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A barnstar for you!

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	Thanks so much for detecting the problem. I've corrected it. RIT RAJARSHI (talk) 09:14, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

A cupcake for you!

Thanks, the diagnosis was helpful. RIT RAJARSHI (talk) 09:27, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Minor edits, etc

Hello David and how nice to see a similar surname. I see yours wasn't misspelled in a register generations ago (we non-U Biddolphs were) but I am sure you have to put up with the same mishears and misspells that we do.

Thanks for pointing out what I should have looked up before starting. From my perspective, the minor edits seemed very minor. I believe I didn't tick minor edit when I made significant changes but I do apologise if I did. It was my fault, not the person whose page it is - he delegated the task to me so please don't think ill of him. It was all about accuracy and bringing it up to date including ensuring balance in a long life.

I have (some time ago) made changes to a couple of other pages, as you'll have seen from my history, and with one of them was subject to a very personally opinionated moderator/editor who, in the end, deleted the whole page as he didn't like my contribution. It was based on fact and experience but it was about an era he didn't like and that influenced his decision. So, this time, I tried really hard to avoid doing anything that might antagonise a moderator/editor. I added many more links to other Wikipedia pages thinking that Wikipedia might approve of that!

Apologies again.

Incidentally, it's not very easy finding out how to respond to a message in Talk; it would help if there were a link to the relevant page and an explanation of what to do on that page.

Joanna Biddolph (talk) 12:49, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks Mr. David Biddulph for your kind Assistance

But my intention in copying the text, was not to convey the wrong message to the readers..

I copied the text, caz I wanted to copy the structure to my article, as I am not much familiar with the way to write an article here.

Hope you would understand..

Regards, Mzl azakheli (talk) 14:52, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	Hello. Thanks for contribution in the page i am creating. Please how do i add a picture on the infobox? Thank you Dantunkuran (talk) 13:30, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

If you read Template:Infobox person it tells you how the image parameters should be given. I've corrected it for you in this edit. --David Biddulph (talk) 14:39, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

Draft: Abdulbaqi Jari (2)

Thank you for your comments. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:24, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

On rereading just how much difficulty the author is having with English, it occurred to me that the overlinking might be for his own benefit, to link to words that are obvious to a Briton or American (insert another Commonwealth nation or former British Empire nation) (en-5) (and therefore the overlinking is distracting), but the author may need them. For that reason, rather than warn the author about tendentious resubmission (which I would if I thought that the author understood), I advised the author to ask for help at WP:WikiProject Nigeria. (Common advice to a submitter whose English isn't up to contributing to the English Wikipedia is to contribute to your own Wikipedia. I looked, and I don't think that there is a Hausa encyclopedia.) Either he will get the message and ask a Nigerian who is at en-4 to help, or he won't. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:24, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	I have corrected the over linking, improved on citation, referencing among others. You may take a look now. This might be the last trial in my bit to contribute to Wiki Nigeria and Hausa. would go and learn English more if this is rejected again. Thank you. Dantunkuran (talk) 21:21, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

Deletion of Article

Sir,I would like to you to take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvind_Iyer The Proposed Deletion consensus in 2014 was to Keep the article.However,in my opinion the article has no real verifiable sources and many links point to blank pages.The subject does not seem to be active anymore and considering the low notability factor,I request you to kindly nominate this page for deletion. Thank You (Rama2015 (talk) 07:08, 14 April 2016 (UTC))

You will see that another editor has found archive links for many of the references which were no longer accessible; it is always better to improve the referencing than to delete an article. If you feel that it is worth submitting a further deletion request you can do so using the process described at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, but if you choose to do so you need to read carefully what it says at WP:BEFORE, and you ought to explain what has changed since the previous discussion. --David Biddulph (talk) 08:24, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

THANKS

I try to do the best reference, new to me. Megatela (talk) 14:18, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Rockwell Automation

And then I'll reboot my internet, get a new IP address and go back to what I was doing. You guys can't block everybody on Verizon, AT&T or whoever, and if you do the reverse (block every page on Wikipedia from being edited only by people logged into the system), well, then you've just shot yourself in the foot and violated your own reason for being on the Internet. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.102.157.201 (talk) 03:38, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Thanks for the help. AugusteBlanqui (talk) 10:13, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Indian_Institute_of_Sindhology - refs setup

as per link certain things updated. hope this goes as expected. let me know if more is to be doneM.k.soorya (talk) 10:02, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

You need to read WP:Referencing for beginners. --David Biddulph (talk) 10:14, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Caps-twiddling

Think it's worth asking for semi-protection on those Android pages? Jeh (talk) 20:10, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Yes, I think so, if the culprit can't be range-blocked. --David Biddulph (talk) 20:53, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

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Removed posting

Hello David, You removed my posting. But could you please help me te post this text at the right section? Thank you very much! Alfons999 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alfons999 (talk • contribs) 05:10, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

You ought to read the various links in the Welcome! message on your user talk page. In particular you need to read WP:Your first article. --David Biddulph (talk) 07:15, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Admin Notice Board

