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Could you please help me with the article Sam Brown (singer) please? Thanking you in advance! Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 20:05, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

No problem Joe. I'll have a look asap. Take care. Dr. K. 05:37, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Could you please help me with the article Guy Pratt? Thanking you in advance! Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 06:46, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Will do. Dr. K. 08:03, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Could you please help me with the article Georgia Byng? thanks for everything! Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 11:44, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

Please help me with the article Nik Kershaw. Cheers! Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 10:59, 21 May 2016 (UTC)

Could you please help me with the article Miriam Stockley? Thanks! Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 21:07, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Could you please help me with the article Rock Goddess? Many Thanks and Very Best Wishes, Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 16:44, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

Oh, No! It's Joe. Could you please help me with the article Emma Pollock? Thank you very much in advance! Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 15:20, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi Dr.K., I hope that you're well. Could you please help me with the article Joan Jett? Special thanks, Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 16:27, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

Hi there! Could you please help me with the article Amy Holland? Many a thanks! Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 13:15, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

Could you please help me tremendously with the article, Chaz Jankel please? I should very hopefully be meeting him next month! Thanks and ATB, Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 13:51, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

Hiyo! Could you please help me quite a bit with the articles Norman Watt-Roy and Mick Gallagher please? I'll be meeting them and the rest of the Blockheads next week!! I can't wait!!!! Best, Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 19:49, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

Hi, I hope that you're doin' good... I got to see the Blockheads perform on Saturday at Band on the Wall... And got to meet Derek Hussey, Chaz Jankel, Norman Watt-Roy, Mick Gallagher, and Gilad Atzmon... Derek was very nice, and talkative... Chaz was a very lovely, and down-to-earth man, and I even sort of sang his song "Little Eva" with him, he mingled with the crowd after the show, but most people didn't know who he was!!.. Norman was a wonderful man... He could tell stories forever, and called me "amazing" because I knew his discography better than himself haha, Mick seemed ok, but I didn't get good vibes from Gilad... Oh, and I've done some edits to the Chaz article... Maybe check over them? Unless someone beats you to it haha. All the best, Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 08:19, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

Hi Joe. I'm very well, thank you. I'm glad you had so much fun with these legends of rock. I'll check the article and the other singers you mentioned before. Thank you for your confidence. :) Take care. Dr. K. 17:16, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

Hiyo, I hope that you're doing well! Could you please help me with the article Durga McBroom? Thanking you in advance, Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 13:43, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

Hiyo, I hope that you enjoyed your holidays, and had a good New Year. If you get a chance could you please help me with the article Iva Davies? Thank you, Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 11:26, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

Happy New Year to you too Joe! Nice seeing you here. :) I will take a look. Take care. Dr. K. 17:00, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi, I hope that you're well. Could you please help me with the article about Mark White, and also his band Vice Versa please? They've recently reformed, and are currently working on some new tracks which I'm very happy about! And thank you if so, Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 23:04, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Re:Boconó

Hello, I just translated all that article from the homonymous article of the Spanish wikipedia, all that info was written by Venezuelan wikiusers, please if you agree with that can you revert the article. Thanks--Vvven (talk) 23:10, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

Can you reply my message? please--Vvven (talk) 20:52, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Divine Comedy illustrated by Botticelli

On 8 February 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Divine Comedy illustrated by Botticelli, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the drawing of Lucifer from the Divine Comedy illustrated by Botticelli depicts the whole story of canto XXXIV, and shows Lucifer's geographical location in Hell? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Divine Comedy illustrated by Botticelli. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Divine Comedy illustrated by Botticelli), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 12:01, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

Dr.K: where should I report this? Sock puppet and Neutrality problem

Good evening, @User:Dr.K: I am adding this note here since you were involved with the blocking of User:Igaalbania and I don't know where exactly I should be reporting this situation.

i.e. User:Igaalbania got this note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Igaalbania#Sockpuppet_investigation

   You have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 year--Ymblanter (talk) 20:07, 19 November 2016 (UTC) for abuse of editing privileges. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may request an unblock by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page: User talk:Iaof2017 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Well, I wonder if there is now a new sock puppet, User:Iaof2017 (Wikipedia does not have a user page with this exact title. In general, this page should be created and edited by User:Iaof2017.) He does however have a Talk page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Iaof2017 which includes this note:

    Multi-user icon An editor has expressed a concern that this account may be a sock puppet of Igaalbania (talk · contribs · logs).

I mention this because I did some edits on the Albania article, including some comments from the European Union that the country will not be admitted until it cleans up its problems. That was quickly reverted by User:Iaof2017 ... who also happens to be the user that has done most of the edit on Abania since December 2016.

Aside from that, there are real problems with neutrality WP:NPOV in the Albania article as I pointed out in friendly note on the Talk page of that article. It almost sounds like much of the content was written by someone working for the Albanian government.

