User talk:Billinghurst/Archives/2013/May

The Signpost: 29 April 2013

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 08:31, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

IETF (disambiguation)

Hi Billinghurst, thanks for tidying up IETF (disambiguation). It still needed a bit of work, so I thought you might like to see, and checkout WP:MOSDAB. Thanks, Widefox; talk 19:53, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

I don't think that I purposefully went in to tidy it up, definitely don't remember doing it so probably something like hack hack hack in passing while responding to something else. — billinghurst sDrewth 22:39, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Edith B. Price

You recently added {{wikisource author}} to the Edith B. Price page, but when I follow the link in the box, Wikisource says "Wikisource does not have an author page with this exact name". Can you please fix this as appropriate, either by adding arguments to the template to fix the link, or by removing the box entirely if it is not appropriate?

Thanks. —Mark Dominus (talk) 13:59, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Never mind, I found the right page on Wikisource and put in a redirect to it. —Mark Dominus (talk) 14:02, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I didn't notice that there was a redirect the other way at enWP. I will plead "IT WAS LATE!" — billinghurst sDrewth 01:09, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Improved English

SDrewth,I think my grammar looks about to improved here,but since 2012 I have worst English until improvement at 2013. Sadly,I can't talk Boing! due to the fact he check me as sock too much,if I have my account Rolandhelper (SuperMarioBros99thx) I will edit software/video game articles,but wait! UTRS trick by Boing will not unblock me. I will active from this time.--103.10.64.17 (talk) 08:13, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Okay, not sure what you want me to do about it. — billinghurst sDrewth 10:34, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 May 2013

• News and notes: Candidates nominating for Foundation elections; Looking ahead to Wikimania 2014

• Technology report: Foundation successful in bid for larger Google subsidy

• Featured content: WikiCup update: full speed ahead!

• In the media: New Wikipedia for Schools edition; Anders Behring Breivik's Wikipedia contributions

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 03:47, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Anakie, Victoria -your edit

Hello - thousands of them now, your treatment probably the best (ill-considered change to infobox caused the problem) Crusoe8181 (talk) 11:44, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

You have lost me, I rem'd out one template in passing. It seem to have resolved that single issue. I didn't look any further, as I was more propagating data to Wikidata. Oh, (slowly it sinks in when I dissociate subject line from what follows), if you know where they are, I can run AWB through and and get them, or you can get someone to do it from Wikipedia:Bot requests. OR just revert the template change, or if it is protected, then I can. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:09, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 13 May 2013

• News and notes: WMF–community ruckus on Wikimedia mailing list

• WikiProject report: Knock Out: WikiProject Mixed Martial Arts

• Featured content: A mushroom, a motorway, a Munich gallery, and a map

• In the media: PR firm accused of editing Wikipedia for government clients; can Wikipedia predict the stock market?

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 04:21, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

COI

Hey Billinghurst, just a quick note to let you know I took care of the COI you raised at :fr:WP:BA. Cheers, — Racconish^Tk 20:57, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for looking at it, I am sure that there is worthwhile stuff there, as you know it is just how they do it. Appreciate the contact and the work that you do. — billinghurst sDrewth 02:14, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Antoni Gaudi external Links

Hi Billinghurst,

warum haben Sie meine Ergänzung von http://antoni-gaudi.eu in der wp en und wp de zurückgesetzt mit der Erklärung es wäre spam? Es ist eine Seite in allen Amtssprachen der EU und trägt viele Informationen zusammen, die es bisher im Internet nur sehr verstreut gibt.

Jürgen — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.43.145.224 (talk) 18:46, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a directory listing. Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia that links to authoritative and citable material. Your site is not. Please look at

• Wikipedia:External links or the German de:Wikipedia:Weblinks
• Wikipedia:Citing sources or the German de:Wikipedia:Literatur

You should also have a look at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest (de:Wikipedia:Interessenkonflikt) — billinghurst sDrewth 00:00, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 May 2013

• Foundation elections: Trustee candidates speak about Board structure, China, gender, global south, endowment

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• News and notes: Spanish Wikipedia leaps past one million articles

• In the media: Qworty incident continues

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 09:48, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

my contributions were deleted as spam

Sorry, if this isn't appropriate place for such questions, but I didn't found any other. You have deleted the links to my site, which I placed in English and Espanol Harbour and Clipper sections. But I really am a Clipper/Harbour developer for a lot of years, I'm one of co-founders of Harbour project and my site really has much valuable stuff about Clipper and Harbour on Russian, English and Espanol... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alkresin (talk • contribs) 17:48, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Re: Harbour links

Thanks for your fast reply and for reverting my changes On Clipper page, but there are two removed links yet - in English language "Harbour" page ( GUI Libraries & Tools ), where a link to my GUI library HwGUI is removed, and in Espanol "Harbour" page ( Enlaces externos ) - a link to my guide "Harbour - paso a paso" ( Harbour - step by step ). These links are really legitimate, they really are valuable for the Harbour community, I never was a spammer. Thank you. Alkresin (talk) 05:06, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 May 2013

• News and notes: First-ever community election for FDC positions

• In the media: Pagans complain about Qworty's anti-Pagan editing

• Foundation elections: Candidates talk about the Meta problem, the nation-based chapter model, world languages, and value for money

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Geographical Coordinates

• Featured content: Life of 2π

• Recent research: Motivations on the Persian Wikipedia; is science eight times more popular on the Spanish Wikipedia than the English Wikipedia?

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 09:53, 31 May 2013 (UTC)