User talk:Fox/January 2016

Disruptive Edits

Please stop your disruptive edits, I think you have a mistake. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.192.52.67 (talk) 21:28, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

@64.192.52.67: - no, I don't. — foxj 21:29, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

I had one. Then I divorced her. ;) Joking apart, I came to post you a {{subst:User:Sam Sailor/Templates/HappyNewYear}}, Fox, but it looks like crap here, so a manual wish for a Happy New Year 2016 will hopefully suffice. Best, Sam Sailor ^Talk! 01:25, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Heh. Thanks Sam, you too. :) — foxj 11:27, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

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Bowie

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/david-bowie-dead-legendary-artist-854364 Cornerstonepicker (talk) 06:52, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

@Cornerstonepicker: quoting from a FB post as a "rep". Not too legit yet. There's no time limit, remember. — foxj 06:56, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

@Cornerstonepicker: Looking pretty real now. Sad day. — foxj 07:08, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, his son already confirmed it on Twitter. Cornerstonepicker (talk) 07:10, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

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Chicken or the Egg

Hello, I'm Darkknight2149. I was wondering if you could remove this non-constructive edit summary here from the Chicken or the egg article. Although Wikipedia does not recognise film spoilers, this edit summary has nothing to do with the article and was only placed there to provoke. The edit itself also isn't constructive, however I already reverted it and left the anon a message. Thanks. DarkKnight2149 01:07, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

@Darkknight2149: Done. — foxj 01:08, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

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Hello

Hi, I was wondering if you had a chance to see my response on the Main talk page before it was avchived? Johnsmith2116 (talk) 03:19, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

I didn't - I'll have a look now. — foxj 23:42, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

@Johnsmith2116: The view counter is maintained by one person, and on an external site belonging to that person. Only he can maintain it, I'm afraid. — foxj 23:44, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Okay thank you. I thought it might be nice to have it working by Monday so that we could see how many views Andy Murray's page gets if he wins the Australian Open. But if it's not to be, no problem. Maybe that person will eventually be back and update it at some point. Thanks again for your response. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 00:21, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

@Johnsmith2116: That's no problem. The pageview API I told you about is actually really good for this and, unlike stats.grok.se, actually counts mobile views :) — foxj 00:50, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Fine Bros. subscribers

Should probably mention that live sub feeds (several different sites have this function) have shown that the subscribers have hit under 14,000,000 since 22:50 GMT. The official YouTube count often has a considerable delay in registering these changes and it's more noticeable considering the dramatic decline in subscribers today. Once the official count drops below 14 million I'll change the Wiki back. VampireKilla (talk) 23:33, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

@VampireKilla: That's fine, as long as there's a citation :) — foxj 23:35, 31 January 2016 (UTC)