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Video games

Nice edit. That is better.

S.

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Просьба

Просьба помочь со статьёй о русском языке. Она номинирована в хорошие, однако обнаружились некоторые недостатки, которые необходимо срочно устранить. SkyBon^{Talk\Contributions} 16:20, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

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LibraryThing-o en Esperanto

Kara amiko! La tradukado de LibraryThing-o al Esperanto bone progresis. Dankegon al "Annix"! Vidu http://epo.librarything.com/zeitgeist/language/epo paĝon pri la ĝis nun plej ofte aldonitaj verkoj kaj aŭtoroj. Tamen necesas pligrandigi la bazon de la esperantlingvaj kunlaborantoj, de la esperantlingvaj libroemuloj. Bv. sekvi (provizorajn) klarigojn haveblajn ĉe http://epo.librarything.com/topic/134789 . Antaŭdankon! ‫·‏לערי ריינהארט‏·‏T‏·‏m‏:‏Th‏·‏T‏·‏email me‏·‏‬ 22:46, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Kaj kial mi ricevis ĉi tion? --AVRS (talk) 09:20, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Edits to Scribus and Anki

Why are you removing my links from multiple pages? You claim the pages linked to are non-free (whatever that means0. That is not a reason for disincluding links to sites with valuable information. This behavior is disturbing. --Jeffmcneill (talk) 02:13, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Please see Free content. The site only has “All Rights Reserved.”

Can that two-page site be a reliable source? It is not unique enough to use it as a source while it is so new. It is as much of a source as a blog post; that’s ok, but linking to a tabular listing of information at website that is so small it cannot be popular doesn’t make it more credible than linking to the original sources of that information.

And it is already asking for sponsorship.

Also there are many ads and some click tracking. And there are links to other such sites, some of which are even more empty. Please make it so that links to the website are more useful for the Wikipedia article than they are for the website itself.

Re: “it has all the links in one place to various parts of the Anki website” — I’d prefer helping the author to make the Anki website better.

--AVRS (talk) 10:28, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Highway Coce

Please continue any discussion on teh Highway Code page, not on my Talk Page. In this way we can get other input as well. Martinvl (talk) 20:25, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Retaining existing date format

Please familiarize yourself with WP:DATERET before you make edits like this again. Thank you. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 22:17, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Q

Hi - in this diff - did you deliberately re add the picture at the same time as you added your desired external ? Youreallycan 20:11, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

No, there was an edit conflict, and I just copied my link from the bottom field to the top one. --AVRS (talk) 22:04, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Words to avoid and curly quotation marks

Hello.

Just wanted to drop you a note about this edit: Please consider familiarizing yourself with Wikipedia:Words to avoid and MOS:QUOTEMARKS. In addition, who says Personas are lighter in weight than Mozilla add-ons? Large images can often become bulky...

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 08:09, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Maybe it is not very notable, but disambiguation would be useful now, because:

• .xpi themes were called "themes" in the past, now they are called "complete themes" at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/themes/.
• The name "Personas" for the new themes conflicts with Mozilla Persona, so they are just called "themes" now. "Lightweight themes" might be an "internal" name used at bugzilla.mozilla.org since at least 2009 to distinguish from what was "themes". A support article on themes also calls them "Background themes" and uses the word "lightweight" in the description (which does not make any of those words official though).

--AVRS (talk) 09:28, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Hello. Now that is a good idea. I will implement it now. As a side note, no, I don't think there is a chance of mistaking a theme for a decentralized authentication system. Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 12:26, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

P.S. If you wish to trout me for not knowing the new terms and thinking it was your invention, well, go right ahead. Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 12:34, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

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The person you are calling an 'open proxy troll' at User talk:Srich32977#April 2013 is presumably 76.220.18.223 (talk · contribs). Though he is arguably a troll and is currently blocked I don't see any evidence he is using an open proxy. When you removed comments from talk you were also removing some innocent and helpful ones that were merely added by IPs, such as a proposal to raise the article's rating to B-class. You should not continue this; there is a risk that an admin will decide to block your account. If there is too much abuse you can ask for the talk page to be semiprotected. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 15:42, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, Hasteur and Ed. (Also, Hasteur, please see my talk page for a comment the AVRS made regarding the particular edits. This stuff about detecting trolls, etc., is beyond my technologically limited brain.) Also, AVRS, please look at Template talk:Infobox military person (latest entries). It contains some off-topic comments involving Stallman. While DENY might be appropriate there, I'm inclined to collapse those comments. For the time being, though, I'm simply watching the page. – S. Rich (talk) 15:48, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Required Your Attention

Hi. I recently saw you have posted an image in Wikimedia Commons regarding Mozilla Firefox i.e, File:Mozilla Firefox logo 2013.png, anyways i saw there that you have reverted the image uploaded by an user by the name Nclm tagging as "the first version is assumed free because it is in the source code, like the previous logo was when it was declared free".

