Hi. In principle, converting Infobox Berg to Infobox Mountain makes sense in the long term. However, sometimes information is lost, usually the elevation reference datum which states e.g. whether the height is above Normalnull in Amsterdam or metres above the Adriatic in Trieste. They are slightly different. Before we lose much more info in converting the tables from one to t'other, could Infobox Mountain be modified to cater record and display the height reference system? --Bermicourt (talk) 06:04, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi. At present I do not have sufficient free time to undertake any sort of developer role on an open source project. As well, since I develop proprietary application code as a profession, I must be careful to avoid contamination to/from open source code which can lead to licensing issues for my employer. That however does not automatically prevent me from working on open source endeavors. In any case, I don't rule out any future developer role participation on Wikimedia projects and will keep the opportunity in mind. Thanks. RedWolf (talk) 03:45, 18 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi RedWolf. A courtesy notice, I guess. I have re-created a page you deleted back in the elder days of Wikipedia. What do you think about this? --Shirt58 (talk) 12:34, 30 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. That deletion was almost 12 years ago due to a copyright violation. The new content looks fine to me. RedWolf (talk) 18:03, 6 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi, RedWolf. I almost completely reverted your latest edit to Andes, and I wanted to explain why. As of 2015, the guideline against changing citation methods was expanded to direct us to avoid "changing where the references are defined, e.g. moving reference definitions in the reflist to the prose, or moving reference definitions from the prose into the reflist". I thus moved two citations in Andes back into the main article text. —hike395 (talk) 02:38, 19 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Very well then, I will abandon my work on fixing dead external links. Adding the archive parameters just makes the inline usage of references very cluttered and unwieldy. As well, fixing the same links across multiple articles takes much more time. RedWolf (talk) 17:27, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
OK, sorry to hear that. There's InternetArchiveBot, which has been automagically adding archive.org links to articles with dead external links, so maybe we just need to wait for the bot to find dead links? —hike395 (talk) 02:07, 22 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
FWIW, InternetArchiveBot allows you to enter a list of WP pages to scan for dead links. For me, it took about 1 week to get to the front of the queue. It worked pretty well for me: it found a link at archive.org for 90%+ of the detected dead links. You may want to give it a try: it's quite a time-saver over manually fixing dead links. —hike395 (talk) 11:07, 1 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Hike395: I've tried the IABot a couple times now and it fails to notice the dead links and so does not update the page. It can't seem to figure out that custom 404 error pages still indicate a dead link. RedWolf (talk) 05:19, 14 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It's really hard to IABot to distinguish a custom 404 page from a page move followed by a page redesign. Here's a workaround that might still save you time:
You find a page with an external link with a custom 404 page
Click "Add archives to all non-dead references (Optional)"
Click the "Analyze" button
Edit the page, find the broken external link, and change "url-status=live" to "url-status=dead"
I tested this on Mount Inglismaldie, you can see the before and after edits in the History. This would require you to still go through every link manually. But I don't know of a way to detect custom 404 pages without doing that.
Note that this trick may add secondary archive links to other references. I'm guessing from ((Belyea-Banff-NP)) that you may not mind those secondary archives links.
Does this trick work for you? —hike395 (talk) 07:44, 14 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Well it was used on an article just fine for 16 years. Someone uploaded the cover of a more recent edition of the book. RedWolf (talk) 09:56, 28 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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hiee, pls help me to save the article from deleteing, this artile is about Agnel Roman. he is a one of the well-known music Directors in india. you can check other wikipedia articles like Ragini MMS, Panithuli, Maazii, Mickey Virus, Jigariyaa that mantion his name so that he has notability. and The Times of India is the reliable source. you can see the article in the same. what else is needed ?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Annki777 (talk • contribs) 06:47, December 13, 2019 (UTC)
Not sure why asked me as this is not in an area of interest for me. A passing reference to someone doesn't automatically make them notable. I suggest that you read Wikipedia:Notability and Wikipedia:Reliable sources to help you make the person sufficiently notable to warrant their own page. RedWolf (talk) 23:35, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Despite the scope stating that mountaineering is within scope, mountaineers are apparently not in scope per this edit you made. I'm confused as that makes no sense to me. So, what wikiproject are mountaineers in scope of, if not this one? ww2censor (talk) 22:45, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Ww2censor: Climbers/mountaineers are covered by WikiProject Climbing. I probably should have done a substitution rather than removal in that edit. RedWolf (talk) 18:02, 29 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Ah indeed, a substitution would have been good. I did not know there was such a narrow wikiproject but have now added it myself. Cheers ww2censor (talk) 18:11, 29 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Ok good. I've added WP Climbing to the WP Mountains page as a related project for articles on climbers/mountaineers. RedWolf (talk) 18:22, 29 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Yea I know the bot won't read this but I was aware of the issue when i created the link. However, the specific mountain does not currently have its own page. RedWolf (talk) 06:38, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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I created this page in February 2008 which I think was the standard way of doing disambiguation at the time. I have no concerns with it being deleted. RedWolf (talk) 18:25, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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My only edit of this page was in 2005 in order to remove a copyvio from the page history. The article was very minimal at this point and I made no further contributions to the page. RedWolf (talk) 18:22, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
