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For responding to comments and improving, I think you deserve this -- samtartalk or stalk 08:32, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
@Samtar: Thanks a lot Varun (talk) 08:42, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
Your user page
I see that a number of statements in your user page are not accurate. For example, you say that you have created 31,037 articles, whereas in fact you have created none, and that you have have edited a lot of articles, but in fact you have edited five. Perhaps you can correct your mistakes, and be more careful in future. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 13:59, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
@JamesBWatson: Bro, I have made over 160 edits!! What are you saying. Moreover the userboxes are for humour I've written there see that --VarunFEB2003 (talk) 14:02, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
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Move your talk section?
Hi again I think it might be a good idea to move the section on your talk page titled "Some Useful/Important Wikipedia Tools, Icons and Users for Me" to a subpage, such as User:VarunFEB2003/tools? That way new talk messages won't interfere with it. Just an idea! -- samtartalk or stalk 12:58, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
@Samtar:No Thanks, I receive very few messages which I manually move them above the section of useful stuff --VarunFEB2003 (talk • contribs) 13:00, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
No worries, happy editing -- samtartalk or stalk 13:03, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
No problem :) my talk page is always open if you need to ask anything, or you can email me should you need to -- samtartalk or stalk 15:03, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
@Samtar: Okay and thanks Varun (talk) 18:03, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
Reply to your message on my talk page
Apologies if i put this in the wrong section. Here is the work I have done so far [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Constitution-Talca_Ramal[
I hope you feel that I made good progress. I did as you asked and translated all the Spanish. I included links. I have references. Now it just needs making stronger. Images and the line map I am having problems with as well as the information boxes. Many thanks for your help!!! 190.44.139.201 (talk) 07:44, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
You are welcome, I'll see what I can do! -- VarunFEB2003 (talk • contribs) 10:23, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
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Deletion of hoax page
I have deleted the page User:VarunFEB2003/Barnstarts and awards (presumably you meant "Barnstars and awards"). I see no evidence that any of the awards are genuine. Some of them are attributed to accounts that don't exist, some of them to accounts that last edited several years before your account was created, and others to accounts which are currently active, but have never posted barnstars or anything else, to you. Creating hoax pages is unacceptable, as is falsely claiming that other editors have expressed opinions which in fact they have not expressed. Please don't do anything similar again. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 15:56, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
@JamesBWatson: At least you should have given me the time to copy the data i have lost it all can u retreive it for me pls it was under process i had to delete a lot of stuff in it and u deleted it.-- VarunFEB2003 (talk • contribs) 16:33, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
Why did you do exactly what user:JamesBWatson warned you not to do again? --Whpq (talk) 18:41, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
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A cup of coffee for you!
Thanks for adding your name to the participants list of Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history/Incubator/Indian_military_history. Your contributions are most welcome, but be careful with the copyright issues. For any help or to get any gets clarified, just put {{help me}} on you talk under a section and your problem will be addressed by other editors. Thank You. KCVelaga☚╣✉╠☛ 12:15, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
Please pick a single place to post suggestions. You posted the exact same suggestion in two different locations. When you do that you split the conversation. The problem is that either everyone has to post the same thing twice or not everyone will have the benefit of seeing the whole conversation. Please remove the suggestion from one of the two. -- GBfan 14:32, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
Okay I didn't know which was correct place en:User:GB fanVarun! 14:32, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
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A barnstar for you!
The Special Barnstar
For awesome edits to Talca Ramal Constitution article. --180.151.243.88 (talk) 13:38, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
What a joke! :-) you vandalised the article and made it innacurate! Well done barnstar for screwing an article up 190.46.20.240 (talk) 05:36, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
Was later cleared off at ANIVarunFEB2003 14:47, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
'Symbols of Indian states and territories' is more appropriate title than 'Symbols of States of India' since the page also includes Union Territories.
Quality of Symbols of Indian states and territories is better than Symbols of States of India as it makes use of scientific names and references, it means there is less possibility of something being wrong on the page. Plus, the page is (almost) complete
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Recent changes
The ORES service has now moved to a new location. This should make it easier to use ORES. The ORES review service is now available as a beta feature on Wikidata and Persian Wikipedia. ORES is an artificial intelligence system for Wikimedia wikis to help editors. [1]
The order of wikis in collapsed cross-wiki notifications was different than when the list was expanded. This is now fixed. [2]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (calendar).
The way to mark notifications as read or unread will be changed to be more clear. [6]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation will look at developing better tools for edit review. This is because research suggests we scare away newcomers who want to help. [7]
An e-mail from the Editing Department explains the technical work that is planned and being researched for the future. Items include better wikitext and visual editing, prompts for edits, language improvements, annotations, and meta-data separation. [8]
The sorting of Notifications into the two fly-out menus is going to change on July 5 to 7. Bundled notifications should be easier to explore and mark as read individually. [9][10][11]
From 29 June git.wikimedia.org (running Gitblit) will redirect all requests to Phabricator. The vast majority of requests should be correctly redirected. [12]
Catalan and Polish Wikipedias will have Wikidata descriptions added to articles in the mobile view by default. This is currently a beta option for the mobile versions. This might come to other wikis later. [13]
