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Your attention needed at WP:CHU Hello. A renamer or clerk has responded to your username change request, but requires clarification before moving forward. Please follow up at your username change request entry as soon as possible. Thank you. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 20:00, 29 June 2016 (UTC) Disambiguation link notification for July 3 Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Bullet (metal band), you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Swedish. 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. It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 10:28, 3 July 2016 (UTC)  Done — TOG 10:45, 3 July 2016 (UTC) Reverting vandalism != Personal attack Not ever.— Preceding unsigned comment added by ‎82.214.239.4 (talk • contribs) 16:57, 6 July 2016 I easily ignore this type of messages, you can ask if any help needed though. — TOG 17:00, 6 July 2016 (UTC) Teahouse talkback: you've got messages! Hello, Rutilant/Archive 1. Your question has been answered at the Teahouse Q&A board. Feel free to reply there! Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by — Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 19:10, 6 July 2016 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template). Hey, thanks for notifying but I've seen that answer already — TOG 19:18, 6 July 2016 (UTC) Archiving I need a bot to archive my talk comment when I mark as done (by adding some template like {{done}}). But It's maybe impossible somehow, Isn't it? You may want to check out the following code used by A930913 on their talk page: {{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis |archiveprefix=User talk:A930913/BracketBotArchives/ |format= %%i |age=600 |index=yes |archivebox=yes |archivenow=<nowiki>{{tlu|User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}},{{resolved|,{{Resolved|,{{done}},{{Done}},{{User:A930913/BBresolved|yes}}</nowiki> |maxarchsize=150000 |numberstart=1 }} The "archivenow=" parameter gives a list of codes that will mark a thread for immediate archiving. I know from experience that it usually works within a day. So ClueBot can do what you want, though you may have to adapt the rest of the code. See User:ClueBot III and related pages for further instructions on how to set up the bot. Huon (talk) 17:39, 7 July 2016 (UTC) GREAT! Thank you very much, will try it.— TOG 18:58, 7 July 2016 (UTC) Why Are You Removing The Message Why Are You Removing The Message askmebazaar , Message Which I Am Posting I 100% Real And Genuine . Here At Wikipedia People Visit Here To Get Information And If You Are Removing Information Than There Is No Use — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.169.94.45 (talk) 07:47, 8 July 2016 (UTC) (talk page stalker) "Real and genuine" or not, possibly controversial content (like the one you added) needs to be based on reliable published sources to allow our readers to verify it on their own. You didn't provide any. Huon (talk) 07:54, 8 July 2016 (UTC) @122.169.94.45: Hi, IPs were adding those infos again and again - 1234567 and finally 8 so I reverted without leaving any edit summary plus left template of unconstructive editing. Those informations were unsourced and possibly original research too, please refrain adding them back if you can't provide reliable source, Happy editing. — TOG 08:56, 8 July 2016 (UTC) Archiving @Huon: Look what bot did here, It archived all comments leaving one; ignoring minkeepthreads=10 — TOG 09:05, 8 July 2016 (UTC) I'm not an expert on the bot. I would assume that archivenow overrides minkeepthreads, but the bot also archived some threads that neither had one of the keywords it was meant to look for (such as {{done}}) nor were old enough. On the other hand it seems to not have recognized the "Welcome" thread, possibly because the line with the section heading begins with a HTML comment. You may want to ask at the bot's talk page for more specific help; maybe this is some known effect due to the interaction of your chosen parameters. Or you can wait for more data - possibly the bot archives everything after the first occurrence of the keyword, no matter what? That's something you could easily set up a test for. Huon (talk) 12:28, 8 July 2016 (UTC) Hmm yeah. I've fixed up some parameters, will wait few days and see If bot works as expected. — TOG 14:23, 8 July 2016 (UTC) {{Done}} — TOG 09:27, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

guy edit

there was an all night drug store that mary anne faithful used to get her dope scrip filled a regular crowd would line up to get their scripts filled at mid night mr jimmy was a noted junkie — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.235.40.6 (talk) 08:47, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

Please read WP:RS and WP:CS, and avoid addition of unsourced materials. — TOG 15:25, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

KIds?

