User talk:John of Reading/Archive 23

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Neutral notice

There is an RfC at an article you have edited, to which you may wish to add your input: Talk:American Flagg!#Request for comment. --Tenebrae (talk) 18:00, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Arkansas in the American Civil War

Would you mind doing a copyedit on Arkansas in the American Civil War? Thanks! Aleutian06 (talk) 19:52, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

@Damon.cluck: OK; that will be tomorrow or Thursday. After a quick look, I see that six references are missing. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:11, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

@Damon.cluck: Done. I've made a few edits; there's a {{Clarify}} for you to think about. -- John of Reading (talk) 13:19, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

Outstanding! Thanks much! Aleutian06 (talk) 14:52, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

Belated best wishes for a happy 2018

== BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 15:07, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

@BoringHistoryGuy: Thank you! -- John of Reading (talk) 16:08, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

I need your help

Hello I want you to have a look at my request on a page Template talk:Portal please, thank you. Egy writer (talk) 20:05, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Done -- John of Reading (talk) 20:45, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

thanks 🙂 , What do you think of using this file

_this pic use free license? Do I register a new application on the Orders page? --Egy writer (talk) 14:10, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

@Egy writer: Comparing the three versions here at the proper size, the JPG version seems to have brighter colours and better definition, at least on my laptop screen. But, yes, when you've decided, the place to ask is at Template talk:Portal. -- John of Reading (talk) 14:45, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

I agree with you in the opinion the JPG version is better , I compared them to more than one device You are right. I sent a request on the page Template talk:Portal, In the latter I am very very happy to talk to you, and thank you again for everything.

إليك وساما!

	وسام التعاون الجدي
	Thank you for your cooperation and activity, You are one of the people who make Wikipedia the best :) Egy writer (talk) 15:44, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

شكرا لكم

(I hope Google Translate got that right) -- John of Reading (talk) 15:54, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Yes the translation is correct 😊 Egy writer (talk) 16:54, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Eastern South Asia

The article Eastern South Asia has been proposed for deletion. The proposed deletion notice added to the article should explain why.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spasage (talk • contribs) 17:07, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

@Spasage: Thanks, but that is just one of the ~50,000 articles where I fixed spelling mistakes last year. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:17, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for User_talk:Example fix

Apologies for the error edit there. A user had made a mistake on their signature ("User talk:$1") that pointed me there and I blindly posted my comment. I've moved my comment to their talk page and alerted them to the error.

Thanks for catching that! --KNHaw ^(talk) 17:51, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Weird little request

Could you scan the lists in the Precambrian sections of Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Norway and Draft:List of the prehistoric life of Russia and remove one asterisk from the entries that don't have any space in their links? That would be a big help. I made a formatting error while preparing these lists and changing them all by hand would be difficult. Abyssal (talk) 02:44, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

@Abyssal:

Done but please note that the Russia page is too big to work with comfortably. I had to turn some scripts off to edit it at all, and my second edit returned a "Wikimedia error" instead of redisplaying the page. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:48, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. The Russia page is definitely getting split before it goes live. Abyssal (talk) 13:53, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Template editor

This request for help from administrators has been answered. If you need more help or have additional questions, please reapply the {{admin help}} template, or contact the responding user(s) directly on their own user talk page.

Please will a passing admin cancel my "template editor" permission. -- John of Reading (talk) 19:31, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

Done Ronhjones ^(Talk) 20:00, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

@Ronhjones: Thank you. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:01, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedians who like Black Mirror

Hey! I saw that you edited the article Black Mirror and thought maybe you would be interested in this new user category I created?-🐦Do☭torWho42 (⭐) 20:06, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

@DoctorWho42: Sorry, never heard of it! The article merely turned up on one of my spelling lists about five years ago. -- John of Reading (talk) 21:02, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi

Could you please scan the article Oba Chandler. Thanks.BabbaQ (talk) 15:09, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

@BabbaQ:

