrases are normally preferred over titles using other parts of speech; such a title can be the subject of the first sentence. One major exception is for titles that are quotations or titles of works: A rolling stone gathers no moss, or Try to Remember. Adjective and verb forms (e.g. democratic, integrate) should redirect to articles titled with the corresponding noun (Democracy, Integration), although sometimes they are disambiguation pages, as at Organic. Sometimes the noun corresponding to a verb is the gerund (-ing form), as in Swimming.
Just wanted to let you know as I know it was a good faith move. If I'm missed something or misinterpreted the policy, let me know. Cheers! EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{ re}} 00:44, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
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15:31, 20 April 2015 (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 | Archive 5 |
Okay, I've had to oversight the revisions you rev-del'ed earlier today. I've also removed your sections on AN and ANI because we do not discuss things such as this on the noticeboards (see the big red boxes). To answer your general questions, you must revdel all revisions with the offending content, to do otherwise is less than worthless, as the revdel draws even more attention than just letting it lie where it was. Use the same reasons for the revdel of the revisions that contained the offending content as you do for the revision that added it. Second, if there is general doubt about the content and where the revdel/oversight line lies, please drop a note to the oversight team, not asking questions on AN or ANI. Courcelles 15:35, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
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09:05, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
Anome, you blocked Ilikebigbutts@icannotlie for a username violation. The consensus on the UAA page was there was no issue with his user name. The only individual who had one (and screamed loud as hell about it ) was Hammersoft. This user has yet to edit, and has a handle that matches the lyrics of "Baby got back". They recieved no communication about that name, nor were they given the chance to change it first. I'd say that block isn't right. (In case your'e wondering, it's not me, and I don't know who it is either ). Would you consider reconsidering,or allowing them to change their name ? KoshVorlon Angeli i demoni kruzhyli nado mnoj 16:59, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
THe coordinates are linked to the wrong webiste and location. How do I fix this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mwa101 ( talk • contribs) 01:03, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
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09:44, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi The Anome,
I was very happy to find your graphs regarding Ebola growth for countries on linear and logarithmic scale. I soon entered the data in to a spreadsheet to have ad diagram with more, and more recent data available. The graph I made for the rates are therefore based on yours, because I find you presentation good, and also to prevent confusion.
Your last update is from September 14th. Do you plan to update the graphs, or shall I do this? I can easily upload graph with more recent data. Either in a new file, or by updating yours. What do you think about this?
As now the first patient is reported in the US, it will probably be required to add the US also. In the moment there are heavy discussions in the talk page, because US and Senegal are similar. Either they remove both countries, or add the US. I would present in the graphs only countries that are presented in the table below. Due to layout issues I would add the US probably only in the logarithmic rate graph. I would then change colouring, black for Total/World, dark blue for US. It would be good, if we keep the colours in the graph consistent. What do you think?
Kind Regards, Malanoqa -- Malanoqa ( talk) 06:14, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
In this edit, Anomebot2 added a {{ coord missing}} template with scope “United States”. Less than an hour later, the bot updated the scope of its own template ( here) to the state of Georgia. Five years passed, during which Anomebot2 was content to leave the article alone. But when I updated that template manually to focus it on the city of Atlanta ( here), Anomebot2 changed its mind and deleted the template outright ( here).
So at one point, the bot decided that an article needed coordinates which had not been provided, or even suggested, by any editor; but then at a later point, the bot decided to delete a more specific coordinate region which had been provided by an editor. Does this seem inconsistent?
Moreover, I cannot avoid the impression that Anomebot2 would have left the article alone had I not upgraded that template. I've invested some time in sorting a number of US {{ coord missing}} articles into more specific geographic regions, and it is discouraging to think that a bot may delete any or all of that work for no stated reason.
Is there a pattern to this activity that isn't obvious, something that might make the Anomebot2 behavior more understandable, and hopefully more predictable?
