Hi. Recently, a request was made for someone to revise the User:Bility/convert24hourtime.js user script. I (DannyS712) took up that challenge, and have fixed the bug with the "thanks" button, fixed the bug regarding blocked users, fixed the bug regarding converting the times when examining a diff, and even added the feature to convert times when looking at logs. I have some more features planned, but I thought that, since you are currently importing Bility's script, you may want to know that a less buggy version is available at User:DannyS712/12Hours. This is intended as a one-time note. Thanks, -- DannyS712 ( talk) 20:07, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:00, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
Please sir, I need your help with User:GreenC/WaybackMedic 2.5. I am trying to fix Dean Ambrose but my potato computer apparently has loading issues and so I need your help. Also, this is random, what are your thoughts on Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia? Which side are you more inclined to? Thanks? ImmortalWizard (chat) 22:07, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
Hello GreenC: An invitation for you to check out the Sustainability Initiative, which aims to reduce the environmental impact of the Wikimedia projects. If you're interested, please consider adding your name to the list of supporters, which serves to express and denote the community's support of the initiative. Thanks for your consideration! North America 1000 10:28, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
Your bot made an error at Talk:Josh White, in this edit - now reverted. I've no idea how or why it happened.... Ghmyrtle ( talk) 13:57, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi GreenC. Please bring back the page /info/en/?search=List_of_cult_films to the way it was, before being categorized by alphabet. that was better and more accessible. thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kayhamed ( talk • contribs) 08:31, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
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For your work to ensure that thousands of links to Highbeam remain accessible to editors and readers - thank you! Samwalton9 (WMF) ( talk) 09:54, 20 February 2019 (UTC) |
Is this something you can handle with one of your bots? Nemo 10:59, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
|archiveurl=
if one exists otherwise adds a {{
dead link}}
tag.
Example. It will never delete the source URL entirely as you did
here. Understand this could be done in certain cases because of DOI, but the bot has no way of verifying the content in the |archiveurl=
can be replaced with the content in the DOI. That would be up to manual edits. --
Green
C
13:25, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
{{dead link}}
tag added. --
Green
C
14:44, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
I found another 3000 or so pages with URLs beginning http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL which, based on a random samples checked with lynx, are all broken... These should be removed as well. Nemo 18:25, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
hi! IABot indicate domain "research.calacademy.org" as unavailable. Please, edit IABot for replase domain "research.calacademy.org" to "researcharchive.calacademy.org". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mazapura ( talk • contribs) 12:10, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
i would need a third opinion on whenever italy should be included as totaliatarian, as most acedemic sources consider italy NOT totalitarian, can you please give a third opinion on Talk:List of totalitarian regimes 83.185.94.196 ( talk) 14:54, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
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Dear GreenC,
Can you explain why you revert this edit ?
(actu | diff) 23 mars 2019 à 21:42 GreenC (discussion | contributions) m . . (14 284 octets) +1 135 . . (Reverted edits by Franck.schneider (talk) to last version by GreenC) (annuler | remercier) Balise : Révocation
The chapter "Advisory Board" appears twice in the article. It's obviously a mistake. I do not understand why you have removed my edits. I contribute more on wikipedia in french and little in english. Thank you for your explanation, then, I could delete this duplicate chapter.
