User talk:Bgwhite/Archive 46

Just letting you know

[1] — MusikAnimal ^talk 04:36, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

MusikAnimal Thank you. The past few days I've been having, it might be nice to take a forced vacation. Bgwhite (talk) 04:39, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Punctuation / References

Cheers for correcting my punctuation / references order. B. Fairbairn (talk) 08:26, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Secrets of the Last Nazi

Thank you for contributing to Secrets of the Last Nazi. Can you contribute to the deletion debate, please? I'm out of my depth! Cantelo (talk) 17:25, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

About AASAI MUGAM, 1965, MGR Tamil movie

Sir,

I shall wish to know why you deleted my article on the movie of MGR, AASAI MUGAM ( 1965 )?

Thank you for answering me.

Ferdinand LACOUR.

In Anbe Vaa

1. You destroyed the Track list section. Not only did you completely replace the content, you change it to a different format.
2. In the cast section, you added Wordpress references. Blogs are not a reliable source. You also changed around who played what role.
3. In the plot section, the plot was in three paragraphs. You changed it so every sentence was a paragraph.

Bgwhite (talk) 20:00, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Further reading goes after the references

Hi, re this bot edit - "Further reading" isn't as commonly used as (say) "External links", but MOS:APPENDIX shows that Further reading goes after the references, not before. --Redrose64 (talk) 09:08, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Redrose64 That isn't the worst thing. It put the reference section after the navboxes. Ping Magioladitis. Magioladitis is on a donkey cart traveling to a Wikipedia conference in Estonia, so it may take a couple days for him to respond. Bgwhite (talk) 19:45, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

@Rjwilmsi: -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:25, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

I like your BOT

This think is the first time I see a BOT that can add a See also section. Ottawahitech (talk) 21:00, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Ottawahitech, it didn't add a see also section, it just moved it to the correct spot. The bot is based on WP:AWB. Bgwhite (talk) 21:02, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

List of non-Disney comics by Carl Barks

For the second time you are destroying this article by changing reprint list, so the numbers in the column "reprints" are no longer valid! (Last time you also changed some ISBN to non-valid numbers!) Can you instead tell me, what is wrong with the way I make the article? Benadikt (talk) 07:13, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Benadikt New talk messages go at the bottom of pages.

I see no difference in the current and pre version of the "reprints" column. You need to be more specific.

I removed a wikilink to draft space. Fixed the table so it meets accessibility guidelines and to remove redundancy. Fixed two lists so they are really lists and not individual items, again for accessibility reason. This is exactly what I did last time, including converting html values to proper icons, removing an invalid ISBN template and other fixes... all of which you reverted. Bgwhite (talk) 07:52, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

I admit that I should have read your changes on 2015-07-07 more carefully. But there were so many errors in it, that I just reverterd to the old version.

Errors made on 2015-07-07:

You inserted wrong (non-existing) ISBN: The Carl Barks' Big Book of Barney Bear. 2011: IDW Publishing, ISBN 978-1-060010-929-4

You changed reprint list, so the numbers in the column "Reprints" didn't refer to the right number anymore

Error made on 2015-09-10T05:57:13‎

You changed reprint list again, so the numbers in the column "Reprints" didn't refer to the right number anymore (I didn't say you change the reprint column, but it refer to the reprint list!)

And can you tell me what is wrong by referring to ISBN of the softcover edition of Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Books? It do NOT "Take the person to the same spot" as you claim. Benadikt (talk) 11:34, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Benadikt This isn't about the 2015-07-07 update. Don't care if the ISBN was wrong, because I fixed one bad one that was already there and the new wrong one ended up on the same list and was fixed. Plus, you reverted the edit after the ISBN was fixed. This isn't about the edit two months ago, this is about the latest edit.

The reprint list was a link to a Draft article. Links to draft or user space articles are not allowed. These links are to be deleted. You did it wrong. Blame you and not me. You've reverted twice over a link to draft space. You reverted a 1,214 byte edit over a wikilink.

The ISBNs for a soft or hard cover end up at the same spot... a link to find the book. Vast majority of sites listed when you click on the ISBN do end up at the same spot, WolrdCat for example. We aren't here to list all versions of the book that are available. We aren't here to help people buy books. Bgwhite (talk) 20:50, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Lacour Ferdinand octave

Lacour ferdinand octave is extremely disruptive on articles of M. G. Ramachandran's films. I have warned him twice to stop being so disruptive, but he persists. Can you please try convincing him? Kailash29792 (talk) 19:57, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Bgwhite, Tu commences à me courir sur l'haricot ! T'es con ou quoi ! T'es qui pour me menacer !

