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Here's a piece of Sachertorte to thank you for all your work updating the Wikipedia:WikiProject Sexology and sexuality/Sex work task force/to do list. - Polly Tunnel (talk) 16:59, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Polly Tunnel: Thanks. The only part I didn't update was 'copyedit'. I thought I'd leave that to someone with better English language skills LOL --John B123 (talk) 17:20, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Writer's Barnstar
	Hi John B123. On behalf of the Wikipedia community, I award you this barnstar for your amazing contributions to sex work articles. This under-represented area of Wikipedia is greatly benefited by your contributions over the years. Happy editing, MX (✉ • ✎) 00:21, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@MX: - Hi. Thanks for that, most kind of you. Cheers --John B123 (talk) 00:26, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

The 2018 Cure Award

In 2018 you were one of the top ~250 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a user group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.

Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 17:41, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Doc James: - Thanks, most kind of you! --John B123 (talk) 17:46, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A beer for you!

Madeline Blair is a great story, every once in a while I come across a gem when page curating and this article was todays. Cheers. Hughesdarren (talk) 21:37, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Hughesdarren: Thanks, much appreciated. --John B123 (talk) 21:46, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Hughesdarren: Hi, unfortunately the article has now been nominated for deletion. Cheers. --John B123 (talk) 17:46, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Typical wikipedia, some "editors" are only interested in deleting everything. Keep up the good work. Hughesdarren (talk) 21:09, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like the cavalry has arrived and it will be a keeper anyway. Onward and upward. Hughesdarren (talk) 11:14, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Hughesdarren: The consensus was to keep. Thanks for your support. --John B123 (talk) 18:17, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, my pleasure. Glad that sanity prevailed. Hughesdarren (talk) 10:05, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hope it doesn't come across as cheap that I second this beer and don't buy you your own.

Your article on Madame Petit was a very interesting read today. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 01:46, 2 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@HickoryOughtShirt?4: Thanks - it didn't come across as cheap. --John B123 (talk) 10:27, 2 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A Dobos torte for you!

7&6=thirteen (☎) has given you a Dobos torte to enjoy! Seven layers of fun because you deserve it.

To give a Dobos torte and spread the WikiLove, just place {{subst:Dobos Torte}} on someone else's talkpage, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.

7&6=thirteen (☎) 23:25, 25 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@User:7&6=thirteen - Thanks, most kind of you. --John B123 (talk) 06:47, 26 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thanks for your help on Cold War! ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 11:31, 24 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Lingzhi2: Thanks, that's kind of you. --John B123 (talk) 19:35, 25 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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I don't appreciate the snark

I get this is an educational program but your delivery is very disrespectful. I get it that what I did was not correct but please respect me as person thank you.

@DiaEdie: Perhaps if you hadn't ignored my earlier comments I wouldn't have to put it so bluntly. Ignoring those comments could also be viewed as disrespectful. Would you have preferred that rather than put things right it your edits I simply reverted them without comment? --John B123 (talk) 23:03, 20 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

what comments?

Please direct me to the comments you are speaking of I was not aware. Again please refrain from being disrespectful towards me. Your response is not warranted. Your previous comments I did not see. So again please don't be rude. I have already reported thid to my teacher since you think I am being disrespectful. Thanks!

The comments were added here. As I pinged you in the edit you would have had a yellow highlighted "You have new messages" and a red square in the bell at the top of each page to make you aware that you had been mentioned. (see image here) Please tell your teacher I am happy to discuss the matter with them if they want. --John B123 (talk) 23:45, 20 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Grammar

You wrongly reverted my correction with regard to "the use of condoms". Yes, "condoms" is of course plural. BUT the "USE" is singular. Of course not only one condom is used by a million people. But the use is mandatory. Being a translator, language is my profession and I would NEVER misuse corrections to destroy texts.

In this case, my correction was necessary.