Kind regards,
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Franck.schneider (
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15:09, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello GreenC, your recent BRFA ( Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/GreenC bot 12) has been approved. Please review the closing notes before executing. Best regards, — xaosflux Talk 15:10, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi. I saw this edit you made - what do you mean by "Template filter added"? My point was that if there are citation needed tags, they should probably be removed when tagging the article as unreferenced, not that the article should be skipped. (Though your option is more conservative) - am I misunderstanding your comment? -- DannyS712 ( talk) 02:10, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
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Is it legal for readers to download images from Wikipedia articles and use them for personal uses, such as prints, desktop wallpaper, or editing? 2600:1:F1A8:AC53:F50F:EE64:20F7:849E ( talk) 15:55, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
In the spirit of WP:AGF, I'm going to assume it's a coincidence that you're now making the same arguments about primary sources I made, which you so vehemently disagreed with, on pages that I've created. That's fine, but in this instance, you're mistaken; the content on William Hersey Hopkins is largely derivative of a book, which qualifies as a WP:SECONDARY source. Wikieditor19920 ( talk) 21:04, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/GreenC bot 14 was approved. -- TheSandDoctor Talk 16:31, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
In this you phrase your message such that it suggests it is obviously and self-evidently impossible for a bot to have access to its invoking user's IP address. I am aware of no factor in the web stack in general, Mediawiki as a platform, or WMF wikis as an environment that would make this so. I would expect that, say, Toolserver takes steps to clean the environment so that something like IA Bot's management console isn't passed the client's IP in CGI variables, but I've never seen that actually documented anywhere (not that I've been looking for it); and nothing but policy (i.e. no technical measure) would prevent it from capturing the IP through JavaScript or similar client-side chicanery. Most non-toolserver based bot architectures I can think of off the top of my head would have even more ready access to the IP. What am I missing? -- Xover ( talk) 15:48, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
mw.config.get('wgUserName')
, documented at
mw:Manual:Interface/JavaScript#User-specific. I haven't checked the scripts in the other frontend at the toolserver, but would assume it similarly just gets the username (from the form field, since toolserver isn't Mediawiki). What's happening server side would take more digging: the toolserver docs are woefully poor in regards what API is available for Mediawiki instances, so I'd have to look at the bot's source to see what it's actually doing.Regarding getting the bot working again, it seems clear that anything from me now gets interpreted as an attack regardless of content, so I'll not be contributing to that effort. My previous message on that topic pointed to OAuth and explained why that's the most reasonable way to comply with the policy: they can heed that if they choose. --
Xover (
talk)
06:51, 29 April 2019 (UTC)Thanks for all your help, I see the job has run through and there are only 73 links to Batting average left. Some of these are valid links, others have section links that we didn't spot in the initial testing. I saw only one false positive, there was a link back from Batting average (cricket) to the parent page that was changed, but I have changed that back. Spike 'em ( talk) 08:29, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
[[batting average#Cricket|average]]
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Green
C
13:22, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
[[Batting average#Qualifications for the batting title|something]]
. There were a number that I couldn't figure out why they were missed though, for example
Jack Redmond, which hadn't been updated since 2016. Did you use a pre-generated list, as others I can understand only if your list was from about 2 weeks ago (e.g. players who have greatly expanded since then)? Anyway, as you said, it did generally work as expected and I knew there would be a bit of a tidy-up needed. I also realised there were a few redirects from
Batting Average which I did via AWB.
Spike 'em (
talk)
14:03, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
Hello Do you think you can help me post a proposal for the category rename for the category People of Caucasus descent. With this rename, we can explain at the top of the page that while in the United States, the term "Caucasian" denotes people of white descent, Caucasian also refers to people of the Caucasus region.
As for the American people of Caucasus descent, I think in that place it would be good to explain the bad grammar of the title there. However for the just people of caucasus descent, it must be renamed to people of Caucasian descent, with an explanation at the top, because people form the Caucasus are called Caucasian. We have to learn to maybe deamericanize Wikipedia a bit, sinc ewe are not an Americans only place. thanks.
