User talk:Arjayay

A Gnome Explains

It is a silly WikiGnome story:-
I found I had misspelt retrieved, as retreived (ei), three times in one article (one mistake, copied & pasted).
I set myself a "penance" (nothing like a little masochism) of correcting the "ei" versions in Wikipedia articles.
I only intended to do the 100 or so misspellings there were at the time, but I then adopted "retrieved" (retreived, retrived, retreved)
I then added "rhythm” (rhythem, rhythim, rhythym, rhytm, rythem, rythim, rythm & rythym)

I then got carried away, and adopted the Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings/R - all of it.
Don’t do it, it's bad for your health

Broadcasted

I have been asked about my changing "broadcasted" to "broadcast"

The Wiktionary definition of Broadcasted states that the use is proscribed, so it should not be used.
The word also appears on Wikipedia:Lists_of_common_misspellings/B

Broadcasted is accepted in some US dictionaries, but not at all in some UK ones, e.g.Chambers which states "Sorry, no entries for Broadcasted were found"
The very first section of WP:ENGVAR is WP:COMMONALITY "Wikipedia tries to find words that are common to all varieties of English."
If "broadcasted" was the only acceptable word in US English, then under ENGVAR, that should be used in articles on US subjects.
However, as there is a word "common to all varieties of English" then COMMONALITY requires that it is used throughout, even if other spellings exist.

A February 2014 article space search for Broadcast gave over 137,000 uses, compared with a search for broadcasted which gave just 39.
Moreover, of the uses of Broadcasted 15 are redirects to Broadcast articles, and five relate to one Turkish TV station

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External Links

Thanks for the advice. I was adding links to sites witch information i found as being relevant, did not think there were by a problem...

kind regards,

AlexFrieza (talk) 12:30, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for pointing out the mistake I have been making. It was due to a typing mistake in an AWB regular expression parse and replace string. I have now fixed it. I will now go back over my last 250 edits or so and fix any mistakes I have created, by this edit. -- PBS (talk) 10:52, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

I think I've done a lot of them - although currently the search index has only caught up to early on 5 January, so it is probably worth working backwards. - Arjayay (talk) 10:56, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

I introduced the error into the script in the last couple of days, but to make sure I got them all I went back to the start of this AWB run which was on January 2 (about 1000 edits to my surprise). The pass picked up about a score of errors which have been fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience. -- PBS (talk) 11:33, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Addition of Turkey Broadcast of "Mi ex me tiene ganas"

Hello Arjayay. I thank you for your contribution to the Mi ex me tiene ganas page. You edited the broadcast section by indicating that it will soon air on FOX Turkey under the translated title "Benim eski beni istiyor". Could you please post a link to show when it will air on the channel or if it has already started airing. I will appreciate it, thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MarVit3 (talk • contribs) 13:31, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, I have only made one edit to that page, this one which was simply to correct a spelling mistake (see top of this page for a detailed explanation). I have not indicated "that it will soon air on FOX Turkey under the translated title "Benim eski beni istiyor" " and know nothing about that at all. Arjayay (talk) 13:38, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Please do not ask a question and then remove my reply, which I have now re-instated.
Having checked this using "Wikiblame" the information was added in this edit on 18 August by an IP user User:217.164.75.14 (talk)
You could try contacting them, but as this IP was only used for 5 edits, all on the same day, you are very unlikely to get a reply. - Arjayay (talk) 13:53, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Robert Burns

Hi, Arjayay, I just noticed you made an edit on Robert Burns at the request of an IP. I'm just double checking - the link used as the ref goes to the Jean Redpath site where they are selling the CDs. I'm wondering if this is just promotional, especially as Burns night is in a couple of weeks? Sorry if you've already considered this but I thought I'd flag it to you anyway. SagaciousPhil - Chat 17:12, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your message User:Sagaciousphil.

I'm quite happy if you want to remove the link to the sales site, as long as that doesn't give rise to an "unreferenced" problem. Sales sites are always problematic, but this does include some "editorial" information, albeit it is a "primary" source. Redpath has her own article, and there two other internal links, in those two lines, which you may consider adequate? AFAIK Redpath's covering of Burns' songs is the most extensive currently available, so deserves a mention, even if she "only" managed 7 of the 22 volumes with Hovey, plus 3 for the Scots Musical Museum. Arjayay (talk) 17:30, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for such a fast response. I'll just leave the ref (for now anyway) - as you say, it's always so difficult with sales sites, I think that's why my re-action wasn't "I'll just remove it". Let's just keep on eye on it for now? Thanks again for your response! SagaciousPhil - Chat 17:40, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Search index not updating

Yes, scary. CirrusSearch development/implementation does not appear to be moving along very fast. I dropped a note on AKlapper's talk page. Tim Starling no longer appears to be active. Let's keep our fingers crossed. Chris the speller ^yack 19:12, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	Thank you very much for your careful reading of the page I created. Allow me to insist however to keep the full name if only at the beginning of each new section. I find it reads a lot better. That is the practice in written texts after all -- books or newspaper articles. Many thanks, AlexandraSl AlexandraSl (talk) 10:23, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

A fierce kitten searching for misspelled words. Please go through my edit history and correct spelling. Thanks.

Geraldshields11 (talk) 20:11, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Plesae can you check the references fro 1) Martineau family 2)James Martineau 3) Philip Meadows Martineau thanks so much - I am not sure if I have referenced correctly cheers Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.160.17.244 (talk) 22:47, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

A discussion you may be interested in

Hello Arjayay, as you may recall you had some suggestions yesterday regarding the Egyptian constitution article here [1]. Someone has suggested here [2] that the article be moved. You may want to provide your input, if you want. Thanks,David O. Johnson (talk) 06:07, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks David - I've answered there.

Seeking your arbitration Comment

I noticed that you have had previous input on the article Mohammed Burhanuddin. Well, there is an ongoing dispute between myself and another editor regarding the inclusion/exclusion of a stampede at this mans funeral. Could you please leave your thoughts on the talk page discussion. Thanks.Fotoriety (talk) 23:32, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

User:HZ100 and the WICL page

Please do not make any changes for User:HZ100 on the WICL page. HZ100 is a sockpuppet of User:Zimmerman1997 and has been a long-time vandal of the WICL page. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 18:14, 5 February 2014 (UTC)