Royalrec (talk) 04:30, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. This may be due to different variants of English. In British English "are" is correct, I don't know enough about American English (or any other variant) to express if it should be "is" or "are". "The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by the same language" (usually attributed to George Bernard Shaw) may well be applicable here. --John B123 (talk) 17:16, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to correct you. You can say "Condoms are mandatory". That is correct. But if you refer to the USE of condoms: "The use is mandatory". That applies to all regional variants of English, and even in other languages, too. "The use of ---" is the subject here. Hence: "The use of condoms is mandatory". Greetings! Royalrec (talk) 11:10, 6 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I still don't agree, but don't feel as strongly as you do about it so will revert the article back to your version. --John B123 (talk) 08:45, 7 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

dead/unfit/usurped URLs

On an article, I changed two instances of "url-status=dead" to "url-status=unfit", for URLs that return "page not found".

You changed them back, with edit comment:

"Marked urls as dead"

I changed them again (as a revert), with an explanation:

"Marking the unfit URLs "unfit". The defaultvalue of url-status, "dead", does not hide the useless URLs. These dead URLs are not "usurped for the purposes of spam, advertising" ("usurped"), but they are "otherwise unsuitable" ("unfit"). So "unfit" is correct and complies with {cite web}."

Clearly we have different understandings. You changed them back, with edit comment:

"Marked URLs as dead because they are dead and returning 404 errors. They are not live but spammy, in which case "unfit" would be appropriate."

You did not answer or rebut my explanation; you just repeated your initial comment. (And the second sentence is confusing. First, I have to re-punctuate it: "They are not live-but-spammy, in which case "unfit" would be appropriate." Yes, the website is "live", but the pages are broken ("dead"). And a URL that delivers spam is actually "usurped", according to the documentation at {{cite web}}.)

I was about to change them again (as a revert). This started as an edit comment, but it's too complex. It started as this:

Your edits keep making useless URLs back into clickable links. That does not improve Wikipedia. If "dead" would simply hide the worthless dead URLs, I would never bother disambiguating "dead" into "usurped" or "unfit". But the legacy/default-value "dead" doesn't hide the URL; only "usurped" and "unfit" do. A URL that doesn't return the cited content surely is "unfit". A "usurped" URL returns something especially undesirable.

I think I already explained how I understand the nearly worthless instructions at {{cite web}}. Can you show me why you think it is wrong to mark a URL that is not fit (but is not replaced with spam) as "unfit"? Or why "dead" is somehow more appropriate?

It is detrimental to Wikipedia users to show them links to broken URLs. Yet people have set bots to make thousands of changes, marking useless (broken) URLs as "dead", which make Wikipedia show the URLs as clickable links. Something has to change. (This is bigger than just us. Where does one dispute the definition and function of a parameter, where almost everything is locked down by specialists?)

The url-status= values need clear definitions and/or repair.

The documentation does not even define "dead", but that does not leave us free to pick a definition. Since a URL until recently could only be "dead-url=yes" or not, every inherited instance of "url-status=dead" is in a catch-all classification; someone found the URL to be dead ≡ broken ≡ unfit; whether it was domain-not-found, 404, other content, "squatter" spam site, or malware server; but did not record the reason. The definitions at {{cite web}} say "usurped" applies to URLs that have been re-used for advertising or spam, and "unfit" applies to [broken] URLs that are "otherwise unsuitable" (all the other reasons). I say new entries should be filled with "unfit" or "usurped", never "dead". I say old values of "dead" can be disambiguated to "usurped" or "unfit" as the case may be. Why would anyone change the specific case of "unfit" to the general case of "dead"?

The value "dead" is the default, but most explicit "url-status=dead" entries were translated from ancient "dead-url=yes" parameters that were added to broken URLs. But then things got weird. They seem to now want to distinguish between "unfit" and "usurped" (but they forgot to make clear explanations of what they exactly mean and when to use them). Every legacy value of "dead" stays that way by default because no determination was made whether they were "unfit" or "usurped" at they time they were flagged, and no one wants to disambiguate them now, because it needs testing of millions of broken URLs. (I think "usurped" is mostly expected to be applied by bots when an entire website becomes blacklisted.)

There is more than one way out of this. Either of these solutions will fix my objection. (Both would be better.)

If "url-status=dead" would simply hide the URL, just like "url-status=usurped" and "url-status=unfit" hide the URL, it will no longer matter to me what "url-status=dead", "url-status=usurped", and "url-status=unfit" mean, or what you or anyone thinks they mean.
If the documentation would simply explain what "dead", "usurped", and "unfit" really mean, and how they should be used, that will enable editors to do what is correct. Naturally, I believe that any effort to clarify leads only to my conclusions.

