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Thank you for expanding the
Film Programme redirect into a full article in its own right.
I notice that you included a disambiguation ("dab") hatnote at the start, which was useful, but please note that- to the best of my knowledge- such dab lines should follow similar rules to
the full disambiguation page style, i.e. only link variants of- or items likely to be confused with- the "
The Film Programme" itself and not (e.g)
Claudia Winkelman, since that name doesn't require disambiguation there.
(watching) So you say? I added one to the one already there. Don't you think you confused source and inline citation? For all members of the European Parliament, there's an entry. - Please, if you catch an article I wrote with edit summary "start", - give me some time for sourcing. --
Gerda Arendt (
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20:46, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
Again, creating unreferenced articles about living people is not on -
Franck Proust and
María Muñiz de Urquiza the latest. If I see it again I will have to block you for violating
WP:BLP. It's not hard to add one quick reference while you build an article, is it? There's really no excuse.
GiantSnowman19:32, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
You won't have to do anything of the kind. Your alternative is to not be a
dick, read the sensible replies given to you above, and wait for work on those short stubs to progress (as indeed it has in each of those you cite). Meanwhile, do please feel free to point out any defamatory or otherwise harmful (to the subject or the project) content in those stubs. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits08:04, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
BLP clearly says "Contentious material about living persons (or, in some cases, recently deceased) that is unsourced or poorly sourced – whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable – should be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion" - the fact the content is not "defamatory or otherwise harmful" is irrelevant. "John Smith has a massive penis" is not necessarily defamatory or harmful, would you allow that to remain? Sourcing new articles is both very important and very easy, and the fact you fail to recognise or accept either of those two facts is highly concerning.
GiantSnowman13:15, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
(still watching) The key word in what you quote is "contentious". Your failure to see that is discerning, so is your choice of example. Wikipedia has problems. A stub being without a reference for a short while is not one of the serious ones, if you ask me. --
Gerda Arendt (
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13:20, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
Because I actually care about BLP I view all unsourced material as contentious. I wonder how many seconds it took to make
this edit, and I again question why that could not be done before clicking 'save' for the first time.
GiantSnowman13:23, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
C'mon,
Gerda,
Giant Snowman isn't confusing inline citations with sources. The articles he pointed out had zero sources, not even a bare url external link, and remained so for hours after creation, e.g.
[1],
[2],
[3], and no doubt many more. His initial request was entirely reasonable.
Voceditenore (
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15:19, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
I didn't say he was confusing anything. I said that my priority was sourcing. I have almost no time today, please understand, --
Gerda Arendt (
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15:45, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
Yes you did. When Giant Snowman first mentioned this here, your reply was
"So you say? I added one to the one already there. Don't you think you confused source and inline citation?". In fact, when he posted here, that article had zero sources despite the fact that it asserted that the subject was a pastor in the Reformed Church in Romania (information pulled out of nowhere?) and remained so until another editor finally added one. The same applies to the other examples. I repeat, Giant Snowman's request was perfectly reasonable. I too consider rapidly creating a series of unsourced stubs about living people with zero sources and expecting someone else to provide them to be not only bad practice, but also a completely unnecessary violation of our policy on BLPs.
Voceditenore (
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16:36, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
That's exactly my point - where is this information coming from? If you are so pushed for time that you cannot provide even a basic reference then do not create the article. If this continues then the matter will be raised elsewhere.
GiantSnowman17:04, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
My Two Cents: Andy, you need to either (a) hang a { { construction } } template on the top if you're coming back to source out the microstubs you are churning out; or (b) take another 30 seconds to add one source. That's really pretty much a mandatory minimum for BLP, is it not? Hell, it's a minimum for anything at WP these days. Don't get your backhair up, just do what we all know needs to be done for each and every new start.
Carrite (
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05:27, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
On
10 February 2014, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Reginald Mount, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Reginald Mount and partner designed a renowned anti-venereal disease campaign in 1943–44? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at
Template:Did you know nominations/Reginald Mount. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (
here's how,
quick check) and it will be added to
DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the
Did you know? talk page.
This highly controversial assertion: "Credited as "the father of public relations"..." is backed up only with a dead link. That needs to be rectified or removed.
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Andy, I've noticed that, fairly recently, the infoboxes at articles such as
Warwick Castle and
Berkhamsted Castle aren't displaying their maps. This seems to be fairly widespread across similar articles, but I can't see what might be causing it... Any ideas?
Hchc2009 (
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17:54, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, Andy. You have been one of contributors to the {{Infobox power station}} or its preceding templates. Therefore I notify you that
there is a discussion about changes to the power station infobox template. Your contribution is appreciated.
Beagel (
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18:21, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #97
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
You can now
add labels in your language from within Reasonator. Technically oAuth is used. It now takes just one click to add a label in your language.
