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Greetings!

Regarding your edit here, you may wish to eye the conversations as they inevitably wind up in the archives. You can then correctly locate them in terms of your intended edit. CycloneGU (talk) 20:02, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Archiving my talkpage

Thanks, I take it as IAR in a friendly spirit as indicated by your edit summary. I had no idea the page length was problematic until BHaworth said so, but since the RfA nomination the comments on it have multiplied - someone templated me about it just as I was coming here. I had intended to re-evaluate the issue this morning local time, but was leaning towards implementing bot archiving, so I'll leave it. And try to figure out how to have my thematic DYK archive appear on the right under the archive box, or inside it. (Did I say I am inept with computers?) Yngvadottir (talk) 16:14, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

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A smile for you You’ve just received a random act of kindness! 66.87.2.116 (talk) 13:52, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks! Whenaxis (contribs) ^{DR goes to Wikimania!} 22:29, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Multi-age classroom DYK

Please see Template:Did you know nominations/Multi-age classroom to address some serious issues. Thanks! Binksternet (talk) 00:06, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

An interesting statistic you've unearthed

Like many others I suspect I hadn't realised there was an easy way to check what percentage of an editor's CSD tags were rejected. Interesting. Malleus Fatuorum 00:08, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Well, it's not the tool I want as it doesn't reliably measure CSD success, see Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship/Archive 215#CSD success/failure ratio; now that Scottywong's a sysop he might be persuaded to build one to go with his AFD tool. Josh Parris 06:19, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi Josh

I had noticed that the templates that I used to trial the bot are somewhat troublesome to use now the trail is over, they seem to mess up the page, I can revert the workspace used as a template, so that the approval page looks as it did at the time of approval, so that the templates don't need to be de-activated, would that be better ?

P.S. I do not mind at all to leave it the way that it is to illustrate my poor planning, for the trial to editors who may wish to view the approval, if that is the idea I'm cool with it. Penyulap ☏ 11:42, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

That would be preferable; it's better than mussing with an approved BRfA. Josh Parris 11:48, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for your support at my RfA. I will do my best to live up to people's confidence in me. Yngvadottir (talk) 15:38, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Simple AWB

I've approved your access for AWB on simple.wiki. Sorry for the delay. Osiris (talk) 17:01, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

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Re: Sniff test

It doesn't double count. That said, the number is still surprisingly high - my best guess at the moment is it's used on a large number of non-article pages (although quite why it's used on that many I don't know). - Jarry1250 ^{[Deliberation needed]} 08:24, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Progressive pop

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Category for broken links template

Would it be possible for the template listing link issues to include a cleanup category? Some of those templates don't get addressed for a long time, so a cleanup category may be useful for editors to resolve the problem. Thank you. Regards, RJH (talk) 21:58, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

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Talk:Life

The template on Talk:Life hasn't been updated for a while. All of the dabs have long since been resolved. Thank you. Regards, RJH (talk) 05:15, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

It's still there, so I'll just manually yank it out. Regards, RJH (talk) 04:22, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

== Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shaun Phillips (director)

Hello Josh Parris,

I also do not agree with your comment that there were no sources listed previously that listed Shaun Phillips by name. That simply isn't true. More than a few do and others list his production company (Artistic Perspective Entertainemt) by name in the videos themselves (often in the final credit/copywrite info).

I am relatively new to creating articles for Wikipedia and a bit slow in learning how to respond to requests from other editors, so I hope I am responding all requests in a timely and correct manner. You have marked this article I created yesterday for speedy deletion due to lack of sources. I am going as fast as I can to improve it with better sources. I have updated it today with at least a half dozen new sources - ALL listing the article subject Shaun Phillips by name. Please reconsider your desire to have this article deleted and I will continue to try and locate even more credible sources in the coming days.

I also believe that Artistic Perspective Entertainment should not be deleted, but rather restored as it is a production company credited with producing 4 DVD's and two short films featuring known celebrity A-List talent that can be, and have been verified as true. I would like to have this entry restored as I attempt to improve it.

Any advise or other assistance you can provide would be appreciated.

