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Good grief but some people are ignorant, short-sighted and selfish.

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Template:Faculty

Template:Faculty shouldn't be a redirect to Template:Alum. Template:Faculty is important and used in faculty-related lists. I've reverted your edit[1]. Zenqueue (talk) 02:17, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As a consequence of your this[2] edit, List of University of Edinburgh medical people#Faculty (who were not also graduates of the medical school) had a problem. Department was blank. After I reverted your edit, the problem has been solved. Zenqueue (talk) 02:30, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

User:Maddiethepolarbear

You put {{db-notwebhost}} on a lot of User:Maddiethepolarbear's user-space pages. It's debateable whether these all meet this criteria, and rather than hash it out at WP:MfD I ignored the 12-month time limit and replaced the contents of these pages with {{inactive userpage blanked}} and left her a note at User talk:Maddiethepolarbear#The pages listed above were blanked, not deleted.

If you still want to nominate them for deletion, go ahead, but I would recommend waiting until we know she isn't coming back before doing so. Give it a year since her last edit. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 23:35, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Per WP:BLPPRIVACY and WP:CHILD, deleting those pages would've been the wise thing to do; and not bring more attention to them by posting both here and on her talk page. Alakzi (talk) 23:48, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm, somehow I missed the fact that the editor was likely a child. If I had noticed it, that might have made a difference. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 01:44, 10 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm am active, I just am in school as stated on my profile.Maddiethepolarbear (talk) 07:19, 10 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sixty-nine edits, the only one of which that is not in your userspace being the one on this page. WP:NOTWEBHOST applies. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:53, 10 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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I opened a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion#Guidance added to U5. Blatant misuse of Wikipedia as a web host for the discussion which may concern you. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 16:38, 12 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Tech News: 2015-38

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

  • You can now use the Wikidata query service. [3]
  • Belarusian-Taraškievica Wikipedia was moved from be-x-old.wikipedia.org to be-tarask.wikipedia.org. This caused some issues, but most of them were resolved. [4]
  • Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems. [5][6]

Problems

  • There was a problem when editing International Standard Book Numbers in Visual Editor. This has now been fixed. [7]
  • The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later. [8]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 17 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 15 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • ContentTranslation will show more data on the Special:ContentTranslationStats page. For example, it will show translation trends and information about deleted translations. [9]
  • The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon. [10]

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I don't know how or why this happened to my userpage. And for some reason I am unable to edit the page to fix it. If you can, could you please put the previous edit (of when I myself edited the page, which was before I took a wiki-break).

thank you, Shirugaki (talk)

@Shirugaki: See the explanation at the foot of your user page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:21, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
•But I did not do it (as in the copy and pasting) Shirugaki (talk)

I don't know how or why this happened to my userpage. And for some reason I am unable to edit the page to fix it. If you can, could you please put the previous edit (of when I myself edited the page, which was before I took a wiki-break).

Here is a beetle that you may have as a token of my appreciation. PS this name is Monster.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Shirugak (talk • contribs) 19:26, 15 September 2015‎

You'd need to ask an admin to restore that. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:30, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Help Needed

Hi @Pigsonthewing: , can you pls help me with a heading on my user page ? -- Aryan hindustan (talk) ,Aryan from Hindustan (talk) 09:42, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Done. I hope that's what you wanted. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:50, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
thanks-- Aryan hindustan (talk) ,Aryan from Hindustan (talk) 09:58, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Quick David Gilmour question

You wouldn't happen to know the name of Gilmour's dog, would you? The dog is in the liner notes of his new album and has appeared in various video interviews. Since I'm a big fan of dogs in general, and Floyd/Gilmour, I've been wondering. Thanks, Dismas|(talk) 16:36, 20 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No idea, sorry. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:10, 20 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Polly Samson's website says they have "a Westie called Tiger and a lurcher caller Doris", if that helps. ‑ iridescent 17:15, 20 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2015-39

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

  • There is now an experimental Wikimedia maps service. You can give feedback here. [11][12]
  • Last week a few issues with UploadWizard were fixed. Before this was done, UploadWizard would stop you from uploading your files if something went wrong. [13][14][15][16]
  • More Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Previously they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [17]
  • The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users. [18]

Problems

  • Wikimedia Labs' HTTPS certificate expired for most of Tuesday 15 September. To reach Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs securely you had to ignore your browser's security error message. There was no risk to data security during this time. [19]
  • Last week the notification system was split into two parts. This was temporarily undone because of a bug and performance concerns. It will return to two parts this week. [20][21]
  • UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed. [22]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 23. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 24 (calendar).
  • The page move tool has been switched over to the new standard look for forms. [23]
  • You can now choose whether to extend a link or not when editing one in VisualEditor. This means it is easier to choose how much of what you type before and after the link is part of it. [24]
  • Wikibooks can now use data from Wikidata. [25]

Meetings

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18:29, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

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Good grief but some people are ignorant, short-sighted and selfish.

Incidentally, you're invited to join the Ten Year Society.  — Scott • talk 06:56, 22 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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