The bigger problem might be that many pages got archive-url added, without adding dead-url=no. In this case there is no record of whether the old URL was live or dead st the time. These really should be treated as "url-status=unknown", and both URLs should be links. That conflicts with #1, above. If an explicit "url-status=dead" hides the URL, then the default handling ("url-status=" or not specified at all) must also be changed to show both URLs.

With this kind of possible confusion, editors are not merely at cross purposes undoing each other's efforts, but possibly destroying information and making Wikipedia into a vast garbage pile. A correct understanding must be defined, so that everyone can follow it. If misunderstandings have caused damage, effort is needed to correct the problem where possible, and accept the losses and make the best of the situation. The false economy of leaving crappy documentation could be paying off in a massive misdirection of effort, loss of opportunity, and loss of value. - A876 (talk) 04:09, 8 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@A876: Hi. This hasn't occurred since |deadurl was depreciated in favour of |url-startus earlier this year. |deadurl had the same four values: live, dead, unfit & usurped and behaved in the same manner.

The value "usurped" should be used when content on the target page has been changed, for example, an announcement on the front page of a site may be there this week but not next week, so usurped indicates a snapshot at a particular time. The link to the current page is not displayed to prevent someone looking at the wrong version and marking the ref as "failed verification". Usurped can also be used where the content of the page has been replaced with spam, advertising, porn, etc. Although the url is still "live", the original content has been replaced and the link to the page is suppressed.

Where a live linked page contains spam, advertising, porn, etc then "unit" can be used, which also suppresses the display of a link to the page to protect readers. Additionally, as Google places some value on links to a page from Wikipedia, it also helps prevent a spammy page getting a good position in Google search results. (In practice, "usurped" and "unfit" are used interchangeably).

Setting |url-status to "live" is pretty self-explanatory.

"Dead" is for occasions when the site is no longer there or that particular page is no longer there, usually returning a 404 error. "Usurped" or "unfit" should not be used in these circumstances. This is specifically explained at Category:CS1 maint: unfit url:

The keywords unfit and usurped are intended to identify original urls that point to live sites that are inappropriate: spam, advertising, porn, etc. A url that returns a HTTP 404 error is not considered to be unfit and, in such cases, editors should set |url-status=dead

I agree there is no point in having a link to a dead page, but I don't expect many people click on the link in "archived from the original", so don't see it as a major issue. Certainly "usurped" or "unfit" should not used to suppress the display of the link when it is dead. If you want to change the way citations work, ie make |url-status=dead suppress the link to the original page, then I would suggest starting a discussion on Help talk:Citation Style 1. --John B123 (talk) 09:12, 8 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. That cite (documentation for the hidden tracking category Category:CS1 maint: unfit url) is a piece of the puzzle, giving specific directions that advocate your actions.

You are completely incorrect that "|dead-url had the same four values: live, dead, unfit, & usurped, and behaved in the same manner." (Actually, "dead-url" accepts 3 old values, plus only 2 of those 4 new values.) The documentation said that the category lists pages where url-status ∈ [usurped, unfit] and, incidentally, dead-url ∈ [usurped, unfit]. For most ~~(if not all)~~ of its existence, dead-url accepted only [yes, no, bot: unknown]. (I have seen no others.) Deprecated dead-url currently accepts only [yes, no, bot: unknown, usurped, unfit]; it rejects [dead, live]. Bots have already purged every instance of "dead-url=" from Wikipedia, replacing "dead-url=yes" with "url-status=dead"; "dead-url=no" with "url-status=live"; and (in effect) "deadurl=anythingelse" with "url-status=anythingelse". Mention of the deprecated and purged "dead-url" borders on moot. The 4 values [dead, live, usurped, unfit] are recent, added along with the new parameter "url-status", or not long before it.

