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Dear ONUnicorn, please undelete Reconstruction attack - we are in the middle of a edit-a-thon, and this page will be filled the moment it is restored. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rc4 ( talk • contribs) 22:02, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
Hello ONUnicorn, thank you for your help and suggestions for the David Mobley wiki. I will make the revisions you suggested to achieve the article being completed, thank you again. Ihelptocontribute ( talk) 15:02, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
You have discovered that I removed, some four months ago, a userpage from your userpage. This was, as I trust you realized, not a vandalism removal; the userbox was, at that time, itself a vandalism which inserted speedy deletion notices onto pages which contained it. I lack the software knowledge to understand how this was done, but I found the same userbox on several other userpages which, like yours, were clearly not speedy deletion material. The speedy tags vanished when the box was removed. I see that you have now replaced the userbox without harmful effect; someone therefore, with greater software knowledge than mine, has been able to clean it.---- Anthony Bradbury "talk" 21:56, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi ONUnicorn! No, my delete wasn't a test. I intentionally wanted to delete my page. ( Aaeefffhjnnoprt ( talk) 18:53, 13 December 2018 (UTC))
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Hi. Bizarro is a strange artist that leaves paintings all around Braunstone Town and all over Leicestershire. Draft:Bizarro (artist) has never been caught or rarely ever been seen. Wears a hood in the moonlight around midnight. Strange legendary tales are spreading. Was mentioned in newspapers in Leicester Mercury and Braunstone Life since this year. DannyGurr ( talk) 16:38, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
Sure thing! ;) DannyGurr ( talk) 20:21, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I am afraid that this series of edits is useless because Wikeley was a soldier writing during the British Raj era. No Raj era sources are reliable for caste or Indian history, per a very longstanding consensus. - Sitush ( talk) 08:33, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hi, I just wanted to ask; are you really locking this page with that ridiculous blurb for a plot summary? - wolf 23:45, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
Hi admin! Thanks for your response on WP:RPP for the subject. I don't know how to warn an anonymous user, who comes up with different IPs (of same initial digits 39.35…) and make similar edits without any proof. The similar IPs (starting with 39.35…) are vandal and socks of blocked User:Qayyum Ansari. See his edits on other film pages like Azaadi and Load Wedding; the latter one is protected because of his edits under IPs.
Well, I can't report these properly using my mobile device, I request you to please kindly look into this matter and check these IPs whether they match or not. Hope for your kind response, Thanks! M. Billoo 14:46, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
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Are you sure this band is notable? I was looking into when you marked it as reviewed and it seemed like maybe they weren't. Please ping me as I'm not watching your talk page. Best, Barkeep49 ( talk) 22:23, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for reviewing The Irish Brigade (band), ONUnicorn.
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Since replying to your message you will see I have endured further "needling" from this user; on my talk page, and in this
reversion, both minutes after they were made. In regard to the reversion, could you please explain to this user that in
MOS:INFOBOXFLAG there is the following exception, However, the infobox may contain the national flag icon of an athlete who competes in competitions where national flags are commonly used as representations of sporting nationality in a given sport.
I use as an example,
Tiger Woods has nationality =
United States, as do his golfing colleagues, so it makes sense that Lewison should have nationality =
British, as do his opponents.
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Sorry about this. I know it's abundantly obvious that Tiger Woods, for instance, represents the US in tournaments such as The Ryder Cup. The boxer in question has never represented Britain, hence the clear and explained edit. I have no more to say other than once again to apologise. It shouldn't be this way. NEDOCHAN ( talk) 20:16, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
If the talkpage post is good as it brought the issue ... without calling out any one person
, and deferring to people in the Wikiproject who are more familiar with the subject matter
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and not engaging that person directly
is the best course of action, how come it only applies the one way? The edit was
reverted without prior discussion, without evidence of having checked with
Wikiproject Boxing
and with direct engagement, or continued "needling" on my
Talk Page. Moreover, thanks to their kneejerk reaction in reverting the edit in its entirety, they get to take the credit for redoing the original edit (minus the flag icon). As to the boxer in question having never represented Britain
, what is the WBO Asia Pacific title if it is not international? it also affords the winner a world title shot. Just as a point of order
, the conventional method of using a flagicon in the infobox is by use of the medaltemplates field, as used in the
Anthony Joshua article, however, it can only be used if the sportsperson has won a medal rather than simply represented their country. The Tiger Woods article is an example in which a flagicon is used in the nationality field of the infobox. Can golfers really be the only exception?
