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September 2018
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GABgab 16:30, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you so much GAB.RHcosm (talk) 23:52, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
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Hi RHcosm. After reviewing your request for "rollbacker", I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:
- Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
- Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
- Rollback should never be used to edit war.
- If abused, rollback rights can be revoked.
- Use common sense.
If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! GABgab 15:45, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you so much GAB--RHcosm (talk) 16:10, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
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Content deletion
The content was deleted by mistake. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rinkoo rajguru (talk • contribs) 02:22, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
- No problems, content restored. --RHcosm (talk) 04:55, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
Thanks
Thanks. I believe among us all, we improved Wikipedia. Hope to see your future efforts. Cheers. Willondon (talk) 07:03, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
- @Willondon: Sure. You have been improving Wikipedia for more than a decade (great contributor). Cheers!--RHcosm (talk) 07:09, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
BC Partners
In their website disclaimer:
About BC Partners LLP
BC Partners LLP is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”) in the United Kingdom. BC Partners LLP is entered on the FCA's Financial Services Register with registration number 738808. The FCA's Financial Services Register is available at http://www.fca.org.uk/register .
BC Partners LLP is incorporated in England and Wales and registered at Companies House (no. OC404426). The registered office of BC Partners LLP is at 40 Portman Square, London W1H 6DA. BC Partners LLP’s VAT registration number is GB 240 7699 88.
You can contact BC Partners LLP by email at london@bcpartners.com or by post at our registered office address above.
BC Partners LLP acts as adviser to CIE Management II Limited ("CIE II"), CIE Management IX Limited ("CIE IX") and BCEC Management X Limited. These are limited companies incorporated in Guernsey and regulated by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission. CIE II acts as Manager and General Partner to the BC European Capital VII, BC European Capital VII Top up and BC European Capital VIII Funds. CIE IX acts as Manager and General Partner to the BC European Capital IX Fund. BCEC Management X Limited acts as Manager and General Partner to the BC European Capital X Fund.
On this website, references to "BC Partners" are to one or more (as the context requires) of BC Partners LLP, CIE II, CIE IX, BCEC Management X Limited and certain other affiliated companies (including BC Partners Sarl, BC Partners GmbH and BC Partners Inc who act as sub-advisors of BC Partners LLP).
Where did I do wrong? 223.255.230.17 (talk) 05:34, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
Anybody here? 223.255.230.17 (talk) 05:55, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
- See Official website --RHcosm (talk) 06:35, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
- I visited it, then what? What part of my edit nonconstructive? Well, I'm not a native English speaker I may be wrong. In the copy of legal statement above, is it wrong to conclude that the main/parent/legal company is BC Partners LLP? 116.206.29.66 (talk) 06:40, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
- As per official website BC partners is the official name. If you don't agree you can start discussion at Talk:BC Partners. Thanks --RHcosm (talk) 06:49, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
- No, I'm sorry, but I want to discuss it here because you are the one who disagrees with me. Where in the website is it stated that BC Partners is the official name of BC Partners? I'm not native, so I may be wrong at providing argument or reading your argument or reading the website information. So I'll list what my arguments are:
- 1. BC Partners is a company (or in the article it is stated as private equity firm but it still uses Infobox company).
- 2. Infobox company documentation states that name parameter is "The full, legal name of the company, correctly reproducing punctuation and abbreviations or lack thereof." If you don't believe me visit here.
- 3. BC Partners has a website http://www.bcpartners.com/ and a disclaimer page http://www.bcpartners.com/site-services/disclaimer?sc_lang=en
- 4. In the disclaimer page, I will copy part of it for you:
- Legal
- About BC Partners LLP
- BC Partners LLP is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”) in the United Kingdom. BC Partners LLP is entered on the FCA's Financial Services Register with registration number 738808. The FCA's Financial Services Register is available at http://www.fca.org.uk/register .
- BC Partners LLP is incorporated in England and Wales and registered at Companies House (no. OC404426). The registered office of BC Partners LLP is at 40 Portman Square, London W1H 6DA. BC Partners LLP’s VAT registration number is GB 240 7699 88.