Unician ∇ 09:48, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
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06:10, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
The difference between Sawyer and any other potentially scared EVD patient was that he was asked on several occasions, if he had ever been in contact with anyone infected but he continued denying all despite being on quarantine in Liberia. He wanted to even depart the hospital for Calabar, thank God for the heroics of Doctor Ameyo Adadevoh who risked her life to keep him in the medical facility. I understand that anyone will probably be having a cold feet in such situation, but no right thinking person should allow his/her death to be the cause of thousands of others. If I have EVD, I rather die alone (and go to Heaven) than take a risk that will certainly allow many other people die with me. I did not want to digress at the Afd that was why I did not leave my comment there. Darreg ( talk) 21:56, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
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08:54, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
I'm just dropping by for feedback on the addiction, sexual addiction, drug addiction, etc articles. Is the distinction with what I was talking about on my talkpage earlier clear now? Seppi333 ( Insert 2¢ | Maintained) 20:54, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
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13:48, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
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05:21, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
Sorry for my reccent on ebola that did not have any sources, but I fixed it now and it has the proper citations. I uploaded it to wikipedia again with the corrections. Thanks for helping me edit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.98.31.48 ( talk) 21:22, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
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17:28, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for editing List of railway_stations in Pakistan#All stations in Pakistan, with codes (alphabetically). Yes, Now it is much better than before. I want some more guidance from you. I want insert categories in all pages of this list, i mean i want insert category of District and Provices on each page. Is there any way to insert this without editing page. Is there any user rights or permissions about inserting categories quickly. Second, can you please tell me about NavBox format in which i need three columns. First Column for Province, Second for District and Third for name of railway stations. I want to change NavBox template. Thanks Ameen Akbar ( talk) 17:52, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
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15:00, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
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18:28, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
There's already a page for this hospital, here. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B4pital_d%27instruction_des_arm%C3%A9es_B%C3%A9gin
Is there any easy way to make a wikilink to wikipage in French?
Robertpedley ( talk) 13:07, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
[[:fr:Hôpital d'instruction des armées Bégin]]
- notice that this starts with a colon, then the language code, then another colon, after which the full page name is given. This produces
fr:Hôpital d'instruction des armées Bégin; the first colon isn't displayed, but its presence is necessary. You can hide the language code and second colon as well by using [[:fr:Hôpital d'instruction des armées Bégin|Hôpital d'instruction des armées Bégin]]
which produces
Hôpital d'instruction des armées Bégin. There is more on this at
H:ILL. --
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talk) 16:55, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
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19:31, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
Thanks. I'd figured that's what it was; it just seemed a little too long even assuming a country code was at the beginning. Good job following up—it was very late and I knew I wouldn't be able to manage it. Daniel Case ( talk) 20:48, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
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17:11, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence | |
thank you mr bot Saadkhan12345 ( talk) 04:37, 13 December 2014 (UTC) |
Hi there. Your bot recently added a missing coordinates template to the Autonomous spaceport drone ship. I'm not an expert on how that template is used, but it begs the question: "Is such a template really appropriate for ships?" Ships obviously move locations all the time, so it is not clear how geodata could be current, unless there were some sort of GPS beacon on the ship, with that data publically accessible, and a bot regularly updating wiki-articles for where the ship was most recently.
Net, if it turns out to be not applicable for ships, you should update your bot to watch for that indicator; as well as go back and fix this article manually. Cheers. N2e ( talk) 16:05, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
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16:44, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2015!!! | |
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16:52, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
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16:52, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
Ok, I agree will remember from now on, what to do. D Eaketts ( talk) 20:02, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
The Anome,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable
New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
NorthAmerica
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16:47, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
You placed a blocking template on a user's talk page. However, you forgot to block the user!-- 5 albert square ( talk) 22:46, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
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18:13, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi Anome, the TfD bot isn't removing dec 17 and dec 19 from the TfD list, probably because of the grouping I did there. What is the proper way to group discussions or close grouped discussions so that the bot will still pick them up? I could archive them manually, but I'd rather just know the right way to do this.