Thanks for fixing that for me, I only had intended to fix my signature which broke some of the coding on the page, I didn't even realize that a comment was deleted by mistake.XavierGreen (talk) 18:50, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Naples 2019

Could you wait just 1 s, the time I copy the link [1]? Of course, if you'd check on the others WP, I will find also Naples since 5 March 2016, the official decision of the FISU. --Enzino (talk) 18:19, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Here are further reports from FISU in March and April which show that the final decision had still not been confirmed. Your report from 5 April was therefore premature in reporting a decision. --David Biddulph (talk) 18:28, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

5 march, not 5 April, Check out please. The official contract between FISU and Naples is not signed yet, that's true, but that does not signify that the XXX Universiad will be held elsewhere (for the moment). May I underscore that you have reverted twice very quickly (but months after) a current (and correct) info? With threat of blocking me? I have made thousands of contributions on WPen: without any kind of threats like yours.--Enzino (talk) 20:41, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

“British Rowing” and “Rowing Ireland”

This edit came to my attention. Very interesting indeed, I wasn’t aware of the fact that British Rowing is actually composed of clubs from Scotland, Wales, and England only (island of Great Britain), while Rowing Ireland is formed by clubs from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland (island of Ireland). I always thought it was UK/Ireland, following the political situation. Now I’ll have to fix that at de-wiki as well in a bunch of articles, but before I start I want to ask whether the situation has always (beginning in ~1900) been like that? Do they compose their teams for the Olympics similarly, or is it indeed UK/Ireland in that case? Thanks in advance, and regards! MisterSynergy (talk) 16:31, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

The situation is very complicated. "British Rowing", formerly the "Amateur Rowing Association" includes clubs only from England. The governing body does, however, also include representatives from Welsh Rowing and Scottish Rowing, and whereas Scottish Rowing have their own rules of racing and their own registration system for racing members, Welsh Rowing use the British Rowing rules of racing and their individual members are registered through BR's system. To move on to international representation, which is where your question arose, British Rowing is affiliated to FISA and enters crews under the name of Great Britain. Clubs in Northern Ireland are affiliated to the Irish Amateur Rowing Union (now Rowing Ireland), and competitors from Northern Ireland can choose whether they wish to compete for GB or for Ireland; at present there are quite a number of competitors from Northern Ireland in the GB team, including Alan Campbell & the Chambers brothers. Obviously 1900 was before the independence of Ireland, but I don't know whether the current system has been in operation since the separation. The {{GBR2}} template allows for situations where the entity is described as Great Britain, as in many sporting teams, whereas {{GBR}} is displayed as United Kingdom where that description is appropriate (as in the political context). --David Biddulph (talk) 16:57, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

Okay thanks a lot! This is indeed very complicated with no clean solution being possible due to the options of the Northern Irishs. At least for the World Champs (since 1962) and the European Champs (since 2007, and perhaps before 1973 as well) it would probably be the best to switch to “Great Britain” instead of “United Kingdom,” since this is apparently the formal name of the team at FISA and I guess this situation is at least that old. I’m not yet sure about the Olympics (no idea whether the IOC has different rules). Interestingly we don’t even have a {{GBR2}} equivalent at de-wiki yet, so I need to set that up first. —MisterSynergy (talk) 19:02, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

I've just looked back at some of the official reports on past Olympics. 1908 the crews were listed as United Kingdom, but by 1924 they were Great Britain. I don't have the ones in between on my computer at the moment. --David Biddulph (talk) 19:36, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

Princess Aisha bint Hussein

Dear David

My name is Princess Aisha Bint AL Hussein. I have been trying for a while to explain to people at wiki leaks that my marriage to Ashraf BANAYOTI. WHO IS Canadian Edward Banayoti of DEFENCE UNLIMITED INTERNATIONAL has ended in divorce. Sad but very true. I'm back in DC after having retired from JAF Jordan ARMED forces as a major general and am looking at new future opportunities. What is upsetting is that Edward Ashraf) is still saying on his business sight that we are still married and that is very upsetting to me. I have tried to edit the information in myself but it keeps being deleted

Sir I'm not sure if you can help but I don't know who else to ask. I think ROYAL COURT will write about it but it's not something I'm very proud to have put in papers in jordan where you saw the announcement about the marriage. This has been a very painful few months for me and I would like to ask that the facts be presented correctly. Nothing more. I divorced on the 5th of May 2016. Please help correct this

Princess Aisha BInt AL Hussein — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.125.223.242 (talk) 10:50, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

I have moved your message to the foot of this page, as new messages on talk pages go at the bottom. The article Princess Aisha bint Hussein has been temporarily semi-protected. A message from an unregistered editor whose identity we have no way of knowing is not a reliable source for a change to an article. Your attention is drawn to Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons, and particularly to WP:BLPSOURCES and WP:BLPSELF. --David Biddulph (talk) 05:32, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	Hi sir you are really appreciated for your contribution to wilipedia page of Jain University sainath nuvvula 07:33, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

Yeah it was a URL (HMS Defender)

