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Hello. I've taken the liberty to move the distracting, off topic discussion about tilde's to the user's talk page at User talk:Aecwriter. Thanks. Viriditas ( talk) 10:19, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Why'd you remove the Kingdom of England emigrants to the 13 colonies cat? I'd just added it as it seemed relevant. Ladyof Shalott 19:23, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
I have changed the title after verifying that Weston was indeed a Merchant Adventurer but will use the term generically since there is still controversy surrounding just what group he belonged to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Weston_(merchant_adventurer) Thank you for helping me with the other things. I will be adding more tonight and tomorrow. Mugginsx ( talk) 22:16, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
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hi, i've noticed you've been editing others posts. if it's a link they clearly meant to make, that's usually ok, but i'd suggest that otherwise if you're trying to make a point, you just make the point instead of doing it by linking to something and implying in comments that what the person said isn't what is meant. for example, unencyclopedic does not just mean 'what wikipedia is not' when I say it. -- KarlB ( talk) 01:22, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Wbm1058!
Thanks for undoing the edit I made on the Nikon page. FYI, I wasn't having a display issue on my end but rather IE was having a problem with the way the article was coded. Unfortunately, IE is used by a majority of Web users - I don't like it but that's the way it is. IE doesn't handle tables and biases of pictures very well so by shifting the picture to the left, a huge gap was now filled in on all browers - IE, Firefox, Opera, etc. Now that it's shifted back, there's a large gap or white space between the open paragraph and where the picture with the company's headquarters is. Firefox & most other browsers do display it correctly. I was just trying to make it look right for everyone. I wasn't asking for help....just trying to provide help. Sorry for the confusion! Dave Dbroer ( talk) 19:35, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
Do I post queries on the bot's talk page?
The new bot doesn't seem to post information notices for multimoves involving more than 9 source/destination pairs. See Talk:List of Dallas (1978 TV series) episodes (season 1) and seasons 10+ listed. -- 76.65.128.252 ( talk) 05:59, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
The speedy deletion box you inserted in the CBS Records page gave instructions to move the CBS Records (disambiguation) page to the CBS Records page. I was unable to do that. Can you help? Steelbeard1 ( talk) 18:28, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
Was I doing something wrong? St Anselm ( talk) 13:00, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, you recently moved the Sarah & Myra article based on the request of a single editor without waiting for input from anyone else. The editor had earlier gone & changed a bunch of quotations in the article's citation templates to conform to his conviction about what the article title should be in a manner prohibitted by Wikipedia's guidelines. Since I can't right now go through those changes & you're the one that moved the article, I ask that you examine the user's edits & reevaluate your move's validity based on the sources used in the article.— Biosketch ( talk) 18:17, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
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I wanted to let you know that I've asked for a deletion discussion about the redirect Kitchen collection. If you're interested in participating in this discussion, please leave your comments here Thanks, Senator2029 • talk 04:42, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
Prostitution in Palestine to Prostitution in the Palestinian territories, via a G6 speedy delete, to match the parent article, without any controversy. Is there a difference with Political status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip? Emmette Hernandez Coleman ( talk) 20:28, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi, can't judge but seems from the RM on the Left Banke song that you may not be familiar with the orthographical print issues with all caps names. Accents are often dropped on older capital fonts, hence lowercase sources should be sought. No biggie. Also see User:Prolog/Diacritical marks. Cheers. In ictu oculi ( talk) 00:53, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
btw, apologise that I didn't see the devil's advocate element - normally in this area an apparent xenonymophobe is the real thing. I just noted scrolling up the Talk page on WPRM where you noted move log (your own) as an example and saw:
Quite brave for you to stick your neck out given the litigousness of the anti-French-names lobby, but note that all 3 of these have fairly high quality sources. That isn't the case for example with sports BLPs, such as Talk:Alfredo Marte (a case of overcompensation for the usual incompetence of ESPN, but proves the case by inverse) In ictu oculi ( talk) 10:25, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Is there something wrong here? I went to see a move discussion after being notified at the relevant Article alerts page, but there was nothing there? — Cirt ( talk) 06:44, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Would it be possible to instruct RMCD bot to put a colon in the link for file move requests? Currently, move requests for files result in the image being transcluded (see e.g. [1]) and the bot even "reverts" the addition of colons when it's updating the request list (see [2]). -- 87.79.111.177 ( talk) 08:08, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
Template:Requested move is not for files, see Wikipedia:Moving a page#Moving a file page (use template:Rename media instead) Wbm1058 ( talk) 11:37, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
Update – Just a note before I archive this. I consider this issue resolved, so there is nothing on the back burner. {{ Requested move}} was modified to put a colon in the "from" links and Template:No redirect does this as well for the "to" links. Wbm1058 ( talk) 15:07, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