Translation — You (Referring to Kailash29792) start chasing me on the bean! Are you stupid or what! Who are you to threaten me? — Ssven2 ^{Speak 2 me} 12:05, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Ssven2 Thank you for the translation. I would have thought that "you" meant me and not Kailash. Bgwhite (talk) 20:53, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

De rien (You're welcome), Bgwhite. — Ssven2 ^{Speak 2 me} 00:08, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Reference errors on 11 September

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Hello, speaking is 33airchater. "Thank you" for the editing and correcting my reference page #27 Grantley Adams Int Airport and reference page #7 Pointe-á-Pitre Int Airport, www.facebook.com/liat1974Ltd. —Preceding undated comment added 13:17, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Hello, I noticed you were the last editor of record on this page, so I decided to reach out to you. The first paragraph states "The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (formerly Harvard School of Public Health, as HSPH; now also referred to the Harvard Chan School, The T.H. Chan School, The T.H. Chan School of Public Health, or still simply The Chan School of Public Health)."

The School is only referred to as the "Harvard Chan School" or the "Harvard Chan School of Public Health." Would it be possible to remove the other name references?

See here.

Thank you.

Ndleavitt (talk) 17:00, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Ndleavitt Yea, that is too many names at the beginning. "Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health" is the official name, so that stays. The school's website and the link you gave keeps referring to themselves as "Harvard Chan School", so that stays. Do you have a reference/link for "Harvard Chan School of Public Health"?? Bgwhite (talk) 21:11, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the response-- sorry I was a bit delayed in getting back to you. It is less commonly used than the others, but does get used on occasion. This is a link referencing "Harvard Chan School of Public Health." Does that work? Thank you again! Ndleavitt (talk) 15:16, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Pinging

I did ping you. I first gave a detailed response to your comment (in which I explained the MOS point), then waited 24 hours, then pinged you here, then waited another 24 hours, and only then added it back. Each time i waited, I checked to see whether you had edited in the meantime to ensure that you weren't off-wiki. I want to reach consensus with you here. Could you please consider the points I made about this being in line with MOS because it "aid[s] in selecting between articles", the fact that all three borders shown are relevant to modern day subjects (politics, archaeology and ethnicity) which use the same word to describe different regions, and the fact that this is a top level disambiguation page (i.e. it is going to get a lot of traffic from people who are not experts, just like Macedonia). Oncenawhile (talk) 07:49, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

Just checking you saw this? Oncenawhile (talk) 19:58, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

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• You can now use the Wikidata query service. [2]
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• There was a problem when editing International Standard Book Numbers in Visual Editor. This has now been fixed. [6]
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Era

You wrote, "WikiProject Equine doesn't really care, so let's use the modern format." That is not a sufficient reason for changing the era style of the article. Please read WP:ERA carefully, especially where it says "Do not change the established era style in an article unless there are reasons specific to its content. Seek consensus on the talk page before making the change." tahc ^chat 13:45, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Tahc Huh? I don't recall writing that and to which article are you referring to? Bgwhite (talk) 18:43, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) You didn't - it was Montanabw (talk · contribs). --Redrose64 (talk) 19:25, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

My mistake. Very sorry. tahc ^chat 20:41, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Removal of reference that I posted on the Abe Greenthal page

Hello,

First of all, I am not very knowledgeable about posting to Wikipedia; I am still learning so I would appreciate some advice and help.

I have been having an ongoing disagreement with postdlf because he relied upon Robert A. Rockaway, who almost never cites sources and cannot because he makes them up. Postdlf himself caught Rockaway in an error but apparently did not realize that it was one of many and relied upon Rockaway for other erroneous information.

Yesterday I posted a reference to a book that I was inspired to write because of those errors. My objective was to correct them. There are still major errors on the page, but someone has clearly used my work without attribution to correct some of those errors. I believe it to be intellectually dishonest to use my research without giving me credit for it by at least posting a reference to my book in order to enlighten the public as to its existence.

My guess is that you removed the reference that I posted. If not, please accept my apology, and tell me whom to contact instead. How can I have that reference posted so that the public can know that my book exists in case they wish to consult it? It corrects many errors in the current "Abe Greenthal" posting, and the public is entitled to know that there are other, more authoritative versions of the facts, backed up by sources cited. There are over 400 footnotes in the book, and much of the book consists of reproducing in type, articles or direct quotes from items received from the New York and New Jersey State Archives and from newspapers, usually verbatim. Sometimes I even reproduced two articles from different sources to prove the point. Some of the footnotes my contain as many as 20 newspapers which carried the same article. Rarely did I use other sources and when I did, I footnoted. The only such events that comes to mind are:

1. A trip to the cemetery where Abraham and his family are buried to record what information the cemetery had.

2. I also noted in some cases, the relevant holdings at the Library of Congress Geography and Map Reading Room.

I am a very careful researcher and do not make conclusory statements without extensive evidence for them. Surely it would help the public to know in Wikipedia of the existence of my book. How can that best be achieved? Additionally, Byrnes' book is cited incorrectly for some of the information attributed to it. Whoever made the corrections has relied on my book for that information. I hope to make further corrections in the future. For example, Abraham (He NEVER referred to himself as "Abe" for reasons that I could explain, if you are interested.) did not know Polish and certainly would not have considered himself Polish in any way (and probably not German, either). The Prussian police carefully documented that he knew German and Yiddish but made no mention of Polish, which they did record in the case of certain others arrested. They recorded his surname as Leslauer, a name he also used. He changed his surname many times but never his given name. The immediate area around Betsche was heavily German, not Polish. This is only one example of a wrong conclusion in the article. There are many others, often based upon Robert A. Rockaway's conclusions, for which Rockaway cites no evidence. Although I cannot now find the reference, one professor took Rockaway to task for his unsupported statements about some members of Murder, Incorporated. She very convincingly proved her point although that has nothing to do with Greenthal, only Rockaway's work in general.

