User talk:Anthony Appleyard/2017/July-December

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The Seasons (poem)

In this edit you inserted a sentence saying that the poem's meter is iambic hexameter "as often used for Latin and Ancient Greek poetry" (even though the meter of classical epics was dactylic hexameter). On the other hand, the poem is given as an example in our article on dactylic hexameter. Iambic or dactylic? I know nothing about Lithuanian poetry, but there seems to be a conflict here. Deor (talk) 15:20, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

@Deor: Thanks. Sorry. Typo. I have now corrected it. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:27, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Controversial moves

Hi, Anthony. Could you please help revert my category moves? Just the category ones (from "Category:Czech electronic music groups" to "Category talk:Russian techno"). These moves I made were deemed controversial and need to be undone. - TheMagnificentist 14:27, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

@TheMagnificentist: Done see [2]. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 18:25, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

Mass disruptions

Have you ever noticed that by your unthoughtful moves of "pro-democracy camp" and "pro-Beijing camp" you delinked and disrupted hundreds of articles that link to the Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp and pro-Beijing camp? Additionally, your choices for "pro-xxxx camp in Hong Kong" instead of "pro-xxx camp (Hong Kong)" are very questionable, as it is not the common practice for naming an article here on wikipedia. Lmmnhn (talk) 01:53, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

@Lmmnhn: These moves were asked for in this edit of Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests. The reasons stated there for the moves look sensible to me. The pages Special:WhatLinksHere/Pro-democracy camp in Hong Kong and Special:WhatLinksHere/Pro-Beijing camp (Hong Kong) show that the incoming links still exist and that there are no double links (i.e. #redirect links to other #redirect links) among them. See the history of page Pro-democracy camp in Hong Kong; after you moved it, User:In ictu oculi moved it again. See the answers to your move discussion at Talk:Pro-democracy camp in Hong Kong#Requested move 4 July 2017. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 03:53, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

The links were fixed because I did it. Before my edits all the articles linked to "pro-democracy camp" were linked to the disambiguation page. No offence but I do not oppose to the intention of whoever wanted to make it more specific or clearer but to delink hundred of articles by moving a page is just a unthoughtful move. Lmmnhn (talk) 08:58, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Toby fox (artist) listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Toby fox (artist). Since you had some involvement with the Toby fox (artist) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. UnitedStatesian (talk) 14:08, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Common Sense (pamphlet)

Hi Anthony. You placed an indefinite semi-protection on this article just over four years ago. An interested anon IP editor, 208.95.51.38, has now requested a lifting of this protection at the article Talk page. I have said that I "agree in principle." What do you think? Many thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 18:02, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
{@Martinevans123 and 208.95.51.38: That depends on what 208.95.51.38 wants to do with the page. As stated in Talk:Common Sense (pamphlet)#Semi-protected edit request on 5 July 2017, there is nothing stopping User:208.95.51.38 from registering as a Wikipedia user and getting himself a username. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 19:52, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

I'll try and relay that sentiment to the IP (again). But I don't intend to be middle man indefinitely. Four years and 2 months is quite a while? Martinevans123 (talk) 20:03, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

I didn't plan to do anything there. I just wondered if you could unprotect it as a test, to see if vandalism (or anything else bad) started up again. 208.95.51.38 (talk) 20:56, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

@208.95.51.38: Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:43, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

It is a good idea to check the talk page history for earlier moves

Talk:Facade#Requested move before making a WP:RM/TR -- PBS (talk) 13:57, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Talk:Most Girls

Can you please move the deleted history of Talk:Most Girls to Talk:Most Girls (Pink song)? The page should have been moved, not deleted, to make way for a move from Talk:Most Girls (disambiguation). GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 01:28, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

@GeoffreyT2000: Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 11:27, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Merge request

I've heard you are the merge expert. Wikimedia has received a couple of requests through OTRS (ticket:2017062110025561) regarding Cision and Cision Inc.. I promise to look into seeing if I could move this along. Is this something you can help with?--S Philbrick (Talk) 16:38, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

@Sphilbrick: Cision and Cision Inc. cannot be history-merged with each other because they are WP:Parallel histories. There may have been amounts of copying back and forth between these two pages and company literature including by members of the companies. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 23:41, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Sony TEN histmerge junk

Can you please revert histmerge junk on Sony TEN? You forgot to do this earlier. GeoffreyT2000 ^{(talk, contribs)} 04:56, 19 July 2017 (UTC) All pages with titles containing not rocket science

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Pretty Hurts

I apologize about twice requesting Pretty Hurts to be moved today only to have both moves be reverted. If you're interested, I set up a move request at Talk:Pretty Hurts#Requested move 24 July 2017 that I encourage you to participate in. 2601:8C:4001:DCB9:E559:381A:F74C:F65B (talk) 22:29, 24 July 2017 (UTC)