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Per WP:INFOBOXFLAG do not remove ship registry flags from infoboxes of ship articles. Please revert any removals you have made.
You seem to have a vendetta against the use of flags. Your removals are against consensus, any further removals will lead to this issue being raised elsewhere. Consider this as a formal warning to cease and desist. Mjroots (talk) 16:02, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
Did you realize that you deleted a whole list of sister cities in your "General formatting" edit???Philipxd (talk) 04:01, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
I see what you did there, but there is no point of removing the list and adding a link to another wikipage as lists of sister cities are shown on nearly every cities on wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Philipxd (talk • contribs) 07:23, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
The article NAD 3020 you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:NAD 3020 for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of B137 -- B137 (talk) 19:01, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
The article Knife attack on Kevin Lau you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Knife attack on Kevin Lau for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Freikorp -- Freikorp (talk) 07:42, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for your response at the thread there. Not that I'm saying that you were 'defending me', or that I'm thanking you for 'taking my side', as I never really intended, or saw, my bringing it up there as a 'adversarial' thing, which I tried to make clear. As the same time, as I also tried to make clear, I know that some people see ANI as the 'request for sanctions' noticeboard, not the 'incidents' noticeboard, that my addressing the issue there would create drama, and that people would question my judgement. Simply, thanks for not adding to that. Reventtalk 07:58, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi Ohconfucius. First of all, I would like to let you know how much I generally appreciate your efforts in tidying up so many different aspects of Wikipedia articles. I have noticed, however, that you have recently twice deleted the twin cities sections in the articles about Danish cities we have been working up to GA (Esbjerg, Odense), preferring instead a link to List of twin towns and sister cities in Denmark. (I have also noticed that you appear to dislike the frequent use of flags which often accompany the twin cities lists.) Maybe there have been decisions to proceed along these lines but I must say that I personally find the twin/sister cities sections interesting and useful in the articles themselves: interesting because they provide an immediate overview of the connections established with other cities and useful because several of the other cities often have special arrangements or hold events or exchanges with the city in question. I don't suppose many people look at the See also sections to see if there is a link to twin cities. Indeed, if they do, they may well be distracted away from the article itself and undertake an examination of what connections are enjoyed by other cities in the list. I see your talk page is followed by some 270 editors. Maybe some of them would like to comment on this.--Ipigott (talk) 08:29, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Twin cities by a long way are acceptable and advisable in city articles. Dismissing them as "clutter" isn't a valid argument for deletion and looks like vandalism. Flags aren't compulsory, but twin cities do form part of the city political framework and should be mentioned in city articles.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:12, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Until we have consensus on this, please refrain from re-deleting these sections. I am obviously not the only one to think they're important.--Ipigott (talk) 09:40, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Why are you changing the ENGVAR tags on many articles about South African topics from South African English to British English? Are you denying the "legitimacy" of SAE as a real ENGVAR? English speaking South Africans do not speak or write British English. I'm confused by these changes which IMHO are contrary to the ENGVAR rules. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 09:05, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
While on the subject there is no reason to change the specific ((Use British English)) to the non-specific ((EngvarB)) where it has already been determined which variant to use. The former is easier to understand and follow while the latter is not clear what editors should be using. Keith D (talk) 12:34, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Yes, changing the date style in the references is one thing, and I can accept that since it's common that scripts on Wikipedia do that. But changing the American date setup and American spelling in the article text, as you did in this edit, which I reverted, is a different matter. Do find a way to make sure that your script does not disrupt the date format in the general article text or the WP:ENGVAR of the article. Flyer22 (talk) 23:34, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
Update: Reverted yet again. Flyer22 (talk) 21:05, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
I have worked to improve the Charlotte Perrelli article today. If you can find any further improvements, that would be appreciated! :)--BabbaQ (talk) 17:08, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
Are you sure this article is a copyvio? Most of the article text was posted in March 2006 [1] but the content on the website you named on the CSD notice is in a comment posted in February 2013. It would appear they copied off of us, not the other way around. Thanks, Altamel (talk) 19:04, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Roksan Xerxes you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of B137 -- B137 (talk) 04:41, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for fixes, but to change things in a part commented out (which will not even stay) as in Gerd Nienstedt is extra work not needed, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:09, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
In a recent edit to the page An Post, you changed one or more words or styles from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.
