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The Signpost: 30 August 2019

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I need your help on my page

I've created my new draft article page, Draft:Badimo (Roblox user group), and I want someone to review it and see if it's okay to be in the main namespace. Except for placing the draft article template and submit it, can you help me to review it and comment me on my talk page? Radioactive Uranium, 92 (talk) 13:02, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Category:Alumni of Hospitalfield House

Hi, I have removed the remains of a speedy template from Category:Alumni of Hospitalfield House which was left by Cydebot in 2015. Please could you let me know if I should have left it (and why). The text was:

<!-- BEGIN CFD TEMPLATE -->
<!-- Please do not remove or change this [[Template:Cfr-speedy]] message until the survey and discussion at [[WP:CFD]] is closed -->
{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|Category| |{{error:not substituted|Cfr-speedy}}<div style="display:none;">}}

<!-- End of Cfr-speedy message, feel free to edit beyond this point -->
<!-- END CFD TEMPLATE -->

TSventon (talk) 08:21, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

@TSventon: Thanks, you were right to remove it.

For a period of time, CydeBot was blanking one line of the cfr-speedy template, in this case [1], instead of removing all six lines.

Looking at other Cydebot edits in category namespace on the same day in 2015, [2] with a character change of about -100, I see that more categories still have the template lines, e.g. Category:Glacial erratics of Oregon and Category:Frisians. The lines do not do much harm, but cause (i) extra white space at the top of the page and (ii) confusion to editors such as yourself.

There were others that were left at the time with the template lines, but those have since been removed in other edits (e.g. [3], manual; [4] double removal by Cydebot after a later re-nomination).

Cyde, is there any way you could trace and remove those dud lines left behind by Cydebot? can you at least figure out the range of dates concerned? I note that we discussed this before (User_talk:Cyde/Archive029#CFD_text_left_behind, User_talk:Cyde/Archive030#CFD_template_lines_left_in) but it seems to be a more widespread issue than we thought. Note that it did not end after that discussion in 2014.

@DannyS712 and JJMC89: might you have any suggestions for how to trace & remove them?

– Fayenatic London 09:37, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

I used some insource searches to find remaining parts of the substituted CFD templates. I think I got them all, but let me know if there is anything outstanding. (I am not watching this page, so please ping me if you want my attention.) — JJMC89 (T·C) 02:30, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

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Message from User: RekonDog

I am not very savvy on knowledge about the standard protocol, or the proper wikétiquette. So, I am going to explain this with utmost brevity. There are two articles that are essentially explaining the exact same.

marines <=> marine (military)