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Please check my recent newspaper addition. Thanks as always T. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.32.130.92 (talk) 04:02, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

Oopsie

Sorry for the mess in the translation and date in Hubert Lyautey last night, I may have been a little bit tired haha ! CocoricoPolynesien (talk) 06:10, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

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16:47, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

A1033 road

Hi Keith D; I have converted A1033 road from redirect to full article. As I fly out of the country on Saturday, I won't be available to implement changes on the article for some time. If there are any issues, could you please correct them for me? In anticipation of this, thanks, and I wish you an early Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I'll be back around early March 2020. Regards. The joy of all things (talk) 12:43, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

Hello, many thanks for the hard work to create the article while I was away. Hope all goes well while you are away and that you can enjoy the festive period. I will be away from polling day until the New Year, without internet connection. Keith D (talk) 15:07, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
Thanks, Keith. My flight has been delayed until Tuesday, so I have a little reprieve. Regards. The joy of all things (talk) 20:33, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

22:03, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

Dear Keith D,

This is Shrino, the editor to the wiki page "Open Government Initiative." I noticed that made edits to the page as well as removed the stub tag. Thank you so much for your contributions and for promoting the article!

This has been the first article I've written for Wikipedia, so thank you for correcting any mistakes I may have made!

My instructor suggested that I reach out to you to see if you could remove the tag that reads "This article relies too much on primary sources." If not, perhaps you could suggest what changes I could make to have that tag removed?

Thank you, Shrino (talk) 20:14, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

Hello, the problem is that there are far too much reliance on sources such as [3] and [4] you need to find sources that are unrelated to the actual initiative such as articles published in newspapers or journals that discuss the subject. There is also a date error that needs correcting for reference 10 as I could not find a date on the source to clarify if 10/8/2019 was 10 August 2019 or 8 October 2019. Keith D (talk) 20:27, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

Deleting comments

Hi can I just ask my you keep deleting the parliamentary candidates for the other parties apart from Judith Cummins? ThomasReedJoe04 (talk) 20:28, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

There is no reference to support the entries to show that they are standing in that constituency. Each entry should have a reliable source to support that they are standing in the election. Note that Twitter & Facebook are not reliable sources - something published in the local press will do. These references will be removed when the official list of candidates is published as that will replace them. Keith D (talk) 20:35, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Create A Page

I would like you to create a page for Donna Frett-Gregory, Senator of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Patriot83 (talk) 00:48, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

I know nothing about that person so would be difficult to produce a page that would be helpful. Keith D (talk) 00:49, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Edits on Ann Walker of Lightcliffe

Thank you for your recent edits on my first (new) article Ann Walker. I greatly appreciate your constructive edits to the page. I'm having issues with admins regarding my edits of other pages. I've been trying to link back to the new Ann Walker page. I'm learning the hard way. And it's been rather stressful to get warnings on my talk page. I want you to know it was very refreshing to see your edits to the Ann Walker page that didn't involve some warning and reversion of my edits. So thank you. It means a lot to know there are editors out there who are helpful. Kind Regards, Kimdorris (talk) 03:52, 14 November 2019 (UTC)


Hi Keith D:

I would like to request your assistance with a "recent edit". made by a non logged-in user to the Ann Walker article.

  1. The edits revised wording, which is now inaccurate.
    1. I have the co-founders of "Ann Walker Memorial". and "Ann Walker Memorial Foundation"., who wrote the copy for the article I published, looking at the revisions to determine specific errors in the edits, which I hope to report back to you soon.
  2. Could you provide some insight on how these edits might be addressed?
    1. I'm a new editor and I don't want to get into an editwar with anyone as I am fully aware of the definition of open source.
    2. What I am not clear on is how to proceed regarding revisions of revisions so as to prevent an editwar.

I appreciate your assistance. Kimdorris (talk) 00:58, 18 November 2019 (UTC)


I've cleaned up the previous edits. I think we're good. Kimdorris (talk) 17:52, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

Yorkshire banners

Thankyou for tagging the categories with the Yorkshire banners but some of them already have a banner from the specific county's redirect (such as Category talk:Askern has a banner from {{WikiProject South Yorkshire}}). Crouch, Swale (talk) 21:54, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

The specific ones should not be used as they are just redirects and cause processing problems when looking after the Yorkshire project. May be they need deleting. Keith D (talk) 21:56, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
I'll bypass the redirects then. Crouch, Swale (talk) 21:57, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Please check new refs. - particularly ref number 9 - Thanks as always T.