But I'm trying to show the User GaryDee is not citing reputable sources over Defender and the air crash. Cantab1985 (talk) 15:30, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

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Helen Glover

Thank you for bringing realism to the edit, and curbing my over-enthusiasm. Somewhere I glimpsed and lost an extra snippet, but Henley Register wouldn't have made it up. I'll search again in a few days. Regards. Chienlit (talk) 19:43, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

Henley Bulletin/ Tideway Bulletin is pretty unreliable, even compared with other Twitter accounts. Some of their posts attempt to be humerous, whereas other posts might link to more reputable sources; the latter sources might be WP:RS in Wikipedia terms, but certainly not @TidewayBulletin itself. --David Biddulph (talk) 19:52, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

Nautical mile

Hi, looks like we edited at the same time there on nautical mile, I reverted my work even further back! Will look at it with a fresh brain later. --Cornellier (talk) 12:11, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

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talkback

Hello, David Biddulph. You have new messages at Nepali keto62's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

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Ha Ha

Hi david like you i too got fooled in this conversation. In the start his talk did link to someone elses but later when he made a correction u said it now linked nowhere. Remember. We forgot that if a link led to the same page it didnt remain a link For example - User talk:David Biddulph see. His sign was correct at that time but wasnt working cuz of the thing i mentioned above. Anyway i have added #top to his sign so that it works properly now even to his own talk! Cheers and ha ha VarunFEB2003 (talk) 14:57, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

True. Thanks. --David Biddulph (talk) 15:05, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

Welcome VarunFEB2003 (talk) 11:37, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Kaami people

Are you sure CSD A7 applies to ethnic groups? GSMR (talk) 15:04, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

No, you are right. It doesn't, as I realised when I was about to nominate a 2nd similar article for the same reason, hence I self-reverted. --David Biddulph (talk) 15:07, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

Just a heads up that I found the correct source for the article on the Nepal census website [2] and removed the PROD from that article. GSMR (talk) 16:14, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

Article splitted without consensus

What should be done with Hansika Motwani filmography? It's an unauthorized split from Hansika Motwani by Tiger Gang. Ayub407^talk 08:47, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

TransPennine Express

Stop undoing the changes I have made to correct your information. I have no idea where you are getting your information from but it is wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.154.117.130 (talk) 14:04, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Comment

Well... not yet, anyway ;) _Muffled ^Pocketed 03:57, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

Chicken(meat) RfD

Hi David,

Given your involvement with reverting our old friend's completely inappropriate page move a few days ago on Chicken as food, you may want to comment on the RfD for chicken as meat here. :) GSMR (talk) 21:30, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

Agree with deletion, & presumably qualifies for R3. --David Biddulph (talk) 05:24, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

It has been correctly pointed out to me that R3 does not apply in this situation. --David Biddulph (talk) 11:40, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

Deletion of page on Captain Vijyant ThaparRaksha57 (talk) 00:22, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

Caption Vijyant Thapar is vir chakra recipient and many newspapers you tube website cover him,there was no wikipage on him that's why I made this. Please help me I am new to writing.Raksha57 (talk) 00:22, 28 July 2016 (UTC) Raksha57 (talk) 00:22, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

The various deletion logs are at Vijayant Thapar, Vijyant Thapar, and Captain Vijyant Thapar. In each case there are wikilinks, in blue, to the relevant deletion criteria, which you need to read. There is also a link to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vijayant Thapar, which in turn has further links. Please also read the answers to your question at WP:Teahouse/Questions#i have created a page on Captain Vijyant Thapar, kindly help me with this page as he was a martyr in kargil war and needs recognition. The copyright problem was explained to you at User talk:Raksha57#Speedy deletion nomination of Vijyant Thapar. Furthermore you had not provided references to published reliable sources to demonstrate the notability of the subject. Before you try to create any more articles, please read WP:Your first article and the links provided therein, and if you want to create an article, don't try doing it directly in article namespace, but instead use the Article for creation process to allow your draft to be reviewed by experienced editors. --David Biddulph (talk) 02:46, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

Sir, i am not an experienced writer just wish to create an informational page on Kargil War Martyr Captain Vijyant Thapar it has been more than a week and twice i have attempted to create a wikipage on him.please help me as i am not able to understand much, as to what should be done to get this.. please help me with the upload of this page, help me editing or on my behalf you could do somethingRaksha57 (talk) 07:54, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

I have given numerous useful links above. If you do not understand these, then you probably ought not to be trying to create articles on the English Wikipedia. --David Biddulph (talk) 08:02, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

Japanese "solicitors"

Hello! You reverted the efforts of one user:Legal8462 on the solicitor page; I have just reverted them again, and I have also reverted essentially the same stuff on judicial scrivener. This is an SPA on a Campaign, so I expect him to come back. Unfortunately I really do not know much about the solicitor/barrister division (except having grown up in England), but the shihō-shoshi is a quite distinct role, AIUI. In general there is no S/B division: the client talks directly to a bengoshi who does the representing in court. The existing paragraph under "Japan" on the solicitor page is pretty bad - can you look at it? I'm not sure where to start editing. I believe the empirical fact is that "usually", "conventionally" these people are called "jud. scriv.", but indeed "solicitor" is also sometimes used. This is not the same as that they have suddenly "become solicitors". I also wonder: do you know anything about Wikidata? I see that our user has effectively been vandalising WD by removing things he thinks shouldn't exist. Imaginatorium (talk) 15:38, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

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The Donkey Sanctuary of Canada

This is curious. You refer to this article on The Teahouse as having a red link and yet it is blue, and when I go to its history, there's no indication it was ever deleted.

