User talk:Billinghurst/Archives/2016
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The Signpost: 06 January 2016
- News and notes: The WMF's age of discontent
- In the media: Impenetrable science; Jimmy Wales back in the UAE
- Arbitration report: Catflap08 and Hijiri88 case been decided
- Featured content: Featured menagerie
- WikiProject report: Try-ing to become informed - WikiProject Rugby League
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
Abuse filter
Hi Billinghurst. I notice you work with the abuse filter on Meta and was just wondering if we could get some insights from you on the use of the block function there? We're having a discussion here as we might propose enabling the feature on enwiki. Any input you have would be very appreciated. Sam Walton (talk) 13:33, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
- @Samwalton9: Block function provided gives a permanent block on the account for a match. It was a feature that we enabled at meta for local spambots, ultimately for username only (perm bans on IP not a great idea). We did have a small look at blocks in a global filter and backed away from that implementation. So it needs tight boundaries on the filters, and, possibly tight control and review on the admins using it. If you can do that and have filters with v.v.v. low false positives, then worth it. I will attempt to get to the discussion, though won't be before the weekend. — billinghurst sDrewth 14:02, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
Help decide the future of Wikimania

The Wikimedia Foundation is currently running a consultation on the value and planning process of Wikimania, and is open until 18 January 2016. The goals are to (1) build a shared understanding of the value of Wikimania to help guide conference planning and evaluation, and (2) gather broad community input on what new form(s) Wikimania could take (starting in 2018).
After reviewing the consultation, we'd like to hear your feedback on on this survey.
In addition, feel free to share any personal experiences you have had at at a Wikimedia movement conference, including Wikimania. We plan to compile and share back outcomes from this consultation in February.
With thanks,
I JethroBT (WMF) (talk), from Community Resources 22:01, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 13 January 2016
- Community view: Battle for the soul of the WMF
- Editorial: We need a culture of verification
- In focus: The Crisis at New Montgomery Street
- Op-ed: Transparency
- Traffic report: Pattern recognition: Third annual Traffic Report
- Special report: Wikipedia community celebrates Public Domain Day 2016
- News and notes: Community objections to new Board trustee
- Featured content: This Week's Featured Content
- Arbitration report: Interview: outgoing and incumbent arbitrators 2016
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
The Signpost: 20 January 2016
- News and notes: Vote of no confidence; WMF trustee speaks out
- In the media: 15th anniversary news round-up
- Traffic report: Danse Macabre
- Featured content: This week's featured content
The Signpost: 27 January 2016
- News and notes: Geshuri steps down from the Board
- In the media: Media coverage of the Arnnon Geshuri no-confidence vote
- Recent research: Bursty edits; how politics beat religion but then lost to sports; notability as a glass ceiling
- Traffic report: Death and taxes
- Featured content: This week's featured content
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Towards a New Wikimania results

Last December, I invited you to share your views on the value of Wikimedia conferences and the planning process of Wikimania. We have completed analysis of these results and have prepared this report summarizing your feedback and important changes for Wikimania starting in 2018 as an experiment. Feedback and comments are welcome at the discussion page. Thank you so much for your participation. I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, 22:47, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 03 February 2016
- From the editors: Help wanted
- Special report: Board chair and new trustee speak with the Signpost
- Arbitration report: Catching up on arbitration
- Traffic report: Bowled
- Featured content: This week's featured content
The Signpost: 10 February 2016
- News and notes: Another WMF departure
- In the media: Jeb Bush swings at Wikipedia and connects
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- Traffic report: A river of revilement
The Signpost: 17 February 2016
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- Traffic report: Super Bowling
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
The Signpost: 24 February 2016
- Special report: WMF in limbo as decision on Tretikov nears
- Op-ed: Backward the Foundation
- Traffic report: Of Dead Pools and Dead Judges
- Arbitration report: Arbitration motion regarding CheckUser & Oversight inactivity
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
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The Signpost: 02 March 2016
- News and notes: Tretikov resigns, WMF in transition
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- Traffic report: Brawling
The Signpost: 09 March 2016
- News and notes: Katherine Maher named interim head of WMF; Wales email re-sparks Heilman controversy; draft WMF strategy posted
- Technology report: Wikimedia wikis will temporarily go into read-only mode on several occasions in the coming weeks
- WikiCup report: First round of the WikiCup finishes
- Traffic report: All business like show business
The Signpost: 16 March 2016
- News and notes: Wikipedia Zero: Orange mobile partnership in Africa ends; the evolution of privacy loss in Wikipedia
- In the media: Wales at SXSW; lawsuit over Wikipedia PR editing
- Discussion report: Is an interim WMF executive director inherently notable?