Please check new refs again! Thanks as always T.

20:17, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

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1st Air Cavalry Brigade

Hello Keith D

Can you please delete 1st Air Cavalry Brigade so i can move Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division there. Thank you. Gavbadger (talk) 20:44, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

@Gavbadger: Hello, I think that this has been done while I was without PC, only just got it back from repairs. If you still want something done then let me know. Keith D (talk) 16:42, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
Yeah, I never knew you could G6 a article for that. Gavbadger (talk) 17:39, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

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16:52, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for fixing Hemicorporectomy

Big thanks for fixing my addition at Hemicorporectomy here: Special:Diff/927949250 - I have seen a warning about an ambiguous date format, but somehow I could not find any hints to decide if it was the first of March or the third of January. Thank you! --CiaPan (talk) 21:18, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Just for information - I looked at other articles on the site to see which was their date format usage. Keith D (talk) 21:22, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
Wow, how simple! Stupid me. --CiaPan (talk) 21:25, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for fixing Recruitment (biology)!

Hello Keith D, thank you for fixing my cite date error(s). I'm not the most adept editor on here yet, but I'd love to learn how to do that for myself. Thanks, Ben-from-MN (talk) 05:13, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

Hello, dates of the form 2019-11 are not an allowable format and need changing to November 2019 or whatever. If the date is actually meant to be 2 years, for example 2019-20 then they should be changed to 2019-2020. Regards. Keith D (talk) 08:13, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

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16:58, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

removal of |language=en

As you did with this edit, removal of |language=en is generally discouraged because so many en.wiki articles are translated for use in other-language wikis where the language parameter is useful. There was recent discussion about this topic at Template talk:Citation § "language" is equal to "en".

Trappist the monk (talk) 15:11, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

I have been removing these as just clutter for a significant time now and you are the first one to mention it. Still think that it is pointless on the English version to keep it and similarly on other versions where the language is equal to the language of the wiki. Keith D (talk) 17:00, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
It used to be that cs1|2 had a category for |language=en (Category:CS1 maint: English language specified) so that these parameters could be easily discovered and removed because we thought then, as you do now, that at en.wiki such parameters are pointless. We were persuaded that retaining |language=en is valuable to those editors who translate en.wiki articles to other languages so we removed the category and changed Module:Citation/CS1 so that it does not display the language when the language is the same as the local-wiki language (cs1|2 will display English when there more than one language is specified). I would encourage you to rethink your position on this.
A more beneficial thing that you could be doing is to translate the language name to its appropriate ISO 639 language code. The codes are more-or-less universal whereas the English version of the language name is not. Were you to do this, editors who translate articles from English to another language do not also have to translate the language name. See the list of supported language codes and names.
Trappist the monk (talk) 17:33, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
It is only a sideline of fixing the Category:CS1 errors: dates where it just gets in the way of quickly reading the cite code to find the error, not something I would go out of my way to alter otherwise. Keith D (talk) 17:43, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
I guess I have trouble understanding that. The |language=en that you deleted was in a template that did not / does not show a date error. How does that deletion help to quickly [read] the cite code to find the error in a wholly unrelated template?
Trappist the monk (talk) 18:21, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
Because it was an AWB edit where I have it set to remove the |language= automatically when English. Keith D (talk) 18:24, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
I understand that it was an awb edit. Still, deleting stuff from templates that don't need fixing isn't going to help to quickly [read] the cite code to find the error and even were it in the same template, awb fixes are highlighted in the diff window so is deleting |language=en really necessary?
To aid finding a date fix in the edit window you can enable find-match highlighting (Options > Highlight Find matches) then use something like this in the find box: \| *(?:[^=]*date|year) *= *[^\|\}]+ (check the regex box). Then, all that you need to do is click the paragraph in the diff window and you can see the date parameter highlighted in the edit window. No need to delete the |language=en as an aid to reading.
Trappist the monk (talk) 18:48, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

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