Hi. Your AWB editing at [1] italicized various website names in the citations. As far as I know, website names should not be in italics, so please do not italicize them. --Odie5533 (talk) 03:04, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
|work = foo
, which is italiced by default (see Template:Cite web#Examples). Consider using the publisher
parameter instead. An optimist on the run! 07:40, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Hey Optimist on the run. Thanks for the check over the Kachin Conflict page but your edits also deleted some important information that I had found and wanted to keep there (e.g. that the Arakan Army is also an armed group fighting there, and that the U.S. dept. of state and the UN have commented on the use of airstrikes there). Also some of the sources from the reference section were also lost in your cleaning so I've just undone everything and I'll go back now and make the spelling changes and things like that that you added. Thanks for run by! Cheers! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hazelmelba2 (talk • contribs) 08:20, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
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Cheers for fixing that! Yunshui 雲水 11:22, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for your explanation of DMY versus MDY. The only problem is, the pages I worked on back when I started got tagged "Needs to be Day Month Year" even though the articles I started on were within the U.S. I wrote the editor who changed dates in the article and they sent me to the page about dates, saying that the top format is preferred (e.g. "9 September 2011"). So, with that as direction, I have been doing it that way for nearly seven years. Yesterday was the first time ever that anyone said the opposite and/or reverted my work to the opposite. I'm astonished because I have watched dozens of editors (and bots) change MDY dates to DMY over last seven years, this is the first one to go back the other way. In this part of the U.S. DMY format is standard. I do not know about the rest of the U.S. or some old manual of style, but the local articles are for the most part done with DMY. If a date is putting MDY some bot or European editor goes through and changes them or tags "needs DMY" and leaves. This bothers me because I really don't want to see endless date fiddling for no reason other than some U.S. chauvinism on an old school date format. I would feel the same way if someone were arguing that all U.S. articles should have inches, feet, pints, gallons, ounces, pounds, rods or chains instead of metric measure - or worse, that they always had to appear first in the "convert" template! That would be hopelessly old fashioned! Thank you for letting me know, now I'm feeling frustrated again about Wiki and that people will be wasting hours of effort piddling around with the order of dates and extra commas, potentially creating typographical errors in facts, instead of cooperatively working on more substantive aspects of the project. Ellin Beltz (talk) 16:12, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
Remember your request to have me disable the block to non-admin accounts on TParis' talk page. There is now a work around to restoring adminstats to your alternate account. Simply give it the account creator flag and Cyberbot I will re-enable adminstats for that account. A recent change has now allowed me to add the accountcreator group to the task for the ACCers, such as myself, who wish to keep track, on wiki, of how many accounts they created, which is allowed per bot policy.—cyberpower ChatOnline 03:51, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
I was just wondering if I was the only one facing the problem of Wikimedia Error when editing WCML South. Also on that note, do you know of any icons that can simplify many of the Bakerloo features? I love the limitations of RDT. Simply south...... catching SNOWballs for just 6 years 15:46, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
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Hello there, I see you asked in the wikilove talk page if there is any way to opt out to these kind of messages, based on your question I've created this ((Template:NoWikiLove)). Regards Eduemoni↑talk↓ 06:54, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi Optimist. After you posted on my talk page this morning, I replied to you and assumed the matter was put to rest. But then, amazingly, instead of just moving on, Guy Macon inexplicably came to my talk page and posted this harrassing comment and edit summary. I then replied, explained that I saw no reason to pursue the matter any more, and asked him politely to "please not post on my talk page again".
However, I just discovered that he ignored my request by using the guise of striking his prior comments so that he could post this harassing edit summary. I of course reverted it. I'm sure he will say something to the effect of "Well, I didn't actually post on his talk page; I just struck my comments".
So he reported me for my WP:SHOUT-based removal of his bolding, you took care of it by posting a note to me, I replied by telling you that "I will be more delicate in handling comments that I feel are shouted or uncivil", and that should have been the end of the matter. Yet he chose, not once, but two times after you and I resolved the matter, to come to my talk page and post his mocking comments and edit summaries. There's no doubt in my mind that his purpose in doing this was so that his two condescending edit summaries would appear on my talk page's revision history page for others to always see.
Also, please note that he posted this message in the AN/I thread two minutes after posting his second message on my talk page.
I feel that his actions are a clear violation of the harassment policy, which says that "trying to display material the user may find annoying or embarrassing in their user space is a common form of harassment" and that the "policy is aimed to protect victims of genuine harassment which is meant to cause distress to the user, such as repeated and unwanted correspondence or postings".