Done but neither the AWB software nor I found anything to edit. It's all well written. A couple of references are tagged with {{dead link}} twice, which looks a bit odd. And perhaps "Fifth and 14th Amendment rights" should be "Fifth and Fourteenth" - I expect there's something in the MOS about that. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:30, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

Thank you. Will take a look.--BabbaQ (talk) 16:14, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

DSTRESS & Marine Corps portal

Please see this Marine's page. Semper Fi! FieldMarine (talk) 16:47, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Talk:Scott Baio

Thanks for this, but as you can see, it didn't work. Weird, isn't it? 2001:BB6:4703:4A58:5081:C294:44B8:F581 (talk) 19:34, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
I reduced it to the absolute minimum of parameters, and it still displays the same! 2001:BB6:4703:4A58:5081:C294:44B8:F581 (talk) 19:49, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Replied there. -- John of Reading (talk) 19:55, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Automated removal of lines containing certain text from drafts in a category

Hey, John. Could you automatedly remove all lines of code containing "sp." "spp." or "informal" from the pages in Category:Abyssal temporary Russia cat? Abyssal (talk) 14:59, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

@Abyssal:

Done, also replaced curly quotes with straight quotes. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:25, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick response. Could you do me another somewhat more complex favor when you get the chance? I'm trying to remove the content from this, this, this, and this draft that overlaps with the content in the drafts still found in Category:Abyssal temporary Russia cat. I'm hoping to be left with genera unique to the four listed drafts that don't have species and genera that have species unique to those four drafts even if the genera themselves can also be found in one of the categorized drafts. I think you could accomplish this with the following steps:

Scan the preceding four drafts for lines that begin with "**" that have an exact duplicate in any of the drafts still within the temporary Russia category, and if one is found, remove the line from which ever of the four "big" drafts that the line was first found in? (This should get rid of shared species).
Then, if all the lines beginning with "**" were removed from under a line beginning with "*" in the four big drafts, remove those "*" lines from those drafts as well (but keep "*" lines that didn't have "**" lines beneath them before this operation was performed). (This should get rid of genera that were only serving as headings for shared species)
Lastly, could you perform the same duplicate-removal operation you did for the "**" lines in the four listed drafts but for "*" lines that don't have any "**" lines under them? (This should get rid of shared genera that didn't have species).

I think this should leave untouched genera unique to the four big lists, the species they contain, as well as any other unique species, even if it is a member of a genus shared between the four lists and the category lists. Is there a flaw in the steps I'm not seeing? Thanks for all the help, John. Abyssal (talk) 16:53, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

I'll have a think, but this is beyond what I can do with AWB; that tool only works on one page at a time. -- John of Reading (talk) 18:13, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Don't worry about it, I'll take a different approach. Can AWB by any chance scan the links in a list to see if they lead to a non-redirect article and if not, delete that line of code? If it can could you perform that operation on the drafts in the much-smaller-now Category:Abyssal temporary Russia cat? Abyssal (talk) 13:31, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

@Abyssal: Sorry, I don't think AWB can do that. -- John of Reading (talk) 14:57, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Darn. Thanks for your time. I'll run by the bot request page and see if someone there can whip something up. Abyssal (talk) 15:15, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Qrendi

An article that you have been involved in editing—Qrendi —has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Beckettnoti (talk) 23:16, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

@Beckettnoti: No, it just turned up on one of my spelling lists two years ago. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:08, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

Not to worry, apologies - thanks for getting back to me! Beckettnoti (talk) 09:09, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

Απαντήσεις σε ερωτήματα.

Thank you very much John of reading

for welcoming me to your collection as it is the appropriate word I can describe as your total observability. I really speak Greek and I have no reason to edit it in another language because I have not yet found solid values for my important and appropriate but also serious edits. I wish you were chosen or selected because I do not know your gender but I'm going to be a man, if it's a mistake I apologize for you, if the bikes chose you for my treatments and my unexpected final dockyards, I wish you good reading and responding. I will try not to forget it and send you as much as possible in English, edits and other stages. Thank you very much for the message and more for choosing to you the bikes. I am Gioannania18220 for the feast and Mihaela for the weekend in a good fight for victory, I will remain Michaella.sxg and so you can send in whatever language you want.