I would be real surprised if we had 3 year old editors.
However, I think they aren't here to build an encyclopedia, see Dahar (band) for example. - 220 of ^Borg

LOL! That was expected! Look here(link removed, giving some privacy), is he vandalising, or using multiple accounts? — TOG 16:09, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Ferdinand I of leon

Thanks for give me "Thanked" for my edit, optimistic, probably you liked, i ask you and I wish you to help me with this a bit with, since i added all that info, refs and images I have faced many discussions with people who like to have short articles in important articles on wiki, and now they reported to me to administrators, and if you like , i say you that i will expand other linked articles as other monarchs and other, become even better articles with good/contemporary images, good sections and good refs. If you want to know about, check my former articles that are on my userpage. But please help me with discussion consensus, i need a user like you that maybe has other vision of this edit. this is the link of the discussion. Thanks optimistic the discussion consensus--Vvven (talk) 05:29, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Extremely sorry, I was browsing diffs from ANI and mistakenly tapped thank; I won't be joining this debate, please let me out of it. Happy editing. — TOG 07:00, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for tap thanked--Vvven (talk) 15:44, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Okay. — TOG 15:45, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi

I made the edit cause the facts were wrong! Thanks for your help — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jamell5967 (talk • contribs) 22:19, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

@Jamell5967: What was wrong there? Why were you removing sourced content without any reason! — TOG

Congrats on rollback!

Hey Optimistic Guy! Good job on your new rollback right! You certainly deserved it, and it sounds really awesome! Well, good job on your anti-vandalism journey, and have fun keeping vandals away with your new right! Redolta📱 ^Contribs 21:18, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

@Redolta: Hey, thanks alot and good luck for you too ;) — TOG 21:36, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

Whoops! You got that already. Congrats, Have good times fighting vandals ahead! ;) — TOG 21:40, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

Rollback granted

Hi The Optimistic Guy. After reviewing your request for "rollbacker", I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:

• Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
• Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
• Rollback should never be used to edit war.
• If abused, rollback rights can be revoked.
• Use common sense.

If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! NeilN ^{talk to me} 14:51, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

Wow, Thanks alot! :) — TOG 14:53, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

November

See here, here and here too! What's going on? Is it November already? — RainFall 04:26, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

I see no needs for actions here as (1) the IP has not been active since and (2) also there's nothing else actually concerning. SwisterTwister talk 04:45, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

@SwisterTwister: I think you read my question wrong; As far as I know it's August! Why huggle showin' November? — RainFall 04:48, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

I restarted it and seems like it's fixed! — RainFall 04:52, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

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Extremely sorry about the edits

Hi,

I'm extremely sorry about the edits I made on the page of Chandigarh. I really didn't know I was making those changes, I was running some code as part of a workshop I'm in. Once again, I'm extremely sorry. --Tinaj1234 —Preceding undated comment added 07:05, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

charlemagne

why did you edit my work on charlemagne — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.240.35.181 (talk) 07:23, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

This work is harmful for Wikipedia. — RainFall 07:57, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Moved from User talk:The Optimistic Guy

Diana West (lactation consultant) is just shameless self promotion for her own financial gain. It just further promotes the "white savior" role, which typically causes more harm than good. This woman is in no way a notable public figure, nor does she possess a skill of any real value. My guess is you're probably associated with or are her, which explicitly violates the standards of Wikipedia. All of the sources cited in this article are from organizations that she is a member. It's pseudo-scientific and misleading to people who need real medical consultation. Delete the page, or prepare to go head-to-head on an objective version of this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bdyeomans (talk • contribs) 20:47, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

If you want to get technical: Unambiguous advertising or promotion (CSD G11) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bdyeomans (talk • contribs) 21:20, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

lohith ajp

We have created this wiki page by another account. when we copy paste the wiki link in Facebook wall,it is showing warning message as below. Could you please assist in this. wiki link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manvitha_Harish. Warning Message:WARNING: Draft:Manvitha Harish is 5,445 bytes. If it is not a redirect with only 1 edit in its edit history, this may be a "copy and paste" move. To avoid losing the edit history, administrators should consider merging the history of the AfC draft into this article. Non-administrators should conside... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lohith ajp (talk • contribs) 09:28, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

@Lohith ajp: Frankly, I dont know when, what and how happens on Facebook, as I've never shared any wikilink on Facebook. By the way, the word we is breaking me a little, would you mind explaining? — RainFall 11:56, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

No header

Hi,please read the article contents,tagged for speedy deletion,it is not disruptive editing,but in good faith. As many articles tagged by me have been deleted by admins,due lack of WP:N,if you still feel that an article has been wrongly tagged ,help it improve it,by letting the author contest it Junosoon (talk) 13:36, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

@Junosoon: All your {{db-person}} tags were unhelpful; those subjects are notable enough and have reliable sources. — RainFall 15:32, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

IP blocks

Hi RainFall. The relevant guideline is here: WP:IPBLENGTH. If the user uses the same IP again then we can block for a longer period as it would provide evidence to show the IP address was somewhat static. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 06:10, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