Oh, wait, the history doesn't go back as far as the date of your Teahouse response.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 19:31, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Vchimpanzee: It was first created at 20:09, 3 August 2016, deleted at 05:50, 4 August 2016, and recreated at 17:37, 5 August 2016. --Redrose64 (talk) 22:42, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Medallists

You're completely right, I don't know what I'm thinking. Good job you are checking. Thanks Aloneinthewild (talk) 21:55, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Wellington

Hi Why did you delete my addition to noteable persons in Wellington (Telford & Wrekin)? thx — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.1.250.231 (talk) 11:31, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

In my edit summary I gave a link to WP:WTAF. I now see that an article for Tony McPhee does exist, although you didn't link to it. I have self-reverted and included the link which you had omitted. --David Biddulph (talk) 11:43, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.1.250.231 (talk) 10:53, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

Jack Pearson (musician)

I am concerned and curious as to why you made so many incorrect changes on my draft of Jack Pearson? There are so many errors that I am afraid I have to completely start over and I'm not sure how to do that? Could you have asked about FACTS before doing this? Can you undo them? HELP!! musicfan (talk) 16:22, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

Which changes of mine do you believe were incorrect, and why? Looking at the history of Draft:Jack Pearson (musician), the first edit I made was to repair a broken link, and my second edit was to revert your removal of a review comment, as such comments are left in the draft for the benefit of subsequent reviewers, but I did self-revert that change. My most recent edit was to add a comment to the effect that 3 of the 4 refs are from the subject's own website and that we need independent sources. Which of those changes do you consider "incorrect", and why? --David Biddulph (talk) 16:32, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) Hi Jackguitarfan. I did make a number of changes to your draft because I thought they were improvements and brought the article more inline with Wikipedia's manual of style, etc. Normally, I am not so bold when it comes to editing the drafts of other editors, and only do so when specifically requested. FWIW, I only edited the article after I noticed some others beside yourself working on it; one of them (Jak525) even thanked me multiple times. I am assuming in good faith that you and Jak525 are not the same person, so I can go back try and undo the changes I made if you wish. Moreover, I apologize if this made a mess of your draft. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:27, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

Well between you and Jak525 you undid a full days work and took out my words and put in direct copy from other sources - his website and magazine articles making it copyright infringement. So I have had to spend most of my day REDOING the page and formatting and inserting new information. Is it common practice for people to go in and completely redo someone else's "draft" pages? I am stunned to be honest. I have no idea who Jak525 is....? Your name was the only one that came up in my notes. Please leave it be - I've already reverted the incorrect changes. Thank you. musicfan (talk) 02:30, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

Just for reference Jackguitarfan, the edits I made (here, here, here, here, here and here) had only to do with formatting of the content already in the article. I did not add/remove any content from the article. It looks like the copy violations started with the major expansion of the article you made on August 18. The only information that was removed by deleted by Diannaa seems to be content that you added yourself; none of the edits made by myself or the other editors was revision deleted. Just for reference, it's not only articles we create/edit that we do not own, but we also do do not own our userpages/drafts and they can be edited by any editor at anytime. Usually experienced editors will refrain from doing so, unless there is a serious policy violation (such as a copyright violation or WP:BLP violation) which requires immediate attention. So, I will refrain from editing your draft in the future per your request, unless there is something requiring immediate attention. If you would like to discuss this further or have any specific questions about the edits I made then feel free to do so on my user talk page or at Draft talk:Jack Pearson (musician) and I will be happy to answer them as best as I can. I've already created enough unnecessary drama here on David's user talk page, so there's no need for me to create anymore. Best of luck with your draft. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:32, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

Thank you Marchjuly ~ but the only thing I thought you were deleting, changing or correcting (pointing out) was the photo copyright issue. musicfan 05:27, 18 August 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jackguitarfan (talk • contribs)

I'd firstly like to confirm on my own end as well that I am not Jackguitarfan; rather, a new contributor who was/is simply looking to help. In this case, such help included expanding upon some things and improving on the neutral point of view - all in good faith. If it's your wish, however, I will cease editing the draft.