Nahom 199.101.62.21 ( talk) 01:08, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello. Since CP678 seems to be away for a bit and I know you know a lot about it, I'm wondering why the rio2016.com domain is whitelisted. Do you know why it is like that? Can it be switched to dead perhaps? Dat Guy Talk Contribs 13:36, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
Dat Guy, there is a mix of sub-domains but mostly www.rio2016.com which redirect to www.olympic.org/rio-2016 .. there are about 9,000 URLs in 5,000 articles. I agree they should be considered dead. Possibly they were auto whitelisted due to the redirect. I've set them to status "Blacklisted" and started a bot job but IABot is not working well at the moment and stuck with a large queue of unprocessed jobs. Only CP can fix that. I could process these with WaybackMedic if you think it's urgent, pls request at WP:URLREQ. -- Green C 14:11, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
It's the turn of France; diff and query. Many thanks!-- eh bien mon prince ( talk) 00:23, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
I am so sorry. I totally see why it felt like that was what I was saying, and I sincerely apologize. It was completely inadvertent and not intended to be linked to the rest of the conversation, was only intended to be a clarification of my advice not to edit directly. It was just stupidity on my part not to see how that could have been interpreted. -- valereee ( talk) 19:11, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
@ Valereee: It is no problem, it was sort of subtle and I couldn't tell if you were sending a message so I wanted to clarify before they took it the wrong way as tacit approval to remove some things. But you clarified and I was wrong in my interpretation so my apologies also but it wasn't bad faith or anything just wanted to clarify. I'm also happy to see new perspectives with this article, it is controversy (NTE) on top of controversy (global warming) with a COI, so pretty complicated. -- Green C 21:28, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
Iran? What do you mean? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xx236 ( talk • contribs)
Hello GreenC, your recent BRFA ( Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/GreenC bot 16) has been approved. Happy editing, — xaosflux Talk 13:56, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello! I've been going through some of the 180,000 articles in Category:All articles lacking sources, and noticed a large number of them appear to have one or more external links that are serving as references. These are particularly easy to deal with since I just check if the info in the article is at the link, and if so change it to a reference. Any chance you could easily generate a list of all articles in Category:All articles lacking sources that have any external links in them? It would just be helpful for those of us working on the category, so we can move quickly through the low-hanging fruit. No need for a bot to do any tagging/untagging. If it's a hassle, then no worries I can ask elsewhere. Thanks for all of your help with the unreffed bot (which hopefully can move forward at some point? I can check more of your test edits later today)! I hope all is well! Happy editing! Ajpolino ( talk) 19:55, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
{{unreferenced}}
template eg. |status=haslinks
). This adds the article to a tracking category and the bot won't run again until the tracking category is mostly empty. Let me know what you think. --
Green
C
14:35, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
Module:Gutenberg has been
nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the module's entry on the Templates for discussion page.
* Pppery *
it has begun... —Preceding
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Enjoy your summer, -- DannyS712 ( talk) 23:44, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
Rather than reverting your edit I wanted to start a discussion. To start, I am not sure you are using "pithily" correctly in this context. "Pithily" as I understand it, means "brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning; terse; forcible" 1, there is nothing "pithily" about this wording, in fact, it makes the sentence bulky, seems to editorialize or express an opinion, and does not fit with the linear fashion of the lead. For example, "unlikely" claims is not brief when the nature of the claim need not be explained when the rest of the lead explains the veracity of the claim. Similarly, I also find "surprisingly" out of place for the same reasons. Next, with "surprisingly" could not other words be used to describe the claims, such as revolutionary or groundbreaking? People called what the company was doing revolutionary at one point, and then there was surprise later according to other sources. This is the problem with using this type of wording in this context. For these reasons I think these two words should be removed. I would like to hear your thoughts as I came back to this article a couple times before making this edit as each time I read it the wording of the lead seemed to be out of place for how we normally write our BLPs. Thanks! KnightLago ( talk) 17:35, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
See this. I just nominated some templates for TfD, but they're template editor-protected so I can't add the appropriate notices. Retro ( talk | contribs) 00:04, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
Hello. Help copy edit for article. Thanks you. 27.72.88.186 ( talk) 06:28, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
On 21 June 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Richard Haine, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Dickie Haine flew in the RAF's first night fighter patrol of World War II? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Richard Haine. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Richard Haine), 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.