The {{ rename}} template yelled at me to put in the Talk page when I tried to add it to the File:Conession_Adelaide_MetroCard.png file: page. Weird. I may have simply forgotten "File:" ... -- Lexein ( talk) 15:21, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
Actually this is a highly specific legal concept, not understood by most of the public, or, clearly, by you, on which we don't yet have an article, but should redirect to Generic trademark. Johnbod ( talk) 18:49, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
Maybe this definition should be restored and moved to the generic trademark article? Or is this so simple we can point to wikt:Generic term? I guess not. Would be nice to find a sourced definition for the term. – Wbm1058 ( talk) 19:57, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
Done – This area of Wikipedia was indeed in need of some cleanup. I redirected generic term to a better, more specific target, cross-linked some related articles, added references and went back and re-changed some of my link updates. It's better now, but not perfect. Hope you like the changes. – Wbm1058 ( talk) 18:40, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
Since you were involved with this earlier. Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion#Category talk:Presidencies of the United States. Thanks, Wbm1058 ( talk) 19:55, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi Wbm. The reason I used "barrier" occasionally in these articles is to avoid repeating the word "dam" too often. Since a dam is a type of barrier, that seems reasonable. Otherwise you have e.g. "The Sose Dam is a dam..." or "the dam is a curved gravity dam", which sound IMHO a little clumsy. Happy to find other ways to express the sentences which avoid either construct, though. -- Bermicourt ( talk) 07:16, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
I don't intend to appeal the move itself for the meantime, but the wording of your closing comment was problematic. "The result of the move request was: page moved" [3] implies that some discussion took place, and the consensus was to move the page. However, given the extremely fishy nature of the RM and resulting move (see here), some other wording along the lines of [4] would be better. The nominator was an anonymous sockpuppet of an indef-blocked user who followed me to the article and made the RM in order to revert me (following the pattern of harassment that got the main account blocked in the first place). When one user (who understand WP:BRD well [5]) opposed the request given this obvious problem, a user who is currently under investigation of being another sock of the same person suddenly showed up and unilaterally moved the page in spite of the ongoing RM and the dodgy circumstances behind it.
User:Cuchullain and I both suspect this was done because the sockmaster couldn't overrule the opposing user via an IP account, and so used his good hand to perform the extremely questionable move. Not meaning at all to drag you into very dirty waters, but for posterity's sake some altered wording might not be a bad idea.
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As the original coder of RM bot, I very much appreciate that you have not only taken over the bot after my original successor disappeared, but that you have also actively maintained it. Thank you very much. Harej ( talk) 03:04, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
Speaking of which, it has stopped again. Apteva ( talk) 07:01, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
I made an edit suggestion in the /sandbox you are working on. Unfortunately, in the same minute you edited (reverted) too. Hope I did not spoil your process. I'll stay out of it unless asked. - DePiep ( talk) 13:41, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
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Hiya, I just asked a question over on WP:RED about personal names. As an editor of this guideline if you could help me find an answer I would much appreciate it. Thanks. -- MisterShiney ✉ 18:01, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
The recent change [7] appears to be causing a substitution error (the #if statement is being directly substituted, instead of being processed) It appears to be missing a safesubst -- 65.94.79.6 ( talk) 23:25, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
Would appreciate your comments here) after your recent participation in this discussion. -- Rob Sinden ( talk) 10:31, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
I certainly should not need to point out to anyone that "you're a somewhat quirky editor" can be construed as a "personal attack", per the advice of WP:NPA which states "Insulting or disparaging an editor is a personal attack regardless of the manner in which it is done. When in doubt, comment on the article's content without referring to its contributor at all." Apteva ( talk) 18:35, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
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Please revisit THIS discussion. Thanks. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 21:23, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
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I saw an edit to my archives (that's bad, bad form BTW), and it appears that you're planning on usurping WP:FNC for some other purpose than what it been in use for. Could you please point to a discussion where this was approved by consensus, as I for one am 100% against it ES &L 17:15, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello Wbm1058. Regarding this technical move request. This proposal is not going to fly as an uncontroversial move request so I attempted to transfer it to Talk:Raion#Requested move. One of your comments may have been lost in the shuffle, so please restore it if you wish. Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 16:22, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
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Hello Wbm1058,
I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Lepid for deletion, because it seems to be inappropriate for a variety of reasons.