For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, or New Zealand, use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the original author used.
In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Thank you. ww2censor (talk) 15:58, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
Please explain how the embedded comedian infobox was "messing things up". If the embedding is a problem then the infobox should be changed to the comedian infobox. --Musdan77 (talk) 03:22, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
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Dear Ohconfucius ; Very many thanks for your helpful assistance (aided by these great scripts of yours!) in tidying up our encyclopedia! I particularly appreciated the improvements you applied to the article on Andy Irvine, which I have been working on for a while. Please know that your meticulous approach is much appreciated. With kind regards; Patrick. ツ Pdebee. (talk) 12:00, 14 August 2014 (UTC) |
Thank you for your remark, but there are teams who have highlighted nationalities of their players' clubs and show flag icons (teams like Ukraine, Slovenia, Serbia, Belgium, Turkey, Spain, Argentina, Croatia, Lithuania etc.). So, I would keep club nationalities of Georgian players. Dartzow (talk) 08:31, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
The article Roksan Xerxes you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Roksan Xerxes for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of B137 -- B137 (talk) 21:03, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
Please do not remove ((start date)) , ((end date)), or other subtemplates from infoboxes, or from ((Timeline-event)), as you did in this edit. See its documentation for why it's needed. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:11, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
In this edit several hyphens that were described in the text as deliberate examples of hyphen use were changed to n dashes. Please repair. Jc3s5h (talk) 13:11, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello Ohconfucius. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Arshiya Lokhandwala, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: I've cut out the gallery section, which was spammy and not appropriate for the article on the person. What remains is not spam in my view. However, whilst there's enough to pass A7 notability, I'm not sure about the GNG, so it might be advisable to take this to AfD. . Thank you. GedUK 12:01, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
your change to use url module for website has some sort of problem. ((URL|example.com|optional display text))
faulty?
Richard Bruce Bradford (talk) 16:29, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
As per WP:NCPDAB policy and WP:FOOTY explanation, the page title should remain as Adam Campbell (footballer, born 1995). LRD NO (talk) 03:16, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello. What I should have done in the first place was to ask if putting a comment in the middle of the phrase would prevent the script interpreting it as something it should change. Like
...signed in the two weeks before the<!-- to separate "the" from date --> 17 March transfer deadline.
I really don't want to have to use less natural phrasing just to head off a script. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 08:38, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
Please, try to avoid proposing deletion for anything remotely controversial. Go to AfD instead. The PC Police already are on our case. Bearian (talk) 20:44, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
I have reverted your recent changes to articles on my watchlist, as in some of them you have deleted links to the West End. If you would like to redo your other changes, that will be admirable but please don't delete links to the West End, which, an American editor has told me, are needed for his compatriots who may not be familiar with the term. Regards, Tim riley talk 08:27, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
"ultra isn't a word..." see Ultra it is no longer an Ultra secret. -- PBS (talk) 12:10, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
Hey, do you think Pretty Little Liars (TV series)#International broadcasting violates MOS:FLAG#Do_not_emphasize_nationality_without_good_reason and/or WP:TVINTL? Thanks. — TAnthonyTalk 03:44, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
Just wanted to say thanks for nominating the article at FAC. I was going to do it myself eventually, but I couldn't yet as my previous nomination is still listed there. I was starting to get a bit annoyed about it lol, turns out FAC takes a lot longer than I anticipated! In the interim though, I spent a few days scouring through the 1989-1990 microforms of the Newcastle Herald in my university library's basement, and found a lot of good information to expand the article. Knowing me I probably made a dozen prose errors adding the information, but i'm happy the articles content at least is sufficient for FAC now. Did you notice the article when it was at DYK? It got over 15,000 views, which is a record for an article nominated by me. I was quite pleased about that :). Freikorp (talk) 12:55, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