— Maile ( talk) 00:01, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
GC, I would kindly request that you retract your recent off-topic personal attack against me at ANI, and not attempt to engage me in discussion about users with whom I am IBANned. My past interactions none of the editors you named were relevant, except insofar as Thirteen was engaged in blatant trolling, name-calling and harassment of me (per the diffs) and Andrew was engaged in hounding, revenge-reverting, and so on of me (per the diffs -- technically the hounding was in a permalink archive thread linked in an unrelated context). I ... am frankly quite disappointed to see you make such a remark, since you and I have collaborated positively in the past, including in one of the cases of fringe content I referred to in my ANI post (and self-promotion I referred to in my MFD post). Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 14:54, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
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[4] Umm ... what? I hadn't edited that page in more than a month.
Anyway, I don't see any reason for any prior reverts, or your revert, except "no consensus".
Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 01:16, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
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DannyS712 (
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11:45, 30 June 2019 (UTC)
~negative or not it is some one else's opinion on a living person ~ and it does not belong in a wiki BLP ~ ~mitch~ ( talk) 18:49, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
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Hope you don't mind this correction to your RFC. Marquardtika ( talk) 00:57, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
there is currently enough well sourced entries so we can restore the categories, or this article will look like a mess Gooduserdude ( talk) 16:13, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
The article doesn't look like a mess. The columns are sortable so you sort it any way you want (click the arrow at the top of the column). Sortable single table are almost always more beneficial vs. multiple tables that breaks the sorting ability. I have no idea about italy, japan and libya, it was not possible to determine the changes as you were changing the table layout and making content changes in the same diffs. This is how many people try to hide controversial edits, not saying you intended that. -- Green C 16:53, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello GreenC. I liked your proposal on the Village Pump. Please don't take the following as an accusations or slight, but rather as an appreciation for transparency and the desire to avoid any appearance of impropriety.
Given your prior payment for editing from the Internet Archive project, would it not be a good idea to add a note about this to your proposal? WebCite and the Wayback Machine are competing services, even if the Internet Archive is a non-profit organization.
Again, no accusation is intended. Have a great day!
Hecato (
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16:38, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello GC. For the first time since it started {{ Cleanup bare URLs/bot}} hasn't responded to my request for it to tag articles. It usually does this within a few minutes so I am letting you know what has happened. Thanks for your time. MarnetteD| Talk 19:23, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
On 12 July 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Elizabeth L. Gardner, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Elizabeth L. Gardner served as a WASP during World War II and was the subject of an iconic photo (pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Elizabeth L. Gardner. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Elizabeth L. Gardner), 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.
valereee ( talk) 00:02, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
Hey, an editor created a ton of Chinese holiday-related date templates, such as Template:Double Ninth Festival, Template:Zhongyuan, etc., but didn't actually use them. Should these events be added to Module:Calendar date/events? -- Gonnym ( talk) 12:08, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
{{
Buddha's Birthday}}
as the last entry in
Module:Calendar date/events and it works out of the box including date format changes. Given the number, it will need a new local chinese_events
code block, I'll add that now. --
Green
C
14:38, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
{{
Hebrew year/rhdatum}}
as the calculator. --
Green
C
14:59, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
|cite=
set on as default (I'll add an option to disable), which I think is best, but this causes a citation error when |cite=
is used when the event has no source. Could you change the code so when there is no citeation it does not return a citation at all (instead of an empty reference)? This way, by default, if there is a source, it will show it, if there isn't it won't. --
Gonnym (
talk)
19:11, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
|holiday=
based on page name could work, but it also creates problems if/when the page is renamed, thus locking in the name against what exists in the events file is also a good idea. With the cites sometimes it applies to all years, and sometimes it only applies to the current year, flexibility is needed on a case basis. Shortcutting {{
CURRENTYEAR}}
to "current" might be included in the module as a sort of alias. Possibly when it sees this date alias it defaults to |format=infobox
as another shortcut. The docs would then have a special section for use in infoboxes describing these shortcuts. --