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Hello, kindly provide me a copy of above deleted article, which i believe i can improve upon. Thank you. भास्कर् Bhagawati Speak 02:15, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
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Just to say thank you for deleting the redirect I accidentally made at Vellela vellela! Zumley ( talk) 19:47, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
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Hi ONUnicorn, thanks for your prior help with this article Vladimir Volegov. Subsequent to your edit an {advert} tag has been inserted. Could you possibly attend to this claim making whatever changes necessary? Thank you. Neuralia ( talk) 13:33, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi! I've been somewhat hasty and careless in regard to this page. I was going through these contribs, a series of copy-paste copyvios from IMDB, and deleted this one before I noticed your contribution to it. That was rude of me, I'm sorry. Unless I'm misreading something, you hadn't noticed the copyvio and were getting on with other stuff, such as improving the encyclopaedia. I've not undeleted it because ... well, it's a copyvio. But do please deal with it however you think best. My apologies, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 23:43, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi,
You recently Speedied a bunch of G1s I tagged, subpages of User talk:Creeper Moss/Sandbox and User talk:Roakdiao/Sandbox. Thanks for that. It would appear there are a bunch more. Do they all need tagging, or can you run some sort of bulk delete? Basically, anything created by Roakdiao contributions under either of those two Sandbox talk pages. Cheers, Gricehead ( talk) 15:54, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
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Hi ONUnicorn, you recently cleaned up the article Stephen Cloobeck and blocked User:Elintner27 for multiple copyright violations. Additions of copyvios continue [2] now by anon User:47.151.135.203. This is wearisome and I think the article needs sprotection. Ribbet32 ( talk) 04:42, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, the creator of the articles was found by User:Doc James to be a certain UPE/COI editor and he advised me offline to move articles mainly edited by that editor to draftspace. Also regarding Pacific 305 he has already been found to be a sockpuppet of another editor TheGhostofHoldenCaulfield ( talk · contribs) , see the SPI of NorthPark1417, Atlantic306 ( talk) 15:10, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
Hello, given your userbox I thought you might be interested in helping Carl Malamud's case for the public domain, crucial also for Wikisource: https://boingboing.net/2019/04/25/happy-law-day.html . Best regards, Nemo 21:07, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
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Dear ONUnicorn, please undelete Reconstruction attack - we are in the middle of a edit-a-thon, and this page will be filled the moment it is restored. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rc4 ( talk • contribs) 22:02, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
Hello ONUnicorn, thank you for your help and suggestions for the David Mobley wiki. I will make the revisions you suggested to achieve the article being completed, thank you again. Ihelptocontribute ( talk) 15:02, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
You have discovered that I removed, some four months ago, a userpage from your userpage. This was, as I trust you realized, not a vandalism removal; the userbox was, at that time, itself a vandalism which inserted speedy deletion notices onto pages which contained it. I lack the software knowledge to understand how this was done, but I found the same userbox on several other userpages which, like yours, were clearly not speedy deletion material. The speedy tags vanished when the box was removed. I see that you have now replaced the userbox without harmful effect; someone therefore, with greater software knowledge than mine, has been able to clean it.---- Anthony Bradbury "talk" 21:56, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi ONUnicorn! No, my delete wasn't a test. I intentionally wanted to delete my page. ( Aaeefffhjnnoprt ( talk) 18:53, 13 December 2018 (UTC))
