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Happy new year! |
We wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year! Pass a Method talk 20:39, 25 December 2011 (UTC) |
Hey man - could I get another update for User:Failedwizard/Disability_redlinks? Hope you're keeping well... :) Failedwizard ( talk) 22:26, 11 January 2012 (UTC) Cheers! :) Failedwizard ( talk) 11:14, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi. The redirect you created from 1927–28 Leicester City F.C. season to 1927-28 Leicester City F.C. season is actually the wrong way round. The content should be at 1927–28 Leicester City F.C. season, while 1927-28 Leicester City F.C. season should be the redirect. The article title with the dash (as opposed to the hyphen) meets WP:DASH guidelines as well as agreed WP:FOOTY conventions. Would you be able to fix it as I think it needs an admin to tidy this up? Thanks. -- Jameboy ( talk) 13:19, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
Thanks again for your recent help. Can you also refresh this report?
You left instructions on the talk page. Dawynn ( talk) 12:17, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
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The Technical Barnstar |
For the creation of the Cross-Namespace Redirect tool that I use on a daily basis, I award Topbanana the Technical Barnstar. ~ Matthewrbowker Talk to me 00:46, 6 February 2012 (UTC) |
Dear Topbanana,
My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and
Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's
Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we
teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community,
and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what
you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community
[[Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_82#Learn_to_be_a_Wikipedia_Administrator_-
_New_class_at_MSU|HERE]], where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my
students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training,
motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one
of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have
been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak
with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I
will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your
name HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be
more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar -- Jaobar ( talk) 07:26, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Young June Sah -- Yjune.sah ( talk) 21:54, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
You might be interested in Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2012_February_25#Poul_M.C3.B8ller_.28disambiguation.29, which seems to be a muddle triggered off by a typo of yours! It happens. Pam D 08:50, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Could you please refresh these two reports when you get a chance?
Thanks! Dawynn ( talk) 22:14, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for that. Would it be possible to see a version of the Uncatted stubs report with a larger focus? Maybe those templates that are not tied to a category but have more than 50 articles? (If that report had more than a few hundred, try 55 articles) Basicaly, I'd like to see those that just need a few more articles to be considered mature. Dawynn ( talk) 18:22, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
Could you please refresh these reports and the missing stubs report again? Thanks in advance! Dawynn ( talk) 18:52, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
I think you should know I left that link to County Road 464(Marion County, Florida) deliberatley in that condition, because all the evidence I've seen indicates that it frequently changes between County Road 464 and County Road 464B. Otherwise I wouldn't have reverted your fixes to the List of county roads in Marion County, Florida. ---- DanTD ( talk) 15:32, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
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A tag has been placed on Patrick J. Flynn requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.
If you think that the page was nominated in error, contest the nomination by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion" in the speedy deletion tag. Doing so will take you to the talk page where you can explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 21:20, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Common eland. Since you had some involvement with the Common eland redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Sainsf <^> (talk) 08:07, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
I can fix them myself. Wikicleaner isn't automated in any way. It essentially just loads the pages faster and a bit more conveniently but that's really it. Thanks for the catch. -- User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 03:39, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
: if you're the TB of
this new tool, and if it's trivial, would it be possible to exclude redirects? アナキン・スカイウォーカー features near the top of the 20+ on the ja wikipedia - the transliteration/translation ?Anakin Skywalker? seems to be a redirect on the en wikipedia to Darth Veda; thanks though, cool tool,
Maculosae tegmine lyncis (
talk)
12:34, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Could you please refresh these two reports when you get a chance?
Thanks! Dawynn ( talk) 18:34, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks so much for removing the {{ noindex}}. I had used it when I was working on the draft in user space and completely forgot to remove it when I put in article space. Best, Voceditenore ( talk) 10:28, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
Missed the request. The whole thing makes me a bit sick. Not just Dale Chock, the other attacks recently, in one case requiring rev/del. He was an extremely valuable editor and a number of articles will suffer, some because we'll lose his excellent contributions, others because they will become more pov. Dougweller ( talk) 09:46, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
Thanks! DH85868993 ( talk) 21:39, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
Hallo
thanks for reminding me to add the citation! I just did it, and I hope that it is OK now. BTW, I don't think that the article makes him justice. For me he has been a true giant in his field. Ciao,
Alex2006 (
talk)
11:24, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Aluminium zirconium trichlorohydrex gly. Since you had some involvement with the Aluminium zirconium trichlorohydrex gly redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Elvey ( talk) 05:59, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
Ah. I used o instead of 0. The zero is above the o on the laptop keyboard. Thanks for catching it. CambridgeBayWeather ( talk) 16:56, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
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Hello! Ahh five years ago. It was me making some not so great edits on wikipedia, which probably explains why the Tiny Flag icons are still in that infobox. Probably shouldn't be there. That re-direct was probably just a noobie escape. Feel free to delete, remove, get rid of it as you see fit. Thanks! Andrzejbanas ( talk) 23:03, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
There's more than one opera called Anna Karenina: Adaptations_of_Anna_Karenina#Opera I'm not sure I would call the move non-contraversial. Recommmend you come to the talk pages. Yours, almost- instinct 20:43, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
Please recreate these three reports:
Thanks! Dawynn ( talk) 12:49, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for posting the most wanted articles. I'm active in WikiProject Medicine and I was wondering if there was a way to create a most wanted list of articles, but only counting those tagged as under our project. Could you please reply here, if you don't mind, where this idea had its origin? Thanks for your time. Biosthmors ( talk) 22:27, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello!