Green
C
12:44, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
|date{{NEXTYEAR|2}} = {{Moveable date |holiday=holiday |year={{NEXTYEAR|2}} |format=infobox |cite=}} |date{{NEXTYEAR|2}} = {{Calendar date/infobox|year=next2}}
|holiday=
is there exactly for that (or again, fix the core issue. Add an alias field to the module entry so that known aliases can work). There are a finite amount of names for any holiday - these are not thing that can really change. I don't understand your point about the cite. If it's empty just don't return an error. How on earth does that seem like the more correct thing to do? My template has a |cite=
parameter which can be set to do whatever we want it to do, but there is no reason why an article should have an error when there is no data. Just quietly handle it at the backend. --
Gonnym (
talk)
21:27, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
It is two templates accomplishing the same result we try to avoid. Re: cites, for example the cite in
Buddha's Birthday, the
given citation in the Events module, it only applies to the current year, not last or next year. There is no way to do it using the new template as it requires all or nothing and can't be cited just for the current year. BTW the new template doesn't work at
Buddha's Birthday, unless |event=
is set. No idea why, another complication. I mentioned above one possible solution for reducing use of |format=infobox
though I don't really like it as it will cause confusion when someone tries it outside the infobox. The original template is simple for people to understand, it is plainly laid out and descriptive without resorting to opaque features to make it work, and retains flexibility not every infobox has the same requirements. It is not that verbose or causing a problem, only used in a few dz articles, it is shorter and simpler than most cases of {{cite web}}
not burdensome. --
Green
C
04:25, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
I went to the Village pump to see if there was an explanation as to why webcitation.org was not accepting new archive requests. I found the discussion you initiated -- which seems to have been moved to the Village pump archive prior to closure.
I discovered webcitation.org years prior to discovering archive.org.
One point I didn't see mentioned in the discussion was that there are webpages where archive.org reports the page was barred from archiving by the copyright holder, where webcitation.org would go ahead and archive it - even though it too, in theory, honours norobots directives.
So, did I miss a decision?
Some years ago, in an earlier discussion, I suggested that the cash-rich wikimedia foundation should financially support the archive sites we like best - or partner with them. If it costs the remaining rump of whatever organization maintains their servers five figures per year maybe it would be cheaper and safer for the WMF to pay that ongoing cost.
Is there some reason why the WMF software can't automatically try to archive every url placed in a new {{ cite}} template?
Am I correct that archive sites freely try to archive web-pages under fair use, and have a policy of excising pages from the archive if the copyright holder complains they don't want the page archived?
Thanks! Geo Swan ( talk) 00:19, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
Sometimes the last archived versions of a page boil down to 404 - page not found.
There was a great web-site I cited hundreds of times, http://casr.ca - the "Canadian American Strategic Review". I am glad that, at some point, I archived every reference I used from that site. The site's web-pages were richly interlinked. So I also archived every page those the pages I referenced linked to. It is a good thing I did because, a year or two later, the two academics who ran it, announced they were packing it in. Their valedictory message told readers their articles could be found on archive.org. While there are about 1000 pages, it is only a fraction of the pages they made. Their earliest pages had been made, and ported from a subdomain of sfu.ca Simon Fraser University.
I'd like to be able to search among the excellent pages I hadn't used as references. I don't know a convenient way to do that.
Also, for some reason, at some point after they closed down their servers, all the images on their archived pages broke. Is this what they are supposed to do? Would they have remained available if I had explicitly archived the actual urls of key images?
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Albert W. Hicks at the
Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath
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Yoninah (
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23:40, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello--this is my first time trying to write on a talk page so I hope it works! NPD has owned BookScan in the U.S. since 2016. BookScan operates elsewhere (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Italy, Spain, Brazil and Mexico) under Nielsen. Link 1 Link 2 Link 3 Link 4 Hope this is helpful, won't touch the page but it should really be updated by someone Stephbook ( talk) 09:17, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
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On 12 August 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Albert W. Hicks, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that The Twilight Zone episode " The New Exhibit" features axe-murderer and last pirate of New York, Albert W. Hicks? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Albert W. Hicks. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Albert W. Hicks), 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.