Your sentence might be true, but does this apply to the image which was uploaded by another user named TheMostAmazingTechnik replacing my uploaded image ? i.e, File:IOS 7 Logo.png, if yes, you are requested to make changes to it.

Thanks. Himanis Das  talk 10:39, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

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Open source lab

I could use a little help. Would you help me move the page Open Source Lab to Open Source Lab (OSU) the proper way to talk all the history and talk pages - if I agree to write up at least a short introduction for the others that I had found? If so is the best way to do that - move first then create the other pages or do you need me to create some of them first? Thanks - Stockwellnow (talk) 11:22, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

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List of Linux distributions endorsed by the Free Software Foundation

Thanks for your contribution to this article, but by longstanding consensus operating systems that use the Linux kernel are called "Linux" on Wikipedia, as per WP:COMMONNAME. "GNU/Linux" is considered a minority POV term used by the FSF and its supporters. On Wikipedia the term is only used to describe distros when the distro itself is called "GNU/Linux" and then only when referring to the distro itself. If you want to change this consensus then the way to go about is not by trying to insert the term GNU/Linux into articles on distributions, such as on List of Linux distributions endorsed by the Free Software Foundation. You should read Talk:Linux including all the archives of that page, to get the history of the problem as well as Talk:Linux/Name as this is where past consensuses have been formed. You will also want to read GNU/Linux naming controversy and its talk page as background as well. When you have the history of the consensus read then you can present your case at Talk:Linux to try to convince the other editors that all references "Linux" other than to the kernel itself in Wikipedia should be changed to "GNU/Linux". Be advised that this has been brought up dozens of times there, including recently and has always been soundly and conclusively opposed. - Ahunt (talk) 22:29, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

ithank you but, what i wrote was just general.

It was not a lot of info to make that section to be for a specific file type. It was just general info about a file that can have errors. There was no need to delete the whole subject since there other file types that can have errors. A good edit could be one in which you can list the file types that can have errors, since that way that section wont be off topic or something like that. Doorknob747 01:46, 3 March 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doorknob747 (talk • contribs)

@Doorknob747: Do you have a source that says Windows (? The section said "Microsoft") moves ZIP differently from other file types? That makes no sense to me. The only difference today should be that a piece of corrupted text file can make sense to most humans, while even an uncorrupted ZIP file would make little sense to most humans, and maybe some programs wouldn't try to read it without asking the user first. --AVRS (talk) 15:40, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

DRM and obsolescence

I added a note to the talk page; in most cases it doesn't really qualify since unless a company's business plan includes going broke, there isn't any real ability to make money from loss of the entire service. I suppose if there were some example equivalent to, say Google totally shutting down their app store and then opening a new app store where no previous purchases were honoured, that would count, but it'd be suicide in terms of consumer relations. I don't recall anyone ever actually trying to pull a stunt like that.

A more valid example, perhaps, would be software licenses and download codes; if the manufacturer stops offering the product for download, you have to purchase the new version of the product or do without; this is most likely to be a viable source of revenue with utility software like word processors or rendering software. You could also bring up central server-based videogames, especially on consoles; in theory a publisher could shut down the servers for one of their old games just as they release a new one, though there would be no guarantee this would result in players migrating. That's probably been tried before, though I can't think of an example offhand. Herr Gruber (talk) 12:06, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks much

Thank you for your link fix to Censorship of the Internet at article that I've recently performed a Quality improvement project on, Think of the children.

Much appreciated,

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Michaelfahrenheit

Good work spotting the apparent sock accounts. Are you planning to raise an WP:SPI about this? If "spam Wikipedia by replacing so-called dead links with your client's blog" is in an SEO playbook somewhere, the same spammer may have socks active on unrelated articles. --McGeddon (talk) 12:04, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

Opening an SPI request. --AVRS (talk) 12:18, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

Uherský Brod shooting

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Thank you and best regards, Cimmerian praetor (talk) 21:04, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

At the moment I can say that "pentagenerian" and "sextagenerian" are very rare words. --AVRS (talk) 21:16, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

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Hi AVRS. I edited your sandbox.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 05:31, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

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