Well it was a lacklustre start for the nomination, but the two users who have just voiced their support is promising. Unfortunately I learnt the hard way from my first FAC nomination that two votes of support isn't enough. Generally four are required, though three can be accepted if support is unanimous. If there is anyone you can encourage to review the article, now would be the time to do it. It looks like we have about 3 weeks before this nomination will be closed, but considering that it took one month before this nomination received its first full review, i'm not filled with confidence that more people will review it unless they are encouraged to do so. Freikorp (talk) 03:46, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
Well we have four people supporting the nomination now, which is fantastic and more than enough in itself (as long as somebody else doesn't review and oppose), though as one of the closers pointed out, none of the reviewers have done a source check for accuracy and/or close paraphrasing, which is needed. Whilst asking someone to completely review the article may have been a bit daunting, now we only need to find someone to review some of the sources, which should be far less time consuming. I'll start asking around, if you know anyone who might be willing to do that feel free to ask them too. :) Freikorp (talk) 02:57, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi there. It might interest you to know that I have nominated the article for the feature film that was inspired by the murder, Blackrock (film), for FAC, see here. All comments on the nomination are welcome. =D Freikorp (talk) 07:44, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
I have to say your repeated removal of the Scottish independence section is extremely unhelpful. I can see why you say that it is speculation, but by that measure all the issues that may result from the referendum fall under that category; factors such as such as currency, health care and membership of international bodies (including those for sports/Olympics) have been studied, discussed and reported in the news - therefore they have been covered in various places on Wikipedia. I would think that a reader coming to the article would expect to see whatever information is available on how independence would affect the Great Britain team and including quotes from an official government report and the VP of the IOC are more than "rhetoric" and "ref bombing". Frankly I'd expect a bit more discussion and courtesy from such an experienced editor instead of the blanking of content. I'd ask that you reconsider restoring the section yourself - Basement12 (T.C) 14:03, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello again. I noticed that this "Script-assisted" edit changed the title of a work from title case to sentence case. Based on Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Titles_of_works I think this is wrong. If this was a scripted part of the change, I think the script needs checking.TuxLibNit (talk) 11:00, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
|work=Former Members of Parliament
to |work=Former members of parliament
, as shown in the short diff I provided).TuxLibNit (talk) 11:32, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
|work=Former Members of Parliament
" is incorrect, it should be "|work=Parliament.nsw.gov.au
" or "|work=Parliament of NSW
". OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 11:47, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
|work=
. I'll wait for Ohconfucius to comment before making any further responses.TuxLibNit (talk) 17:07, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
|work=
parameter is meant to display the name of the publication (work) that contains the relevant information. It italicises. OTOH, websites are not generally italicised, and the publisher field already contains the publisher's name (Parliament of NSW), so what's in the work parameter is redundant and ought to be removed outright. -- Ohc ¡digame! 01:44, 1 September 2014 (UTC)Going back to my original concern I'm hoping for a response that looks a bit like one of:
... or some similar possibility I havn't thought of. I hope that is clearer. TuxLibNit (talk) 18:52, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
I saw that on this article you removed the accessdate parameter from some of the source definitions and then changed the date format on the citations. I have undone these changes. The YYYY-MM-DD date format is acceptable in citations regardless of the date format used in the body. I have not read the printed books cited, but have viewed a website that purports to show images of the printed pages. This website does not always attribute pages accurately (example), and is subject to revision. As with any url, an accessdate is appropriate since it shows when the source was seen – the version being cited – useful when retrieving archived page images. Aymatth2 (talk) 02:59, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
|ref=harvard
field. Regards, -- Ohc ¡digame! 03:09, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
importScript('User:Ucucha/HarvErrors.js');
Regards. -- Ohc ¡digame! 03:35, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
Will you please stop removing blue links to West End theatre? As I have told you before, American readers have specifically said that not all readers outside the United Kingdom know what the term means, and that is why we always link it. You will see that the term is linked in Featured Articles on Gielgud, Richardson et al, and nobody at PR or FAC has ever suggested that the term is an WP:OVERLINK. I am reverting your edit. If you wish to restore your other edits, which look on the face of it quite harmless, and even beneficial, then fine, but please don't bulldoze your lone opinion through against the consensus. Tim riley talk 09:47, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for your edits, but please try not to link to redirects. It's Mont Blanc massif not Mont Blanc Massif! Ericoides (talk) 05:52, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