@NeilN: Thanks, and one more question; Is there a way to request for revision deletion? — RainFall 06:21, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

WP:REVDEL says "There is no dedicated on-wiki forum for requesting revision deletion under other circumstances.", but why? — RainFall 06:23, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

Easiest way is to go to an active admin's talk page and request a revdel if one is really necessary. These admins Category:Wikipedia_administrators_willing_to_handle_RevisionDelete_requests are your best bet. I'm on that list. To answer your question, it's because the material that should be revdelled shouldn't be publicized but handled quietly. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 06:27, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thank you for cleaning up the crazy changes someone made on Aug 9th to the USAID page! Jsryanjr (talk) 17:49, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Arjun Sharma

Please don't delete Arjun Sharma Article Wikipediaartictle (talk) 04:36, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

@Wikipediaartictle: I'm not an administrator; don't remove speedy deletion tag from the pages you created, contest the deletion instead. — RainFall 04:38, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

Three Days Grace

I was just showing my friends that anyone can edit Wikipedia, I'm sorry for the inconvenience. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.149.153.192 (talk) 03:11, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

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Please sign by using three tildes. Thanks! 95.49.120.214 (talk) 09:31, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

What? — RainFALL 09:34, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Help

I'm looking for a JS code to provide name of any random article, anyone there to help? — RainFALL 04:46, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Do you mean Special:RandomPage?--Launchballer 05:03, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Nop, I need something like this var text=(some code for random article name) — RainFALL 05:05, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

I'm not sure if we can help with that then; consider Wikipedia:Help desk or Wikipedia:Reference desk. SwisterTwister talk 05:19, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

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IP - Password

How we construct a password and how it is fully secure — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.196.87.2 (talk) 08:29, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

@112.196.87.2: I don't completely get your question; assuming you're asking to get a password for this IP and make it secured, it's not possible! You need to create an account for yourself. — RainFall 08:40, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

To must use this. The Maso (talk) 12:07, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

my carreglefn edits

I'm sorry I left those joking edits of the Add to dictionary wiki on. I didn't know there were that many people who had a computer who knew what carreglefn was, let alone cared about it. sincerest apologies -guy with a computer — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.54.180.241 (talk) 15:59, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

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Hi there! Thanks for editing my talk page. And I've noticed that you are...quite efficient at reverting vandalism. How did you do that? --╞ChenKB91╡=Talk= 13:27, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Hello! I've been using a tool called Huggle for quite a long time. It should explain those 'efficient' anti-vandalism work. ;) —RainFall 13:38, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Vandalism on me

Please bro try 2 understand i was not abusing him & dont interfere in my life for God's sake Shivkarn (talk) 12:09, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

/* Subnet and host counts */ There's no 31, last prefix is 30...

Is there a 31? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.112.164.34 (talk) 15:02, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar

After I rollbacked an IP’s contribution to an article and was about to AIV them, then you appeared and filled in the report before I could get to it with no notice. In addition to the commendable task above, you have shown the ability to combat vandalism efficiently and engage in the process of keeping enWiki safe every day. I thank you for this and think you deserve recognition for your acts. Best regards, Redactyll Letsa taco 'bou it, son! 10:40, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Oh, thank you. Feels good to be reminded of being productive once in a while. —RainFall 10:49, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

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Thank you, I really appreciate it. Merry Christmas and happy New Year to you too. —RainFall 07:48, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Hello. Thank you for the welcome.

I know there is ways to find this out other than ask here, but I get sidetracked. Best to picture yourself speaking to a 9 yr old from 1892 while trying to explain tech to me. I'm trying to get better at asking for help also. Two birds. Can I change my username? Warned ya!

StudderingStan (talk) 07:45, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

@StudderingStan: Yes, you can—see WP:RENAME. Let me know if that page looks confusing to you. —RainFall 07:51, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Link removed

hello I am trying to update udaipur hotels information link and content but my link has been removed. Can you help or suggest? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bharatbilochi (talk • contribs) 10:37, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/24.114.85.193

This dude is WP:LTA/VXFC. Please do not warn or interact with them next time. Thanks. ―Abelmoschus Esculentus (talk • contribs) 08:08, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Didn't know it was a LTA. Thanks for the message. —RainFall 08:10, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

IP vandal

This IP user (216.186.252.38) has been vandalizing Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Television, Universal Television, and 20th Century Fox Television. He's been warned twice. Can you please protect those pages if you can?2600:1700:F280:4BB0:A:7D6E:F556:FCF6 (talk) 07:18, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

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Sorry...