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bh1967 (talk • contribs) 13:32, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Character point

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July WMAU Melbourne Meetup

Hi, At last month's June meetup we discussed the idea of setting up a Training Course at a University of the Third Age (U3A) to be held in 2013 and named Becoming a Wikipedia editor. In order to get this course up and running we are calling for volunteers to help develop the idea, and either tutor part of the course, or provide one on one help to students in the class. All local Wikipedians are welcome to discuss this at our 11am meetup to be held this Sunday on 22 July. Please add your name to the attending list at Wikipedia:Meetup/Melbourne 23. Food and beverages are provided. Would appreciate your input, Josh. Cuddy Wifter (talk) 04:26, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

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Re the Pete Seeger article

When I click on a ref in the article the article does not always jump to the reference section. I then have to scroll there. Is there a problem with the software?--1archie99 (talk) 18:29, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

probably. Josh Parris 11:49, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

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Copper extraction techniques

Thanks for the kitten, Josh.

The work is not yet complete. I will get back to it when I have more time.

I think the reference to the article being about historic techniques should be removed, as it was already incorrect and will be even more so by the time I have finished.ChrisFountain (talk) 01:58, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Josvebot 5

I just want to double check with you about this bot approval. Are you sure that the operator has the necessary competence to operate this bot? I am little worried in this regard having read the discussions on the request page and the user's talkpage, in particular User talk:Josve05a#Operating a bot. I note that this is not the user's own code and that you felt the need to make sure they had read WP:BOTPOL, so I'm guessing something gave you reason to doubt this. Do you think this user is ready to operate a bot on this project? Thanks, WJBscribe (talk) 15:48, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

I certainly had concerns too, and you're not the first editor to express them. User:Josve05a's editing and interaction history indicates that he has behaved responsibly, in spite of his advertised age of 15. I expect of his various BRFAs only this one will get approved, and I don't see that much will go wrong with it.

The DEFAULTSORT problem is pretty easy to understand, and hard to screw up. Bear in mind, what he's running is software written by someone else and it has a history behind it, so unless he moves from past behaviour and goes badly off-reservation we're going to be fine; the same could be said of any editor.

I gave him a slightly harder time than normal, and he held up well.

Remember that bot accounts may only do those things for which they're approved; they don't have a license to do *anything* else.

In summary: in my judgement the op will be fine, and we have policies and procedures in place to deal with things if they're not. AGF; thus far it's been displayed in spades by the op. Josh Parris 20:03, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Josh Parris for naming my name in this comment, so that I could get a notification and read this. -(t) Josve05a (c) 20:07, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Fair enough Josh, I defer to your judgment on this issue and what you say makes sense. I will flag the bot. WJBscribe (talk) 20:23, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

NationalRegisterBot

Any comments on the NationalRegisterBot request? I'm pretty confident in the code that I have, and I would be more than happy to show you some test cases... I just don't want to sift through all 10000 articles on the list in my user space to find five that match your requirements. That said, you mentioned that there may be a tool on the toolserver to find matches. Could you provide a link to that please? As I said at the bot request page, I could move those items to the front of the list to avoid reworking the code. I still think turning the current first five articles into temporary test cases (or possibly copying them into talk/user/non-mainspace and working with them there?) would suffice to show that the bot will perform as expected when those articles are encountered and will be less trouble than finding the needle-in-the-haystack five articles. I have freed up some time this upcoming weekend, so I would like to get something moving by then. Let me know. Thanks for your help with this whole bot thing!--Dudemanfellabra (talk) 05:10, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

Disambiguation link fixing one-day contest

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The da Vinci Barnstar

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		For your much-needed tedious work at the understaffed WP:BRFA! —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 19:20, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

And there I was thinking no-one would notice. I appreciate this. Josh Parris 21:08, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

All I See (A+ song)

I got cut off in my edit summary - the problem with the school computers is that the # key isn't where it ought to be - but please read WP:NSONG criterion #2, which requires that a song 'has been ranked on national or significant music or sales charts' - this song charted on the Billboard Hot 100.--Launchballer 08:29, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

I've expanded the article - better?--Launchballer 10:54, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Proposal on BLPs

The consensus is against Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/RfC to add Pending Changes to all BLP with few or no watchers. Can you close it as withdrawn? --George Ho (talk) 02:15, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

New objection reasons keep being added and engaged in discussion (as one would hope in a RfC); I have worked up a closing statement, but I'd prefer to withhold closing it until the discussion dies down. Traditionally RfCs are kept open for 30 days. Josh Parris 09:44, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

John Wainwright Evans

Excellent. Thank you very kindly, Josh. I really appreciate your work on John Wainwright Evans. To be honest, I picked a notable topic for my Draft: namespace test and specifically made it very stubby to see if it would get deleted. I never imagined it would be expanded, let alone nom'd for DYK. So I thank you kindly for that. Great work. Thanks. 64.40.54.251 (talk) 03:38, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

I didn't plan on that, it just kind of happened. And it turns out if someone has written a lengthy obituary, or several, well it just writes itself. I've been inspired, as this seems to be a rich vein of easy content. And I only stayed up to 2am hunting down medal recipients!