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- Technology report: Watchlists, watchlists, watchlists!
- Traffic report: Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States
- Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #119: The Foundation and the departure of Lila Tretikov
The Signpost: 23 March 2016
- News and notes: Lila Tretikov a Young Global Leader; Wikipediocracy blog post sparks indefinite blocks
- In the media: Angolan file sharers cause trouble for Wikipedia Zero; the 3D printer edit war; a culture based on change and turmoil
- Traffic report: Be weary on the Ides of March
- Editorial: "God damn it, you've got to be kind."
- Featured content: Watch out! A slave trader, a live mascot and a crested serpent awaits!
- Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel article 3 case amended
- Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #120: Status of Wikimania 2016
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The Signpost: 1 April 2016
- News and notes: Trump/Wales 2016
- WikiProject report: Why should the Devil have all the good music? An interview with WikiProject Christian music
- Traffic report: Donald v Daredevil
- Featured content: A slow, slow week
- Technology report: Browse Wikipedia in safety? Use Telnet!
- Recent research: "Employing Wikipedia for good not evil" in education; using eyetracking to find out how readers read articles
- Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #121: How April Fools went down
The Signpost: 14 April 2016
- News and notes: Denny Vrandečić resigns from Wikimedia Foundation board
- In the media: Wikimedia Sweden loses copyright case; Tex Watson; AI assistants; David Jolly biography
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- Traffic report: A welcome return to pop culture and death
- Arbitration report: The first case of 2016—Wikicology
- Gallery: A history lesson
The Signpost: 24 April 2016
- Special report: Update on EranBot, our new copyright violation detection bot
- Traffic report: Two for the price of one
- Featured content: The double-sized edition
- Arbitration report: Amendments made to the Race and intelligence case
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The Signpost: 2 May 2016
- In the media: Wikipedia Zero piracy in Bangladesh; bureaucracy; chilling effects; too few cooks; translation gaps
- Traffic report: Purple
- Featured content: The best ... from the past two weeks
The Signpost: 17 May 2016
- Op-ed: Swiss chapter in turmoil
- In the media: Wikimedia's Dario Taraborelli quoted on Google's Knowledge Graph in The Washington Post
- Featured content: Two weeks for the prize of one
- Traffic report: Oh behave, Beyhive / Underdogs
- Arbitration report: "Wikicology" ends in site ban; evidence and workshop phases concluded for "Gamaliel and others"
- Wikicup: That's it for WikiCup Round 2!
Some bubble tea for you!
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Sorry, Huggle welcomed you automatically. Clubjustin (talk) 14:05, 19 May 2016 (UTC) |
The Signpost: 28 May 2016
- News and notes: Upcoming Wikimedia conferences in the US and India; May Metrics and Activities Meeting
- Special report: Compensation paid to Sue Gardner increased by almost 50 percent after she stepped down as executive director
- Featured content: Eight articles, three lists and five pictures
- Op-ed: Journey of a Wikipedian
- Arbitration report: Gamaliel resigns from the arbitration committee
- Recent research: English as Wikipedia's Lingua Franca; deletion rationales; schizophrenia controversies
- Traffic report: Splitting (musical) airs / Slow Ride
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The Signpost: 05 June 2016
- News and notes: WMF cuts budget for 2016-17 as scope tightens
- Featured content: Overwhelmed ... by pictures
- Traffic report: Pop goes the culture, again.
- Arbitration report: ArbCom case "Gamaliel and others" concludes
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Video Games
The Signpost: 15 June 2016
- News and notes: Clarifications on status and compensation of outgoing executive directors Sue Gardner and Lila Tretikov
- Special report: Wikiversity Journal—A new user group
- Featured content: From the crème de la crème
- In the media: Biography disputes; Craig Newmark donation; PR editing
- Traffic report: Another one with sports; Knockout, brief candle
The Signpost: 04 July 2016
- News and notes: Board unanimously appoints Katherine Maher as new WMF executive director; Wikimedia lawsuits in France and Germany
- Op-ed: Two policies in conflict?