Gioannania18220 12:06, 23 February 2018 (UTC)Gioannania18220

Can you help me with AWB

I was trying to create a list of articles created by a single user using AWB and I am kind of stuck. This is in reference to the issue being discussed at Articles created by user Makhamakhi so that it can be mass enabled for AfD. I have seen that you regularly contribute on solution on AWB. Can you please help?? --Hagennos^Talk 00:55, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

@Hagennos: Solved it. I've replied at Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser since the "how-to" instructions will be more useful in the archives there. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:33, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Thank You --Hagennos^Talk 19:28, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

What do you think about bringing COTW back?

Hi John of Reading,

I noticed that you were engaged in collaboration of the week (COTW) events a long time ago. Looks like the cost of coordinating to select articles to focus on might be a main reason to make COTW stop (maybe there were more), though COTW seemed pretty effective in engaging project members working together. I am thinking to create a tool to help recommend articles to WikiProjects. Just wonder what do you think about it? Thank you! Bobo.03 (talk) 18:30, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

@Bobo.03: No, I was never part of COTW. The "History" page merely turned up on one of my spelling lists in 2012. -- John of Reading (talk) 19:29, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Oh, got it. Sorry for the message! Bobo.03 (talk) 01:21, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Query

Hi John, quick question – you recently asked for your template editor status to be revoked... does that mean you are no longer available to be asked for help with fixing templates, like for example you did in the past at {{Certification Table Entry}}? Richard3120 (talk) 00:35, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

@Richard3120: No, handing in the "template editor" permission only stops me editing the highest-risk templates. {{Certification Table Entry}} and its sub-templates are only semi-protected, and any established editor can edit them. So, yes, I can still help out there. I suggest you ping me from whichever talk page thread you'd like me to work on. As before, I'd prefer to work on only one issue at a time so that the sandbox edits don't get confused. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:17, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Ah OK - I know I and other editors have pestered you about those templates in the past, I just wanted to check if you were still available if necessary, or whether we'd have to find someone else. I'll have to check the German parameters for the template above: I noticed they were playing up before, but I want to test them and see if they'd been fixed before taking things further. Thanks. Richard3120 (talk) 01:43, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

"show/hide" problem

I am using IE 10. If it were turned off recently (JavaScript for IE10), how can I turn it back on? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:98A:200:CE30:B0C7:619B:90CC:57F8 (talk) 23:09, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

I've replied at Wikipedia:Help desk#"Hide/Show" problem to keep the discussion in one place. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:03, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

Could you help me?

You've proven really helpful in performing automated tasks before so I was wondering if you could help me out with one that no one's been able to step up to the plate for. On this page I have a list of coding for images with comments trailing after them. I was wondering if you could remove each of those lines of code across the series of drafts listed on the second section of that page. Abyssal (talk) 02:12, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

@Abyssal: Interesting! Would I need to check for an exact match of the image name + caption + trailing comment? Or would it be enough to collect just the image names from your page, and remove any lines from the drafts that mention those image names? I think the latter would be easier for me. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:13, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Exact match please. Abyssal (talk) 07:26, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

@Abyssal:

Done, I hope. The drafts still have plenty of images that don't look relevant. I spot-checked a few, and they are either not mentioned in your list, or are mentioned with slight differences that prevented an exact match. If you expand your list of "codes" I can run through them again fairly quickly. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:37, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, John, I appreciate it. You did fine: there are definitely images in need of removing that I haven't added to the list yet. I'll get you an updated version after I collect some more unwanted pictures. Abyssal (talk) 17:10, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Hey, John, could you please run this for me again when you get a chance? Abyssal (talk) 21:54, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

@Abyssal:

Done -- John of Reading (talk) 07:23, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, John! Abyssal (talk) 14:54, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Another rerun, please. Abyssal (talk) 17:07, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

@Abyssal:

Done -- John of Reading (talk) 18:11, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

Plz sir I want some more. Abyssal (talk) 04:00, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

@Abyssal:

Done -- John of Reading (talk) 08:18, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Work your magic, Mr. Wizard! Abyssal (talk) 19:01, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

@Abyssal:

Done - I'm definitely getting the hang of this now! -- John of Reading (talk) 19:49, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, hey, John, I'm sorry to trouble you again in the same day, but could you give it another run? I forgot to hit save and i had some code from some commons species like mourning doves that would help a lot to be rid of before progressing. Abyssal (talk) 19:54, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

@Abyssal: OK, that's

Done again. -- John of Reading (talk) 21:27, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Play it again, John! Abyssal (talk) 19:08, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

@Abyssal:

Done -- John of Reading (talk) 20:04, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

It's been a while, John. Mind running this for me again? Abyssal (talk) 18:10, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

@Abyssal:

Done -- John of Reading (talk) 10:47, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Sorry to pester you again. Progress is accelerating as the unnecessary images are removed. Abyssal (talk) 23:12, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

@Abyssal:

Done -- John of Reading (talk) 07:36, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Mind running this once again? Thanks. Abyssal (talk) 18:10, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

@Abyssal:

Done So you don't like pictures of tubas in your articles about prehistoric life? -- John of Reading (talk) 18:34, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Haha, not especially. Thanks for all the help, John! Abyssal (talk) 18:46, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Once more when you find the time, please. Abyssal (talk) 15:07, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

@Abyssal:

Done -- John of Reading (talk) 15:26, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Once again, please. Abyssal (talk) 03:55, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

@Abyssal:

Done -- John of Reading (talk) 07:50, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

can you help me

Italic texthello john of reading I'm a middle school student and I was wondering if you could help me with this ancient Rome assignment that I need to ace or I'm getting expelled from school so if you can talk back to me before the 16th that would be great thank you66.153.104.226 (talk) 03:11, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

hey this is my message too :) http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Special:Contributions/66.153.104.226

Greecemaniac2005 (talk) 04:35, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

hey you sent me a message when I wasn't signed in so send me a message when you get this thanks Greecemaniac2005 (talk) 04:34, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

@Greecemaniac2005: I've posted a standard "getting started at Wikipedia" message at User talk:Greecemaniac2005. However, I'm not able to help you with your school assignment. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:17, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	hey john of reading can you just look at this pdf and tell me whether it's right or not. I'll send it in another WikiLove but please look at it. thanks. THEGREECEPEACE 22:22, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

You haven't told me where to find the PDF. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:56, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Harry Potter

hello everybody if you like Harry Potter please join the club that I'm about and we can talk all Harry Potter and magic and I can help you all master your inner elemental powers! hope you like the club. ₭ THEGREECEPEACE 22:29, 15 March 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Greecemaniac2005 (talk • contribs)

No, sorry, I'm here to improve an encyclopedia. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:58, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Article disruption

Hello John of Reading! Could you please check the disruption in the article "Fausto Cercignani" > "The student of English"? Thank you! Bernardbonvin (talk) 08:07, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

@Bernardbonvin: That looks like someone trying out the "Edit" button to see what it does. I've undone the edit, and will keep an eye on the article for a while. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:21, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

Thank you! There is always something to be learnt. Bernardbonvin (talk) 10:32, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

20th-century writers, architects and so on

Hi and thanks for correcting the mistakes I made during my first weeks and months on en.Wikipedia such as an (sic) 20th-century writer or musician etc. Now I've learned. LouisAlain (talk) 17:43, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

@LouisAlain: Thank you! I've been fixing a large number of these. It's an easy mistake to make, and it must be especially difficult to get everything right when working in more than one language. -- John of Reading (talk) 19:02, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

if you are interested, see Draft:Richard Walter Thomas

And I'd welcome comments as well. Smkolins (talk) 12:50, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

@Smkolins: Wow, what a comprehensive draft! I will read it through, but not today. I've made one AWB edit, as my list of spelling fixes found three tiny typos. -- John of Reading (talk) 13:38, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