The well known chauvinist romanian wiki-troll User:Iaaasi returned (with a new croatian fake identity) He is now active alias user: Irji2012 He is often active in Hungarian-related aricles, he enjoy edit-warring deleting good sources and sentences from important articles, and he like to break the rules of wiki even 3 revert rule. Can you arrange about this notorious wiki-troll? Thank you! Peter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.0.49.97 ( talk) 11:19, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
The coding you added earlier to Hurricane Season bar end has managed to break several of the Southern Hemisphere button bars, probably because the SHEM seasons span two years rather than 1. Jason Rees ( talk) 23:37, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Is it possible to add support for Ukrainian Wikipedia in the Red Link Recovery Live tool? -- DixonD ( talk) 09:42, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Narutolovehinata5 t c csd new 09:05, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Untold Stories Mula Sa Face To Face requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.
If you think that your page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the page be "userfied" or emailed to you. Aunva6 ( talk) 03:28, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
I had high hopes for Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Red links but it included many templates on pharmaceutricals I don't think our project was very interested in. Do you think there could be a way to run another report that would exclude what is inside of those pharmaceutical templates? FYI, I don't know if something similar exists or has existed but WP:TOPRED now exists. I think it's a pretty cool page that has inspired things to turn blue. Biosthmors ( talk) 00:19, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi! I saw Wikipedia_talk:Database_reports and Wikipedia_talk:Wikidata_interwiki_RFC#Common_sense and was wondering if you could generate a list of article names in order of number of interwikiwikilinks on the page ? Maybe just the first 100,000 or so? Possibly split into seperate lists for my bot to run through. ·Add§hore· Talk To Me! 15:26, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
Quick and nasty tool popped up on the toolserver for you. Alas, because of the problem with the undelrying database table, you'll need to continue procesing from 180K: start here. Good luck. - TB ( talk) 11:21, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
List from | List to | Number of interlanguage links |
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1 | 138,208 | >=20 |
138,208 | 213,433 | 15-19 |
213,433 | 282,528 | 12-14 |
282,528 | 349,369 | 10-11 |
349,369 | 395,037 | 9 |
395,037 | 452,332 | 8 |
452,332 | 521,859 | 7 |
521,859 | 604,465 | 6 |
604,465 | 711,656 | 5 |
711,656 | 863,265 | 4 |
863,265 | 1,095,544 | 3 |
1,095,544 | 1,483,549 | 2 |
1,483,549 | 2,225,906 | 1 |
Hi Topbanana - In List of rivers of Massachusetts, when you change Fall River (Connecticut River) to Falls River (Connecticut River), are you saying that "Falls River" is the correct name for the river that enters the Connecticut north of Greenfield? I've checked the Geographic Names Information System, which does list "Falls River" as a variant - see U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fall River - but the published topo maps all show "Fall River". If you are certain that the correct name is "Falls River" and wish to start an article using that name, you'll need to use a different article name, because Falls River (Connecticut River) is an existing article for a river in Connecticut. Let me know what you think. -- Ken Gallager ( talk) 14:47, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
You have a message at user:Josve05a's user-talk site! - Josve05a ( talk) 20:54, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
Could you generate a list like Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Red links for WikiProjects Poland and Sociology (I am an unofficial coordinator in those? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:18, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
Any chance you could update this listing? Thanks! –Mabeenot ( talk) 15:20, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
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Hello Topbanana. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Kazumasa Shimizu, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not a blatant hoax. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/ Stalk 03:12, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
[concerning you harrising people who you feel is notable. if you know the truth about bio's. its all either a hired hand or whatever. let alone, because you dont know who a person is. you have no right to tamper with things.
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Hello Topbanana,
I wanted to let you know that I just tagged 2005–06 in Italian football for deletion, because it appears to duplicate an existing Wikipedia article, [[:{{{article}}}]].
If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted, 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. Mat ty. 007 19:24, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi, why don't you edit 2005–06 in Italian football in your userspace, as opposed to putting it on Wikipedia, a complete duplicate of an existing article? Thanks, Mat ty. 007 19:25, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I'm a bit confused, perhaps you can help. At the most wanted article page you wrote: "This list shows the most common targets of red links. Red links that arise on templates are ignored, even if they are also linked directly from an article. "
But then on the page there is an item like "Climate of Plazas de soberanía (63 links)" and if you click on it and go to "what links here", all those links come from a template.