I thought you and I had an amicable discussion on this a while ago and you agreed that nbsp in dates was okay. What's changed? Since you used MOSNUM to back your argument, I see no statement there forbidding its use in dates. Further, the Ranges section of that guideline gives the following example of correct usage:
Also, you've been changing ranks to sentence case. Ranks are either all lower case when used in the form "Bloggs was promoted to flight lieutenant", or in title case when used in the form "Flight Lieutenant Bloggs". Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 07:50, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
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I have asked you previously (#Subtemplates, above) not to break event templates; you have done so again here. Please desist. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:11, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi Ohconfucius. The more I look at the article, the more I share your concerns. Perhaps a CCI might be a bit much for just one article, tho. What do you think? Pete AU aka --Shirt58 (talk) 11:55, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
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I noticed your changes to some spellings of sources in the footnotes and am particularly puzzled about "The Telegraph". Clicking on both "The Telegraph" and "The Daily Telegraph" citations in the footnotes brings up "The Telegraph" as the title of the newspaper. I am fairly sure the printed newspaper version is still "The Daily Telegraph", so is "The Telegraph" just its online name? The Wikipedia article on the newspaper is no help on this. I also noticed that you changed "Aljazeera" to "Al Jazeera", which of course is the proper name, so am I right in thinking that online names like "Aljazeera", "alarabiya" and "The Telegraph" should not be used in footnote citations? I also wondered about "The Huffington Post", which is the title in the Wikipedia article on it, but you have changed it to "Huffington Post" in the footnotes. Is there any WP guidance on citation conventions? ---P123ct1 (talk) 14:09, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
|work=
[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] when |work=
[[The Daily Telegraph]] is cleaner. On the other hand, I thank you for drawing my attention to "The Huffington Post". This omission/removal of the prefix seems to be an error on my part, which I have now adjusted the script for. Regards, -- Ohc ¡digame! 02:11, 23 September 2014 (UTC)Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that you've added some links pointing to disambiguation pages. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.
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Thank you for your reply about formatting newspapers. Can you answer my question about The Daily Telegraph, please? Should it be "The Telegraph" in the footnotes, which is the way it appears on the website text, or "The Daily Telegraph"? Wikipedia's article on The Daily Telegraph" is no help here. -- Ohc ¡digame! 02:11, 23 September 2014 (UTC) P123ct1 (talk)
|work=
telegraph.co.uk. So if the field is |work=
Telegraph, it gets left alone. I hope that answers your question. -- Ohc ¡digame! 02:17, 23 September 2014 (UTCJust wondering why in your edit of Denstone College (18 May 2014), "Staffordshire" has been de-capitalised a few times, as I believe counties should always be capitalised (but I may be wrong) Ohc ¡digame! 02:11, 23 September 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 13tsf13 (talk • contribs) 16:57, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for your script fixes to an article I worked on, Francis Tregian the Younger. I noted you inverted the day from month day to day month -- and I believe that WP takes the attitude that this should not be done automatically (assuming one way if preferable to another way) and that if the article consistently has it one way, it should not be altered. -- 16:51, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi Ohconfucius! I thought you might be interested in Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FrescoBot 12. GoingBatty (talk) 17:09, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for your date format and Br. spelling corrections, but please do not delink solicitor, where you mean a lawyer, because in the US, the word means a salesperson. All the best! -- Ssilvers (talk) 19:16, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
I just noticed the edit that you made some time ago here. I think something went wrong.
Your "fix" included changing the expression "in the case of Ryan (1964) 50 Cr App R 144, at 148" to say "in the case of Ryan (1964) 500 million App R 144, at 148". Unfortunately, Cr App R is an English law report but "500 million App R" makes no sense.
I guess you have some sort of (semi-)automated editing software that thinks a number followed by Cr must mean crore? Unfortunately that is not necessarily the case. May I suggest that you might want to change the software, and/or take more care when reviewing the suggested edits.