@John of Reading: perhaps you can think of more work or share the draft with another who could be interested in advancing the work of this blend of issues. Smkolins (talk) 10:28, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for April 12

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Done -- John of Reading (talk) 09:55, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Astrobiology for deletion

A proposal has been made to delete Portal:Astrobiology, which you have made significant contributions to, as well as all other portals on English Wikipedia. You are welcome to contribute to the discussion if you'd like, which is located at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#RfC: Ending the system of portals. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 12:20, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

@Northamerica1000: Thank you, I've seen the proposal. -- John of Reading (talk) 14:26, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Elevator

Hello, John. I have just been clearing out old links that I stored years ago and no longer use, and I came upon a list of IP addresses used by the elevator vandal. I was surprised to see that I created that list in October 2013: it doesn't feel that long ago. Do you know whether that vandal has been active recently, or whether he or she eventually moved on? The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 14:05, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

@JamesBWatson: According to my CSD log, he was active in November/December 2017 and once this year. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:36, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

OK, thanks. I really wonder what someone must be like to persist in doing such a thing over so many years. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 07:41, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Sports portal

Hi! Do you know why in mobile view, the content of Portal:Current events/Sports is displayed on the right side, like a sidebar? It's fine in desktop view. Pelmeen10 (talk) 23:14, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

@Pelmeen10: The mobile view seems to be ignoring the width=100% instruction at the top of Portal:Current events/Sports/Sidebar. I don't know enough about HTML or the mobile view to fix that properly. Changing class="infobox" to class="wikitable" [in three places] seems to improve things. It's still not full-width, but the width expands to fit the widest item. For a better answer I suggest you ask the question again at the technical village pump. -- John of Reading (talk) 05:59, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

Lohne, Germany

Hi John, I've seen you do Typo fixing. Could you have a look at this Article? My english is good enough for small changes, but this one got a little bit bigger. I hope there are not so many mistakes in it. Pre-Thanks --Tronje07 (talk) 14:03, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

@Tronje07: I've had a read through and, I hope, have improved the grammar. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:40, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

@John of Reading: many thanks, if some small changes get out of hand, can i sent you another call for help? --Tronje07 (talk) 07:49, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

@Tronje07: Yes, do. -- John of Reading (talk) 13:54, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

please help translate this message into your local language via meta

The 2017 Cure Award

In 2017 you were one of the top ~250 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a user group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.

Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 02:55, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

@Doc James: Thank you! But I'm still confused how fixing spellings can make me a "top medical editor"

-- John of Reading (talk) 05:09, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

These are sent out to all people who make more than 250 edits in the year to medial articles.

Fixing spelling within medical content does make you a medical editor :-)

And is something that is appreciated. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 05:13, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Synchorisation

Curiocité (talk) 11:06, 27 April 2018 (UTC)Dear John,

If synchronisation is about time in common. Synchorisation is about space in common.

You will find more information with this book - Professor Boris Beaude: https://www.amazon.fr/Internet-changer-lespace-soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9-contemporaines/dp/2916571698

Hope my answer helps. Of course, I can write something about this word on the page: http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Jacques_L%C3%A9vy

Thanks for your comment.

Curiocité (talk) 11:06, 27 April 2018 (UTC)Curiocité

@Curiocité: Yes, please add a few words to the article just after "Synchorisation" to explain the term. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:14, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Template:CapeVerde-footyclub-stub

Greetings, old buddy! IIRC only certain Anointed Persons can edit templates (?) and you are one (?). Subject template has a typo in its result. It should read: "This article about a Cape Verdean football club is a stub." Can you fix? --LilHelpa (talk) 20:22, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

@LilHelpa: Hi! No, only the high-risk templates are restricted to Anointed Persons, and I'm no longer one of those. That template can be edited by anyone. I've made the edit; it was so easy that you'll kick yourself for not doing it! -- John of Reading (talk) 20:39, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Geez. I guess I could have looked at the Edit tab. Thanks. --LilHelpa (talk) 20:46, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject Western Governors University

As a current or past contributor to a related article, I thought I'd let you know that I've started WikiProject Western Governors University, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of WGU. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks and related articles. Thanks! Paul Smith111977 (talk) 12:08, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

@Paul Smith111977: No thank you, I'll stick to fixing spellings across all subject areas. -- John of Reading (talk) 14:37, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

..a good barnstar..nice code in 2018

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		message is basic..great job in wikipedia.....timeline of salem....