- You can contact BC Partners LLP by email at london@bcpartners.com or by post at our registered office address above.
- BC Partners LLP acts as adviser to CIE Management II Limited ("CIE II"), CIE Management IX Limited ("CIE IX") and BCEC Management X Limited. These are limited companies incorporated in Guernsey and regulated by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission. CIE II acts as Manager and General Partner to the BC European Capital VII, BC European Capital VII Top up and BC European Capital VIII Funds. CIE IX acts as Manager and General Partner to the BC European Capital IX Fund. BCEC Management X Limited acts as Manager and General Partner to the BC European Capital X Fund.
- On this website, references to "BC Partners" are to one or more (as the context requires) of BC Partners LLP, CIE II, CIE IX, BCEC Management X Limited and certain other affiliated companies (including BC Partners Sarl, BC Partners GmbH and BC Partners Inc who act as sub-advisors of BC Partners LLP).
- 5. If you argue BC Partners LLP is not the legal name, why? Do they lie in their disclaimer? Or I'm really bad at English?
- 6. I still can't find where it is stated that "BC partners is the official name" literally or implicitly.
- Thanks. 116.206.29.66 (talk) 07:13, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
- No, I'm sorry, but I want to discuss it here because you are the one who disagrees with me. Where in the website is it stated that BC Partners is the official name of BC Partners? I'm not native, so I may be wrong at providing argument or reading your argument or reading the website information. So I'll list what my arguments are:
- As per official website BC partners is the official name. If you don't agree you can start discussion at Talk:BC Partners. Thanks --RHcosm (talk) 06:49, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
- I visited it, then what? What part of my edit nonconstructive? Well, I'm not a native English speaker I may be wrong. In the copy of legal statement above, is it wrong to conclude that the main/parent/legal company is BC Partners LLP? 116.206.29.66 (talk) 06:40, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
- See Official website --RHcosm (talk) 06:35, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
- Oshwah please have a look here. Thanks --RHcosm (talk) 07:21, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
- What's up? ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 00:46, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
- Oshwah one IP user was not convinced with the name of BC Partners so I needed your help. But now it seems settled. Thank you so much for your response. You are one of the best administrators who is always ready to help. Thanks. --RHcosm (talk) 01:03, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
- No, no. The anon was me. It is not settled yet. I waited for Oshwah to reply so I didn't do anything. I know it is dispute between two users so I waited for third party to give some opinions. I'm sorry again. But what is your argument to counter me? I waited for you to counter me or hear some opinions from third party not to "seems settled" me. Thanks. MRFazry (talk) 02:45, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
- It seems you a little bit belittle anon users. So I think I have to sign in. I, as anon user, for some times edited some name of companies but the edits were rarely reverted. After finding out my edit on BC Partners was reverted I had to contact you. I've provide my arguments above. If you don't provide yours, I'll stand my ground and add the name parameter of Infobox company of BC Partners as BC Partners LLP. MRFazry (talk) 02:57, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
- MRFazry - We treat anon users and people with accounts the same. What exactly is the dispute over? ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 21:25, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
- Oshwah, I, as anon, edited name parameter of Infobox company of BC Partners from only 'BC Partners' to 'BC Partners LLP' to reflect legal name per their disclaimer on their website. But RHcosm reverted it. When I asked why, RHcosm only stated that the official name is BC Partners per their website without proof. I then copied part of disclaimer statements which mentions BC Partners LLP and asked RHcosm's arguments over this. Then RHcosm mentioned you. When you replied here what's this about, RHcosm said "it seems settled" without discussion. Then I signed in. Right now RHcosm already "allowed" me to edit BC Partners. MRFazry (talk) 01:59, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