I also see that you delinked LLB. Is that so obvious that there is no need for a link? -- Ferma (talk) 17:00, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
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In cleaning up Al-Qaeda, the script want to change "the September 11 attacks" to "the September 11 attacks". -- Gadget850 talk 14:08, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
Hello, just a note that I've linked to your wonderful tools from Template:Cleanup-bare URLs/doc. Is that okay? Zhaofeng Li [talk... contribs...] 23:15, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi. I've noticed you're using a script to change a decimal to a comma in some numbers. In the Burt Munro article, this has the effect of changing his record-setting speed from a value in the hundreds of kph to a value in the hundreds of thousands of kph. This makes no sense. Please double check you're changing annotation that really needs to be corrected. Thanks. Mindfrieze (talk) 15:16, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
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hi Ohconfucius, am trying to figure out how to address your query on the Wendy McMurdo WP ('check date values' re the Salamanca book. The two dates are to reflect the fact that there are two separate editions (one date actually being wrong!) - would you be able to help me fix that? The 1st Edition was dated September 1998, the 2nd Edition dated January 2001 ... many thanks in advance.Liquorisky (talk) 16:25, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
Greets... someone thinks I'm a repeat offender after only one cleanup attempt on an article [2] - perhaps you can take a peek to see if I went off base. Dl2000 (talk) 04:19, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
Dear Ohconfucius, I invite you to express your opinion about the article for deletion. --Rossi101 (talk) 19:00, 20 October 2014 (UTC)Rossi101
Can you please restore the flags in the current squad? Here. You failed to gain support for the flag removal from the squads of diverse sports squads, so please don't make unnecessary work to other editors. FkpCascais (talk) 04:24, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
When you have time, I hope you can fix the whole article. --George Ho (talk) 04:30, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
zzz and I were discussing what you removed. Well, zzz didn't like the entry either. I am sure that it is not a minority opinion, and it may not violate UNDUE. --George Ho (talk) 16:04, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
Greetings! It seems that the user restored his edit at MOS:LINK[3]. Care to take a look? :P Cheers! Jayaguru-Shishya (talk) 20:01, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
There is a Request for Comment about "Chronological Summaries of the Olympics" and you're invited! Becky Sayles (talk) 07:26, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
Since you seem to be particularly interested in this image, a headsup to Commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Xi Jinping Banner in Mong Kok 20141026.jpg.--KTo288 (talk) 21:17, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
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I've made comments. May you reply? --George Ho (talk) 00:27, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
This edit of yours changed an infobox parameter that no one seems to have noticed for three years. The parameter is to be | genesis_1:1-3= and your script--and I'm assuming it was a script and not done manually--changed the dash to an en-dash. DOH! I just fixed it. Could you please confirm that the current versions of the script don't repeat this error? Thanks. Walter Görlitz (talk) 05:46, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
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Hello! Any chances, please, for you to have a look at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Software § Date format in release history sections of Linux articles and possibly comment there by providing your point of view? The whole thing is pretty much poorly discussed with only a few editors actually discussing it, while it seems to be affecting more than a few articles (and the date format seems to be extending beyond the tables into references, please see history of the Linux distribution article). Any contributions to the discussion would be highly appreciated! — Dsimic (talk | contribs) 02:45, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
May I rename it to "Art of the 2012 Hong Kong protests"? --George Ho (talk) 08:46, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
I didn't know you converted a redirect page to a disambiguation page(?). I did rename your creation to "Art of the 2014 Hong Kong protests", but I'm confused. What about WP:DIFFCAPS? umbrella movement dabpage is a big step, and I don't know whether a reader can tell a difference between "movement" and "Movement". --George Ho (talk) 11:59, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
If you want me to rename the art subpage back, tell me the meaning of "umbrella movement". I don't like the difference between movement and Movement. The dabpage lists groups participating the protests. --George Ho (talk) 12:04, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
By determining your attitude and determination, I have noticed you are favouring Hong Kong democracy. You know that democracy is a rule of majority, and the majority of Hong Kongers speak Cantonese with some English. Lately, Mandarin language has been also taught in schools since the 1997 handover to China. Do majority want Hong Kong to be a country like Singapore, be part of China, be part of the British rule again, or be ruled by another sovereign state like Germany, Russia, or the United States? Also, how would children rule when they grow up as a majority? Do they graduate from high schools and/or colleges? Even when you might claim not to advocate for Hong Kong democracy, this is Wikipedia, and I assure you that I was following WP:NOTADVOCACY and not advocating anything, like proposing titles in favour of one group or another. I was just proposing consistency; that's all. I hope you follow that policy too. What happened to that familiar phrase, "think about others before yourself"? Well, I didn't know this Romans verse, "Putting Others Ahead of Yourself." --George Ho (talk) 20:12, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
There is a dispute because someone tried to overwrite your initial efforts. --George Ho (talk) 08:50, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