I look forward to your reply. Thank you. Mr. Posen (talk) 17:20, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

deprecated parameters?

I noticed several of your recent edits ([10] [11]) summarized as remove/fix deprecated parameter using AWB (11450) removed citations and data which someone (maybe me) painstakingly added to the articles.

Which "deprecated parameter" does it refer to? It removed elevation, dimension, coordinate source, region, and a GNIS external link citation. —EncMstr (talk) 03:27, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

EncMstr The link in the edit summary went to this page which lists the deprecated parameters. One of the deprecated parameters is |coordinates=. This is the parameter which I removed and replaced with the ones listed at {{Infobox dam}}. The reorganization of the infobox happened in 2012 and 2014 with most of the deprecated parameters removed in 2014. Bgwhite (talk) 04:17, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Ah, I didn't think to look for a link since most AWB edit summaries don't link to anything informative.

So, to do what you are doing without removing valid information, you would have to move most of the parameters to the infobox's coordinates_type parameter. For example, for Green Peter Dam, coordinates_type = landmark_region:US-OR_source:gnis-1158806_dim:460_elevation:309 . The GNIS citation is pretty useful too, but I am not sure how that infobox expects it to be included. Perhaps you know? —EncMstr (talk) 08:47, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

EncMstr Looking at the {{Infobox dam}} docs and the coordintes parameters' page, I was under the impression that it only accepted "type" as in landmark. Testing things out on Green Peter Dam, that is not the case and your assumption is correct.

Looking for more info on each parameter.... Elevation is not a valid parameter (see second table). According to this, region is deprecated on GeoHack. I can't find anywhere else that says it is deprecated for situations not using GeoHack, so I guess keep using. Personally, I'd drop dim. without vs with. I learned alot today thanks to you. Now my head hurts. Bgwhite (talk) 09:29, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

If you look at Template:GeoTemplate, you'll see a heading "Global services", below which is a table; to the right of that is a large grey rectangle. This is filled in using one of the other sections of that page, based upon the region: parameter. If that is absent, it tries to determine which portion to display using the actual coordinates, but it doesn't always work. So including region: is usually a good idea. If you've given type: you shouldn't need dim: as well. So i would use |coordinates_type=type:landmark_region:US-OR --Redrose64 (talk) 10:46, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

dim: is useful even with type:landmark. Compare Grand Canyon vs. Mill Ends Park. —EncMstr (talk) 18:34, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

The correct phrase is dim can be useful. It can be useful for the extreme cases that are too big or too small. For example, Grand Canyon for type:landmark or Vatican City for type:country. FYI... <tt> is no longer. It was removed in HTML5. Bgwhite (talk) 21:01, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for following up on the deletion of the Art strike redirect after its userfication. I took the advice at WP:R2, "If the redirect was the result of a page move, consider waiting a day or two before deleting the redirect". Thanks again for keeping matters in order. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 18:00, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

Honorifics in lists of politicians

Hi Bgwhite. Since you've edited one or more of List of current members of the British Privy Council, British Government frontbench and Official Opposition frontbench in the last six months, I'd like to invite you to a discussion about the use of honorifics in those lists. The discussion is happening here, and I look forward to a helpful and robust discussion. DBD 20:55, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

IP on a roll posting BLP vios

67.82.185.0 is on a roll posting unsubstantiated Randy Newman BLP violations all over Wikipedia. I have reverted all of them up to this minute, but he may continue. Now that our dear Malik Shabazz is gone (my go-to admin for trolls), I don't know what to do. I haven't posted a warning on his TP, either. Anyway, if you care to help or keep an eye .... Softlavender (talk) 09:13, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Softlavender Sorry for lowering your standards to actually talk to me. :) BTW, the nausea feeling always returns when visiting my page. You've done the only thing one can do and your edit summary said it all. With an IP, there is not much to do. If they keep returning to Newman's page, the only thing would be to put page protection on it. Bgwhite (talk) 09:39, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

LOL. OK. I thought he was trolling over several articles, but it's actually only two articles thus far, so I'll put the second one on my watch list as well. If it continues, I'll assess the situation then. Thanks and cheers! Softlavender (talk) 09:45, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