I see a few problems with Category:CS1 maint: unfit url and its documentation:

Almost no one ever sees the documentation for this hidden tracking category. That also makes it less likely to be maintained.
The directions there are unsourced.
The directions there are incomplete. They don't explain the parameter or point to any "root" explanation, guideline, or intent. They don't resolve for me the possible contradiction of the highly visible documentation of {Template:cite web}. (I plan to parse Help:Citation Style 1.)
There is no separate category for "url-status=usurped", e.g. Category:CS1 maint: usurped url; instead, this one category lists "unfit" and "usurped" together (8,394 pages). That conflation might deserve justification. The documentation doesn't explain which means what, thus hinting that they might be equivalent. (I remain convinced that they are not, or at least were not originally (Occam's Razor and {Template:cite web}), and should not. They do the same thing, but no one said they are same thing.)
There is no category for "url-status=dead", e.g. Category:CS1 maint: dead url, though it probably would be even less useful than this one.
There is a category for "url-status=bot: unknown", Category:CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (24,114 pages).
There is no other "url-status"-related category in the 29 categories with "prefix:Category:CS1 maint:". -A876 (talk)

@A876: - |dead-url= replaced |deadurl= in December 2014 and initially had one value of "no". (If empty or missing then it was assumed to be "yes"). In September 2015 the values |deadurl=yes |deadurl=unfit and |deadurl=usurped were added (|deadurl=y and ||deadurl=true were also added as aliases of |deadurl=yes), see old documentation [1]. |url-status= was introduced in September 2019‎, 4 years after the added values were added to |dead-url=.

I don't know why you think it's incorrect that |url-status= and |dead-url= ~~don't~~ have the same values and act in the same way. Using the same "cite web" but changing the |url-status= and |dead-url= (and changing two values as needed):

Identical except for error message	url-status=live	Bould, M. Dylan (6 March 2014). "References that anyone can edit: review of Wikipedia citations in peer reviewed health science literature". BMJ. doi:10.1136/bmj.g1585. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019.
Identical except for error message	dead-url=no	Bould, M. Dylan (6 March 2014). "References that anyone can edit: review of Wikipedia citations in peer reviewed health science literature". BMJ. doi:10.1136/bmj.g1585. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019. `{{cite web}}`: Unknown parameter `\|dead-url=` ignored (`\|url-status=` suggested) (help)
Identical except for error message	url-status=dead	Bould, M. Dylan (6 March 2014). "References that anyone can edit: review of Wikipedia citations in peer reviewed health science literature". BMJ. doi:10.1136/bmj.g1585. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019.
Identical except for error message	dead-url=yes	Bould, M. Dylan (6 March 2014). "References that anyone can edit: review of Wikipedia citations in peer reviewed health science literature". BMJ. doi:10.1136/bmj.g1585. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019. `{{cite web}}`: Unknown parameter `\|dead-url=` ignored (`\|url-status=` suggested) (help)
Identical except for error message	url-status=unfit	Bould, M. Dylan (6 March 2014). "References that anyone can edit: review of Wikipedia citations in peer reviewed health science literature". BMJ. doi:10.1136/bmj.g1585. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
Identical except for error message	dead-url=unfit	Bould, M. Dylan (6 March 2014). "References that anyone can edit: review of Wikipedia citations in peer reviewed health science literature". BMJ. doi:10.1136/bmj.g1585. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019. `{{cite web}}`: Unknown parameter `\|dead-url=` ignored (`\|url-status=` suggested) (help)
Identical except for error message	url-status=usurped	Bould, M. Dylan (6 March 2014). "References that anyone can edit: review of Wikipedia citations in peer reviewed health science literature". BMJ. doi:10.1136/bmj.g1585. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
Identical except for error message	dead-url=usurped	Bould, M. Dylan (6 March 2014). "References that anyone can edit: review of Wikipedia citations in peer reviewed health science literature". BMJ. doi:10.1136/bmj.g1585. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019. `{{cite web}}`: Unknown parameter `\|dead-url=` ignored (`\|url-status=` suggested) (help)
Identical except for error message	url-status=bot: unkown (sic)	Bould, M. Dylan (6 March 2014). "References that anyone can edit: review of Wikipedia citations in peer reviewed health science literature". BMJ. doi:10.1136/bmj.g1585. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019. `{{cite web}}`: Invalid `\|url-status=bot: unkown` (help)
Identical except for error message	dead-url=bot: unkown (sic)	Bould, M. Dylan (6 March 2014). "References that anyone can edit: review of Wikipedia citations in peer reviewed health science literature". BMJ. doi:10.1136/bmj.g1585. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019. `{{cite web}}`: Unknown parameter `\|dead-url=` ignored (`\|url-status=` suggested) (help)

On a side note, a lot of pages were changed manually from |dead-url= to |url-status= by many editors before the bot was introduced, and not every instance has been changed, see Politics of India for example.