Just wondering if you have any thoughts re: the idea of WMF hosting a genealogy project. If so, feel free to contribute to this discussion. And apologies if I have made this request before. ---Another Believer (Talk) 18:30, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
You were involved with this article; I invite you to discuss the page move proposal. --George Ho (talk) 00:18, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
Please keep the discussion going. Lmmnhn (talk) 09:12, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
You said you want to merge it into Umbrella Movement. Will you do it? I don't know how to place the information. --George Ho (talk) 09:38, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
In these other move discussions:
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The article Qigong fever needs a lot of work, and I mean a lot of work. You are probably the best person I can think of to help in that matter, if you were to choose to do so. The article, I honestly think, may possibly even fall within the discretionary sanctions enacted in the first FG arbitration, although maybe that would need to be specified through clarification or amendment by the ArbCom. I can I think get the Palmer book if you can't, and if you want I can search the various databanks I have access to and forward to you anything that seems relevant. But at this point I think you are probably the person with the best background in the topic to help develop this article and the related ones, if you so desire. John Carter (talk) 17:58, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
Can you respond to the template talk? Lmmnhn (talk) 16:01, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
style fixes
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--Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:34, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
I highly suggest that you remove automated temperature scale conversion from your scripts, as these are problematic in practice, as evidenced in e.g. Thermal death time:
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Hello, Ohconfucius and than you for your scripts :) I was just wondering if the "Delink COMMON trems" script's edit summary could be adjusted from this to something more descriptive such as here. Havn't had any issues but, it seems a little more info wouldn't hurt. Mlpearc (open channel) 05:54, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
I had to remove the changes that were made by a banned user (Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Beh-nam/Archive 94.210.203.230 & LouisAragon). You can make your changes again if you want to. Oh and Happy New Year! Bladesmulti (talk) 07:15, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
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On 16 January 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Art of the Umbrella Movement, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Umbrella Movement transformed an eight-lane highway running through Hong Kong's financial district into an artistic canvas (statue pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Art of the Umbrella Movement. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), 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. |
In January 2013 there was a "RfC on COMMONSTYLE proposal" at WT:AT in which you expressed an interest. FYI there is a similar debate taking place at the moment, see Wikipedia talk:Article titles#Stylization of the "common name" -- PBS-AWB (talk) 12:12, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
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You may want to check Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 17:58, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
I brought up the issue at Talk:2014 Hong Kong protests. --George Ho (talk) 06:23, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
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It would be great to have a script that unifies formatting of authors in references (both templated and non-templated) from Albert Smith to Smith, Albert and vice versa. Of course it would fail on some names (Hispanic etc.), but humans fail there too, so this would be acceptable. Regards. Materialscientist (talk) 11:45, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
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Hello Ohconfucius. Would you want to share your 2 cents regarding the status of Hong Kong for the purpose of its listing in this list of tramways? 124.217.187.8 (talk) 00:32, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
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Please take a look at the article about Måns Zelmerlöw. I have done several edits to improve the article ahead of his likely Melodifestivalen winning next weekend. Any further improvements are appreciated. Cheers.--BabbaQ (talk) 17:23, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
Someone using your Common Terms.js just removed lots of links from Earth. While much of the delinking was correct and helpful, some of it (alumina, nickel, earthquake, tropics, season, etc, etc) was, in my judgement, not warranted. While some of these terms have particular relevance to Earth that they would not often have elsewhere, I would think that alumina and nickel (for example) should almost always be linked. This is based on my understanding of the guidelines at WP:LINKING. What do you think? A2soup (talk) 00:42, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
There is some argument regarding exactly how to describe the above practice on its talk page. On of the fundamental questions, at least to my eyes, is about how to describe adequately in the lead the fact that Chinese systems to not have the mind/body/soul differentiation that we tend to take as a given in Western philosophy, and which to an extent undergirds our use of words like "religion" and "spiritual." You seem to be maybe our best informed editor, at least in my eyes, regarding the whole qigong thing, and I think your input might be useful regarding how to describe the bases for this topic adequately in this article, and, for all I know, other similar articles. I am in the process of starting a section relating to this on the talk page, at Talk:Reiki#Pseudoscientific aspects of Eastern religions in general, and would welcome your input on how to address this matter, given the amount of time and attention you have given to related issues. John Carter (talk) 16:28, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
I think there may be a minor bug in one of your scripts. I have cleaned up the same error made about a dozen times by different editors, which makes me think that it is not a manual editing error.