People smuggling

You recently made an edit to people smuggling. I was concerned about the many edits prior to yours and mine by User:Gadhar1. The user made a number of significant edits in a row, and not all appeared to contribute to the article. Many were just long quotes from a single source, and some of the quotes seemed vacuous. This is always difficult, picking though a number of edits, some good, some not so good, often added in the same edit (so undoing would undermine the good part). Would you have a moment to look at those edits again, as I'd appreciate a second opinion. Thanks. Magnolia677 (talk) 12:44, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

hi Magnolia677 and BGWhite. I'm very new to wikipedia, this was only my 3rd effort at editing. I had some down time on the weekend so took the time to update the people smuggling page given its so topical right now. I'm very happy to edit further. What are your suggestions for edits / deletions? Still learning! thanks, Gadhar1 (talk) 22:58, 20 September 2015 (UTC)Gadhar1Gadhar1 (talk) 22:58, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

@Magnolia677 and Gadhar1: It's not my area of expertise, but.... 1) Gadhar1, you put alot of new material into the lede, ie what comes before the TOC. The lede is supposed to summarize what is in the article. Try to move what you added down into the article. 2) The book, The International Law of Migrant Smuggling was highly used. It is a very valid book to use and the author is one who knows the topic very well; however, it seems to be overused. Especially worrisome is only the first few pages of the introduction is used. A second source and/or opposing views is needed, especially in a somewhat controversial topic like this one. The Given the current political priority around people smuggling paragraph starts off with an editorial on Gadhar's part and then goes on to quote the book. Smuggling has always gone on, but didn't become "wide spread" till the 70s for various reasons. So, the editorial is somewhat wrong. Don't quote the book, paraphrase. 3) On the whole, it is a very good start by a "newbie". Bgwhite (talk) 04:52, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Take It Easy Chicken

Yeah, I was editing from my phone, and then the kids got out of school, and my friend had a question, and I just gave up. Using the Wikipedia app is a bitch. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 01:02, 21 September 2015 (UTC) Drmies You were doing all that and editing? Wow. You know how hard my editing is to decipher and that is the only thing I'm doing. Being an old fart, I can't do any editing without a keyboard. The redirect went to Mansun. Looks like after you cleaned up the article, a person restored alot of crap, which I just reverted. Bgwhite (talk) 04:21, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

• Thanks. Yeah, that was not a good article, though it it possible that the thing becomes notable if someone makes it notable. I tried the mobile app, and I've tried it through Safari using the regular desktop view, but either way it's difficult. Drmies (talk) 18:00, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-39

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Recent changes

• There is now an experimental Wikimedia maps service. You can give feedback here. [12][13]
• Last week a few issues with UploadWizard were fixed. Before this was done, UploadWizard would stop you from uploading your files if something went wrong. [14][15][16][17]
• More Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Previously they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [18]
• The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users. [19]

Problems

• Wikimedia Labs' HTTPS certificate expired for most of Tuesday 15 September. To reach Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs securely you had to ignore your browser's security error message. There was no risk to data security during this time. [20]
• Last week the notification system was split into two parts. This was temporarily undone because of a bug and performance concerns. It will return to two parts this week. [21][22]
• UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed. [23]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 23. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 24 (calendar).
• The page move tool has been switched over to the new standard look for forms. [24]
• You can now choose whether to extend a link or not when editing one in VisualEditor. This means it is easier to choose how much of what you type before and after the link is part of it. [25]
• Wikibooks can now use data from Wikidata. [26]

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Removal of italics in "Man Down" references.

Can you point me to the policy whereby it says that italics are not allowed to be included please as per your edit summary here. It is causing problems at my FAC for the article and two editors have taken issue with it, and opposed the articles promotion as a result. One editor in particular does not believe that all should be in italics and doesn't believe me that it was you who said so and reverted me for reinstating non-italics, calling it an "excuse" of mine not to comply. Better still, if you could write on the FAC what you did on the edit summary and provide a link to the policy, that would be preferable, so that others can see the rationale behind your edits. Thanks.  — Calvin999 09:28, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

The Bridge

Can you pls let me know why the reference to the Modest Mouse song featuring snippets of the film was removed? Thank you: blueshattrick@yahoo.com

Need to be more specific. What specific article are you referring too? Bgwhite (talk) 21:18, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Reference errors on 22 September

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Chinese Legalism

Though I do plenty of work on the page without any external input, you're welcome to stop by and request a page number from time to time, for some particular point, and I'll try and go over the given book again.FourLights (talk) 02:39, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Deletion of ZO Rooms page

Respected Bgwhite,

I want to talk regarding ZO_Rooms page. It came under the section of speedy deletion because of the reason (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion), and that contribution is done by you on 04:48, 14 July 2015 . Sir, I want to make contribution to that page by editing the complete article, details and reference link. I make sure you that advertisement and marketing thing will not be included in the entire article and it will be neutral for viewers as per Wikipedia guidelines.

Sir for contributing that, you important mentoring will be helpful.

Regards

P.S - Link to article : ZO_Rooms — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pingaksh92 (talk • contribs) 07:05, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Pingaksh92 I put it at: User:Pingaksh92/sandbox. It needs alot of work. There are so many things wrong. I highly suggest you go thru the Articles for creation process. They can help. Bgwhite (talk) 07:12, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

4 -vs- 4th -vs- fourth

See.

