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Ah, so you're the Chinabot. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.243.187.209 (talk) 05:57, 20 October 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Fair enough. I copied the references from another article covering the same issue. The Vice piece was a French language piece about the history and then-current state of wrestling in France. Romomusicfan (talk) 12:15, 11 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Turns out that "FFCP" means Fédération Française de Catch Professionnel, so I've copied the reference definition you missed when copying the content. Now, the material is referenced in the same way as the source article. When copying material within Wikipedia, please follow WP:COPYWITHIN, which requires clear attribution. -- Mikeblas (talk) 15:20, 11 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yes, DeGlane was one of the FFCP's original founders in the 1930s. I meant to copy only the one reference but accidentally copied the end tag for the Vice ref as well. Never mind, two will do as well as one. Romomusicfan (talk) 07:34, 12 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi Mikeblas! I noticed you made this edit on the article "Oxycodone" that reverted some changes I made. I want to thank you for catching the error I made where I accidentally misspelled the reference name "Drugbank" as "Drungbank", which caused the "invoked but never defined" error. I was wondering if you would have any concerns or objects to me reverting the article back, but with the "Drungbank" ref name error fixed? Thanks! Wikipedialuva (talk) 01:09, 23 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Of course not -- just need to make sure the references still work after the adjustments are made. -- Mikeblas (talk) 02:32, 23 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

 Done Thanks for the quick reply! Wikipedialuva (talk) 03:19, 23 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Mikeblas--thanks, but there's a bot that handles that. Drmies (talk) 14:28, 25 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

It isn't guaranteed to attempt a fix, and often gets things wrong when it does make an attempt. Depending on it, in my opinion, is negligent. It's very easy to edit carefully, and if not enough time -- don't edit at all. -- Mikeblas (talk) 02:26, 26 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I just don't have the bandwidth to deal with trying to fix whatever the issues but I noticed you edited at least one of them...Dachau Uprising & Freiheitsaktion Bayern. There is some discussion happening at Talk:Dachau Uprising about renaming it or something... Could you please look in on the general situation? Something needs to be done but I can't figure out what. I am stepping away from WP for a while. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 22:48, 28 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Happy to help -- but I'm not too sure what it is you're specifically asking me to do. I don't have a strong opinion about how the article should be named (or how that cluster of topics should be structured), and it doesn't seem like anything on the talk page you linked is actionable just yet. -- Mikeblas (talk) 23:18, 28 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

It's enough that you're aware of the 2 articles & maybe keep an eye on them. I guess I'm not sure that either Uprising or its sibling are notable enough or to be articles... I dunno, it just seems like kind of a mess. Thanks anyway, Shearonink (talk) 00:42, 29 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank you for cleaning up reference errors on Chalmers Automobile. I will be more mindful of that in the future. Apologies. Varnent (talk)^(COI) 19:21, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

No worrries -- it happens all over the encyclopedia. It looks like someone removed the URLs, then flattened those to be the same (with different anchor names), then they got kind of conflated, then you tried to de-duplicate them. I went back several months to find an edit by RandomCanadian which was the root of the problem. Now, these have full citations and everything fits together ... but I'm not sure why links to the PDFs can't be used. -- Mikeblas (talk) 19:30, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

As is so often the case here - every solution uncovers a new set of mysteries in need of resolution. Thank you for all of your efforts and diligence! Varnent (talk)^(COI) 20:09, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

You reverted an edit on this page saying it was unsourced - but the sources were in the edit summary. GiantSnowman 19:00, 8 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The <ref name=“independent”/> source was incorrect (with curly quotes) and doesn't bind to the unnamed bare URL in the edit summary. That edit caused a referencing error and added the page to Category:Pages with broken reference names, so I reverted it. -- Mikeblas (talk) Mikeblas (talk) 20:56, 8 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]