Peter K Burian (talk) 22:54, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

Correction re: neutral POV. I now see that the content I had added about the European Union, and the problems identified by Forbes and the International Monetary Fund are included in the article. User Iaof2017 deleted them but then added them back in different parts of the article. He did delete the mention of the problems identified by the EU in the lede that I had added, but such is life. So, overall, I cannot complain since much of the cited content I had added is in the article now. However, much of the content of the article sounds like it was written by a PR Agency for the government of Albania. Peter K Burian (talk) 23:32, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

Hi Peter. I know. The basic MO of this user is shuffling large amounts of pictures and text all over the place. Most of the text sounds highly promotional and reads like an advertising brochure. The problem is, I can't find where the text comes from. It sounds professional, but my search did not produce any source external to Wikipedia. I have opened an SPI on this user based on similarities with sockmaster Igaalbania, but the SPI determined that the likelihood of this user being a sock was low. I have also asked an admin friend of mine to check into this user but, apart from protecting pages, there is not much he can do. Based on these results I have given up trying to clean up after this editor. However, if you think that the material is promotional, you can try to delete it. If edit-warring ensues, perhaps this user can be reported at 3RRN. The problem is, that due to the great amount of edits and shuffling this user produces it is very hard to even know if he is edit-warring, as you also have witnessed. Aside from a topic-ban, I can't see any long-term solution to this problem. But that requires going to AN or ANI, so it may be a bit problematic. Dr. K. 03:20, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

DYK for The Indian Church

On 10 February 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Indian Church, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Canadian artist Emily Carr felt unable to look at her painting The Indian Church (pictured) because she was embarrassed when people complimented her on her work? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Indian Church. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, The Indian Church), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 00:01, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Albania

Saw an Albanian throwing a tantrum here. I thus quickly checked the Albania article; has someone been polishing it to make Albania gleam? Certainly many edits have come in. I have been slack with Wikipedia for some months now. Certainly some of the stuff I added to the Albanian page has been chopped. I am going to remedy this, though haven't got time right now. BowlAndSpoon (talk) 10:30, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Ah, Bowl, you British people are so delightful to talk to. Your manners are always impeccable and most of the time I agree with your reasonable points. Yes, you're so right. There is a lot of activity in those articles, a lot of which is of rather dubious provenance. For sure I would welcome any help I could get in that area. The last contact even made legal threats to not revert his/her edits, while acknowledging that s/he doesn't have any sources to support these edits. There are degrees of cluelessness. I just didn't know that cluelessness could reach that level. Dr. K. 16:55, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Metre

Facepalm --NeilN ^{talk to me} 01:03, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Good description of the situation. :) Dr. K. 01:07, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Citation archive links at Air France Flight 447

Hi, Dr.K.,

Thanks for your contributions fixing up {{dead link}}s at Air France Flight 447 here and here. This is just to let you know I've been coming in after you and cleaning up the {{Citation}} parameters here and here. Please have a look at the documentation for the usage of link parameters url, dead-url, and archive-url at Template:Citation. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 05:23, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Dead links

IABot is not a drop-in replacement for humans, it's only the starting point for an edit session. Please see this edit where it saved links that are not dead, and marked links that are not dead. If it makes a mistake, the procedure is to notify the bot through the same interface so it won't make the same mistake again. -- GreenC 17:32, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

In the same edit, it deleted the link http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20120210170338/http%3A//www%2Ecensus%2Egov/compendia/statab/2008/tables/08s0775%2Exls entirely which is a mistake and should be restored. -- GreenC 17:35, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

(edit conflict) The bot as configured now analyses the page and then saves the edit by itself without giving the human operator the chance to review the edit. So I did not have any chance to finalise an edit session started by the bot. I assumed the bot was ready since its link is at the article history. If the bot is not ready then it should not be available. Dr. K. 17:41, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

I'm a little confused, if this "Dead links" section, is a response to the previous, #Citation archive links at Air France Flight 447 section, or not. If yes, can you demote the H2 == Dead links == header to H3 (or remove it), so the sections stay logically together, and don't get archived separately? Thanks. Mathglot (talk) 07:09, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

No, it's a different topic. Please follow the links given by the OP. Dr. K. 07:15, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

ANI/I notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is User 24.34.58.178. Jim1138 (talk) 02:02, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

Sock

Dr.K.--sock of who? I'm looking into it--but can you notify Commons? I don't know how to tag stuff there. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 16:14, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi Doc. It's M 08 1 who has uploaded copyvio images at commons. See commons:User talk:M 08 1 where Juliancolton has already tagged some of the sockmaster's images. However, M 08 1 does not edit on en.wiki. S/he uses 41.224.101.107 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) and M 08 1 to do his/her bidding here. I haven't done any SPIs at Commons, so I'm no help in that department. Dr. K. 16:30, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

• I didn't mean SPI--I meant tagging the images for deletion. I ran CU real quick because you seem to have a point, but they point at very different places and I am not comfortable placing a block. Please warn them, and let's hope that they get it. Drmies (talk) 16:42, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

• I'm not familiar with their arcane system of file deletion either. I warned the named account. The named account can be blocked for copyright violations, if they continue doing that. Dr. K. 16:52, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

• I went ahead and deleted all of their uploads on Commons, all pretty clear copyvios. I'll block them if it happens again. Thanks for the ping! – Juliancolton | ^Talk 03:45, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

• You are very welcome Julian. Thank you for solving this problem so fast. :) Take care. Dr. K. 04:03, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

This Barnstar is for you!