- In the media: Terrorism database cites Wikipedia as a source
- Featured content: Triple fun of featured content
- Traffic report: Goalposts; Oy vexit
Robert Adrain/ Robert Adrian
Hello! I would like to create a page on the Canadian artist Robert Adrian, however I see you have a redirect from this name to Robert Adrain. My plan is to create the new Robert Adrian page, and if necessary we can talk about redirects following that. any objections? Have a nice day. HappyValleyEditor (talk) 18:56, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
- Sure. Please ensure that there is a hat note on the article that replaces the redirect. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:56, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
- Will do. Thanks HappyValleyEditor (talk) 17:01, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 21 July 2016
- Discussion report: Busy month for discussions
- Featured content: A wide variety from the best
- Traffic report: Sports and esports
- Arbitration report: Script writers appointed for clerks
- Recent research: Using deep learning to predict article quality
The Signpost: 04 August 2016
- News and notes: Foundation presents results of harassment research, plans for automated identification; Wikiconference submissions open
- Obituary: Kevin Gorman, who took on Wikipedia's gender gap and undisclosed paid advocacy, dies at 24
- Traffic report: Summer of Pokémon, Trump, and Hillary
- Featured content: Women and Hawaii
- Recent research: Easier navigation via better wikilinks
- Technology report: User script report (January to July 2016, part 1)
The Signpost: 18 August 2016
- News and notes: Focus on India—WikiConference produces new apps; state government adopts free licenses
- Special report: Engaging diverse communities to profile women of Antarctica
- In the media: The ugly, the bad, the playful, and the promising
- Featured content: Simply the best ... from the last two weeks
- Traffic report: Olympic views
- Technology report: User script report (January–July 2016, part 2)
- Arbitration report: The Michael Hardy case
The Signpost: 06 September 2016
- Special report: Olympics readership depended on language
- WikiProject report: Watching Wikipedia
- Featured content: Entertainment, sport, and something else in-between
- Traffic report: From Phelps to Bolt to Reddit
- Technology report: Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them
- Recent research: Ethics of machine-created articles and fighting vandalism
BeeSafe notability
Hello dear user Billinghurst,
I have noticed you put a notability template on my page. The notability question was put on this topic already before and it was solved by a different wikipedia administrator. I have provided more than enough sources on the page, I would like to ask which part of it is not reliable enough. I understand some of the reference links are in Slovak, but that should be OK. Thank you for your response, Matobeno1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Matobeno1 (talk • contribs) 08:33, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
- Dear paid editor. Please take your lobbying somewhere else. — billinghurst sDrewth 09:42, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
Extended confirmed protection
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The Signpost: 29 September 2016
- News and notes: Wikipedia Education Program case study published; and a longtime Wikimedian has made his final edit
- In the media: Wikipedia in the news
- Featured content: Three weeks in the land of featured content
- Arbitration report: Arbcom looking for new checkusers and oversight appointees while another case opens
- Traffic report: From Gene Wilder to JonBenét
- Technology report: Category sorting and template parameters
The Signpost: 14 October 2016
- News and notes: Fundraising, flora and fauna
- Discussion report: Cultivating leadership: Wikimedia Foundation seeks input
- Technology report: Upcoming tech projects for 2017
- Featured content: Variety is the spice of life
- Traffic report: Debates and escapes
- Recent research: A 2011 study resurfaces in a media report
Help with Log-in on Mozilla Firefox
To Who It May Concern:
I have been trying to log into this account, The Empire of History, through Mozilla Firefox. Currently, I am logged in from Microsoft Edge, which is the other browser on my computer. However, for some reason, when I try to log into this account on Firefox, it says this: "There seems to be a problem with your login session; this action has been canceled as a precaution against session hijacking. Go back to the previous page, reload that page and then try again." No matter what I try to do, it will not let me login. Is there any way that I can resolve this issue?
Thank you for your assistance.