— Maile ( talk) 00:02, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
Hello, you quite rightly reverted an edit I made regarding Klencke's gift of the atlas to Charles II (I somehow missed the previous instance of this in the article, mea culpa- nevertheless I feel mention of the baronetcy warranted retention, but that's by the by) along with restoring a "cited quote"; since I can't locate the citation, would you mind letting me know whence this mention of Klencke being called a "nutty professor" by Vossius originates? I'm intrigued by the extent to which it seems entirely anachronistic! Many thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.109.206.151 ( talk) 20:33, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
Appears to be sourced from nl:Isaac Vossius (cite #4) and with Chinese whispers he became a 'nutty professor'. -- Green C 02:21, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi GreenC,
I see that the Saket Modi's page has been redirected to Lucideus by you.
I did a lot of research about him online and wrote the content following Wikipedia Guidelines.I really have no clue as to why my edit request got declined. I think he's eligible to have an article on Wikipedia as he has been featured in several main stream media.
I would appreciate it if you help me with this.
Thanks in advance — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2409:4040:416:10E7:43B2:182A:782A:DDF1 ( talk) 18:45, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi Green
I would really appreciate it if you could help me with this..thanks in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:204:380:BD46:B05D:6FED:9E0D:53FB ( talk) 06:34, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
I'm honestly amazed that you were able to solve that impossible puzzle and I wanted to thank you for it. Those <sups> masquerading as refs have been such a headache!
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I'm impressed with how you cleaned up the old New Zealand charts URLs quickly and efficiently. Well done! MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 21:39, 31 August 2019 (UTC) |
The new Cleanup Listing for Wikiproject Jazz came out today. Greenbot dumped a lot more work into my lap. Can you explain these? For example, 1267 articles are labeled "deprecated parameter" and "CS1 errors: missing periodical". I looked at some of the articles, but they don't have the usual red linked error messages, nor do they suggest missing periodicals. Cite news is used on many of them and the refs looked OK to me.
This page says "The error message suggests a periodical parameter that matches the template, but there is no requirement to use the suggested parameter; any one of these periodical parameters may be used" and then gives the list. I don't understand the problem or why suddenly today these errors have appeared, if they are errors.
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Vmavanti (
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14:21, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
{{
cite journal}}
and {{
cite magazine}}
. It shouldn't be happening for {{
cite news}}
. More help at
Help talk:Citation Style 1. --
Green
C
14:34, 10 September 2019 (UTC)An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Baillie Gifford Prize, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Frances Wilson ( check to confirm | fix with Dab solver).
( Opt-out instructions.) -- DPL bot ( talk) 07:29, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
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For your work on the WP:BOTREQ page. Thank you for taking time to do this! Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 06:55, 30 September 2019 (UTC) |
Green C:
Your write up of Martin Armstrong continues to mischaracterize what really happened in this case. Instead of obtaining the real and accurate facts, you cite to news articles written for sensationalism. You inaccurately report about the note transactions with the Japanese companies and the so-called Ponzi scheme. You also inaccurately portray the nature of reason for the contempt proceedings. A witness came forward in 2012 who was a former officer inside the MCC in NY who has filed an affidavit in court that he was told to hold Armstrong until he broke or fessed up to the charges. Armstrong was placed in the hole for 8 days to break him physically, mentally and spiritually. That led to the so-called scripted plea, which he was required to read verbatim as written by the DOJ.