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On
16 February 2014, Schon gewusst? was updated with a fact from the translation of the article Sorrow (Van Gogh), which you recommended to me for translation. The fact was: Vincent van Gogh zeichnete in
Sorrow eine schwangere Frau, die er unterstützte. (Vincent van Gogh drew in Sorrow a pregnant woman whom he supported) You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (
quick check).
Hi Andy, I have noticed you have been nominating a ton of templates to be merged, and quite frankly, it makes many pages look rather unsightly, particularly when the template appears in the middle of the page (i.e.
Andrew Jackson and the cabinet template). Do you know of a way to minimize this negative effect for our readers? It makes the pages look poor and sloppy. Is there a particular necessity in merging the templates (e.g., bandwidth/server space or something?); I am just concerned it is having a net negative effect for the readers – am more than open to discussion. Thanks in advance! GoPhightins!20:56, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
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Go Phightins!: Belated response, sorry. The need to merge or delete redundant templates is to reduce the maintenance overhead, and to reduce confusion for editors trying to choose which to use. The notification system is standard, and intended to ensure that all interested editors are aware of the proposed changes. If you object to how it appears, you should raise that on a central talk page for the TfD process. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits17:52, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that you've added some links pointing to
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Hi. As you probably know I'm trying to make the football biography template embeddable but when embedded in another template the border and the cellpadding/spacing don't go away. Any idea how to correct this?
Davykamanzi →
talk·contribs17:36, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
Before reverting
User:Lukeno94 again, I think it would be worth you examining his (and others') concerns at
WT:FOOTY and
Template talk:Infobox football biography. The changes made by
User:Davykamanzi have dramatically altered the aesthetics of the infobox, and for no reason other than to apply embedding functionality to the infobox – a function that is not currently necessary. Once Davykamanzi has worked out how to solve the aesthetic issue, then the changes should be applied, but not before. –
PeeJay23:04, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
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Hi there, it seems that you have added an incorrect redirect for
Birmingham Workhouse Infirmary to
Birmingham Union workhouse...this is a different institute that was around at least 75 years before. I have placed a delete proposal on the redirect page and tried to explain why along with a link to information about the Birmingham Workhouse Infirmary on the University of Birmingham website. Thought I would keep you updated. All the best,
Mountaincirque16:11, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
The cited sources indicate that the name "Birmingham Workhouse Infirmary" was also used for the Birmingham Union workhouse. Since we only have an article on the latter, it's appropriate to redirect, When we have an article on the earlier institution, it can be a disambiguation page, or hatted. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits16:18, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
Ok, I'm happy to go with your decision, thanks. My concern arose from the fact that we with the advent of the redirect we have in-line links from the main
University of Birmingham page to the
Birmingham Union workhouse which state that that was where medical teaching originally began in the 1770s, this is factually incorrect as it actually began in a different workhouse in Birmingham around 70 years before and that facility didn't exist at the time. Could referenced information be added to the Birmingham Union workhouse to note that another workhouse existed beforehand of the same name to avoid confusion?
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Started work on WikibaseInternalSerialization component
As one of the previous contributors to {{Infobox film}} or as one of the commenters on it's talk page, I would like to inform you that there has been a
RfC started on the talk page as to
implementation of previously deprecated parameters. Your comments and thoughts on the matter would be welcomed. Happy editing!
Thanks for taking the time for the constructive edits and advice on the Schneps page. (Including fixing typos that I can't believe I missed after multiple proof reads - how does that happen?) — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
OttRider (
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contribs) 16:34, 9 March 2014
I was wondering if you could help me out with the page I am trying to create. I'm new to Wikipedia so pretty unfamiliar with the backend of it. I've attempted to update my sources so that I now have 20 references and some related reading, which I hope to be enough on that end? But how do I resolve the COI issue?
Thanks!
Lindsay
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/ColemanResearch — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
ColemanResearch (
talk •
contribs) 16:52, 13 March 2014
Firstly, register a new account, in your own name (or use a pseudonym which is not linked to CR, and which does suggest that it may be a corporate or shared one). Then read
WP:COI and drop a note here from your new account, once you've done so. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits16:56, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
AFCH rewrite
Hi Andy!
You can find more information about the rewrite at
WP:AFCHRW -- and it really is a rewrite. We've just begun very limited testing of a very alpha version, so don't expect it to be become mainstream until at least a few months from now. Don't go around telling folks to switch yet, though -- tl;dr, things could explode at any minute. You're welcome to try it out, of course; any and all feedback (which you can give from within the tool) will be greatly appreciated and will help shape the development of the script.
Hi Andy, I was wondering if you could help me out. I'm looking to work on a few 'new' articles, maybe create with your help, on something outside of my usual areas of interest. I want to work on bringing them up to DYK status. Could you help me out? --
Rsrikanth05 (
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20:07, 12 March 2014 (UTC)