My apologies for any harm done. --Jak525 (talk) 06:23, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

Olympic medal table

It is common practice on Olympic medal table articles to not include bronze medals until the entire event is complete. Hence, GBR's bronze in boxing should not be included until the whole event is complete. There is an ongoing discussion on the talk page as to whether this is proper. Please discuss there rather than edit war. Thanks. Smartyllama (talk) 13:14, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Hybrid Air Vehicles HAV 304 Airlander 10

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ref link repetation

Same link is useful for more than one content in the article. Is there a way to name a ref and reuse it? --SmithaShanmugam (talk) 18:12, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

You presumably still haven't read Help:Referencing for beginners? The relevant section is Help:Referencing for beginners#Same reference used more than once. --David Biddulph (talk) 18:29, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

While you are there, I assume that you probably weren't the author of every webpage and newspaper article that you've quoted as references? If you weren't the author, then you shouldn't put your name in the author name fields in the citation. If you were the author of all of them you haven't really established that multiple independent sources have written about the subject. --David Biddulph (talk) 18:36, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

Was looking through that page, wanted an example, hence asked for help. and with respect to author names, got confused as wiki article author. Have already removed my name from author. Thanks for notifying. --SmithaShanmugam (talk) 18:55, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

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August 2016

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Actually...

Hello Mr. Biddulph, I'd like to contest the notion that my recent edits were vandalistic. I noticed that the articles I edited weren't up to date, so, like any good Wikipedian would, I changed it. #Brexit? Isn't it a thing that happened? Thanks, JosueGSMST — Preceding unsigned comment added by JosueGSMST (talk • contribs) 23:57, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

Firstly your message was misplaced. New messages are placed at the foot of a talk page. You are lucky that I noticed it. Secondly you did not sign your message, see WP:Signature. Thirdly, no. Brexit has not happened. If and when it does, relevant changes can be made to Wikipedia, but at present the UK remains part of the European Union, and it will continue to be part of Europe even after any Brexit. --David Biddulph (talk) 00:06, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

Publishing

I just saw your question at VPT. Rather than delaying the archive bot any longer, I thought I'd reply here:

There is some information at m:Editing/Publish. Also, here at the English Wikipedia, I don't think that anyone has any idea how many help and introduction pages will need to be updated. However, Special:WhatLinksHere/MediaWiki:Savearticle lists pages that transclude the old label, which might make a reasonably starting point. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 07:52, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. It worries me that people are thinking of making such a change without having considered the consequences. I still feel that the confusion will be great, and of course others have pointed out that the confusion will be greatest when drafts are being edited, where there is a big difference between saving an updated draft and publishing the article to Wikipedia. --David Biddulph (talk) 08:54, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

They have considered the consequences. They've just decided that the benefit outweighs the cost (at least slightly, and only in the long term). Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:46, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

That confirms that the people making the decisions don't understand. One of many decisions made with precious little input from real editors, most of whom are unaware of what's being threatened. --David Biddulph (talk) 23:50, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

My own team is entirely composed of "real editors", and several of the devs involved in this particular change are not only "real editors" with a history of thousands of edits, but even long-time admins right here at the English Wikipedia. They also understand that user documentation for new editors is a sprawling mess here at the English Wikipedia, and that consequently correcting the labels will require far more work here than at any other wiki. I think therefore that they actually do understand the costs.

As for the belief that this was decided "with precious little input from real editors", I've been told that the problem was openly discussed not only at several Wikimania events but also in the old strategy: wiki, whose sole purpose was to turn the input from real editors into a list of tasks and goals that could be achieved (remember that year-plus-long planning project back in 2009–2010?). So I've got lots of sympathy for this problem (mixed with some self-pity: several pages in said sprawling mess are maintained primarily by me), but I don't think that it is accurate to say that nobody cares or understands or listened to the editors. We can, if you want, fault them for apparently sitting on their fingers for the last five years, rather than doing it while the documentation mess was slightly smaller. However, making this change (again: this is supposedly the fourth change to this button's label) was never going to be easy, and perhaps it is only too understandable if they didn't want to upset their fellow editors with a change that requires updating so many help pages once. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 00:15, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

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Thank you

Thanks for looking at my page. -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Brickey

I am now getting a check date value???? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jayhawk84 (talk • contribs) 18:15, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

Another editor has corrected it by adding a space in this edit. Two other minor points. One is that new topics on a talk page go at the foot of the page, so I've moved this. The other is that a wikilink like Frank Brickey is more readable than a url like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Brickey. --David Biddulph (talk) 19:39, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

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Watford Junction railway station

Re this edit and your summary, maybe it would be better to check before reverting IPs who add material in good faith. Mjroots (talk) 08:45, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

I didn't say that the edit wasn't in good faith. I said that it was unsourced and erroneous. The derailment did not take place at 06:19, as that was when the train left Milton Keynes. Also, the train in question did not have an "engine"; it was a multiple unit. Naturally it would be reasonable to add a factually correct report with a reference. --David Biddulph (talk) 08:54, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

Deletion

I do not understand your decision to delete my page when I provides information on topics that many people search descriminatoire I find your decision especially when the course Wiki page many are not consistent to your so-called ethics — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yves Moshe Ayache (talk • contribs) 10:45, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

I'm afraid that your message is incoherent. It may be wise for you to avoid the English Wikipedia and stick to editing a Wikipedia in your own language. I took the liberty of adding a section heading, as I do not believe that you were discussing Watford Junction railway station. --David Biddulph (talk) 11:02, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

