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LGBT articles of Brazil

Hello! I am Brazilian and I need of you to correct my translation edits, please help me in the Changing legal gender assignment in Brazil, LGBT rights in Brazil, Recognition of same-sex unions in Brazil, Age of consent in Brazil, Prejudice in the Brazilian LGBT community. 28 December 2010 (UTC) User: Hentzer

Maori

Yes, there are about 2000 links (actually fewer, since many are in tables which are transcluded to multiple articles), which I've started fixing. However, many of them should link to Maori language, Maori culture, or even Cook Islanders instead. It's better to link to a dab page than to the wrong article. (There are also cases where the link is ambiguous and should be to the dab page, or where the lexical and semantic connections may disagree, as in "the Maori use the word X for Y", where "Maori" means the people but the reader following the link would more likely want the language, since that's really the topic of the link.) With the article moved, the links to the dab page will be gradually fixed, but without it being moved, the incorrect links will not be fixed. Best to keep the article at its more precise title. — kwami (talk) 00:37, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

In my opinion, the Maori people is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for the term Maori. Evidently you disagree, so I suggest you go through WP:RM and we'll see where the consensus comes out. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 03:43, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Generally, and this is suggested in the MOS, we have separate "X people" and "X language" articles, with "X" as a dab. Partially this is because it's often difficult to say which is primary (are the English people really the primary topic of 'English'? Also, while languages are of course dependent on their people, many peoples are defined as peoples by their languages), but also because many many articles simply link to "X" without consideration of whether that happens to be the people, language, culture, or sometimes even kingdom or food article. — kwami (talk) 08:48, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

I've responded at Talk:Māori. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 12:32, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

List request

Greetings, friend. Can you generate for me a list of all pages under Category:Judicial branch of the United States government and its subcategories that contain disambig links? I plan to clean up all federal-judiciary-related articles, and might as well kill two birds with that stone. Cheers! bd2412 T 04:40, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Let me see what I can do. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 15:57, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Coming from you, those words generally precede spectacular results. bd2412 T 18:52, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Category redirect change proposal

Please see Commons:Commons talk:Only use category redirects where necessary#A solution. Thank you. Wknight94 ^talk 13:59, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Problems from last years Henry Nicholis/Henry Nicholas moves

I think I spoke with you last summer about these two articles. For some reason, the history original Talk:Henry Nicholis page has been deleted, and I assume it happened somewhere in those various redirects. Do you know how we might restore the full edit history? Thanks, Aristophanes68 (talk) 23:48, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

I can't find any indication that any talk page was deleted. The old history of Talk:Henry Nicholis appears to still exist in the history of Talk:Henry Nicholas. This seems to be the most extensive content the talk page ever had, which isn't saying much. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 20:07, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Okay, thanks for looking into that. I assumed that since the article page was so much older than the talk page, and since there had been several moves and un-moves, etc., that there should have been a lot more material than the talk page. Weird. Thanks again. Aristophanes68 (talk) 20:12, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedia user talk pages of shared IP addresses

Your bot is adding recursive categorisation - ie the same category - to the above category. This has been manually fixed once - but your bot knows better. Please educate your bot accordingly and then fix manually. [mistake], [mistake], Thanks, Ian Cairns (talk) 16:38, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

OK, I can put in a check for that, but it is an extremely rare situation. This happened because the category in question was a member of a parent category that was redirected to the child category. The bot has been running daily for almost 2.5 years and this has never happened before AFAIK. The only reason it happened twice is because you reverted another user's edit and put the page back in the redirected parent category. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 20:19, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

STiki

Sorry about that -- I missed the closing period, and thought that it was redirecting to itself. I missed that it was your bot that had made the correction, or I would have paid more attention. See WP:STiki for more details.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 14:42, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Note that RussBot's edits don't seem to be flagged as bot edits -- that's probably why it showed me the diff in the first place. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 16:08, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

I don't know why not. They are flagged as bot edits on my watchlist, for example. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 19:21, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Cut n Paste move notice

Hey Russ, thanks for the message about the cut-n-paste move. This was something of a mess up by me, if I can be allowed to explain!

For many months now, Dundee City East and Dundee City West were redirected, on creation, to Dundee East and Dundee West, respectively. With the Scottish Parliament elections forthcoming, I thought it time to create separate articles for the former (the sucessor seats), and with so much information 'shared' between them, thought nothing of copy-and-pasting.

I realise now the error I made, and apologise of course for doing it that way. I think the pages have been moved around as it is subsequently, so hopefully all is now well!

Cheers

doktorb _words^deeds 18:48, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Red-line Names

I see that you have recently unlinked some individuals with "red-lined" names from the List of Florida State University people. I would be grateful if you wouldn't do that. Such links indicate that articles are needed for those notable individuals, or that the individuals are not notable after all and should be removed. Thanks Tim Ross (talk) 23:08, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

• The problem wasn't that the names were redlinked; they were blue-linked to pages that didn't actually contain any information about the people referred to on the list, which is worse. But I understand your concern; the unlinked names could be replaced with red links to correctly-titled articles. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 01:27, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Very good point. I'll replace the red-lines as appropriate. Thanks Tim Ross (talk) 10:45, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

You beat me to it. Thanks! Tim Ross (talk) 18:20, 23 February 2011 (UTC)