It looks like this, specifically the change from |work=MTV|publisher=MTV Networks (Viacom)|
to |publisher=MTV|= (Viacom)|
. The change leaves an unsupported parameter (see Category:Pages with citations using unsupported parameters) in the citation. One solution would be to remove the pipe after "MTV", but I don't know what your intent was, so I'll let you do it your way. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:08, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi Ohconfucius. I edited your formatgeneral.js to update you to the latest version of TemplateScript. You were using a much older version called regex menu framework, so the main difference you'll see is an improved regex editor (along with many new features for text snippets and scripting). I also updated deprecated functions. Let me know if anything breaks. :) —Pathoschild 05:33, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
regex(search, replace)
are no longer supported. Since jQuery is now loaded by default, code like this is much easier to write:var editor = $('#wpTextbox1'), text = editor.val();
text = text
.replace(/sample/g, 'replace')
.replace(/sample/g, 'replace')
.replace(/sample/g, 'replace');
editor.val(text);
regex()
. There are two options to migrate to the newer version:
regex()
method to your scripts that works just like the old one — this is safe, but you don't benefit from the improved performance.User:Ohconfucius/test
path. If everything is satisfactory, I will align the production scripts. Regards, -- Ohc ¡digame! 12:48, 30 March 2015 (UTC)Before | → | After |
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function ohc_ISO_to_dmy_in_citations() {
ohc_regex(/.../gi, "...");
}
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→ | function ohc_ISO_to_dmy_in_citations(text) {
return ohc_regex(text, /.../gi, '...');
}
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function ohc_delink_dates(text) {
text = ohc_regex(text, /.../gi, '...');
text = text.replace(/.../gi, '...');
text = text.replace(/.../gi, '...');
return text;
}
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→ | function ohc_delink_dates(text) {
return text
.ohc_regex(/.../gi, '...')
.replace(/.../gi, '...')
.replace(/.../gi, '...');
}
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ohc
namespace, so the functions are no longer global. This also gives us nice autocompletion in debug tools.linkmap
global into local variables. This makes each function more predictable since it's not affected by external state.The Technical Barnstar | ||
After been using your gadgets for a long time, I hereby award this barnstar specially for you as the developer. Many thanks! It has make my time to change to British spelling much easier. :) ~ Muffin Wizard ;) 11:55, 28 March 2015 (UTC) |
Your name has been mentioned at User talk:EdJohnston#Request for reinstating indefinite topic ban on User:Ohconfucius. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 01:08, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
Do you think he's an idiot? Aaabbb11 (talk) 21:43, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
OK I'll try an easier (admittedly off topic) question. Do you own a Roksan Xerxes? I've got a Linn Sondek LP12 Aaabbb11 (talk) 00:24, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
FYI: An arbitration enforcement request has been filed regarding your conduct. TheSoundAndTheFury (talk) 20:19, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
i don't have a cat, dog, or any other small creature in this fight, and it looks unfortunate and messy - but i could not identify where thesoundandthefury characterizes you as 'Pro-Regime', as you wrote in the ae response? Here is the link that you provided: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:EdJohnston&oldid=654952376.Happy monsoon day 13:37, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
In this edit https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bo_Xilai&diff=655912045&oldid=655805394 you reverted all 3 changes I made. If you only objected to one change then why revert all 3?
Thanks for sorting it. Aaabbb11 (talk) 11:59, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
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Greetings! I wanted to let you know I reverted your recent edit to C-47 Skytrain- I understand you are trying to improve the article, but the usage of country flags in the "operator" section of aircraft articles has a long-standing precedent. It may be desirable to change that precedent (I don't really have strong feelings either way)- but it is a change that other editors should be able to weigh in on, so it can be an agreed-to standard. WP:aircraft has a talk page where a standard policy either way could be discussed and documented- maybe start a discussion there?
Thanks for your understanding! Cheers! Skyraider1 (talk) 00:13, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello Ohconfucius. There is still a complaint about you at WP:AE#Ohconfucius. It will be hard to close this without reaching a conclusion about your Falun-Gong-related subpages. I recommend that you blank or delete User:Ohconfucius/essay/Editing Falun Gong articles on Wikipedia. After I know your answer I'll decide what to propose as the next step at AE. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 01:33, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
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I wanted to ask if it's alright if I copy-paste your script into a sandbox so I can add a few more countries and other terms to the code to delink (e.g., Korea). Is that okay? If not, I totally understand. EvergreenFir (talk) Please ((re)) 02:23, 18 April 2015 (UTC)