The cache of hidden coins is another fabrication. What is written here do3es not accurately portray the real story. Read the oringal court documents, and not rely on more news paper reporting designed to sell papers. You were also not int the court chmabers as I was to hear what was actually told to the judge in Philadelphia. So, any claim that we should stick to the original source is nonsense. Your write up of Martin Armstrong continues to mischaracterize what really happened in this case. Instead of obtaining the real and accurate facts, you cite to news articles written for sensationalism. If you wish to discuss this openly and honestly with me, I am happy to do so. Otherwise, I intend to push this matter into arbitration. ArmstrongLawyer ( talk) 17:22, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
Hope you don't mind but I placed it at the top of my user talkpage (with proper attribution, of course). Very poetic if I do say so myself. Shearonink ( talk) 04:52, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (August and September, 2019).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 9th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
Sorry for falling behind a bit. Please let me know if I missed any new scripts. Thanks, -- DannyS712 ( talk) 01:55, 7 October 2019 (UTC) |
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Please observe BLP and get consensus for inclusion of the material. In the meantime, please revert as required of BLP. Thank you. -- Ronz ( talk) 18:02, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for the cleanup work. -- Ronz ( talk) 19:19, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (October 2019).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 10th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
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Have a great November, -- DannyS712 ( talk) 22:18, 7 November 2019 (UTC) |
Why did Greenbot preform this on a redirect, thus creating a duplicate article? -- Gonnym ( talk) 12:31, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
Hey!I am a Wikipedian from Taiwan.Can you do me a favor?I want to manage entire domains,but I am not in groups admin or root,don't have permission to do it.Can you help me change https://tw.appledaily.com from Alive to Subscription site?-- Kevin Smith Chen ( talk) 15:28, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
Hello,
Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.
I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!
From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.
If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.
Thank you!
-- User:Martin Urbanec ( talk) 21:58, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
project/mbh/webcite result.txt
Links with "utf" or "ru" equal 5 or 6 may contain only partially broken text. Links with utf and ru <= 4 very likely contain completely broken text. MBH ( talk) 06:25, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
@ MBH: the new archive links are done uploading to IABot database. It had about a 88% success rate meaning about 12% it was unable to find a replacement archive and it kept the WebCite link in place (I don't believe it is possible to delete an archive URL). There will be some soft-404s because there are too many to check manually, the bot has sophisticated soft404 checkers but some always get through without manual checks. There will be problems with content drift in some cases, where the content of a page is tied to the snapshot date and replacement archive is not the same date and thus has different content (sports scores or weather for example). The bot tries to get the snapshot date as close as possible to the original but often it is not exactly the same. Despite all these problems, most of them are fine and it is overall a big improvement. If you need any data let me know, thanks for your work identifying the broken pages. -- Green C 13:44, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (November 2019).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 11th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
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Enjoy your thanksgiving -- DannyS712 ( talk) 08:22, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
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Damon Runyon's short story
"Dancing Dan's Christmas" is a fun read if you have the time. Right from the start it extols the virtues of the
hot Tom and Jerry
No matter what concoction is your favorite to imbibe during this festive season I would like to toast you with it and to thank you for all your work here at the 'pedia this past year. Best wishes for your 2020 as well GC. MarnetteD| Talk 11:46, 18 December 2019 (UTC) |
Hello GreenC: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, North America 1000 17:27, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
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Thank you for continuing to make Wikipedia the greatest project in the world. I hope you have an excellent holiday season. Lightburst ( talk) 22:53, 21 December 2019 (UTC) |
– 2020 is a
leap year –
news article.
– Background color is Classic Blue (
#0F4C81), Pantone's
2020 Color of the year
– North America 1000 22:20, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi GreenC, happy new year. I've tried to update the Template:France metadata Wikidata, because the INSEE has published its new figures (see also https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q81204110) but I have the impression that something isn't right. Could you have a look at the template, please? Thanks, -- Edelseider ( talk) 17:13, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
Thank you for your answer in
User talk:Cyberpower678/Archive 68#A stray symbol by InternetArchiveBot. You said "It's not happening now and I can't replicate the diff as the bot is cfg and running for a different task."
Now, is it possible for you to configure the bot to rerun the original task on a page equivalent to the
old version of the article where the problem occurred?