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3RR template

Hi David,

Thank you for correcting my attempt to add a three-reverts template to NVG13DAO's talk page. It was the first time I had used this template, and I still (after further reading) don't know how to do it. I had followed the advice here which recommends "posting a {{uw-3rr}} template message on their user talk page"; and I should have realised that I should also have signed it. But how would I "subst"? Maproom (talk) 09:40, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Maproom: See WP:SUBST. Just type in {{subst:uw-3rr}} plus the four tildes. You can use {{subst:uw-3rr|JT LeRoy}} if you want to specify the article. --Redrose64 (talk) 11:25, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

Thank you! I'll make a not of that. Maproom (talk) 13:26, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

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Theresa May cabinet

Thank you for notifying me of the error. However, please be advised that the change was made in my Sandbox. So, I am unaware of how this was reflected on another page. I have rectified the issue to the best of my ability; and, I hope the issue does not arise again.

Mrsolan22 (talk) 04:35, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

You removed content from Template:Theresa May cabinet 1 vertical twice: this one on 24 September and this second one on 30 September. Your similar edit to your sandbox wasn't until this morning. --David Biddulph (talk) 04:50, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

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I think I fixed my signature;

-- AI RPer (talk) 12:40, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Better than it was, but still 427 bytes, rather than 255 max as given at WP:SIGLEN. --David Biddulph (talk) 12:47, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

It also contravenes WP:SIG#NT since it uses 7 parser function calls. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:52, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

FYI, blocked as a sock. --Floquenbeam (talk) 22:52, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. --David Biddulph (talk) 01:31, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Verifying the problem with my edit of adding a comment for editors, a comment invisible to readers

Hi David,

Did I bungle this edit, which is just really an added comment for editors, invisible to readers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_international_presidential_trips_made_by_Benigno_Aquino_III&oldid=prev&diff=744509487

As far as I can tell, after checking before & after I made my change, & after you made your change of reverting my change, I just really added a comment for editors, which are invisible to readers?

In fact, I made another test edit, which you can verify?

Thanks,

Reggie Reggiehg (talk) 19:32, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

The place for suggestions is on the article talk page, not in the article itself. --David Biddulph (talk) 19:40, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

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Re: Theresia Gouw image...I didn't see the message you pointed out. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hrosato (talk • contribs) 14:53, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

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Thanks and help with Change you made

Thanks for the great edit on the David Fellman page. I was hoping you could make a change - I kept the citation but removed the external link on purpose, in response to another editor's maintenance box. Could I get an assist from you to remove the external link on footnote 17? Thanks for your attention. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PickleQuip (talk • contribs) 06:52, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

I have moved your message to the foot of the page, because that's where new messages go. I don't understand why you want to remove the link. Where a link aids verifiability, surely it should be included? I don't understand what you mean by the response to another editor's maintenance box. If you are referring to when the article had the template {{external links}}, that was placed when there were numerous external links in the body of the article. Perhaps you didn't read WP:external links? What was hoped was that you would turn many of those external links from inline links in the body text into references, where external links in the citation are welcomed; see the text of the template message which recommended "converting useful links where appropriate into footnote references". Instead (perhaps through misunderstanding?) you removed the links altogether which makes the information more difficult to verify. --David Biddulph (talk) 07:15, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

Apologies for putting my note at the top of your page. I didn't want to remove the link - I asked another person here about the text box removal as I had added so much content about my grandfather to he page since I threw something on here after his death so long ago. The response was a new text box about excessive external links, I did read the page included in the text box. There was a lot of information and about copyrighted materials and linking to official sites and prohibitions. I removed the external links, thinking the citations and internal links is what Wikipedia wants. So, thank you for your feedback on keeping the links in the footnotes - that they are appropriate. I kept all of them and will put them back. I would appreciate it if you would allow me to restore them, as there are some typos and a footnote citation was added where it wasn't before and it's getting confusing to keep track of my own errors and writing this let alone the items popping up from others. Also, I am still in the process of writing it so new content is being added.

I so appreciate your help. I am trying to figure this out and there is a lot to read and a number of people with input. PickleQuip (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by PickleQuip (talk • contribs) 14:12, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

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Steve Buckingham article unjustified edits

Hi David, I need your help on an article I wrote on Steve Buckingham. Thank you for undoing a recent edit by Marc26ru. He is back editing again applying unsourced info from the subject's own web site, which is copyvio as seen here. This issue has been noted and corrected previously by Safehaven86. Apparently, Marc26ru is a personal friend of the subject who "requests" these changes which include an exhaustive listing of almost everything he's done. I would like to restore the article to your edit. He could add a list of artists Buckingham has worked with as a list at the end of the article but nobody wants to read all that in the lead. I'd appreciate your help. Regards, Eagledj (talk) 01:19, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

I have outlined some of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines on User talk:Marc26ru and reverted his most recent edit. --David Biddulph (talk) 08:23, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

"information removed"