--The Empire of History (talk) 03:44, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
- @The Empire of History: Try logging out, and purging your cookies in Firefox, also checking that you have allowed permissions. I have no issues with Firefox use. — billinghurst sDrewth 10:56, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
spambot
Billinghurst, regarding your block of a couple of spambots last night - please note that these are apparently globally attacking. I posted regarding these on m:Talk:Spam blacklist, I think these IPs should be globally locked with withdrawal of talkpage access (and preferably as soon as they hit the blacklist to unclutter the list). I also asked here on en.wikipedia to have a bot do the honours on these, but maybe that should even be considered globally.
We have {{spamblacklistblock}} as block reason for them now in the block options, and in Twinkle, for ease of blocking. --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:58, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
- @Beetstra: Yep. I have been doing some log/spamblacklist work at Meta, enWS, commons, and MW over the past month, concurrently whilst dealing with the file spam issue for Commons (as mentioned at meta). At this point of time I am gathering data by putting blocks in place, whilst dealing with the worst of the worst at meta. Putting global blocks in place is okay for individual IPs, though is trickier for IP ranges without the ability to view local data for the country of blocking at the respective language wiki where presumably it will have negative impacts. FWIW the spam is predominantly English language so tracking those five wikis gives a good indication and management approach (though I cannot be definitive as I cannot see all the spamblacklist logs any more, and I cannot be bothered asking for a creation of a group set of right to manage spam globally as I am not wanting to particularly re-enter the WMF politics zone, been there, done enough of that, retired!)
Re bot blocking, there is too much collateral damage to just block based on appearance in the blacklist, it needs to be more finely attuned. Best that I could see to manage it would be to have a spamfilter where you specifically put in problematic urls, and allowed the system to block on that basis, BUT it won't happen globally as stewards have the guidance to not globally block based on a spam filter, so it would have to be wiki-based. Wiki-centric blocks are already doable where the community allows. OR we look at splitting spamblacklists into hard and soft lists (or ranked lists) where the most egregious are in one list (or more highly rated); which is similar process that you use for your link reverting bot. — billinghurst sDrewth 06:21, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
- It boils back again to the same old (roughly a suggestion made by the developers (Brion), for crying out loud - no we need VE etc. more) - overthrow the old spam blacklist and write a new one, preferably based on an edit-filter like basis. That would allow for separate edit filters per group of URLs, and then you could just ignore the logs, unless you want to know who is spamming what (or even choose not to log .. who friggin' cares for these). As it is now, there are IPs that manage to get thousands of edits before being blocked (we now have 2-3 editors actively following it, and still they manage to get to 50 ..), flooding out pages and pages of the log, making the log utterly useless.
- Here on en, those IPs have zero edits until now (and I blocked by now easily a 100, some for a year after returning after a block) - otherwise I would not block them long-term with revoking talkpage access. I doubt if these IPs have globally any edits. However, I do think that it is important to tag the talkpages if you withdraw talkpage access, just in case that the IP is taken over by a regular, real editor. --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:56, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
Took a bit of digging - but this and this and this is also the same spambot - see them appearing here and here. --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:53, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
168.213.5.105
- 168.213.5.105 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)
Hello Billinghurst,
I came across this IP when I was adding a {{Shared IP edu}} template to it, and I noticed that you indefinitely blocked them. Since IP addresses are usually not blocked indefinitely, I just wanted to let you know just in case this was an accident, regards. Yinf (talk) 23:36, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
- @Yinf: Many thanks, that was definitely not intentional. I have pulled it back to a month. — billinghurst sDrewth 09:25, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
Link change to Dictionary of Australian Biography articles