If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.
You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Tritario ( talk) 18:35, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
Another requested move has been made. Join in. -- George Ho ( talk) 16:58, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
I understand your change at Bradley Byrne regarding the appropriate infobox to use. I did look at the template page and saw the quote that you left so I do not dispute your change. I am curious about the reasoning. I looked through the archives and saw a lengthy discussion from 2008 concerning the make up of the template and what should be included but I am wondering where the actual discussion took place concerning the prohibition. Could you direct me there? I'm curious because it seems to me that a person currently out of office but nominated for a major office would be better served by a candidate box instead of an officeholder box. Just wondering. Thanks! JodyB talk 19:16, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
O great RM template guru, I have a request. Would it be possible to edit the standard and multi RM templates to add an optional parameter that would suppress auto-signing? Something like |sign=no
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Hello. I've taken the liberty to move the distracting, off topic discussion about tilde's to the user's talk page at User talk:Aecwriter. Thanks. Viriditas ( talk) 10:19, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Why'd you remove the Kingdom of England emigrants to the 13 colonies cat? I'd just added it as it seemed relevant. Ladyof Shalott 19:23, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
I have changed the title after verifying that Weston was indeed a Merchant Adventurer but will use the term generically since there is still controversy surrounding just what group he belonged to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Weston_(merchant_adventurer) Thank you for helping me with the other things. I will be adding more tonight and tomorrow. Mugginsx ( talk) 22:16, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
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hi, i've noticed you've been editing others posts. if it's a link they clearly meant to make, that's usually ok, but i'd suggest that otherwise if you're trying to make a point, you just make the point instead of doing it by linking to something and implying in comments that what the person said isn't what is meant. for example, unencyclopedic does not just mean 'what wikipedia is not' when I say it. -- KarlB ( talk) 01:22, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Wbm1058!
Thanks for undoing the edit I made on the Nikon page. FYI, I wasn't having a display issue on my end but rather IE was having a problem with the way the article was coded. Unfortunately, IE is used by a majority of Web users - I don't like it but that's the way it is. IE doesn't handle tables and biases of pictures very well so by shifting the picture to the left, a huge gap was now filled in on all browers - IE, Firefox, Opera, etc. Now that it's shifted back, there's a large gap or white space between the open paragraph and where the picture with the company's headquarters is. Firefox & most other browsers do display it correctly. I was just trying to make it look right for everyone. I wasn't asking for help....just trying to provide help. Sorry for the confusion! Dave Dbroer ( talk) 19:35, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
Do I post queries on the bot's talk page?
The new bot doesn't seem to post information notices for multimoves involving more than 9 source/destination pairs. See Talk:List of Dallas (1978 TV series) episodes (season 1) and seasons 10+ listed. -- 76.65.128.252 ( talk) 05:59, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
The speedy deletion box you inserted in the CBS Records page gave instructions to move the CBS Records (disambiguation) page to the CBS Records page. I was unable to do that. Can you help? Steelbeard1 ( talk) 18:28, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
Was I doing something wrong? St Anselm ( talk) 13:00, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, you recently moved the Sarah & Myra article based on the request of a single editor without waiting for input from anyone else. The editor had earlier gone & changed a bunch of quotations in the article's citation templates to conform to his conviction about what the article title should be in a manner prohibitted by Wikipedia's guidelines. Since I can't right now go through those changes & you're the one that moved the article, I ask that you examine the user's edits & reevaluate your move's validity based on the sources used in the article.— Biosketch ( talk) 18:17, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
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I wanted to let you know that I've asked for a deletion discussion about the redirect Kitchen collection. If you're interested in participating in this discussion, please leave your comments here Thanks, Senator2029 • talk 04:42, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