- MRFazry - It looks like RHcosm has responded below and has given you the "all-clear" to revert the edit he made that undid your changes to the article. It seems like he took another look and gave you the benefit of the doubt, as any editor should do - he's doing the right thing for you. I would follow-up your changes to the article by locating reliable sources to support you modifications and cite them in-line with the text you changed so that verifiability can be checked and reviewed. Do this, and you'll be just fine :-). Let me know if you have any more questions or concerns and I'll be happy to help you further. As RHcosm gave you the benefit of the doubt for your edit to the article, make sure to do the same for his revert of your edit to the article. He thought it wasn't constructive, and nobody is 100% perfect at doing so correctly; give him an easy time and be nice to him. ;-) ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 08:59, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
- Oshwah, I, as anon, edited name parameter of Infobox company of BC Partners from only 'BC Partners' to 'BC Partners LLP' to reflect legal name per their disclaimer on their website. But RHcosm reverted it. When I asked why, RHcosm only stated that the official name is BC Partners per their website without proof. I then copied part of disclaimer statements which mentions BC Partners LLP and asked RHcosm's arguments over this. Then RHcosm mentioned you. When you replied here what's this about, RHcosm said "it seems settled" without discussion. Then I signed in. Right now RHcosm already "allowed" me to edit BC Partners. MRFazry (talk) 01:59, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
- MRFazry - We treat anon users and people with accounts the same. What exactly is the dispute over? ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 21:25, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
- MRFazry I am not experienced as you. I reverted your edit because I felt it unconstructive. You can revert my edit if I'm wrong. I respect IP users if they make constructive contributions. All users are equally important for Wikipedia whether they have account or not if they contribute positively. Thanks. --RHcosm (talk) 07:47, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
- In Wikipedia, if you feel an edit from anon nonconstructive, you can search some sources by yourself. If you have no proof but really feel it's vandal or anything bad, you may revert it back. But, if the anon provide some proofs, you have to provide counter-proof. In this case, you didn't prove your argument that "per their website BC Partners is the official name" because I didn't find that website states that explicitly or implicitly. I may be wrong but as of now I didn't find them instead BC Partners LLP is mentioned in their disclaimer. But if you or any other users later proved that BC Partners LLP is not the legal name, then I have to acknowledge it. MRFazry (talk) 01:59, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
- I mean edit that "seems true" but you feel nonconstructive. If the edit is blanking the page, or adding some random characters, of course it should be reverted immediately. MRFazry (talk) 02:05, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
- Oshwah one IP user was not convinced with the name of BC Partners so I needed your help. But now it seems settled. Thank you so much for your response. You are one of the best administrators who is always ready to help. Thanks. --RHcosm (talk) 01:03, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
- What's up? ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 00:46, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
- Oshwah please have a look here. Thanks --RHcosm (talk) 07:21, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that you removed my edit on the above article with the summary "unsourced." It would have been more helpful if you tagged it as "citation required" rather than remove it. Also, if you really wanted to contribute positively, you could have searched for a reference - as the event is current, you would have found several references. Please note that not everyone has a load of free time to follow all WP procedures and any contribution should be welcomed as long as it is not malafide or vandalism. Hoping that you will fix the edit more appropriately... --Gurubrahma (talk) 06:44, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
- Oops, my bad. Just noticed that my edit was undone by another user. Apologies. --Gurubrahma (talk) 06:46, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
- Gurubrahma No problems. It happens.--RHcosm (talk) 07:28, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2018)
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Pauling (Africa) Ltd
Being a first time attempt to edit information to the 'DAM' section of the Pauling page you rejected my addition. I only added this as I was an employee on both contracts at the time in Nigeria and thought it would be good to inform readers of these extra projects.185.84.44.203 (talk) 11:52, 13 October 2018 (UTC)O.Doherty
- You added contents without citations. Unsourced contents are removed. Please see citation to a reliable source and reliable source. Thanks. --RHcosm (talk) 12:01, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2018)
![]() Long Island Iced Tea is a cocktail made with vodka, tequila, light rum, triple sec, gin, and a splash of cola.