1. The bot changed 4th to 4. In America the celebration is either the 4th or fourthFourth of July, but never 4 July. It is also known as Independence Day
2. The bot removed a line break below a heading. These extra line breaks are at the convenience of the Editor who creates them and are suggested under WP:MOSHEADINGS and should never be removed by a bot

Checkingfax (talk) 05:22, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Checkingfax You really need to stop treating other people as if they are new and telling them what to do. Your understanding of MOS has also not been the greatest. Yes, this is the third or fourth time you've said I'm wrong in the past month or so, but I/bot haven't been wrong (yet).

The line below the heading is optional. The line break above the heading is mandatory. The bot has been removing the line break for years now. If you have problems, take it up at WP:AWB, which you already have done with my "bad" bot edits.

It is NOT the 4th of July. It is the Fourth of July. Fourth is capitalized. Bgwhite (talk) 05:40, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Per the diff link above the BG19bot changed 4th of July fireworks which is proper, to 4 July fireworks which is not. Point taken about fourth -vs- Fourth. BG19bot also removed a cosmetic line break below a heading and that is out of bounds. BG19bot did make a useful change in the infobox, I am presuming, but have not verified it. Checkingfax (talk) 06:06, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Checkingfax

1. 4th of July is not valid per MOS:BADDATEFORMAT. Doesn't matter if it is a holiday or not. Again, it is the Fourth of July. You spell out the date. The bot made a valid edit.
2. |company_slogan= is deprecated and should be |slogan=. It is nowhere to be found at {{Infobox company}}. Hasn't been found there since slogan was re-introduced in 2009
3. Bot also made an edit per MOS:REFPUNC, punctuation goes before, not after the reference.

Bgwhite (talk) 06:18, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

1. Bot changed 4th of July fireworks to 4 July fireworks not to Fourth of July fireworks
2. infobox company was copy/pasted from a WP sample template page on 13 June 2013. I took no issue with the company_slogan >>> slogan Bot change and I did not report it as a problem change
3. The REFPUNC edit was of course valid and helpful. Thank you

Checkingfax (talk) 07:51, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Checkingfax

1. You don't get it. 4th of July fireworks was wrong to begin with. You did the mistake. You didn't follow MOS. Per MOS:BADDATEFORMAT, 1st of July, 2nd of July, 3rd of July and 4th of July are all bad. The correct way is 1 July, 2 July, 3 July and 4 July. The bot changed it to the correct format. The bot did nothing wrong. As the Fourth of July happens to be a holiday's name, one must do the correct name from the beginning. Garbage in, garbage out. Don't blame the bot for writing it as a normal date and not as the holiday's name.
2. You said you didn't know if it was right or not. ("I am presuming, but have not verified it.") I gave you the reason. Nothing more was meant by it.

Bgwhite (talk) 08:09, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Alfred Karney Young

Hi, I wonder if you could expand on your tag? I only uploaded the page to mainspace recently, and it's in the process of being pruned and split off into other articles. Cheers, :>MinorProphet (talk) 20:49, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

MinorProphet, I think you have the wrong person as I didn't add any tags to the article. It looks like Mww113 added tags and Davidcannon removed some. Bgwhite (talk) 20:53, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Apparently I can't read. Apologies, I'll go and bother Mww113. :>MinorProphet (talk) 21:14, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

A technical move was requested

I just did this move, since it was requested at WP:RMTR: per a technical request. Since this is one of your bots, I probably should have left it for you. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 21:44, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

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Edits on the Robin Hood Army Article

Thank you for your changes on the wiki page of the Robin Hood Army. Will keep your inputs in mind and remove all extra references. Just a small query, 4 images from the page has been removed as well. Can this be reverted to its original form? Images add more impact to the article. Suvarna.mandal.89 (talk) 07:26, 27 September 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Suvarna.mandal.89 (talk • contribs) 07:19, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

Suvarna.mandal.89 It looks like you got the photos from Robin Hood Army's Facebook page. You can't copy a Facebook photo onto Wikipedia because of copyright laws. I'm assuming you work for Robin Hood Army? If so, the organization can give permission for the photos use. Bgwhite (talk)

@Suvarna.mandal.89: If you work for Robin Hood Army, please read Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. GoingBatty (talk) 13:54, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

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Punctuation goes before reference

Hi! Thank you for your edit in Engis 2. I have a question concerning the issue. Punctuation goes before reference even if the reference begins in the middle of the sentence?
Example:
A This is a sentence "with a reference".
B This is a sentence "with a reference."
Is it A or B?