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.46.45.22 (talk) 16:18, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Thank you! -- John of Reading (talk) 19:12, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

thank you for updating that portal template like I asked

Tideflat (talk) 04:11, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

Subpages

I am wondering how did you make pages such as User:John of Reading/Cabinet of curiosities,User:John of Reading/Reusable messages, and User:John of Reading/CSD log — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nikospatras (talk • contribs) 17:14, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

@Nikospatras: One way to do this is to type the exact page name into the search box at the top right, eg User:Nikospatras/My page about saucepans or whatever. The search will fail, of course, but you'll be given a box with an option to start a new page with that name. There's a bit more detail at Wikipedia:User pages#Terminology and page locations. I could have created the CSD log that way as well, but in fact that one was created automatically by an optional tool called "Twinkle". -- John of Reading (talk) 20:32, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

John of reading

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Harris Isbell

Wow: how in hell did you ever detect that Jasinksi/Jasinski typo buried deep on the Harris Isbell page? I'm impressed.

Thanks Finney1234 (talk) 16:08, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

@Finney1234: I noticed a "Stravinksy/Stravinsky" error somewhere and put it on my to-do list; using AutoWikiBrowser I was able to find all words ending in -inksi or -inksy and work through them all. It was a very common typo. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:20, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

If I knew how to nominate you for some "attention to detail beyond the call of duty" award, I'd do it :-). Finney1234 (talk) 17:33, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Dear Sir , I need an urgent help regarding Wikipedia article at Dalit Panther Page

Dear Sir , I need an urgent help regarding Wikipedia article at Dalit Panther Page , i am Founder President of Dalit Panther of India Movement official website www.dalitpanther.com and is leader of the movement and is clearly mentioned at Wikipedia article , but some unsocial Elements who is doing edits removing my name from the Wikipedia page , they also deleted my created official page , pl guide me , do I have to take any action on this officially ? B Bhosale (talk) 19:28, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

I don't see any "unsocial elements" at work. Your edits at Dalit Panthers were removed by an automated software robot, which sometimes makes mistakes. I see that you have put back the "Leader", and I have added the website address. As explained at the Help Desk in April, your biography was deleted after this discussion. I am not a Wikipedia administrator and cannot see the deleted article. I recommend that you do not try to promote yourself or your party at Wikipedia, as this rarely works out well. I've left you some standard advice on your talk page. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:46, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

I need to understand

Hello! So, I saw that you cancelled my modification on the TFH disambiguation page. More precisely, you cancelled the fact that I added the "Them's Fightin' Herds" page in this disambiguation page by saying there's nothing that can prove it is commonly abbreviated to TFH. And that's what I don't understand, because the proof is basically in the title, like all the other articles that are on this disambiguation page. Simply look at the title, and more precisely the capital letters: TFH. And that's why I added it on the disambiguation page. So maybe you have a reason, but I need to know that, I need to understand. Thank you for reading and I'm waiting your reply. FlutterTal (talk) 22:14, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

@FlutterTal: This is explained on the Wikipedia:Disambiguation editing guideline in the section labelled WP:DABABBREV. There's nothing in the Them's Fightin' Herds page to show that people refer to the game as TFH. Without that, there's no evidence that someone typing "TFH" into the Wikipedia search box might be looking for the article on the game. I didn't check all the other entries on the TFH page. My attention was drawn to the "Herds" entry because it turned up on my list of spelling errors. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:15, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

Barnstar Award

		The Original Barnstar
		message Thank you for all of your hardwork

Serenesage (talk) 11:45, 14 June 2018.