In conclusion: 1. |dead-url and |url-status work in exactly the same way; 2. "unfit" and "usurped" were in use for 4 years before |url-status= was introduced a few months ago. --John B123 (talk) 18:26, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I expected you would move past the incidental mention of your misstatement and get on to the real items. Instead you devoted a reply to making me wrong, while ignoring the rest. You are completely incorrect that "|dead-url had the same four values: live, dead, unfit, & usurped, and behaved in the same manner." They only behave the same if you use different values. "|dead-url" rejects "live" and "dead", accepting instead "no" and "yes". (To be perfectly explicit about this, "no" ≠ "live", and "yes" ≠ "dead". It's that deep.) Also, both accept "bot: unknown", making 5 values. (5 ≠ 4.) Somehow you mis-entered "bot: unkown" (sic) [corrected below], causing MediaWiki to indicate "Invalid |url-status=bot: unkown" (sic), as if to make a liar of me, notwithstanding my mention of a hidden tracking category that tracks "bot: unknown". You could have looked at any of the 24,114 pages in that category and seen "bot: unknown" in use, but no, you didn't give my statement a proper try. (In the absence of proofreading-and-correction, copy-and-paste would have worked nicely.) Each parameter accepts 5 values, only 3 of which are common. So you got the first thing at least half-wrong ("dead-url" ≠ "url-status" and 5 ≠ 4); after I told you about it, you told me I have it wrong and you have it right (except that you still have it wrong) and, on top of that, in showing that I got something else wrong ("url-status=bot: unknown"), you got that wrong too. I am dense, but I have detected a pattern. You "correct" statements that are already correct.

In conclusion: 1. |dead-url and |url-status work substantially differently; 2. At [Help:Citation Style 1], deadurl was added in October 2011; "usurped" was added in August 2017; and "url-status" demoted "dead-url" in September 2019. So "deadurl"/"dead-url" was in use for 5.8 years without "usurped" (as I said, most of its existence) and 2.1 years with "usurped". (At [Template:Cite web/doc], "deadurl" was added on 2011-06-23; "usurped" appears to have been added on 2012-02-15, but this is because the addition of {csdoc|syntax}, which pulls in the latest instructions, [Template:Citation Style documentation], which pulls in [Template:Citation Style documentation/doc] - old versions of which have a "template loop", which I refuse to chase further.)

Showing "url-status" and its *near-synonym*, (deprecated) "dead-url". 5 behaviors specified by 5 values. (3 common values, 2 different values.)
Identical (except for "deprecated" warning)	url-status=live	Bould, M. Dylan (6 March 2014). "References that anyone can..." BMJ. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019.
Identical (except for "deprecated" warning)	dead-url=no	Bould, M. Dylan (6 March 2014). "References that anyone can..." BMJ. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019. `{{cite web}}`: Unknown parameter `\|dead-url=` ignored (`\|url-status=` suggested) (help)
Identical (except for "deprecated" warning)	url-status=dead	Bould, M. Dylan (6 March 2014). "References that anyone can..." BMJ. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019.
Identical (except for "deprecated" warning)	dead-url=yes	Bould, M. Dylan (6 March 2014). "References that anyone can..." BMJ. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019. `{{cite web}}`: Unknown parameter `\|dead-url=` ignored (`\|url-status=` suggested) (help)
Identical (except for "deprecated" warning)	url-status=unfit	Bould, M. Dylan (6 March 2014). "References that anyone can..." BMJ. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
Identical (except for "deprecated" warning)	dead-url=unfit	Bould, M. Dylan (6 March 2014). "References that anyone can..." BMJ. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019. `{{cite web}}`: Unknown parameter `\|dead-url=` ignored (`\|url-status=` suggested) (help)
Identical (except for "deprecated" warning)	url-status=usurped	Bould, M. Dylan (6 March 2014). "References that anyone can..." BMJ. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
Identical (except for "deprecated" warning)	dead-url=usurped	Bould, M. Dylan (6 March 2014). "References that anyone can..." BMJ. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019. `{{cite web}}`: Unknown parameter `\|dead-url=` ignored (`\|url-status=` suggested) (help)
Identical (except for deprecated warning)	url-status=bot: unknown	Bould, M. Dylan (6 March 2014). "References that anyone can..." BMJ. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
Identical (except for deprecated warning)	dead-url=bot: unknown	Bould, M. Dylan (6 March 2014). "References that anyone can..." BMJ. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019. `{{cite web}}`: Unknown parameter `\|dead-url=` ignored (`\|url-status=` suggested) (help)

