User talk:Bgwhite

I believe most editors use Incorrect English, the second most common is American English, followed by Indian English and British English. -- Arnd Bergmann

Welcome to my talk page I make plenty of errors - if you are here to complain about a tag or a warning, please assume good faith. If I have erred, don't hesitate to tell me, but being rude will get you nowhere. I will not tolerate any profanity or extreme rudeness. If used in any way, it will be erased and your message not read. Archives Bot archives discussions after 30 days of inactivity into the latest archive Archive 50 • Archive 51 • Archive 52 • Archive 53 • Archive 54 Archive 55 • Archive 56 •Archive 57 • Archive 58 • Archive 59 Archive 60 • Archive 61 • Archive 62 • Archive 63 • Archive 64 Support request with team editing experiment project Dear tech ambassadors, instead of spamming the Village Pump of each Wikipedia about my tiny project proposal for researching team editing (see here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Research_team_editing), I have decided to leave to your own discretion if the matter is relevant enough to inform a wider audience already. I would appreciate if you could appraise if the Wikipedia community you are more familiar with could have interest in testing group editing "on their own grounds" and with their own guidance. In a nutshell: it consists in editing pages as a group instead of as an individual. This social experiment might involve redefining some aspects of the workflow we are all used to, with the hope of creating a more friendly and collaborative environment since editing under a group umbrella creates less social exposure than traditional "individual editing". I send you this message also as a proof that the Inspire Campaign is already gearing up. As said I would appreciate of *you* just a comment on the talk page/endorsement of my project noting your general perception about the idea. Nothing else. Your contribution helps to shape the future! (which I hope it will be very bright, with colors, and Wikipedia everywhere) Regards from User:Micru on meta. Tech News: 2015-25 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes Users have created more than 5000 articles with the new translation tool. [1] Editing a page is now faster. This is because some statistics about edit filters were removed. [2] Changes this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 17 June. It will be on all Wikipedias from 18 June (calendar). Meetings You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on June 19 at 16:00 (UTC). [3] Future changes Developers are working on a new tool to get and send newsletters. If you read or write a newsletter, share your ideas about it. [4] If you use Pywikibot, soon you won't be able to use compat anymore. [5] [6] [7] Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 15:04, 15 June 2015 (UTC) Generating Check-wiki again Hi BGWhite, if you remember that maybe half a year ago you generated for me error lists similar to Check-Wikipedia project for a non-wmf wiki at wikiskripta.eu. I would like to kindly ask you to generate the whole list once again if you would have the time. The dump is available at http://www.wikiskripta.eu/WSdump2.gz Thank you in advance! --Wesalius (talk) 18:01, 15 June 2015 (UTC) Wesalius. Hopefully, I've done the right. Download te file at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7UjCKI9kkHwZk45WjRNM2dEa0E Bgwhite (talk) 19:20, 15 June 2015 (UTC) 2015 Speedway World Cup pages Hi BGWhite, Can you please explain why you have marked the 2015 Speedway World Cup Final, 2015 Speedway World Cup Race-off and 2015 Speedway World Cup Event 2 pages for speedy deletion. Similar pages exist for every Speedway World Cup from 2001 to 2013, so why are these allowed if 2015 is not? This took a lot of time to produce and give individual scores for each round of the World Cup. The 2015 Speedway World Cup page is the overall page for the World Cup. Thank you! --Johnny2hats2 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 21:41, 15 June 2015 (UTC) Get well soon!   I hope that your health issues are not serious, and that you're feeling much better very soon! MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 23:09, 15 June 2015 (UTC) Ignorant Art In November 2014 you made 7 reverts on this article including 5 within 24 hours. You then protected the page to keep your preferred version. There is no discussion on the talk page and the article never went to AfD. This doesn't look appropriate to me; can you explain further? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:08, 17 June 2015 (UTC) MSGJ, Sabinbik has been blocked for sock-puppeting. Iggyazalealover99 was a sockpuppet of Sabinik too. Bgwhite is having some health issues, so I decided to reply instead of him. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:27, 18 June 2015 (UTC) That does not seem to explain it at all. But I'll wait for Bgwhite to respond himself, and I'll wish him/her a speedy recovery. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:04, 20 June 2015 (UTC) Get Well Soon Oh dear, just saw your update. Hope you feel better and Get Well Soon! From one Wikipedian to Another. Zhanzhao (talk) 23:30, 18 June 2015 (UTC) Get well soon! File:Galakhov-Nikolai-Wildflowers-gal36bw.jpg Dear Bgwhite, please get well soon. I have no one else to bother here. The sooner you stop saying unkind things about your mother-in-law, the sooner you'll recover. By the way, I talked with her over the phone. She had a broken claw. Poor thing. Anyway, I hope you like this painting, which I drew specifically for you, to make your page look even nicer. Dontreader (talk) 05:05, 20 June 2015 (UTC) Tech News: 2015-26 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes Some wikis can now be used only with HTTPS. This includes the English, Russian and Chinese Wikipedias, among others. Soon all wikis will use only HTTPS for all users. [8] [9] You can't use HTTPS wikis with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP. You need to use another browser. [10] Problems On June 15, search was broken on all wikis for several hours. [11] [12] [13] On June 16, images were broken for several hours on wikis that use InstantCommons. [14] [15] [16] Many Labs tools were broken for several days. Almost all of them are back now. They may be missing some data for the last 10 days. [17] [18] [19] Changes this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 25 (calendar). Meetings You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 23 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 15:23, 22 June 2015 (UTC) Oshkosh HEMTT Hi Bgwhite. Thanks for your tidy-up of my recent updates to the HEMTT page. I clearly know more about trucks than I do Wiki editing... I am trying, and learning as I go, but thanks again for the 'little things' that make the page look so much better. Wolpat (talk) 10:32, 29 June 2015 (UTC) Tech News: 2015-27 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes Long lines in code blocks now look better. [20] You can now see graphs in VisualEditor. [21] When you read a page on the mobile site, you can now see a link to go to its talk page. [22] The code coloring tool has changed. You can now use many more languages. It now also works on mobile. [23] [24] [25] You can look at a new site to learn how to reuse data from Wikimedia sites. [26] Problems JavaScript was broken on some wikis due to a code error. VisualEditor and other tools that use JavaScript were broken. [27] Changes this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 30. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 1. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 2 (calendar). You can now use a tool in VisualEditor to add and edit code in color. [28] When you edit a sentence in the Translate tool, it can show you older translations. They help you save time if they look alike. The older translations should now work better. If you see problems, you should report them. [29] If you are an admin or have other special rights, you now need a strong password. [30] Bot and JavaScript coders: The old continuation mode of the API for action=query doesn't work any more. [31] Meetings You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 30 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. Future When you create a new account, it will also create one on Meta-Wiki and mediawiki.org. [32] Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 15:56, 29 June 2015 (UTC) Tunisian Arabic Dear User, As you are one of the contributors to Tunisian Arabic. You are kindly asked to review the part about Domains of Use and adjust it directly or through comments in the talk page of Tunisian Arabic. Yours Sincerely, --Csisc (talk) 13:20, 30 June 2015 (UTC) Bot adding mismatched braces this is odd, the spurious ending braces should not have been added. Frietjes (talk) 22:51, 30 June 2015 (UTC) My middle name is odd. Oh Magioladitis... Bgwhite (talk) 23:01, 30 June 2015 (UTC) Oh Rjwilmsi. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:05, 30 June 2015 (UTC) It was caused due to the unclosed ref tag above. [33]. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:22, 30 June 2015 (UTC) Reference errors on 30 June Hello, I'm ReferenceBot. I have automatically detected that an edit performed by you may have introduced errors in referencing. It is as follows: On the Space-filling model page, your edit caused an unnamed parameter error (help). (Fix | Ask for help) Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, ReferenceBot (talk) 00:25, 1 July 2015 (UTC) A barnstar for you! The Copyeditor's Barnstar Thanks for yours contribution for my working pages. Hope yours help need for all time.For correcting ,spelling, grammar , for pages Sadiqkhan79 (talk) 09:46, 1 July 2015 (UTC)