@Serenesage: Thank you! -- John of Reading (talk) 10:00, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

Warning

Your userpage appears to be under attack: [1] — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs) 23:58, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

@Mr. Guye: Looks fairly puerile! -- John of Reading (talk) 15:15, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

User space elevator page

Hello, John. I hope you had a good vacation.

I have not touched User:JamesBWatson/The elevator vandal for several years, and I am going to get rid of it from my user space. However, you have continued to edit it occasionally, most recently January of this year, so it's possible you may like to keep it. If so, let me know, and I'll move it to your user space; otherwise I'll delete it. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 13:08, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

@JamesBWatson: I'm not working in the portal namespace very much nowadays, so I'm unlikely to catch any more of this vandal's edits. You can delete the tracking page. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:17, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

OK.

Done The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 15:30, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:43, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: How time flies! Thank you for the reminder. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:45, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Star is the Five numeric Calculation option. And Star is that shines in the night Sharing some bright light to all the living kind. Bhargabin (talk) 14:14, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

@Bhargabin: Thank you! -- John of Reading (talk) 14:57, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

Right...

You beat me to that revert! Dangit! In all seriousness, thanks. Abequinn14 (talk) 13:09, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

Thank you

Hi, dear John of Reading, thanks for correcting the article... didn't know i tend to write paitings instead of paintings... perhaps it's time for a new keybord :-). Kind regards, --Gyanda (talk) 19:20, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

@Gyanda: Actually I bought a new keyboard to plug in to my laptop, since several of the laptop keys were sticking. So it might help! -- John of Reading (talk) 19:24, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

What is Canadian

Please discuss. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tim@ (talk • contribs) 11:53, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

No thank you, I just fixed a spelling error in that article. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:32, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

New article

Hey! I am a german wikiauthor and I have qublished my first article in english now (EDU ... a medical univertsity). I need a „higher“ author to check my article, because the article is not out. Can you help me or say how I have to contact? Greetings Eleonorexoxo Eleonorexoxo (talk) 06:11, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

I see that PamD (talk · contribs) has left you some advice on your talk page. I'm not going to be much use to you, since I mainly work on spellings and grammar. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:24, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Help linking

G'day John o R: I have tried to put the phrase: "weak selection" which appears in the article: "Evolutionary dynamics" into double brackets so that it will become a link to the article: "Weak Selection". If I do *not* capitalize the S, the phrase appears in red and no link is produced. If the S *is* capitalized, we get a link, but violate English grammar. Could you please have a look and advise. I would like to create links for all the relevant "weak selection"s that appear in: "Find Link". Thanks RobLandau (talk) 19:59, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

@RobLandau: Yes, that article title shouldn't have a capital "S", should it? I've have moved the article to Weak selection. You should now be able to link to it more easily. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:21, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

@RobLandau: [More] I see from your contributions that you haven't done much linking before. Are you aware of "piped links"? The code for these is [[Actual name of the article|Text that you'd like the reader to see]]. Piped links are the usual solution to this kind of problem; renaming the article is a very unusual solution, though I think correct in this case. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:45, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

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Fixed at User:Abyssal/Image captions to use, will be corrected in the articles shortly. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:33, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

WP:INFOBOXIMAGE

Just wanted to say thanks again for taking the time to generate this. It continues to be helpful!!! --Zackmann08 (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 18:06, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

@Zackmann08: Thank you! But please keep its limitations in mind... -- John of Reading (talk) 18:46, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Oh absolutely! I still have to manually adjust a number of them, but saves SO much time!!! --Zackmann08 (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 18:49, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

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Fixed in User:Abyssal/Image captions to use, will be copied into the articles during the next run. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:36, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

Monikut

"Monikut" is bimonthly multimedia web magazine in Assamese Language. Assamese is 67th Language in the world by the number of native speakers which is at present more than 15 millions. Basically it is spoken in the state of Assam in India and surrounding area. It is closely related with Bengali, the 7th language in the world by the number of native speakers, with similar scripts. Assamese language has a rich heritage with rich clture. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bhargabin (talk • contribs) 08:17, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