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saleem javed singer page
hello i have a few questions about saleem javed page,his website is dead it no longer works but the dead link is still there,his discography is missing also there is no picture of him..help please — Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.62.73.120 (talk) 15:35, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
- I don't have his photos. Just wait someone will upload. --RHcosm (talk) 23:18, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
Jill Soloway
I saw Jill Soloway on CBS This Morning promoting their new book, "She Wanted It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy." Jill prefers to be referred to by the personal pronouns "they" and "their", rather than "she" and "her". That was the source of my edit. 76.70.79.84 (talk) 11:53, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
- I have left a message on your talk page with many links which may be useful for your editing. Happy editing. --RHcosm (talk) 15:24, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
A goat for you!
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What's with the goats anyway? But enough of goats. Thanks for all your hard work here! Cheers!
Jim1138 (talk) 11:53, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
- Jim1138 You have been improving Wikipedia for more than a decade (great contributor). Thank you for your nice words. Cheers!--RHcosm (talk) 20:49, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
- More like de-uncontributing! You're welcome! Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 22:33, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
- Jim1138 You have been improving Wikipedia for more than a decade (great contributor). Thank you for your nice words. Cheers!--RHcosm (talk) 20:49, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018
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Hello RHcosm, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
- Backlog
As of 21 October 2018[update], there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.
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- Project updates
- ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
- There are now tools being tested to automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.
- New scripts
- User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel.js(info) — A new script created for quickly placing {{copyvio-revdel}} on a page.
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This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2018)
Hello, RHcosm.
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A barnstar for you!
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You are doing great. Keep up your good work! Btw, have you seen Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Abelmoschus Esculentus/Archive#28 September 2018? Coincidence? —AE (talk • contributions) 07:14, 14 October 2018 (UTC) |
- Abelmoschus Esculentus Thanks for the information. What a surprise??? You are a great contributor of Wikipedia. Thanks for the nice words. RHcosm (talk) 09:32, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
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This week's article for improvement (week 44, 2018)
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Facto Post – Issue 17 – 29 October 2018
Facto Post – Issue 17 – 29 October 2018
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Around 2.7 million Wikidata items have an illustrative image. These files, you might say, are Wikimedia's stock images, and if the number is large, it is still only 5% or so of items that have one. All such images are taken from Wikimedia Commons, which has 50 million media files. One key issue is how to expand the stock. Indeed, there is a tool. WD-FIST exploits the fact that each Wikipedia is differently illustrated, mostly with images from Commons but also with fair use images. An item that has sitelinks but no illustrative image can be tested to see if the linked wikis have a suitable one. This works well for a volunteer who wants to add images at a reasonable scale, and a small amount of SPARQL knowledge goes a long way in producing checklists. It should be noted, though, that there are currently 53 Wikidata properties that link to Commons, of which P18 for the basic image is just one. WD-FIST prompts the user to add signatures, plaques, pictures of graves and so on. There are a couple of hundred monograms, mostly of historical figures, and this query allows you to view all of them. commons:Category:Monograms and its subcategories provide rich scope for adding more. And so it is generally. The list of properties linking to Commons does contain a few that concern video and audio files, and rather more for maps. But it contains gems such as P3451 for "nighttime view". Over 1000 of those on Wikidata, but as for so much else, there could be yet more. Go on. Today is Wikidata's birthday. An illustrative image is always an acceptable gift, so why not add one? You can follow these easy steps: (i) log in at https://tools.wmflabs.org/widar/, (ii) paste the Petscan ID 6263583 into https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/ and click run, and (iii) just add cake. ![]()
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
The wikis now have a content security policy report. This means that you might get a warning in your javascript console when you load external resources in your user scripts. For security reasons it is recommended that you don't do this. It might not be possible to load external resources in your scripts in the future. [7]
Problems
- Your watchlist can show which changes you have already seen. This did not work for a few days. It has been fixed. [8]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 October. It will be on all wikis from 1 November (calendar).