Solar astronomy, on the other hand... what a.... yuck! Josh Parris 06:13, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, Josh. Yeah, Solar astronomy looks like part disambiguation, part definition and all bad. I might get inspired to fix it up later. Just wanted to add that I've appreciated many of your comments around the project. You're one of the more friendly and helpful people here. I've been feeling down about the project for a while, but was uplifted when the Draft: namespace went live I've been asking for something similar for years But that happiness didn't compare to how happy I felt when I saw how you improved the article. It really means a lot to me, so I just wanted to let you know you made my day year. Thanks very much. I appreciate it. 64.40.54.251 (talk) 07:49, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

Toolserver account renewal

In February 2012, you requested for your expired Toolserver account to be renewed. User:DaB. asked you for your Toolserver username, but you did not reply at that time (IIRC JIRA sent mails directly to /dev/null due to a misconfiguration, so you had to be regularly browsing the page to notice the question).

All expired Toolserver accounts have been renewed until January 6th, 2014. Can you access the Toolserver now? Just for reference, I assume your Toolserver username is josh? --Tim Landscheidt (talk) 04:12, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

DYK nomination of John Wainwright Evans

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DYK for John Wainwright Evans

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Proposed deletion of Peace Officer Standards and Training

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Molybdenum

I know you have an interest in mining because of your edits to the article on Mining. Inspired by a beautiful photo of synthetic bismuth that I found on Wikimedia Commons, I read the article on bismuth. I then proceeded to read articles on other elements. I'm now at Molybdenum. I noticed in the map of production in Molybdenum#Occurrence that the location of greatest production is in the United States, somewhere around Pennsylvania or West Virginia. However, that is not mentioned anywhere in the article. I'm wondering why. Also, that map itself is a bit out of date now. Do you know where a more up-to-date map could be found? CorinneSD (talk) 15:53, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

The map creator simply put the big dot on Washington DC rather than out west where the mines are. I've removed the image as confusing and outdated (9 year old data). Thought about asking the user who made the map to fix/update ... but it appears that user has been indef blocked. Vsmith (talk) 14:04, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

O.K. CorinneSD (talk) 14:57, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

May 2014 disambig contest: let's do it again!

Greetings fellow disambiguator! Remember back in February when we made history by clearing the board for the first time ever, for the monthly disambiguation contest? Let's do it again in May! I personally will be aiming to lead the board next month, but for anyone who thinks they can put in a better effort, I will give a $10 Amazon gift card to any editor who scores more disambiguation points in May. Also, I will be setting up a one-day contest later in the month, and will try to set up more prizes and other ways to make this a fun and productive month. Cheers! bd2412 T 18:48, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

BAG assistance needed

Hi Josh! There are quite a few Requests for bot approval that are awaiting BAG assistance. Would you be willing to look at some of these? Thanks in advance! GoingBatty (talk) 23:12, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Hexes (band)

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MfD nomination of Talk:Coefficient of fractional parentage

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Speedy deletion nomination of Template:Experimental archiving

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A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	Hey Josh, Although its a bit late, I was pleasantly surprised to receive your comments regarding Stanford Link Bot. I am constantly trying to improve it based on your suggestions and more are welcome. Given your experience, I would like to work with you in making Wikipedia better. Ashwinpp (talk) 17:40, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Old tags

Hi Josh Parris. I am trying to cleanup User:AnomieBOT/Nobots Hall of Shame. Am I right to believe that I should remove all tags that are about WildBot? They are most probably outdated by now. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:07, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Outline of the United States broken link section is outdated

Hi there,

I checked links listed as broken in Talk:Outline of the United Statesand they are all ok. Is it ok to delete this long list or you will do it yourself? There are some other links Outline of the United States that need fixing but not the once listed on Talk page. For example: International Politics of the United States. Please advice... Gpeja (talk) 17:03, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedia bots using pywikipedia

Category:Wikipedia bots using pywikipedia, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. ^Avic_ennasis @ 09:50, 24 Elul 5775 / 09:50, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Broken links tool?

I tried the tool on Talk:Gemara, it didn't work and I ended up here. Is it down temporarily? --Dweller (talk) 12:15, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Loosing feeling listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Loosing feeling. Since you had some involvement with the Loosing feeling redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Little Professor (talk) 01:46, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Josh Parris. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)