Martijn Hoekstra (
talk) 13:31, 21 January 2015 (UTC) Wrong Anome. Oops.
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16:08, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
Hey, thanx, Anome! I could see that it was fu cked up, but I didn't know how to fix it. Verdana♥Bøld 23:41, 28 January 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Verdana Bold ( talk • contribs)
Hello, i was reading the article Sexual desire of which you are a contributor,Sir..Under the para PHYSICAL FACTORS AFFECTING SEXUAL DESIRE i was expecting the find something about the 'time that has passed from the previous ejaculation in men'(being the reason that during the short term abstinence in sexually active men, they feel a high urge to indulge in sexual activities) affects their sexual desire..but there is no mention of the specific thing in the article..i have been anxious about this as i have to continue my research project on libido.. Sir, can you please help me find out the reason for why could i not find this fact here..many thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ed beerman ( talk • contribs) 08:28, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Henry flipper.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Stefan2 ( talk) 18:06, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
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16:31, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's appearance, the coming Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.
The Wikimedia Foundation has named its top priorities for this quarter (January to March). The first priority is making VisualEditor ready for deployment by default to all new users and logged-out users at the remaining large Wikipedias. You can help identify these requirements. There will be weekly triage meetings which will be open to volunteers beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC). Tell Vice President of Engineering Damon Sicore, Product Manager James Forrester and other team members which bugs and features are most important to you. The decisions made at these meetings will determine what work is necessary for this quarter's goal of making VisualEditor ready for deployment to new users. The presence of volunteers who enjoy contributing MediaWiki code is particularly appreciated. Information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins.
Due to some breaking changes in MobileFrontend and VisualEditor, VisualEditor was not working correctly on the mobile site for a couple of days in early January. The teams apologize for the problem.
The new design for VisualEditor aligns with MediaWiki's Front-End Standards as led by the Design team. Several new versions of the OOjs UI library have also been released, and these also affect the appearance of VisualEditor and other MediaWiki software extensions. Most changes were minor, like changing the text size and the amount of white space in some windows. Buttons are consistently color-coded to indicate whether the action:
The TemplateData editor has been completely re-written to use a different design ( T67815) based on the same OOjs UI system as VisualEditor ( T73746). This change fixed a couple of existing bugs ( T73077 and T73078) and improved usability.
Search and replace in long documents is now faster. It does not highlight every occurrence if there are more than 100 on-screen at once ( T78234).
Editors at the Hebrew and Russian Wikipedias requested the ability to use VisualEditor in the "Article Incubator" or drafts namespace ( T86688, T87027). If your community would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace on your wiki, then you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.
The Editing team will soon add auto-fill features for citations. The Citoid service takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to contribute to the Citoid service's definitions for each website, to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections.
We will need editors to help test the new design of the special character inserter, especially if you speak Welsh, Breton, or another language that uses diacritics or special characters extensively. The new version should be available for testing next week. Please contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF) if you would like to be notified when the new version is available. After the special character tool is completed, VisualEditor will be deployed to all users at Phase 5 Wikipedias. This will affect about 50 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh. The date for this change has not been determined.
