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September 2010

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By the way, that article turned out to be a copyvio, along with the image. This is NOT a template message. :) --Hammersoft (talk) 15:00, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Alexander Scotland

The ISBNs weren't really invalid, someone was just guilty of overkill in giving both the original ISBN, and the ISBN-13. Simply removing sources is not a good idea - tag them for verification by all means, and if you do remvoe a source for some reason, good idea to put a fact tag in its place. David Underdown (talk) 13:53, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Δ/Sandbox

Hi,
if you get around to it, could you tell Δbot that when it fills Δ/Sandbox, it should compare the "Last clerk/checkuser to edit case" timestamp with the "Date filed" timestamp and write "Never" if it's older? Like in this revision where it points out that MuZemike had edited the Breein1007 case page last year, which is a bit misleading.
Thanks, Amalthea 19:26, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

 Done ΔT The only constant 16:57, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
Another sandbox note - I'm not sure where the bot pulls the names of clerks/CU's, but could you add Frank and I to the CU list? Thanks! TNXMan 16:52, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
And  Done see User:Δbot/Clerks and User:Δbot/CheckUsers ΔT The only constant 16:57, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Photos

If the licence condition on photos requires proper attribution in the manner specified by the author, then it is necessary to comply with it, or not use the photo.Rowland Goodman (talk) 19:42, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

As you have been told on your talk page, the conditions that you state may be used provided copyright attribution is given and that is being done via the image description page. If you continue to be disruptive, further action may be taken against you. Credit is not required in image captions, but on the file description page. ΔT The only constant 19:47, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

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Thank you

Thank you for compiling the BLP list - I have posted it to the unreferenced BLP project for their perusal. Cheers, --Jezebel'sPonyoshhh 13:47, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Cleanup - removed image links

Your cleanup removes image links for images that are not yet uploaded. If your cleanup is going to do that, perhaps it can use HTML command for commands instead <!-- comment -->, so it can be restored later. Otherwise I'm just going to revert whole sections to restore them, undoing all your cleanup. Tom Ruen (talk) 22:52, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

What I do is remove deleted/non-existent images, Im trying to cleanup articles not drown them with HTML comments. When you upload the images just go back and place them in the proper location, blindly reverting is not acceptable. ΔT The only constant 22:55, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
I offered a suggestion. It's your choice what's acceptable. Tom Ruen (talk) 22:59, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
  • I concur with Δ. I routinely run across html comments left by bots sometimes years in the past. I always remove them. It's useless clutter. --Hammersoft (talk) 20:06, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

re: Δbot

Thanks for your reply. -- Rrburke (talk) 15:30, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for that! Amalthea 14:52, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

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webnode.com

You have removed a number of links to a webpage on a webnode.com site because of the WP:EL guidelines. However, I can't find any indication which part of the guideline these links are supposed to violate. They are part of the official website of the yearly comics festival responsible for the Prix Saint-Michel, a well-respected comics award. I will reinstate these links in the comics articles where you removed them. Fram (talk) 13:16, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

I just did a quick google search and checked the first two pages and couldn't locate it. Is there some reliable third party site that could be used instead of a webnode site? ΔT The only constant 13:34, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
If the webnode site is the official site, then why should we need to find another one? Fram (talk) 13:45, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Let me re-phrase that, (what that says was not my meaning). What third party reliable sources are there to show that that is the official site for the festival? webnode is widely known not to be reliable and should be avoided. ΔT The only constant 14:13, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
It should probably also be noted that WP:EL specifically does not cover citations (see 3rd para. of lead), which these were. –xenotalk 14:10, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Betacommand, I have asked you long ago to stop changing things that don't need to be changed, when doing cleanup. You are still changing section headers without spaces to section headers with spaces, which is utterly unnecessary and only makes the diff harder to read. As for evidence that this is teh official website: this links to this, which is already at webnode.com. That page has a link to this, which links to the page in question. All except for the first, external, link, are at the same main address. The main address is confirmed at la Libre Belgique a newspaper, as well. Fram (talk) 14:34, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for providing information that I could not locate that verified that in this case, webnode as a reliable source. Since you cannot show me the basic respect to use the right username I think this conversation is over with. ΔT The only constant 14:41, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
I don't have a "triangle" on my keyboard. But if you think it is less respectful to use someone's well known old username instead of his or her untypable new one, than to remove references per (as xeno correctly pointed out) an utterly unapplicable guideline, be my guest. It's obviously easier to use such pretext than to asdmit that you were wrong and that you made me do a lot of unnecssary extra work to convince you of that simple fact. Fram (talk) 14:52, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
I should have used WP:RS instead of EL, I explained my reasons above about webnode not being reliable. Δ is not some random un-typeable character, nor is it "triangle". I use the Greek letter Delta. PS you might want to look into a spell checker.... ΔT The only constant 14:57, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
When you made the decision to start using a username that cannot be easily typed, you should have realized that folks would call you by whatever handle they find convenient (including the one you'd used for nearly five years). –xenotalk 15:00, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Odd

[1] Rich Farmbrough, 06:16, 18 September 2010 (UTC).

Unprotected file on the Main Page Part IX

Before you go trouting anyone, I know that the DYK ogg file was unprotected on the Main Page for 23 minutes. I've already made the necessary adjustments to the bot code. Shubinator (talk) 22:54, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Submarine

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CSD for Team24

Just letting you know that I changed the speedy deletion criteria from your tag of A7 unremarkable company to G-11 spam. The article had too many references to pass a speedy deletion for lack of notability in my opinion. --Deutschgirl (talk) 04:45, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

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Windmills lists

Please do not removed the pipe and space from the "windmills in... categories on the various lists of windmills. They are there for a very good reason. Mjroots (talk) 20:28, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

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On blocking open proxies

As a followup to our earlier conversation on IRC regarding blocking the 98.143.144.0/20 range, I'm still a little confused about a few things. I realize that you're not an admin and don't have access to the block tool but in my chat with NW he said you may be able to help anyways. From what NW told me, appending /20 to the end of an IP address when blocking it will block the entire range, from 98.143.144.0 to 98.143.159.255 .. however when checking the block log of 98.143.144.0 (without the /20 appended) it does not show up as blocked. Nor do other IPs in that range: [2]. Does this mean that they ARE indeed still blocked when they try to edit but it just doesn't show up in the logs locally? Also, why is that I can't find any other IP addresses with /20 appended within Category:Open proxies blocked on Wikipedia? 98.143.144.0/20 seems to be the only one: [3]. Appreciate any help you can provide, thanks. -- Ϫ 21:49, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

You can see the block here: //en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:BlockList&ip=98.143.144.0
The block log for the specific page does indeed not list it, it's page specific, and there is no page for the whole range. And the category won't list many since it's filled by user talk page templates, which will always only add the pagename of the page it's placed on. The template you placed on User talk:98.143.144.0/20 is now actually on the "20" subpage of User talk:98.143.144.0. Amalthea 22:00, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
here is the blocklog for the range so you can see about other blocks, [4] shows all blocks applying to a given IP and any global blocks. (which Pathoschild) has also blocked. see also Classless Inter-Domain Routing and mw:Help:Range blocks. If you have any other questions let me know. ΔT The only constant 22:32, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
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