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Blade Runner 2049

Thank you for your help with the GA review, it was a much appreciated assistance. Rusted AutoParts 15:14, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Thank you - nice to be able to make a positive contribution to the project. Cnbrb (talk) 17:26, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Million Award

	The Million Award
	For your contributions to bring Blade Runner 2049 (estimated annual readership: 2,200,000) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! Reidgreg (talk) 13:44, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

♥ Goodness, thank you, @Reidgreg:. That's actually an honour. I'll proudly put this on my virtual mantelpiece. Cnbrb (talk) 13:59, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

July 2020

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved.

Don't worry, you haven't done anything wrong here. :) It's this anonymous user, who has carried on making disruptive edits even after you warned them. Klondike53226 (talk) 22:07, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the note - I didn't recall doing anything wrong, but I'm almost disappointed I haven't achieved notoriety! Cnbrb (talk) 22:15, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

Blade Runner 2049 extra thing

You seem like a levelheaded discusser on this topic. I have this thesis -what to do with it? Blade runner 2049

Am I the only one who senses something missing about this movie's plot? That is, our Detective K (Ryan Gosling) doesn't do much actual inspired or deductive detecting. In fact all the important questions are asked aloud by female characters, then K seems to figure "oh yeah", and jumps on that. For example, sex worker Mariette(Mackenzie Davis)finding K at a lunch table, sees him holding a photo of the stark white dead tree, asks him "who keeps a dead tree?", and this apparently inspires him to return to the Wallace protein farm, whereupon he discovers the date etched into the now buried root of the dead tree. At the police "deenabase", K discovers the false record of one of the twins. A.I. Joi ( de Armas) asks the question, "Who keeps the records?"(of the orphans) and after he plays with his you horse a bit, "who makes the memories?" This inspires K to take Joi on a trip to the orphanage to attempt to dig up the records, which have apparently already been stolen by Luv(Hoeks), who got there first and tries to kill?/miss? him with an air-to-ground rocket attack. K shrugs off the attack, and doesn't seem to recognize her role in the rocket attack or show it, anyways. Later, he visits(without Joi) Dr Ann Stelline, who demonstrates her knowledge of the specific memory which he thought was his alone, and gives him the ginormous hint that " every artist leaves a little of themselves in their work." This visit earns him a reprimand by his boss(Robin Wright) as " fucking around outside an upgrade center." Whereupon he shows the results of his rather dull detective work, the baby sock, and photo of the date scribed in the tree bark. That's as far as I got. Lexein (talk) 08:57, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi Lexein, if you have a thesis, then you'd be better off publishing that on a personal website or a blog, as this sounds like original research, i.e. your own personal thoughts. Wikipedia's job is to reflect published ideas and opinions by reliable sources such as published books, journals etc. If your thesis is someone else's work then it would need to be cited within the article. Hope that helps. Cnbrb (talk) 09:52, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

Url! Fine. Lexein (talk) 07:10, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Banknotes by region

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Crossrail timeline

Hello, we went through a undo/reinstate edit on the Crossrail article. You kindly added a key to the table with a comment suggesting that the ticks and crosses are obvious. They may be to people who read Wikipedia using a visual browser, but for anyone with visual impairment the "status" column in the table is now ambiguous. Using ticks and crosses is reasonable if you can see them, but the template producing them leaves an "alt" field for each image (the text which a screen reader would read out) as ☑ or ☒ (read out as "ballot box with check mark image" and "image" respectively), which have no meaning. I reckon this is unhelpful, and does not conform to WP's accessibility requirements hence my edit to replace these with plain text stating "complete" or "not done", which I guess is the meaning intended. I don't propose to revert your edit again, but it's something to bear in mind for the future, and note that the article as it stands does not follow good practice. Bazza (talk) 20:28, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi @Bazza 7: -thanks for the note. I wasn't aware of any previous editing, but I completely agree about the accessibility points you have made. I think part of that might be down to the templates in use, and some improvements may be due there if they are lacking ALT tags in the code. However, with that in mind, I'll have a think about it - give me a couple of days and I'll see if I can come up with a fix, and feel free to remind me if I appear to have forgotten. (did my smiley have an alt tag?) Cnbrb (talk) 00:55, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi @Bazza 7: - after some discussion I have persuaded authorised editors to change Template:Tick so it can now have a customised ALT tag. {{Tick|alt=completed}} now generates Y
<img alt="completed" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/20px-Yes_check.svg.png">

Sorry, missed that comment. Well done. Hopefully they'll also update the template documentation to reflect the change. Bazza (talk) 19:32, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

However, I see in the meantime you have replaced the ticks with another template. While this works fine, I'm not sure about the coloured backgrounds. I'm not sure they are compatible with WP:COLOR for colour contrast. Cnbrb (talk) 16:59, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

I checked the templates' colour settings: #99ff99 background for "yes" with black text; and #ff9999 with black for "no". Both are fully colour contrast compliant ([1] and [2] respectively). Bazza (talk) 17:40, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

OK, thanks. I was looking at the icons colours really, but I suppose the information is conveyed which is what matters. Cnbrb (talk) 17:43, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

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Precious anniversary

Precious

Three years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:29, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

2020 Monoliths =

It appears that you have made multiple edits to the 2020 monolith page within the last 24 hours. I am one of a group of for working on tracking the 2020 monoliths and we would like to offer our dataset of monoliths, locations, and news sources to wikipedia. Were a volunteer group from Reddit,and our project and data can be found at monolithtracker.com. If have any questions, reach me on my talk page. Quinwound (talk) 17:20, 11 December 2020 (UTC)