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Cheers. nepaxt 23:26, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
Hi. Bizarro is a strange artist that leaves paintings all around Braunstone Town and all over Leicestershire. Draft:Bizarro (artist) has never been caught or rarely ever been seen. Wears a hood in the moonlight around midnight. Strange legendary tales are spreading. Was mentioned in newspapers in Leicester Mercury and Braunstone Life since this year. DannyGurr ( talk) 16:38, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
Sure thing! ;) DannyGurr ( talk) 20:21, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I am afraid that this series of edits is useless because Wikeley was a soldier writing during the British Raj era. No Raj era sources are reliable for caste or Indian history, per a very longstanding consensus. - Sitush ( talk) 08:33, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hi, I just wanted to ask; are you really locking this page with that ridiculous blurb for a plot summary? - wolf 23:45, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
Hi admin! Thanks for your response on WP:RPP for the subject. I don't know how to warn an anonymous user, who comes up with different IPs (of same initial digits 39.35…) and make similar edits without any proof. The similar IPs (starting with 39.35…) are vandal and socks of blocked User:Qayyum Ansari. See his edits on other film pages like Azaadi and Load Wedding; the latter one is protected because of his edits under IPs.
Well, I can't report these properly using my mobile device, I request you to please kindly look into this matter and check these IPs whether they match or not. Hope for your kind response, Thanks! M. Billoo 14:46, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I'm reaching out to you because I saw that you signed up as a labelling volunteer at Wikipedia:Labels/Edit quality. I'm starting a new project that builds on Edit quality, to predict Newcomer quality. That is, to predict the damagingness and goodfaithness of "sessions" (multiple related edits) of users within 1 day of their registration. With this AI trained, we could help automatically distinguish betewen productive and unproductive new users. If you wouldn't mind taking a look at this new labelling campaign and label a few sessions I would be very grateful. In addition if you have any feedback or discover any bugs in the process I would appreciate that too. You can find the project page at Wikipedia:Labels/Newcomer_session_quality or go directly to labels.wmflabs.org/ui/enwiki/ and look for the campaign titled "Newcomer Session quality (2018)". Thanks so much!
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Are you sure this band is notable? I was looking into when you marked it as reviewed and it seemed like maybe they weren't. Please ping me as I'm not watching your talk page. Best, Barkeep49 ( talk) 22:23, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for reviewing The Irish Brigade (band), ONUnicorn.
Unfortunately Barkeep49 has just gone over this page again and unreviewed it. Their note is:
Per our previous discussion. If you conclude it is notable please feel free to mark again as reviewed.
To reply, leave a comment on Barkeep49's talk page.
Best, Barkeep49 ( talk) 22:30, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is Courcelles ( submissions), who over the course of the competition has amassed 147 GAs, 111 GARs, 9 DYKs, 4 FLs and 1 ITN. Our finalists were as follows:
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Since replying to your message you will see I have endured further "needling" from this user; on my talk page, and in this
reversion, both minutes after they were made. In regard to the reversion, could you please explain to this user that in
MOS:INFOBOXFLAG there is the following exception, However, the infobox may contain the national flag icon of an athlete who competes in competitions where national flags are commonly used as representations of sporting nationality in a given sport.
I use as an example,
Tiger Woods has nationality =
United States, as do his golfing colleagues, so it makes sense that Lewison should have nationality =
British, as do his opponents.