Subscribe or unsubscribe at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter. Translations are available through Meta. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 20:23, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
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16:27, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
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17:57, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
The Founding Foremothers Award | |
Hello, The Anome, I've added a copy-and-paste citation to your redlinks page in preparation for the DC Meetup at Howard University. It's clear you deserve an award for all the forward-looking work you've done here! Do stop by a social meetup sometime, and let us thank you in person. -- Djembayz ( talk) 19:30, 17 February 2015 (UTC) |
Hello. Your recent revdel didn't have the effect that I assume you intended. Since there were two edits after yours, the edit was still visible, but I have taken care of those for you. Cheers — DoRD ( talk) 15:44, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
Never Mind, Problem dealth with. RainingPain17 ( talk) 14:11, 21 February 2015 (UTC)RainingPain17
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16:29, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I've been created some stubs, Category:Montenegro articles missing geocoordinate data needs addressing :-) I've only done two municipalities too! Also somebody needs to add the interlinks to the other wikis like Slovene and French wikis.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:36, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
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16:41, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
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15:19, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
The Anome you might remember me from Ebola/west Africa article, I have a GA nomination for Dyslexia and have finished , however it would be good if someone looked at it,(remember to hit start review) I would appreciate any feedback-- Ozzie10aaaa ( talk) 23:05, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
Most of my comments about The Anomebot2 seem to have been nitpicking (though I appreciate the bot immensely; most of the work I do here is a direct result of its existence), so here's another nit. Over the years, I've noticed that it tends to add {{coord missing|Denmark}} to articles with Greenland categories, but since we have Category:Greenland articles missing geocoordinate data, populated by {{coord missing|Greenland}}, wouldn't it be better for the bot to add the latter template directly? Deor ( talk) 12:27, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
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15:16, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for helping on the article "0.999...". I see that you undid my edit, but there was a reason for those tags. The statement "accepted by mathematicians" is a weasel statement. Who accepted 0.999... = 1? It does not include an example when it should. "general mathematical education", where? Algebra 1, 2, 3? it does not specify. "some students" who? in which grade level? "Such skepticism is common enough that the difficulty of convincing them of the validity of this identity has been the subject of numerous studies in mathematics education." Too many "of"s in that sentence. "Common enough"? says who? That statement alone needs a citation. I see that you were trying to help also. Can we come to a compromise that we can both agree on? Thanks! The f18hornet ( talk) 18:45, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
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15:10, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
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On 26 March 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Fritchley Tunnel, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Fritchley Tunnel is believed to be the oldest surviving railway tunnel in the world? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Fritchley Tunnel. 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. |
— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 12:01, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
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The same IP-user (I have a strong suspicion as to his sockpuppet identity) also created your User page on PL with similar language, which I {delete}-ed and it has already been removed.
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15:19, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
OK, here's the problem with Wikidata. A while back, someone on Turkish Wikipedia created a bunch of articles about villages in in the Ardahan district of Ardahan Province. That editor, however, included exactly the same coordinates in each article—probably because he copied the infobox from article to article without making the necessary changes. These coordinates then got imported, without correction, to Wikidata, and now your bot is adding them to en.wp articles. (The bot was previously using GNIS data rather than Wikidata to geotag these village articles, which, while not precise, at least didn't give them all the same damn coordinates.) Now I, or other editors, have to go through Category:Ardahan District, correcting the coordinates, and go to Wikidata to correct them there in order to forestall the further spread of the incorrect coordinates. (They've apparently already been imported to the Vietnamese Wikipedia, so someone else will have to correct them there.) One person's inattention on one Wikipedia is spreading misinformation far and wide, thanks to the power of Wikidata. Not your fault, I know, but I need to vent my frustration somewhere, and I don't have a dog to kick. I hope that the Turkish editor didn't do this sort of business more extensively than I've yet discovered, but I suspect that this is unlikely to be an isolated incident of inaccuracy in Wikidata's information. Deor ( talk) 23:41, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
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15:42, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
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16:41, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi The Anome! I moved
Tea bag (sexual act) back per
WP:TITLEFORMAT, specifically this section:
Nouns and noun phrases are normally preferred over titles using other parts of speech; such a title can be the subject of the first sentence. One major exception is for titles that are quotations or titles of works: A rolling stone gathers no moss, or Try to Remember. Adjective and verb forms (e.g. democratic, integrate) should redirect to articles titled with the corresponding noun (Democracy, Integration), although sometimes they are disambiguation pages, as at Organic. Sometimes the noun corresponding to a verb is the gerund (-ing form), as in Swimming.
Just wanted to let you know as I know it was a good faith move. If I'm missed something or misinterpreted the policy, let me know. Cheers! EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{ re}} 00:44, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
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15:31, 20 April 2015 (UTC)