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PMS

When you've been restoring biased, POV-pushing material into an article, you should not be protecting the article in any version, much less in the version that contains the biased information per WP:INVOLVED.

I realize that the POV pushing isn't necessarily obvious unless you have either read the sources or know something about the subject matter, but the material is seriously skewed. For example, the unregistered user would like you to believe that Carol Tavris was the only person to ever believe that PMS has been misdiagnosed, or that Western women's awareness of PMS might skew their survey responses (a serious problem with surveys that is well documented for every behavioral disorder from autism to substance abuse). WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:38, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

I think some of your criticisms are correct. I've unprotected the article. Edward (talk) 18:46, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Then let us see whether the new editor is able to understand the problems with her work. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:27, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Appropedia

Your "Find link" tool is extremely cool. What would it take to set it up on Appropedia? --Chriswaterguy talk 05:28, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

To make it work I need access to the mediawiki API on Appropedia. Do you know the URL for the API? http://www.appropedia.org/w/api.php doesn't work. Edward (talk) 23:10, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Category:Olympic films

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Find Link usage

You may want to back off your excessive use of the Find link tool to populate links in articles, as you are linking rather common terms that should not be linked in many cases per WP:OVERLINK, things like "pizza delivery" and "taxi rank". --MASEM (t) 12:31, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, will do. Edward (talk) 17:57, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Find link Internal Server Error

• Copied from email I am continuously getting server error for last 15-20 minutes in http://edwardbetts.com/find_link

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Please contact the server administrator, edwarddebian.org and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log. Apache/2.2.17 (Debian) Server at edwardbetts.com Port 80

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--Tito Dutta (talk) 11:59, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the message. I fixed both problems. find_link is now working and I corrected the error reporting e-mail address. Edward (talk) 12:53, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! --Tito Dutta (talk) 12:56, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

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TRS-80 proposed split

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Find Link

Hi, i am just wondering have you finished Find Link for good please? Thanks --JetBlast (talk) 21:42, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Bug with Find_link and possible cause

Hey Edward, I just recently tried to use findlink, and each time I clicked on a article to add a link, (I believe) the redirect from a http url to a https removed the change that the tool was supposed to insert into the edit. The foundation recently switched all logged in users from http to https. Would you be able to fix this? Sadads (talk) 03:20, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Just demoed it while logged out, and it still works fine, so I am imagining it is the recent foundation change in policy, Sadads (talk) 03:22, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the bug report. Sorry, I can't reproduce the problem, it works fine for me while logged in. You can access find_link using https, if it helps: https://edwardbetts.com/find_link Edward (talk) 08:06, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Help editing

Hello ,

Can you help sourcing this page [LCT] ?

Thanks--Uskudargideriken (talk) 12:55, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Find link 03 September 2013

It seems Find link is not working. It is not making any change in articles. You can try here. Click on "List of Bengali film.." --Tito☸Dutta 00:59, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

This is now fixed. The problem was was caused by the recent Wikipedia switch to HTTPS. Thanks. Edward (talk)

List of refrigerants

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September 2013

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High German consonant shift and Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law

I think you made a mistake here. The article that you linked to doesn't seem to have anything to do with the topic. CodeCat (talk) 21:50, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, I'll be more careful. Edward (talk) 09:23, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

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Find links App

Hi! Thank you for creating such a great tool. Would you mind explaining to me how it works. I have tried to feed in article titles and all I get is ""searching for article xxxxxxx 0 found (7 total)"". My question is what follows after these results. Answer on my talk page. Thanks in advance. Juhuyuta (talk) 16:37, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Your answer makes a lot of sense. I now understand how the app works. Seems the articles I had tried to use were not having the suggestions part below ""searching for article xxxxxxx 0 found (7 total)"". The last line I was having was ""searching for article xxxxxxx 0 found (7 total)"". And are you adding the edit summaries automatically or typing them in? Thanks a bunch.Answer on my talk page. Thanks in advance. Juhuyuta (talk) 05:38, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Poop patrol

Dear Edward, we met at the last Cambridge meetup and I told you a bit about the bot that I had written for me to patrol easily confused words such as preform, posses, Thrity, and in particular my longterm program to reduce the amount of staring in Bollywood. Since then the latest operator of the bot has retired, but the code is available, though it has a couple of outstanding bugs (recently it has only run a few queries per week before it falls over and it has never been able to exclude safe phrases if they are wikilinked). In an ideal world I would like to get the thing enhanced to the point where we can offer it to other language wikis as a tool for dealing with errors where there are too many false positives too use AWB etc. I certainly can't properly tackle forth unless we can fix the wikilink problem and put Forth Bridge in the safe phrases, but regardless of whether we can do that I would be very grateful if you would adopt it and become the third operator of that bot. ϢereSpielChequers 07:43, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Hi Edward, I was wondering if you were coming to wikimania and if so whether we could talk about poop patrol? ϢereSpielChequers 22:01, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

Category:Chalk pits

Hi there - I recently came across Category:Chalk pits, which you created, when I was perusing Category:Geography, which you had chosen as its sole parent cat. Category:Chalk pits stood out like a sore thumb because it just didn't belong in such a high-level parent cat. So I took a look at its contents and came up with two new & improved parent cats for it. However, I have a question for you, which I was unable to answer to my satisfaction even after looking at all of the articles (most of them being one-line stubs), because there is no main article for Chalk pit. Are all Chalk pits the result of mining activity -- in other words, are they all in fact "quarries"? Or are some of them natural formations? (Please leave a note at my talk page to let me know that you've replied.) Regards, Cgingold (talk) 21:54, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

P.S. Do you really reside in both Cambridge AND San Francisco, as your User Page seems to be saying? If so, that's quite a feat! :) Cgingold (talk) 21:57, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, I update the location category on my User page. Chalk pits are quarries, when I've got some spare time I'll write an article. Edward (talk)

Invitation to join the Ten Year Society

Dear Edward,

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

Best regards, — Scott • talk 10:02, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, I added myself to the category. Edward (talk) 08:54, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

Quayside photos

Hi Edward,

Here are 2 photos I took yesterday after the meet-up, as requested. Not my best work, I know!

Best wishes,
cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 11:58, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

Financial Economics review

When convenient, please visit Financial economics - I've done a major edit a few months back. Thanks. Thanks. Fintor (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.160.150.196 (talk) 08:22, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

Poop patrol

Hi Edward,

I wonder if you would have some time to look at User_talk:WereSpielChequers#Poop_patrol. I have given the prototype a pretty thorough going over now, have some anomalies or requested tweeks and am ready to apply it to more easily confused words. ϢereSpielChequers 15:18, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, I've not had a chance to do any more work on it. I'm still interested and I'll get back to it as soon as possible. Edward (talk) 17:46, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Edward, all at your convenience of course. It is already quite effective for my use on a small group of words, but I think we are close to this being something I can use in training exercises for newbies. ϢereSpielChequers 13:20, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

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