Regards --
NicoScribe (
talk)
15:23, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
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The Technical Barnstar |
Thanks for your help! -- evrik ( talk) 16:10, 9 January 2020 (UTC) |
Hi GreenC,
In this revision GreenC bot labeled six citation links dead when they are all still live. They're all teamusa.org links so maybe it has a problem with that domain. This is actually the second time it's done this on this page, I reverted the change the first time because the links are still live and it added a 5-year old archive link which isn't helpful. Also, it removed all 'url-status=live' elements from citations and I'm wondering why?
Thanks, A202985 ( talk) 22:19, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
|archive-url=
parameter, it checks if the URL is live or dead, and if dead fills in the archive. This is in response to an old bug in IABot that was deleting archive URLs but leaving an empty |archiveurl=
(bug long since fixed). Not sure why it thinks those links are dead off hand. Probably best to remove the empty |archiveurl=
for now (done), and I will look into disabling this "fix". --
Green
C
04:13, 13 January 2020 (UTC)Hi! Back in December at my talk page, you and others raised some concerns about my bot, at first about how it removes www.
from links it modifies but then about other concerns. In response to the regex concern, I made a new regex (and
a new request because I wanted some people to make sure I didn't mess this up) that will not remove the www or add it. However, could you help with the other concern, about IP adresses? Here is the relevant thing that you said:
If you can predetermine a given domain hostname (eg. "www") has a working https, and the http and https versions resolve to the same IP (or IP routed block) then a blind conversion should be safe. If they go to different IPs, they may be serving different content from different servers (this is not common but it happens) or some other unknown unknown that needs a closer look - like they did a migration from one server to another and didn't migrate all of the paths creating 404s in the ssl space.
How can I check if two versions of a site use the same IP address? What can I use to view the IP address of a site and confirm this with minimal risk of inaccuracy? Thanks, DemonDays64 ( talk) 05:48, 20 January 2020 (UTC) (please ping on reply)
http://example.com
and http://www.example.com
. If I saw http://en.example.com
, it would not be edited under the rule for the previous two.http://www.example.com
and https://www.example.com
have the same IP and http://example.com
and https://example.com
have the same IP, like you said to do? Thanks!
DemonDays64 (
talk)
03:57, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
nslookup example.com
. Via web
https://centralops.net/co/NsLookup.aspx set the "Query type" to "A - IPv4" --
Green
C
04:14, 21 January 2020 (UTC)It said that you were on for 16 years, but your account says you have been on since 2009, so, maybe you should fix the userbox? New3400 ( talk) 16:24, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
How? New3400 ( talk) 00:39, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
Eh, it's my personality. If I offended you, I'm sorry. New3400 ( talk) 14:05, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
Oh, ight. Do you have some tips for afd and rfa? New3400 ( talk) 18:52, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
Dear GreenC, I was surprised to see you revert my – I think - quite reasonable edits on Vaclav Smil's page. How can something like his comment on a biographical detail ("That was not a minor sacrifice, you know?" Smil says.") be of relevance? Even more I was surprised by you restoring the whole Bill Gates chapter (which is not even correctly cited). And seriously, what does it mean anyways if Bill Gates says something about an author? Is Bill Gates an Energy specialist? Then there are Smil's habits that don't make any sense at all if not put in the context of how he approaches individual lifestyle changes – which, again, don't say much about him at all. "Thick isolation" and "meat only once a meat" is nothing special at all. Plus: Who, except he himself, knows and has to know how many books he reads? What does it add to his wiki page?
To me rewriting the whole (questionable!) ScienceMag article into a wikipage seems to be something only Smil might find worthwhile. And I don't understand how an accomplished Wiki editor like you can support that. I'm really (unsarcarsticly) curious about your explanation. Helleba ( talk) 13:57, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
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The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar |
Fraud hurts us - and investors, too. Thank you for pointing that out. Bearian ( talk) 14:30, 27 January 2020 (UTC) |