- The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer available. It will be removed from Special:Preferences. It has not been the standard editor for a long time. It was replaced by the 2010 wikitext editor. [9][10]
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Hi , I'm Agilan
I just need to undo the pade that i've edited so far so that it back to how it was before . Can you please help me ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Agilan the editor (talk • contribs) 11:29, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
Quick query
I am establishing a page for a fellow called Omar Juweinat. I noticed that you made some revisions and I just wanted to ask you a question because I, frankly am an amateur in this feild. I’ve tried to upload as many references that I can find on him and his work. What else do I need to do in order to get a successful upload? Thanks for your time — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.180.166.55 (talk) 12:00, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
- I have left a message on your talk page with many links which is helpful for your editing. Happy editing. --RHcosm (talk) 12:06, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can now use TemplateWizard to edit templates. This works only with the 2010 wikitext editor and not in the visual editor or the 2017 wikitext editor. If you click on
you can enter the information in a pop-up. You can turn on TemplateWizard in your beta feature preferences. [11]
Changes later this week
- You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can read more.
- When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the Crossref and WorldCat databases and add the top result. [12]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 November (calendar).
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Catie Munnings page
Hi - I’m Catie's mother. Someone has altered Catie's page to say she’s a television presenter. Now when you google her name it says Catie Munnings British television presenter instead of Catie Munnings British rally driver. I have tried to contact the users who changed the information with no luck. This is affecting her career as she is a rally driver and not a television presenter so it’s important that it is changed back immediately please. Catie has her own tv show on CBeebies but she is not a television presenter!!
Please can you remove it from the title? If you google her name a photo of her comes up with her name and british television presenter - when you click on it it takes you through to your Wikipedia page so it’s something that one of your users has done and I would be grateful if you could amend it immediately.
Thank you Tracey Munnings
Sent from my iPhone — Preceding unsigned comment added by RallyMum1 (talk • contribs) 08:37, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
- Changed it.--RHcosm (talk) 09:05, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi - so the google search is now saying tv show host. Please change it back to its original ...... Catie Munnings British rally driver. Thank you Tracey Munnings — Preceding unsigned comment added by RallyMum1 (talk • contribs) 08:58, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
- Google search results can not be changed by us. Perhaps it may take time.--RHcosm (talk) 09:05, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi - before you changed it it said british televisin presenter. You then changed it when I asked and it now says tv show host!! This is worse that British television presenter - she sounds like a talk show host now!! Please can you change it to British rally driver. You clearly have the skill to do it as it’s changing when you make the changes. Your help would be really appreciated! Thank you Tracey Munnings — Preceding unsigned comment added by RallyMum1 (talk • contribs) 09:41, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for your help with this .... it’s changed again since you’ve amended it and I just can’t understand why it’s not picking up British Rally Driver as that’s what the page is about!
So frustrating that she’s had a complete career change that’s incorrect!
Many thanks Tracey RallyMum1 (talk) 19:30, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
- The Rambling Man sir please read this section. Thanks --RHcosm (talk) 00:17, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
- I'm just using reliable sources. Thanks. The Rambling Man (talk) 07:14, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
- The Rambling Man sir please read this section. Thanks --RHcosm (talk) 00:17, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
To Rambling Man - Catie is in the middle of securing sponsorship for her 2019 season - the incorrect title she’s been given every time her page is edited having a detrimental effect. RHcosm has been helping me try to fix the issue. She’s a British Rally Driver not a tv presenter and needs to be portrayed as a Rally Driver. Thank you Tracey Munnings RallyMum1 (talk) 08:42, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
- The Rambling Man you are the one who can help her. See RallyMum1's comment. --RHcosm (talk) 10:33, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
There are too many threads on this, I’ve already responded on my own talk page. Nothing to do here. The Rambling Man (talk) 10:45, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
- ...except to point out that RHcosm's edits to the Catie Munnings page was, on at least one occasion, a clear misuse of rollback. Be mindful; rollback is only to be used in cases of blatant vandalism, which those were not. This is something you agreed to when you received the tool. Happy editing! ——SerialNumber54129 08:03, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
- Serial Number 54129 Thanks for reminding. I used it to revert self edit. Thanks --RHcosm (talk) 09:42, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
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