I think you'll agree that he should never have come to my talk page in the first place (after you had already handled the matter), and especially not the second time after I asked him nicely to stay away. Obviously, he wanted to cause me distress. Apparently, his filing a report at AN/I and then you talking to me about it wasn't good enough for him. He had to come to my talk page and unnecessarily provoke me instead of just moving on and leaving it in your hands. Based on all this, I would respectfully ask that you please issue some sort of sanction to him for this harassment violation, and make it clear to him that he is not to come to my talk page again. I would also ask if you could please delete his two comments from my talk page's revision history. Thank you. --76.189.111.199 (talk) 21:48, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of Denbigh Hall railway station at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 01:58, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Just a note, as I don't consider it worth reverting. Oxford and Dictionary.com both give a verb form as well. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:31, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
On 12 March 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Denbigh Hall railway station, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that due to quicksand, passengers on the new London and Birmingham Railway detrained for over five months at Denbigh Hall station to continue their journey by stagecoach? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Denbigh Hall railway station. 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. |
The DYK project (nominate) 08:07, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
I think you are missing what notability actually is. A notable subject will always be notable, short stub or FA length article. Notability is decided by sources which exist beyond articles and "now meets criteria" isn't true, it always met criteria but it hadn't been expanded. Just you haven't the experience as a researcher to look beyond articles as they are at the time and what could be added to them with sources. A kind word of advice, if you come across an article which you think is questionable always look in google books. Ask the editor to expand it or try expanding it yourself using sources you find.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 20:28, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
In that case you've made an error of judgement, we don't delete notable articles. That the article is lacking when sources exist is not a valid deletion rationale. If you want an editor to expand it, if you showed them some respect and simply asked if they could try to expand it you might not have wasted your time with prods and AFDs.I knew what the result would be as soon as I saw your prod.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 20:48, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
I agree, all should be expanded into fuller articles, but I don't think short stubs are the biggest content sin. Worse to me are those long bloated ones with no sources and haphazard poorly written material making them unreadable. At least short stubs are clean and ready for anybody to be expanded. Let's face it, most wikipedia articles are inadequate!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 21:42, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for all your work on adding photographs to station articles. You finished it. Well done! Edward (talk) 06:54, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
I'm assuming your merge request on Hobbit was a joke right? GimliDotNet (Speak to me,Stuff I've done) 08:27, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
Just a thank you after my grumblings and the effort you have made with the usage templates. Simply south...... eating shoes for just 7 years 17:18, 18 April 2013 (UTC) |
Tasty! Thanks :-) An optimist on the run! 18:34, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
You may find this of interest. DS (talk) 21:35, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
Yea. Sorry I was updating Peachy and inadvertently restored my bot to an old state. I fixed It now. Adminstats will continue to function for you alt account.—cyberpower ChatOnline 20:33, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
I was just wondering why you were considering retiring? Simply south...... eating shoes for just 7 years 20:53, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
I've just run across your splendid table of stations in the article. I am filled with admiration and mad with envy! Tim riley (talk) 20:14, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi you deleted a page in my sandbox, and I understand that it was offensive to its subject but it was just a joke among me and my friends. We had no intention of publishing it and I was wondering if it is possible to get the article back. I wouldn't continue to edit it on Wikipedia, but i would like to finish it in a word document. I understand if you can't, and I have no intention of replicating the deleted article on Wikipedia if you can't get it back. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thisismyfifthaccount (talk • contribs) 12:45, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
My intentions weren't to discredit Wikipedia as a serious encyclopedia, and the reason I used it for this task were because I liked the format. As aforementioned, I only want it back so I can finish it in another place. At the time of writing I did not realize that an unpublished article in a sandbox was subject to Wikipedia's guidelines and was wrong to not look into that. I am only asking for you to do me a small favor and save me the task of attempting to rewrite the passage word for word. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thisismyfifthaccount (talk • contribs) 02:04, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
Dear Optimist on the run, you may be interested in a discussion that I've started at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article#Request for comment - images in TFA blurbs. All views welcome. BencherliteTalk 16:28, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi, re this fix, please report the problem at WP:VE/F... or tack another report onto those that are already there. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:11, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
Sorry. I switched operations to labs due to toolserver's instability. Labs does not yet let us access deleted edits.—cyberpower ChatOffline 14:06, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Template:N en requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.
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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Dayna. Since you had some involvement with the Dayna redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Taylor Trescott - my talk + my edits 01:51, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
Hello Optimist on the run, look to m:Wikivoyage/Logo announcement and m:Wikivoyage/Logo 2013. thank, you welcome. FrankyLeRoutier (talk) 09:43, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
By the way. Labs now has deleted edits so adminstats are once again accurate.—cyberpower ChatOnline 22:38, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
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