Strange edit clash we just had in the Teahouse. My browser (Chrome) became unresponsive mid-edit, and I can't be sure quite what happened. Maproom (talk) 14:32, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Computers can indeed be temperamental! --David Biddulph (talk) 14:34, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

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Taxobox

Hi, the | sub ordo = Frenatae is not visible in the taxobox even after the addition of the pipe. Do you think that we can add only the ones listed among the 90 odd pipes like the standards ones? Also can we add images from the citations for the ones which do not have the images? As usual thank you for your kind and polite reply.Adityavagarwal (talk) 17:05, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

That was quick yeah I noticed the change. But still, in general, can we still add the ones if they are not standard?Adityavagarwal (talk) 17:08, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

The article Frenatae doesn't exist. What were you trying to pipe? As for images, I've replied at WP:THQ. --David Biddulph (talk) 17:10, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Besternkhan

Thanks for reporting them to AIV. I knew I saw the name of that article before somewhere. If you see it again, create a report here:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Theactingeeker. RickinBaltimore (talk) 21:31, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

@RickinBaltimore: - Swarms more of them, duly reported. Article continually recreated with different variants of title, most recently Sayyad Aman Mian Sharma. - --David Biddulph (talk) 21:59, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Yahtzee!

Sometimes AGF applies even to editors who are actively edit warring. TimothyJosephWood 22:35, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

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RE:CL

The English names of Qingdao Metro stations are OFFICAILLY using capital letters by the company and the government. No business of English grammar and WP:Manual of Style. THX! LORD Charles › 留言? 04:04, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

What the company and the government choose to do in their own publications is their business. Here on the English Wikipedia we abide by WP:Manual of Style/Capital letters. --David Biddulph (talk) 04:09, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Removal of AFD notification‬ - ATMIA

Apologies. It was unintended. I was trying to respond. Instructions as to where to respond are unclear.

Best Bernardo

CIM2014 (talk) 09:57, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

The place to respond is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ATMIA, as you are well aware (having already done so). --David Biddulph (talk) 10:00, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

The point being that the deletion of the AFD notice was UNINTENDED

Minor edit definition

Thanks for the heads up.

CIM2014 (talk) 10:03, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

Unicon content deletion

Hi David

Do you think it reasonable for talk to delete my content from Unicon (British science fiction convention) twice, even after I addressed his first concern. I view his action as vindictive overkill. Vicarage (talk) 10:10, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Yes, The Banner was quite correct (but the place to discuss it is at Talk:Unicon (British science fiction convention), not here). As there are no independent sources quoted, either in your version or the previous text, I will propose the article for deletion. --David Biddulph (talk) 10:14, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

I will contest the deletion, and if this approach is standard Wikipedia policy now, I don't think I want to be part of it. Vicarage (talk) 10:16, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia's policies of notability and verifiability have been there since long before you joined. If you don't understand them, then sadly you would be better off not being part of it. --David Biddulph (talk) 10:21, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

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Draft article for your further advice

Thanks again for your previous (and precious) advice. I have tried to incorporate your suggestions and those of ColinFine into my article. Specifically, I have now modified it to be more like an encyclopedia article in response to your observation that my original version looked more like a journal paper. For reference, please see Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions#Attaching a picture to the draft, I think it is now ready to be submitted. It is in my sandbox. May I please request you to have a look at it and advice me regarding its suitability? I have also requested ColinFine for his comments. Wishing you a Merry X'mas. Thank you. Mat phys (talk) 19:27, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi David, I was hoping to hear from you but I appreciate that it must be a busy time for you and you may not have time to look at my draft (in my sandbox). As I wrote in my previous post, I have substantially revised the draft in the light of your advice. I will be grateful if you have any last minute advice before I submit it for review. I have also written to ColinFine for any advice. From what I understand, I need to put the put the line {subst:submit}} at the top of my article. What is not clear if I can do it in my Sandbox itself or do I have to mode the draft to a separate page. Another question/worry that I have is that after I submit, and if the reviewers do not like the draft, will they return the draft to my Sandbox or will they simply delete it? I hope they return it to my Sandbox so that I have an opportunity to modify the draft and make it acceptable. Thank you. Mat phys (talk) 09:44, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

Still looks more like a textbook than an encyclopedia article. If you wish to submit it you would put {{subst:submit}} at the top of the draft. There's no need to move it from the sandbox to draft userspace; a reviewer will do that if they want to. If they decline the draft there's no need to move it back to your sandbox, as you can keep modifying it in draft userspace. They're not likely to delete it unless they consider it as blatant advertising or find that it is a copyright violation. The only other usual route to deletion is if the draft is abandoned without further edits for more than 6 months; even in that case you can subsequently ask for it to be undeleted if you want to continue working on it. --David Biddulph (talk) 10:46, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

David, thanks. I will try to modify the draft further to make it encyclopedic. As I also wrote to ColinFine, whether my article is accepted or not, it has been a very educative experience for me. As a habit, I tend to write in a pedagogical style. I keep an imaginary student in front of me to whom I am talking. You and ColinFine made me realize that writing for an encyclopedia is totally different - needs a detached attitude. Thank you. Best wishes for a very Happy New Year. Mat phys (talk) 18:25, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