Thanks and all the best Wikirictor (talk) 08:56, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Wikirictor: Those aren't references, they're quotations, and MOS:LQ applies - option A. --Redrose64 (talk) 11:29, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Use of 'small' within 'ref'

Hello Bgwhite, is the use of the 'small' tag within 'ref' something that really should be undone, as you did here? I couldn't find it specifically on Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/General_fixes, which you referred to. I do read "Removes <small> tags inside <small>, <sup>, <sub> tags and image captions" there, but <ref> is not mentioned. And I thought I had a good reason to use it there for source retrieval info. Regards, Apdency (talk) 09:27, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Apdency: When <ref>...</ref> tags are used, the references enclosed in those are displayed by a {{reflist}} template or <references /> tag later in the article. Whichever one is used, the references are displayed at 90% of normal size. The <small>...</small> tags reduce text to about 78%; and 78% of 90% is approximately 70% of normal size - this goes below the recommendation at WP:ACCESS#Text: "Avoid using smaller font sizes in elements that already use a smaller font size, such as infoboxes, navboxes and reference sections. In no case should the resulting font size drop below 85% of the page fontsize (or 11px)." --Redrose64 (talk) 11:39, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

OK, that's a clear answer, thanks. Apdency (talk) 14:13, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-40

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• In UploadWizard, the dialog to see an image preview has been removed. You already see the images in the thumbnails when you upload them. [27]
• UploadWizard dialogs look a bit different now. They have been updated to the new OOUI look. [28]
• You can now edit music scores in VisualEditor. You can add new sheet music scores and get live updates when you edit one. [29]
• When you send an e-mail to another editor using Special:EmailUser, that user will now get a notification on the wiki as well. [30]
• You can now see 500 images when you upload images from Flickr with UploadWizard. Before this change the limit was 50. [31]
• The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded. [32]
• MediaWiki developers spent a day looking at proposed code changes in Gerrit. The goal was to clean up the backlog and give feedback to volunteer developers. [33]

Problems

• Some visitors had problems reaching the Wikimedia sites for an hour on September 24. [34][35]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 30. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 1 (calendar).
• There will be a new beta feature that allows editors to use Flow on their user talkpage if they want to. Each wiki can decide if they want to enable it. [36]
• The Content Translation tool can give translation suggestions. This feature will now be available in more languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Italian, and Catalan. [37]

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Deleted content from Lynne E. Maquat page

Hello,

I created an account because my boss, Lynne E. Maquat, asked me to update her Wikipedia page for her. She wrote all the content and I added it back on Wednesday, September 23rd. Today, we looked at her Wikipedia page and it is all gone. I am very new to Wikipedia and do not understand why you took all of my revisions down. It took me over 2 hours and I am really hoping that these deletions can be reversed.

Can you please tell me why you removed the content I added and how I can put it back? I saw the "undo" part in the history and will try that. I wanted to reach out to you first because I would like for the content to remain and want to better understand the editing process.

Thank you so much! --N3V S0U2A (talk) 12:42, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

N3V S0U2A Thank you for contacting me. First off, you or Dr. Maquat shouldn't be editing the page. Both of you have a conflict of interest. Wikipedia articles should be neutral and it is hard to be neutral when editing your own or your employer's page.

Wikipedia articles are not CVs. One generally doesn't give a listing of journal articles one has published. Under the awards section you removed references. Then you added unreferenced material to the section. Make sure everything you add has a reference. Bgwhite (talk) 19:04, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

OK, this is great! I wasn't sure how to respond to you, I hope this is correct. Thank you so much for your help. I will let her know this. This list of journals is supporting material for her research. I will talk talk with her about this when she returns to the office and have some one else make the necessary edits.

Could you please explain what you mean by removing referenced material? Do you mean that everything needs to be a link?

Thank you again! N3V S0U2A (talk) 19:59, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Racking Horse

Hey, thanks for your recent edits on Racking Horse. If I made typos, I'm sorry--I edit off a cell phone and it's very easy to hit the wrong key. I have been trying to get the article to GA status, but it's been tough finding sources. (Everybody in the world has something to say about the common breeds of horse, like the Thoroughbred, but when it comes to the more obscure breeds the reliable sources are pretty blank.) I'm glad to have found the ones I did. I know I'm going to have to clean it up some and add some more wikilinks. Anyway, thanks for your edit. ☺ White Arabian mare (Neigh) 16:32, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

White Arabian mare I can't see how anybody can edit via mobile. If you need help on horse articles, Montanabw is the one to ask. Well, she knows mules better because she is as stubborn as one. :) I grew up with Appaloosas, but spent my time cleaning up after them while my sister rode them. So, I'm not a horse fan. Bgwhite (talk) 20:45, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

BG, you think mules are more stubborn than Appaloosas? Heh, heh, heh! Now Appies I DO know because I used to train some of them! (Um, and yes, I usually "won" - but often because, unlike on-wiki, I knew how to avoid a head-on battle!) For some odd reason, people figured that if I could train Arabians, I could train Appaloosas - they are both extremely intelligent breeds, but VERY different temperaments. Arabians are like Border Collies who would volunteer to take your college boards, clean your oven and put band-aids on your owies, while Appies are more like Jack Russell Terriers and I suspect if they had opposable thumbs they'd sneak into our houses and murder us all in our sleep! LOL Montanabw^(talk) 21:02, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

Hah, I can safely say from several years of experience that mustangs are probably the most hard-headed breed of horse on earth. They don't need opposable thumbs to escape either--just opposable lips! I have to lock every gate with a chain or mine is out eating the grass in the yard.White Arabian mare (Neigh) 23:43, 29 September 2015 (UTC)White Arabian mare

request to reinstate section heading

Hi,

Seasons Greetings,

First of all thanks for recent BG19bot support edit to article Poles in mythology. It seems that your bot edit has removed one section heading ==Poles in mythology== probably because you/your bot found it to be the same as the article name.

