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Hmmm. Have never done this before so I am not sure where this is going, but my 2 cents...

I take exception to the first sentence. ANOVAs are not models. They are tools used to analyze a variety of models by partitioning sums of squares. The result of an ANOVA analysis is a table of the various components of variance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aty.mern (talk • contribs) 01:34, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

m.eriksson@tamu.edu

Thanks

It was a setting under "list" which I don't remember seeing before. I deleted the bug report before I saw your message, but I got notified of it... All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:59, 17 February 2015 (UTC).

Your edits to Analog television

Please not make edits that do not affect the rendered text. Such edits do not improve the encyclopedia and increase both server and other editors' workload, as we pore through the diffs to try to see what you changed. Thank you for your understanding. Jeh (talk) 08:35, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Τροχαδι

Hi, I recently submitted a page about the "Τροχαδι" which was in Greek and I would like to translate it and put it back up on the website. The instructions said to message you before doing so. Is there anything I should be aware of? Or can I just re-write the text in English and then post it?

P.S Do the references need to be in English? Most of the primary sources are academic books from the late 19th early 20th century that were written in Greek and are not available online so naturally all of the information is in Greek, should I translate these? Or just keep it in the original Greek?

Thanks, DollyBou — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dollybou (talk • contribs) 16:23, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) @Dollybou: A good-quality reliable source is preferred to a low-quality unreliable source, even if it is in Greek. See WP:NONENG. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:46, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

FGM

Magioladitis, these edits to FGM (22 February; 22 February; and 17 February) violate WP:CITEVAR by unbundling citations and moving references out of sequence. They seem provocative given that I asked you on 15 February to stop changing cite formats elsewhere.

FGM is a featured article. It has gone through a GAN review, an informal peer review, a formal peer review, an FAC review, and two external specialist reviews, so if you want to make changes, including changes to the citation formats, please gain consensus on the talk page first. Thank you, Sarah (SV) ^(talk) 01:01, 23 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I am sorry. I did not recall it was the same page. I am trying to fix the paragraph breaks. -- Magioladitis (talk) 02:31, 23 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for adding this. Sarah (SV) ^(talk) 02:33, 23 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, you've done it again. [1] Please leave the references alone. They are meant to be bundled. If you want to change them, please gain consensus on the talk page first. Sarah (SV) ^(talk) 02:38, 23 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

SlimVirgin Magioladitis did that (in Female genital mutilation) because <p> tags are not to be used in references like that. It causes accessibility problems with those using screen readers. This is not changing cite formats, this is allowing the blind to actually read the article. Accessibility trumps CITEVAR. Accessibility trumps however you want a page to look. Either remove the <p> tags or use something like {{Paragraph break}}. Bgwhite (talk) 06:55, 23 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

NEVER tell anyone that they can't talk on somebody else's talk page as you did at Yobot's. That is rude and condescending. Bgwhite (talk) 07:00, 23 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page watcher) @Bgwhite: I'm interested in learning more about accessibility problems and how I can improve the articles I edit. I see that Template:Paragraph break/doc also mentions the issue with <p> that you pointed out. However, I don't see that information on Help:Footnotes or Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility (unless one should infer it from WP:Deviations). Do you have any recommendations on the best place for me to get a full education? Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by GoingBatty (talk • contribs)

Accessibility MOS page that you pointed out is the best source. Any specific questions can be directed towards Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Accessibility. For tables, MOS:DTT gives a tutorial with examples. The screen reader most people use costs alot of money. If you are using Chrome, ChromeVox is a free screen reader program. While an issue in ChromeVox does or doesn't mean it is an issue other screen readers, it does help in understanding how a blind person "reads" an article. We were thinking of mentioning the use {{Paragraph break}} to WP:BUNDLING. Bgwhite (talk) 19:47, 23 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I am confused. What is the problem? Why should the references stay merged together? Now I see that the problem was not AWB but me changing things manually? -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:34, 23 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Presentation proposal for Wikimania 2015

How to pick up more women...

Hi Magioladitis! Victuallers and I have developed a proposal for a talk to be presented at Wikimania 2015. It's titled, How to pick up more women... -- as in more women editors and more women's biographies. Examples include the Edit-a-thon blitz during WikiWomen's History Month and the "new articles" work underway by WikiProject Women Writers. The Wikimania talk proposal review process has begun and there's no guarantee that our proposal will be accepted. That's where you come in. Please review it and, if you wish, give us feedback on the submission's talkpage or my talkpage (vs. your talkpage). Ultimately, we hope you add your name to the signup at the bottom of the proposal which signifies you'd be interested in the talk if you were attending it (it does not commit you to attending Wikimania). Thank you! Rosiestep (talk) 04:09, 25 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Infobox power station

Thank you so much for sorting the stuff out. :) And really sorry I couldn't be online when needed. Too much work in RL :/ Reh man 15:06, 25 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Rehman: Anytime my friend. Still a lot to be done at Category:Pages using infobox power station with unknown parameters. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:25, 25 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there. Just asking, is it too much work to make a table like this (second table), using a bot? That would make it more easy to work on the category mentioned above. Reh man 07:56, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Rehman: Better ask Plastikspork for this one. I do not have a script for doing it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:28, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately s/he is no longer active :( I have posted at WP:BR. Hopefully someone else can also do it... :) Reh man 10:44, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thanks for the notification on the Paris & Simo page, didn't realize it was an orphan! Have added links form other pages. DaniDWrite (talk) 10:29, 27 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DaniDWrite thank you so much!!! -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:31, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Subscript error

Resolved

Hi, your WP:WCW edit here introduced an error into Differential calculus. The correct fix is this. I don't know how WPCleaner works, so I don't know whether the incorrect fix is a problem with WPCleaner that should be reported upstream. Could you take a moment to look at the correct fix and, if appropriate, make a bug report? Thanks. Ozob (talk) 14:30, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ozob thanks for th fix. It was my mistake. I only used WCW to detect the error. Then I checked the page and I was sure I did everything all right while I did not. Thanks again. No further action is needed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:36, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Spanish Civil War, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Isthisuseful (talk) 22:10, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yobot Query

Can I ask why Yobot made this edit and reverted what I had written? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2002_FIFA_World_Cup&diff=649677321&oldid=649610620 David-King (talk) 15:35, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Most probably for the same reason I reverted your edit to 2006 FIFA World Cup. We don't superscript ordinals on Wikipedia, see MOS:ORDINAL. Nanonic (talk) 15:46, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Can I ask why that is or are you not the person to ask? David-King (talk) 16:27, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

David-King The rule has been around Wikipedia forever. Most major style guides (Chicago, AP and Oxford) don't use superscript. Generally, when the style guides align, that is what we use. Bgwhite (talk) 18:41, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I personally think superscript looks more professional and indeed Microsoft Office has superscript for ordinals as the default, but hey, whatever. David-King (talk) 18:53, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

All known style guides I know do not use superscripts. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:55, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm merely questioning the people who set those style guides. Who are they, do they know what they're doing and are they qualified to set them? What reason do they give for why we can't superscript ordinals? It's an arbitrary matter so why make it seem as though there is an objective solution. David-King (talk) 19:22, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page watcher) @David-King: You may wish to ask at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers. GoingBatty (talk) 23:31, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers GoingBatty. Will take it up with them ASAP! — Preceding unsigned comment added by David-King (talk • contribs) 00:19, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]