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Thank you for your help in the teahouse

Hello David

It was very kind of you to give me the information on posting my article and add to my article what i'd deleted in error. I do notice that I have some issues with citations. You mentioned that when I submit it and editor will possibly clean it up but I'd really like to learn from my mistake. can you possible tell me what i've done wrong on one of them and then i can hopefully see my error and be able to fix the others. thank you so much. Will they actually fix the citations or will they simply tell me I made an error and need to resubmit? it must be a minor error but i cannot see what i've done wrong. so if they correct them, i could hopefully learn from that and will be good going forward. of if an editor won't then i'm happy to do it and would love to learn so maybe you can fix one for me and then i can learn and fix the others. Also, I have asked the question on another user's talk page and noticed that I signed incorrectly. i thought winning posts on talk pages just doing the four wave signs at the end would fully sign and date but apparently i'm still doing something wrong?

ADeville (talk) 21:01, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

I assume that the citation errors which User:jmcgnh mentioned in his reply to your Teahouse question were the duplicate url parameter entries which another editor fixed in this edit.

If you look at the version before that correction in the edit window (here), and use "Show preview" without changing anything, you will see that it gave a warning "Warning: Draft:James Bolton (film director) is calling Template:Cite web with more than one value for the "url" parameter. Only the last value provided will be used. (Help)" The word "Help" was in blue to indicate that it was a wikilink to a page with specific guidance, in this case to Help:Duplicate parameters. That is the error which Frietjes corrected for you. Make sure that if you do open that old version for editing you don't save it, because that would put the page back to the old version including the errors.

As far as your question about signatures is concerned, you are correct that 4 tildes gives a signature, as it did in your question to me here. Your first message to jmcgnh (this message) had your user name but no date, and my guess is that you mistakenly typed 3 tildes instead of 4; see WP:3TILDES.

Good luck with your continued editing. --David Biddulph (talk) 05:13, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

I see also that in your message to jmcgnh regarding the citations you said that they are a different color blue and assumed there was a problem. My guess is that the different colour was merely to indicate that it was a link which you had already visited, see Help:Link color. --David Biddulph (talk) 05:23, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

User talk:Geneosa

Thanks for catching that. I removed your comment when I removed the template. Hope you don't mind. My fat fingers on a Galaxy S4 lead to far too many inaccurate button punches. John from Idegon (talk) 23:31, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Easily done! --David Biddulph (talk) 23:32, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

BTW, that seems like a great addition to the 'pedia. I left him some encouragement and a nifty little instruction template on doing references. John from Idegon (talk) 23:36, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXIX, January 2017

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Steppenwolf (band)

FYI: WP:ANI#GlenLBui Kendall-K1 (talk) 00:14, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Loud quacking. The SPI is there in case it's needed. --David Biddulph (talk) 00:19, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Guess what tomorrow Im calling Wikimedia, I've only posted using my name, not sure who you are but you have no RIGHT to remove data from the Steppenwolf Wikipedia site, as for ISP's in my area there are thousands that have the same ISP. I am directly connected to Steppenwolf and I'm reporting you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GBui (talk • contribs) 01:55, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

SR West Country and Battle of Britain classes

Good catch, sorry. It looked like the usual nonsense where a drive-by IP puts some random name into the page. Pinkbeast (talk) 07:19, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

You are the rider

	The Rider
	This picture depicts that you re the amazing Wikipedian here running across green fields, faster and swifter than any other Wikipedians. Keep up. I hope you run like this throughout your time at Wikipedia. You are the greatest Wikipedian I have ever noticed. Amazing! Faceless Wikipedian (talk) 18:29, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

Editor who doesn't understand English

Biju Patnayak International Airport (BBI), Bhubaneswar, Odisha — Preceding unsigned comment added by Patra28 (talk • contribs) 11:38, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Why u reverted my edit and how can you say those information malformatted an unsourced? For your information related my edit refer below links...

International Flight related:- https://odishatv.in/odisha/body-slider/direct-flight-to-kuala-lumpur-from-bhubaneswar-from-march-27-190827/ https://www.telegraphindia.com/1170128/jsp/frontpage/story_132731.jsp#.WI8ks_l969I http://www.orissadiary.com/CurrentNews.asp?id=71980 http://www.orissapost.com/direct-intl-flight-from-bpia-in-march/

Cargo:- http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/international-cargo-operations-begin-from-bhubaneswar-airport-117012700896_1.html http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/transportation/shipping-/-transport/international-cargo-operations-resume-at-biju-patnaik-international-airport/articleshow/56812541.cms — Preceding unsigned comment added by Patra28 (talk • contribs) 11:36, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

I said on your user talk page "If there is a dispute, take it to the talk page of the article.". If you don't understand English, please don't edit at the English Wikipedia. You can hopefully find your own language Wikipedia listed at meta:List_of_Wikipedias. --David Biddulph (talk) 11:43, 30 January 2017 (UTC)