Prostitution in Palestine to Prostitution in the Palestinian territories, via a G6 speedy delete, to match the parent article, without any controversy. Is there a difference with Political status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip? Emmette Hernandez Coleman ( talk) 20:28, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi, can't judge but seems from the RM on the Left Banke song that you may not be familiar with the orthographical print issues with all caps names. Accents are often dropped on older capital fonts, hence lowercase sources should be sought. No biggie. Also see User:Prolog/Diacritical marks. Cheers. In ictu oculi ( talk) 00:53, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
btw, apologise that I didn't see the devil's advocate element - normally in this area an apparent xenonymophobe is the real thing. I just noted scrolling up the Talk page on WPRM where you noted move log (your own) as an example and saw:
Quite brave for you to stick your neck out given the litigousness of the anti-French-names lobby, but note that all 3 of these have fairly high quality sources. That isn't the case for example with sports BLPs, such as Talk:Alfredo Marte (a case of overcompensation for the usual incompetence of ESPN, but proves the case by inverse) In ictu oculi ( talk) 10:25, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Is there something wrong here? I went to see a move discussion after being notified at the relevant Article alerts page, but there was nothing there? — Cirt ( talk) 06:44, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Would it be possible to instruct RMCD bot to put a colon in the link for file move requests? Currently, move requests for files result in the image being transcluded (see e.g. [1]) and the bot even "reverts" the addition of colons when it's updating the request list (see [2]). -- 87.79.111.177 ( talk) 08:08, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
Template:Requested move is not for files, see Wikipedia:Moving a page#Moving a file page (use template:Rename media instead) Wbm1058 ( talk) 11:37, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
Update – Just a note before I archive this. I consider this issue resolved, so there is nothing on the back burner. {{ Requested move}} was modified to put a colon in the "from" links and Template:No redirect does this as well for the "to" links. Wbm1058 ( talk) 15:07, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
The {{ rename}} template yelled at me to put in the Talk page when I tried to add it to the File:Conession_Adelaide_MetroCard.png file: page. Weird. I may have simply forgotten "File:" ... -- Lexein ( talk) 15:21, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
Actually this is a highly specific legal concept, not understood by most of the public, or, clearly, by you, on which we don't yet have an article, but should redirect to Generic trademark. Johnbod ( talk) 18:49, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
Maybe this definition should be restored and moved to the generic trademark article? Or is this so simple we can point to wikt:Generic term? I guess not. Would be nice to find a sourced definition for the term. – Wbm1058 ( talk) 19:57, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
Done – This area of Wikipedia was indeed in need of some cleanup. I redirected generic term to a better, more specific target, cross-linked some related articles, added references and went back and re-changed some of my link updates. It's better now, but not perfect. Hope you like the changes. – Wbm1058 ( talk) 18:40, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
Since you were involved with this earlier. Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion#Category talk:Presidencies of the United States. Thanks, Wbm1058 ( talk) 19:55, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi Wbm. The reason I used "barrier" occasionally in these articles is to avoid repeating the word "dam" too often. Since a dam is a type of barrier, that seems reasonable. Otherwise you have e.g. "The Sose Dam is a dam..." or "the dam is a curved gravity dam", which sound IMHO a little clumsy. Happy to find other ways to express the sentences which avoid either construct, though. -- Bermicourt ( talk) 07:16, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
I don't intend to appeal the move itself for the meantime, but the wording of your closing comment was problematic. "The result of the move request was: page moved" [3] implies that some discussion took place, and the consensus was to move the page. However, given the extremely fishy nature of the RM and resulting move (see here), some other wording along the lines of [4] would be better. The nominator was an anonymous sockpuppet of an indef-blocked user who followed me to the article and made the RM in order to revert me (following the pattern of harassment that got the main account blocked in the first place). When one user (who understand WP:BRD well [5]) opposed the request given this obvious problem, a user who is currently under investigation of being another sock of the same person suddenly showed up and unilaterally moved the page in spite of the ongoing RM and the dodgy circumstances behind it.
User:Cuchullain and I both suspect this was done because the sockmaster couldn't overrule the opposing user via an IP account, and so used his good hand to perform the extremely questionable move. Not meaning at all to drag you into very dirty waters, but for posterity's sake some altered wording might not be a bad idea.