This may all be true, but without independent reliable sources the topic does not belong at Wikipedia. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:31, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

Wish

Hello. Help add Wayback Machine for the article Maureen Wroblewitz. Thanks you. 125.214.48.19 (talk) 07:46, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Done using this tool, which I'd not tried before. That link may not work for you unless you create/log in to a named Wikimedia account. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:55, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Not a advert

Hi you removed reference to a book "The brief history of the RNXS is very well described in John Murray's book, 'The Royal Naval Auxiliary Service - the first twenty-five years', published by Maritime Books in 1988" on page http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Royal_Naval_Auxiliary_Service. This is not a Advert it is the reference book used for some of the information in the page that i was told to add when i Dixon hill wrote most of the entry — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.14.167.155 (talk) 09:34, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Look again at the history - the book was removed by Nigel Ish (talk · contribs), not by me. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:37, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

The book is still in use as a reference in the article and use as a reference has not been removed - just the unsupported statement that "The brief history of the RNXS is very well described.." in the book - the article is about the RNXS, not the book.Nigel Ish (talk) 10:11, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

A pie for you!

with love thanks Navdeepyadavdhs (talk) 10:02, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

Looks delicious, thank you! -- John of Reading (talk) 10:03, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

Famke Louise - YouTube

Hello John of Reading, thank you for your edit on the page Famke Louise. I saw your edit on her page and thought I just would ask you for help. I want to add her YouTube by the external link, but I don't know how that work. Can you help me? This is her YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvq1PEaTrw0FQevfLa1wnVw Greetings, RuedNL (talk) 18:44, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

@RuedNL: I think I've fixed it; the documentation for the {{YouTube}} template says that a channel has to be specified as c=the channel id. But have a look at the guidance at WP:ELMINOFFICIAL before adding any more external links to the article. -- John of Reading (talk) 19:18, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

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Fixed -- John of Reading (talk) 11:24, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

Italian power!!

BoNM - Italy	The MalaspinianBarnstar
	thanks for your help in fixing up the Malaspina family English version, it was very appreciated! Spaicol (talk) 06:42, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

@Spaicol: Thank you! -- John of Reading (talk) 07:02, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

John Palmer (1810 ship)

Hi John of Reading: Are you sure that his Majesty's Office wasn't stationary? :-) Thanks for tidying up behind me. Cheers, Acad Ronin (talk) 11:24, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

@Acad Ronin: Thank you! I've been correcting quite a few of those - but there's usually a counterexample somewhere. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:47, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

History of African Americans in Los Angeles

Your attention is called to the deficiencies called out in the note above an article upon which you have either worked or left a comment during the past two years. You are invited to correct those deficiencies if you can possible do so. Otherwise, the article may be deleted or severely truncated. The article is History of African Americans in Los Angeles. Sincerely, BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 15:19, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Go ahead, I only fixed a typo. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:44, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Yup.

That's him. --Jayron 32 18:50, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Photo request petition - please sign

Can you please sign this petition requesting certain historic photos be released for Wikimedia Commons? Thanks, --PlanespotterA320 (talk) 22:35, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Can you do a spelling and grammar check on the article below?

The article is - Transvaal Memorial Hospital for Children . Thanks in advance. Conlinp (talk) 09:33, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

@Conlinp: I've improved the grammar in a few places, I hope. The phrase "until a new university lecture was built" needed an extra word, and I guessed "theatre". That needs a check with the source, really. -- John of Reading (talk) 10:28, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

Thank-you for your help. Believe you are correct but will check. Conlinp (talk) 10:55, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

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Suggestion

I’m trying to post some articles about Maldives TikTok Musers and their talent. How can I add these details? Basedwikimaldives (talk) 18:57, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

@Basedwikimaldives: I've left some "getting started" links on your talk page. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:37, 25 November 2018 (UTC)