User talk:Ianblair23/Archive 15

DYK nomination of Geoff Harvey

Hello! Your submission of Geoff Harvey at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 22:54, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Please see new note on your DYK nomination. Yoninah (talk) 18:08, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Template:Template:National sports teams of Indonesia listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Template:National sports teams of Indonesia. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Template:National sports teams of Indonesia redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. UnitedStatesian (talk) 19:37, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Congratulations

		100000 Edits
		Congratulations on reaching 100000 edits. You have achieved a milestone that only 532 editors have been able to accomplish. The Wikipedia Community thanks you for your continuing efforts. Keep up the good work!

-- Dolotta (talk) 22:35, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks very much Dolotta. Only me 14 years to achieve! Cheers – Ianblair23 (talk) 00:00, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 6, 2019

Although the MOS is and always has been surprisingly useful, there are just a few points where, despite loud protestations to the contrary, the MOS just doesn't reflect a consensus, because it's obvious there's no consensus and there probably never will be. An obvious example is non-breaking spaces; I've never met any two people (among those who like to insert them) who use exactly the same rules for where to insert them. I deal with that conflict by avoiding it ... so, well before Main Page day, someone (generally Art LaPella) will come along and insert them where he likes them. No one has disagreed with him so far, but if someone wants to, that's fine by me. The edits you've been making lately appear to be violations of the usual FAC interpretation of WP:NOTBROKEN ... but such edits in Main Page sections are common (as Art has often pointed out, and Espresso Addict too, I think), so this may be another area where there isn't a consensus and never will be ... and if so, that's fine by me, as long as anyone who has a strong point of view on the matter does their editing well before Main Page day. Another point: if you want to edit a blurb when it's actually on the Main Page, be sure to check the article first to see if the article has been changed ... it had, in this case. I'm interested in any thoughts you have on this issue. - Dank (push to talk) 15:17, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

Oh, I forgot to add: since the 21st, we've been vetting TFA blurbs right after articles are promoted at FAC, on the talk pages of the FAC nomination pages. If there's some general change you want in the way links are handled at TFA, then you (or I) can raise the issue in those vetting processes so that we can gauge the response. - Dank (push to talk) 15:23, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

Sigh. Pinging User:Modulus12. Okay, you guys win ... you can pipe any redirects you like, and I'll start avoiding redirects in any new blurbs I do ... on one condition: if a future discussion goes the other way and upholds WP:NOTBROKEN at TFA, it's on you to put the redirects back in. I don't care who wins this fight, as long as I'm not getting jerked around. - Dank (push to talk) 00:28, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

I really don't have a strong opinion either, but I do know MOS:DYKPIPE exists, discouraging redirects there, and thought maybe the logic applied to the rest of the Main Page. I can also maybe see a small benefit to not using redirects on the Main Page because nobody watches a redirect for vandalism. Modulus12 (talk) 00:43, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

Some falafel for you!

new ImmortalWizard(chat) 14:54, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

FYI

My block is expired. THE NEW ImmortalWizard(chat) 14:56, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Geoff Harvey

On 10 February 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Geoff Harvey, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Geoff Harvey, former musical director for the Nine Network Australia, composed the theme song for The Sullivans for his wife's cousin's wedding? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Geoff Harvey. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Geoff Harvey), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:01, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Template:High Commissioners and Ambassadors of Australia

A tag has been placed on Template:High Commissioners and Ambassadors of Australia requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion because it is an unused duplicate of another template, or a hard-coded instance of another template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

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ITN recognition for Geoff Harvey

On 31 March 2019, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Geoff Harvey, which you created. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page.

Stephen 23:42, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

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2019 World Aquatics Championships

Hi! I see you can modify the Module:Team appearances list/data. Please add to the World Aquatics Championships 2017 for Kuwait. Kuwait participated as Suspended Member Federation in 2017. In the North Macedonia article the 2019 link is red, after the change of the country name, but the country code is the same. I don't know what changes are needed ffor this. Thank you. Tomcsy (talk) 13:51, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

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T3 deletion summary

Hi, I saw that you deleted Template:Cricket centurions with summary ‎(T3: Unused, redundant template). I have been trying to change this summary since T3 doesn't say anything about the template being unused as discussed at Wikipedia_talk:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion/Archive_75#T3_and_unused and thought it had been successful up until now. My question now is if you used any script or anything while deleting this template so I can track down where we forgot to change it. ‑‑Trialpears (talk) 10:17, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

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Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!

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Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society

Dear Ianblair23/Archive 15,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more. ​

Best regards, Chris Troutman (talk) 22:28, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

so cute

Joshua2436 (talk) 17:49, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

Edits to links

Hi, just to remind you that there's no need to "fix" redirects. DuncanHill (talk) 14:41, 16 December 2019 (UTC)