Thanks, Azylber ( talk) 22:41, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Topbanana, this is non-standard but I'm requesting a review of my permanent block. I feel I've been treated unfairly (and frankly pushed around) from A to Z. Right now my "official" appeal route is to email WP:BASC, which is a three member panel where my blocker sits and refuses to recuse. I'm blocked for socking but never did it. There was never any evidence of it. I had cleanstarted (WP:CLEANSTART) for privacy reasons. I never went back to the previous account. My blocker said no, I was socking. Much, much later, he finally said I amounted to a sock because I was "stirring up trouble" in the new account. I dispute that, I made good edits in the new account. I slipped on civility momentarily like many, many editors sometimes do. It doesn't somehow transform me into a sock that must be permanently blocked. Rather than me typing the whole story, let me point you to a diff where I explained it recently: [1].
I came to you semi-randomly, decided to pick an administrator from the list beginning letter "T" and who was active and who had done at least one content edit recently. The "content edit" part ruled out the first six or seven "Ts" I clicked on, and even your edit to Cancun Airport wasn't as substatial as I was looking for, but I have at least been there. I am "block evading" by signing my username to an IP edit, but I hope you will agree with me that block evading is not "socking" because socking means you're trying to fool somebody in one way or other. I won't try to fool you and I haven't tried to fool anyone else; it's not my style. Anyhow, thanks. If you are willing to consider my appeal (fair warning, this will be an unpopular thing among several WP:AN/ANI drama regulars) just unblock me at my talkpage and I'll answer your questions. I think unblocking a user's talkpage is a less-controversial act, because users are only supposed to be blocked from them for egregious violations at them. If you look, you'll see that's not the case with me. Anyhow, thanks for reading, and no offense if you decline. Colton Cosmic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.236.165.187 ( talk) 15:08, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
Please rerun this report: Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Uncatted stubs. Dawynn ( talk) 12:34, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
Any chance we could get an update of this great list you generated over a year ago? –Mabeenot ( talk) 03:43, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello, Topbanana
In spite of the harsh ring in my response in Template talk:Infobox software § Missing parameter tests, I'd love to know exactly what is your case, i.e. when and where you've seen it first and how it is reproduced. I am afraid those who do template coding do not have the luxury of working with assumptions.
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (
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17:36, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello TB, good to see you're back. Could we please have another run of the most wanted articles list, ignoring the links from templates? There is also a discussion at the talk page of the most wanted articles lists with some more useful comments. Thanks! Azylber ( talk) 15:42, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
The first few entries from German placenames with (region) appended arise on {{ Infobox German Location}}, specifically from a poorly designed ifexists clause that hunts around for possible pages to link. A design flaw in the MediaWiki software (see MediaWiki JIRA #12019) makes it impossible to tell at the database level if such links are red (the semantics of pages being hyperlinked and dependent are confused). - TB ( talk) 22:12, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery/Most wanted. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery/Most wanted redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. John Vandenberg ( chat) 14:53, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for your help at Not in Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth, much appreciated, — Cirt ( talk) 21:27, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
Why are you capitalizing "bachelor of arts"? Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 08:43, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Aunk (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G6 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an orphaned disambiguation page which either
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If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Boleyn ( talk) 16:37, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
Judgement with an "e" is correct British English, and should not be changed on UK related articles! Thanks. -- Scott Mac 00:18, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, but a recent edit of yours to the page
Columbia Center Mall has an
edit summary that appears to be inaccurate or inappropriate. Please use edit summaries that accurately tell other editors what you did, and feel free to use
the sandbox for any tests you may want to do. Your edit summary indicated a link repair but in fact you avoided a redirect that has been it place since 2004. If you used a tool for this edit please contact its maintainers about this problem. –
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05:39, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
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!
Hey,
Topbanana,
I see you changed the status of this WikiProject to active. I was basing my edit on
Template:WikiProject Status and the lack of significant activity on the main page as well as the talk page. I'm happy to hear that the WikiProject is actually active! I'm running across so many WikiProjects that haven't had any activity in 3 or 4 years. It seems like there was a big drop-off in WikiProject activity 2010 and again in 2012.
It's been great to see that after I set sorting criteria for the categories the WikiProjects are listed under, many of them have appeared on editors' Watchlists which has prompted them to go back to them and get involved. Of course, it takes more than one editor to keep a WikiProject going but if just a few get revived, that would be a great benefit to the encyclopedia. Liz Read! Talk! 16:01, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up. All fixed now. -- Atethnekos ( Discussion, Contributions) 19:45, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
Please note that on the 22 March 2014, without consultation, you have removed a page entitled Sydney Electric Train Society Incorporated. I will assume that this is because the content matches the webpage www.sets.org.au. Please note that this Wikipedia page was created by committee members of the organization, who are custodians and rightful owners of the content contained in the aforementioned page. We ask that in future before making substantial changes you enquire as to the content. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Setsinfo ( talk • contribs) 07:14, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
Could you send me the link to the 2010 article on this man that you deleted? I want to start an article about a man with the same name. thanks!-- Aichik ( talk) 02:32, 8 April 2014 (UTC)