My apologies for this edit. That was a mistake. I've self-reverted it. --Edcolins (talk) 20:41, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

IP vandalism on Nepal national cricket team

This IP user (42.110.203.48) has been vandalizing Nepal national cricket team..I undid his edits but I think this guy will repeat the edits ... please protect the site from vandalism .. it’s a request 110.34.22.106 (talk) 10:42, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

A pie for you!

for your high-speed rollbacking, for which I am grateful. DannyS712 (talk) 08:34, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

UAA

Thanks for updating one of the reports I responded to and for pointing out to me exactly where you caught that these accounts were promotional and represented a company or organization. I'd add this to your future reports in cases like these, where no contributions exist and the information may not immediately be found in a typical internet search. Then I won't look so stupid when I go to evaluate them. :-P ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 05:52, 13 February 2019 (UTC)

@Oshwah: I usually do that in such cases. I've had multiple tabs open for Wikipedia: watchlist, multiple contribution pages, edit filter log, new changes, and finally individual edit filter log. I assumed their edits were only "tagged" by the filter when I saw their "contribs" wasn't red-linked. I didn't update my report (well, not before you so reasonably declined them... lol) 'cause I hoped an admin would check the edit filter log regardless. By the way, I admire your work at AIV and UAA. —RainFall 06:19, 13 February 2019 (UTC)

No worries. Like I said, I appreciated the response so that I could make sure that I didn't miss anything; obviously I did... lol. I appreciate the kind words you included as well. :-) I'm happy that the contributions, time, and effort that I give to this project makes at least somewhat of an impact on at least one other person around here... ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 06:30, 13 February 2019 (UTC)

Edits

This is vandalism[1]. Pure and simple. Wisdom Distributor (talk) 09:02, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Aye aye, sir, I was reverting a vandalism-only account, socking and probably is a long-term abuse. —RainFall 09:10, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Pls dont revert me

Hello bro pls don't revert me by saying "wrong place" anyone can request for protection if their talk pages are protected becoz of "trolling, vandalism" etc. pls assume the good faith on my part and i will assume your assumption of good faith. Lets not revert war over this and be civil .thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.133.218.84 (talk • contribs) 07:33, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Abelmoschus Esculentus' User Scripts

Dear all. Recently, our community lost a dedicated user, Abelmoschus Esculentus (talk). Among their projects were a number of user scripts that they left behind. I (DannyS712) have copied the scripts, and have taken over maintaining them. You currently import one or more of Abelmoschus Esculentus' scripts, and I thought that you might want to import a maintained version. Links to each script are provided below.

If you have any questions, please reach out and talk to me. --DannyS712 (talk) 00:30, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

@DannyS712: Hmm, I don't currently have any of their scripts imported, but I did fork one recently. Do you plan on working on the ContribSearch? I've been wanting to change its popup design and add a new feature or two, but I don't seem to have enough time for it. —RainFall 04:57, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

I can work on that, sure. Or, if you want to take it over, I can tell people to import yours... what features were you going to add? --DannyS712 (talk) 05:01, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

@DannyS712:

1. Custom interval.
2. Change its link's position.
3. Automatically get the username if it's running on the user contribution page.
4. Fix the scroll bar (it goes beyond the container div).
5. Parse wikilinks in edit summary.
6. And probably integrate ajax rollback.

—RainFall 05:11, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

@RainFall: Sure, I'll work on adding those. I probably won't get a chance for a week, but some of them should be fairly easy. (notes: 1: window.XYZ (ibid 2), 3: api, 4: whatever sets the location) --DannyS712 (talk) 05:21, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

Spam link

I haven't added any inappropriate link to the page Jazz (mobile network operator). Jazz is the fastest data network over here, and it received Speedtest Award from Ookla. I updated the page and provided helpful information to users reading that page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fahadpw (talk • contribs) 07:01, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

@Fahadpw: Yes, you have; you've added an inappropriate link. You are were previously reverted doing so as an IP (diff), did it again as this user (diff), and are doing it again (diff). Our policy on external links doesn't allow addition of links to blogs and personal web pages. Also, color me surprised if one doesn't think it's being done for promotional purposes. —RainFall 07:57, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

@RainFall: I tried adding the info to contribute to the page. Read what I have written. The Reference is 100% valid. I tried posting it without a username, but then I created an account and added the info using that. It was the first time I tried editing and adding info to that page. I have to learn how to properly use wikipedia, the wiki text markups etc.

1000s of pages needs to be updated, tell me how should one add info to a page if it is counted as SPAM every time?

Fahadpw (talk) 07:40, 8 March 2019 (UTC)FahadpwFahadpw (talk) 07:40, 8 March 2019 (UTC)