Frankly enough I am the beginner and main contributor to this article. When I started the article it was having different article name Pole worship, since the main purpose of the article is to take encyclopedic note of various cultural celebrations and worship of poles if any in any cultures as an umbrellaa article for the purpose. May be article name some thing like Pole festive celebrations and worships could have been broader and more inclusive for the purpose. and ==Poles in mythology== was/is expected to be just a separate section taking notes of myths from various religions and cultures together, may be this section if increases a lot in length we may carve out a separate article for the purpose in future.

There seems to be some misunderstanding on some other users who thought Pole worship article name to be inconvinient and changed the name of article single handedly without any talkpage discussion or without taking me in to confidance. In very near future either Pole festive celebrations and worships part in article will grow so much that we will need to carve out a separate article for that or ==Poles in mythology== section will grow so much that we will need to have separate article for that.

Whatever happens will be done as consensus builds on the present article talk page. But as of now I will prefer to retain ==Poles in mythology== this section heading separately since I am working on that and want to have a subection on antiquity claimed by schollor/Authors like Hodder Michael Westropp, Charles Staniland Wake. I wish and request to revisit and allow me to have ==Poles in mythology== this section heading separately so I can continue with my contributions as planned.

Thanks and regards

Mahitgar (talk) 10:46, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Mahitgar That shouldn't have happened. @Magioladitis: AWB removed the section header that was named the same as the article's title. Section was way down in the article and not at the top. This happens in atleast AWB 11328 thru 11624. Bgwhite (talk) 18:46, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

@Rjwilmsi: for this bug.. as usual. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:00, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Mahitgar Bug fixed. rev 11680 fixes the bug. Thanks for the heads up. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:12, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Lot of thanks, its very nice of you.

Rgds Mahitgar (talk) 10:01, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

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It looks like you changed |location= to |locale= in cite templates using a find/replace script that was not limited to infoboxes (just guessing here as to the full explanation). Can you please undo these changes? Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:20, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Jonesey95 All fixed Bgwhite (talk) 21:05, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick response. There are at least four of yours left at Category:Pages with citations using unsupported parameters. I'll fix them later today if you can't get to them. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:57, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

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Sergio Rossetti Morosini

Hi Bgwhite. I'm new at this and want to do things right. You have lots of experience and hope you can help me to restore the images and the info box on the article. I'm sure you agree that the images of the artist's works are integral to the article. However, you mentioned that they aren't placed correctly? Please advise...maybe even help me to set them straight. Thank you for your insight! Kim9teen 22:52, 1 October 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kim9teen (talk • contribs)

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That sinking feeling ...

I'm not sure if there is sufficient to go on (yet) but my senses are tingling and I'm getting a sinking feeling that Robertiger is this charmer. Often only writing in lower case, same uploading of images (that may be copyright?); the claim is taken with a phone yet data shows Lenova; the image added to Bully Kutta is one of weisenstar/Bruce favourites. Kangal dog, where the first edit by this account was made, was also a firm favourite of all the various aliases. What do you think? SagaciousPhil - Chat 09:59, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

Yep. Yunshui ^雲_水 10:31, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, Yunshui! Maybe I can stop shaking now, which might mean I can think/type correctly without a dozen fixes ... SagaciousPhil - Chat 10:38, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

SagaciousPhil That was sneaky. Do enough edits to one's own pages so Robertiger becomes autoconfirmed and doesn't look like a sock. Whenever I come a across an article about dogs, I now wonder if it was by the sock. Sigh. Bgwhite (talk) 21:59, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

The dog breed articles are such fun ... the other persistent sock is our IP hopping "Please accept" who likes to fiddle with weights/heights. If his favourite articles are protected he starts creating accounts; at least they're pretty easy to spot. Then we have the continual addition of lots of pics of my pets - see Border Terrier for the latest example! No Hafs to help these days ... SagaciousPhil - Chat 05:53, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Apologies re: Floyd Mayweather

Hi, just want to apologise for the revert - coffee needed this morning! Was trying to revert the previous edit (He apparently fought Jesus yesterday...!) which now conflicts with yours and hadn't noticed the fixes elsewhere either (nor provided an accurate edit summary....)- will do so manually instead. Apologies again! Mike1901 (talk) 08:02, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Atik Shaikh

Atik Shaikh is a vandalism article about Harsh Agrawal. 12.180.133.18 (talk) 06:42, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

12.180.133.18 It's not vandalism. It is a straight copy of another article. It has been deleted. Good catch. Bgwhite (talk) 08:08, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the assist!