Hi Billinghurst, it seems the article links for these have changed, e.g. In Abel Tasman the D.A.B. link http://gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/0-dict-biogT-V.html#tasman1 has now changed to http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks15/1500721h/0-dict-biogT-V.html#tasman1. (I've manually updated the link on this page). The "Dictionary of Australian Biography" template has 826 uses currently. Can a bot be run to change the link in pages that use the template? Or is it best to modify the template to include the first part of the link and run the bot to just include the last part of the link in the template? That way, if the URL changes again it just means one change the D.A.B. template itself. Thanks. DivermanAU (talk) 02:12, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
- Ouch. My opinion is that we would look to have a scheme that is easily updateable, but still allows full url. So something like convert template:Dictionary of Australian Biography to have link= to still be a full url though replaced with afactor that has something like shortlink=0-dict-biogT-V.html and where shortlink is used that the remainder of the url is automatically applied. I can run through a fix if required; it looks reasonably simple based on your example. It is just a matter of getting each pair of the required combinations. — billinghurst sDrewth 06:08, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
- Maybe it's easier just to have a bot just replace the old part of the path with the new one. another example:
- http://gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/0-dict-biogA.html#adams1 is now
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks15/1500721h/0-dict-biogA.html#adams1 - so, if the string "gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog" is replaced with "gutenberg.net.au/ebooks15/1500721h" that will fix the links. DivermanAU (talk) 20:44, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
- @DivermanAU: Yes, that is possible, though doesn't future proof. Without even looking at the guts of the template, I was thinking something like changing the template code to have
{{#if:{{{shortlink|}}}|http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks15/1500721h/{{{shortlink|}}}|{{{link}}}}}
then replacinglink=http://gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/
withshortlink=
. This way it doesn't matter whether someone uses a full link, or the shortlink either will work, and both cannot display, and it will work before or after the update. — billinghurst sDrewth 22:46, 3 November 2016 (UTC)- Sounds good to me! DivermanAU (talk) 01:12, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
Done Parameter change made; proceeding to the replacements which will take a little while as I have never bothered with bot rights here. — billinghurst sDrewth 09:55, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
- Sounds good to me! DivermanAU (talk) 01:12, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
- @DivermanAU: Yes, that is possible, though doesn't future proof. Without even looking at the guts of the template, I was thinking something like changing the template code to have
- Maybe it's easier just to have a bot just replace the old part of the path with the new one. another example:
The Signpost: 4 November 2016
- In the media: Washington Post continues in-depth Wikipedia coverage
- Wikicup: WikiCup winners
- Discussion report: What's on your tech wishlist for the coming year?
- Technology report: New guideline for technical collaboration; citation templates now flag open access content
- Featured content: Cream of the crop
- Traffic report: Un-presidential politics
- Arbitration report: Recapping October's activities

The article Camilla Nylund has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no reliable references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.
If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp/dated}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 19:17, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
Reversal of Changes for Ironshore Wiki
Billinghurst, you recently undid changes that were made to the Ironshore wiki page ( 01:43, 30 October 2016 ). Would you mind clarifying why these changes were reverted? Thank you. http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Ironshore — Preceding unsigned comment added by NRCDYN (talk • contribs) 01:16, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins
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Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:32, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
Discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anyoption
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anyoption. North America1000 02:39, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
A new user right for New Page Patrollers
Hi Billinghurst/Archives.
A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.
It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.
If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
File Duplicate?
What do you mean my file was a duplicate?
((GR) Duplicate: File:Regions of Ethiopia.png → File:Ethiopia regions english.png Exact or scaled-down duplicate: c::File:Ethiopia regions english.png) updated since my last visit (undo | thank)
(cur | prev) 10 November 2016 DejazmachQabridahar (talk | contribs) m . . (1,589 bytes) (-5) . . (Adapted the regions based on CC 2.5 and new map http://reliefweb.int/map/ethiopia/ethiopia-somali-region-administrative-map-05-jan-2015) (undo)
Based on CC 2.5 I had the right to adapt his work. As you can see by the UN source it shows a 2015 map of the Somali region? So why remove my work?