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to you for preventing Wikipedia from being used for fraudulent purposes and for defending the project against threats that could undermine its quality. I was about to report a vandal to the AIV but you were faster than me. Thank you! -- SILENTRESIDENT 09:26, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

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Thank you very much SR for this nice gesture. I really appreciate it. I will add the barnstar to my collection soon. :) Thank you also for all you do in this project. Take care. Dr. K. 17:16, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

About a non-disputed edit

Hi Dr. Kay,

I have no problem with your most recent reversion at the Erdogan page. I assume you read the article's talk page entry about that reversion before you made the reversion, as was requested by me in my own reversion notes.

Thanks,

Scott P. (talk) 22:21, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

PS: Have you ever seen the TV series "Red Dwarf"?

By the tone of your last edit over at Erdogan, I can clearly see that you could not possibly ever have seen a single episode of this most marvelous TV series. (Just a wild hunch which is probably wrong.) Scott P. (talk) 00:17, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for deleting that talk section.Scott P. (talk) 00:38, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Thank you Scott for the updates. By the way, I am vaguely familiar with the show, although I don't remember when I last watched it. I haven't watched too many episodes over the years. I had forgotten all about it, until you reminded me today. I'll make sure to watch an episode in the future since you recommend it so highly. :) Take care. Dr. K. 01:40, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Oh, so you have seen it! I suspected as much. The reason I recommended it was because of your heretical belief that cats will inherit the earth. The show writers were obviously a part of your heretical sect too. I personally am of the true and correct faith. It's dogs.

Scott P. (talk) 04:48, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Kidding aside, just in case you may not recall, the show featured a certain cat species that, due to the lack of humans (we had all died in a terrible accident) had become the dominant species. Also due to the cat's fond memories of their former human masters, the cats had evolved into humanoid creatures. The last remaining humanoid-cat was played by this black guy who was really into his wardrobe, a "cool-cat" you might say. Might you recall? Scott P. (talk) 04:55, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Turkish camel wrestling

Just sent you a third email about the "Turkish Camel." Ever see a Turkish Camel wrestling match? Unlike a bullfight, where the animal must typically die at the hands of the surprisingly more intelligent matador, Turkish Camel Wrestling matches typically end up with both Camel Wrestlers still able to live to actually wrestle another day. Interesting but messy business, especially for those with front row seats! In my not so humble opinion, the sadistic Turks have the peace loving Spaniards beat hands down on this one. Scott P. (talk) 16:13, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Need your assistance

Hey Doc, long time no chat. Was hoping you could lend me some of your knowledge. Concerning the city of Aksaray; was there a time it was known as Taxara? If not, where was Taxara located and what is it called now? Thanks in advance. --Kansas Bear (talk) 03:36, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi Kansas Bear. Nice talking to you after such a long time. I hope everything is well with you. I am not familiar with that city. I also checked in Google books and "Τάξαρα" came up in a few books as an alternative name for a city called Κολώνεια (Coloneia), in Caesarea. Sorry for not being able to be more helpful. Take care. Dr. K. 22:26, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Ok. Thanks, Doc. --Kansas Bear (talk) 22:38, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

This is to cute, don't you think so?

Cupcak (talk) 13:53, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Thank you very much Cupcak Indeed, that's the definition of cute. Take care. Dr. K. 12:31, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Otabek Mahkamov

Thanks for checking on that. I was beginning to come to your conclusion. Going cross-eyed trying to read the translations, etc. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 19:13, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, as always, Jim. Yeah, these are some terrible sources. I know the Samarkand guy who reverted looks like a sock, but hey, we are talking about BLP. :) Take care. Back on my vacation, hopefully. :) Dr. K. 19:16, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

Hope you are having a good vacation! Let me know how it went.

Terrible sources? The urls seem random and the others useless.

BTW: Same problem on uz:Otabek Mahkamov I gave some (hopefully good) advice on talk:Otabek Mahkamov Jim1138 (talk) 04:18, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi Jim. Yes, the vacation is not that bad so far. Thank you for your kind words. :) Your advice at the article talk is well-taken as always. What a mess that was. Thankfully, this time, the BLP problems were resolved quickly enough. Take care and we'll talk soon. Dr. K. 12:29, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Good to have people like you around!

Recently I've made a few edits which little of them were true the other were to see if somebody takes action to prevent vandalism and you did almost imediantly. Good job, I'm new to Wikipedia I don't even know if I've sent this privately to you or just messed up again. I'm sorry if so :(. Best of luck mate, keep up the good work preventing people from messing the website around. I wont make mistakes and I'll add reliable source of information when im editing. Thank you for sticking to Wikipedia after such long time. Take care mate. Aleksihaah (talk) 10:53, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

About revert

Page Gowda Saraswat Brahmin reverted 2 days ego by you but I have given pin to pin details about my citation and edit now shall I expect any editor over there to revert it back???

Dr.Narasimha Prabhu (talk) 08:23, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

Greece

Why revert changes when source is given. You are creating puffery.