One of the nicest robots I've met in the past week. :) Thanks for assisting in cleaning up some of my article updates. Damotclese (talk) 16:04, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

The Original Barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
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Template: Infobox Minor League Baseball

Hi. I noticed you reverted an edit of mine to Template:Infobox Minor League Baseball. Can you please explain in what way my edit "introduced deprecated parameters"? Thanks. NatureBoyMD (talk) 00:00, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

NatureBoyMD You added parameters that are deprecated... they were either dropped, re-named or another issue. When this happens, the page ends up on Category:Minor League Baseball Infobox using using deprecated parameters. Bgwhite (talk) 00:08, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. I think made a mistake in how I added those new parameters to the list of "good" parameters at the end of the temp. NatureBoyMD (talk) 00:50, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

BG19bot on Mersenne Twister

Hi,

This edit of your bot broke the image on Mersenne Twister. :( I've undone the change and removed the actual broken link that was in the caption. 2601:646:8301:E297:556F:5671:583D:CDB5 (talk) 08:05, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

PH wikidata

might be useful to find and correct these. Frietjes (talk) 15:34, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Frietjes The problem being is other articles besides the Filipino ones use Wikidata, RMS Titanic for example. Find and replace will be hard. Second problem is the "owner" of Filipino articles will not allow others to edit. Magioladitis and I have discussed using Wikidata with them. I've also made copy edits to have them reverted for no reason. Bgwhite (talk) 04:24, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Bgwhite, I was mostly interested in fixing the ones in infobox settlement. I had not seen the use in the Titanic article. the best solution, in my opinion, is to migrate as much of this out of the article and into the parent templates (e.g., enable more wikidata in infobox settlement, commons category, ...). Frietjes (talk) 14:24, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Wrong Edit

Hi,

your edit here [39] is a mistake - punctuation doesn't always go before the reference. In this case the reference is only meant for one sentence, not for the entire paragraph as your edit would suggest. Please undo and correct the bot. --93.159.110.200 (talk) 13:58, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

93.159.110.200 Per WP:REFPUNCT, the bot made a correct edit. Punctuation goes before the ref. Bgwhite (talk) 17:33, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Rio de Janeiro

Fair point, sorry - I didn't notice that it was a self reference. You really ought to have put that in the edit summary instead of the innocuous change of case, though! Bagunceiro (talk) 01:02, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

The edit summary said more than an innocuous change of case. Bgwhite (talk) 01:05, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

I quote: "Do general fixes and cleanup. -, typo(s) fixed: brazilian → Brazilian using AWB". No mention of the important change at all. Bagunceiro (talk) 01:22, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Exactly, said more than change of case. Falls under general fixes. There was no important changes made. One can't use Wikipedia as a reference and you didn't see that when you reverted. You assumed I was another vandal without looking. Bgwhite (talk) 01:30, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

I'll treat that with the contempt it deserves. Bagunceiro (talk) 01:44, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

My strongest apologies

Hello Bgwhite. I am so sorry, but I had accidentally blocked you for a few seconds. It was a complete accident, I meant to block the person who made an edit right after your edit on a view history section. I've obviously undone it, and I think I removed it from the block log entirely, but I'm not sure, but if there's anything more I can do to erase the fact that I mistakenly blocked you for a few sections, I'll do it in a heartbeat. Sorry about that. Sergecross73 msg me 18:58, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Sergecross73 No problems. I think I've done the same thing myself. Could have been worse, you could have blocked yourself :). Bgwhite (talk) 20:48, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Regarding Page of ZO Rooms

Hello Bgwhite,

I took your guidelines seriously and read a lot of things on Wiki to create article for ZO Rooms (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZO_Rooms). I changed complete content according to guidelines of Wikipedia along with reference links. Sir, now I need your help so that I can contribute to ZO Rooms page. What is the best way to show you article along with reference link, so that after your approval I can publish it. Please let me know the best possible way for that.

Thank you

Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pingaksh92 (talk • contribs) 06:14, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Pingaksh92 The best thing to do is follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Articles for creation. Here, you create an article that isn't "live", so you are given time to create and edit without the article being deleted. When you are ready, a person will say if it is ready to be "live" and offer suggestions if it isn't ready yet. Bgwhite (talk) 20:39, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Signpost FC

Hi, Bgwhite,
I don't know if you are still like to work on the Signpost article on Featured Content but this week's edition has just been posted, if you would like to help with some descriptions or resizing photos: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-10-07/Featured content. Thanks for your help! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:25, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Liz That no good for nothing evil Hafs. Hafs asked me once to help out. Now that Hafs is not able to help at the Signpost, I help out in her honor. I'm not a painting person or caption writer, but I'll try not to make too big of a mess. Bgwhite (talk) 20:43, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Bgwhite, I've been given the task of copy editing the Featured Content article only to discover that there are no regular writers! So, I went through the past year's Signpost and am contacting every editor who made a contribution, hoping we can get 3 or 4 people to help out. I know there were some conflicts among editors but I am ignorant of the details and am entering this blind. If you'd like to help, it would be most welcome! If not, then thanks for your help in the past. Peace, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:55, 7 October 2015 (UTC)