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Sorry about this. I know it's abundantly obvious that Tiger Woods, for instance, represents the US in tournaments such as The Ryder Cup. The boxer in question has never represented Britain, hence the clear and explained edit. I have no more to say other than once again to apologise. It shouldn't be this way. NEDOCHAN ( talk) 20:16, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
If the talkpage post is good as it brought the issue ... without calling out any one person
, and deferring to people in the Wikiproject who are more familiar with the subject matter
, stopping reverting
and not engaging that person directly
is the best course of action, how come it only applies the one way? The edit was
reverted without prior discussion, without evidence of having checked with
Wikiproject Boxing
and with direct engagement, or continued "needling" on my
Talk Page. Moreover, thanks to their kneejerk reaction in reverting the edit in its entirety, they get to take the credit for redoing the original edit (minus the flag icon). As to the boxer in question having never represented Britain
, what is the WBO Asia Pacific title if it is not international? it also affords the winner a world title shot. Just as a point of order
, the conventional method of using a flagicon in the infobox is by use of the medaltemplates field, as used in the
Anthony Joshua article, however, it can only be used if the sportsperson has won a medal rather than simply represented their country. The Tiger Woods article is an example in which a flagicon is used in the nationality field of the infobox. Can golfers really be the only exception?
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Hello, kindly provide me a copy of above deleted article, which i believe i can improve upon. Thank you. भास्कर् Bhagawati Speak 02:15, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
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The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640 holders of the NPR flag, most of whom appear to be inactive. The 10% of the reviewers who do 90% of the work could do with some support especially as some of them are now taking a well deserved break.
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Bless you my.... son? Daughter? Do unicorns even HAVE a gender? Thanks, there was a TON of work in those pages you rescued. NewsAndEventsGuy ( talk) 22:03, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
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Just to say thank you for deleting the redirect I accidentally made at Vellela vellela! Zumley ( talk) 19:47, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for your help. I will follow your suggestions. 109.235.153.213 ( talk) 13:07, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi ONUnicorn. The close here made the close box overrun to AFDs below it here. This seems to have fixed it. Cheers, ~ Hydronium~Hydroxide~ (Talk)~ 08:47, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
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Hi ONUnicorn, thanks for your prior help with this article Vladimir Volegov. Subsequent to your edit an {advert} tag has been inserted. Could you possibly attend to this claim making whatever changes necessary? Thank you. Neuralia ( talk) 13:33, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi! I've been somewhat hasty and careless in regard to this page. I was going through these contribs, a series of copy-paste copyvios from IMDB, and deleted this one before I noticed your contribution to it. That was rude of me, I'm sorry. Unless I'm misreading something, you hadn't noticed the copyvio and were getting on with other stuff, such as improving the encyclopaedia. I've not undeleted it because ... well, it's a copyvio. But do please deal with it however you think best. My apologies, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 23:43, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi,
You recently Speedied a bunch of G1s I tagged, subpages of User talk:Creeper Moss/Sandbox and User talk:Roakdiao/Sandbox. Thanks for that. It would appear there are a bunch more. Do they all need tagging, or can you run some sort of bulk delete? Basically, anything created by Roakdiao contributions under either of those two Sandbox talk pages. Cheers, Gricehead ( talk) 15:54, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
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Hi! After a month wiki-break, I am back. Will you please restore my user rights? Thanks, Siddiqsazzad001 ( talk) 18:29, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi ONUnicorn, you recently cleaned up the article Stephen Cloobeck and blocked User:Elintner27 for multiple copyright violations. Additions of copyvios continue [2] now by anon User:47.151.135.203. This is wearisome and I think the article needs sprotection. Ribbet32 ( talk) 04:42, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
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Thank you for making me temporarily IP block exempt! It will really help me out. :)
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Hi, the creator of the articles was found by User:Doc James to be a certain UPE/COI editor and he advised me offline to move articles mainly edited by that editor to draftspace. Also regarding Pacific 305 he has already been found to be a sockpuppet of another editor TheGhostofHoldenCaulfield ( talk · contribs) , see the SPI of NorthPark1417, Atlantic306 ( talk) 15:10, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
Hello, given your userbox I thought you might be interested in helping Carl Malamud's case for the public domain, crucial also for Wikisource: https://boingboing.net/2019/04/25/happy-law-day.html . Best regards, Nemo 21:07, 25 April 2019 (UTC)