"url-status" is valid. "urlstatus" is not a synonym because it is invalid. (Not shown. Trivial to test.)

Showing (deprecated) "dead-url" and its *synonym*, (doubly-deprecated) "deadurl". 5 behaviors specified by 5 common values.
Identical	deadurl=no	Bould, M. Dylan (6 March 2014). "References that anyone can..." BMJ. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019. `{{cite web}}`: Unknown parameter `\|deadurl=` ignored (`\|url-status=` suggested) (help)
Identical	dead-url=no	Bould, M. Dylan (6 March 2014). "References that anyone can..." BMJ. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019. `{{cite web}}`: Unknown parameter `\|dead-url=` ignored (`\|url-status=` suggested) (help)
Identical	deadurl=yes	Bould, M. Dylan (6 March 2014). "References that anyone can..." BMJ. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019. `{{cite web}}`: Unknown parameter `\|deadurl=` ignored (`\|url-status=` suggested) (help)
Identical	dead-url=yes	Bould, M. Dylan (6 March 2014). "References that anyone can..." BMJ. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019. `{{cite web}}`: Unknown parameter `\|dead-url=` ignored (`\|url-status=` suggested) (help)
Identical	deadurl=unfit	Bould, M. Dylan (6 March 2014). "References that anyone can..." BMJ. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019. `{{cite web}}`: Unknown parameter `\|deadurl=` ignored (`\|url-status=` suggested) (help)
Identical	dead-url=unfit	Bould, M. Dylan (6 March 2014). "References that anyone can..." BMJ. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019. `{{cite web}}`: Unknown parameter `\|dead-url=` ignored (`\|url-status=` suggested) (help)
Identical	deadurl=usurped	Bould, M. Dylan (6 March 2014). "References that anyone can..." BMJ. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019. `{{cite web}}`: Unknown parameter `\|deadurl=` ignored (`\|url-status=` suggested) (help)
Identical	dead-url=usurped	Bould, M. Dylan (6 March 2014). "References that anyone can..." BMJ. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019. `{{cite web}}`: Unknown parameter `\|dead-url=` ignored (`\|url-status=` suggested) (help)
Identical	deadurl=bot: unknown	Bould, M. Dylan (6 March 2014). "References that anyone can..." BMJ. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019. `{{cite web}}`: Unknown parameter `\|deadurl=` ignored (`\|url-status=` suggested) (help)
Identical	dead-url=bot: unknown	Bould, M. Dylan (6 March 2014). "References that anyone can..." BMJ. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019. `{{cite web}}`: Unknown parameter `\|dead-url=` ignored (`\|url-status=` suggested) (help)

Now I'm still trying to sort how the instructions for a hidden tracking category, with no citation, outweigh instructions for citations, and how things it kind-of implies become fact. If you don't recognize the half-baked confusion that I have documented, see the need for clarification and proper documentation, or have a feel for where they are really documented or how to report and correct the situation, I'll have to figure out who does. - A876 (talk) 07:19, 11 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Firstly, it's regarded as extremely bad practice to edit other peoples comments, see WP:TPO.

|dead-url=yes and |url-status=dead both use the same value but a different syntax. ie the value is "the page is no longer there to be viewed". I have better things to do with my time than to argue over semantics.

