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Best user name ever barnstar! :) - Wikidemon (talk) 05:20, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

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Accidental revert

My apologies for accidentally reverting you. — JJMC89 (T·C) 04:53, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

You are entirely forgiven, JJMC89! No harm done. I would be remiss in not forgiving you, as we are fellow mathematical statisticians ;o) Don't be a stranger! --FeralOink (talk) 04:15, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

Port Authority

Re this edit summary: an anonymous IP editor put that mess about the Port Authority into the template {{Common logical symbols}} for some reason. It had nothing to do with your edit, but your edit summary helped me discover the problem, so thanks. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:53, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

Oh wow, you are THAT David Eppstein, the famous mathematician! I wrote about you on Quora, see here: Ellie Kesselman's answer to Who are some of the active Wikipedians who are famous enough to have their own entry on Wikipedia? I am Ellie Kesselman ;o) You actually appeared twice, but someone collapsed the earlier answer. I also read your blog on LiveJournal. I like your periodic arXiv highlight entries. In my Quora answer, I used a photograph of you that I found in the collapsed answer, but I don't know if it is a copyvio. If you would like to provide another BIGGER photo, that would be great. My answer, i.e. YOU, is the only correct one, other than Jimmy Wales. All the rest are just frequent editors. You are actually notable outside of Wikipedia!

As for that template spam, it looks a lot better now! The reason why I noticed it was because I was trying to remove all the white space in the Triple Bar article, just prior to the references. I still see that there, even after your edit. It isn't a big deal of course, but it is a little odd. Any ideas, or should we just leave it alone? Thank you for stopping by!!! --FeralOink (talk) 02:24, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Request for assistance on AfC submission by RevengeOfTheRobots

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  • Draft:Online Kratom (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Im trying to submit an article and it's been rejected two times. The first time I understand. However the second one seems more like a bias opinion with nothing really concrete. For example the line when stated like an advertisement. There's no real clarity to what that means or how that conclusion was came about. Lastly, when it was said not just articles created by the creator. Well obviously I did not create the articles that are referenced in the content. Im wondering how this person came to the notion that I wrote the content that this article is linking back to you? Def need some assistance.

This is for the Online Kratom article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Online_Kratom RevengeOfTheRobots (talk) 04:23, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

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Quora

Some of your changes to the Quora article appear to have been reverted by the page creator; please check to make sure. I thought most of your edits were sound. 183.83.5.231 (talk) 06:22, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

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Baltic Dry Index - reference to Macrobond removed

hello,

in your edit from 2015 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baltic_Dry_Index&diff=695873121&oldid=695492199 you've removed a mention of data vendor Macrobond, while left other Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters. can i ask you to reconsider / revert that edit? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pqd (talk • contribs) 10:48, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

thanks for the prompt reply! i believe that Thomson Reuters also does not provide free access to the BDI historical data, yet it was listed there. that's why i decided to add reference to Macrobond and was surprised with it being removed, while other reference kept intact.Pqd (talk) 07:11, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Re: MyWOT talk page

I undid my contribution to the talk page, because a WOT moderator seemed to have evidence of this "TOW Software" being WOT, and I found some evidence on Google too.

As for the claim in July TOW went out of business, the only thing I noticed on WOT was they moved the servers from the Finnish ISP Nebula OY to the Amazon cloud, triggering weird bugs, as well as poor performance for a while. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BFeely (talk • contribs) 12:25, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

United States presidential election, 2016

No offense. But why won't you folks let me bring that article in line (as much as possible) with the others? United States presidential election, 2012 & the others before it, have Elected President. PS - Will I have to change all 57 other infoboxes to President-elect, so to make them all consistent? GoodDay (talk) 21:33, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Hi GoodDay. As of now, Obama and previous presidents were elected presidents, since the electoral college is completed for those elections. At the moment, Trump has the official status of president-elect. Also, I don't want people to keep editing the article, implying that the election results are uncertain in any way. Trump IS the elected president of the United States. Some of the other editors were writing that Trump was "projected" to win! That makes it seem like the election isn't over yet, or that there remains some uncertainty of the status of the outcome.

By the way, I am not happy with the person who keeps on reverting your changes to the electoral college count of 306 and lowers it to 200-something. I am going to comment on the talk page about that. You are correct. That other user is not, and has reverted at least 3 times today on the electoral college vote count for Trump.--FeralOink (talk) 21:43, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

He's going to continue to be President-elect after the Electoral College votes, as well. I put Projected Elected President as a compromise & also because the Electoral Votes are listed a projected. IMHO, the bottom of the infobox should be Elected President per the numerious sources. GoodDay (talk) 21:46, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

GoodDay, tell me what you mean by the other 57 infoboxes please? I'm sorry, but I just noticed that you added that now. Do mean for the US presidential election 2016 article, or for the other articles on presidential elections? Those other election infoboxes should stay the same. Only this article will change. Unless I have misunderstood you. Thank you.--FeralOink (talk) 21:49, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

The 57 others: United States presidential election, 1788 to United States presidential election, 2012 which use Elected President. The 2016 article should do the same per vast number of sources. GoodDay (talk) 21:51, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Correct, GoodDay, those 57 others ARE "Elected Presidents". They should remain as they are. Obama and previous presidents were elected presidents, since the electoral college is completed for those elections. Trump is the president-elect until he assumes office on January 17, 2016. You are correct that he is not the president even after the electoral college vote. But he IS the president-elect now, and all those other past presidents are correctly noted as "Elected President".--FeralOink (talk) 21:56, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Thus the reason I put Projected Elected President. It's projected that the Electoral college will elect Donald Trump president. As for the title President-elect, Trump will continue to use that title up until he takes office on January 20, 2017. GoodDay (talk) 22:03, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

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Since July there has been a very serious backlog at Special:NewPagesFeed of over 14,000 pages, by far the worst since 2011, and we need an all out drive to get this back down to just a few hundred that can be easily maintained in the future. Unlike AfC, these pages are already in mainspace, and the thought of what might be there is quite scary. There are also many good faith article creators who need a simple, gentle push to the Tea House or their pages converted to Draft rather than being deleted.

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Draft:Devsisters resubmitted

Hi, FeralOink! As per your request, I've replaced most of the Twitter and Facebook citings with other sources, with one exception: The discontinuation of the game OvenBreak 2, which was only announced on the official Facebook page. The draft text says "Discontinuation of service announced" instead of "servide discontinued", so the self-source reference might be acceptable for that? If not, "citation needed" or simply removing that piece of information appear to be the only alternatives.