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As the original coder of RM bot, I very much appreciate that you have not only taken over the bot after my original successor disappeared, but that you have also actively maintained it. Thank you very much. Harej ( talk) 03:04, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
Speaking of which, it has stopped again. Apteva ( talk) 07:01, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
I made an edit suggestion in the /sandbox you are working on. Unfortunately, in the same minute you edited (reverted) too. Hope I did not spoil your process. I'll stay out of it unless asked. - DePiep ( talk) 13:41, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for your assistance with Environmental accounting! If you have suggestions for how to handle merge requests for redirect pages, it would be useful to know how to do that. Kind regards, DA Sonnenfeld ( talk) 21:30, 2 May 2013 (UTC) |
Hiya, I just asked a question over on WP:RED about personal names. As an editor of this guideline if you could help me find an answer I would much appreciate it. Thanks. -- MisterShiney ✉ 18:01, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
The recent change [7] appears to be causing a substitution error (the #if statement is being directly substituted, instead of being processed) It appears to be missing a safesubst -- 65.94.79.6 ( talk) 23:25, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
Would appreciate your comments here) after your recent participation in this discussion. -- Rob Sinden ( talk) 10:31, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
I certainly should not need to point out to anyone that "you're a somewhat quirky editor" can be construed as a "personal attack", per the advice of WP:NPA which states "Insulting or disparaging an editor is a personal attack regardless of the manner in which it is done. When in doubt, comment on the article's content without referring to its contributor at all." Apteva ( talk) 18:35, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading File:Pneuron logo.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 22:57, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
Please revisit THIS discussion. Thanks. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 21:23, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey Wbm1058. I'm contacting you because you're involved in the Article Feedback Tool in some way, either as a previous newsletter recipient or as an active user of the system. As you might have heard, a user recently anonymously disabled the feedback tool on 2,000 pages. We were unable to track or prevent this due to the lack of logging feature in AFT5. We're deeply sorry for this, as we know that quite a few users found the software very useful, and were using it on their articles.
We've now re-released the software, with the addition of a logging feature and restrictions on the ability to disable. Obviously, we're not going to automatically re-enable it on each article—we don't want to create a situation where it was enabled by users who have now moved on, and feedback would sit there unattended—but if you're interested in enabling it for your articles, it's pretty simple to do. Just go to the article you want to enable it on, click the "request feedback" link in the toolbox in the sidebar, and AFT5 will be enabled for that article.
Again, we're very sorry about this issue; hopefully it'll be smooth sailing after this :). If you have any questions, just drop them at the talkpage. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) 21:25, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
I saw an edit to my archives (that's bad, bad form BTW), and it appears that you're planning on usurping WP:FNC for some other purpose than what it been in use for. Could you please point to a discussion where this was approved by consensus, as I for one am 100% against it ES &L 17:15, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello Wbm1058. Regarding this technical move request. This proposal is not going to fly as an uncontroversial move request so I attempted to transfer it to Talk:Raion#Requested move. One of your comments may have been lost in the shuffle, so please restore it if you wish. Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 16:22, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Pneuron is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pneuron until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. -- Whpq ( talk) 17:09, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
Hello Wbm1058,
I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Lepid for deletion, because it seems to be inappropriate for a variety of reasons.
If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.
You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Tritario ( talk) 18:35, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
Another requested move has been made. Join in. -- George Ho ( talk) 16:58, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
I understand your change at Bradley Byrne regarding the appropriate infobox to use. I did look at the template page and saw the quote that you left so I do not dispute your change. I am curious about the reasoning. I looked through the archives and saw a lengthy discussion from 2008 concerning the make up of the template and what should be included but I am wondering where the actual discussion took place concerning the prohibition. Could you direct me there? I'm curious because it seems to me that a person currently out of office but nominated for a major office would be better served by a candidate box instead of an officeholder box. Just wondering. Thanks! JodyB talk 19:16, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
O great RM template guru, I have a request. Would it be possible to edit the standard and multi RM templates to add an optional parameter that would suppress auto-signing? Something like |sign=no
? Auto-signing can occasionally cause problems, such as when someone converts another editor's move to a multi-move or simply replaces a malformed request. It's not the end of the world that the current arrangement requires a second edit to remove the extra signature, but would this be a viable option? It's hard to imagine this being abused, and it would be easily remedied (such as with {{
unsigned}}) if it were. --
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There is a discussion here on whether to move the aeronautics article to Aeronautical science (over the redirect). Some background information is provided in the previous discussion on that page. — Cheers, Steelpillow ( Talk) 16:48, 30 December 2013 (UTC)