You have come on my page unsure about the use of "dead", "usurped" and "unfit". I have done my best to clarify this for you and offer what advice I can. I'm sorry if you don't like what I've said, but that's your choice. I had nothing to do with deciding how |deadrl= or |url-status= was to work, coding the changes or writing the documentation, but have just tried to explain how it works. If you are going to continue with your aggressive and argumentative manner, then please don't comment further on my talk page. --John B123 (talk) 17:14, 11 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Some sort of a category for victims of forced prostitution

Dear John,

thank you for your edits on Nordic Model approach to prostitution including the infobox. I was contemplating whether in the task force sex work there would be a possibility to establish a category on prominent victims of forced prostitution. This would for example include women like Virginia Guiffre. Or Regina Louf. Do you think this would make sense? Because unless the victims go on to publish books and become authors their only notoriety comes from the public allegations they make and the consequences of those. (For example for Prince Andrew in the UK). But still them having a voice and their own pages on Wikipedia is important to fight forced prostitution. Let me know what you think.--Sparrow (麻雀) 🐧 12:47, 21 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I can't see any reason why there shouldn't be such a category, say Category:Victims of forced prostitution. As you touch on, individuals would need to comply with Wikipedia:Notability to have their own pages. Any that wouldn't pass the notability criteria could be included in a blanket article, say Notable victims of forced prostitution. Another alternative would to include them in an article about an event, such as the Aylesbury child sex abuse ring. Playing devils advocate, there may be some opposition in the case of minors in that they have been talked into it rather than forced (not my view, but from previous experience diverse opinions crop up and the people involved are convinced they're right). It might be wise to preempt this by having say Category:Victims of underage prostitution for minors. If you need any help let me know. Cheers --John B123 (talk) 14:10, 21 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

B. R. Ambedkar

Your verion had errors as well. The version which I restored was rid of the misleading edits by this sock farm. You can as usual fix the errors but you don't have to restore his version for that. Shashank5988 (talk) 15:10, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Shashank5988: Thats not the way it works. If you want to remove content then you need to do it manually, without removing subsequent edits by other editors. I spent 25 minutes getting rid of errors yesterday, I shouldn't need to do that again because it's easier for you to restore an error-ridden version rather than remove what you consider misleading edits. I would also draw your attention to WP:BRD. If you make an edit and it is reverted then you should discuss it not simply change it back. --John B123 (talk) 15:20, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

By restoring same problematic content two times now, you are actually taking responsibility of all the misleading edits made by the socks. Are you sure about it? You would need to be the one to provide the correct reason to restore these problematic edits on talk page instead of just linking to an essay "BRD". Shashank5988 (talk) 15:25, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I Have no objection to you manually removing any of the content that you think is dubious. If there is any responsibility here, it is yours for not carrying out the removal in the correct manner. --John B123 (talk) 15:31, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Then why you are linking to WP:BRD if you don't want to take responsibility of the violation of WP:FORK, WP:UNDUE, WP:SYNTH, WP:GALLERY, WP:NLIST and more? You could simply go ahead and fix the errors on the version which I have restored. Shashank5988 (talk) 15:35, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Why should I have to spend another half hour putting the errors right that I'd already fixed because you can't be bothered to make the effort to remove only the content you question and not subsequent legitimate edits? --John B123 (talk) 15:43, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Which errors you are objecting? Only CS1/cite errors or there are others too? Shashank5988 (talk) 15:55, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

10 bare references converted to citations plus 92 cite and CS1 errors: Cite uses deprecated parameter |deadurl= (79 occurrences), Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (2 occurrences), CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (2 occurrences), Missing or empty |title= (1 occurrence), CS1 maint: archived copy as title (4 occurrences), CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (2 occurrences), . Cite journal requires |journal= (1 occurrence) and first= missing |last= (1 occurrence). --John B123 (talk) 16:13, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@John B123: see this 116.72.233.32 (talk) 10:41, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Loi Sarkozy

Hello, John B123. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Loi Sarkozy".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! JMHamo (talk) 00:07, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Hi John - Please see Talk:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act#Short description, which includes my apology for jumping the gun. Thanks! - Mark D Worthen PsyD (talk) (I am a man. The traditional male pronouns are fine.) 22:47, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Markworthen: Hi Mark. No problem about changing it, nothing is really right or wrong when it comes to short descriptions. I've replied more fully on the talk page. Cheers. --John B123 (talk) 23:42, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh

Dear John B123. Yesterday you edited the article Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh replacing the "publication-place" parameter with the "location" parameter on the "Citation" template. I looked up Template:Citation. This parameter is still supported. Why did you change it? I have the impression you use some tool that does this replacement. I admit to being a novice and nowhere near you in experience, numbers of edits, and number of articles created. Should I in future always prefer "location" over "publication-place" and change it wherever I find it? How could I have known? Wikipedia is quite a learning curve. With many thanks! Johannes Schade (talk) 15:26, 4 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Johannes. Yes Wikipedia can be very confusing and as you point out, it's a steep leaning curve. Both "publication-place" and "location" are acceptable. Don't worry too much about with one you use, both are fine. I use Wikipedia:Citation expander to clean up citations, which is a very useful tool. The change was made by the tool rather than by my personal choice. I assume it prefers location as that is probably more familiar to people as it is used on the various cite templates (cite web, cite book etc). Feel free to leave me a message if you are unsure about anything else. Cheers. --John B123 (talk) 15:50, 4 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dear John B123. Thank you for your kind reply. I will follow your advice and consider these two as equivalents. Best regards Johannes Schade (talk) 16:03, 4 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Can you help

Hello sir, can you save this source and make something to add in the article of Ehsan Sehgal, I saw you improve it. I know nothing nor I will stay here, please help me improve the article, thanks.

https://pakchronicle.com/2020/01/06/sufferings-of-a-dutch-pakistani-poet-writer-journalist-ehsan-sehgal/?fbclid=IwAR2dDbAWLV-Tdszz1UxPuV3sCL4Aau7u7ww3jyRIbuKa_LsGFTuXl3QFGQ4  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.194.208.220 (talk) 03:06, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'll have a look. --John B123 (talk) 18:48, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

An iced tea for you

Thank you for your advice on those edits; hope you don't find it bad as I added back article title in en translation to a ref; thought more readers will understand it better. (; Wish a toast with you, some iced milk tea very popular over here. Omotecho (talk) 13:49, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Omotecho:. Thanks, that's kind of you. --John B123 (talk) 14:28, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A cookie for you!

Good evening sir, i noticed your help on Nicolas Dalayracs article and thank you for the fixes made there, i would fix them too, but converting everything to meet with the templates and its parameter here needs a heck of knowledge though! Have a nice sunday evening, greetings from Germany. Abani79 (talk) 18:52, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Abani79: Thanks. Sorting it out did cause a bit of head scratching! Best regards. --John B123 (talk) 19:04, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please help to fix proper things

Please help to fix proper things and sources and move to main place this article,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Zarb-e-Sukhan_(Kulliyaat) . Thanks.Mediateamnews (talk) 15:29, 13 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Mediateamnews: Hi. I've given it a bit of a tidy-up, added some Wikilinks and sorted out the references. There's not much I can do to speed up the approval process unfortunatly. Cheers --John B123 (talk) 17:17, 13 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Abel Azcona

Hi John, thank you so much for caring and helping me. As you said, it was hard and it seemed like many people didn't want the page to turn out well. Still, after many hours of work the page is nearly finished. In the last few days many users have helped improve the language aspect, like the template requested. On my end, I can understand the page perfectly, but I'm not a native speaker, and that's why I would like to ask you one last favor, to read the entire page and see if you can understand it well since your English is native. Thank you again. ;) Lolay1983 (talk) 15:41, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Lolay1983: Hi. Although English is my first language, my language skills are not that good, but I'm happy to do what I can. I've made a start on the article and will continue tomorrow. Regards --John B123 (talk) 18:27, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much! I can see a huge difference already. Lolay1983 (talk) 19:51, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Really appreciate the work, thank you very much for the effort. Is the English of the whole page correct now? Can the template be removed?Lolay1983 (talk) 18:26, 23 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, no problem. Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to look at it yesterday so am going through it at the moment. --John B123 (talk) 18:51, 23 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

hi John B123 - Question on Citations

hi @John B123:, seeking your guidance on two citation questions. I noticed on the goldman sachs page you recently updated the citations changing |publisher=New York Times to |work=New York Times. Should |work be used for the name of the specific news publication? Separately I noticed that you updated the citations for the Wall Street Journal with |journal=The Wall Street Journal. Eastern Edition. When check a couple of those articles on the WSJ I couldn't find any mention of the articles being the Eastern Edition. Can you please share where you are seeing that. Thank you, WestportWiki (talk) 21:00, 1 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]