- (Dejazmachqabridahar) 02:07, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
- Conversation belongs at Commons where the process took place. I can see that there are changes that I missed last time. That said we are going to better document the changes as this would be seen as being a somewhat important update that should contain specific information. — billinghurst sDrewth 09:11, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
Did you intend to nominate this as Articles for Deletion or as Miscellany for Deletion? It was in draft space, and you nominated it for deletion as an article, but it isn't an article. Robert McClenon (talk) 15:31, 20 November 2016 (UTC) You may have made the wrong kind of deletion nomination. Robert McClenon (talk) 15:33, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
- @Robert McClenon: Sure, whichever. It is spam dressed up as article. Take it through whichever process you deem suitable. I must be more intolerant than you with such submissions. — billinghurst sDrewth 04:14, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
- User:billinghurst - If it were in article space, I would tag it for G11. However, in draft space, I would decline it as reading like an advertisement. The problem is that you used the wrong deletion method in the space it is in. Robert McClenon (talk) 12:09, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
- It was late at night and I was packing up. Don't fuss it, correct an insignificance. Crap is crap and it should go through the process to get it deleted. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:12, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
- User:billinghurst - If it were in article space, I would tag it for G11. However, in draft space, I would decline it as reading like an advertisement. The problem is that you used the wrong deletion method in the space it is in. Robert McClenon (talk) 12:09, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
What about here?
http://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=Inflatable_pigs_on_Roger_Waters%27_tours&oldid=prev&diff=750715062 — what`s wrong with this edit? user talk:Nazgulina —Preceding undated comment added 13:14, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
- Please find use reliable sources. — billinghurst sDrewth 21:46, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
Such dead links should either be updated or removed
http://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=Estadio_Monumental_Antonio_Vespucio_Liberti&oldid=prev&diff=750714649 - so we have dead link here. user talk:Nazgulina
- If it has a dead link, please tag with {{dead link}} as discussed at WP:Dead link and WP:DEADREF, rather than replacing it with an indirect link to a fan site. — billinghurst sDrewth 21:47, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
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November 2016
Your revert on Jujutsu did not have an edit summary. Please provide an edit summary when you revert anything that isn't vandalism. Thanks! {MordeKyle} ☢ 23:11, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
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64.114.222.13
- 64.114.222.13 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)
Hello Billinghurst,
I see that you have blocked this IP for 2 weeks, but it looks like their previous block was for six months. Just wanted to let you know in case if you weren't aware of that. I've also confirmed it to be a school IP, see this link. 2601:1C0:106:C856:7C92:9639:8495:3992 (talk) 23:49, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
- Sure. New case, new escalating doom. As it will be a new user at the school, continuing an old block pattern is less helpful. We'll see what we should do next in two weeks. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:22, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
A cookie for you!
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thank you had to change my links as was from the google page rather than from the source i m learning slowly Truthitmatters (talk) 15:37, 8 December 2016 (UTC) |
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Removal of Wikisource template from Adelsverein article
The template you removed from Adelsverein is the legal testimony of John O. Meusebach (Otfried Hans Freiherr von Meusebach) about the Adelsverein history and emigration to Texas. I have put the template back with a little better title on it so that is understood. Seems to me this is directly related to the article. — Maile (talk) 16:48, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
- @Maile66: We would like to the work with {{wikisource}} not to the author page. Your link is slightly misleading with the title. Ideally the Meusebach article will utilise {{wikisource author}}. — billinghurst sDrewth 22:14, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
- Well, OK. Your newest edit sent it to a page that did not exist, I guess because you left it in the wikisource author template. — Maile (talk) 22:22, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
- It did? Ugh, apologies, too many edit. I was sure that I changed it. <sigh> — billinghurst sDrewth 09:06, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
- Well, OK. Your newest edit sent it to a page that did not exist, I guess because you left it in the wikisource author template. — Maile (talk) 22:22, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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Great work. Keep at it. Happy holidays and a prosperous 2017. Quis separabit? 14:04, 22 December 2016 (UTC) |
fyi
just like ahmad sukarno - muhammad suharto was an invented western abberration, no one in Indonesia ever called him that JarrahTree 00:06, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
- Okay, I was just pairing the infobox to the lead. At the same time, I doubt that he was just referred to as Suharto by his mother, or by all people, so some indication of first and family name would be of interest. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:50, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
- Harto or Pak Harto was the Jakartan taxi drivers version - however a very good point - he was javanese - so in most cases the javanese familial name for the child can be so far from the adult name (dont let me start on that one) - to answer you on that I am not sure I can get a good handle on that in the short term. Youre brave editing there - he big articles usually are a waste of time to have on watch list - indonesia, suharto, sukarno - everyone is an expert of course and the flies are omnipresent as well. Happy new year etc - JarrahTree 01:01, 28 December 2016 (UTC)